Monday, November 5, 2007

First impressions

Well, we went to that open house for that school last Friday.
I still don't know what to think. If we go there, it's going to be a lot different.
The building is kind of old, but it has "character," as my mom says. It used to be an art school, I think before it became a high school, so that explains it.
They had the students be the guides for the night, so we got shown around by a person that's gone there for a little while. The school isn't all that big, it has three floors, but it's easy to find your way around. The classes are small, I think I only saw about 15 or 20 chairs in each class. The teachers were all very nice, that's a good thing! :D
The school just opened last year, so it's not like everyone's been there forever.
They have lots of classes, physics, math, (we're doing geometry next year, ugh...)
music, art, history, and drama and choir are electives. (The drama department is putting on a production of "The Christmas Carol" this year, my mom says that we'll go see it, actually, the student that was our guide is playing, Fred, Scrooge's nephew in the play)
They also have cross-country and basketball, if you want to do it.
Some people we know might go to Herron with us, there's our friend, McKenna Baker, who used to live down the street from us.
My mom said that Olivia and I looked "shell-shocked" the whole time during the open house, and I have to admit that my first impressions of the school were kind of negative and I was very skeptical. It's not that I didn't like the school, I guess I was scared of going to an actual school for the first time. I guess I really don't like change. But now that I've had time to think about it, I'm curious about the school, everyone seemed nice, and I want to go back and check it out. It sounds kind of fun, it's just going to be different. But anyway, we'll know more after shadowing.
Oh, and I got the date wrong, Olivia and I are shadowing a week from this Tuesday!
I feel a little nervous about it. And another good thing! My dad says that we're not required to take P.E., he thinks, so I won't make a total fool of myself! Yay!
But we do have to wear uniforms, I have to wear khaki pants and a black or white shirt, which isn't that bad, but Olivia has to wear a black and red plaid skirt, she HATES plaid, and she's already thinking of ways to jazz it up a bit. Good thing they have Casual Fridays! Well, I'll write more about it after our shadowing day.

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