As a result, I was very happy with my course changes. I had found Spanish 2 too easy; Spanish 3 was very suitable for me as it contained new vocabulary words that I could learn. World History was great though I chose honors for my transcript. Furthermore, I politely emailed the two teachers that I was going to leave their class. It was indeed a pleasure to be in their class for two weeks; they were very educated teachers and set up a comfortable classroom environment.
Speaking of teachers: the staff in my school is absolutely outstanding. All my teachers do their job very well and are actively engaging us in the class activities. All my teachers are very nice. The ones I particularly liked were my language arts teacher, my orchestra teacher(s) and my math teacher.
Though I may remark here that the progress my math teacher tries to make on his students is particularly slow for an advanced/honors course. I only like him because he is a bit fond of math.
During this time I was also getting used to the homework load from all my courses. I found that having a handmade planner (as opposed to a bought student planner) will help you coordinate your life and remind you of tasks you must accomplish. My biology teacher was giving us homework every day, so it was necessary to track all of those assignments and tests. Math homework takes me approximately five minutes without trying so hopefully, that will persuade the district of an evident course change. The homework from the other classes is doable; I will need to work on speed so I can get all my work done and still have time to do what I like (e.g. math, coding, blogging, etc.)
Recently, I was a little disappointed that I got first stand for second violin instead of first violin in orchestra class but it is better than nothing; I get to be the section leader for the second half of our concerts. What concerned me was that I had three weeks to practice the seating audition pieces while everyone else had a full summer to do so. I was also playing on a half size for my recording. To make it a bit worse, I have to play the second violin part for the whole year since I am in first stand – there’s nothing wrong with that, but the first violin part sounds a lot more exciting in most of our pieces.
This is only a facet of my school life. I will spill out my mind about extracurriculars and other activities in a future post(and when I’m not so busy).
Hopefully, this gives a glimpse of my academic career so far. See you in the next post.