Summer Work.

It really seems like this summer has gone by so fast. Usually, I get so bored during the summer and it feels so dreadfully long, but this year is quite the opposite. Maybe it is just the cooler weather that makes me feel like it is not as dreadfully long.
As summer draws closer to an end, I have been doing my summer work and it isn't quite so fun. It just reminds me more and more about next year and how not fun it is going to be. I honestly do not think that summer work and I get along so well. Ever since the first day that I started it, I have been encountering so many problems. When I wanted to do my Mandarin assignments, my internet just would not connect, then when I tried again later, I found that ants had completely invaded my computer area and I had to go take care of that. Then when I wanted to work on my English assignments, the computer would not let me open my columns. Then today, when I wanted to open my file that I had written, it would not let me because it was that the file was corrupt. Finally when I got it open and turned the printer on, the printer said that I was out of ink. I swear this is like a sign telling me that I should not be doing summer work and should just enjoy the rest of the summer, or I could just be encountering a long string of bad luck.

Those Days.

So recently, I have been home a lot, which means I am trying to find something to do that will entertain me. In the process, I started to look up old music videos that I haven't seen in ages. I got the idea when I saw a really old Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey video. It was from like when midriffs were really popular. Watching these old videos just brings back so many memories with the boys bands and just coming home everyday and watching CMC on TV. I wish music like that was still really popular because I find it so much more enjoyable than so of the music I hear today. Don't you ever wish you could just go back to those times?
These are just a couple that brings back so many memories:
Willa Ford - I Wanna Be Bad
Celine Dion - It's All Coming Back to Me Now
Britney Spears - Lucky

Favorite Blog.

When I am bored, I like to link around on different blogs to find one that piques my interest. While looking around a while ago, I found this blog by Karen Bosnak. I love her posts and would love my blogs to be like hers. Even if she really doesn't have much to say, her posts are always funny or informative, but never boring.
So I was reading her blog today and saw the funniest/cutest post ever. I thought I would share it because it makes me laugh ever time I see the picture. Not only is it funny, but I like the fact that the dogs' names are Gracie and Ruby, like the two daughters from According to Jim. Maybe I am the only one that finds that remotely funny, but I assure you that the picture of the dogs will make you giggle.

Bandaids.

Ever have that feeling where you know that you have to do something, but you put off doing it until the very last minute because it is going to be something hard to do? That sounds a bit confusing. It is kinda like ripping off a bandaid. It is going to hurt, but it will have to happen eventually. That is what makes it so much harder to do. It is better to get it over with, but the momentary pain does not really seem to be worth it when you think about it.

Change? No thanks.

This blog has become more sporadic than daily, but hopefully this summer, I will start blogging daily again.
So yesterday was the last day of school. Ever year at the first day of school, I agonize over the dreadful months to come of school and can only dream of the last day of school where I will be free to sleep in and lounge at home until my heart's content. However, I feel quite differently at the end of the school year. I only wish to go back to that first day of school and appreciate the school year to come, but that never happens. I do not think that I have gone a school year without saying, 'this is the worst week of my life' or 'this is the worst day of my life'. Thinking back on some of those weeks and days, they truly were not that bad. Some weeks deserved that saying more than others, but maybe it was just us being dramatic when we felt stressed.
So sophomore year is over and I still cannot believe it. It felt like yesterday that the scorching hot heat on the first day of school was killing us and all we wanted was to crawl back into bed. It felt like just yesterday when formal was all we could talk about and who was going with who. This school year zoomed right by, and I never expected it to be over so quickly. I do not really know how I would sum up this school year.
Maybe it is just me, but I think change is one of the worst things EVER. That sounds really dramatic. haha. Honestly, I have hated change ever since I was little. Even when I knew it was for the better, I never like to make changes. For instance, taking new classes next year. I have had, and still am, struggling over the decision to take APUSH or AP Chinese. I wish someone would make me take the classes without me choosing, because if I make the mistake of taking the class that is going to overwhelm me, who do I have to blame besides me. It is so much easier for me to say, 'gosh, why did the school have to put me in this class', rather than saying, 'gosh, why did I choose this class'.
Yesterday was the the strangest last day of school I have had. I wish people had not left early. I had fun with Danny and Athena playing with cups and rings. We wanted to originally turn off the lights and play hide-and-seek, but we thought that might be a little bit too dangerous. It did not feel like the last day of school. No one was sad, no one cried, and it was not hot. Even though those are the worst components that make up the last day of school, they are what actually make it feel like the last day of school. Maybe it is because we know we are gonna see each other in a couple days when we head for New York, so maybe we will feel sad when we come back and it truly hits us how long it will be when we see each other again.
I cannot believe that next year we are going to be juniors. We seem to be getting so old, so fast. Sometimes I wish I could just freeze time in order to savor the moment.

Finally.

After months of dreading May 9, it is finally over. I do not think that I have ever felt so accomplished before. I was so jittery and nervous before the test, but when it was finally over and we were dismissed, I don't think I have ever seen a happier and relieved group of students. However, I cannot believe that we have finished our first AP class. I remember thinking in middle school that I had all the time in the world to slack off before things get real for college, but I'm starting to realize that there really is no more time to slack off. Everything we do now in school really does matter.
The really strange thing is that I have dreaded Euro for more than three-quarters of the school year, but recently when I started to review, I realized how interesting history really is. I never imagined that I would every say that after AP Euro. But looking at history in perspective, seeing how all the events before the French Revolution led to a bloody revolution and how all the countries in Europe manage to engage themselves in World War I is pretty fascinating stuff. Hopefully, sitting through what we thought were hours of dreadful lecture and nearly pulling out all of our hair the night before the exam paid off. I guess we will find out in July.

Time.

Lately, I have been realizing how important time is. Sometimes, it seems like I have so much, but then it is all gone before I know it. There are so many times that I wish I just had more, like 24 hours in one day is just not enough. Even though I am just 15 years old, I feel like I am already so old. This year felt like it zoomed right past me, and it is just crazy that the school year is almost over. It really did feel like yesterday that we were complaining about how long the school year felt, and now when it is almost over, I am realizing that it was not long at all, in fact, it was quite short.