Basically anyone I talk to in P.E. knows that I think they work us too hard. I complain about it too much. But since I have a voice, I use it... and out comes what I think of most during P.E.


For example, the other week, when it was sunny without a single cloud in the sky, NO wind, and when you first got out "It's too hot for us to be out here", then when you finally get out on the track "It already feels like I've run a mile", that day was a fitness day.

One cross country track, then one regular lap where we could get water, then another cross country track. We had to do that in under 20 minutes, or all our day's points would be taken off. I almost raised my hand to say "That's stupid", but it was too hot. When I finished the first lap, Boothby told me I might want to pick it up, or I might not make it. I got water. As I was doing the track lap, I was thinking... I KNEW I wasn't going to make it. It was too freaking hot. I had a headache from the feeling of my brain sizzling like an egg. I'm not quite sure, but I started to cry, and I did try to hold it back, but it didn't quite work. I got to the end of that lap, and told Boothby that I gave up. I knew I wasn't going to make it. I was going to get knocked down 5 points anyway.


Then the other day. We did lunges before the 6-6-6 (6 min. run, break, 6 min., break, 6 min.), and I am STILL sore. Well, of course, now, I have to blame it on today's run... 18 minutes continously, level ground, outside, no water, sun, and the other class TAUNTING us with their walking.



Earlier I had a BRILLIANT idea. I googled "too much exercise", and I found a VERY nice article with symptons of over-exercising:

Your performance level is going down — lower, slower, weaker
You have lost some coordination
It takes longer to recover
Your heart rate is elevated when you wake up in the morning
You have more frequent headaches
Your muscles tend to stay sore and tender
You have more frequent upset stomach
You become ill more often
You feel depressed or discouraged
It is hard to motivate yourself
You don't feel very good about yourself


If you *somehow* would like to see the whole page, click here.

I so want to print out the page and shove it into Boothby's face... but... I dunno....

Lately I've been wondering about school and how much work we do. How much we have to go through. How much time we have to waste. Six hours down the drain learning near to nothing.

When the teachers tell us to stop talking, I always want to say that we're working on our social skills. I mean, it's more important than what we're supposed to be doing. Seriously.

The part of the day that I look most forward to is after the bell rings. That's when I see everyone. That's when I actually have fun. That's when I socialize. That's when everyone comes together. One of the best events of my day is watching Kevin, Oliver, and Chris "playing". I think that some of the teachers think they're fighting at first sight, but they're not. Oliver jumps on people's backs (people that he knows well), Kevin gets attacked, and Chris is just the topping of it all. He doesn't do much, but it still makes them the Oddball Three. I came up with that name today, seeing Kevin with Oliver on his back as Chris told Kevin to fall on his back.


Awhile back, in the girl's locker room, we were talking about how we were so smart and how we should get paid for being so smart (I have no clue how we got on that subject). Today, I started thinking about what we have to go through for school. How we waste so much time gaining so little. Then I started thinking that... you know what? We should get paid for just going to school. It'd keep teenagers in school. It'd be worth the money.

I don't get an allowance. I don't get money from relatives or family for getting good grades. I don't get relatives that say "Hey, if you do this, I'll get you a new phone", etc.


So I was thinking we should get paid for doing what we have to do. It gets hard for me to do something that I hate doing. Maybe, just maybe, if I get paid for doing it, I'd try doing it better. I mean... really. We should get paid for staying in school/doing well. It makes sense.

Teenagers have to go through hormones, moodswings, peer pressure, love triangles, family problems, relationship problems, broken hearts... life gets hard as it is, and putting tests and homework on top of it makes it worse. Then people start thinking that you're depressed and you need help when you just need to get away from EVERYTHING, and no one understands. Shrinks just put you on anti-depressants. Then if we want to get money, we have to get a job, which just wastes more time, making everything even worse.


And teachers think they have it bad....