Brettia

I solved my Brettia problem by beginning anew. After a database problem erase three weeks of posts (there weren’t many anyway), people didn’t much want to continue things, so I started Brettia 2.0, which is generally the same as the old Brettia but with new countries, characters, etc. Brettia 1.0 is still available at its regular URL.

With that behind me, I’ve got some new things to deal with. First, posting on Brettia consumes a lot of time. It can take 45 minutes to an hour to write a single long post, so if I post several times a day this can turn into hours of writing. Not necessarily a bad thing, but I’ve been letting it take precedence over homework, which I today learned is not a good idea. I did finish all my homework from Friday, but I did it all at 9:00 last night and some of it was waiting for me to do on the bus and in biology. Ever since I first started procrastinating in eighth grade it’s gotten worse, so I’ve pretty much given up at this point on trying to combat it. Definitely a bad habit to get into.

The second thing I have to deal with right now is school in general (obviously). Some classes are really beginning to get boring.
In Health (I have it until Oct. 10, when I switch to PE) things have always been the same boring stuff on drugs and alcohol and disease and nutrition that we first learned about years ago. Things might get better since tomorrow is the beginning of our Human Growth and Development unit, in other words, sex ed, and that is always interesting. (Not in a perverted way, but just because people make hilarious comments sometimes.)

Honors English has never been particularly stimulating, but there’s still hope. We’ve been covering the basics lately (setting, character, etc.), which is understandably boring, hopefully so that we can start doing something less monotonous in the future.

Honors geometry is weird because my class has six freshmen, including myself, and twenty-odd eighth graders from the middle schools nearby. It feels like I’m in seventh grade or something, and the teacher reminds me of one I had that year too. Math is not boring, its just easy (at least right now) and I don’t feel like applying myself. At least I can do all my homework in class.

Social studies could certainly be better. I find myself regretting not taking AP World History when I had the chance, since it would at least be a challenge. I’m in a class full of “jerk children” (populars, jocks, etc.) and most of them are complete idiots. I feel embarrased to even answer when others are yelling out “paper airplane” and “Japan.” The teacher isn’t bad though.

Biology sucks royally. Miss Drechsler is a great teacher, but her lessons are easy and boring most of the time. We never have homework. The real problem I have with this class is in the kids in it. They still think Kyle (my friend) and I are “Jedi” or “trekkies,” and the whole room goes quiet whenever I answer. Even if my answer or comment is perfectly well-constructed and correct, people look at me like I’m a complete dumbass. I should surround myself with mirrors facing outward so that they can look at themselves and think that.

Spanish might be my favorite class. I feel motivated to study it, I have a good grade, the class has lots of sophmores I can get to know…pretty good deal, really.

So school is good and bad at the same time. Let’s just say I anxiously await each weekend.