First day of school. Wondruous. So the place is a bit bigger then where I go. And there are a whole bunch of buildings that you have to walk in between. I’m currently a little lost, but I’ll figure it out. Also, the schedules are a little funny. There are five periods, but I’m taking like eight classes I think. So on Monday I take certain classes and then it’s different on Tuesday etc. It’s very confusing.
Today I had two buddies who I followed around. I came in late because on Mondays there’s first period and then home room and the teacher I talked to in the first place didn’t want me to come in right into the action as it were. So I came in at 9:15 (school starts at 8:30). So, I missed art.
And then I’m in general music, which is a problem. I planned on being in band/orchestra. I don’t do general music. I’m really bad at it. The only instrument I can hear in a song is the flute and I can only sort of follow notes if they aren’t flute. I can’t tell you what a note is if I hear it, I don’t know music’s history and even though I can pick out a beat I couldn’t tell you if it were 3/8 or 4/4 etc. And of course I’m jumping in half way through, which is never a good thing.
Next there’s basically a recess. I read. I’m reading Founding Brothers for back home and it’s really confusing. I don’t care, honestly. Next was science. It’s biology. Basically what I did in 6th grade (unfortunately I didn’t learn much in 6th grade health because I didn’t have the most amazing teacher in the world. And it was a long time ago, so I’m not sure how much I would remember). The teacher (who isn’t actually teacher, who knows where the actual teacher is) started out by having us gather round and showing us an experiment.
She filled up a five liter (1.25 gallons) jug and had a boy take a big breath and then blow into a tube, which was in the jug. It was basically showing lung capacity. Then to show how girls and boys are biology built differently, she wanted a girl to do it too. No one wanted to, so I volunteered. I think this is really funny because I think she was trying to prove that boys have more lung capacity then girls. The boy had 3.5 liters of lung capacity (roughly). I had 4.5 liters. I was trying so hard not to laugh. (I do have to point out that she picked absolutely the wrong girl. I play the flute.)
Moving on to English. Without being too mean. We had to write a 50 word story about our holiday (50 words is not that long). I’m sure I wrote way over that. See, I thought I would have time to go back and cut it down, but then the teacher didn’t even say anything about it. So…not totally sure what the point of that was. But I did read someone’s story that must have been ten words. Well.
Lunch was next. I stopped by the auditorium because there was a tech meeting that didn’t happen, but that’s okay. Math was interesting. I’m not sure what they’re doing. Like, I’m used to Geometry, Algebra, Algebra 2, trig, but this seems to be a mix of everything. He made two comments that I think only I got.
He asked if the date written up on the board was right. Someone said yes and he said that it wasn’t the right date everywhere. I laughed at that. And then later (after apologizing if this would offend me) he said that according to some survey 44% of Americans think that the world is less then 10,000 years old (please, please don’t go spreading this around, I really have no idea if it’s true. I also don’t know what the age group or education level of people who were asked.). I wasn’t offended really. Also according to this article that 10,000 years was so off that it was like saying New York was 4 meters (4 yards) away from San Francisco. That made me laugh really hard. I really don’t think anyone else got it.
Next was social studies, which is actually health. Not sure how that works. That’s about it. Came home, changed into jeans and ranted (pos. and neg.) about school.
