Today when I woke up, both of my siblings were already at school for band rehersal, and my host mom was at work. So I got up at about 7:30am and got ready for school. The first thing that I found odd today, was that when I entered the kitchen to get a glass of water, my host mom apparently had lain a frozen burger on the table and wrote a note that said it was my breakfast. Eating something like a burger for breakfast is an absolute no go. So I put it back into the freezer and headed to the bus stop. When I arrived at Wylie High (20 minutes early), I got a text from a guy called Jacob that I had met yesterday during lunch. He asked if I was already at school, so I told him my location and we met before in front of the lockers. He introduced me to some other seniors and we just hung out until the bell rang for the first time.
Then I had AP Human Geo, which was quite okay. I still don‘t know any of the students in this class, but it doesn‘t really bother me because none of them looks like they could be nice. But there is one funny incident I have to tell you! The teacher wanted to check, how much geography we already knew, so he had an online quiz for us to test our world geo skills. Most questions were way too easy like „What is the biggest continent?“. And then there was the question; „What sea is located between Europe and Africa?“ After everybody finished the quiz, the teacher looked at the online results. And it turned out that only 42% of the kids in the class knew the correct answer! The worst part….. it was a multiple choice test!!!!!!
Second period was French. And I swear, I haven‘t heard a single French word in the entire class. And I was quite glad about it, since the French teacher has a horrible accent. But French class is really chill, we always have a good time.
Third period was the worst! It was AP US History. The teacher that I already didn‘t like yesterday became worse today! He started a PP presentation and went from historical topic to historical topic. He started with the native Americans and ended with European agriculture. It was so confusing because he told us about so mant topics that could fill a whole lesson, and he just read the title, said two sentences and moved on. There were so many topics but in the end of class, the students new nothing about any of these things. He just goes way too fast. For example, he spoke about reformation (for about 20 seconds) and told about Luther and 95 thesis without saying what the thesies were about…… Honestly, I‘m thinking of dropping that class. I‘ll go to the couselors office on Monday and ask if there is another history lesson I can take during that period. If there isn‘t another one during this time, I won‘t drop because I don‘t want to change any of the other classes.
Then, when we were supposed to have debate, we went to eat lunch with Mr Montgomery, our principal. It was really nice and he even said that he had visited Switzerland before. When we were done eating, we headed back to school and there was still a half hour of lunch break left. Since the cafeteria was too crowded, I went into the debate classroom where I knew almost everyone already. And they are all super nice, so that‘s like winning the lottery.
After lunch I had AP Environmental Science and we made a few simulations about environmental exploitation. Then we wrote our results down and the lesson was almost over. One of the girls I‘ve met in this class, Marissa, even wanted to hold Fang the tarantula 😉
Next period was English. I really like the teacher. Mrs Anderson is so nice, and she said that she won‘t forget that I‘m not a native speaker, which makes me feel relieved.
Last period was statistics. The guy from earlier, Jacob, even sat with me through the whole class, although he wouldn‘t have had to be at school at all, since his class was cancelled. He just asked me via SnapChat where my last class was and then asked the teacher if he could stay for the lesson too haha XD. The lesson was about a woman that seems to be able to smell Parkinson. Apparently she had to find out which 6 of 12 people had Parkinson and she actually got 11 out of 12 correct. We made statistics on how big the possibility is, that the experiment really means she can smell it. Maybe she just had a lucky guess? The class was actually really cool. Mr BT, our stats teacher makes it really fun and interesting. In addition my friend Jacob (maybe because he‘s a year older) knew all the right answers and participated more in the class than the students acutally taking the class… If I ever struggle in math, he‘ll have to tutor me!
After the last period I got on the bus and when I was home, my host mom had already been waiting. She asked me if I wanted to go to the city with her to get some decoration for my room. So we went to a local store and bought a board to hang on the wall, where I could pin up some pictures. Afterwards I thought we were going to pick up Ximena and Luis from band rehersal, but there was a band event that me and my host mom went to. She promised it would only take 20 minutes. In the end it was 1.5 hours and everybody was tired and didn‘t want to be there. We were all starving, so we decided to grab some dinner at „Chili‘s“ which is btw not a nice place. We went with the Landrum family, so Adrianna (my host moms best friend), Alex (former debater) , Nathan (from my debate class), and for the first time Adriannas husband.
The lemonade was horrible, it tasted like plastic. But at least tacos were good. Anyway, the whole day made me really tired, so I‘ll go to bed now……