Early Mornings
My 6:30 shifts are usually on Fridays but this week I’m working the Saturday morning shift as well because I had to swap with someone so I could go home early last week to hang out with the cousins. These shifts have got to be the worst. Unless I’m catching up on my tv online(which I took care of yesterday), the morning goes by so slowly. With the amount of work I have piled up this semester, there just isn’t any time for homework during commercial breaks. Of course there’s always homework to attack during my morning shift… but I figured why not start the first entry of my blog instead? 311 says it best- There’s always an excuse when you need one. However, I did finish reading this chapter book for one of my classes. Every now and then we get to choose from a list of elementary chapter books that reflect a type of literature we’re learning in class. So far, I’ve read Esperanza Rising, The Hatchet(which I read back in the day, but I just wanted to read it again), Holes, A Corner of the Universe, and I just finished Number the Stars when I got here this morning. I feel like a kid sometimes, but I don’t care, these books are great. Takes me back to the old days when I used to read for fun and actually enjoyed it. We talked about this in my lit class. After a while, reading became a bore because it was always assigned reading that came with essays and such. At least that’s how I got pulled away from it. I went through this period where I hated reading books of all sorts. No idea why, I just preferred watching movies and tv. Nowadays, inching my way through the eled program, in between all nostalgia that comes with the children’s book analysis, I can actually pick up a book to read for fun. Strange, I know, but quite the breakthrough for me. Anyways, time to push aside the excuses and get to the studies. Hopefully I’ll be back to write in not too long.
October 25, 2008 9:05 am 2 Comments
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By mim, October 25, 2008 @ 7:07 pm
omg you’re blogging! And reading! :p
By Leaf, October 25, 2008 @ 9:56 pm
I like reading kids books too! Holes was great. And when is Harry Potter going to be part of the curriculum eh? Or is that “witchcraft”? Although if they did make Harry Potter required, the essaying and analyzing would ruin it.