Ivan Braginski April 9th 2012, 8:34 pm
The grey-haired Russian teen silently walked through the hallway with his hands slung in the pockets of his dark pants.
The boy wore the same attire he had the last week; knee-high winter boots, dark pants, black hoodie zipped only half way, and a white shirt that sagged to a V-shape down to mid- chest. A purple-and-grey plad scarf was slung loosley around his neck that covered most of the small patch of skin that the front of the shirt failed to cover.
Ivan seemed to observe the kids he passed with silent curiosity; it seemed he was a little bit nervous around such a large, noisy crowd, yet at the same time... he wanted to talk to someone. He just wasn't quite sure how to approach anyone in this new territory yet.
His right hand slipped out of his pocket and moved his bangs out of his eyes as he came across the Englishroom; hopefully he wasn't too late. He had forgotten to turn in his paragraph the first week... But he was proud of himself, despite the face that it was poorly written; it was one of the longest papers he's ever written in English.
"Priviet, ma'am..." A soft smile touched the boy's lips as he approached the teacher. He reached out and set a folded peice of paper on her desk. The paper wrote;
My name is Ivan Braginski, and i'm from Russia. My name is spoken "EE-vahn," not "Ai-van". I get annoyed when people call me that. I am going to turn 17 in June. I don't know who my parents are, but I live with a Mongolian called Mr. Khan. He is sort of mean, but i will get in trouble if he finds out i said so. I don't know his first name. My best friend is a yak. I'm not allowed to say anything else.
After setting his paper on the teacher's desk, the tall Russian boy walked over to his seat in the far back corner and settled down in it. He took his normal position of interlacing his fingers and set them on his desk. He allowed his silvery bangs to cover his eyes, making it look like he was staring down at his hands, but he was watching the other student in the room through the corner of his eye. The other's accent was different than everyone else's... what was his name again...Eduard, right...? That fit...