Project: New Kid.. Day 1: This is really happening!

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

So yesterday i got 14 hours of sleep, i dunno why but i was having a super non productive weekend. Being the probable cause for why i tossed and turned all night, last night. Not the peaceful night sleep i would've hoped for. Oh well, my alarm goes off this morning at 5:38, my stomach tightens... "Oh crapola,, im going to school today." I get up, do the usual routine, and have like forty minutes to spare before i even have to leave the house to go to school. So what do i do? sit on the couch with a blanket. yep, too nervous to do anything else.
8:00 rolls around, I drive to school, park in the visitor/staff parking spot (hehe shhhh its a secret), went to the student office, turned my car registration form in and get my little student parking sticker, which must go in the front window on the left side, yada yada. okay so then i go drive around the school to a different parking lot, and find a more appealing parking space. Found it! as im walking to my first class, within the first 5 minutes of being at that school, i hear two guys behind me carelessly talking.. F this, F that, F my life, S, D, and all the other imaginative cuss words and phrases you could think of. I quickened my pace and scurried off to my class. Welcome to public school darling!

Spanish, meet my teacher,, and teacher assistant? hmm okay then she asks me what we've covered so far this year in my Spanish class at cascade.. so, being the total impressor, i whip out my yellow verb reference sheet, my blue verb conjugation sheets, my other pink verb conjugation sheet, and my red spiral notebook with all my highly educated Spanish noting. haha.... Highly impressed the teacher tells me that we wont cover this information in this year of Spanish. what?! okay so maybe cascade did do an excellent job of shooting my confidence through the roof. ahha She said that they are still in present tense, and are only now getting to past tense this semester, maybe... So all my workbook pages are easy cheesy. But one thing i am going to highly benefit from is that she rarely speaks in english. Her and the assistant only speak in spanish, its crazy! Talk about racking my brain for all unused spanish lessons, to form a proper question. haha So ill be getting a lot better in my fluent conversational skills. Yay! She made the whole class ask me questions about my life and my hobbies and all that, in spanish! and i had to answer in spanish! talk about putting me on the spot. jeepers!!

ummm next class is personal health. okay the teacher is really upbeat! he stressed, for the whole class period, how much he wanted an interactive class who wants to come to class and learn and better improve their health, mentally, socially, etc. He had us find someone in the class who we didnt know (which for me was pretty much everyone) and interview them, talk about their family, siblings, age, car, pets, etc. THEN... we take our partner up in front of the class and tell the class some things about them, and our partner does the same for us. And yes, i went first. He asks a lot of thought provoking questions then randomly points to someone for their thought on the matter, and doesnt accept "i dont know" for an answer.

Physical Science, a college prep class. yikes! he starts off with telling us that if we dont like to study then we shouldnt be in that class.. He told us that his tests are based off of the college format or somethin so they are multiple choice but apparently we're not gonna do very well if we dont study. Kind of a dry humor kinda guy too. Then he has us to a situation stimulation thing. Apparently its a coast guard exercise.
Our ship is sinking, what do u do? get on the life boat, good job. you have 15 items that u could bring with u in the life boat. which are most important to bring (9 of them) and which are the least important(6 of them)? yeah my score was bad.,,, i got rescued but only barely lived. hahaha

Academic Tutor.. this class calmed my nerves and the ten or so kids in there made me laugh. After they got their SSR reading and written summary done they wanted to know about me, where i went to school, why i came here, all the basics. It was really kewl to see that the girl sitting next to me was reading and summarizing THE BIBLE!!!! in my head i was like "Hallelujah i found another christian girl!!" Then when i was answering all their millions of questions about myself, my school... they said "oh so u must be a christian right?" (Mind u, this conversation is occupying the whole class and the teacher.. everyone can hear and no one else is talking) I said confidently, Yes i am a Christian. and like three of them were like "oh me too! what church do u go to??" ..i got really excited! one kid goes to church and is a christian even though his dad doesnt approve and will "never" convert. another girl goes to applegate! and i forget the other churches mentioned. but it really calmed my nerves because i was among brothers and sisters in Christ! That was a simple, and fun class. Please pray that God will use us four in that class to be a light to the rest of the class and the teacher. They are great people!

English, last class of the day! people say im crazy for taking a 7th period class, because it ends at 3:56. practically 4:00. This class was somewhat small, considering the fact that it was a later class, i didnt expect it to be some 40 odd students or anything. It was also a really good class. I made friends with like 70% of the girls in that class and talked to a few guys too. to my amazement we are just about to start the book NIGHT BY ELIE WIESEL... which is the book we're like half way through from miss beeler's cascade english class. hurray! we went to the library to find an outside reading book. that's where i was talking to everybody,, cause of course i would never ever ever talk in class! ;)

What a great day, then i come home, work out with my dad to a P-90X workout video that is killer!!!!!! get a call on the phone being offered a babysitting job one night per week!
And i dont have much homework, just a lil spanish stuff that my teacher wanted me to do to see where im at.

Well i think that this year will be a mighty fine one. and Thanks and Praise goes to God, the one and only. The One who made all this work out for the best, and the One who is holding my hand throughout the whole experience! Hallelujah!

-Taelor