reading is fun
Aggggg. I never expected to be this busy. Seriously, I have never worked harder or steadier than in this past week and a half in my life. Public school ain't no joke, as it turns out. And it's funny, because everyone always said that Bruriah prepares you well for college, but in Bruriah I didn't know the meaning of the word work, as related to school. Here, they check your homework all the time, and you have to do it anyway if you want to keep up, while AP redifines the meaning of the word "work". Getting out at three just means there's just that much more time to do homework. I laugh now, hysterically, when I think back to those times I thought an after-school job would be just dandy, forget managable. It's not even an option! I get home around four, start homework by five, and don't stop until I go to bed. I am finally learning some discipline, and I'm getting pretty darn organized too. Who would've thunk it? It's way harder than I expected, too. Mostly AP. And not even actually hard, forgeting for a second the enormous quantity of the AP work, because everything is understandable and managable while you're studying, so it doesn't seem hard, but then you get to tests and assignments and everyone who normally does really well is getting scores way below their norm, and you quickly learn that in order to suceed you have to readjust the way you think and perform, and it'll take a few tries before you get it right. That's what's hard. Oh yeah, and the quantity stinks too.
So if I haven't talked to you as much as I wanted to, or not at all, that's why. I know everyone else has just as much, if not more, work than I do. Which makes the having fun and relaxing part, even on the weekends, hard. But we shouldn't let that stop us. So any time one of you has a not so busy or a free weekend, CALL ME right away, and we will JUMP on it. LIKE TIGERS. Got it?
And now, a challenge: Everyone tell me one GOOD thing about school.
Mine is quasi-good: today I held seventy five pounds of metal on my back while squating repeatedly. My knees are still buckling, and I won't be able to get out of bed in the morning, but I suspect I am on my way to becoming sort of fit. yay! it hurts.
And...NOT a ton of homework!