The other day my friends and I went to the zoo. I used to go to there all the time, but I hadn’t been in awhile. In fact, it had been so long since I had been I had forgotten how much fun it was. When we first got there all of us were running around like little kids because we were so keyed up to be there. There was so much to see. Strangely it reminded me of Mean Girls, where she sees everyone behaving like animals and compares high school to a jungle. With the first day of school breathing down everyone’s neck I have started to think about what it is going to be like. Then, like in all critical moments in life, Mean Girls came to the rescue. So I’m starting a new school year with a fresh perspective. Here’s a list of the wildlife I might encounter in high school.
1. Super friendly chimpanzees- those kids you meet that are everyone’s friend. They are usually in a class with you and you’ll chat with them and be their facebook friend until you forget who they are and delete them or they get lost amongst your 1,000 other friends. Perhaps this cordial acquaintance will blossom into a real friendship and the two of you will hang out all the time, or maybe you will eat lunch together and be glad you met them.
2. Stick their nose in everything giraffes- they are nice with everyone in order to know the whole scoop. They are probably your facebook friend too because you need to talk to them about a group project, but you may not pay too much attention what’s going on in their lives. They too get lost among too many online friends. You avoid sharing personal details with them, and they always want to know your grades, much as you avoid feeding fingers to real giraffes.
3. Mean spirited ostriches- they bite, smell, and spit; avoid at all costs. Once you get one of them infuriated they refuse to leave you alone. They hold grudges for extended periods of time and will chase you around cherishing any blunder they can watch you make, and setting you up for as much failure as possible. Just stay far away.
4. Jokester parrots- there are two kinds: attention seeking and funny participator. Attention seekers get annoying quickly as they disrupt class and anger the teacher, but funny participators help move along the discussion with witty comments. Both have their supporters and those who dislike them. The traditionalist tigers almost never like them.
5. Traditionalist tigers- want everything to work out all neat and tidy. The lesson of life isn’t fair seems to not apply to them in the high school jungle. If things don’t go just so they freak. Can be tame or wild. Proceed with caution.
These are some examples of wildlife in high school. These are only the common types, more rare and exotic kinds exist, and maybe I’ll cover them later. But for now this Mean Girls moment will have to help with the first week of school.
The word “nerd” was first used in Dr. Susses’ If I Ran the Zoo.
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