Random Thoughts

Middle School

This year I went to a new middle school. Not that I went to an old middle school. I'd started middle school this year, but the middle school I'm going to is a new middle school, cause... they just built it.

So I'm in 7th grade at this point. And I was semi-ready for the experience. I hadn't really known what to expect but it was a brand new school so it couldn't have been bad as an old middle school.

My sister went to a middle school, that isn't the one I'm going to now, and she did not like it. I'm not entirely sure why, and I didn't ask why, cuz I didn't want to get in her personal biz.

So I go to the sign up day with my mom. And my sister too because she was signing up for the high school for this middle school. So we were just going to go to her sign up day after we went to mine so, here we are.

So so there are a couple lines. One is to get school merch, hoodies, hats, ect. Another to get your Chromebook, want to find your schedule, and another one to get your locker.

The problem is, is that the school is so new that some of the things haven't even arrived. For example furniture, which is being shipped in from Florida. It's taking forever to get here. But you know what else is in Florida at this point?

A couple of the lockers. And you know who's locker was still in Florida?

Mine.

That wasn't the only one! My friend, which I'm not going to say her name, and some kids I didn't even know didn't have their lockers!

So this Middle School was kind of like the one my sister went to, as there are these things called teams. Each team has a different name. But all the names had a common theme, her schools theme was big cats.

There was the tiger team, the cheetah team, Jaguar, ect.

Each team had a different way of learning.

Anyway, that's a side tangent for later. Where I was going with that is my middle school also had teams. But the catch was they weren't called teams, they were called... pods.

Kinda sounds like a weird alien thing, don't you think? But here's the thing.

The high school for the middle school I was going to, had their mascot as Zeus.

Which is weird because they were called the Titans

Titans.

Zeus defeated the Titans, didn't he? So why would they be called the Titans, but their mascot be Zeus?

Anyway...

Because they wanted the Middle School to match the high school, they made our mascot... a storm cloud.

A storm cloud?

Weird, right? But the thing is our "pods", were named after different types of storms.

There was a tsunami, Monsoon, firestorm, ice storm, lightning(?), stuff like that.

(I'm in tsunami, the best pod. But also, tsunami isn't even a storm. Tsunami is a natural disaster, a giant wave, if you may, if you wanted a water-based storm you should have said typhoon. A tsunami is not a storm, thank you.)

And they kind of teach in different ways, but the teach the same curriculum.

My two favorite classes, not surprisingly, are my electives. Creative writing (obviously), and Theater Arts.

Although I don't hate the rest of my classes. Math is my least favorite, and I don't even hate that one that much.
I don't know of this chapter was about, I was just telling you about my middle school.

Enjoy your school experience, and do the best with what you have.

Have a good day!