Highschool? What??

Jesus Christ on a stick guys, it's been awhile. I mean good lord the last time I updated this was in July! JULY! That's too long. But! Now I'm inspired to pick things up where I left off and try to update at least once a month. Right now I think I'll take things simple and start from where things really started to kick off since last year: Highschool.

August 6th, 2012. My first day of high school and I can honestly say I wasn't nervous! I had new hair, no baggage and honestly I was ready to get out into the world. That, I'm happy to say, has definitely  happened. For the first semester I had the greatest classes in the world - fun subjects, teachers, classmates, everything really! Here's what the schedule was.

1st - Algebra 1
2nd - Integrated Science
3rd - Fundamentals of Audio/Visual Media
4th - English
Lunch
5th - Fundamentals of Culinary Arts
6th - P.E

My electives (P.E, Culinary, Audio/Visual) are definitely the funnest classes. I really loved Culinary and AV the most though, because the teachers were absolutely top notch and I can't wait to take their advanced classes next year! Ug, speaking of sophomore year... Picking classes is so hard when you love them all! D: But, I did have some luck. I was able to get into Honours English (one of the more advanced classes!).
As for my sophomore electives I had a choice between 4, which was very hard. Especially since I switched electives in the second semester.

1st - Algebra 1
2nd - Integrated Science
3rd - Fundamentals of Photography (hate that class, hate the teacher)
4th - English
Lunch
5th - P.E
6th - Fundamentals of Construction

I really like Construction, which is one of the classes I'm in now. Photography though... Oh god do I hate that class. Oh. My. God. Audio Visual was so much more fun. Here's the links to some of the stuff I did in them! Audio Visual and Photography. Not the most quality stuff in the world, but you know, I had fun making it.

Anyway, onto some of the more personal things that have happened since starting school. My new friends - I don't deserve them. I've made so many new ones and they add such a positive influence in my life that I've been kept out of the dark ever since meeting them. It's wonderful, honestly - to have friends like them. Some of them I'm very close to and can talk about pretty much anything, others are more casual and always lighten up my day when I'm feeling bad, and with all of them I know I can joke and laugh with all day because we're all just a bunch of weirdoes who have great senses of humour.

Honestly, the people I've met have made me wonder why I ever thought about other people the way I did. After meeting people and going through the high school experience I've learned something, something that I needed to have: Self Respect.

Before starting school I had friends who, although we had a lot of fun together (in the beginning, anyway), I always felt like I cared more about the friendship then they did. I would practically mute myself in situations and take the mental and verbal abuse because I thought I was being patient - that they couldn't help it and if we just talked it through then they would apologize - and things? They'd be great! Well they weren't, and because of a situation like that I lost my best friend.

Things are different now. I respect my friends, and they respect me. There's no constant tension or fight for dominance and certainly no bullshit. If we do get into an argument and something insults me or them, we don't screw around - we say so immediately and it gets solved! And if I meet someone who says something like that to me, I now have to courage to challenge them and defend myself - because god damn if I don't deserve that.

And that is something I will treasure having the ability to do. Now I really feel like I've stepped out of my old life, and I'm looking forward to every minute of my future because for once in a very long time I am totally and completely happy.

- End Post - April 13 - 2013

Hi guys. (: