Yesterday was the last day of the 5th 6 weeks--and that means that once the grades get officially put in on Tuesday the school will calculate our GPAs and class rank. And I'm pretty sure that means that I don't have to kill myself for A's anymore. I don't think my grades for this final 6 weeks will count... not sure... but even if they do, I'm still not going to continue this mad fight with the grade book. I won't fail or anything... but I don't want to lose anymore vast amounts of sleep or weight.
It was a very happy day.
Oh. Guess what? I made a freaking 100 on that Zorro test. I thought I failed it. I didn't even quite finish reading the book. Isn't that awesome? I'm going to finish the book later, of course, but for now I'm happy with the grade.
I've been going over to Grandma's house every morning since Mom has been gone, and so far I haven't forgotten anything or been especially late. At first it really terrified me to think that someone's life kind of depended on me getting up in the morning. But God wakes me up even if my alarm doesn't, and I'm actually getting enough sleep now, so it's okay.
For the most part I'm all caught up in OAP... I finally wrote out my music, and now of course there are going to be a few changes to it, but that's okay. The only thing I have left to do in Economics is take the final sometime. The Calculus exam is about 2 and a half weeks away, but it seems like I might actually do okay on it. I turned in my stupid essay for Mrs. Falls on time (I wrote it in economics class). I even turned my English project in on time. Mrs. Thornton was amazed--I wasn't even late to class.
It's that time of year--Mrs. Thornton's Create a Hero Project. She gave us a set of criteria to fill out about our hero, things like the hero's name, costume, powers, etc. I knew at the beginning of the six weeks when I saw this project on our syllabus that I wanted to write about Magi.
I spent lots of time talking to him about it, and he finally agreed to let me write about him as long as I included a disclaimer. So I did. I wasn't sure I could do it, but I did. Thursday night I talked to him for a while so that I could find some suitable responses to the questions, and then on Friday I finally wrote them all down during Mrs. Falls class. I had to skip lunch to finish, but I got it all done, disclaimer and all.
During English class we all read our papers aloud and took notes on each other's heroes. I was kind of nervous to read mine, partly because it was pretty long, partly because I worried about what Magi would think, and partly because my hero was somewhat serious as opposed to the other heroes that had been shared so far which were kind of funny. All the heroes were good. It was really a cool assignment. We didn't finish sharing because other people had long descriptions, too, so we're going to continue on Monday.
Before I started reading, I mentioned that it was kind of long, but several people asked me to read all of it anyway because they wanted to hear it. It was very nice of them to be interested. I didn't read the disclaimer aloud, of course; that was for Mrs. Thornton. I finally finished reading, and it was well received, I think. Mrs. Thornton looked kind of impressed and said "Wow, that was a full character analysis and everything."
I don't know how good it was or anything, and I know it isn't exactly accurate, but that's what the disclaimer is for. Once I get the paper back I'll post it on here.
It was raining most of the day Friday. The sky was beautiful and the windows in the school cast dimmed blue-grey light. It was storming during English class, and the thunder and lightning added dramatic effect to our hero accounts. After school, crowds of people were huddled at the exits watching water fall from the sky, and kids outside were running, hoods up, hands over their heads. I saw the most beautiful thing--the school buses were driving by, leaving the parking lot, and the rain had painted the windows with mist. Inside, children and teenagers gazed at the windows intently, their fingers raised to trace messages in the mist. They touched the glass gently, with a look of purpose and awe. I watched them as the bus passed, and then I walked out from under the awning, walked into the rain, and smiled.
This coming week is going to be crazy. OAP and UIL Region contests are this coming weekend. I still don't really know the details, but I'm going to end up staying in Stephenville 2 nights. I'm nervous about both contests.
It rained again today. The sky has been white most of the day. All I've done today is take care of Grandma, sleep, and eat. I spent about an hour cleaning her kitchen, and it's very pretty. It doesn't look like a picture in a magazine, but it does look like a kitchen I've been cooking and cleaning in for several days. I feel like a mother, and I got that feeling like "Yes, this is my kitchen." I don't know if anyone will know what I mean by that. Before I cleaned, there were tons of dishes everywhere from where Dad had let them pile up, and now the counters are clear and it's just beautiful. Now that I've gotten it clean, I wash dishes immediately. I really need to clean our kitchen; it looks awful.
For some reason I felt sad this afternoon. I sat outside on the porch steps and looked at the beautiful sky and all the plants that are coming to life and felt very sad. I looked out at the field behind our house and saw at least a hundred puffy white dandelions and said to myself "That's a lot of wishes." After a while I got up and walked around in that field and sang to God. It was rather amazing.
I hope you have had a wonderful day today, and if you haven't, try singing to God.
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