Interesting. But not really.

I had today "off" from school. On Wednesdays, we have Outreach (volunteering, or personal enrichment, or whatever) in the morning, then Independent Study Time in the afternoon. Ashley and I went over to Diefenbaker this morning, because we're both going to be doing Outreach there. The teacher I'm going to be helping out is my old grade 1 teacher, so it should be pretty fun.

Then this afternoon.. why it wasn't actually Independent Study Time:
Independent - I was at Ashley's house all afternoon.
Study - We watched Montel and I developed an addiction to scratch tickets.
Time - Wasn't used for anything constructive whatsoever.

We sat on her porch, bullying ants, and I sang along to the tune the roofers down the street had going on with their banging.

Then I came home and ate and played the Sims for like 4 hours. Now I'm going to sleep.

I'M SO INTERESTING.

Oh my.

I've only been at Inglenook for 3 days now, but I've already come to the conclusion that it's the best school on the face of the earth. It is soo laid back, and everyone is really friendly. Class consists of us sitting on couches or laying on the floor with pillows instead of sitting at desks, we're free to walk out of class whenever we want, no questions asked, and if we're gone for a long time, nobody is sent out to retrieve us. We can go hang out in the student lounge and talk to people, listen to music, play music, or make coffee. Or, we can go cook in the kitchen, and bring food/drinks back to class. It is such an awesome place. I only wish I'd decided to go there earlier.

Weirdest thing ever though: I am the only Heather that goes there. And Ashley is the only Ashley. A lot of the kids have semi-weird names though. Like today I was in the lounge talking to Cal, Bryn, and Skiffy about this girl Stoney. Um.. yeah. Oh well. I actually like going to school now, it's nuts.

<3inglenook.

Ack!

I had my interview today. I start tomorrow.

Holy crap holy crap.

Inglenook.

I went to an information session yesterday at Inglenook. The school seems pretty cool, even though it's "borderline Regent Park" as Geoff said. There are 2 floors of classrooms, and both have only these small square hallways, yet it still manages to be confusing with where the student lounge and kitchen are and stuff lol. Plus the numbers on the doors aren't clear. Though, that shouldn't be TOO difficult to figure out, since, y'know, there are only 8 classrooms and all. The classrooms have couches to sit on instead of desks and chairs, which is cool. Also, there are only 130 students, and 6 teachers (who you skip the formalities with and just call by their first names), and the secretary is a man named Paul, lol. It seems like a pretty good school, definitely a completely different experience from the 2000-student, lost in the masses, pile on the homework school I currently attend. It was kinda funny, Rob (one of the teachers) actually said "Yay!" when I asked him and another teacher, Athina, about setting up an interview. He said something about taking refuge there, because I'd told him what I school I go to now haha. Made me feel slightly like a kid coming outta the ghetto. But aaanyhoo, my interview is on Wednesday at 10:00am. I have to write a one-page essay on an educational question, and then actually get interviewed. But I believe Ashley said that one of the questions included in her interview was "If you could be any animal, what would you be?" So yeah.. I'm not too worried. The teachers are kind of hippy-like (Athina was walking around in this flowy skirt, in bare feet, and wearing an anklet) If I do get in, I'll be taking Modern Western Civilizations first period (because Ashley's fourth period Economics class is full, I'm gonna try to get on the waiting list though), then English with Ash, and grade 11 Biology with Ashley again. Yep.

Wee, no more EYCI!

I'm very very happy right now. I'm no longer going to be taking co-op, and it appears that I'm leaving East York Collegiate entirely. I'm hopefully gonna be going to Inglenook Community School. Ash switched there and it sounds awesome. It's a tiny school with like 6 teachers (who also act as the principal, guidance counsellor, etc) and like 8 rooms in the entire building, haha. I'm going to an orientation on Monday at 3:45, yay. Means I have to move my counselling appointment, but oh well. I really hope I can get in there. It sounds like a good school, and.. no more uniform! SCORE.

Wish me luck.

Blarg.

My wrists hurt. They're both bruised right where the hand and wrist meet, from doing CPR all this morning. Yes people, I'm now certified to save your life if you're ever choking, in need of CPR, cut, need assistance administering your epipen, or have something sticking out of your leg, arm, eye, whatever. Anything like that and I can save you. Oh yes.

Yeah, so I'm obviously pretty bored. I don't know of any interesting websites, and I am (for some reason) on a Mariah Carey kick. I don't care how nutty she may be, she's still got an amazing voice. I don't think I've ever come across a song by her I didn't like (actually I'm surprised I'm even admitting that, but whatever).

Last night Geoff was over, and I don't remember why, but I busted out old pictures and notes from old friends and "boyfriends" (that's in quotation marks because middle school boyfriends don't count as being real). I have to say, those are some of the funniest things I've ever read. Some of the notes I could barely read out loud because I was laughing so hard. Looking back on middle school is the funniest thing ever. Good times.

Wow.

"She can't get away with it."

Wow. Just wow. Forget about it.

Fo;

Things can only get better from here.

The theme of this year seems to be Change. Everyone's going through changes of some sort, so just keep the above sentence in mind. Things may seem bad now, but they will get better with time. Is change really such a bad thing anyway? Improvements are a positive form of change, so just look at things that way. Improved.

Yarg.

So school starts tomorrow, and I'm sitting here not quite knowing what to think, because I can see both the negatives and positives in it. The most obvious negative is the fact that it means no more summer. That's also a positive in its own way though, because of all the crap that went on. And I know I'm not the only one that'll be happy to get over and move on from the summer. A certain person seems like they're beginning to want to get over it and move on as well, judging by the fact that they didn't speak to me for weeks and then made an attempt to yesterday. However, another negative is school itself. It's not that I'm not fully prepared to put in effort to get through it (I mean, I'm doing co-op until the beginning of February, and then I'm finished.. so it's not like it'll be too difficult), because I am. It's just knowing that most of the people who I'd become used to seeing around won't be there, because they'll be going off to other schools (whether college/university, or just another high school). I feel like I'm missing out in not beginning the college "experience" at the same time as the majority of my peers. I'm left behind in high school because I screwed up and didn't try to fix it. I'll still be going to school with some friends, but because of the summer drama, those friends are fewer in numbers.

I don't understand what it is about the people I hang around that makes us such drama-magnets. Something is ALWAYS going on, and everyone is ALWAYS involved, whether they should be or not. Guys, I'm done with it. If I don't need to be involved in your problem, and you don't need to be involved in mine, then let's not. At this point, I am so over being a teenager.

Haha, hair.

My hair throughout my high school years. Somewhat amuses me, so I thought I'd share. Sadly, I'm missing a bunch of pictures in here too, lol.