So, today is Columbus Day and school is CLOSED!!! I am having a wonderful day off from school. Today, I watched 14 episodes of Drake & Josh, 5 episodes of Phineas and Ferb, 7 episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place, and 10 episodes of Spongebob Square pants. Yes, I REALLY have no life. Spending one day off from school to watch kid TV shows isn't exactly the wisest thing to do but I did it.
Anyway back to the reason why I am writing this blog. When my dad got home from work, he handed me a letter and when I opened it to read, it said that I've been nominated to attend the National Youth Leadership Forum on Law and Crime Scene Investigation to be held this summer 2013 in Washington D.C. I am so confused right now with a lot of mixed emotions. Some of the questions that are going through my head are:
-How did this happen?
-Why me?
-Did anyone else I know receive a letter like that?
-What am I going to do?
-What the hell am I suppose to do now?
There you have it. I am still trying to process this information. It is a lot to take in. The letter said I was selected from some of the highest-achieving students in the nation. OMG!!! I really don't know what to do right now. I am planning on taking it to my guidance counselor when I return to school tomorrow. So, if anyone in high school right now, reading my blog and received a letter about what I just wrote please leave a comment. Or if anyone reading this received a letter about this before also leave a comment because I am really confused.
Monday, October 8, 2012
Friday, October 5, 2012
Life in Midwood Part 2
This blog with be about my feelings towards Midwood after a month of going to school there. I officially declare that life in Midwood has gone from good to extremely bad and exhausting!!! Some of you may have read the first part of my blog about Midwood. Well now I've changed my mind completely. This is why:
#1-Getting to school
Getting up at 7 am when you slept at 12 am can be really exhausting. I have been doing that since school started and I get so tired I fall asleep in class. Literally, I would take my notebook, put it on the desk standing up and fall asleep. I have done that in at least 3 of my classes. To make things worse, sometimes when I have to wake up at 5 am for lab. I need 1200 minutes of lab in order to take the Living Environment Regents in June. So once every two weeks, I have to wake up before the sun even comes out and get ready fro school .It it very cold when it's 5 am. Even though lab starts at 7:15 am, I have to wake up at least an hour and a half earlier if I want to make it there on time. If your late to lab, they will deduct points and if it past 7:30 and your not there, they don't let you in. For the Fall semester, I have 6 labs and the Spring semester I think I am going to have 7 labs.
#2- Homework
I have been getting a lot of homework lately. At the beginning of the year, I rarely had anything to do but now, but now, it is like a mountain of homework. I have to stay up until 11:00 pm to finish it. I start my homework at 5:00 pm because that is when I get home from school . Sometime if I am lucky, I get home at 4: 30 pm, but that is rare. When I get home I have to alternate from doing my homework to helping my sister with hers. Then when she is done with her homework, she goes to the room and blast some k-pop and that is extremely annoying. I an not a big fan of K-POP, so when my sister decides to not only blast the music but also sing along and dance, I can feel the blood coming out of my ears and eyes. It is really distracting.
#3- Teachers
Remember how I wrote that I was satisfied with all my teachers, well I am bipolar so my feelings about them change all the time. For now, here are the feeling for my teachers:
Living Environment- My teacher is awesome. He is extremely cool and makes jokes out of everything he teacher.
Music- The teacher is okay. I don't really like her yet because we haven't actually started singing. For the past month, we learned about staff and sight reading music. I already know how to do all that stuff.
Math(Geometry)- My teacher is still awesome. He really has a thing for sports because every Friday he tells us to watch the Giants game on Sunday.
Global- Right now there is a student teacher teaching us and she gives a lot of notes. I hate copying notes. I sit in the back of the room and she has so much notes that she tries to fit them all on one slide and the print is extremely small. (PS: This is one of the classes I slept in)
English- The teacher is okay but at times it can be fun, especially when we share our own personal experiences with something.
Spanish- My Spanish teacher is the most awesome. She is really nice and kind. I love going to her class everyday because her class is the only one I am willing to learn in.
Health- This is my last period class and I am always sleepy. I can never sleep though cause I sit near the window and a bus passes by every few minutes. The teacher is really loud.
That is all I have to say for now. But maybe next month I'll see if anything changed and I''l write about.
PS: I probably made a lot of errors but please forgive me. I typed this blog at 11:30 pm and I was really tired.
#1-Getting to school
Getting up at 7 am when you slept at 12 am can be really exhausting. I have been doing that since school started and I get so tired I fall asleep in class. Literally, I would take my notebook, put it on the desk standing up and fall asleep. I have done that in at least 3 of my classes. To make things worse, sometimes when I have to wake up at 5 am for lab. I need 1200 minutes of lab in order to take the Living Environment Regents in June. So once every two weeks, I have to wake up before the sun even comes out and get ready fro school .It it very cold when it's 5 am. Even though lab starts at 7:15 am, I have to wake up at least an hour and a half earlier if I want to make it there on time. If your late to lab, they will deduct points and if it past 7:30 and your not there, they don't let you in. For the Fall semester, I have 6 labs and the Spring semester I think I am going to have 7 labs.
#2- Homework
I have been getting a lot of homework lately. At the beginning of the year, I rarely had anything to do but now, but now, it is like a mountain of homework. I have to stay up until 11:00 pm to finish it. I start my homework at 5:00 pm because that is when I get home from school . Sometime if I am lucky, I get home at 4: 30 pm, but that is rare. When I get home I have to alternate from doing my homework to helping my sister with hers. Then when she is done with her homework, she goes to the room and blast some k-pop and that is extremely annoying. I an not a big fan of K-POP, so when my sister decides to not only blast the music but also sing along and dance, I can feel the blood coming out of my ears and eyes. It is really distracting.
#3- Teachers
Remember how I wrote that I was satisfied with all my teachers, well I am bipolar so my feelings about them change all the time. For now, here are the feeling for my teachers:
Living Environment- My teacher is awesome. He is extremely cool and makes jokes out of everything he teacher.
Music- The teacher is okay. I don't really like her yet because we haven't actually started singing. For the past month, we learned about staff and sight reading music. I already know how to do all that stuff.
Math(Geometry)- My teacher is still awesome. He really has a thing for sports because every Friday he tells us to watch the Giants game on Sunday.
Global- Right now there is a student teacher teaching us and she gives a lot of notes. I hate copying notes. I sit in the back of the room and she has so much notes that she tries to fit them all on one slide and the print is extremely small. (PS: This is one of the classes I slept in)
English- The teacher is okay but at times it can be fun, especially when we share our own personal experiences with something.
Spanish- My Spanish teacher is the most awesome. She is really nice and kind. I love going to her class everyday because her class is the only one I am willing to learn in.
Health- This is my last period class and I am always sleepy. I can never sleep though cause I sit near the window and a bus passes by every few minutes. The teacher is really loud.
That is all I have to say for now. But maybe next month I'll see if anything changed and I''l write about.
PS: I probably made a lot of errors but please forgive me. I typed this blog at 11:30 pm and I was really tired.
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