Sunday, January 18, 2009

Hurray For Snow Days?!?

First of all I would like to say that if I were a senior, I would have much different views on all of the snow days we have had recently.
You would think that every high school student would be happy about the lack of school due to winter related problems, I for one am not. We've missed five days of school so far, and we are going to make them up, that fact is quite sour for me. I am one of those people who absolutely hates winter and would much rather be inside a warm building learning rather than participating in the winter ritual of snow shoveling (or blowing if you are lucky enough to have a snow blower).
Therefore, I actually like going to school during the winter versus going to school in the summer. In the winter I have far less social activities I would like to attend than in the summer. For Example, a group of my friends went sledding this past week on one of the snow days. I happen to hate sledding, it is cold, wet, and just quite unpleasant when you have cold air blasted into your face as you travel down a hill. I obviously skipped out on that adventure, but if it were summertime and I had been asked to go jet skiing or bodysurfing, I would have been all in because it's warm, fun, and I have plenty of sun exposure to work on that amazing tan of mine that lasts for most of the winter if I get dark enough.
Summertime is also my vacationing time, I was planning to go to Europe right after school ended, but now that the new school makeup days have decided to cut into my vacation time, I have to either ditch school on those days and break my perfect attendance record/take my finals early, or push my vacation back to the next available time that works for me, in early August.
Oh and then there is the thing about the seniors, which is totally stupid, but I will totally dig next year. They don't have to make up all of the snow days, because the graduation date is already set for them, this really pisses us juniors off because this was a year with a lot snow days and we totally envy that. Next year we probably won't have any snow days and we will walk around sulking the entire time, because that's just the way it works, luck is not in the favor of my class.

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