Deadly Soapbox

The first week's always the hardest, isn't it?

You're having such a wonderful time in the summer holidays, before school creeping up behind you and pummeling your fun with a timetable-jackhammer, with holiday-juice splattering everywhere. Not a pretty image, I know. But it happened.

I think I've got the Back to School Blues. The first week of school's just ended, and it felt like a freakin' lifetime. I REALLY hope it's just the first week that's going to be this boring -_-

Virtually every lesson consisted of getting new books, the teachers explaining things everybody has already learned and knows, and me pretending to listen while actually doodling in the book I just got.

Not only that, but our new headteacher's a prick (excuse my French). He's making all these stupid changes that do nothing but anger the students. I'm only gonna list a few here, just so you get an idea.

He wasted loads of money on stupid gates that close after a certain time, and you'd have to "ring the bell" if you're late, which is going to happen a lot more now that we have to arrive at school earlier.

The timetable is now over two weeks, so you'd have one set of lessons one week, and another set for the next week. I dunno, I just find that completely pointless. Unless that point would be confusion.

Another thing. I've been made a prefect. I was all excited about it last year, but it's actually REALLY boring. You waste half your lunchtime opening doors for people and enforcing rules that you don't even understand. Sometimes I just feel like a glorified doorstop. As if that wasn't enough, we have to PAY for the silver prefect tie. It's not that I don't have the money, it's just wrong that they're making us pay for helping the school out. So I decide to buy it. Only problem is, the teacher's never around to sell it to me, and I still don't have it.

So yeah. School's been sucky so far. But it can only improve from here, right? "Actually, it just gets harder, and more stressful." DAMN YOU!