First Week

School Courtyard before Summer

The first day of Grad year.. ugh... The thought of being a high school senior is kind of stressful. I mean it's the last year I'll be in a school that is quite crowded when walking down the halls to get to your locker, or to your other classes. But this year I only have to be in school for a few classes before leaving to go home. Today I only had to be here for an hour, in a gym with some familiar and other foreign faces. It was probably a bad idea to come wearing heels. Since I wasn't able to get down or stand up properly without a little help from my best friend. Oh well it was my fault for wearing them today. We had to sit through the first year assembly cheering as loud as we can as Grads. It was quite sad since most of us didn't actually cheer as loud as the other grads from years before. I guess it was because most of us didn't really see any point in being excited. We were only a few months away from graduating the school we've been in for at least 4 years. But I guess they only wanted to hear us cheer and celebrate the year that we are finally leaving to pursue a career or to travel the world.

When we were finally called up to leave the gym and meet up at our homeroom, my leg had fallen asleep. It took at least half an hour for that assembly to end. I knew where my homeroom was I just didn't want to get there early so I walked my best friend, Rhiannon, to her advisory class before heading back to the same room I spent every Friday in just last year. Nothing new was announced during this time, but we were able to leave just before the it hit 1 o'clock. Having nothing to do that afternoon I waited for Rhiannon by student services. When we met up we walked back to Starbucks and traded our class schedules. 

The first official day were we all attend classes. Except this time we, Grads, had planned to wear white. But not just any white, Cocaine white. I still didn't get what the difference in that was. They were after all just white. Anyways, we all started off the day by going to our first assigned class. Mine just so happened to be Biology. Its not that I don't like that class, its just I got a bad grade last year.... Any who, my teacher handed out our class outline and student information sheets. About an hour and a half was spent on going over this semesters criteria and getting our first ever class textbooks of the year. Let me tell you, they are not the lightest things to carry around with you. When class finished I went to my homeroom class. I was set up in the same class as last year in the same place and with the same locker. I spent all of homeroom trying to get the lock on my locker to open making me walk into my second class, English, late. Not the finest time to walk into a class with a teacher in the middle of a speech. But oh well, couldn't do anything about it. After all it is the first official day of going back to lessons. We had to make name tags and write things about our self on the back of them. After  we had went over the course outline and then did a group activity. The group I was placed in won 2nd place for tallest tower. When the bell rang signalling lunch time I went and headed up to student services to see my home room teacher, Mr. Loukes. I had gotten the right locker combination before heading to my locker with my friends and officially opening it. The whole lunch time was spent going around Starbucks and DQ at Saanich Center. Around the time for third block to start I walked my friends back to school before heading back out to go home. Having nothing to do for third block only meant getting out of school early.

I had arrived back at school 3 minutes before last period would start. I headed to my locker and got the same purple binder I had stuffed my English stuff in. I spent the last few minutes standing there unpacking my bag and preparing for my next class. When the bell rang to signal class has ended, I locked my locker and headed to my last class for the day. During my last class we had to write a short story about our summer. After that we went over the outline of this class. So this is why I have started writing this blog.