TGIF is Really A Screwed Up Phrase

Today, for perhaps the first time ever, I am not glad that it is Friday because for some demented reason, Welsh decide to start school on a Friday, as in today. So I was thinking the whole day through, here we go again.

First of all, there were crowds of ickle firsties here and there, all nervous and jumpy. Typical freshmen, acting all scared about the up-comming years. Well, I wanted to say to them

"Welcome to St. Dominic Regional High School, Your Happy Home for the next four years,"

but I think they'd've cried or something, so I didn't. But hey, my class is now the royalty of the school, the top crop. It was still not very exciting. But here we go again anyways.

First of all, we started with the typical Welsh-speech, long and drawn out speech about how important education is and how great St. Dom's is. I slept like a baby. Of course I did! I had to wake up at 5:30 this morning! Then first period and then break.

At break, there was my typical donuts. Mike's first words to me was "Go crawl in a hole and die!" He was joking, I hope. Almost all my friends are in my computer programming class as well, which is good. Even better, Pipes is no longer among the living. Well, he isn't at that school anyways.

Sr. Nancy left the convent for a man and ran off and got married, so she is gone. Mr.Dixon, also known as Think and Grin, cause he was always grinning and looking around, left. Mr. Tine also left I'm guessing because he wasn't very popular. But the brown pants joke he told in last years english class was pretty funny.

So my classes and my first impressions are as follows:

Period 1 Pre Cal with Mrs. Girourd. It looks like it will be a tough course, as hard or worse than Algebra II and Trigonometry. I think that one will be my worst.

Period 2 Religion with Ms. Pontbriand. This one has alot of the ADHD kids so it may go out of control, which is good, chaos is funny.

Period 3 French 4 with Mr. Thibideaux. There are 8 student. Alot of french speaking as well. I think it will be hard but not too much.

Period 4 Programming with Mrs. Robitaille. Alot of my friends are in this one and we took several computers in the corner. This will be fun. Writing programs and joking with friends. Woohoo!

Period 5 Physics with Mr. Knight. Big class, almost everyone. Very important class to me because I want to fly. I think it will be interesting, but a lot of math.

Period 6 AP US History English with Ms. Ducey. I like to write, so this class, I hope, will be a good one. She handed out the Ducey Code today, a yellow peice of paper with letters and numbers that she puts on papers to show what errors were made. I hate that Code, it just shows everything that can go wrong. My Crime and Punishment essay was covered in those. She already gave out homework! It'll be quite a bit like AP US History was, only without the history.

Period 7 AP Study Hall with Mr. Knight and Mrs. St Laurent. Study Hall. Great fun and lots of sleep. My first semester will be with Knight and the second will be with St. Laurent.

School is war. He who survives with the most braincells left at the end wins. School is what keeps the human race evolving. Only the smart survive. Now that I know what I want to do with my life, this year has loads of tension on it. Flying a fighter jet is one of the hardest jobs in the world to get into and flying for the Thunderbirds would be even harder. Yet this is what I would want to do. Now the pressure is on. I'll be squeezed through the next five years like a tube of toothpaste. But trust me, I'll remember to party in the meanwhile.

In other news,I have to work at the Balloon Festival tommorrow for Mission Mississippi. Benny, Kyle, Chuck, PJ, Joe, and about twenty others and I are going to Mississippi this April for ten days to help the poor. It was something I decided to do simply because I could. It'd be an experiance I wouldn't forget. And besides, I get to do something for society, its a good feeling.

Anyways, I have to collect $400 in bottles, which is 8,000 bottles before I go. I have about $30, so I should go out again today or this weekend. There is also a $250 dollar fee that I have to raise otherwise as well.

The Balloon Festival is tommorrow. I have to work around disgusting seafood. I live in Maine but I hate all shellfish, except lobster claws. For some strange reason, the kids can't cook, so I don't know exactly what I will be doing.

This trip to Mississippi will be an interesting trip. We hope to be the first to catch an armidillo. No other Mission Mississippi group has.

Joe, get with program or I will shoot you. -Ms. Ducey

J Kuhl Signing Off