Cross Country Training

The first hints of school has already begun: orientation, buying school supplies, getting our schedule... I have mixed feelings. I know I will lose my freedom and stress-free days as summer ends, but with the start of high school, there will be many new experiences.

I joined the cross-country club of my school. There are meets every day after school, and the running demands effort and time. Am I ready for the commitment?

School Life Diary

Dear Diary,

Welcome to my humble abode,
The window to my life.
Look within, and gaze upon the
sorrows
joys
and everything in between.

September 1st

The moment I step in,
I knew my vacation was over,
Here comes my personal hell.

Inside, I see so many others,
Were they shaking on the inside--Like me?
Inside my clammy palms,
Is my list of tortures to follow,

First Period: PE
Second Period: Science
Third Period: History
Fourth Period: Yearbook
Fifth Period: Math
Sixth Period: English

School, here I come.

PE

Clothes to wear,
Rules to follow,
Passed out like candy to children.

Teacher introduces self,
Students follow,
Hello, nice to meet you,
Lies, all.

Science
We walk in,but we don't sit down--
--inertia: what is in motion,stays in motion,
unless acted on by outside force--

We keep on walking,
No outside force,
Teacher is helpless.

History

I walk in,
Toward my own demise,
Walking corpse,
Like Pickett's charge.

I see the teacher,
Laughing, teasing,
Custer's last stand.

Yearbook

We are the crew who creates,
The book of the school,
I will have much to add,
My life, my voice.

My crew within the crew,
A friend,
An enemy,
One in the middle.

Lunch

A maelstrom, a storm,
An amalgam of rush, hunger,
And hurry.

Hurry, to the line,
Or face starvation.

Math
A personal hell,
Within hell,
What could be worse?

The teacher is sharp,
Has a calculating face,
I'm in for a ride,
And that isn't a hyperbola.

(see note)

English

The moment I enter,
I see I am alone,
In the corner of the room.

Others know others,
No others know me,
Like 'ain't' surrounded by good grammar.
Ain't that right?

Afterschool

A solitary friend,
I single out of the crowd,
We are two lone wolves,
Birds of feather.

We find comfort in each other,
Knowing we are alone in the crowd,
But not alone in each other.

Home

After turmoil of school,
Do I find oasis in my own house?
No, for school has followed me,
In the guise of homework.

Piles and piles,
Unfitting for a first day,
Threatening to drag me under,
Unless I fish myself out.

Note
Hyperbola: A graph (drawing)
Hyperbole: A figure of speech that exaggerates something

Note from ze Author: THIS IS STRICTLY FICTIONAL. But there might be a few allusions...

Maze of School

Click on image for better view. ;)

Vacation (to students)

Vacation comes and goes,
Like a pass of breeze,
Erasing all your woes,
Until it leaves.

Sometimes I wonder if vacation is helpful--in the long run. Of course, during the duration of the vacation, you are in bliss, happiness and without worries of homework, teachers, tests... etc. But, there are long term effects. After a week or so of total relaxation *school is going to come back harder than before, and unready you will fall, and slowly climb back up.

*But not totally, for the nagging feel of the coming end still resonates.