I have the best Peace Day hangover. Let me explain. Yesterday was the International Day of Peace and I had a wonderful day... mostly. Now as for the hangover, I just mean the buzz of happiness and all its worth is still lingering. It was a really good day, and I wish all days were like it. Oh and sorry about not posting, I wasn't busy. It was just one minute I remembered I had to write and the next I was off to go to bed. And by bed I mean watch Sherlock.
Oh yes. I have watched most of Sherlock, seeing as there is yet to be a season three. Season one was on Netflix so I decided with all the hype I would give it a go. To say the least, I love it. In fact I started at the right time, because yesterday they put season two up. Next Saturday I'll let you know what I think.
I finally figured out my locker, but have yet to get it open on one try. I usually miss the mark and have to start over. As for the bus. Just...no. No no no no no no and no. I'm loving Geometry so far. Even with the larger class, the teacher is still the same. Mostly we've been using an online program called ALEKS. It's basically a tool to help students progress at their own pace and learn more comfortably. I work really well with things like ALEKS, so I've actually been exceeding. Chemistry still scares me. Not the teacher, or the learning, but the work. I am so unbelievably scared of not knowing. Which is weird because science isn't about not knowing, but discovering. So it's weird that I'm scared of something that is meant to help understanding.
I went to a Collage Fair this past week on Wednesday I believe. I'm a sophomore so it wasn't a mandatory thing, but my sister's a senior so I tagged along. She's been to a lot of Collage Fairs so she was a great resource. I met up with a group of mostly seniors from my school and a teacher, and walked with them for the last half hour or so. Overall it was a really great experience, and I met a lot of cool people. I even found a few collages I might have interest in going to. Even though I'm still not entirely sure on what to major in I've at least started to think about it. The first collage representative we actually talked to was a women from Drew University in New Jersey. My mom and brother know her some way or another which is mostly why we stopped at her booth. I wrote this about my experience: http://ihaveopinionstoo.tumblr.com/post/31949835136. It wasn't a bad thing, but there is a lot of truth to it. I like learning and school and sitting in class. And when I'm at home I relax by doing some form of learning or school related work. Which is why it's so hard for me to fathom not doing school work all the time.
I want to talk more about Peace Day. Only a little bit. We had this huge assembly type thing when we go to school. Filled with presentations, guest speakers, musical performances, and awesome. At the end we were aloud to raise our hands and share something. Well, being full of nerd, I shared DFTBA with my entire school. Only my sister and one other Nerdfighter friend knew what I was on about. But I have a feeling there are other Nerdfighters on their way. I saw an upper class-man reading Looking for Alaska. That's not even the coolest part. In Chemistry the teacher says that what he looks for in group work is students doing act of awesome. And then. Oh then. HE USED DFTBA. In class, to the class. He reminded the entire class to be awesome. THEN he said to not FTBA. I just exploded, covering the walls with excitement. That was my Peace Day.
I finished Every Day by David Levithan and I must say, wow. I recommend it, and here's why. It's addictive. Not in the sense that you just eat through it in a day. I could actually put it down, and be able to pick up where I left off without having to back trace to where I remember. It was a comfortable read. In English we started reading The Life of Pi. I don't if you guys have heard or read it before, but it's actually being made into a movie and premiering in December. Which I thought was kind of neat. I have a boat load of homework that I haven't started yet. So I'm going to go panic over that a bit and probably go to bed soon.
have an awesome week guys. And DFTBA.
~Katie
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