Friday, April 28, 2006

   Bored

11:12 a.m. pictures make my site more interesting and break up all the text. Yesterday was very long. The clocks weren't working and I had trouble focusing. It was take your child to work day so technically I could have stayed home but I had 3 tests and a project that I didn't feel like making up. After school I waited around because I was going on a feild trip to see the taping of a Spanish tv show. It was a boring bus ride. The girl sitting next to me fell asleep. We arrived at five and waited around for at least three hours for the show to start. I spent the first half of the two hours sitting alone until a girl started talking to me (Everyone was wearing nametags so people I didn't know were addressing me by name. ) Then we finally went inside and waited inside some more for the show to start. If I hadn't been sitting next to the girl I met earlier I would be so confused. It's frustrating. Even though I've been taking Spanish for three years I still can't understand a word. The audience was so loud I didn't hear most of the translation anyway. Anyway the show went on for a long time and I felt sleepy. One of the kids from my school had the winning ticket for a car but they wouldn't give it to him because he was under 18. Another man won it instead and won five thousand dollars too. My mom drove me home because it was quicker that way. It was a pretty discouraging field trip. I don't think I'll go all the way to AP Spanish like my dad wants me to. I understand why I should learn Spanish and I wish that I could speak it. However, all of my Spanish teachers have been extremely boring and none of the students in the class want to be there. If I go all the way to AP Spanish I may learn to conjugate a verb in the Subjunctive form but I'll never be able to understand my next door neighbor. That being said, I'm even more discouraged about learning Japanese. I've been studying by myself on and off since the fifth grade and I managed to teach myself a lot but I have an even less chance to practice. I think that there's something wrong with my school. Since I've started I've stopped doing all the things I loved such as learning Japanese and drawing. I've also been watching less anime but that's probably because I don't have friends who watch anime anymore. I volunteered at the library again. The library I work at is next to a school so in the mornings it is filled with middle school kids. I used to think that they were loud and annoying but they leave it gets quiter and more boring. It's kind of depressing to see all of these friends hanging around like that. I wanted to volunteer at an elementary school but they never contact me. Aferwards we picked up my sister from pre-school. High Schools have a lot to learn from pre-schools. For example, we should have a nap time. Considering most of the kids at my school wake up at around 5 a.m. I think that it would make sense. Second, we deserve a break that is seperate from the measly thirty minutes we have at lunch (we spend eight hours a day in school). Third, teachers should make an effort to make learning fun. I'll think of more later. They sent a letter to my mom saying that all parents must turn in a collage about their child's progress in school. My mom has handed that resposibility over to me. o.0 She says things like "I don't want to make one that looks like everyone else's. I want to make something creative." Huh? I'm the one doing the collage. >.<;; My typing speed is up to about 24 words per minute. That's lower the speed I wanted after weeks of learning Dvorak. I guess I need to practice more... I have to go now. I'll finish the rest later.....

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