A letter from November 10th, 2020

Dear Marnie, It feels really weird to be sending a letter to myself, but never mind! Secondary school is really different to primary. There’s more homework, more teachers and different friends. I mean, I still have my old friends from primary because I can’t see, to find anyone that would want to hang out with me. There’s this girl called Olivia who seems really nice, but I don’t know how to ask if she wants to be friends. It’s just too awkward. My form class is quite nice, I sit next to a girl called Thora and she’s really nice. I don’t mind the rest of my class, there’s only a few people I don’t like. In primary everything was much easier because I already had friends. I didn’t have to try hard to make friends or awkwardly say hi to random people. They were just already my friends. I thought it would be easy to make friends at Parli. I was very wrong. I don’t want to be stuck with my old Yerbury friends. Layla’s nice, but I don’t like any of the others. It’s just too awkward to leave the group and try and make new friends. I hope that I’m studying hard and that I haven’t given up on school work yet. I always feel like what’s the point, but I do it anyways. I want to wish you luck on your GCSE’s!! I hope that your finding maths a bit easier as right now I HATE it! It’s so hard! I wonder what you’re doing for your GCSE’s. I hope you picked some good subjects. Right now, I have no clue what I want to be when I’m older. (I’m 12 btw) Hopefully by now I’ll know what I want to be. I hope that your self esteem is good and that you don’t still have to use a computer to write! Remember that your perfect the way you are! Right now, I think people think of me as the weirdo annoying girl, but maybe that will change. All I want to be in five years is my best me. Try and get 7, 8 and 9’s in your tests! Good luck! Yours sincerely, 12-year-old Marnie x