Non Productive Summer Blues
Has anyone really realized what the date is?! It’s August 18, 2008. A thought suddenly came to me this morning while I was tapping my foot along to the beat of Coldplay’s Viva La Vida and racking my brains for yet another blog entry topic. I began the entry with the date, as always, but then it hit me, completely out of the blue.
September 2nd, the very much anticipated date (ha!) for us high school students is fast approaching. September 2nd has seemed to be closer and closer every day as I cross off each date on my wall calendar with a bright red marker. However, it didn’t fully register until this morning that once we’ve surpassed this date, the frenzy begins once again. The long nights of homework, the endless cups of coffee, and the numerous bruises on both arms resulting from the self inflicted pinches used to keep ourselves awake.
So what have I done this summer? As I reflect upon this question I realize that I have done absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Hopefully your summer has been much more productive than mine; the highlight of my sunny, tedious days has been the weekly hour in which I get to sit down and pour out my emotions into a Toronto Public Library blog entry.
And then it finally dawned on me that no summer activities will definitely equal a big fat zero on the next “what I did during the summer” essays for my language lessons, namely Spanish and French. I’ve never enjoyed dictating my summer schedules to my teachers, and I am certainly not looking forward to doing it again this year.
Of course, I’ll figure something out eventually. At least, I aspire to do so eventually.
I trust that your summer has been an extremely entertaining one, and as always, this is the one, cheerful reminder about that date looming 15 days ahead -the horrors of returning to high school. Somehow, I feel comforted by the fact that 15 days later I’ll be sitting at a desk with a gum covered bottom, dragging my pen across my notebook while trying to make my notes neat, and renewing my brain with newfound knowledge. Back to using the ol’ noggin!
And if any of you are looking for a good book to make yourself dread going back to school even more, try Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie (David Lubar); it depicts our high school life in an amazingly sarcastic perspective.
Wishing you all the best of luck as September comes up, and hoping that none of you have lost your skill in maneuvering high school hallways, specifically the ones where students enjoy misusing cologne.
Sharon, 14
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