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Homework =S
Hi! It’s been a long time since I don’t write because I’ve been on vacation. Sadly, I have one more week left and then torture will start. I don’t totally dislike school because you get to see your friends and after a while of being in vacation I get bored, but I don’t like homework. I really don’t see the point in teachers leaving us homework. I mean, they say that its for us to practice on our own, but we can practice during class. Also homework is not good for our health because sometimes we need to stay up late and we barely get some sleep. Then the next, morning you can fall asleep during a class which bring us to more problems. You might get punished or teachers will call your attention and if there’s homework left abut the lesson you missed then you have to figure it out at home or ask a classmate for help. So mainly, for me, that my number one torture from school, specially because I am one of those persons who leave things for the last minute. Instead of doing homework on weekends, I hang out with friends. I sometimes try to do my homework, but once you get online on MSN a Saturday, friends start talking to you and inviting you to go somewhere. So then you’re attention is drawn from your homework to the computer leaving your homework behind. I know I shouldn’t turn on the computer before finishing my homework, but watching my computer just sitting there is tempting because you know that the computer has way more interesting stuff then a sheet of paper with math equations has. So then after a tiring, entertaining and fun day of hanging out with my friends I go to sleep. The next morning I wake, open my eyes, and its probably like 7 a.m. since I’m used to school sleeping and waking up schedule, but then I remember that today is Sunday. Part of myself tells me to get out of bed and carry myself to my desk to advance my homework so I have less homework during the week. On the other hand, the other part me tells me that is Sunday and Sundays to me mean resting day. I could say this decision takes less then a second to be made. You probably already know the answer and of course I choose to keep sleeping, so I close my eyes and then suddenly find myself disconnected from my surroundings. The rest of day goes by the same way, you know, “resting” which means watching t.v., being in the computer, or reading. The next thing I know my weekend has gone so fast and the week has started. During the next days I find myself with a cup coffee at night that helps me stay awake to be able to finish up. Really, part of my torture is my own very fault because of the decisions I made, but then again none of this would’ve happened if teachers wouldn’t leave homework at all. Of course, they won’t ever stop giving us homework because they like to see our expressions when we get an “F” on the homework that took all night to finish. Sometimes they find funny our confused looks on our face, but really all we want to do as soon the bell rings is get up, go to trash can, and throw it away. We don’t want to ever see that homework again because it took away our time to be doing something fun. The moment we’re crumpling our paper into a small ball ready for it to be thrown away, your teacher comes by telling you that you should keep it to help you study for a test. Then I look at the paper and think to myself, “ How can I concentrate on this piece of paper that will help me studying for a test when all I can really concentrate is on the big red “F” that is written at the top corner of my homework?. But we, as students obey and just take the ball and shove it deep into our backpack hoping you nobody sees it. You had a terrible non-sleeping week and besides that you know that you got an “F” on your assignment, but you’re happy because its Friday and you get to hang out with friends. You call your mom to ask for permission and she flatly says no. You argue with her and ask her why and then of course you didn’t have to wait for her answer you already knew why. It was the big, fat “F” you got and you start to wonder how she knows about it, but that doesn’t really matter what it does is that she knows and you’re grounded. Homework just brings us problem and yet teachers keep giving us more. Okay, I got to admit sometimes they do help us out, but we, students, just hate it.
Weaving
There are many ways to create artwork. One of them is weaving. Every time the bell rings at 11:30 a.m I head to one of the farthest classroom in our school, the Art class. There are several activities to be completed throughout the quarter during this class. Each grade learns different things and techiniques. Sometimes we have free time and we can do what we like, such as drawing or painting, but we usually stay focus on our learning and do projects. Right now, this quarter, every time I get to this class I get my work which is a needle and string and you go up and down to form a drawing, this is called weaving. All we have done so far are two projects. The first one was easier. We had three colors and two strings from each. At first, when I passed a round I noticed how tight my strings were. My teacher told me that it was because I was putting too much tension on my weaving, so I loosen up, but made sure that they weren’t too lose. When I finished I notice a pattern. This pattern created a wearable oject, such as a braclet or a belt. Now I am working on a project that was assigned to us, but it is more challenging. First, you create a design on a piece of paper. I decided to do a palm tree in an island. We had to pick at least four colors. Then you paste it into a cardboard and then set it up. It gets kind of tiring because all you do is weave and it’s suppose to be relaxing, but I just get bored. I guess I have no choice because if you chose an elective you’re to do what your told and the teacher won’t change an activity just because you don’t like it.
