First period I was set to sub in a chemistry class. The teacher was actually there when I got there, she told them their assignment and I was basically just there to make sure they don't kill each other or cheat. The class was pretty small, and there was one football player who thought he was way too cool to be quiet or actually do his work. I just want to tell this kid, hey, it's going to end one day. You're not going to be popular in a year and then what are you going to do. But I refrained. He'll find out soon enough.

Second period I was again in the chemistry class but this time we met up with the class next day for Mole Day activities. I vaguely remember this from my time at MHS, but I was reminded today that a mole is 6.02 X 10^23. So to celebrate this magical number the classes did balloon races - popping them at the end, threw 23 pennies in a cup, and had a relay race where they had to carry a spoon in their mouth and transfer a bean from person to person via said spoon. I'm not sure what the point of all this was but it was fun and I got to be the official picture taker.

Then I had a two hour break where I came home and watched America's Next Top Model. Rae definitely shouldn't have been the one to go by the way.

I came back to school at 12:30 where I was assigned an hour duty at SAC. For those of you not familiar with Monahans' disciplinary practices, this is where the bad kids go. The kids who can't handle regular school. So for an hour I sat in a room with about 7 backs towards me, as the kids sat in little cubbies (cells) "doing work". I'm pretty sure the most work that got done in there was me reading a few pages in Ender's Game. These kids are seriously pretty scary. The first kid raised his hand to ask a question and as I'm walking over to him I just picture myself getting shanked. Luckily, no bloodshed occurred.

Sixth period I was assigned girls P.E. I got to the gym and there were no instructions whatsoever. There were a few balls lying in the corner so I decided we were playing four square. Only five girls were in the class and I couldn't believe it when they said they didn't know what four square was! Did you grow up in America? I quickly explained the rules, and quickly dominated all of them. This ended up being my favorite class, the girls were really fun and they kinda got into playing the game. It made me remember how much I missed four square.

Next I was on to a freshman English class. They were all working on research papers in the library so I pretty much just sat there and then went around talking to them a little about their papers. The assignment is a biography of a famous author and they all think their author is "soo boring" or "sooo hard". They have people like Edgar Allen Poe and Ernest Hemmingway. You kids are delusional. The only one who was cool was J.K. Rowling, but one girl said she wished she could do her paper on Stephanie Meyer. Gag.

Final period of the day was another English class and I was warned this one was bad. Turned out they really weren't. Their assignment was to practice making note cards for research papers, and they thought this was the hardest thing in the world. Because, you know, writing down the title, author and year published is really challenging.

Anyway, after a day in high school I've made a few observations. High school kids dress sloppy. It might just be because it was a Friday, but every kid there was wearing a sweat shirt of some kind. I'm not anti-sweat shirt in any way, but when you walk up to a big mass of people and their all wearing sweats it looks kinda sloppy. On the same note, high school in real life is nothing like high school on TV. I watch plenty of high school shows, Glee, 90210, Gossip Girl (Jenny's still in high school...), and those kids are a world apart from any of the kids I saw today. Those kids definitely dress a lot better than any of the ones I saw today, but more than that their lives just seem more interesting, more glamourous. Chalk that up to good writing and the fact that most of those actors are 20+. And finally, high school never changes. It just doesn't. The teachers are the same, the posters in the class room are the same and the students are the same. New faces every year, but still the same.