This was the fourth time this year that Lin had been the new kid in school-all because her mother's job kept them moving. Lin's mother had decided 1 here from December. But Lin didn't care about it. For Lin, making new friends was a waste of time. She would 2 no more clubs. She would also add no new names to her phone list.
On her 3 day, the teacher Mrs. Leonard welcomed her in the class and asked a student to help her find her way around. This time, it was a girl named Marley, Carly, or something. Lin had stopped 4 attention to what the kids' names were. Lin knew that she would forget them all, just as 5 kids from all those other schools had probably forgotten her. 6 Mrs. Leonard was giving Lin textbooks, Lin made her decision. She thought that at this school, she would be 7 remembered.
The next day, Tuesday, instead of wearing the usual jeans and T-shirt, she dressed 8 in a pair of bloomers (灯笼裤) bought from an old Halloween clothes store. She also didn't comb her hair. On Wednesday, she wore 9 old dress of her mother's, along with soccer cleats (钉鞋). "At least they'll remember me after we've moved away. " she thought on Thursday as she put 10 a beautiful skirt and a T-shirt. And she also wore a pile of long necklaces 11 her grandmother had given to her to play with.
On Friday, they called Lin's mother to school. Lin was a bit worried about 12 her mom would say when she saw her outfit. A hula skirt from a vacation in Hawaii 13 on top of a pair of old jeans. From the principal's office, she heard her mother and Mrs. Leonard talking.
"She'll be so 14 , " her mother said to Mrs. Leonard in the hallway. "We 15 so often in the last seven months, but this time we plan to stay here. I've got a new job in the town. I believe she'll be able to fit in. "