Hi, I'm Stellar, and I wasn't sure what to title this post, so I'm not gonna give it a title. Tuesday, September 4, was my first day of school, so I'm sort of going to summarize it. Except not really, because if I were to do that, it would look like this:

Class 1- AP US History (or as we all call it, APUSH): Our teacher gave us a syllabus and went over class expectations.

Class 2- AP English: Our teacher gave us a syllabus and went over class expectations.

Class 3- Gym: Our teacher gave us a syllabus and went over class expectations.

You get the point. We took pretests in a few classes, but not much else happened. The most noteworthy thing about this year of school is that they decided to try block scheduling for the first time. In case you're unfamiliar, this means we have four 90-minute block hours that change with the quarter or semester, as opposed to the normal eight 55-minute hours. Some of the classes are called "skinnies", which means they're a shorter 44 minutes and you have them all year. My skinnies are my three AP classes and band. If you want a skinny, you have to find another class to fill the second half of the block, and a lot of the time, they'll throw you into a random class you didn't sign up for. A lot of people were unhappy with their scheduling, including myself. I had my heart set on taking Spanish 3 this year because A.) four years of Spanish will look GREAT on college applications, B.) Considering the growing Spanish-speaking population in America, it's extremely useful to know, and C.) I like it and feel pretty confident in my Spanish abilities. However, the only times they were offering Spanish 3 were second semester, at the times I'm taking advanced algebra (which is required) and band (which is not required, but I would never quit band). So yeah, I'm not taking a Spanish class this year, and I'm extremely agitated about it. Other than that, I'm against block scheduling because I don't have a long attention span and I can't handle doing the same thing for 90 minutes. A lot of people I've talked to, students, parents, even a few teachers, were against block, and yet the school administration went along with it, sadly.

So, other than the change to block, there really wasn't much noteworthy that happened today. I was having a ton of anxiety before I left, but it turned out to be over nothing, really. The really heavy stuff that's actually worth worrying about will come along in the year. So here's an overview of my schedule to round out this recap of sorts:

Block 1A: APUSH
Block 1B: AP English (I have the same block 1 all year)

Block 2A and 2B: Gym first quarter, financial planning second quarter, chemistry second semester

Block 3A and 3B: Foods (basically cooking/home ec) first quarter, European history (they sort of randomly dropped me in this one, I didn't want to take it) second quarter, advanced algebra second semester

Block 4A: Band (the dopest class of all time)
Block 4B: AP Psychology (I have the same block 4 all year as well)

That's all I have for this week. Next week I'm not sure if I'll post, because I'll need to ease into the school year and I don't want the blog to distract me. I'm also not going to post when I have finals or if anything big and noteworthy pops up, but I'll let you (whoever you are that's reading this) know. I'm Stellar in Neverland, and I'll see you next week. Peace!

Stellar