Firstly, may I just say that The Peanuts Movie was pretty perfect? It kept true to the world and characters of the comic strip; it had good jokes and good taste; it made you cheer for everybody (especially Charlie Brown, of course!) and feel good feels; overall, great movie.
It was while I was picking out an appropriate outfit for it (AKA Peanuts-themed) that I realized I now own 4 shirts with Snoopy and Woodstock on them, plus a few pairs of socks. Too bad I didn't also have a hat or some sort of jewelry like I have for Spongebob. Sigh...
Now that that's over, I shall continue with matters related to school.
One thing: as expected, I didn't make it into the school play. I'll admit I didn't do as good as I wish I did, but I still gave it my best shot. (Hit me with your best shot! (x3) Fire awaaaay!~)
Two thing: another teacher has mentioned to me that they thought I should do AP next year, this time my English teacher. And, I'll be honest, I'm more open to the idea than I was before the school year started.
I saw through my friends that were in AP last year that it seriously was NOT fun, but... At this school, I feel like I really am farther ahead than what they're teaching. Yeah, that's happened before, but to a lesser degree. As much as I like my teachers, I need to learn more than what I feel like I'm learning now from them.
I'd want to be really careful about what AP classes I do. For one, I'd really rather not do history, cuz I know that screws up with a lot of my friends. As long as I know the workload isn't too ridiculous, maybe I could try English, Spanish, and Chemistry AP?...
I still don't know when we'll move, but I've been thinking that, if we move after this semester (oh yeah, first term ended this week! Halfway there!), I could try switching to AP classes at my new school even though I would only be there for the second half of the year. I'd skip some projects- YES!- and, hopefully, be able to catch up quickly with material taught and still do well on the final tests. I'd be really worried about trying that with history, and chemistry maybe would take longer to catch up on, depending on how much more they do compared to the class I'm in now... But I tend to do relatively good at exams, so I think I'd at least do decent with all of them.
My Child Development class is actually a dual-credit class, which means it gives me credits for college if I do good in it, so it's essentially AP with just slightly different requirements to gain those credits. Though it can be hard, I'm still doing pretty good in it. It's nice to know I'm actually gonna have a small portion of my college classes done with (in this case, just the electives). If I know I can do a few more classes like this without breaking down from stress, then I guess I should try them... Right?
There would be more work, which would suck, but... I know I should be more challenged at school right now. I don't want to let my teachers down by always taking the easy way. In YW today the lesson was about the importance of education, so I'm feeling more the thing about doing more at school...
So, yeah, that's my plan. Move next semester and try to convince the new school to let me come into one or two AP classes, then only join one club. I'm in two right now, and I like both, but trying to attend both as much as I can I'd stressful. I know it's stupid, but I want to be in both!
If we end up sticking around till the end of the year... Well, I guess my grades won't be as impressive when I send college applications. I really want to go to BYU, but gaining any sort of scholarship, as my father pointed out in such a sweet manner, would require really impressing the admissions office, and... While people are always telling me I'm so smart and stuff, my grades probably aren't as awesome as other kids who really do try to push themselves in high school.
Another option that my dad wants to consider is the school my sis works at now, which is more like teaching yourself at school, with teachers and tutors around to just help you out when you need it. It sounds interesting, but the prob, Bob, is that I remember my sis telling me a few weeks ago that you'd have to apply to get in, like, a year before you can actually go. And, well, I can't really plan that far ahead at the moment, considering our ever-changing lives.
Three thing: my English teacher had given me full points (5 out of 5!) for all aspects of an essay I had to write except sentence fluency (just docked by one point, which is still a good score, but I wanna do better at writing if I can improve!). I'd been wondering why and was planning on asking her sometime... But, yesterday, after I replied to Scaehime's reviews for VH (she finally got to reviewing some chapters after being so busy lately with college), I decided to read the chapters she'd reviewed just for old time's sake. By now, I'm more detached from the older chapters, so it's easier to see mistakes and places that could be better, and I realized my teacher was right. Sure, she'd been talking about a school essay and not my stories, but the weakness was still prevalent in both. I could see that it really didn't flow as well as I'd previously thought.
So, now, I guess I'm gonna focus less on asking my teacher why but how to improve on that. Writing is my thang, my craft, it's lief! I wanna do better and work on it, even if I didn't realize I needed to work on that certain thing until now!
Four thing: it's pretty gosh-dang cold in my school- like, seriously, I think it's worse than all my other schools, and last year's was ridiculous with the air conditioner. I've started wearing gloves for a few classes, but it sucks cuz then I end up having to take them off for Ceramics or something, and then by the time I have the next class, my hands are already frozen, and so I can't just put them on again- they won't help me unless I manage to fully warm up again first.
I've worn layers, and even with those I'm sometimes still really cold! NO! That is just ridiculous! TURN UP THE HEAT ALREADY, MY NAILS ARE ALMOST BLUE AND THAT IS NOT GOOD!
Now just a few final comments...
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Random Riggs is unlike anything I've read before. It's different and a little complicated, and that's just how I like 'em! I wish it had a bit more creepiness in it and some of the photos were explained more, but otherwise it was pretty great. Funny enough, one of the missionaries saw that I was reading it and fanboyed a little. *amused chuckle* He said it was his favorite book!
It says at the end that they seriously found all those photos, not Photoshopped them... I wanna know so bad if that's totally true. A few of them I have a hard time believing they're not fabricated by the author... But I also want to believe they're all real!
I think I'm doing a bit more writing, luckily, so I've gotten a bit farther in VH's next chapter (FINALLY!) and in a new fic I'm just writing for myself. There's also When Friends Are Magnets (at this point I can't remember whether I've actually talked about it or not), though I'm getting a bit stuck as to developing the plot more. I need to talk to someone so I can get help, but it has to be someone I can actually talk to, because just typing every detail would be difficult to do. It also has to be someone that cares about writing. I'm thinking maybe Allakai by Skype, but I don't know if he'd actually have some suggestions for me... But I don't think I know any people at my school that would actually want to hear me ramble about WFAM... Ugh. My life.
I watched the CoS movie for the third time on Friday! (Yes, I must and will continue to mention every time I watch it.) I think, this time, I understood more the plot and actually related more to the characters... somehow. That part where the feels would hit me so hard didn't hit me that bad this time, though.
There was a small detail I noticed this time that I liked. Al's voice is often really expressive, especially in the movie. It got crazy as he shouted at Ed near the end (though a few small points in the movie I thought the voice was overdone, most of the time it was spot-on and realistic)- but then, by the time he and Ed were together again, his voice changed. It wasn't deeper, but more mature, because he regained years of memories. He still sounded perfectly like himself, just one that acts older and wiser. Seriously, Aaron Dismuke, you did great with Al's voice! *respect*
Stay in school, kids! And do more schooling if you have the time and money, adults! The more knowledge, the better! *Ed grin and thumbs up*
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