School!

So... Let's see... What else is there for you to know? Oh, school. OK, so this year I got classes at the career center. I'm taking Japanese, Electronic Music, and English over there. And at my home school I have U.S. History and Math.

Japanese is a good class, the teacher is kind of... i don't know.. harsh at times... Sometimes I wonder if she even understands us (She's Japanese). Its been fun and I love learning how to speak Japanese and learning about the culture, but I don't know if I'm going to be taking it again next year (I'll explain this in my next post).

Electronic music is ridiculous! First off, when I went to open house at the career center, my teacher, Dr.Elis, told me how he normally doesn't have very many girls in his Electronic Music class. When school started though there ended up being 5 girls in his class (Which is apparently the most he has ever had) One of the girls, Taylor, ended up dropping the class (I have English with her) She said she figured it'd probably end up being one of those classes that she'll end up failing because she just doesn't like the teacher. Eh, oh well. The guys in the class are pretty cool. They're very funny and they used to make that's what she said jokes and such all the time but Dr. Elis banned them from making those kinds of jokes. However, since then he has made a few inappropriate jokes himself (When talking about a mic with an all around pick up he said I used to know a girl like that; when asked if he was going to have a good weekend he said, "yea, I don't know what her name is yet, but it's going to be a great weekend; um... there's some other ones but I cant think of them at the moment...) So the class itself is pretty fun well.. when we're making music at least. The note taking part is a bit boring, but when ever we get into groups to record its just amazing and fun (For the most part anyways). Everyone is playing music and working together, making jokes and beautiful music and having fun ^^
The past groups I've been in have kind of failed at successfully recording without any problems. First, I was in this on group where our tape got erased twice! Then I was in a group where... well... I don't think we recorded at all, we never could figure out what we were going to do and one of our group members kept missing school and that just messed things up... In the group I was last in, we had decided to do "Heart Shaped Box" by Nirvana but the main person who knew the song missed school a couple days and took our tapes with her... So there we were on the last day we had to record.. thinking that all we had to do was lay down a few more tracks for "Heart Shaped Box" but no... the girl who had our tape wasn't at school, of course... so what we ended up doing was just improv.ing something. The song end up being a rap, we recorded the drums, guitar 1, guitar 2, keyboard (me! :D I'm pretty happy with how my part came out), and then Jordan made up a pretty amazing rap (Involving love, Dr.Elis, and Kirby (no, not the little pink dude. its a kid in my class and i will explain his importance later). I'm looking forward to hearing this one finished (Jordan ended up having to stay after class to mix down) We got to use a compressor for the first time (Which we used on Jordan's rap).

OK, so English... It's an honors class but our teacher is new and.. well... he can't really control his class that well in my opinion. lol.. he's cool but we just completely confuse and freak him out sometimes with our.. well, just being us. There's this one kid in my class, Elias, who is never in his seat. We've decided that he has some kind of fear of seats. God, I love that class and its randomness. Mr.Mcnease (my teacher) lets us form group and work outside in the common area but most of the time we just goof off and talk. For example, one time Sheah told our group (Taylor, Elias, and Me) about how he had a teacher in like the... 1st grade? who got hit by a car and died and when his class was told this, everyone was excited cause none of them liked her and Sheah is just now realizing how messed up that was. Yea.. so it sounds kind of horrible here, but it was ridiculous and random and everyone was laughing, especially Elias, I thought he was going to die. And then once Sheah randomly told Mr.Mcnease that he can't get high school girls so he has to go to elementary and middle school girls. I feel so sorry for Mr.Mcnease..

So at my home school I have U.S. History with Walker. He's a pretty good teacher. I'm just about failing his class but I feel like I'm really learning the stuff instead of memorizing it for tests. Most of the time at the beginning of class Walker will say we need to do this, this, this, and this today but he'll end up just lecturing the entire time while we're taking notes and then we have to do the other stuff at home (most of the time anyways...). So I got this Livescribe pen to use with that class since we do so much note taking and oh my god! It is amazing! I love that pen with a passion! It records what is being said as you write and and and... just look it up! I'm not going to explain everything here.

So, Math... *sigh* it's been ridiculous... I'm also about failing that class too... but that because my group hardly ever pays attention... 1) Mrs.Layton is just kind of hard to pay attention to. I find that when she talks that I get distracted pretty easily (most of the time by my group members Joey and Eli) and then I talk to them and I never find the will to pay attention again... 2) Some of the stuff that she talks about I already know about or just find it too confusing or I just get lost and give up on trying to get it to make sense...
So in math class.. instead of doing our work we talk, insult each other, have fight with various things such are pencil shavings, bits of.. um a pen Joey chewed up I believe... paper, Joey's dandruff ( By the way most of this stuff ended up at the bottom of my book bag...). Joey and Eli are ridiculous people. Joey is always eating (OK, so not eating exactly but chewing it up into little bits) Eli's pencils and pens. Once Eli was in another class and they were told to get out their pencils and he was like, "Well, I would but someone has ate the majority of my pencils" (or something like that) and of course everyone gave him weird looks. Joey is a bit disgusting.. but he's funny so I don't mind his disgusting and annoying-ness that much. Eli is pretty cool, the music he listens to is good and he can be pretty nice but most of the time he, as well as Joey, are insulting me. Accusing me of being emo and such... Sometimes their insults bug me, but only when I have already had a really bad day and am feeling self-conscious and just like crap. Other than that I can just ignore it cause I know they're just kidding (or at least I hope so...) and even if they aren't their opinion doesn't matter that much to me. I cried one time during that class though ^^; I really hate that I did that but I was just feeling depressed and so overwhelmed about so many things and then they go and be their normal douche baggy selfs and Eli yelled at me cause I was getting confused about the math work, he said, "We're just drawing lines Melena! How hard is it?!" and.. well that just made me feel dumb and really pissed me off... Before I had even came into the class I was already on the verge of breaking down. What had happened was just basically love felt like it was dying. Basically all of my friends were going through break ups and heart breaks or just depression. I had one friend who was upset and looked like she had been crying that morning because her boyfriend was moving to Florida and when my friends are depressed I tend to get kind of depressed too (I mean, how can you not get depressed when you see your friends crying or upset and depressed or whatever? or get pissed off when someone has done your friends wrong.) Yea... so there were a bunch of other things (some things that deal more with me) but its really more than I want to talk about. Anyways... that's basically how school has been for me. That and the stress from so much homework, projects, college, senior project, drama with friends, and other shit like that...

So I've finally joined the drama club which is a lot of fun. We put on the play "The one and only Santa clause" not too long it ago. I love acting :D The whole experience has been so much fun and amazing. This week I have exams (which was supposed to start today but thanks to the snow ^^ it got canceled. So now all the exams have been pushed back) and Friday we'll be having a party to celebrate what would have been the end of exam week but now I guess it'll just be to celebrate the end of the semester. My home school runs on the block schedule and so we get new classes with the new semester which is wonderful seeing as I will be getting rid of my two toughest classes. (I'm passing all of my Career Center class with ease by the way ^_^)

I'm sorta, kind of in the speech and debate club. I'll probably get more involved with it this next semester since my new classes should (hopefully) be easier. There have been times when Mr. Elimin has just not showed up to the meeting or he is out on the day of a meeting. When I was in speech and debate last year those days were.. well.. ok, cause then my friends and I would just hang around the school for a while.

I dropped Elite ladies this year. I decided that it was just too much work and too annoying to deal with and just not worth what I'd get in return. Which, I probably wouldn't end up getting because of my lack of involvement in the club because of having other stuff going on in my life (mainly school related).

Hmm... I think that's it for life at school. I'll probably end up mentioning something later, though. It shouldn't be a problem, and if it is then... well.. just get over it.