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There Is No Place Like Home
from April 2020
by Sue Lagermann
My first day at a new school was very frightening to me. I had never ridden on a school bus, but that was how I was going to get back home. I couldn’t wait to get home. I just knew that while I was at school, my mother and baby brother were having all kinds of fun without me.
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My mother told me to look for my sister when I got on the bus. I searched for Cindy, my older sister. I could always count on Cindy to help take care of me. She was my big sister. When I couldn’t find her, I felt panicky. My armpits felt like someone was sticking needles and pins into them. Who was I, a dumb old first-grader, going to sit with? I wanted to sit with my sister. I was lucky to have a secondgrader for a sister, but where was she? I looked at all the faces in the front of the bus. I couldn’t find my sister! I wouldn’t dare go farther back in the bus where the third, fourth, and fifth-graders sat. The lump in my throat made it hard to swallow. I sat down in the closest seat I could find. I had no idea where or how I was going to get home. To keep from crying, I kept biting those little bags in the corners of my mouth until they bled.
The big orange bus started to roll out into the street. That’s when I realized I had to figure this out on my own. I looked out the window and saw it was starting to rain. I didn’t have an umbrella to use, but that was okay. No one will see my tears when I try to find my way home. I came up with a plan. Since I was 6 years old, I would count six stops and exit. As I got off the bus, I realized I needed to
come up with another plan. Since I colored with my right hand, I would turn right at the first street I saw and keep walking. I stuck to that plan. As I was walking in the rain, tears were pouring down my cheeks. I will keep walking all the way to China. I will never see my daddy, mother, brother, or sister again.
I heard a horn beeping behind me. When I turned around, there was my daddy and sister. Cindy was crying, and my daddy was waving to me. I was so happy they
had found me. I was going home. When we got home, my mother and brother were waiting at the door. Daddy said I was walking in the wrong direction like a little lost sheep. My mother said that would never happen again because she asked the fifth-grader across the street to make sure I found my way home every day. (Psalm 119:105).
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