10/10-10/14

Last week I forgot to write on this, and when I did remember to, I wasn't at home or able to get to a computer so this is me doing this last minute.

Tomorrow is A day, and I'm pretty sure I don't have anything due. In wood shop, I'm tired of having substitutes because we cant work in the shop with them. We just watch a video and do bookwork. Davis Youth Symphony was a lot harder last week than I thought it would be. The music looked so hard when I first got it, but now I can almost play through it all. The first concert is on February 27, so it seems like a long way off. For NAL, I had to leave about 15 minutes early (3:45) to get to Youth Symphony and I found out that I'm supposed to BE THERE at 3:45 so I was a little behind. In NAL we watched videos of the actual competition and how it works and played a practice round of the 1st quarter.

On Tuesday, in math, we have to finish the unit 2 test which we started last time, and review for the big term test. I'm not really excited for that, but I'll be glad to get it over with. In Orchestra, I get to play my solo. The piece is called Wild Rider and it's only about a page long. Just my luck, I get to do it the first day of solos, while some people get to do it almost 3 weeks later. In English, I think we have an online book review due, but I'm pretty sure I already did that, so I'll see how that turns out. Also, in English, I've been moved around the classroom about 4 times without the teacher changing anybody else (and it's not because I've been talking, it's because some people can't see from the back and others keep talking).

On Wednesday, I don't think anything out of the ordinary is going on except for Mutual which I have no idea what we are doing. On Thursday, there's the big, all-important term test in math. I'm not really prepared for that right now. The next few classes of Orchestra will be mostly listening to everyone's solos. Some of the class will be for preparing for the concert we have coming up sometime near the end of this month.

Friday, nothing's really happening, but on Saturday there's the Kaysville City Monster Mash Dance thing which I think most of my friends are going to, so I'll probably be going. I've heard the Regional Dance is supposed to be that Saturday too, but I think that may be wrong (somebody comment and tell me).

For Honors English I have to enter a writing contest of some sort, so I've decided to do the Reflections Contest. I wrote a short poem, and if you read it tell me what you think. The theme is Diversity

Diversity

The thing that creates us different,
Right, wrong, simple, complex,
The way we do things,
The way we think.
All around us,
And inside us,
Diversity.

In past, in present,
in war, in peace,
Together, against, with, without,
Everywhere, Everything
Work with, Work against
It's always there:
Diversity

Age, order, natural, strange,
Height, width, any range.
Culture, origin, color, clothes,
Looks and other things they chose,
Anywhere, anytime
All must continue the climb
the change, the path
of Diversity

Some will hate, some will love,
Each has a thought,
His own thereof.
No choice is set,
Yet some forget
They could have done that too.

If alike, we all came
We would all be the same,
A copy, a fake
Another reflection in the lake
We live it, we learn it,
we die by it, we earn it,
Diversity