Hey! I’m so sorry to hear that, I honestly have felt that way a few times. Honestly it’s a horrible feeling to feel left out.
Not everyone will find their long-term friends in one week (i.e. your orientation week) - from experience, throughout high school, friendships and friendship groups change quite a bit, and some grow smaller and some grow bigger. If you be you, I think you’ll attract people that are similar to you. One way to make friends is to find a group of friends that are sitting together at recess/morning tea or lunch and bring your food over and ask if you can sit with them. You’ll get a feel if they’re your sort of people and either keep sitting with them at break or, if you wish, sit with a few groups of friends before deciding if you want to keep joining them.
If you see someone sitting by themselves, go up to them and introduce yourself and offer to sit with them and talk about their classes, teachers, hobbies, TV shows… etc. And talk about your classes and hobbies too. Tell a joke or a story if you wish.
Introduce yourself to the people you’re sitting next to in each of your classes. Introduce yourself to the people who have lockers near you (if applicable). If you have time, join a club and meet new friends through there. Don’t worry about other people being close to each other, you will grow close to someone/s in good time.
I met one of my high school best friends from happening to sit next to her in chemistry and we started talking and sitting together at recess and lunch. It also helped me find friends by having lockers near them, sitting with new groups at lunch or studying with them during ‘free’ study periods.
I just finished first year university and I felt the same at the beginning, but I met my best friend by happening to be in the same tutorial class as him and also by chance being placed as a pair on a placement. And by beginning to chat and opening up to him when I was having a hard time at the beginning of semester 2, halfway through the year we grew closer and next year we’ll probably grow even closer as besties. He was a great support for me when the semester started to get stressful with the workload and exams etc.
Make the effort to introduce yourself to people and make friends. Not everyone will be your type of person to be friends with, but some will be. Importantly, just be you and people will like you for who you are. :)
Let us all know how it goes in the end and good luck with school, making new friends and A-levels! :)
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