Have you ever been in the company of a group of which you were clearly not a member? What was the circumstance? How did you act? How were you treated

This had happened to me when I was Primary 4, when I changed my primary school to a new school. I entered a class where my classmates mostly knew each other very well since they were from the same class the previous year and most had already formed their own group of friends.

Hence on the first few weeks of the school, I kept most of my comments to myself and also, seldom talked unless prompted. However, after those weeks, as I knew them better, I attempted to talk to some of my classmates sitting around me but most of them just gave me very short responds and some even ignored me and walked away coldly.
On their responds, I felt very dejected, but comforted myself that they will recognise my presence soon.

It was until the class was assigned into groups for a project. During the group discussion, mr groupmates discussed on their own, also, preventing me in the presentation. On their actions, I was very upset, and thought that I will be all by myself for the rest of the year.

Finally, until one day, one of my classmates approached me and invited me to join his group for a project. It was until then I clarified that the reason for the coldness of my classmates to me was because it was rumoured that I was being expelled of my previous school. I was glad that the classmate accepted me and gave me a chance to explain. From then on, I had my own group of friends. Even though it was not a large group, but I ws glad to have company.