This week was our first week of school. Underclassmen started Wednesday and upperclassmen started Thursday, then everyone went on Friday. It was terrible. To start off, I have the worst lunch period. Our school has 3 lunch periods- 4th, 5th, and 6th. I have 4th lunch, which is 10:31 to 11:16. Who in their right mind wants lunch at 10:30 in the morning? Everyone calls it second breakfast, and for good reason. I wanted to go through high school without ever having 4th period lunch, but here we are. What's also bad, none of my closest friends have the same lunch period. I sat alone Thursday outside, which was a mistake because there were ants crawling all over my backpack, lunch box, ipad, and water bottle. One of the ants I flicked off my things landed on my hand. The next day I sat inside, but still alone. I found some people I'm semi friends with so I might sit with them on Monday.
Another bad thing about this year is the terrible "traffic patterns". There are arrows pointing to certain directions to go, and teachers yell at you if you go the wrong way. One of the paths to take is so ridiculous- you have to walk all the way around the gym, instead of cutting across the logical way. I had to go across campus and had to walk around the gym to get to one of my classes, and I didn't even make it up the stairs to get to that class when the bell rang. My teacher didn't mind that I was late, but that's still ridiculous that I have to go that far every day. (We normally have a rotating schedule, but they changed that too so all the classes are in the same order. I actually prefer the rotating schedule- it gives at least some form of variety of going to classes.)
And the last thing that frustrated me was my ipad dying during class. Now this has been a problem with my ipad for a while. The battery drains faster than it should, even if I don't use it, and it also likes to shut down and "die" when it isn't at 1%. Because I sat outside on Thursday, I turned up the brightness all the way so I could see, which sucked a lot of my battery. (It went from 80% to 40%.) Somehow I managed to make it halfway through my last period before it died. Then yesterday morning I was debating whether to bring my charger. I decided no. Bad idea, me from the past. My battery drained really fast that morning for some reason- it was only 2 periods and already at 58%. It was at full battery that morning, and at a reasonably low brightness. I did use it during those two classes, but not enough to drain almost half of the battery. After 2 periods, we had a thing to practice walking over to the gym for school assemblies. There was a lot of in-between time, because they had to split our grade's homeroom into 2 groups, then send 2 homerooms at a time to the gym and listen to a few announcements. Then that group came back and the same thing happened with the other group. I tried not to be on my ipad that much, and after I finished an assignment, I turned the brightness down all the way, turned on airplane mode, closed out of everything, and put it away.
After the whole shabang was finished, I went to my 3rd period class where we didn't use our ipads. Then my next period was lunch- my ipad was already dead. I didn't touch it for over an hour. I was so mad and I regretted not bringing my charger. I resorted to listening to music from my phone so I wasn't doing absolutely nothing, but the service was very weak in the gym, so the music wouldn't always play. That lunch period seemed to drag on so long. I asked a few people if they had a charger I could borrow, but no luck. My ipad was dead all day and had to pretend to be using it during class. (Funny enough, I started pretending to type the lyrics to All Star when I needed to look like I was typing something.)
Needless to say, that day dragged on. It's ironic because the class periods were shorter. The whole assembly practice thing dragged so long (there was still an extra half hour after both groups finished) and that paired with my ipad being dead for basically the whole day made for a miserable Friday. Worst Friday ever.
