First day at the high school

I remember when it was the first time I went to the high school. I thought it looked like another world.
I went with my class and my teachers. There were other classes from others schools. There were many strange girls, they looked at everyone from the head to the feet.
We went around the whole the center, we saw everything. The laboratiories were great! The teachers taught us the instruments. If someone saw us in this moment, he would say we were silly.
Later, we had breakfast, and we came back to our home.

My experience.

Two years ago, it was the first time my class and me were learning French. We had an advanced book, but we didn't know any French. The teacher looked like a sergeant. She shouted at us until she was hoarse.
When she asked someone, this got his/her face white and I was thinking he or she wasn't from this planet.
My friends were afraid these days because we had French lessons. We didn't want to go to the high school.
Many people failed French.
Now, this year, everybody knows how to speak French, but only few people like it.