Welcome back everybody!
Today I am going to be talking about the recent return to school; I am a sophomore in high school (it feels so weird to say that after writing “rising sophomore” in all my summer posts) and my local district went back on August 21st. I’ve been pre-writing and scheduling my posts for a little bit, so I’m actually writing this on August 25th, the Sunday after my first week of school. It’s so weird to be back in class and have my calendar completely filled, but I wanted to discuss my thoughts on how everything has actually been so far.
First, I’ll discuss probably the biggest part of school: the classes. I’m taking AP European History, honors English, honors algebra 2, honors chemistry, Spanish 3, and yearbook (which counts as both an elective and an extracurricular). I have Spanish first, followed by English, chemistry, euro, yearbook, lunch, and I finish off the day with math. Last year it was flipped where I had English and my science class toward the end, and my social studies and math classes toward the beginning, but I’ve always had Spanish first. I have to say I prefer the order of my classes last year, but it doesn’t make that much of a difference.
As far as teachers, I have the same Spanish teacher as last year; other than that, I have five new teachers to win over! My teachers are all pretty nice but I definitely got ones on the stricter side- we didn’t do any fun beginning-of-the-year activities, and I’ve already had a decent amount of homework. I miss my teachers from last year just because they were so fun, but I guess that just came with being a freshman. Sophomore year already seems way more serious.
I have cheer practice Monday through Wednesday after school, so I stay on campus for a few extra hours because of that. JV football games are either late on Thursdays or early on Fridays, so I either have Thursday night or Friday night free depending on the week; most games are on Fridays, so I’ll usually have Thursday free. It’s a demanding schedule being at school for so long during the day and then going home and doing homework, but it’s manageable. As soon as we had our first football game and I got that adrenaline rush of performing again, I knew it was worth it.
I also knew I wanted to get more involved in my school and different activities this year. I signed up to be a tutor in my school’s Social Science center at lunch, so we’ve been having some meetings and trainings about that. I’m not sure when club rush is/when clubs start meeting, but I hope to join a club or two that I’m really interested in. I was in Key Club last year, and I plan to continue that as well; I even got ahead on my service hours over the summer. Through cheer, there’s also a special-needs children volunteering program that I’ve signed up for and gone to a couple events for- we teach the kids cheers and routines and perform at a few school/local functions. It technically counts as a club, but I’m not sure if it has regular meetings and such yet. Lastly, as I briefly have mentioned, I’m now a writer on the yearbook staff. We’re starting to get into our first assignments and I’m so excited!
It’s already been tiring so far, but I’m actually really excited for this year. I’m trying out and doing lots of new activities that I think I’ll really enjoy as the year goes on, and there’s so much to look forward to. Football season is SO much fun and homecoming is in the near future! I have a really good feeling about sophomore year; I can’t explain it, I just do. I hope you guys are having an amazing start to school as well! Let me know if you have any questions or requests for future content.
-Brooke
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