Sunday, September 5, 2004

Back to School!
Right now I am coming to you from my backyard. My dad got us a wireless network for the house and I can use the laptops outside and anywhere on our property. My dad also got me a new laptop. It’s a very nice Toshiba, with a wide screen (15.4”) and a little control thingy on the outside to control the windows media player so I don’t have to use the mouse to control the music. All I have to do is hit a button on the outside.

Life out in my house is great. We finally got the bathroom fixed last weekend, so I have been taking showers in there all week. We got this really funky shower curtain with bubbles all over it.

I have been in high school for a week. It’s great. High school is just so big and there are so many people. So diverse. The people are different, unlike in middle school, where many people were similar. We also have a good mix of different subcultures. Quite a few punk-ey type people. Piercing, bondage pants and ass flaps a-plenty.

All of my teachers are very nice. But I have so much homework this weekend. I have to answer questions for science, do a brochure thing for English and a newspaper project for MUN. At least it is a three day weekend, so I have plenty of time to get everything done… if I don’t procrastinate.

Orchestra has been cool so far, we are going to start playing on Tuesday. I need to practice so I can get placed in as high of a chair as I can possibly manage. I want to get first, but I probably won’t. There are quite a few people who are probably better than me, but you never know.

Science is great. My teacher is funny; he has a very good sense of humor about everything. He’s always smiling and joking around. Science is going to be great fun this year.

My MUN teacher is very nice, she jokes around a lot as well. MUN is going to be a lot of fun; I can’t wait until I get to go to my first conference in October. I’m going to find out what council thing I’m on and what country I’m going to represent. We’re going to find out on Tuesday though. So that’s good.

My English class is very very small. Only about 20-something students. The teacher is very nice, but we’re doing a lot of work already. We did an essay on Friday and she assigned us this weird little project thing. A personal brochure thingy. We’re supposed to write about ourselves on this thing that looks like a travel brochure. What fun.

Spanish is interesting. My Spanish teacher speaks to us mostly in Spanish. That’s not all that bad, it’s for immersion and stuff like that. But the people in class are just retarded for the most part. They always screw around during class and act like idiots. But that makes for good entertainment.

PE is my next class in the day, my teacher is the typical PE teacher, do it or run a lap, misbehave and run stadiums ect. ect. But he’s nice to the people who try. So, I’m going to try.

Finally, I have Geometry. My geometry teacher is the best teacher I have all day. She is very nice and her class is very casual. She lets us have unlimited hall passes and her class is very easy. We read and take notes on the section that we will be working on, than she goes over it with us and explains it very well. Homework isn’t bad at all, only about 20 problems. This class is small as well. Only about 20 kids. Smaller classes are better.

The bad thing about the day is that I have to walk home. It is two miles from school to home and it is about an hour walk. I stop for lunch at Whole Foods and get something to eat, either there or while I walk. So it’s alright.

That’s my school day; I leave my house at 6:30 for zero period and get home at about 3:30. It’s long, but I like school, I love to learn.

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