First, our now closely bonded classes were split up. Randomized. Mixed. I mean, we always have minor changes to our classes at the beginning of every year. It's nothing new. But most of us stays. This year they took everyone and basically let the computer throw us into whatever class. All because last year's 8th graders acted like total immature weirdos. So now I'm split from some of the best people ever.......including a certain someone I had my eye on from back in 6th grade.
Then there are the classes. Basic middle school set up. 8 periods, each 45 minutes long. Traveling all over the school from class to class, teacher to teacher. Plus lunch in the middle of it all. Well this year, the classes seem to be......wrong or something. Wrong as in boring, not the same as before, at all. My biggest irritations are that #1: we're the only class who didn't get keyboard this year (my favorite class with the best teacher ever!) and #2: we have a thing called Math Regeants.....meaning we have to do 9th grade algebra (Algebra I) instead of regular math. There are two classes: Regular math and the Algebra one. Of course, it is just my luck to be put into Algebra and than not understand half of what our teacher talks about. Proof of that? The 80 I got on our first math quiz. I don't think I ever did that bad on math in my history of junior high, and it's only the first semester! I'm so screwed.
Lunch isn't that great, either. It just so happens that EVERYONE wants to sit at our table, and since this year the staff made us sit in the most cramped section of the lunch room, we have to climb over each other all the time. I don't have lunch anymore, anyway. Me and my two best friends help our English teacher at lunch, organizing and filing stuff for her since she just moved rooms at the beginning of the year. She has so many books! We have been at it for about 4 days, and only half of her library is organized. Well......we ARE perfectionists. ;)
Strangely, the best thing about school is handball. It is the IT sport in our school at the moment. My best friends and classmates come an hour before schools starts to practice their mad skills, then they play when we go out at lunch. And again for almost 2 hours after school. Now, I'm the person who totally hates sports, especially the ones using a ball, with a passion. I've been practicing at all those times just like everyone else and sucking at handball for about 2 weeks now. AND I'M NOT READY TO GIVE IT UP YET. (!!!!) I guess it's in part because I don't want to feel left out while everyone else plays and because playing hb helps me stay in touch with some *cough* special people that I don't talk to otherwise. Besides, exercise is good. And handball requires a bunch of running and coordination.
We finally have a yearbook committee this year! It's good, because we never really got a proper yearbook for 5th grade, while other schools did, and this year it should be better than evah! I can't join the committee, though. It's because I (well, rather, everyone made me) signed up to do this medical project for school. It's exclusive and we have to present our topic to half of the school and a whole board of doctors at the end of the year. I guess yearbook will just have to wait until high school.
Speaking of high school, that is also a big part of why 8th grade isn't that awesome this year. Everyone is going nuts over which high school they should choose, which ones require tests, which ones require auditions, etc. Plus all the open houses and high school fairs.....It's enough to send me into a nervous breakdown!!! All my friends are competing for the same high school, which is a bit overrated in my opinion. That high school is my second choice. My first choice is an artsy school where you need to audition to get in. I realized that stuff like singing, art, and writing is my passion. I'm not making the mistake of going to a school inclined towards math and science again. Anyway, tomorrow I'm going to my first hs fair. Should be interesting!
Otherwise, life carries on as usual. Homework, listening to music, hanging out on the computer, etc. I'm a bit scared since this creepy person IMed me last week, but that's what block lists are for.....right?
Anyway, thanks to the people who read this freaking long kind of angry post! You deserve a cookie *hands over chocolate chip macadamia cookies....yum!* I'll try to post more often now, and next post should feature some of the music and books that I like. You guys can comment and tell me what you wanna see here. Until then, ttfn!
