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LOL, "Hot Topic with nerd clothes". I wish we had a store like that in Washington, sounds fun.
Mythology is definitely fascinating. And you mostly hear about Greco-Roman and Egyptian mythology, but there's lots of fun stuff which came from the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, too. Roman mythology is, geographically, from the same place as the Greek stuff, but later in time--so they took a lot of it and changed some names, and then added their own stories.

Violent fairy tales are the best biggrin Filled with the magic of fantasy, but without the fluffiness of...well, less interesting stories, lol. In fanfiction terms, stuff like the Denarian series and the Stranger triolgy.

Awww those classes sound so fun! I took boring stuff like "American Literature and US History" block and "World Studies and World History" ...
I'd suggest Creative Writing, actually, because it's good to get a general foundation for writing skills in general before Uni, where all the classes are very specific. Classics of Science Fiction sounds so fun D: I'm so jealous~!

Errr they're both fanfiction for Harry Potter, some of my favorites. The Denarian series is by Shezza88 (completed), and the Stranger trilogy (incomplete, abandoned though he says it isn't) is by Jono, or Serpant-Sorcerer on ffnet.

I've never been camping before, but after camping in my friend's backyard, I don't think I want to go camping again unless I'm in a cabin or an RV. I love the great outdoors, but I hate camping in a tent. That and I literally got eaten alive by mosquitoes. I have 6 bites on one leg, and 4 on the other, which is a lot for me.

My friend and I have so many shirts that match like it's not even funny. And that t-shirt is the only one we've ever bought together. The rest were at seperate times, and we literally have like, 10 shirts that match.

Haha...we have a lot of cool placemats too because my mom worked at a toy store so she would pick up a bunch of cool placemats when we were little.

I like mythology, but I don't think I would want to just read about it. I mean, I wouldn't mind reading the myths, but I would like to actually learn about it from something other than a book or the Internet.

My friend read Frankenstein for english last year, and she said it was alright; and it wasn't that gruesome to her. My brother is reading Dracula right now I think-he bought that DS game, the 100 classics or whatever. Hmmm...reading the original fairy tales never interested me. I guess I just don't like classic literature period.

We have hardly any english electives. We have journalism, creative writing, brit. lit, all the normal electives, but I would love to have all those english electives at my school. Maybe it's because we have a lot more art, history, and science classes or something. But yeah, all the english electives at my school are boring.

I can't believe there's only a month left until school starts. This summer has gone by so fast and I haven't even done that much. I mean, most of the time I'm just hanging out with my friends.

LIVE, LOVE, LAUGH

Ohhh gosh I hate being bitten by bugs! I spray the doorways and my clothes and everything with bugspray whenever we go camping or hiking, but something always bites me anyways :/

I went waterskiing for the first time today! It was lots of fun, but I kept faceplanting hahah.

LOL I do the map-out thing with my schedule too! It makes it a lot easier to navigate. And usually for the rest of the week I will write all the room numbers on my hand...and feel like a dweeb for it.

Haha...well, then I'm not a big fan of roughing it.

Yeah, it was great having a mom that worked in a toy store because then we would get discounts on all the toys there and everyone who worked there was the best.

Well, American Lit is English 3 usually. It's just what we study in the class. Like we only read american literature. We have pretty much the same art classes, though ours might be called something different. Off the top of my head I know we have visual arts, graphic design, pottery, drawing 1/2/AP, AP Studio, Jewelry and Fiber and Arts, ummm...and I don't know any others. I hate art so I sort of steer clear of classes in that department. Our history classes are pretty much the same, excpet we have a couple extra.

I already know my schedule. I had a problem with the art class I was taking this year (we have to have a fine arts credit in order to graduate and I'm not actually in band and I don't want to take choir) so she showed me my schedule since we had to work out my little problem.

My school is pretty easy to navigate, and I knew it pretty well after the first couple weeks of freshman year. And the fact that we have 7 minute passing periods helps a lot too. Although last year, they were doing pretty major construction in my school, and all the hallways were closed off so EVERYONE was stuck taking the same hallway to get everywhere, and to get from one class to the other would normally result in one walking all the way around the school or up and down multiple flights of stairs. I must say though, we did get our daily exercise with all that walking. Thankfully, they're almost done with construction.

That was me my freshman year minus the locker problems. I ended up aksing probably five different teachers where a classroom was because I couldn't find it and they didn't give me very good directions. I hated asking where it was though because it was so obvious that I was a freshman because only freshman ask teachers where classrooms are.

Jedi: Haha, I can see that.

Aww, I would've killed to have discounts on toys. Gah, I was so greedy when I was a kid. Every time my mom would come home from the store, I'd ask her if she got anything for me.

Oh, I understand. It's basically the same for us too. We don't really have an "English 3" class. We have American Lit too. Oh, I'm not a big art fan either, except I do draw on occasions. But lately I've been really busy and I don't always have the patience to make everything perfect. But it sucks that you have to have an art credit to graduate when you hate art.

Well, that's good for you. At least you have an idea of what your classes would be like. I don't get to see mine until August 18th at Forms and Fees Day.

Oh yeah, I had my school down to a science by...I'd say the end of freshman year. It's so much easier when you've been here before and when you know people. The only person I knew from my middle school wanted to make new friends, so she kind of ignored me. Oh, yuck, traffic jams. We tend to have those a lot, especially when the elevator breaks. Then all the kids on crutches and in wheelchairs are stuck on whatever floor they're on and they don't go down the hallway with the elevator, so they're stuck in the main hallway with the rest of us. Yeah, my mom's high school is having construction right now, and she already feels bad for even the seniors that are coming back because it's all new for them too, they can't really pick on freshman who don't know the place. And, according to her, it was already confusing to begin with since she started there as a junior. Oh yeah, I got my daily exercise too since my locker was on the third floor and I had to walk to school. I felt so weak though because I had to go up them three times during the day first semester and twice second semester. But, at least I had other people to complain with me because I had Spanish (1st floor) then English (3rd floor). A lot of my friends in my English class had Band the same hour I had Spanish, which was also on the first floor.

Ahahaha yeah, that was me too. I actually had to ask teachers where my locker was, and even they didn't know because the lockers are so messed up that no one really could find a locker just by looking at the numbers. But even some people in my class last year couldn't find their Acc. Chem. class because the number is 231 but it's in the little hallway by the math classes, which are 260 - like 248 or something like that. My friend Becky had to go to the Assistant Principal to get help.

Turayza: Yeah, I think I speak for both of us in saying that we're happy our first day of high school is over. I actually changed districts too, that was why I only knew one person, which just made it worse until I met other nerds in choir. Well, our school is supposed to make sense, but some rooms are just in oddball places and really hard to find. My school is basically a big rectangle and the even numbers are in the rectangle, then the odd numbers are in the little hallways that are inside the rectangle. But they don't always go in order, and we don't have a class for some numbers. Like we don't have a classroom numbered 111. It goes from 110 on the outside to 113 on the inside. But you get it after awhile. Oh yeah, my school would laugh at you if you were caught with a rolling backpack. The only people that use those are the ones that don't look like they're in high school and act even younger. Mostly girls, though. Guys normally just have those backsack things, like those Nike ones.

What's a Wacom tablet? o.O

Well, I didn't mean that some of them are outside the building and some are inside the building. The inside of the building looks like this:

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Where the middle parts are the odd numbers and the outside parts are the even numbers. But they don't go in order, so it doesn't really help much to know that. Mine only has 100, 200, and 300, but my mom's high school went up to 500 like yours. MI?

Aw, you have to buy them? No wonder I can't find anywhere to make them online. I have no money, so I can't really splurge on this. I was kind of hoping there was a program online somewhere that I could get for free just to make a few of these.