First Day of School!!!!!!

Today was the first day of my junior year of high school at New World School of the Arts. It feels so weird saying that. I know it is always an adjustment when you go through these sorts of things. I don't like how we put these arbitrary distinctions. I still feel like Austin the teenage singer/knitter/nerd. Alas, I am still forced to act differently and be put under weird pressures. Even though it is going to be stressful, it is definitely going to be worth it.

So last year I started this blog out by complaining rather obnoxiously about my schedule being unfortunate. I am going to try to never to complain like that again. With that being said, I make no promises for my occasional rant about things that upset, but I will try to think about what I say before I post.

So now for the actual meat of what happened today on the first day of school. It was completely and totally wonderful. I loved being able to see all of my friends that I didn't get to see over the summer. I had to wake up at 5:30 this morning so my mom could drive me to the Metrorail Station(the above ground electric rail system in Miami) and I wasn't super excited then, but it hadn't hit me yet. I struggled through the commute and then I got to school. All I can say is that I really love my school when we get all pumped up. The walls were covered in orange paper(the senior class colour) and there was blasting music and shouting people. It was a whole sensory experience. I hope to have pictures eventually, but I will have to ask a couple of friends for permission, so we will see.

Now time to talk about my schedule and the classes I will be taking. So first up is Marine Sciences, which would totally amazing if I had the class in person, alas!!! I do not, but online classes are easy. I am sure I will learn a few things. Next up is Pre Calculus, I do not have any comments for that. Then I have AP Chemistry with my absolute favorite teacher. This will be the third year that I have her for science. She is one of the few teachers to get my weird science humor, and my completely unfounded questions, like if we could synthesize Kryptonite, like the actual polyatomic ion. This was actually useful, because it started a discussion about the octet rule and exceptions to that.(sorry for being esoteric) Then I have AP United States History. The teacher is a really cool midwestern guy in his late 50s who has a bunch of classic rock posters on his wall, he is my kind of dude. Lastly we have English 3, which basically focuses on american literature. I will have to pull through. Over all this is an amazing schedule and I cant wait to start learning.

After my academic block I have all of my vocal classes. All I can say for this year is eeeeeek!!! I have actual responsibility for choir. You are reading the blog of the tenor section leader. Other than that I will probably have more updates on my choir experience later.

Recording my thoughts and experiences is one of the main purposes of this blog, and since school occupies a major portion of my day, I do plan on talking about my school happenstances when I find it interesting or relevant  Since the majority of people who follow blogs of knitters are of a demographic(that being above 20 females), I expect a couple of responses to posts like this:general nostalgia for highschool life; endearing comments on how things like this won't matter to me when I am older. Unfortunately I am still pretty young and I haven't experienced to much, or maybe fortunately, so I expect my frolics in the weird world of teenage-dom to be entertaining.