Yippers
I love college mail. It's like 'Yes! I'm worth postage!'
Anyways, my weekends suddenly seem kind of busy. I didn't think I had anything this weekend, but of course I was wrong. Again.
Whatever, not like I'm planning on doing homework at night anyhow.
And thank you Steph and Cathy for visiting Baskin Robbins! My arm was definitely dying, but it was fun.
Got assigned a freshman for tutoring. Yay! And it got me to thinking: What if I hadn't been put into PI or advanced math?
I don't know...it would just be kind of strange. What would my writing be like? What is it like to be unable to construct a thesis statement, to not even know what that is, and to look at my writing and not know what's wrong with it? And advanced math...what would it be like not to know how to use a variable, to not be able to understand what it stands for?
It freaks me out. And I am so very very very glad that I did well enough on a standard test that they put me in those two classes. Cuz they're the only sorts of classes in school that I'm guaranteed to love. Yep. That's right. Language art and math are my two favorite subjects.
I wonder what it's like to not have homework almost every day. It'd just be too good to be true, but I think I'd start lacking some sort of purpose. I'd be reading a book a day, finishing korean dramas within the week, watching all the movies in theatres on weekdays (which boggles my mind), actually sleeping...so strange. I'm so glad that I have homework, and that I can ditch homework to do what I want.
Talked to a friend on the bus. She's a junior. I feel so sorry for her. All she does is go home and do homework, except dinner, until bedtime. Even on weekends, that's all she does. Her mom doesn't let her out so she can't really do anything else. She's gotten straight A's every year and she's 8th in the class, but I don't think I could live with that sort of life.
So so so very glad that my mom is so liberal, heh, Americanized I guess you could say. But it's true, she let's me do almost anything I want, she's probably freer than a lot of real American families. She doesn't care if I get a B, just as long as I tried my best (which isn't even the case sometimes now =/) It's great.
Anyways, glad all those Hakka performances are done now. People don't have to come to our house anymore.
I don't really like it when we have guests. It isn't the cleaning and preparation that makes me uneasy, it's the prospect of all those adults watching me and comparing me with their own children. Of course, it's easier with close family friends (and by close, I mean really close because technically they're all close family friends) but even then they're always judging.
sure, I've got a pretty good reputation, but then they start expecting stuff of me and that's even worse. Especially grades wise. I've never gotten straight A's in high school. So last semester they were all asking my mom about my grade and then they were...I dunno, aghast I guess, at my two B's. cuz they expected 'such an obediant child like me' to get straight A's. sigh*
Today was pretty strange, I think we had a black out or something during the night cuz the clocks were messed up this morning, and I woke up ALL BY MYSELF at 7:30 which was pretty strange. I thought it was twelve or something, but nooooo it had to be incredibly early like 7:30. My mom was like 'whoa...is something wrong?' cuz I was up so early. hehe. And then I read a book and went back to semi-sleep until twelve so now I feel normal again.
Valentine's day was cool cuz I actually got candy and cards. And Peter Chang's speeches are amazing. They're funny AND accurate. Mrs. Phillips was pounding on her desk to try to stop laughing, lol.
Now I'll go finish my math wksht, chem lab + book work, read chp. 6 for gov. and make up a speech about erasers. I'll probably leave the speech until tomorrow, but I might actually get around to the rest of it while I rewatch another Korean drama...
That's my update. Enjoy.
Anyways, my weekends suddenly seem kind of busy. I didn't think I had anything this weekend, but of course I was wrong. Again.
Whatever, not like I'm planning on doing homework at night anyhow.
And thank you Steph and Cathy for visiting Baskin Robbins! My arm was definitely dying, but it was fun.
Got assigned a freshman for tutoring. Yay! And it got me to thinking: What if I hadn't been put into PI or advanced math?
I don't know...it would just be kind of strange. What would my writing be like? What is it like to be unable to construct a thesis statement, to not even know what that is, and to look at my writing and not know what's wrong with it? And advanced math...what would it be like not to know how to use a variable, to not be able to understand what it stands for?
It freaks me out. And I am so very very very glad that I did well enough on a standard test that they put me in those two classes. Cuz they're the only sorts of classes in school that I'm guaranteed to love. Yep. That's right. Language art and math are my two favorite subjects.
I wonder what it's like to not have homework almost every day. It'd just be too good to be true, but I think I'd start lacking some sort of purpose. I'd be reading a book a day, finishing korean dramas within the week, watching all the movies in theatres on weekdays (which boggles my mind), actually sleeping...so strange. I'm so glad that I have homework, and that I can ditch homework to do what I want.
Talked to a friend on the bus. She's a junior. I feel so sorry for her. All she does is go home and do homework, except dinner, until bedtime. Even on weekends, that's all she does. Her mom doesn't let her out so she can't really do anything else. She's gotten straight A's every year and she's 8th in the class, but I don't think I could live with that sort of life.
So so so very glad that my mom is so liberal, heh, Americanized I guess you could say. But it's true, she let's me do almost anything I want, she's probably freer than a lot of real American families. She doesn't care if I get a B, just as long as I tried my best (which isn't even the case sometimes now =/) It's great.
Anyways, glad all those Hakka performances are done now. People don't have to come to our house anymore.
I don't really like it when we have guests. It isn't the cleaning and preparation that makes me uneasy, it's the prospect of all those adults watching me and comparing me with their own children. Of course, it's easier with close family friends (and by close, I mean really close because technically they're all close family friends) but even then they're always judging.
sure, I've got a pretty good reputation, but then they start expecting stuff of me and that's even worse. Especially grades wise. I've never gotten straight A's in high school. So last semester they were all asking my mom about my grade and then they were...I dunno, aghast I guess, at my two B's. cuz they expected 'such an obediant child like me' to get straight A's. sigh*
Today was pretty strange, I think we had a black out or something during the night cuz the clocks were messed up this morning, and I woke up ALL BY MYSELF at 7:30 which was pretty strange. I thought it was twelve or something, but nooooo it had to be incredibly early like 7:30. My mom was like 'whoa...is something wrong?' cuz I was up so early. hehe. And then I read a book and went back to semi-sleep until twelve so now I feel normal again.
Valentine's day was cool cuz I actually got candy and cards. And Peter Chang's speeches are amazing. They're funny AND accurate. Mrs. Phillips was pounding on her desk to try to stop laughing, lol.
Now I'll go finish my math wksht, chem lab + book work, read chp. 6 for gov. and make up a speech about erasers. I'll probably leave the speech until tomorrow, but I might actually get around to the rest of it while I rewatch another Korean drama...
That's my update. Enjoy.