Eli,
I’m sorry that I haven’t talked to you sooner. Everything just got jumbled up the last couple months of school, and testing and graduation just bunched together into this massive ball of stress. My 8th grade year was just alright. It wasn’t horrible but it wasn’t exactly picture-perfect, it was just smack dab in the middle. Some classes were just plain boring (cough, cough, Mrs. Walton) but the class that I most enjoyed was surprisingly, English with Ms. Toll. She wasn’t very strict and she allowed us to write about the topics we felt passionate about, as long as we followed the proper format. We skimmed through a couple books, but mostly, I learned how to express and how to create persuasion and power into my (formal) writing. I feel …show more content…
Mrs. Kinder was really nice, but she never sat down with us or really personally explained any ideas with us. She really just left us with a book and went on teaching her Geometry class. I was really worried about my finals, but thankfully I passed, although I’m worried about Pre-Calc next year. For graduation, I was chosen to read the names of the graduating students, though I didn’t give a speech. (It would’ve been a shame if students and parents started to fall asleep.) It was a quick ceremony and goodbyes were exchanged tenaciously. Thankfully, middle school is finally over (what a relief, right?). I think it’s great that you had a lot of electives to change things up, I just took Spanish the entire year. Spanish has been full of work, but now, I can begin understanding past tenses and full conversations pretty easily. I know that I’ll miss my friends from Green Valley Middle School, but I know that some of my friends will go to Armijo next year, which is where I …show more content…
(Does that sound weird? It sounds weird.) This summer, I’ve chosen to eschew the boring (imprisoning) summer classes and just to take a break for once. I’ve been helping out at my family’s stores a couple days a week, and the rest of the time, I spend swimming, running, or microwaving my brain on the internet. If I haven’t told you already, a couple months back, my family took in a cat that had been left behind in the neighborhood. We don’t have a name for her yet, and we probably will never give her a proper name, but she’s happy enough running around the house and taking in the summer sun. Speaking of which, you are truly lucky to be not experiencing this massive heat. California’s in the middle of a massive drought, though it hasn’t impacted our lives very much yet. It’s just been a very dry and hot summer as of late. I watch some television (on my laptop, streamed illegally, how else?) such as: Humans, which I started very recently, and a mix of comedy and etc. Mainly, I’ve been watching Casey Neistat’s daily vlogs. I know that the idea of a vlog seems superficial, self centered, and poorly made, but Casey’s are the opposite. He has a way of living where every second lies in working on ideas or creating solutions and always moving forward. A quote of his is: “Always the stairs, never the escalator.” I find his stories and films interesting and uplifting and they always tell a clear
I’m sorry that I haven’t talked to you sooner. Everything just got jumbled up the last couple months of school, and testing and graduation just bunched together into this massive ball of stress. My 8th grade year was just alright. It wasn’t horrible but it wasn’t exactly picture-perfect, it was just smack dab in the middle. Some classes were just plain boring (cough, cough, Mrs. Walton) but the class that I most enjoyed was surprisingly, English with Ms. Toll. She wasn’t very strict and she allowed us to write about the topics we felt passionate about, as long as we followed the proper format. We skimmed through a couple books, but mostly, I learned how to express and how to create persuasion and power into my (formal) writing. I feel …show more content…
Mrs. Kinder was really nice, but she never sat down with us or really personally explained any ideas with us. She really just left us with a book and went on teaching her Geometry class. I was really worried about my finals, but thankfully I passed, although I’m worried about Pre-Calc next year. For graduation, I was chosen to read the names of the graduating students, though I didn’t give a speech. (It would’ve been a shame if students and parents started to fall asleep.) It was a quick ceremony and goodbyes were exchanged tenaciously. Thankfully, middle school is finally over (what a relief, right?). I think it’s great that you had a lot of electives to change things up, I just took Spanish the entire year. Spanish has been full of work, but now, I can begin understanding past tenses and full conversations pretty easily. I know that I’ll miss my friends from Green Valley Middle School, but I know that some of my friends will go to Armijo next year, which is where I …show more content…
(Does that sound weird? It sounds weird.) This summer, I’ve chosen to eschew the boring (imprisoning) summer classes and just to take a break for once. I’ve been helping out at my family’s stores a couple days a week, and the rest of the time, I spend swimming, running, or microwaving my brain on the internet. If I haven’t told you already, a couple months back, my family took in a cat that had been left behind in the neighborhood. We don’t have a name for her yet, and we probably will never give her a proper name, but she’s happy enough running around the house and taking in the summer sun. Speaking of which, you are truly lucky to be not experiencing this massive heat. California’s in the middle of a massive drought, though it hasn’t impacted our lives very much yet. It’s just been a very dry and hot summer as of late. I watch some television (on my laptop, streamed illegally, how else?) such as: Humans, which I started very recently, and a mix of comedy and etc. Mainly, I’ve been watching Casey Neistat’s daily vlogs. I know that the idea of a vlog seems superficial, self centered, and poorly made, but Casey’s are the opposite. He has a way of living where every second lies in working on ideas or creating solutions and always moving forward. A quote of his is: “Always the stairs, never the escalator.” I find his stories and films interesting and uplifting and they always tell a clear