Say It Louder

The First Few Weeks

Olivia:
   What can I say? High school isn't really too exciting. It's just school. Classes, clubs, homework. No huge fights, mean girls ruling the school, everyone else feeling inferior, none of it.  I guess I should be happy because I'm for sure not a popular person, but I was kind of looking forward to the typical high school experience.  Oh well.  
    The first block bell rang and I left my friends in the cafeteria, where we were eating, to get to class. I still had two minutes. That was the two minute bell. I stumbled into the classroom and took out my earbuds as I sat in my seat encased by the popular people of my grade. History class began, and my god, it was torture. It was so boring.
The bell finally released me where I met my friend as we walked to our next class- Biology.  More like Diology because I just want to die in that class. The teacher is horrible and feels the excessive need to alert us of our honor student status and how failure is unacceptable. But apparently this mean we are also responsible for knowing things he never taught us or told us to know. It's awful.  Thank god for one of my best friends who I sit next to, who gets me through it.
   Next I had gym, nothing special. I'm decent at most sports.  I'm a horrific runner but I manage. I just think about getting to public speaking, my favorite class of the day.  Finally, the fourth block bell rang, as I sat in the auditorium chairs, because our class wasn't special enough to get an actual classroom so we moved around. Also, according to Mr. Greol, the stage would work for our presentations more suitably then a classroom enviroment. We had to work on scene work, today.  This seemed like a theatre class, more than a public speaking class. "It's all about being comfortable with the audience," Mr. G always says. I was paired with Adam and an awkward boy named Daniel for the scene we would work on today. We were supposed to be people at a restaurant who is having a problem with the waitress. I was the waitress and Adam and Daniel were there as friends. Oh my god, Adam was cute.
   Our scene was pretty basic, but Adam said I did good and was a "pretty savage waitress". He's really cool. I watched Taylor's scene which was funny, but Adam whispered to me ours was better. But that's just school. Going to my classes, waiting for PS to see Taylor, and Adam, who I've been becoming friends with, staying after for whatever sport or club I'm in and then going home and doing the same all over again. It's pretty basic. But it's pretty good, so I can't complain.