long break

i had the longest break from school after the fire incident. it's sad that the break came at such an unexpected time so i still have hangovers from it. i didn't do much during the break and so i probably ended up gaining weight during the break. plus, no one was on break at the same time so that gave me more reason to be stuck at home.

when we came back to school, we aren't allowed to use the main builing so we had to use the most inconvient places in school, which includes the cafeteria and the gym. i never imagine i'd ever actually feel like a public student but i did. it was quite an experience. it was really bad as it seemed, since i haven't really pictured how much worst it could actually get. now we're getting back to using some of the classrooms and, as weird as it may sound, i think i'll miss having this set up.

Hell, Hell and more Hell

Time really flies by so fast. Can you believe it's already perio week?!!? I haven't even studied for anything yet. I'd blame my other subjects for giving us so much requirement to submit during perio week. It's like perio week + hell week = Ultimate hell week. As in i spent my whole weekend doing other requirements and not studying for the test. To make matters worst there's no classes on Wednesday, which was originally one of the days for the perio. Instead of moving one day of the perio to next week, guess what my school did? They moved it one day earlier, meaning tomorrow! Thank you very much! Our school never ceases to surprise me and I mean that in the worst possible way.
I'm just very thankful that our English teacher moved the elocution to next week. Thanks to her I have more time to read The Kitchen God's Wife. Speaking of KGW, I actually read it when I was in first year. It's actually a nice book but I don't recommend reading it twice. If i were you, I'd never open the book for that matter. If you don't believe me, try reading it the second time. I bet you wouldn't even get pass page something-hundred.
I'll probably stay up all night again. Jeez! When will this cycle ever end? I just want to get pass perio week and all the requirements that came with it. I can't wait for the fair, where I'll hopefully see my friends from La Salle again, and the retreat, just because I've never been to one. Most of all, I can't wait to get some decent sleep. I haven't been getting any for a couple of days. I'm seriously dying to get some sleep!

feels like shouting

My day practically revolved around STR until 8 pm. I did my whole RRL today and I mean the whole thing. First, I couldn’t find my purple clear folder that contained all the sources I had from last quarter. Yes, that includes the ones I even went all the way to UP Los Baños for. That’s why all my sources are probably from the internet. Second, I lost the part of the RRL I made during class, which makes me wonder why the hell I did one in the first place. Due to these circumstances, I had to start my RRL from scratch and to make matters worst I had to do it on the weekend before the finals. Unfortunately, I was so tired from my earlier class yesterday and for other reasons, I wasn’t able to do anything for STR and for any other subject for that matter. So I ended up waking at 5 in the morning today to start with my RRL. My progress was pretty good this morning but my pace slowed down probably because I got so sick of staring at the computer all morning. I spent that whole time in front of the computer, except for eating my basic meals and getting snacks. I even went to the extent of taking a bath at 5 in the afternoon just before went to mass because I had no time to do so. I got home from mass at around 7:30 in the evening, just in time make some few changes and submit my RRL at the exact deadline, which is at 8.

After having like a second of fulfillment, I now move on to my elocution for English that I have not even prepared for the whole weekend. I just hate elocutions. Making matters worst is the fact that my class is full of people that are good in acting and/or speeches and I’m not good in either. Gaaaaah!!! I’m so nervous for the elocution and I am so close to hyperventilating. Unluckily, I won’t. I so don’t want to do it tomorrow. If I do I just want to get it over it quickly and I really hope I don’t do anything utterly embarrassing.

If I recall correctly, we have tons of requirements to do and I’ve only done 1. I have no idea how I’m suppose to survive this week. To think I was even planning to improve my grades this quarter. I’m seriously panicking over our finals. At first, I was planning to read the English book tomorrow and then I realized we’re having our Chem finals on the same day! English or Chem? Chem or English? If only I didn’t so much requirements at the same week, it would be so much easier for me to concentrate on the finals. I can’t believe they put hell week at the same week as the finals. How harsh do these people get? Everything just makes me want to shout at the top of my lungs!

So near, yet so far

This morning my phone alarmed at 7 and I woke up. This, I would say, would be one of the few times I was successfully woken up by my phone. I woke up early because I had a class at 9 to 12. Then, I had breakfast and I lie down again only to fall asleep again after waking up successfully. After that I woke up at 8:30 and I was in panic. Take note I haven’t even taken a bath or fixed my things when I woke up. I ended up leaving the house at 9 because of that. To make matters worst my class was nearly an hour away because of the traffic. When I got there it was nearly 10 and I nearly went to the wrong floor while I was on my way to the classroom. So I did end up coming to class late. You’d think that was pretty bad, right? Well, some people from my class came in at 11. By the way, it sucks that none of the people from my school came. After that I had lunch with Bianca at this place and they made really good beef teriyaki. I wish had those in school. The traffic, when I was on my way home, was pretty bad so I got home at like 2 already.

I just remembered that we were going to have our fair soon. I’m actually looking forward to our school fair. It was actually sooner than I had expected. My friends from La Salle were planning to go so I still hope they can come. I really hope that the fair this year will better than last year so it would at least look like a fair. We’re also having the retreat a few weeks from now and I’m really, really looking forward to it.

I can see I’m fast forwarding a bit too much but can you blame me when we have tons of things to do before those activities? Thinking about them is enough to give me a headache. I’m actually having one right now. I hope I my day well and make some progress with everything I have to do. I can’t believe they’re expecting us to do all these things with the finals coming up. Our teachers never cease to surprise me. Waaaaah!!! Sooooo much things to do, sooooo little time. When these hellish days are over, if they ever do finish, I bet I’ll feel like I’m in cloud nine but as of now I’m not even on the first cloud.

Time before the worst

The day’s about to end and the effects of sleeping in late this morning. Imagine I slept for one hour this morning! ONE hour! Can you imagine? See in our house the clock always rings when the long hand strikes 12. Meaning since last night the only ringing I didn’t hear was the one for five in the morning. Luckily, my lack of sleep doesn’t seem to have an instant effect in my energy in my morning classes. It, however, started taking effect this afternoon and I felt my energy slowly slipping away.

I have to say, though one of the few moments I enjoyed my day was after dismissal. This is probably the only the day of the week I’m willing to stay late in school. Staying late after dismissal on Fridays usually means only one thing for me. That is: piles and piles and piles of kwentos from my friends. It means continuous walking all over the school just to hear these kwentos and to impart ones of your own as well. Everyone always has a kwento for you about their week and what better time to hear it but on the last school day. Dismissal at the last school day is the most likely time for people not to care about what they have to do for next week. The most worry free time of the week, you could say.

Speaking of people making kwentos, don’t you just find it so annoying when people tell you a part something really interesting that you’re just dying to know the other part but they just cut you right off? *Ehem* *ehem* Imagine how I’d think about it all night and it’ll be all your fault if I don’t get my valuable sleep. You know who you are so tell me na pleeeaaase.

Truth is, with a schedule like mine that involves requirements to be submitted till next, next week, I probably won’t have that much free time between studying for the finals and finishing major requirements. I bet I’d be busy like I’ve never been busy before these following days. As of now, I'm still trying to be oblivious of these requirements. I just hope my sleep doesn’t have to keep suffering like it has for the next couple of days.

Who needs desserts?

I think we had the earliest dismissal we've ever had since the start of the school year today. Since our only early dismissals are on Thursdays, we aren't that familiar with early dismissals though we are of breaks. Well, I guess that's the only benefit of our schedule. Today, we only had one subject after lunch and guess what? I was one of the people who didn't have to go. Not to mention my early dismissal from my elective. I had nothing to do for like half my time in school for a change. Though I had so much free time, I wasn't able to use my time very wisely. I spent nearly the whole afternoon chatting with my teachers and friends and used what was left for studying or practicing my elocution piece.

Ah yes, my elocution piece. I decided what my elocution piece would be at the last minute. I haven't completely memorized it and I'm up tomorrow. It's funny how my teachers think I'm the dainty kind of girl that would fit a swoony type of role. I don't know if I am but I don't remember being one. I really do hope I do well tomorrow if I do get called but really my only hope now is not being called. I just hope everything would turn out well. All I can do now is to keep on memorizing and practicing with what is left of my time.

I’d be lucky if that was all I had to do but no it isn’t. I have a long test tomorrow and it’s probably going to be in one of my least favorite subjects so that is not one bit relieving. If that wasn’t enough I have tons of homework to do until next, next week. I can bet that these will be part of my most hellish times in this school year.

Though I will be incredibly stressed the following days, I still keep my hopes high for good things to come. Hopefully, my days after that would be much less stressful and I look forward to our upcoming special activities.

How we really are

When I woke up this morning, I didn’t feel like getting up at all. Even though I’ve been sleeping all night, I still wanted to sleep some more. I felt sleepy the nearly the whole morning so I wasn’t able to function well, meaning I wasn’t able to think straight. It wasn’t just like what other people would call being sleepy because of sleeping too much. I’m starting to think I get hangovers from sleeping too much. I know it sounds weird but I’m serious. That’s actually how bad it can get. If you’d seen me this morning, you’d think so yourself.

Besides the fact that our make-up PE class took up a lot of our break, I was so pissed when we had to change back to our uniforms because some people didn’t bring theirs. I can’t believe we had to take the fall for what was their fault. It was their fault that they didn’t bring their uniforms in the first place. Why should majority of the class be punished for their mistake? What’s worst is that when our teacher made us change back to our uniforms, they didn’t even do anything about it. They didn’t have the slightest sign of showing any effort of trying to correct their mistake. It was like it was our fault for being responsible in the first place. It was just plain WRONG! Anyway, that was all in the past. I’m not mad or anything with those people. I just wanted to express how I felt. I just want it to be clear that I’m mad at what they did and not at them.

I got bored in one class so I ended up talking to the people beside me. Hint: It always feels like you’re counting down the time when we’re having this class on Fridays. That wasn’t much help but I just recently realized that fact. Talking to the people beside me led me discover some few interesting and confidential things about some people. You know who you people are.

Starting lunch, I realized there were so many people, most of which were parents that were lining up for the application for the entrance exam. After seeing how long the lines were, I’m so glad I wasn’t the one lining up for my application. Whew! It was so funny when I was with some of my classmates, studying for a test we were going to have and we were laughing one moment, fighting the next and suddenly bursting some chemical formula. I bet that the parents lining up thought really weirdly of us. Well that’s just how students in our school our so they might as well prepare their children for the kind of the environment they’ll be living in for the next four years of their lives that is if they pass the exam.

The Attack of Cramming

“AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!” was my first reaction when I woke up this morning. That would be yours too if you woke up at 5 in the morning and realized you slept through the whole night with all the tests we have lined up for the day. I woke up without being able to study for anything and my tests was just hours away. I was practically panicking most of the valuable time I had left and I realized that that was pointless so I ended up studying and squeezing whatever information I could fit in my brain.

I ended up doing what I always try to avoid that is studying in whatever subjects I had before the first test and studying for my next test in the subjects after my first test and so on. I would not recommend for anyone to do except in circumstances like mine. Even though they might prepare you for your test that day, they can have bad effects to your grades in the long run. Imagine all the lessons you’d miss when you don’t listen in class. Having said all that, I still think such circumstances are practically unavoidable.

I was annoyed for my first major test because I ended up studying for the wrong topics. I kept practicing for the complicated problems when what we really needed to study for where just the basic stuff. My other major test was in my first subject after lunch so I ended up spending my whole lunch break in the library studying. Time really passes by really quickly when you’re cramming for something, which really sucks. As always, the time we had for taking the test was not enough so I bet I’d get really low in that test.

I’m just really grateful that we had most of our tests today so we barely have any homework for tomorrow. We always have busy Thursdays but really easygoing Fridays so lucky it’s a Friday tomorrow. It feels great to have nothing to worry about!

Prom and School

Today, I have been called to recall a rare and special event in our lives that will take place this school year. Whether it’s about the venue, the dresses, the decorations and so on, they’re all for the same occasion. What is that occasion, you ask. Well, what else could it be but the JS prom.

Some time today, I was able to talk to a batchmate and close friend of my sister that now studies in another country, who I never thought I could comfortably talk to for hours. We mostly talked about each other schools and compared how different it is here from the place where he studies. Then we talked about the common people we knew. At some point, he asked me about prom so we eventually entered the topic and never really left it. I thought that was the entire encounter I would have with that topic today. Well, that is until this afternoon.

During English class, our teacher suddenly decided to have a discussion on proper etiquettes for the prom. That was just plain weird. I mean first my friend, then my English teacher, who’d be next? With that discussion, of course, comes the usual teasing concerning the dates for the prom. It was funny when the class started pairing up people and somehow I knew none of pairs really wanted to go with each other. Still they were fun to tease. It was actually fun to ask people who already asked them and if they’d say yes. Well maybe it’s just me cos I like knowing those kinds of stuff. Though I still find it odd when people just pop questions about the prom all of a sudden.

I just realized how it has been raining hard when I get home and never when I’m in school. I know a typhoon just came and I find it odd that classes haven’t been suspended at least once. It’s so unfair that we can’t get another break. I know we just got back to regular classes from a week of comfort but our teachers are seriously getting very sadistic with the assignments and tests that all the rest we got last week has been used up. I guess I haven’t gotten over my last hangover.

Hangover

Since I found my weekend a lot more interesting than today, I chose to write about it also. My weekend had been a not so usual one due to the fact that we had no regular classes the past week, which means it's not my typical weekend that involves studying or at least attempted studying and cramming for the upcoming week.

Last Saturday morning, we had our Family Day. Coming to school early earned our batch points but I ended up coming an hour later than the supposed time so that kinda sucked. Not much of a batch person, am I? Honestly, the Family Days we've had since the cheering competition was removed have been, well, a lot less exciting. Well maybe that’s just me since I’ve always looked forward to all that dancing and most of the people I know agree with me. Having the Family Day by house rather than by batch didn’t make it any better either. Let’s face it. We will always be more competitive as a batch. Fact is a batch is something you have for your whole stay in Pisay while your houses changes every year. Well besides those there was a great effort for making the Family day really fun for everyone so I guess it wasn’t so bad. Everything else went pretty well except for the card giving that is. I don’t even want to start remembering.

After the Family Day, I went to Ateneo to watch a competition between different schools and most of the people there were my friends, which is why I wanted to go. I wanted to join the competition too but I wasn’t able to make the cut. So anyway, it was really fun to watch. Especially when a team finished with 0 points yet everyone, which includes me, was cheering for them till the end of the game. The person responsible for betting most of their points was my friend that we loved teasing so when the competition ended and we were lightly teasing him that it was his fault. There was also a team that finished second and nobody and I mean nobody wanted them to win. I actually feel kinda bad for them but I didn’t want them to win either. Anyway, the important thing was I got to see most of my friends, whom I haven’t seen for like the longest time, and I freakishly miss them.

Sunday was like my regular Sundays that involved attempted studying only I didn’t really have anything official to study for. I, basically, stayed home for most of the day except for some things I had to get out for. It sucks that we didn’t have internet at home so I couldn’t do a lot of the things I wanted and had to do. Yes, only the telli was my friend. I slept in late trying to connect the internet and failed miserably.

It’s Monday again and it’s back to regular classes. I actually came to school early, which happens once in a blue moon. I still have a hangover from last week just like I did after the summer so I still can’t quite get into the whole studying thing again. Hopefully, I get over it by the end of the day. That aside, it is September 8 today and I did not something today that made me feel a whole lot better by the end of the day. And that’s about it!

Debatedly the Best Week in Pisay

This is my first post!
Woohoo!!!

We had our Humanities Week the past week and we had our nonconventional music last Wednesday. My classmates and I were all very surprised to get third place. I thank God so much for being gracious to us. The whole class knows it was all crammed! But we did give it our best efforts.

It was basically an easygoing, no homeworks week. It was supposedly a non-stressful week but you can never completely relax while expecting the heavy loads of work teachers would be pouring down on us in the upcoming weeks. However, that in mind, I still wasn't able to accomplish much. I am freakishly dreading the following weeks! Hopefully, things turn out better than what I expect.