Friday nights

Friday nights really are my savior. Monday-Thursday nights I am swamped with homework, work, musical rehearsal, and other activities. Yet, on Friday nights, I am free to do what I want to. I don't have to do homework and I can either choose to lay around home and sleep, or go out with friends. I love having that freedom. It really is the only night that I am always open. Saturday and Sunday are usually filled with homework, but mostly Sunday.. I look forward to Friday every week. Tomorrow I plan on going to the football game and then to a friend's house for a small get together. YAY!

Work time in class

Though I really appreciate it when teachers give us work time in class, I find it very difficult to focus in school. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that I am sleep deprived, so I am constantly tired at school. I often fight to stay awake, which obviously does not allow me to work very diligently. However, I do not want teachers to take away this work time, so I think I will try harder to be able to focus. Tomorrow in class I am going to work hard on my ethnography!!

(Thanks to Jackie for this post inspiration, as I share this view)

18

So on Saturday, I am going to be 18 years old... an adult. For some reason, this seems like a very significant birthday to me. Yeah 16 was cool... getting to drive and all that... but I feel like 18 is a monumental achievement. Surprisingly, I am not really that excited this year. I feel like I am going to have a lot more responsibilities for some reason. Yeah I will be voting and will be able to make more decisions without my parents, but it seems like something more. I think one reason I might not be that excited is because turning 18 just means I am growing up. Unlike a lot of seniors, I am not looking forward to school being over. I really love this year. I have a great group of friends, and other people who are really important in my life. I also like my classes, and the idea of leaving everything I know to go to college really makes me nervous. So I guess that's why I am half excited and half not excited to become an adult this weekend.

Taking a break

I have been feeling pretty overwhelmed and unmotivated lately, so yesterday I decided to take a break. Usually, I go home after school and immediately begin working on my homework, generally working on it until I fall asleep. Well, last night I was very tired so I decided to just do my mandatory, 5-minute spanish homework and then I went to bed. At 8:45 pm!! The nice thing about IB (or bad, depending on how you look at it) is that we don't have a lot of assignments that are due the next day. Most of our assignments have long term due dates. Just getting to bed early really helped me in terms of my stress. I think everyone should take a night off sometime soon. It really is refreshing!