The First Day of School

Saera Hamanaka
Sep 3, 2018 · 1 min read

This is a topic I was given as a test by the Chief Creative Officer in my previous advertising agency.

The first day of school starts with a pleasant mess.

Students standing everywhere on a light grey-tiled court.
All their unexpected energy is the shouts and laughs of fun.
The sky is blue with some fluffy white, cotton candy clouds.

The first day of school starts sweet. And then the bell rings.

The rings alert everyone. That is the only sound resonating across the school.
Organisation kicks in. All the students assemble in lines of each class.
The pleasant mess turns to solid organisation — aesthetically pleasing from an aerial point of view.

Grade One, go. Grade two, go. Grade three, go.
The rest of the queues follow respectively, predicting the tempo.

With the first day of anything new, most things are unexpected.

Except for food. School lunches are expected.

Studying was a workload that, unfortunately, drained the mind.
It zaps away a little bit of positivity and if continued without a break, there will be darkness.

That’s why good lunches are quintessential.

Colourful lunches are the refresher from black texts on white sheets.

Onwards, the learning journey continues.

At the end of the day, the lines and queues break apart once again.

Mess is normal. It thrives in organisation.

That is a sign of a good first day of school.

Saera Hamanaka

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Mixed Southeast & East Asian. Just putting my thoughts on paper. Learning more about the world eagerly.