Life is GREAT!, so live it.

Isn't it sad how many people have quit Honors English? I can't believe how small we have gotten. I think that there were about 35 people in our class to begin with and now there are only 19! Almost half of the people who were signed up to do it dropped out! That really is just sad. Sixteen people quitting because they are actually expected to do something. What made them quit? I know that the students whose parents forced them to take the class, were not going to stay in. Then there were the people whose friends made them take the class with them, they were bound to drop out. I asked Brooklyn why she dropped the class and she said, "I hated those one things." "What things?" "The blobs." It didn't exactly help that Mr. Thompson assigned "The Yearling" second term. He actually did this to get the people who weren't serious out. (Thanks Mr. T.) I think that it is highly amusing! Still it just goes to show that most people are too lazy to do something worth while. They wanted Honors English to be easy not requiring a lot of work, or time.

I was once talking to my dad about not having enough time to do all the things I wanted to do. I was having a hard time deciding whether I wanted to be in our school musical or run with the Davis indoor track team. I asked my dad, "Why do both things take so much time?" he said, " anything worth while, takes time,and a lot of it." This is so true! If I was taking no Honors classes I would probably on average have homework 2 nights a week. I have at least 1 hour of math homework a night. She gives us no time to work on it in class, because all of the class time is spent learning. I bet most of my friends on average, do an hour of homework a night. I swear they hardly ever bring their backpacks home. It is totally not fair. Actually it is fair, because I work harder than them and have learned to study and do my homework throroughly I get better grades than them. Even though they do their homework I always get better grades than they do on the assignments. This is probably because I have better homework skills than they do because I have so much more homework than them.

Anyway back to Honors English, it does take quite a bit of time. I think I am most likely slower than others especally when I am dead tired, like I am now! I spent so long reading Anthem and doing the study guide last Saturday! I don't even know how long it took me but it was a long time. After I finally finished it I felt accomplished and like I had actually done something with my time. I was glad that I had done it then, so I wouldn't have to do it the night before it was due. I know people who really don't do anything. Do you want to know what they do? They sit at home and watch T.V. Wouldn't that be the life? NOT! It is not worth while to watch T.V.! What do you gain by donig it? How is watching it going to help you later on in life? If you are one of those people who don't do anything but watch t.v. and are not involved in anything, sign up for a club, make your own club, start working out, just do something! Life is GREAT!, so live it. Learn to love life and make of it what you can. Don't go through life telling yourself, "that is too hard." or " I would never be able to do that." Try new things, make new friends, join Honors English! Finish the stuff you are doing. Don't give up! LIVE LIFE!

Friends

I have a friend who is so amazing! She doesn't know or admit how cool she is, but I notice how she acts and how kind she is to everyone. She is never mean to anyone. She always has something nice to say to people. It is amazing to me how she always seems to be happy and in a good mood. When I am sad or feeling down I know that I can just call her and she will make me feel better. She doesn't care what people think about her. She won't not be friends with someone because they aren't "cool." She will give up something she wants, because another person also wants it. Sounds pretty cool huh? Don't you wish you could be more like her? I do!

My friend always finds time to help me with my homework. It is nice having a friend who is DANG smart. When I call her on the phone asking her to explain something to me she always does. I would hate it if I were really smart and I had my friends calling me 24-7 so I could explain the math to them. My friend is a true friend! How many of you can say you have a true friend. Can you say that you are a true friend? What makes a true friend? You don't have to be like my friend,(who is basically perfect), to be a true friend. I think that when it comes right down to it, to be a true friend all you have to do is be honest. If you are a true friend you will never EVER say anything mean about your friend. Your friends will trust you to stick up for them and not turn on them. When you are around a true friend you don't have to worry about being cool or impressing them. Your friend will like you even if you say something stupid or you look like you have been in a hurricane.

I have a friend who I met in eighth grade and we clicked. We were the best of friends! We liked exactly the same things and we had very similar personalities. Whenever we were together we had a blast! After we had been friends for about a semester she stopped being nice to me. Actually she didn't stop being nice, she started making my life miserable. I would come home and cry because she made me feel so bad. This girl turned almost my whole group of friends against me. You might not know it but girls are mean! And it is possible for one person to make another person's life miserable. I got over it, made new friends, and moved on. In 9th grade she was really nice to me. It was weird, she acted as if nothing had ever happened. We are now friends. I have several classes with her. I will however never trust this person. I will never be let myself become close to this person again. Even though this person and I have worked on projects together and I would call her my friend, I know that she is not a true friend. My first friend I know I could trust with anything. She will always be my friend no matter what.

Cinderella

I had a list of things I was going to do this weekend to catch up on homework and school. The list was,

Term Project for science
4 mile run or hour bike ride
Persuasive
Study Math
Finish Anthem
Memorize lines for play
Catch up on piano
Practice dance for play

Well my mom and another idea. This was the list she gave me Saturday morning:

Weekly Job, Vacuuming, comp. room
Clean Mop boards in bedroom with tooth brush
Clean carpets by mop boards
Dust dressers and desk (only in my room)
Dust shades (only in my room)
Clean light fixtures
Clean window trades
Clean living room mop boards/carpet
Piano technique

CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? I did all of it except clean the carpets. It took me all day! I am so mad! Now my mom is telling me that I have to clean our computer room b/c I forgot. I am not Cinderella, even though I feel like her. I was cleaning for my mom for 5 hours. Then I collapsed on the couch for a 2 1/2 hour nap. I took the nap because they woke me up at 8:30! On a Saturday! That means I only got 8 and a half hours of sleep last night. I seriously need 10 on the weekend becuase I get so sleep deprived during the week. So I slaved away for my mom woke up from my nap and it's 4:30. Guess how many things I had done on my list? NONE! I am still in my pajamas, I haven't done any homework, I haven't exercised, and I wish I had another day so that I could do the things on my list! It is so unfair that parents make you do all this stuff for them. I know that they are doing stuff for me every single day and I should be able to do this for them, but I am mad. I think that they could at least let me for get about cleaning the computer room. They won't if I don't clean it I will not be doing anything tonight. Tell me have any of your parents asked you to be a Cinderella before? I don't know of anyone who has parents who would actually ask them to clean and work that much at once. Let alone a kid who would do it like me.

Kids

Little kids are the best. I sometimes wish I could be a little kid again. When I was little I could entertain myself without T.V. or computer games. I was a "wild child"! being the 7th kid my parents were not very protective. By the time I was six I could say to my mom, "I'm going on a bike ride." and if my chores were done, I would be gone for hours. Can you believe that? How am I not dead or kidnapped?

My best friend and I during ages 6-8 had some real adventures. Not lacking an imagination or mischievous personalities we were seldom bored. We played cops and robbers, lost children, and super hero's. We would spend hours in a tree pretending it was our house. My best friend's older sister's even made Matt and I repeatedly get married. When we would play make believe games it actually seemed like someday we really would go on adventures and have super freezing powers, or live by ourselves without our parents. Being a little kid was the greatest! I had no responsibilities, no real sorrows, and I lived for the moment not thinking ahead. I didn't have to worry about anything because my mom knew everything and there was nothing my dad couldn't do!

I always hear the story about when I was two years old I was found walking down mutton hollow road. My mom was super pregnent with my little sister and had to take a nap. She pleaded with me to stay in my room, but I probably left it as soon as she went into her bedroom. In the midst of her nap she heard someone calling her name. "Katherine, Katherine?'' She being pregnent had no idea what was going on. She got up and went to the front door and saw our two neighbors inside our house holding me in their arms. "We found Elizabeth walking down Mutton Hallow with her baby and stroller." I am not sure how my mom explained her way out of that, but I wasn't put in a children's shelter. As you can see I was rather more than the perfect child.