At hebrew school, I feel like an outsider due to my complete and utter lack of relationships with people there. Having been to elementary school with the majority of the kids and having attended to hebrew school for a decade with them, one would assume I had bonded with the people there, but the truth is quite to the contrary. I had never been friends with most of the people at hebrew school, yet I had been able to strike up a conversation with many of them. Since I stopped going to school with them, I became unable to converse in the same manner. Conversation topics are limited when I don’t go to school with the people there. Additionally, the people there aren’t willing to invite me into their conversations in the way I can with the cross-country team. The commonalities that I have with people at school aren’t there. Oftentimes, I’m just a social outsider, but drifting around people, alone and friendless. At hebrew school I am able to handle myself in class, yet during dinner, I find myself on my phone, because there is nobody to talk to, an environment that is far from welcoming, a situation that causes me to feel as if I am foreign. People do not make an effort to include me and there are no kind, welcoming gestures. Hebrew school has a different feel, an unwelcome feeling, one diametrically different from the way I feel with my
At hebrew school, I feel like an outsider due to my complete and utter lack of relationships with people there. Having been to elementary school with the majority of the kids and having attended to hebrew school for a decade with them, one would assume I had bonded with the people there, but the truth is quite to the contrary. I had never been friends with most of the people at hebrew school, yet I had been able to strike up a conversation with many of them. Since I stopped going to school with them, I became unable to converse in the same manner. Conversation topics are limited when I don’t go to school with the people there. Additionally, the people there aren’t willing to invite me into their conversations in the way I can with the cross-country team. The commonalities that I have with people at school aren’t there. Oftentimes, I’m just a social outsider, but drifting around people, alone and friendless. At hebrew school I am able to handle myself in class, yet during dinner, I find myself on my phone, because there is nobody to talk to, an environment that is far from welcoming, a situation that causes me to feel as if I am foreign. People do not make an effort to include me and there are no kind, welcoming gestures. Hebrew school has a different feel, an unwelcome feeling, one diametrically different from the way I feel with my