It is the Jewish New Year guys, it isn't just a day off for the kids of miami, or a teacher planning day. To celebrate, I ate some challah, which was delicious, but very beside the point of this blog entry. Every year I take this time to thing about how my year is going, despite the fact that I'm am not one bit Jewish. It is a good reminder to check how your beginning of school year goals are coming along. So that I what I am going to do.
First I should start off by talking about what my goals for this school year, since I did not have the clarity of thought to make a post about it five weeks ago.
1. Start reading more real literature
2. Crochet more for charities
3. Make sure to be on top of homework, junior year is not the time to slack off.
4. Be a leader for the tenor section you are now leading.
5. Excercise more/do that 5k
6. Learn more and lessen other's suffering
Now that I have gone on the record saying all of these things, you guys better keep me to it(I have almost no idea who "you" are, I just write and I expect some of you are reading this thinking, "who cares about your goals for this year, you are 16, barely a blimp on the earth" and this exactly right"). I guess I should talk about my goals
1. I kind of did, I read a lot of really good books like A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway, and I read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, which the leftist in me loved. But other than that it has been pretty sparse, I have started a couple of history books, Before the Mayflower and A History of Women in America, but they weren't really my style, although I have learned a lot, but they didn't pull me in like the Hemingway did. Today I went to a cute strip mall in Pembroke Pines, an hour and a half north of me, and picked up The Scarlet Letter partly for my english class, and partly because it looks like an important read. I also got some Carl Sagan books. Now I am an unabashed science nerd, and I thought it was weird that I haven't read any of his books, so I picked up Cosmos and The Pale Blue Dot, and I can't wait to crack into them.
2. So when I first started school I was working on some baby hats for premature babies. I have always thought that this was an amazing way to spend my crocheting and knitting time, but I have yet to find a charity to give them to, and I am spending my lunch on Wednesday talking to my Activities Director and Community Service Supervisor for help with it, so I might update you more on that then.
3.This is going pretty well so far, but I will only be able to tell as we get into a groove.
4. Being a leader isn't really my thing, I am definitely an academic. I enjoy sitting and finding out things until I am completely absolutely sure, I never like going on the seat of my pants and being confident. I had a really hard with being confident in front of other people, and I still do. I think it is because I care so much what they think of me, which can sometimes be a good thing, but in this case it really isn't. I have had a hard time so far of keep the tenors in check and helping them learn their parts. I wasn't really blessed with a very focused section, but I think we are getting onto a roll.
5. I have always wanted to be fit. I have always been a little overweight, and after freshmen year, I had become very overweight, I guess the super greasy pizza twice a week wasn't to good for me in the long run. So at the beginning of sophomore year I started dieting, and I had lost about 30 pounds by january and it was super great, and since then I have lost another 10, but not as quickly as I wanted to. Granted I grew a couple of inches during the summer, but I still want to lose more. A couple of weeks ago I started the Couch to 5k running program. It is pretty great, I am basically going on a every other day I do one of the workouts in consecutive order, so I am on week 5 and on Wednesday I am doing the third workout. It is hard sometimes coming home after a long day at school and exercising, but I always feel really good after. I also kind of love running by my house, there is a road with a bike path that goes down to a cute little marina.
6. This is basically the entire goal of my life. It is a quote by Neil Degrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist. It is a very good summation of what I would love to be known for.
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