School

So, I'm still in high school; I'm a senior this year. Senioritis hasn't quite kicked in yet, but i'm sure it will soon. Our first report card came out, and for the first time I recieved a grade on a report card that wasn't the letter grade I wanted. Needless to say, I won't say what it was, but it was extremely frustrating to say the least. It was in math, and it made me want to pull my hair out. I'm taking AP Calculus this year in hopes of getting a head start for college, plus I have a good teacer whose patient. However, math has never been one of my better subjects.

School has also been stressful activity wise. I'm also affiliated with orchestra and rotc, so i'll start in on those.

There has been some complications within our orchestra program, because my director suddenly decided that seniority is no longer a priority, and instead the leaders of each section will be those who play the best. While I agree with this, it is only to a certain extent. After all, we are in high school, seniority should count somewhat, but theoretically, the seniors should be better players anyways so it shouldn't be that big of a deal. However, somehow one of my friends wasn't placed as cello section leader, and instead a junior was placed while the rest of the seniors were section leaders and I, myself, became concert master. She was simply told, "You have to prove to me that you deserve being a section leader." Which is understadable, and I guess fair, considering the girl who won the spot was very talented. So my friend works for 9 weeks, but nothing happens. She asks him, and he says that she hasn't proved herself. Then, today after she snooped a bit, she finds out that she scored higher on her scales than the other girl. She becomes extremely frustrated and starts tearing up in class, although, no one knows why but myself. I took her out into the hallway later and talked to her a bit. One thing she said got to me. She talked about how she felt no one stuck up for her, if she was really that bad, someone should tell her, in which i assured her she wasn't. I also commented that one of our other friends stuck up for her, she turned to me and said, "(teacher's name) doesn't care about her. I mean, honestly, she's a second chair violist. It's not even her place to say anything. You're concert master, Sarah, it IS your place." Talk about making me feel like I suck at my job. So after class, I stayed behind and talked to my teacher as i felt it was my duty. Thankfully, I've gotten things switched around after about a 30 min convo with him, and she'll be getting her spot back next class =) Task as concert master = complete/sucess.

Then there's rotc. This year I'm Battalion Commander, meaning I'm the top dog who runs the show. As prestigious as this title is, it's a lot different than what i'm used to. I'm used to taking orders, following them to a T and working hand to hand with my fellow cadets. However, this year i'm an officer in which I'm doing lots of paper work and planning. Talk about a headache. Even that, I'm not even the one doing the paperwork, I have subordinates do that for me. As grand as that sounds, my actual job is to foresee everything i.e. I have to know what everyone is doing at what time, where, how and when. That's a whole lot easier said than done. I have 6 people on my staff that do COMPLETELY different jobs, and I have to keep up with alll of them, plus plans that are taking in effect up to 4 weeks from the present. Its all beeen very stressful, and especially with math kicking my butt, it all makes me want to just sleep.

On a positive note, I started reading a new series. After watching Blair's aka juicystar07's (link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfMOrbRpDNk) video, she talked about a series she liked called the House of Night. Ever since I was young I've loved reading, but its been a while since i've read purely out of enjoyment. Upon watching her video, I decided to indulge myself and bought the book the next day. From there I dedicated an hour to reading the first couple of chapters. You see, I'm taking AP Literature and Composition in which we ready books to analyze them. That's what i've bene doing for the past four years is simply analyzing books for symbolism, foreshadowing ect. So to actually sit down and try to enjoy a novel like i once used to was actually really difficult for me. It took about 20 mins before I could finally relax myself and stop pointing out allegories and what not. Now I've decided I will devote at leat 30-60 mins a day to reading, because I honestly forgot how much i loved it. As a child I read sooooo much, my parents would even take my books away as punishment if i did something bad lol. I'm working on the first book right now, it's called Marked. I like it. It's written a little bit elementary for my usual taste, but I guess thats the beauty of it compared to what I typically read.

Anywhoot, I think this blog post is long enough. Hope you guys liked it!

xoxo,
~Sarah Jane

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