answer:Welcome to Fluther! You didn’t indicate if it was your Junior year of high school or college, but I am going to guess high school. I went to high school in Japan and my dad was diagnosed with a brain tumor on ********* Eve in my junior year. My mom brought him and my sibs back to the US, but I stayed in Japan to finish my junior year (I was class president), then moved to a neighborhood and school where I didn’t know anyone for my senior year. I was very lucky in that I met a future classmate during the summer and so I had a ready-made friend when school started in the fall. It was a smaller school and that helped too. The other thing they did that I thought was really nice was they included all of my accomplishments from my former school in the year book so I didn’t look like someone who just showed up (if you know what I mean). My biggest lesson in being successful happened when I moved from Ohio to Pennsylvania in 8th grade (worst year of my life), but I had a chip on my shoulder that didn’t help anything. I learned to be open-minded and to help make me the kind of person it was easy to be friends with. It helped me when I moved to Japan in 10th grade and back to the states for my senior year. I think your attitude will completely determine your success. Everyone is a little nervous the first day of school (even if they have gone been in the system for years). Use that to your advantage and just be friendly. There will always be kids that share some of the same interests—it is just your job to find them! If you can meet someone in the summer, it really helps to have someone you recognize the first day—even if they are in a different grade than you!