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Firat day of skul(warning: long post)
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Firat day of skul(warning: long post)

I say, I liked it:

So, we met our future teachers, all of them seem cool. I think i'll be liking English this year (Language Arts is out, English is in), Social Studies, not so much. Math might be promising, French is pretty cool also. French is a quarter-year class, same with Music, Spanish, and Art (they cycle every new quarter(quarters = semesters)), and in high school, you can choose one of those for a whole year. Homeroom is AWESOME. My teacher is very lenient on rules, and the shit in his room is just awesome! SCIENCE is awesome, 'cuz it's in the same room as my homeroom. Which is AWESOME. PE is mostly the same, we change up (which I hate with a passion), we do shit, we change up AGAIN, and get late for lunch. But of course, we have PE first thing Thursday morning. Argh I can tell that won't be pleasant. In other news, I met lots of old friends, and my old homeroom teacher, who I believe is still AWESOME.


Ha. What a dream. In the next few weeks, it'll all boil down to a big pile of shit.
09-03-2008 08:46 AM
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Trar Wrote:I say, I liked it:

So, we met our future teachers, all of them seem cool. I think i'll be liking English this year (Language Arts is out, English is in), Social Studies, not so much. Math might be promising, French is pretty cool also. French is a quarter-year class, same with Music, Spanish, and Art (they cycle every new quarter(quarters = semesters)), and in high school, you can choose one of those for a whole year. Homeroom is AWESOME. My teacher is very lenient on rules, and the shit in his room is just awesome! SCIENCE is awesome, 'cuz it's in the same room as my homeroom. Which is AWESOME. PE is mostly the same, we change up (which I hate with a passion), we do shit, we change up AGAIN, and get late for lunch. But of course, we have PE first thing Thursday morning. Argh I can tell that won't be pleasant. In other news, I met lots of old friends, and my old homeroom teacher, who I believe is still AWESOME.


Ha. What a dream. In the next few weeks, it'll all boil down to a big pile of shit.
Good luck! Hope you have a good year. Mine seems pretty average.

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09-04-2008 01:51 PM
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