1ST DAY OF SCHOOL

Well, because NYC is stupid and has to be different from the rest of the world (or at least the rest of you) I get to be the first one on here to post about my first day of school. And because I get this honor, I'm going to set a standard for the rest of you. A really evil standard. I'm going to tell you evvrryyyythiiiing. Which means you have to do that too. Ha.

Anyway. My mom drove me and my friend Gabbi (who lives right down the block from me) to school. We've been carpooling together since, like, third grade, because walking into school alone really sucks. So we get there, and some teacher outside was saying "Freshmen, over here!" and he asked us if we knew our homeroom. Now we had gotten a note home a few days earlier telling us what our "official class" is, and it told us that we would go to the caffeteria to find out our homeroom. So we're like, Umm...but it turns out it's the same thing. So we were told to just go into the gym and sit with our "official class". Since I'm in 102 and Gabbi's in 103, we just kind of stayed together. And we saw Sheina, one of my fiends from CTY '05 who is going to the same high school as me (yay!) .

Then I had homeroom. Thankfully, I knew someone in homeroom (Andrew), so I sat with him. We got our schedules and a bunch of notes and stuff. Y'know I'd never had homeroom before? My middle school never did that.

Then I had band, which was in room C39. Andrew had that too, and he said that was probably the basement. It was, which was good! We didn't get lost! A couple of my friends from middle school are in band too. The band teacher seemed nice -- he plays in broadway shows. And he says we'll be in NYSSMA, which is cool, 'cause my middle school never did that either.

After band, hang on....I had gym. Usually on Tuesays 2nd period I'd have Bio Lab, but since it's the first day they said that there would be no lab, everyone would just go to gym (which I have 2nd period every other day of the week). We didn't really do anything except fill out delaney cards. And it's CO-ED. Ew.

Then I had Biology, or "Enviornmental Science" as they call it. We got gigantic textbooks which we then had to carry around for the rest of the day. And we got the first of many contracts to bring home for our parents to sign. And we were assigned seats. That's pretty much it.

Then I had math. Another contract (which we're actually having a test on tomorrow! AGH!). More delaney cards. Really, that's all we did in most of my classes because the periods are so short -- there's nine periods, but the day is only from 7:50 - 2:08.

Then I had lunch. I got slightly lost trying to find the cafeteria, and so I was late, not like it even mattered because so was everyone else, and we had to wait on a line to get in anyway because they had to stamp our schedules. Lunch kind of sucked. I only knew three other people who had the same lunch period as me (Andrew, Rachel, and Nick.) So then me and Rachel went to the SO store to pick up our gym uniforms and I left my schedule with Andrew then the bell rang before we went back to the cafeteria, so I was missing my schedule. I knew what I had for the rest of the day, though, and Rachel was in my next two classes, so I just followed her schedule until then.

So next I had Global history in room 310 -- on the third floor, right? So Rachel and I go up the first staircase outside the cafeteria (in the basement). We go up two flights of stairs, then the staircase is blocked off by a gate, meaning it leads uip to the roof. Um, but this is only the second floor. So we go back down the second floor hallway until we get to another staircase -- once again, blocked by a gate. So we were very confused. Luckily, the third staircas we tried actually went up to the third floor... needless to say we were late. The class itself was fine, its history up to the middle ages.

7th period I had...actually I'm not sure what it's called. Some sort of computers/engineering/robotics type course which invloves building things with legos. Hee. Fun. Actually, I'm kind of nervous 'cause I know, like, zip about robots. Oh well.

Right, then I knew I had english. Except I didn't have my schedule, so I had no idea what classroom to go to since Rachel had to go to technical drawing. I had to go to the office and tell the lady "Umm...I don't know where I'm supposed to be." So she helped me out, wrote down the room #'s for my next two classes, and I was late *again* for english. He had us write a paragraph about what we expected from the course. I managed to slip in that I took an essay writing course over the summer.

List period was russian. I'm actually starting to get the hang of the alphabet from studying notes from the summer orientation, even though I didn't even need to do that since we're starting the alphabet over from the beginning. My russian teacher (his name is Mr. Callahan, which I find amusing because, y'know, it's just so russian sounding :oD) is awesome. He talks in this really loud, really fast russian, then he asks us what he just said, and we all just stare at him. Yup.

That's it. Then I took the bus home with most of my friends and it was raining so we got all wet but my hands were too full from holding my gym uniform and my textbooks to get my umbrella out. And I actually had homework in GH (summarize a newspaper article) aside from the bajillion forms to be signed and textbooks to cover and rules to review and school supplies t gather...I want summer back...