Okay, I kind of lied in my last post. I'll admit it, I don't worship my grades like Becca does, but they are important to me. Mostly, it's the fact that there is only one month of school left. 30 days, or something like that. I'm not going to slack off completely, but I'm tired. I need a break. Maybe I'm just becoming apathetic, I don't know. Actually, that isn't true. I want to keep my GPA up cause I want to do well, I just don't feel like putting forth the 100%. I guess I'm just being lazy, cause I know I can get by fine without giving things my all.
Claire nominated me to be part of the committee to choose the theme for next year. That makes me happy. :) We also chose Sam Mosier, Sam, and Chelsee, which they'll hopefully let us do, cause I guess we were only supposed to choose three people. Oh well. Anyway, the four of us work well together and it'll be fun.
Over the weekend, I have homework. This isn't actually a new concept, but I'm actually going to try to remember to do it this time. I have a math assignment, which won't be a big deal, and two poems to write for English. I kind of have my two-voice poem finished, I just need to type it and maybe try to make it a big longer. I think I'm going to redo my first poem though, about what makes me happy. It isn't very poetic, just a short little thing I wrote. Is there a word for that? A prose, maybe? I'm not sure, but I write a lot of stuff like that. You know, just a paragraph or two, not an essay, not a story or a poem. Just a paragraph.
I truly do not understand my school. They are firing--sorry, letting go of--eleven teachers as we are about to go through a huge transition to incorporate seventh and eighth graders? We seriously need to do fundraising. Honestly, we could probably raise a lot more money to keep our teachers than we could to sponsor a school in Africa. Africa is totally important and it probably sounds like I'm belittling the situation there, but the issues of our teachers being "let go" hits a lot closer to home.
Someone said we should write letters to local news stations and tell them about what's happening, but I don't think it would have much of an effect. Budget cuts at schools aren't that big of a deal. Okay, that's a lie. They are a big deal, but not a big story. If an English teacher gets fired for having students read "questionable material" or stuff like that, then there is a story behind that. But budget cuts at a small high school most people haven't heard of isn't as big of a story.
The yearbook is finally finished. We're a month late and the Jostens people must absolutely hate us, but we are finished nonetheless. Maybe we can finally do the newspaper that we are at least a month behind on? I like yearbook and all, but I like newspaper more. You don't have to be so...cheerful and upbeat. You can be blunt and to the point. It isn't cotton candy and lollypops, as someone said.
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