When is spring break again?

I am already sick of school. I am over it. D-O-N-E.

This year my school decided that they were going to do a program that is an elective at public schools around Florida. Only it's not an elective at my school. We have no electives this year. Thankfully I am in Spanish II, so next year I can decide to go into Spanish III, double up on math, or -GASP- take an elective like art.

The title of our textbook (which most of us didn't know about) is Learn to Learn: Part 1.

So you're telling me there are more parts to this?!

The whole idea of the class is to learn different ways to study and such. There are 10 parts to the course. I am supposing that each part goes over a specific way to study. We need to get at least a 70% on each part to be able to pass the course so we won't have to take it over summer or next year.

Best part is that this is the only year my school is doing this. They didn't do it last year, and they are not doing it next year. It also counts as one of our elective credits. I could have been taking art and it would count the same amount: 1/2 of a credit.

I was always the real defiant child growing up. I was one of the most well behaved kids in my class, but I've never like when things I deemed 'redundant' were taught in the lesson plans. One of those things has always been reading out loud in class. I've always been an excellent reader. When it came to reading out loud, though, I was and still am one of the worst.

My mind reads faster than my lips can move. Take this for an example: "Jack took the ball and threw it for his dog." My mind would be on 'threw' when my lips would be on Jack. So while I read, I stutter and mispronounce common words. I have always read the way I read in my mind: fast. That usually doesn't translate well into the spoken language.

Studying is another thing that I think is redundant to study. By high school, everyone usually has their own way of studying and are not likely to change it if it works for them. I would also rather not have grades and be tested on ways to study that may not work for me. It's not that I would have any problem picking the techniques up. It's just that there is the one little part of me that goes "This is really freaking stupid; I'm not going to do it." I know for my own good that I have to pass this course, but I feel like I'm doing something bad because of that little part of me.

Lovely first day back, eh?