First Day
Running on a half hour of sleep can't be healthy, but somehow I did it and survived the entire first day of highschool. I never once fell asleep.
The day started too fucking early as usual. At breakfast and set off to school. First thing that hit me was something I knew was coming, but still hated it when I finally experienced. The old morning group at our heater hangout was gone, off to college or somewhere, including my love Amia. Lonely and bored before class I searched for Joel and Ryan, who I found, and just chilled with them, disscussing our soon to come protest(more on that later).
First hour symphonic band was the same as every other year. Pretend to listent to Larz as he goes over the same syllabus we've all seen and read. Nothing fun.
Second hour CP Physics with Mr. Vogel, my Media 101 teacher from last year, was...well...not bad but nothing cool either. He gave us an ungraded math test just to see where we were in terms of our math ability. It is physics after all. Most of the questions were easy and required little thought, but the mulitplication and division of decimals killed me. I havn't had to do that stuff without a calcualtor for years. I did as many as I could and didn't let it get to me.
Seeing Vogel again was fun though. He's a great teacher and a great guy. This year will be fun with him simply because we already know each other, and his attitude mixed with physics experiements will be a blast to watch.
Third hour was hell. Specifically because I don't have one yet. At the end of last year I talked to my councilor about working in the ITC with Covey, one of our Tech Advisors. He wanted my help working with computers, the library, and tech stuff because he knew I was interested in it, could get the work done, and would help me out and the club. She told me there would probably be a hole in my scheduale and just to get it fixed at the beginning of the year since she just has to do some paperwork and whatnot to get it going. Of course there is a hole in my scheduale and I go in to the Counciling office third hour to get it fixed.
There were already over 25 kids when I got there, and I wasn't late at all. We couldn't even fit in the room they had us waiting in, so they moved myself and half of the other kids to a secondary room. We sat their the whole hour without anyone helping us. They must have been too busy with the other room of people or something. I have a hard time blaming them for the problems because it is a new system, but it would be nice to know if I would be getting help that hour or not. Otherwise I would have taken an early lunch.
As I was leaving I joked with Mrs. Doyle, the secretary and a really nice lady, that I would be going to lunch tomorrow and I was wondering if she wanted me to pick up anything for her. She laughed because she knew how I felt, but I wonder if she knows I am considering it? From what I saw it's going to be another whole day before I get anywhere towards that ICT.
Fourth hour was a nice surprise. Method Acting with my tenth grade English Teacher Mrs. Baker, a strange lady. Nice, but really strange. Especially her angry/happy look, where you can't tell if she's angry, happy, or angry but hiding it under a smile. I call it her homicidal look of happyness. That aside though, she is a good woman half the time and I am looking foward to this class. For once Im on the other side of the stage.
Luck for me, Matt Land, one of our best actors in the school, is in the class, but juding from the looks I saw today he already knows over half the things she will teach us, if not all. He didn't look too happy, but at least it will be fun.
The only thing I might not like about this class is houw seriously Mrs. Baker might take it. She always takes everything extremely seriously. I understand how she is excited to be teaching Method Acting after four years of English, but I hope she lightens up and realizes most of us are doing it for fun and not for a career. We also have to audition for a real play sometimes, and Im hoping I can just audition for whatever play we have this year instead of a proffesional show.
Lunch time was lunch, and our protest began. The school made some new rule about not eating in the halls and how food is ONLY ALLOWED IN THE CAFETERIA!!! My friends and I, knowing how dumb this rule is because of how unbelievably small our cafeteria is, decided to pretty much forget that rule. We knew they can't really enforce it, and even if they did the amount of traffic and congestion by cafeteria and hallway would be horrible for 5th hour classes. So we sat in the hall where we normally sat and refused to move.
Well...we would have refused if anyone gave a shit. Apparantly the staff don't give two fucks about the rule either, since the Principal walked by and had a friendly conversation with us. So our "protest" was a success...and a failure...depending on how you look at it.
Fifth hour marked the beginnning of AP English. From what I can tell I like Mrs. Cotter as a person and English teacher and am looking foward to the class. That's really it, we didn't do any work or anything. Just talked, but it was nice.
Sixth hour was AP Calculus, and Mr. Anderson is AWSOME! I have only heard great things about him from everyone, whether they were passing his class or failing it. Everyone says he's the best damn math teacher in the school, if not the district, and you will learn everything you need to know to pass that AP test on May 7th. It's about time I've had a great math teacher. I havn't had someone like that since Mr. Pike in 8th grade. Rienstra freshmen year was good, but sometimes annoying how she tried to be everyone's friend. Hager both sophomore and junior year was alright as a person, but as math teacher needed serious help. Lucky for me I was able to interact with Hager outside of the classroom and found she is a very nice woman. She is kind hearted and understanding about life. Unfortunately she isn't a very good math teacher. She obviously knows the material, but could never teach it in a way we understood. She also could never control the class, or was very hyprocrital about wasting time. She wasn't fully at fault for it all, but overall it wasn't a very pleasant math experience. Though I never failed her class and always got a B+ or higher.
So I am excited about Anderson. It's going to be great!!!
Another thing Im excited about this year is that I am finding myself more organized. Im taking more steps to keep my desk clutter free and keep dates and such organized so I always have some idea of what's going on. So far it's working great, and if I keep it up it's going to make life as well as this year awsome.
I have Amia to blame for this. Thanks you babe. Love you!!!
As for other news with school starting I can finally start working on my movies again. I completed a sketch today for another character in a new movie Im making and started storyboarding the first scene for the same movie. I think I'll be able to get a lot more done now that I have organizational tools at my disposal.
I'll post pictures either here or on my Newgrounds Page.
The day started too fucking early as usual. At breakfast and set off to school. First thing that hit me was something I knew was coming, but still hated it when I finally experienced. The old morning group at our heater hangout was gone, off to college or somewhere, including my love Amia. Lonely and bored before class I searched for Joel and Ryan, who I found, and just chilled with them, disscussing our soon to come protest(more on that later).
First hour symphonic band was the same as every other year. Pretend to listent to Larz as he goes over the same syllabus we've all seen and read. Nothing fun.
Second hour CP Physics with Mr. Vogel, my Media 101 teacher from last year, was...well...not bad but nothing cool either. He gave us an ungraded math test just to see where we were in terms of our math ability. It is physics after all. Most of the questions were easy and required little thought, but the mulitplication and division of decimals killed me. I havn't had to do that stuff without a calcualtor for years. I did as many as I could and didn't let it get to me.
Seeing Vogel again was fun though. He's a great teacher and a great guy. This year will be fun with him simply because we already know each other, and his attitude mixed with physics experiements will be a blast to watch.
Third hour was hell. Specifically because I don't have one yet. At the end of last year I talked to my councilor about working in the ITC with Covey, one of our Tech Advisors. He wanted my help working with computers, the library, and tech stuff because he knew I was interested in it, could get the work done, and would help me out and the club. She told me there would probably be a hole in my scheduale and just to get it fixed at the beginning of the year since she just has to do some paperwork and whatnot to get it going. Of course there is a hole in my scheduale and I go in to the Counciling office third hour to get it fixed.
There were already over 25 kids when I got there, and I wasn't late at all. We couldn't even fit in the room they had us waiting in, so they moved myself and half of the other kids to a secondary room. We sat their the whole hour without anyone helping us. They must have been too busy with the other room of people or something. I have a hard time blaming them for the problems because it is a new system, but it would be nice to know if I would be getting help that hour or not. Otherwise I would have taken an early lunch.
As I was leaving I joked with Mrs. Doyle, the secretary and a really nice lady, that I would be going to lunch tomorrow and I was wondering if she wanted me to pick up anything for her. She laughed because she knew how I felt, but I wonder if she knows I am considering it? From what I saw it's going to be another whole day before I get anywhere towards that ICT.
Fourth hour was a nice surprise. Method Acting with my tenth grade English Teacher Mrs. Baker, a strange lady. Nice, but really strange. Especially her angry/happy look, where you can't tell if she's angry, happy, or angry but hiding it under a smile. I call it her homicidal look of happyness. That aside though, she is a good woman half the time and I am looking foward to this class. For once Im on the other side of the stage.
Luck for me, Matt Land, one of our best actors in the school, is in the class, but juding from the looks I saw today he already knows over half the things she will teach us, if not all. He didn't look too happy, but at least it will be fun.
The only thing I might not like about this class is houw seriously Mrs. Baker might take it. She always takes everything extremely seriously. I understand how she is excited to be teaching Method Acting after four years of English, but I hope she lightens up and realizes most of us are doing it for fun and not for a career. We also have to audition for a real play sometimes, and Im hoping I can just audition for whatever play we have this year instead of a proffesional show.
Lunch time was lunch, and our protest began. The school made some new rule about not eating in the halls and how food is ONLY ALLOWED IN THE CAFETERIA!!! My friends and I, knowing how dumb this rule is because of how unbelievably small our cafeteria is, decided to pretty much forget that rule. We knew they can't really enforce it, and even if they did the amount of traffic and congestion by cafeteria and hallway would be horrible for 5th hour classes. So we sat in the hall where we normally sat and refused to move.
Well...we would have refused if anyone gave a shit. Apparantly the staff don't give two fucks about the rule either, since the Principal walked by and had a friendly conversation with us. So our "protest" was a success...and a failure...depending on how you look at it.
Fifth hour marked the beginnning of AP English. From what I can tell I like Mrs. Cotter as a person and English teacher and am looking foward to the class. That's really it, we didn't do any work or anything. Just talked, but it was nice.
Sixth hour was AP Calculus, and Mr. Anderson is AWSOME! I have only heard great things about him from everyone, whether they were passing his class or failing it. Everyone says he's the best damn math teacher in the school, if not the district, and you will learn everything you need to know to pass that AP test on May 7th. It's about time I've had a great math teacher. I havn't had someone like that since Mr. Pike in 8th grade. Rienstra freshmen year was good, but sometimes annoying how she tried to be everyone's friend. Hager both sophomore and junior year was alright as a person, but as math teacher needed serious help. Lucky for me I was able to interact with Hager outside of the classroom and found she is a very nice woman. She is kind hearted and understanding about life. Unfortunately she isn't a very good math teacher. She obviously knows the material, but could never teach it in a way we understood. She also could never control the class, or was very hyprocrital about wasting time. She wasn't fully at fault for it all, but overall it wasn't a very pleasant math experience. Though I never failed her class and always got a B+ or higher.
So I am excited about Anderson. It's going to be great!!!
Another thing Im excited about this year is that I am finding myself more organized. Im taking more steps to keep my desk clutter free and keep dates and such organized so I always have some idea of what's going on. So far it's working great, and if I keep it up it's going to make life as well as this year awsome.
I have Amia to blame for this. Thanks you babe. Love you!!!
As for other news with school starting I can finally start working on my movies again. I completed a sketch today for another character in a new movie Im making and started storyboarding the first scene for the same movie. I think I'll be able to get a lot more done now that I have organizational tools at my disposal.
I'll post pictures either here or on my Newgrounds Page.