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Just for some background info: School's been hell for me my entire life, I skipped 7th grade, hoping it'd make it a bit harder (nope, even easier, but now I'm in hell without my friends), and high school classes are so structured that I can't take it, so i've got a rubiks cube, 3 puzzle books, and 3 books in my backpack that I do during class.

I've been teaching myself Hebrew for a little while, and in bio yesterday our teacher gave us 15 minutes to work on some project, so I took out my Hebrew book and worked on some stuff. She got really pissed for some reason and went on about not respecting her, and how I should "learn about other stuff on my own time" and "stop wasting hers". She's told me this before, and I'm tired of having to apologize for being different, so I stood up and left.

I walked about a mile down the street to hang out with some of my middle school friends at their bus stop, since school starts an hour later for them. After they left, I walked to the library and had a pretty awesome day reading newspapers and magazines that I enjoy, doing some puzzles, and reading some math books by Ian Stewart and working on whatever problems I want.

I still haven't delt with my mom yet, and I don't know what I'll do today, but when I was leaving school the door to the orchestra room was locked, so my violin's stuck there.

SHIT

The school's open for 30 minutes before school actually starts, but I don't know if they can legally keep me there if I go in before school and was truant the day before.

Any ideas?
09-25-2007 07:33 PM
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OMG HEBREW SUCKS!!! HOW DO YOU ENJOY LEARNING IT!!!! (maybe its teh program my school uses, but YUCK)

good luck w/ all hat.

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09-26-2007 08:30 AM
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ya hebrew sucks for me too but its okay if ur teaching urself (any reason in specific?)

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09-26-2007 09:58 AM
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I volunteer with some disabled kids on the weekend and part of their day is spent in Sunday school. Everything is taught in English, but some of them think in Hebrew, so I talked with some people and it seemed that it would make it easier for the kids if I knew a bit more.
09-26-2007 02:02 PM
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I sometimes wish I were that daring. I just don't care about school. When people yell at me, I start to care, but this can't affect me much because I don't really care.
09-26-2007 02:33 PM
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Re: Shit

plasticglass Wrote:and I'm tired of having to apologize for being different, so I stood up and left.
wow. flashback Biggrin
I never went back though

I hate the teachers and the principal
Don't wanna be taught to be no fool
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09-26-2007 04:05 PM
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