Friday, August 8, 2014 "Sophomore Registration? Could'a Been Better."

Friday, August 8, 2014
Week: Summer
Songs to Remember: 2014Point1 - SHIMMIXES

        My friend was like "I barely know anybody here" and I'm like "But everybody here's a sophomore" and he's like "Well, anybody that I actually talk to" and I'm like "Yeah. Me too".

        After waking up at 8:30 AM, I made sure I looked pretty spiffy. It's been about a week and a half since I got my haircut so I approaching that phase where I'm like "Damn my hair is good". I wanted my school picture to be so good. I used moisturizers, toners, like everything to make sure my face is as perfect as possible, like a Disney character.

        In the car ride to the school, I was practicing my smile over and over again. I don't think I smiled that many times since, forever. When I got to the school as I was like "Well, whatever", and started walking towards the large gym, where the registration's taking place at. I noticed how like, half the school was blocked off with fences with like, security guard dudes.

        Then this security guard dude was like "Hey, where are you going? Are you with the band?" and I'm like "No, I'm a sophomore" and he's like "Are you here for the registration" and I'm like "Yep" and he's like "You need to go to the parking lot near the back and in the front of the large gym" and I'm like "Oh okay, thanks". I walked the same route I took last year when going from my 3rd period drawing class to 4th period Digital Art class, back in the first semester.

        And I was like "Well, this is sorta what feels like to be back at school again. Lots and lots of walking". Seriously, I used to get about 70% of my exercise everyday by just walking to my classes. Anyways, I went to the front of the gym after walking through like 1/3 of the school, and I looked at the line and I was like "Hmm, not bad." The line was WAY shorter than last year's and my friend was probably correct in how last year's line was so long was because how we were all freshmen and we didn't know what we were doing. Or almost everyone came early, either way, the line was short today.

        Even though it was kinda short, the registration would take a while so I called my mom to let her know it was gonna take... a while. So I got in line and right after I got in line, one of my friends was there and we were... talking I guess. I didn't really know what to talk about so I was like "Oh, what classes do you have, uhh math, uuuhh strict teachers, uhh games". My first thought when he was standing next to me in line was "Aww f*** he's taller than me, I'm short as s***".

        And of course with some of friends, standing about 10 people away from me, was Ez. There's more people I saw. When we got inside for the registering and all that, here's how it goes:

        There's tables set up in rows (this was kinda different from last year, I think) and it's like a procedural process. You go to the first row of tables where a person checks your paperwork, mostly the "Emergency Card" thing, which is basically a form for the school to go off of in case of, well, emergencies. She filed some of my papers (not all of them) and my friend and I moved on to the next set of tables.

        Uhh, we filled out a slip of paper for our student ID's there, then we just stood in this line for the pictures. This one girl asked us if we had these 2 slips of papers, one of em' which was supposed to be our student ID info slip (got that), the other was an info slip for the picture. Since we didn't get the info slip for the picture, we had to go to this other table and they gave us it, alphabetically organized, that is. The people helping out were like, staff or seniors by the way.

        So, we're near the lines (separate lines for picture taking. There were like 5 photographers, with lines for each of them, to make it faster. That's the best way I can explain it) for the picture-taking, and I see a bunch of people I know, not ones I talk to, but people I know. I saw Mq, Tn, and Ez there too. As my friend and I were waiting in this one line for our turn for the picture-taking, my friend was like "I barely know anybody here" or something like that. And I'm like "But everybody here's a sophomore" and he's like "Well, anybody that I actually talk to" and I'm like "Yeah. Me too".

        As I was saying (I forgot what I was going to say), I was checking to make sure my hair was good and practicing my smile. I was watching how this one dude in front of me go take a picture and the photographer was like "Okay, stand on the lines, arms down, relaxed, thumbs in your pockets, in a fist, no in a fist, back straight, and smile" and I'm like "Oh my god", like, how can someone be relaxed when you're putting them in a store mannequin-like position.

        And you can't even see people's bodies anyway on the student ID (it's just a headshot). Also, barely people buy the pictures 'cause it's expensive. Also not many frame photographs anymore, they just upload it to Instagram. When it was my turn, the photographer told me to stand on the lines, there were 2 lines on the ground, a red one and a blue one, I'm not sure what the different was. Then she had to physically pull my arms down (even thought they were already down) and told me to be relaxed and I'm just thinking "No I'm not going be relaxed, you're posing me like a mannequin, I don't know how to smile, and I've got one try to get my picture perfect, or at least decent".

        She told me to smile, I smiled as best as I could, going with the teeth-showing by the way, and she took the picture. I went over to the printer place wait for my ID card to print, where I saw Tn there. She sees me next to her and pretends to look somewhere else. I'm just like "Oh for f***'s sake, is this how it's going to be?" She got her ID card and left and I got mine. I look at my picture and I'm like "Ehhhh, not bad. Could'a been better. Not liking the smile though".

        The picture's fine, hair's fine, glasses fine (I was debating whether I should had the picture be with or without my glasses and I just chose glasses), eyes fine, but my smile (teeth-showing was an okay decision), it's like I'm smiling but I'm not smiling. But all in all, definitely better than all my other school pictures combined.

        Oh, and also the staff people at the tables gave us these pink paper slips for our lockers and it's different from last year, 'cause we had lockers assigned to us, like on a computer. You give them your filled-out locker paper and they look up your name and then you're given a locker. If someone were to take it, as in put a lock on your locker, their lock would get cut if you complain to the office. By the way, my school is outdoors, it's not indoors, there's different buildings for our classes, rather than one giant connected building. Also our lockers are not the big, human-sized lockers, they're about the same size as a safe, big enough to barely fit our textbooks in. And, we have to use our own locks.

        So anyways, this year, we get to choose our own lockers. I mean, why do we have to have assigned lockers anyway? I read it on the pink slip of paper and I was like "Oooh baby, we get to pick our own lockers". We're supposed to choose a locker on the first day of school and put a lock on it. Then we got to fill out our info at the bottom of the paper and return it to the library to reserve our locker.

        My locker place was nice, about 50% of the time. It was in a good enough area where I didn't have to walk through the whole school to reach it, but it was like, an inch from the ground, so I always had to kneel far down to use it, and there's a lot of dirty stuff on the ground. I could pick the same place as last year's (but high from the ground), or, I could go see if I could put my locker next to Vt's and be like "Oh hey, we both picked lockers next to each other" or something like that. Probably gonna pick the same place but higher again.

        Aaand, that was the registration. I was hoping to get some rest today after that, but nope. I had to go tutor at the library today and thank goodness this was the last day. Not that I don't like helping kids, but I'm sitting there for 3 hours staight; it gets kinda tiring after a while. Today my buddy didn't show up. He didn't tell me until after I messaged him. Apparently he's going to "K-Con", which is like, a convention about all things Korean I guess. I have no idea what it's about.

        I was with my other buddy and like, 4 other kids at our table. There was no tutoring today however, instead, it supposed to be like a closing ceremony, which meant LOTS and LOTS of speeches and I'm just like "Uuuuuggghhhhhh" and the kids were like "Uuuuuuugggghhhhh" and we're all just like "Uuuuuuuuggggghhhhhh". One after another, we had to sit and try not to talk while we listen to "We have a special guest today, person from an organization we've never heard of". There were so many speeches made by like, 6 dudes (except for one) whom we've never heard of from Californian organizations we've never heard of.

        Also, there were way too many award certificates. We had to listen to them give out certificates to everyone, from tutors, to the kids. People even stopped clapping because it was so tiring and boring. After about 2 and a half hours of hearing speeches, clapping, and names being read, they finally let us have the pizza and cake. Thank the lord for the bazillion Costco pizza boxes of pizza.

        Then it was the end of the whole thing, I took a few pictures of the kids I tutored and it was basically it. One of the kids I tutored could talk even better than me, like, she was in the 2nd grade or something and even her talking is so social, I could feel it.

        I'll miss those little rascals, hopefully they'll be at the library for tutoring next year. Anyways, that was basically what happened today. Tutoring? Ehhhh. Sophomore registration? Could'a been better. So uh, I'll be playing some League of Legends with my buddies (sorry for mentioning League) sooo see you tomorrow.