Eh, not so bad
Mon Aug 08, 2005 16:48 (UTC -5)The first day of school wasn’t so bad. I tried not to be all nervous and stuff, and I think it worked.
First block (period), as you may recall, is Spanish III. It turns out I finally got the good teacher this year: Ms. Bourns, the one who everyone likes. I had gotten the two not-so-good teachers the past two years. I thought they were both okay, but other people didn’t. After studying Esperanto, Spanish is so… awkward-sounding and exception-laden. There are so many stem-changing (sort of semi-irregular) verbs. I like not having to conjugate verbs at all. But all I have to do is plow through the class, and I’ll never have to take Spanish again.
Second block was the fabled European History class I had been fretting so much about. The teacher was absent today — a death in the family, it was said — but she left work for us to do. We had to write about (a) what we want to learn in the class, and (2) major problems in the world today. Six paragraphs each. I knocked it down in the better part of an hour, and then reread Chapter 1 because I think we were supposed to when we were done.
Then I had lunch. I missed having lunch between the four classes of the day instead of having it in the middle of the third. Most of my friends are there, so it’s good.
Third block was Chemistry Honors. I ended up with the same science teacher I had two years ago. She’s pretty nice, so that should be okay. She’s the only teacher who assigned homework today, and I finished it during class.
Finally, for fourth block was English III Honors. Of all my classes, I had given this one the least thought. In fact, I just had a dream that my fourth block was a free period (ha!). The teacher, Ms. Owens, seems pretty cool, and most importantly, she realizes that we have a life, so she says she won’t give too much homework. Forty-eight cool points to Ms. Owens.
So I wasn’t really that nervous. There are quite a few people I know in each of my classes, including Nick, who I haven’t had a single class with in two years, in my first block. I guess the second day can only be better. But I can’t believe I live on such a crazy schedule: early to bed, early to rise, Monday through Thursday; slightly later on the other days. And it’s like that for week after week, month after month.
Speaking of which, a few days ago I put a countdown to next summer vacation at the bottom of every page. It counts down to May 25, 2006, at 13:00 (1:00 P.M.) EDT (that’s usually the time we get out on the last day of school, but it’s speculation). Man, have we got a long way to go.
What are the frequencies of telephone tones? I know, what a nerdy question. But I didn’t ask it. That page I just linked to does, and it answers it also. I had no idea there were so many different tones. Well, according to the page, “many of these telephone tones are no longer used and are included here only for historical accuracy.”
