Freshman Year

7-30|One Week Till The First Day

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."
-Lucille Ball
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Tuesday
Freshman year is supposed to be the year I finally figure out myself and who my real friends are. It's the first year that actually matters.

I wasn't able to attend my school's freshman orientation, so I have no clue where any of my classes are or where my locker is... fun. I really hope I don't get super lost. In eighth, I was trying to go to one of my classes that was in the high school area of the building and I went to the completely wrong side of the school. Elementary, middle school and high school are all connected in one large building at my school. I found one of my teachers from seventh grade and they helped me find my class. I ended up being a bit late to first period, but luckily the teacher was okay with it. It was a great way to start the day.

School starts in one week and I'm so not ready. I was really wanting to do drivers ed over the summer so during school I could focus on just school, but that didn't happen. I'm one of the older kids in my grade... no, I wasn't held back. I just have a summer birthday.

I'm wondering which of my friends will actually still be my friends by the end of the school year. I do have some close friends and not so close friends, but I know people always say you lose lots of friends freshman year.

I'm also not the most confident person in the world. You might be thinking "Waaaaah, how is this girl not confident? She's a freaking cheerleader for Pete's sake." Yah I have no clue how that works, I guess that's just another stereotype... I honestly don't know. But I can take control, but it just depends on who's in the group. What's really weird though is that both of my siblings are super confident and then there's me. My goal this year is to gain some confidence because I feel like it's important to be confident.

I've already purchased all of my school supplies and I got a few new outfits for the year. I love school supplies shopping, but for the most part, I don't like going to school.

Is it just me or do you like the idea of school, but not school itself? If that makes any sense haha.

I've already finished my summer reading homework, so I don't have to worry about that. Although the book we were assigned is not the most interesting. The book was very slow-paced in my opinion and just wasn't the normal kind of book I would read. I read it forever ago so the information is slipping from my brain. I have a feeling we'll have a test over this book within the first week of school, which I probably won't do too hot on. I'll probably go ahead and re-read it and check out some summaries online.

I also still need to work on memorizing cheers. Our first game is on the second week of school and we're supposed to have them memorized before that. I procrastinate a lot sometimes.

Out of all the classes I'm taking I'm most concerned about Honors Geometry because I've never done geometry before.

In seventh I took Pre-Algebra and in eighth I took Algebra. Algebra is considered a high school class for my school, so technically I've already started my GPA. I thought Algebra was sorta easy and some people say if you're good at one you probably aren't at the other.

The thing I'm most excited about for starting high school is a routine, which might be kinda weird. During the summer I went to bed and woke up at different times every day. I did different stuff every day and I think it'll be good to go back to a schedule. I've already started going to bed earlier and waking up earlier just so I can start getting into a sleeping routine.

I'm also looking forward to seeing my friends again and I also love wearing cute outfits. During the summer I dressed up cute some days, but not everyday but that's also what I do at school. Yah know like some days I just don't feel like trying. Is it just me or when you're in a cute outfit you just feel way better about yourself?

A bonus of finally being in high school though is that now I can carry my backpack with me to my classes. In middle school, they don't allow you to take your backpacks with you so you always had to stop back at your locker after each class. Now I'll probs just have a really sore back from my backpack :)