Blog # 1 Welcome Back to School: Junior Year!

And they're off!!

1) I want to do well in all of my classes as I have done in the past. I know I shouldn't be motivated by grades but that is almost all I ever think about. I want to make the grade. I want to impress collages ect... I plan to improve my critiquing skill and I want to learn to take critique better. I rarely feel the need to change things based on what my peers say. I plan on taking all honors classes so I hope that I can succeed in that. I know its ambitious but I'm going to do it anyways. I want to be challenged. In the past school work has been easy for me so this year I hope for more. I also would like to widen my vocabulary and perfect my spelling (spell check has made me lazy!).

2) In Humanities I would like to do a lot of reading. I also want to get away from the sad war novels and move on the the classics. If we don't in class I do plan to do it on my own! Once again I want to widen my vocabulary partially in preparation for the SAT and also just because it would be nice. I want to work on my creative writing skill because I love creative writing I would like to do a lot of that. I also would like to learn more about how to do research and turn it into a research paper because I know there are a lot of those in college and I would like to know what I am doing. I want to write loads of thesis's and improve on that too!

3) I am a natural leader. I don't know if I have ever done a project where I haven't taken on the leadership role. I don't choose it either. I am often told by my peers to be the leader or nobody else takes initiative so I do. As a camp councilor of course you are a leader. I use my time there to develop my patience which is often in short stock during the school year. I guess practice is the main way I develop that skill.

I am also a dancer. I have been dancing since I was 2 and I like to think that I am pretty good at it. I take classes during the school year and I love every second of it. Dancing is also a lot about the practice and also the final performance. The chance to show off to hundreds of people is definitely a big motivating factor in my drive to succeed in dance.