It's That Time of Year

So...school. I like all my classes, I like all my teachers, I have awesome people in all my classes. So you could say I love school this year. But it would be a lie. I like my classes, just not school in general. For one thing, school now starts 10 minutes later, but in return we get out 25 minutes later. I don't get home till after 3 each day. That's awful! Also, they made lunch shorter. And they also cut down the time we have in between classes to get from class to class. All this makes the classes much longer. I guess some of the teachers like it, but a lot of them don't. And the students aren't really fans of it either...Also, they've changed the schedule to some weird thing, so 1st period is called 1-2 period, 2nd is 3-4, 3rd is 5-6, and 4 is 7-8. It confuses everyone, because some teachers want you to write the normal class period when you write it, and some want the weird new one. Oh, and want to know the reason they shortened the time in between classes? They think this will cut down on the number of people getting to class late. Because now that they know they have less time to get to class, they won't stop to talk to friends, and instead go straight to class. Riiiight. What will happen is that TONS of people will be late, and the administration will be so confused as to why it's happening. Because obviously if you change the system then the kids will change according to it. And also, we have 500 more students this year than we did last year. That means the halls are way crowded, and so it's hard to get anywhere in time, so with this new shortened time in between classes it's kinda impossible for some people to get to class on time, regardless of if they stop to talk with friends or not.

OK, rant about scheduling stuff over. Now want to hear about my bus driver? She's the angriest lady I have ever seen. Today she handed out schedules for morning bus stops and when she'll be there to pick people up, and when I told her I don't take the bus in the morning, she glared at me for about a minute before moving on. Then when my friend told her that she already had a schedule, she glared at her, said, "Well this one is different!" and threw it in her face. Then when she had stopped to let some kids off at a stop and a car drove by (didn't do anything except drive past), she honked the horn for about 30 seconds at the car, while glaring out the window. Can you say cranky? And then I have to walk home 10 blocks from the bus stop to my house. In 100 degree weather. With a 20 pound backpack. Basically it's miserable.

OK, I'm done with all my rants now, I promise. Now for the positive. I like all my classes! Some of them are gonna be way hard, but I think they'll be pretty good, for the most part. I was way scared for physics, but I actually am starting to think that I might be able to do it. Pre-calc has homework every single day, so that kinda sucks. Spanish is going to be a lot of work, and the teacher is a native speaker, so that's scary, but I think I'll be fine. Hopefully. I think A'Capella will be way fun! Same with chorale, but I think I'm the least experienced on in it. Everyone else was at least in A'Capella last year. Pre'calc has homework every single day, so I'm not looking forward to that, but it looks like it'll be a pretty good class. AP English Literature I think is gonna be good. I like reading, and I actually like the books we have to read for school, and I'm good at writing papers, so it should be pretty great. AP European History will be hard. Lots and lots of homework. And thanks to the horrible random seating chart, I'm stuck in the back corner. Away from all friends. But I love the teacher! I think it'll not be an awful class. In fact, quite the opposite. Then for seminary I'm going to help out with special ed seminary, so that should be an interesting experience. I think I'll have a good year!