How I Spent My Summer Vacation.. By Alyssa Sims

My first day of school was awesome! Ok, ok. I'll tell you about everything.

I got there & found my friend Michael. He showed me the ropes a little bit & helped me find where I could see where my homeroom was. I wasn't on the list. I was told to go to the registrar.. from there I was told to go to the banquet hall.. & from there I was told to go to the counselor's office. Back up a little bit. I had no idea where the banquet hall was! Everyone who tried to tell me was so confusing. "Make a right, then a left, then another left, then go all the way down & you'll see it." I had to ask 4 people before I actually got there. When I got there I was pleased to see about 30 other people had the same problem as I did. I also ran into one of my old friends, Maddie.

Like a heard of cows, everyone walked to the counselor's office. I ran into another old friend, Kiki & met a new girl.. I forgot her name.. she was very nice though. So luckily, there, I got my schedule! Maddie had also gotten her schedule unlike some of the unluckily fellow schedule-less sophomores. We compaired.. nothing together. Dang it. My only friend & we had nothing together!

So when I finally reached first period, I was greated by a friendly woman; my new Methods of Teaching teacher. After first period had come & gone I was off to second. My first class was in the 500's & from there I had to go upstairs to the 900's. Fortunately, I found it rather easy to say I had never been inside the school before. My English 2 Honors teacher was really nice. Just what I need, coming from.. well.. what I had before. She called everyone "child." I found that funny. She classified my partner & I the brainiacs of the class, too. We were the first ones done with a paper with 30 english-y questions on it. Go Alyssa!

Back to the 500's for my next class. Geometry with Mr. Jimenez. He's cool, swears though, & seems to talk about drugs alot. Not much else to say about that period.

After that rather interesting experience I was going to Child Development, my program class (also in the 500's). I was soo excited! THIS is what I had been waiting for. This class reached all of my hopes. The teacher is so nice & interesting to listen to. She previously taught at Stanford so she's obviously good. We have 2 "lab" rooms. One for toddlers who need to work on motor skills & the other for kindergarden aged. Both rooms have tiny desks & chairs for the kids. There are also observing windows. We make the lesson plans & the junior class test them out. We also get to plan the turtle habitat & the freshman make it. Oh, I forgot to tell you! Connected to the kindergarden aged room is a big sandbox area where we get to take care of turtles & teach the kids about them. How exciting is this class?!

So, from here I was lucky to have a friend to walk to PE with. (2 friends, actually. I had ran into my friend Kristin in my Child Devleopment class that I didn't even know went to this school.) PE was scarey. I didn't know anyone accept the girl whose name I forgot that I met in the counselor's office. It's a co-ed class so I have a male teacher. He kept asking, "Is that clear!?!" in his drill sargent-y voice. We felt obligated to say, "Yes, sir!" We have to walk 2 "hawk walks" every day which is 2 miles some girl told me. Then we go to weight lifting & then outside to play football or basketball. Not very fun, if you ask me.

4 more classes left. Next was my mentorship class. Everyone is required to take this. We just sit around & work in this class & the teacher is there to help us with school related issues. After that class I went to lunch. All sophomores! Finally I got to see my friend Andrew & we ate lunch together & he introduced me to some friends.

World History was interesting. I walked back to the 500's & claimed my seat next to this huge window. I love that seat, now! The interesting part about that class was the teacher. He seems really nice & funny. He was joking around when stamping our papers. But then somehow the whole class got on the subject of star wars.. so not my thing. So Kristin was across the room & we made faces at each other for the rest of the time.

Kristin & I walked to art together & wondering why we were in there because neither of us had signed up to take art. Turns out it's required? The teacher was soo full of herself! Talking about how great an artist she is & how we'll never even come close to her. That class seemed to take forever & it was only 30 minutes long! No idea how I'll make it through a regular 90 minute class period.

My last class was Chemestry in the 500's. Cool teacher but she said there will be tons of work. I also sat next to this kid named Chris. He looked at my necklace (with an owl on it) & told me, "I like your owl necklace." I told him thanks. He then said, "I like it alot!" So I again thanked him. He kept the conversation going & said, "Do you like owls?" I said, "Ya," he asked, "Do you love them?" I told him, "Not really. I just like this necklace." He told me, "That's cool." I wanted to be like, "You know it bro!" & say it like Amanda Bynes in She's the Man.

1:20 we got released. Usually I'll get out at 1:25. There's no bells at this school. A 5 minute warning bell at the end of every class & then 5 minutes later we're dismissed by someone over the intercom. I like this alot better.

So all in all I had a really fun time at school! This will be a good year.