End of the Road

No, I'm not ending my blog already. Although I might forget about it some day along the line. I'm talking about the end of the school year. Unfortunately, I can't really talk about the end of the school year, because it hasn't officially ended yet. I can't say that the end of the school year is amazing, or that I've never felt so free in my entire life, because I haven't yet. And that's what's really starting to bug me.

This week is the week of final examinations, the week where every teacher performs the simultaneously sadistic and masochistic act of giving their students 10-page exams that they must later grade 40 times. And everyone buckles down and plows through, hoping to either bring up their grade or not bring it down. Although, for all I know, there's a kid out there who's always wanted to have an F for his birthday, however non-habit-forming that desire may be.

So I'm buckling down with everyone else, and I'm just trying to get through this week. But guess what's after this week? Well, my friends, my school does a little thing they like to call mini-term. Mini term is a weird idea in which everyone makes 8 choices of what they want to do for a week. Options range from backpacking the Ozarks, to biking around St. Louis and visiting various restaurants, to witnessing an open-heart surgery. Only thing is, it's a first-come-first-serve. Me being new at this school, I have no idea how or where to sign up for these things. So guess what I got? I get to make a book.

Yes, that's right. I get to write a page for a book, and everyone else in my class gets to write a page for a book, and we're going to compile these pages and customize the book that we want. Because I'd totally enjoy doing that. Totally. Me, the computer-math-science guy, would want nothing more than to read a book that was made by a bunch of... well, let's not bring them into this. You get the picture.

I wish I had signed up sooner, but I guess that's what I get. I'm just trying to stay on until June 5th, when my family and I move to France! But more on that in the next post. I have to study for History now.