I was up and out of bed by 6:45. I have no idea how that happened.

I knew today i would have my class changes. So i spent the hour and forty five minutes walking around. I found a few friends/people i knew and invited them to skip down the hallways with me. I had no takers.
The only classes that have changed are Outdoor ed and Specialty Ag. The new classes i have now are Teen leader ship and Child Development. I still have English first period and Algebra second.
At first thinking about these new classes, i was skeptical. I was thinking about leaving because i was just about ready to get along with what is most important to me at the time. Now that this day is over. I know, i need to stick it out just a little longer.

My final grade for the first 9 weeks in English was a 72.
My final grade for Algebra was 90.
I got an 100 in Outdoor ed
and a 83 in Specialty Ag.
I PASSED!!! o yeah!! go me! i rock!!! now that i know i can pass if i try, i feel much better about myself.

So back to English. I brought my camera to school just to take a few pics. So i when i was in class before everyone else there. I took a few of just the room. Since it was a new 9 weeks, we had a few new students, one of witch was my friend Danni from Outdoor ed. But Mrs. Rayome assigned him a seat across the room. We were give the usual homework witch i still have not gotten to yet.. if at all. there is this freshman girl named Amy, who has English and Algebra with me, and she enjoys walking with me to class. She is a nice girl and i have just learned she was homeschool for 3 years. huh

I long while ago. Back when i was in that TAKS testing classroom. I wrote about this girl who was a bitch to me, and i threw it right back at her in the nicest way. She now gives me big long hugs every time i see her in the hallways. When people see you as their equal they have more respect for you. and guess what! Anyone has the potential to be someone elses equal. But it all falls back to fear.

In Algebra was cool until i got upset with Coach Tumilty.. On may occasions she has called me strange, and odd fellow, off, and different. None of that really effected me. I know its a great thing to be an individual and stand out in peoples minds. but today she really made me mad. We were talking about Ratios, probability's and Odds. Then out of no where
She looks at the class
Singled me out with her eyes and said
"Heres a good way to remember ODDS"
"Odd people are always failures in life... so odds over failures"
People thought this of a joke as it boiled my blood.
Look what they are teaching these people!!! O dont be different! its bad and you will never succeed in life that way. Just be like everyone else tells you to be and just dont even think about what really makes you happy because we all know is that happiness=money. Thats the full message i saw in that classroom today.

Once the bell rang, i went back into the school to chill for a minute and to see if i could find any friends. Teem Leadership is in portable 4.. and Algebra is in portable 3. right next to each other.
I wasn't mentally prepared for this class. I walked in and the first person i see is Alissandrea!!! The girl from Rome who was going to move in with me, but never did. She was extremely excited that i had a class with her. There is many older kids in this class. only 3 freshman. It is a really nice change.
Mrs. Jacobs is the teacher and she shook every persons hand when they came in.
I can not believe i have this class! it is perfect for me. Everything that she talked about today is what i have been writing about. We talked about how people like to be treated in a positive manner, they want respect, trust, and lots about first impressions. A lot about life stuff. Now the part that started to worried me, was the fact that people were in this class to get a slack off class. it is only a half credit class that is not mandatory to take. Who decided that reading the Odyssey or Shakespeare in English is SOOO much more important than learning about how to be a good person? The schools should be teaching Leadership classes way earlier. They teach you to respect people, and look at the bright side of things. How much easier would it be to teach a kid something if he really respected everything you had to say? If he sat there and sucked every word up like a sponge? In leadership you learn to listen to other peoples ideas.
The only other thing i thought about was how its not just the kids who need leadership skills, its the teachers.. Not just them but the people who manage them and you can go up and up and up. What i have herd and what it sounds like to me, it ends up to be all about money. Witch school has the smartest kids, according to tests... You can be graded on sooooooo many different things that tell someone if YOU are smart or not. It looks like schools only grade on English, Math, Science and History. hmmmm

Luckily I had D lunch again. I like it that way. so when you go to lunch you dont have to go back to that class and you go to the next one. Most of the people i sat with have been moved to a different lunch, but that means more people to meet!! I ate my apple with this girl from the swim teem, i'm still horrible with names.

Then Child Development in classroom D106.
I walked in and everyone was sitting at round tables and no one was making eye contact at all. I made my way over to the first person who made eye contact with me. I always find myself with the people who are different. She had her very dark brown short hair in pig tails, heavy dark eyeliner over 5 piercings in her ears, a collared button up shirt with a long sleeve undershirt. thick leather bracelets with chains on them and converse shoes. Jay always said i always find the weirdees. But she was cool. No one talked yet. I was stilling there for about 3 minutes in this deathly silence that was very thick. the teacher was busy doing something on her computer... Some great first impression. 2 people came in together, i looked at them smiling and they smiled back. I said "So apparently the only rule right now is to not talk and sit in silence". That lightened things up and other started whispering to each other. So in this class i had Karli from specialty ag. She like, like says like, like all the like freakin time. I couldn't like count, like that high, like on my like fingers, if i like tired. But she is still fun to hang with. This is also going to be a great class for me. Mrs. Diyer first started talking about how parents raise a child. saying how adults are trying to teach their kids about manners. but the kids is only going to do as he sees. Most of the parents that have young kids that they are teaching manners dont have them, themselves. It goes back to Leadership as well. I stayed after the bell rang to tell the teacher my full story. Where i came from, what i am here for, that i am not here to graduate but i am here to learn. I even told her about me writing everyday about what i see and understand about this learning environment. She got all excited about how i see things and is now excited that i am in her class.

After that i left early to go help my brother with his truck.