Tayler

Dear diary, August 21, 07

Wow! I haven’t written in here in so long. I have been so busy. I mean I knew high school was going to be hard but I have had more homework in the last week then I have had in the last two years. Well at least it feels like it, I might be over exaggerating. This past week has been fine for me, a little boring. I have been exhausted all week and all weekend, I am not getting as much sleep as usual. I am starting to stress because I am so nervous that I didn’t finish all my homework and that I will be too tired to pay attention in class. It is just difficult to stay focused. But to do that I have to cut out some of the things that I like to do. And that might include not writing in here everyday. But I am going to try my best because my father showed me that this site was getting some hits! I was so excited, and sort of surprised because I haven’t been on here in a week and it doesn’t really have a lot of content. Anyway my dad showed me that someone searched the words “blonde chunks” and my site was 7^th to come up in Google. The funny thing was that I didn’t really write anything about blonde chunks, just that I used to have them, And my sister used to have them. I was shocked, I have only been working on this site for a month and it is already on the first page of Google if you search blonde chunks. Usually it takes years to get your site on the first page of Google even if someone was searching any topic. It was pretty cool, it also makes me nervous because I don’t want it to start out good and then get worse because then I wouldn’t feel like I had anything to back up my page with, so that it could keep its spot on the front page. Well that makes sense to me but my dad says it will only get better. So I am going to trust him since I have been trusting him on everything on this site and it turns out he was right! Ha-ha, I knew he was right the whole time.

My friend Erica has been bugging me lately well a lot of things bug me but she keeps acting like she is smarter than everyone. Well she may not be doing it on purpose but to me it seems like she wants the people around her to feel stupid. Like today my friend Leah said something and then Erica interrupted her just to explain it to Leah even though it was exactly what Leah said. I know nobody around us noticed but I feel like I see right through her. But maybe I am just over exaggerating again. I just am very impatient when it comes to her. Maybe just because I don’t think she is very smart because one time I was quizzing her on the Bill Of Rights and I asked her which Right is the peoples right to say what the want or feel, and she wouldn’t answer for a long time but if she had just listened to the question, and if she knew what the word SAY means then she would know the answer is freedom of SPEECH. I mean how hard could it be? That may sound a little mean. Especially since she is my friend. But she makes me mad sometimes when she acts smarter than everyone around her.

My mom is in Austin, Texas right now. She had to go for her work. I miss her so much. But she calls every night to say hello and ask how we are doing. At least I get to hear her voice. I was telling her on the phone that in all my classes I have been doing a lot of coloring. It is weird, you would think 9^th graders wouldn’t have to color very much that seems like an elementary school thing but I have colored at least 5 assignments in my classes in the past week. It seems like I am going backwards. It’s pretty funny.

A hour is really wearing me out. Because I have to walk there everyday and it is an extra hour in my day. It’s tough but I bet as soon as I get used to it, it won’t be hard at all. My Spanish 2 teacher only spoke in Spanish yesterday. I was kind of lost but I got about 35 percent of what she was saying. I could pick out some words she was saying but I couldn’t figure out what sentence she was saying. It was interesting. I thought I was the only one who didn’t know what she was saying but it turns out almost everyone had no clue. So that was good to know that I wasn’t alone. I told my family that and they said that is how you learn Spanish, by to listening to it. And I agree with them because that is how most people learn Spanish is when they go to Mexico and they hear it daily. Thursday is open house; I don’t think my dad is going. But that’s okay. I don’t really see the point because the first week the students aren’t really in any trouble and they haven’t really done any work so why are the parents going there? How can the teachers say anything about us, they don’t even know us yet. I had a substitute teacher today in algebra and he told us a story that if you live in Alaska to pass the 8^th grade you have to pass a survival fitness class. You have to take it so that you know how to survive if something happened. To know that they truly know the material they take them out on an island around Alaska with one adult in case of emergencies. They also give them one match and a tent and sleeping bags. Then they leave the class there for three days for the 8^th graders to survive. I was shocked. I mean it is good because they live in a scary place where they could freeze or fall into the ice. But I was just in 8^th grade last year and if I had to do that I would be so scared. I don’t think I would be able to handle it, maybe if I was older but in the 8^th grade kids are so immature and I would not want to have my life depend of 30 other immature kids. That would make me just a little bit scared. Plus I wouldn’t want to be there for 3 days. Why can’t they take a written test just like every subject? It was kind of interesting.

My dad has Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday off from work so he can take me to school these days. It is so nice because I don’t have to get up so early and I don’t have to walk to school. In weight training we have been learning a few lifts and how to do things in the weight training room. Tomorrow we have to do more sit ups and push ups though. We did sit ups and push ups last week and I was sore up till yesterday. I hate being sore because I couldn’t really do anything and my mom thinks it is the best time to tickle me because I cant tickle back because I hurt too much. But when I was sore I was surprised to find out how much I really do use all my muscles. I was taking off my shirt and my arms were so sore and hurting and I was simply doing a daily task. It was interesting to notice you use your muscles more than you think. Plus it doesn’t seem like you are working that much just doing a simple task like taking your shirt off but then you are sore and you realize how much you use your muscles and it not even hurt. Well that was my week I guess.

Love,

Tayler!