You know you went to NOVA when:

• You have at least one book from the library at home and cannot remember how it got there.
• You’ve gone “to the nurse” during class.
• You have given up trying to get Daniela to give you an excused LPS.
• You have at least a couple of acquaintances from each grade.
• You know that the cafeteria in D period is largely a restricted area, due to all the primary school kids having their break.
• Klementina has repeatedly told you to keep your voice down.
• You’ve lost things which you later found in the storage room.
• You do various homeworks during free period and long homeroom, and somehow always manage to write all of them even if it means writing Math, English, and Macedonian simultaneously.
• You know which table in the cafeteria belongs to people from which grade.
• You have lost your locker keys and found them (or didn’t find them.)
• You have had problems with your schedule; some of them were never solved.
• Everyone in your class knows what your grades are.
• The essays you used to write in Macedonian in 9^th grade were a lot better than the ones you are able to write in 12^th grade.
• You’ve been shouted at for having your feet on the chairs in the auditorium.
• The security guards and sefica know your name.
• You know that the cafeteria is too expensive but still end up buying something from there.
• People are friendly to you if you are a new kid.
• You ask Tanja/Darko to translate English words for you on a test.
• You have a reading journal.
• You know that the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a book.
• You’d rather have an 87 than an 89 on a test.
• You start guessing in which room you’ll be put for the midexams or finals and you are usually right.
• You can speak English and another language which is not Macedonian.
• You know the names, teaching methods, and level of strictness of all teachers in Nova, the ones that do not teach you included.
• Your opinion on Tiho varies according to his mood.
• You know exactly which other lockers except yours you can open with your key.
• There was at least a transient period in your life when your visits to Forza greatly increased.
• Even if you try not to save the copies teachers give you, some manage to survive in the very back of your locker.
• You have been excused from a quiz/test at least once.
• You know the difference between AP and IB by the time you finish 9^th grade.
• You actually start enjoying CS.
• When you go to a birthday party, you encounter people ranging from 9^th grade to 12^th grade.
• You’ve had a crush on at least one person from school.
• You can’t have a secret: everyone knows what you did on Friday.