Summer good, school bad

Today was my last day of summer vactation. As always I enjoyed my last day to the fullest. This is how I spent the day-

8:45 AM: Woke up
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM: Eat breakfast of a third a box of sugar-loaded cerea
l9:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Shower/Get changed
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Play GameCube (Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Watch "The Price Is Right"12:00 PM - 12:30 PM: Walk dog/Eat lunch of a box of Mac N Cheese.
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM: Watch "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?!"
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Play GameCube (NBA Street 2)
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM: Sit in hammock swing, reflect on how great summer was and how much I hate returning to school.
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM: Write bible quizzing questions.
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM: Play GameCube (Mario Party 5/Donkey Konga 1)
5:30 PM - 5:45 PM: Eat Dinner of pork, noodles and green beans
5:45 PM - 6:30 PM: Play GameCube (Donkey Konga 2)
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM: Surf internet/check email
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM: Watch "Jeopardy!"
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM: Blog on Xanga
8:00 PM - ?:?? PM: Watch football/surf internet/instant meesenger/Xanga
When tired: Got to bed

It's ironic that I made a schedule that last day I am no longer controlled by a schedule. But I did to live this vacation day to the fullest. I made sure I at least did everything I did in my free time this summer once. I also made sure I played every Nintendo GameCube game I own at least once (a custom I started the summer before fifth grade) and I did. I stuffed myself silly since when school starts, I stop eating breakfast.

My reflections on the hammock swing went something like this-

"It was another great summer. It went great. I worked a lot, yet still got some gree time. I enjoyed doing 5-Day Clubs. I especially enjoyed the two weeks of training at LBC and East Swamp. I got to meet so many great people, who were interest in spreading the gospel. I loved sharing bible stories and the way to Christ. Witnessing children come to Christ is awesome and wouldn't trade it for the world.

The second week of August was VBS Camp with Faulkner Swamp and Peace in Zion UCC churches at Mensch Mill. It was typical camp: stressul. Yet I loved doing it again. Teaching got me more into it. I got to see how the Lord worked through me to bring kids to Christ. We also got a good laugh now and then.

Only one family trip, and I'm glad for that. Family trips to CT are getting boring for me. Nothing to do but watch cable TV. Everyone is either too old or too young. It did force me to read me book, though. Beside that trip, no other trips. However, Aunt Sue, Cousin Matt and Matt's roommate Andy did come to us once, but it was so short, I didn't notice. We have to go back up labor day.

Only July 5, I turned 17. My birthday came and went. Didn't notice, not me, not my peers, not relatives, and hardly my family. That's they way I like it and they way it should be. (Head's up: I'll rant about that one of these days.) With the birthday money, I bought Donkey Konga 1 & 2 with 2 bongos. Mike Williams got me hooked on it and I play it often.
I find it a blessing that I only a few people from school in three days of my summer vacation. I hate seeing classmates outside of school. It's almost as bad as seeing teachers out of school.
After two weeks of free time, summer has come to a close. I will miss its freedom of laziness, mindless TV, bible quizzing, and endless GameCube.

I dread returning to school. No, it's not the boring classes, long assignments or hard tests. I understand it must be done and have gotten use to it. It's the people there, but it's not the teachers. The teachers are insightful, and are just doing their job (which seems to us as being mean). I actually like most of my teachers. I hate going to school because of the students, my peers, my classmates. They make school life hard and depressing for me. I hate everything social at school. I hate the close cliques that are formed. They make certain people better than others, and close off the lowest from the rest of the school. The lowest feel left out, and I hate that. I hate having to meet up with the popular kids' expectations and standards of being accepted and cool. Most of these standards and expectations are fueled by Hollywood. And if you go against them, forget being accepted, and expect to be on the bottom of the clique system. I hate noisy, disruptive, obnoxious students in my classes that make it impossible to learn. If they don't want to lean and have to "suffer" then they make you suffer and unable to learn. I hate it when classmates are immature. You're in high school, grow up. I also hate show-off couples. They make it look like they're better than you because you're single. They make being single bad and it puts you down. It pressures you get a boyfriend/girlfriend and date. That sucks.

I pray that the freshmen class is better this year. Despite having a few cute chicks last year, they were annoying, loud, talkative and sometimes rude. I also pray teachers will have better patience to put up with students. I am sick and tired of getting punished for the stupid things my peers do. It is unfair.

Other than that, I am fine with school. I understand I need it to become smarter and get a good paying job in a career that I like. I have gotten use to homework, projects, quizzes, tests, teachers and classes. It's a part of life. I will never get use to my classmates, cliques, show-off couples, and the soap opera of high school. Materialistically, I am prepared for tomorrow. I got all new school stuff. I have finished the book report due for school (I actually finished in the beginning of August) and it is 110 words over the maximum requirement. I pray the Lord will prepare me for what I cannot get use to at school: the social part.

This year, I will keep promoting my anti-cliquism book. I will also base everything I do in school senate on it. I will not let my classmates get the best of me. I will try my best not to give in to their standards and not be controlled as who I am and I should act and live. I will not let their commercial holidays get me down, either. I will once again aim for straight A's. However, I will be fine if I get straight A's the first semister and my grades drop third quarter because of quizzing."

Only 360 days left to survive......

I think this is my longest post ever.....