Prettyinpinks' Blog

I am so overwhelmed right now!!

I just had a meeting at school--I'm signed up to take the most rigorous class the school has to offer . . . on top of two other APs . . . on top of full schedule . . . on top of a college resume, application, essay, etc, etc, etc.

Oddly enough, the problem here is that there's nothing I don't like to do!  Aside from standard school subjects, which overall I like (with math being the exception, depending on what we're learning), there's a TON of other stuff that I love to do!  I don't know how I'm going to be able to drop some of this stuff so I have enough time for the most intense year of school I've ever taken!

1. Basketball/volleyball.  Being part of a team is an experience I don't ever want to lose.  Basketball is one of those things that is so deeply engrained that if I end up having to drop from the team, it's going to be a huge, huge blow.
2. Photography.  There's something about getting the perfect shot.
3. Animals.  I volunteer at the zoo and stables regularly.  I love the people there, I love working with horses and parrots and kangaroos and emus and alligators and snakes and penguins.
4. World events.  I've toyed with the idea of going into international relations, I want to do something to help global warming, I want to help ease world hunger.
5. Writing.  I write stuff on facebook and people sometimes message me individually, saying that they really like the way I present things and the language I use get my point across.  It's almost like an art.  Okay, it is an art.  Speaking of which . . .
6. Art.  Glassblowing, painting, sculpting, drawing, you name it, I like it.
7. Languages.  I don't do it extensively but knowing how words originated in Latin or became changed, or how the Spanish and English and French and Italian languages merge together, all the way down to Cockney slang spoken in east Lodon and how names were "Americanized" when immigrants came to Ellis Island--it's intriguing.
8. Filmaking.  Not like whole length movies, but stuff like news reports or five minute Peace Corps vidoes or things like that--just the timing of the clips, the sounds, the text--the way all of those things work together in well-made clips is just amazing.

So I'm taking three AP courses, three electives, and two miscellaneous courses, on top of all of this, on top of church, plus family/friend stuff . . .

Oh yeah, and somewhere in there I have to eat and sleep.

Who said highschool was the best four years of your life?