I'm in summer school. That sucks.
It's now been nearly three weeks since summer was snatched away from me, which means that I only have to endure another week and a half before I'm free to frolic in the summer sun. In the meantime, though, I must endure.
To be fair, summer school really isn't too bad. Each and every day I'm making new friends, getting to know people, and getting used to the idea that summer is, for me, shortened. I get to do gym all day, and when I'm home I can work on a short story I'm planning to send to a competition. Life is good.
Well, except for CALM.
Oh, career and life management. Thy name is CALM, and thy belief is in torture. Nobody likes you.
For those of you who don't know, CALM is basically health class with some actually useful shit thrown in- namely resumes and managing your finances.
Now, I have conflicting feelings on CALM. On one hand, it's pretty damn boring. We've already heard a lot of the material, and the new stuff gets old quite quickly. On top of that, some of their classes send mixed message, and I'm starting to think that my school wants me to do drugs.
A few days ago, a guest speaker came in and gave the usual spiel on drugs and avoiding them. That's fine, I suppose. Drugs do seem like a pretty bad idea. Soon enough, though, the dude left and we were sent back to our classrooms. There, we were given a worksheet on drugs. We were to choose four drugs, and then answer some questions about them. Most were usual questions like "what does the drug do?," but others were a lot like this;
1. What are the street names of ? Okay, I suppose I can see how that might be useful.
2. How is made? Umm... okay. Why do we need to know how drugs are made? Do you expect us to be making them? What are you getting at here?
3. Describe how is taken (Smoked, injected, snorted...?). Wait, what? Why do we need to know how to take drugs? What are you trying to teach us?
So the first thing CALM taught me was how to roll marijuana into a cigar and smoke it. Great job your doing there, school.
On the other hand, CALM does seem like one of the few potentially useful classes that I'm taking. Resumes and budgeting might be important in the future, I suppose.
Unfortunately, my teacher doesn't seem to think so. A true gym teacher at heart who was forced into teaching CALM, he basically said "CALM's boring, so here's what we're going to do. First, we're going to skip most of the curriculum and just do the basics. That way we'll do it in half of the time everyone else is doing it in. We can use that extra time to go to gym class. Also, you guys should feel free to copy off each other. That way you can learn to work together."
So basically, fitness is more important then getting a job and my teacher is encouraging us to cheat. Something seems weird there.
Still, I don't mind too much. It will be nice to get it done with. In the meantime, though, we're supposed to finish CALM tomorrow, so... gotta run to my homework!
Thanks for reading,
-Mark
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