~The Music of My Life~

Sunday, September 05, 2004

TBA

I was just reading the band site and a few things were 'To Be Announced' and I thought that was so stupid because how many people have work schedules and yea... it was just a start to write a blog, hehe. I'm blogging because no one else is and it's been a week since my last write. I even read it to remember what I wrote and it made me really happy because Job's in Iowa temporarily for his aunt's wedding. It was yesterday. So much since school started on the 1st...

I have such an elementary schedule someone would laugh at me...1st hr- Wind Ensomble, 2nd hr- Spanish 1 (finally got the chance to take a foreign language), 3rd hr- Senior Walking (Yay, aerobic fitness), and 4th hr- Environmental Science.

Now 1st hour I have all of my friends and that's really cool although it's one of those classes where you're usually doing something and you don't have groups or anything (besides sectionals and that's unbiased) so it's really nice.

Now 2nd hour I have a freshman class (well, at least the majority) which really sucks because the only freshman I know are Zack Baron, Beka Morton, and some of Beka's friends and Zack's friends but that's all. So we have to group up all the time and I just call myself a 3 person or a 2 person group and then I do it all myself and I've found I work very well alone. The first day Senora Marquez asked us to get in groups of 3 and come up with as many Spanish speaking countries we could think of and most kids got around 5-10, maybe if they were lucky. I came up with 21 countries. She asked how many countries we thought had Spanish as their national language and I didn't say anything and after kids shouting out random guesses I said '21' and she said 'Wow, how'd you know that?' and I said 'Well that's how many countries I came up with that spoke Spanish' and she just kind of looked at me and then turned away like I was being mouthy.

So I don't think she likes me but that's ok because I'm not sure I like her. She's very... undecided. She's the first teacher to ever say 'It's ok if you doodle while I talk because I know you're going to get bored with me' and I'm was thinking 'Yea, but that doesn't mean you should condone us ignoring you because you're supposed to have some control over what we do because you're the teacher'. Basically all hour she rattles on about Spanish stuff and she just talks in Spanish which lead me to learn absolutely nothing the first day. I'm going to try to give her the benefit of the doubt and let her get accumulated to us.

Then the second day I got to class and I realized she wasn't there... FOR AN HOUR of the 90 minutes! The class sat there chatting it up for a while and then Sara, who knows some Spanish decided we were wasting our time so she told all of the people who actually wanted to learn to come to the front and there were maybe 3 or 4 people and I was one of them. Then she proceeded in teaching us how to count to 20 and the alphabet from the book and she was really good. Then after about 45-50 minutes we realized since there was no teacher to take attendance that we'd all be marked absent and then tardy and get in trouble so I went down to the office with a couple other girls after we took attendance and gave it to them. One of the office ladies only said she'd send in Senora Lefebre after Sara said it was getting out of control because she knew the whole time we didn't have a teacher. Now that made me very pissed to know I wasted so much of my time that I could've used to learn Spanish just sitting there. I ended up writing a note to Job so I didn't completely waste my time but to a point.

Then Senora Lefebre came in and was very strict and descisive and told us what to say and what to do and we learned the song for the alphabet so we can remember it and then we learned how to meet someone. I loved it because I was actually accomplishing something. Then after about 5 minutes Senora Marquez finally showed up and she said that she forgot... I thought she'd at least have a better excuse than that! I had to laugh to myself because I learned more Spanish in the 5 minutes that Lefebre taught than in the whole previous day Marquez taught and then the half an hour at the end of the second day.

Now my 3rd hour class is ok because I have at least one friend in there, Heather Maas and she keeps up with me, yay! So the second day we walked 1.5 miles in 80 degree weather that felt like 90 degrees because of the humidity. It took us half an hour to walk that far and I don't really think that's good but I was the first one in the doors, which was pretty cool. Everyone else was going slower so they wouldn't exert themselves or actually sweat. GASP! I had to laugh though because I walked in the locker room and my face was so red it looked like I was going to pass out. Besides the physical activity I also really like the teacher, Mrs. Federle! She was my aerobics teacher and she was the best.

Lastly I have 4th hour and the only person I really know in there is Eddy Stefonik and he's a weird one... He tells teachers to call him by his full name 'Edwin' because it's more professional and he's obsessed with maintaining a 4.0 because he already has his college picked out. He thinks I think I'm above him just because I'm a senior which I never did and never will. He's funny and when he can actually accept that I don't hate him or whatever he's really nice and someone to keep me sane when the rest of the class is just retarded, almost. The only reason I ever started talking to him is because he's Job's friend and I thought... anyone that's Job's friend must be a good person. He's just kind of weird... but then again everyone is.

Friday night Job had an away football game in Marshfield. Ben drove Kevin and me there (2 hour drive) and we had some nice conversation along the way. We got there and I was all cute wearing his jersey and I found Beka and I sat with her the entire game and we talked and got to know each other better which was cool. Job got in a little fight on the field when a guy who was much bigger couldn't tackle him they just pushed each other around. I thought it was really funny though because this guy that was taller and heavier couldn't take Job down. I love my hunny. Sorry, random confessions of my love... So then Ben, Kevin, and Kayla wanted to leave before the game ended and all I wanted to do was stay and say good bye to Job before he left. Amanda Jennings waited with me for at least 10 minutes after the game so I could say goodbye to Job. He forgot to bring a shirt to change into so he was walking around shirtless which was really sexy and I'm glad I didn't miss it. I hope he was suprised that I showed up, took the 4 hours (drive there and back) to be able to see him play. I gave him a hug and two kisses and told him I loved him and he told me the same. I miss him so much... he'll be back in a couple of days but until then I'll just have to spend my first weekend after school alone. It'll give me a chance to do my homework though... Until school.

Mandy ~ 9:58 AM