Does anyone ever feel as though they have a hard time fitting into groups of friends who have come up from the lower school in a sixth form?
When I joined my sixth form, I made quite a lot of friends and seemed to get along with most people. However, I seemed to find it incredibly difficult to socialise with the groups of people who had come up from the lower secondary school. I would make the effort to start conversation and 'fit-in', but it seems that I would get a lot of cold shoulder from the people who already had established groups. I'm great friends with people who have come from outside of the college, but when it comes to people who have been friends for 5 years+ in the secondary school, they just don't seem to make an effort to get to know you.
Everytime I've been out with them, I've felt like the guy on the outside looking in and it's very hard to converse with them because it doesn't seem that many really take onboard what I have to say. With my other friends who were not part of the secondary school, I can happily talk with and have a great laugh which I really just couldn't imagine having with the others. It's really bad, because it feels like there is a barrier that I just cannot get over. Should I just give up trying and concentrate on the people who I have made really good mates with?