better late than never, since my youngest grand daughter's blog is more popular than any of mine, i now submit another one of her gems:
Friday, July 30, 2010 Entering High School- GRIM AND READY FOR BATTLE
I have not blogged for a while. Why? well first I was in Canada for a little over 2 weeks. And before then I was working as a Counselor In Training (i.e. CIT) for a camp for 4-5 year olds... (a frightening experience in oneself) and even before that, I was running out of my school screaming cheers of joy because summer vacation had started. Wow that was a long time ago. Well re-cap.
First few days of summer I spent time hanging out with my friends from school. We all didn't want to leave each other for completely different high schools quite yet. So we all went out and walked around.
Later on, I acted as CIT for a County camp for little children. Notice the age difference from the last time I reacted with children. (i.e. 3rd graders) I enjoyed this camp much much more.
Then I headed off to Canada. I did quite a lot in Canada. It was quite an experience. We went to this really cool Jazz Festival in Montreal. And I practiced my french. I've gotten better. :D We also went Jet Boating (like white water rafting minus the raft replaced with a boat) and saw a glimpse of Cirque Du Soleil. I also went to this forest where we did Ropes Courses and stuff. It was rather fun. Until it started to rain. Obscene amounts. From the sky. And then it thundered. And raged and poured. And then it stopped and we climbed again. I met toooons of people from EVERYWHERE. I'm friends with them all on Facebook now, so I can definitely say I'll never talk to them again. Everyday we'd have 4 hours french classes. And then we'd have a lot of free time so my friend and I would go out and walk around Montreal. We did a lot of shopping. We also saw a Mardis Gras parade... in July. (someones gotta tell those Canadians some things...) We went to this really nice water park. It had these really fantastic rides that you had to wear helmets on. It was pretty fun. I'm probably not gonna go back to that camp again, but I enjoyed it while it lasted and was happy to go home.
I've been back home now for 2 weeks now and I'm bored out of my mind. I've been taking this summer school class. Since the whole geometry-taking population at my school (on the most part) failed (most people blame the teacher). Its actually been quite informative (even though everyone knows math = yuck). I've learned a lot the past 2 weeks. I also just took the final exam. I'll find out my score later today so I'm crossing my fingers.
On Sunday I depart once more for another sleep-away camp. This time its an ADVENTURE SPORT camp. (i.e. rock climbing, white water rafting, mountain biking, caving, etc..) It should be pretty awesome. We'll see. If it isn't then I will not refrain from being the critical person I am.
So why complain? this sounds like a pretty nice summer right? WRONG
As you may or may not know, I am entering High School next year, and as you may or may not know, I am entering a prestigious program for Communication and Arts, that develops the intellectual, creative and communicative skills in a unique interdisciplinary, highly product-oriented program that involves them in a comprehensive approach to humanities and the media.(their words not mine) Anyway, if my 'intellectual, creative and communicative skills' need developing, then there's no time to wait. You cannot give the upcoming 9th grader a chance to settle into the idea of going into High School by giving them maybe a book to read and a paragraph to write or a book to read and no paragraph to write. Preposterous! Instead why not give them 2 books. And 22 paragraphs to write. Plus a diary entry on "the perspective" of one of the characters. AND a math packet. WELCOME TO HIGH SCHOOL!
This is why I have not been blogging recently.
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