Today officially brought me into my 4th year of high school,the first year that I shall be given an end of year exam. How daunting? My first day back after the Summer Holidays was surprisingly entertaining; I found it strangely easy but also enjoyable to get back into a normal routine. After a Summer of boredom, I was relieved to reflourish my friendships and that my day was not spoiled by anyone who has a tendency to irk me. My gratitude was expressed towards the continuity of my favorite teachers, and where a gap was left at the end of my third year, I was given an excellent teacher for Biology. As well as another teacher for Geography and the same teacher for PSE (Personal and Social Education); this teacher in particular did take me for Geography in second year and though I find them to be a good teacher, they are no my first choice.
Otherwise, I still have an excellent selection of teachers as I did last year, and I shall try not to decide on which day is my favorite (subject wise) until I have experienced a full week of school. Not a lot of effort was required of me today, which is always a good thing, though my mind was somewhat concentrated on the school blazers. I myself, do not particularly wish to wear a blazer, I do not see anything wrong with the uniform just now and I feel they are just wasting time by trying to enforce an addition to the uniform.
At this moment in time, I do find myself a tad befuddled; leading up to the beginning of fourth year, I was unaware whether blazers were compulsory or not? Then I met with my friends whom I walk up to school with, they were all wearing blazers, but this was no surprise as they already dressed like so for some time now. They informed me that it was compulsory and that before the end of third year, a uniform letter was handed out; I was unaware of this as well as hoping that the first point was false. On arriving at my Registration Class, I was disappointed to discover, that after three years of the same registration teacher and two years as a French teacher, I would no longer come to their classroom at 8.55am. Instead, I received a perfectly acceptable new teacher who has just joined the school in the Geography department. The point still stands though, that it felt like an end of an era, and that I felt closer to the end that I was the beginning. Anyhow, after an hour of registration, sorting out the usual letters handed out at the start of every year, the teacher went through the uniform and we were told that blazers were not compulsery, I advanced to Music later on, where I was informed by my teacher that she had a discussion with the head teacher, and it appears that pupils must acquire a blazer by the end of the month. Although, the rest of the day, from teachers and pupils, I had gotten the impression that they were not compulsory? Who knows, it is the first day back so everything is still to be completely sorted, so I shall wait a few days until I come across some concrete information on the topic of the blazer.
Another thing that didn't make my day a perfect day, was the introduction of the "warning bell"? It is simply a bell that sounds exactly the same as the real bell, and is set off five minutes before the actual bell to inform us it is coming. In the grand scheme, this is understandable for before school begins, as well as break and lunch time. Though I recall, leaving Music for break, then as I walked through the social area with my friend, the bell went off again and we puzzled over whether break had just started or finished? If I am not mistaken, I remember it activated during a class, then when we advanced to the next class, the bell went again; proving that we had left too early for the next class. My scheduling for class is pretty acceptable, the only main problems is that, last two periods on a Monday, I have PE (Physical Education), followed by the dreaded French. As well as the fact that Monday, Tuesday and Friday, begin with the evil antagonist that is Maths.
Overall, I had a very enjoyable day and my anxiety is at some level, when looking into the near future and seeing the terrifying exams. Hopefully, I shall have a good year, as last year turned out to be quite successful both socially and educationally. My classes are acceptable so far, so I do hope that the good fortune will continue at least until the end of this week. If you enjoyed reading this, then great, otherwise.... well I don't care, I must sleep now.
Geronimo!
Stephen
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