I go to school in a different city then where I live. So, I find it hard to make friends in my city. Every child I see in my neighborhood is younger than I am and I find them annoying. How do I find and be friends with kids my age?
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Did you not expect this to happen when you agreed to live and school in different locations?
What are your transportation options? Between the two locations how do you get home: bus, bike, light rail, skateboard, trolley?
If you can get home easily then go out for a sport or join a club at your school. Or go out for coffee or pizza with friends from school. Skateboard shoot some hoops or whatever. It at least gives you some time outside of school. Otherwise invite a school friend to dinner at your house or over to spend the night.
Join clubs that you are into it could be any hobby you have and you’ll meet people with the same hobby. And try and find clubs in your school and meet people through them. Also whoever you sit next to in lessons talk to them even if it’s gossiping about teachers you both don’t like or what tv shows are good to watch.
Maybe you should be more openminded. Of course these kids are younger than you but maybe you should give them a chance. Get to know each other.
Sometimes age means nothing :)
Otherwise join a club, play outside like basketball, football. You will make some friends.
Pretty sure of it.
The best way I have found to obtain a vast amount of friends is to find someone who knows a lot of other people at the school. Most of the time if you can find a person like this, they will introduce you to their friends and their friends would introduce you to other friends. Otherwise, you might be able to just walk in class one day and someone will introduce themselves, these people will often become a life time friend if you both have a lot in common. You could always go and hang out with people at a park near you, if you see people playing a game like basketball for example, ask them if you could join and more often than not, they will let you play.