Five things to become a better student

The five things that I want to do to make myself a successful student are:

• Be active!
•   I want to join lots of school activates and be active with the school. Also I want to know almost everyone, if not all the people in my grade, and maybe some in the grade above me and below me.
• I want to work hard and still have fun.
• Having good grades is important to me, but I do not want to be the kind of person who all you do is work. I still want to have fun with my friends at the same time.
• I will be myself.
• I will not let other peoples decisions affect my life, and I will just be me.
• Not to give up!
• Even thought high school is going to be hard I can't give up, I have to keep going and try my best.
• To have the best four years of my life!
• Everyone says that high school is the best four years, and I want to live up to that expectation.

The Aftermath

During the second day of Human Geography we were told that only three people had completed their homework. I was a little nervous, because I was hoping that I was one of those three people. Thankfully I was, and I had successfully set up my blog. We spent most of the class helping the rest of the students set up their blog correctly. It took some time to figure out why the emails hadn't come through, but we soon realized that the students had sent the email without a subject. Since there was no subject the email went to Mr. Schick's spam email box, so we learned that it is important to fill in the subject line when writing emails. Once we got that squared away we started to work on how to add a gadget and a link to our own blogs. We successfully completed the tasks, but we did have a little trouble with the whole blog concept. I believe that we will get the hang of it in the next two or three weeks.   

The First Day

My first couple of days at John Carroll were a little over whelming. On Wednesday I had all of my classes, which stinks because it made for a long day. Math was my first subject, and my brain was not really ready to think. My third class on Wednesday is a honors Spanish class and my teacher stands in the middle of the classroom and talks to us in Spanish, and we sit there with a blank expression on our faces. I would be able to understand her but I haven't had to comprehend Spanish in over three months, so it makes it a little difficult. My Bible teacher is very funny, his name is Mr. Gatto. The first day I had his class there were two students that never showed up, but eventually one had found his way to the classroom. The second day of Bible class the same two students still did not show, and we had one new person. It had turned out that one of the missing people had switched classes with the new person, so now we were only missing one classmate. After ten minutes of class had gone by the missing student had finally showed up to class saying "oh I thought this was my class, but I wasn't sure" we all laughed and continued class. Health is one of my "laid back" classes which is nice because there is no stress. The last class of the day was Science, and I had heard that the teacher was nice, but that he had a very loud and powerful voice. Well they were right, he yelled at a couple of students for being late, and for slouching in their chairs, but other than that he seemed like a good teacher. My two days at John Carroll have been good and I look forward to making new friends and memories to make.