Looking Back

These last four years of high school went by so fast. I can still remember the first day of freshmen year and how scared and nervous I was. Senior year seemed like it would never come, but it did really fast. I still  remember looking up and thinking they looked so much older than us. I couldn’t wait to be a senior and be able to do everything they did. Now I am and I really don’t see how it is that much different from any other year. However I will miss a lot of things and I always will remember what high school was like.

One thing that I will miss is that the teachers probably won’t know me on a personal level anymore. The school work also will probably a lot harder and more time will need to be spent on doing it. I also think that I will miss not being a kid anymore. I think going to college you have to grow up, even if it’s only a little bit. You have to want to learn because teachers won’t be there pushing you to do it or give you a second chance to get it done.

Since freshmen year, I also have changed a lot. I didn’t know who I was. I kind of just followed everyone else and did what I thought was “cool”. I think now I know who I am and I do what I want to do. I don’t know when I figured out who I was, it just kind of happened through the years. I stopped caring so much about what other people think of me and I started to care what I though about me.

I think as the years went by I became more separated from the people that go to west. I had many friends throughout the years, but we would get in fights, grow apart or just begin to totally hate each other. That is one thing I regret. I wish I could be friends with everyone from freshmen year on. Now at the end of senior year I have came to the conclusion that there are only a couple of people I consider friends from West.  I think that a lot of other people feel the same way too, sadly.

I will miss West Seneca West SHS, but I am ready to move forward and begin a new chapter in my life. It is sad that it is already over and how I will probably never see a majority of these people again. It was fun while it lasted and overall high school was a great experience.

Jodi Picoult

I really love Jodi Picoult books. Every single one that I have read are super good. They really make you think. The endings are always unexpected and leave you wanting more.
As I read the books I always put myself in the characters shoes and ask myself, “What would I do?” I never have an answer because the situations are always so difficult and one way or another a charater is going to lose. I hate the endings because almost always I wish the ending could be different or I wish the book didn’t end there.
The first time I read one of the books was in junior year for English class. It was called, “My Sister’s Keeper”. I think that book is definitly my favorite. I could actually relate to that book and the ending was really unexpected. There is a quote from the book that I absoluely love. However I can’t find it anywhere. It talks about rain falling and how it’s just one big circle. I really don’t understand why I like it so much but it relates to the circle of life.
I am curently reading another Jodi Picoult book called, “Harvesting the Heart”. The book is really good, but I dont really understand it to well. The book starts off in the present, but then the rest of the chapters are flash backs.
I am not that far into it, but it seems as if the main character left her child and her husband. She wants to see the child but the dad won’t let her. I guess I have a lot of questions about that. Why won’t the dad let the mom see her own kid? I think I won’t know the answer to that towards the end. I think this ending is going to be really sad, but good as always.

French article

Today in french class we were learning about marriage in France. Apparently nobody gets married over in France, or at least it is uncommon. My teacher gave us an article and I just found it very interesting. Here is the article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/20/AR2006112001272.html

The article talked about how people move in together and have long term relationships before they get married. Sometimes they even have kids. It’s not that they object to marriage, they just don’t see the point in marriage because they think that being married doesn’t add or take away anything to their relationship. However they do have a Pac. It’s an agreement for people past boyfriend and girlfriend, but don’t want to be married. It still allows them to have rights together without being married. Also homosexual people can use this contract if it isn’t legal for them to marry.

I think we should have a Pac agreement in the United States too. That way homosexual people could still have rights and religious people could be happy too because they aren’t married.

Personally I don’t want to get married and even if I did I would just want to go to a court house and get it done and over with. I don’t want to be single for the rest of my life. I don’t mind being with one person I just don’t see the point in getting married. i mean what is the point in spending a ton of money on a wedding when there is a really good chance of getting divorced. It is a waste of money. I would rather take that money and go on a really nice vacation.

That is just my feelings towards marriage. My parents got divorced and I seen how it ruined them financially and emotionally and what it did to me and my sister. If you don’t get married you can’t get divorced and it would be a lot cheaper if you separated. I really agreed with the article and wish the U.S. could be more like France.

SubShop

Amy update:
Amy is actually being nice to me for some odd reason. I still hate her though because she will probably end up hating me again. I really thinks she should get fired because her work ethics suck!

Anyways Wegmans decided that they were going to start being really strict on following rules. I absolutely hate rules that really aren’t needed and are pointless. I can never follow all of them I mean there is always something I am doing wrong.
Here are some of the new rules:
1. Always make sure your shirt is tucked in.
2. Your name tag must be on the left side of your shirt at all times. Not on your hat.
3. You can’t put keep the knives in sanitizer, they must be kept in a seperate container and then you dip them in the sanitizer.
4. Your apron must be clean at all times.
5. You must cut the sub in a black container that makes the slices even because it’s dangerous to cut the subs without when all we use is butter knives.
6. If you don’t use the boards then you have to use a cutting glove.
The two rules that bother me the most are 5 and 6. It takes so much longer to make a sub and blus the cutting containers are disgusting. Also food saftey isn’t good because you are cutting tuna subs with turkey subs with veggie and cheese subs. There is so much cross contamination. If any customer is allergic to seafood or anything, there is a very good chance there is going to be a reaction.
Me and my friend Amanda came up with a not so brilliant idea, to write a customer comment and complain. We did this because the only people Wegmans listens to is the customers. Well some how they kind of found out it was us. So basically we just screwed ourselves over. Now we have to use a seperate container for just tuna and it takes even longer. We were trying to eliminate the containers or just come up with a better idea then the container. Not just make things harder for us.
Wegmans seriously doesn’t consider any employee ideas for what to do. They favor customers over us in most if not all situations and its rediculous. Employees should be better heard and there thougts should be considered because we are also customers.
I really want to quit because I didn’t apply for the scholarship and I really have no reason to stay. They don’t even pay that good. Plus a whole bunch of other people quit so its just not the same. I hate working there and it just keeps getting worse.
We just got a new boss too. She is okay but I miss Beth. Beth was so easy to talk to and it wasn’t awkward, but Kim it’s just always awkward and weird. I mean it’s just uncomfortable to work with her. She is a nice person and everything. I don’t know….

AP Art

Freshmen year I asked to join the art academy. I was like okay that sounds fun, but I kind of wanted to do the Academy of Education too. So I applied for both and interviewed for both. I got accepted into both too. So I decided to do the Academy of Visual Arts (AVA) because my teacher was really pushing it.That was a really stupid decision.

Sophomore year you go into enriched drawing and painting. That was fun and a very relaxed class. If projects weren’t done he would just extend the due date. If we needed help he would sit down and show us a.k.a. doing it. Plus no matter how bad or good it was you always got a good grade.

Junior year was okay. It was a lot more work and a lot harder. It was back to doing still lives, which me and everyone else hate. Mostly because there is no room for creativity and a lot of room for error. Oh and there were due dates we actually had to follow and a lot harsher grading. Oh and at the end of year for our final exam we had to put a portfolio together with 12-15 pieces, all matted works. Matting a piece of art could take anywhere from 20 minutes to two hours.

I didn’t mind putting in the time and effort because I really enjoyed art and plus I didn’t have a life. Art was the one class I looked forward to. I put in a lot of time and effort into my work and they were pretty good.

At the end of the year he started talking to us about AP. He gave us three summer assignments and said to do more if you can. I was like okay that sounds easy enough I can even maybe do four. Yeah that deffinitly didn’t happen. I went on two vacations, worked two jobs and absolutely had no time for these projects. Some time during the summer I totally lost interest and wanted nothing to do with art.

As the year went on it only got worse.You basically need a project done in a week to two weeks. Yeah impossible, between work, school and friends I just don’t have the time or make the time. I really don’t care about the class and I basically hate it now. It’s so much work and it’s not like any other AP class. This one is way more time consuming. If you count the hours spent on a good successful piece. It can be anywhere from 20 to 80 (including class time).