Yes, I realize school started in September, and now that it’s October, it’s getting really old and you’re ready for Christmas break already. I’m a senior in high school, and here are some of the most exciting things that happen to me in the first two months of almost every school year.
The first thing that usually happens in our school is the fire alarms. Aren’t they fun? If it’s a fire drill, you get out of class for about fifteen minutes and by then your teacher might have forgotten that you were supposed to have a quiz that day. However, if the fire alarm was pulled, then you get out of class for somewhere between twenty to thirty minutes. This year, our first fire alarm was a drill and we got out of class for about fifteen minutes, but it was enough so that my creative writing teacher forgot that I hadn’t shared a piece of writing, so I didn’t have to! The second fire alarm wasn’t funny until I learned that it had been pulled by a child in the preschool department of our school. Fantastic, the hoodlums of the high school are teaching four year olds to pull fire alarms….we have high hopes for the future generation.
The second thing is the bomb threats, although the more interesting and memorable ones don’t usually happen at the beginning of school. Some of you may not realize how appealing the thought of a bomb threat really is under the right conditions. If it’s real, yes it can be scary. The first time, it can be a bit nerve racking, but once you realize it’s just a student pulling a prank, you begin to laugh them off and use the spare time to either catch up on homework you never finished, homework you want to finish so that you have less that evening, or talk to your friends. Bomb threats are better for the innocent students than the fire drills because you get out for a longer amount of time. I have had some fantastic bomb threats and some awful ones. For example, two years ago, spring of my sophomore year, we had a bomb threat on an absolutely gorgeous day. It was seventy degrees at nine thirty in the morning and sunny with a couple of scattered clouds for convenient shade. We sat out in the parking lot talking with friends and playing games while the police and fire department spent two hours scanning the entire school for a bomb. However, one of the worst bomb threats was last year. It was freezing cold, about ten degrees with a light snow. I would have been more than happy to get out of honors pre-calculus any other day but that one, but that day we had a free day to do our homework. In addition, we didn’t have time to get our coats from our lockers, so we’re freezing cold.
Next, there are the fights. This year, I was coming out of my second class and while I was rushing to the bathroom before third period started, these two girls are pulling each other around the hallway and end up on the floor slapping one another and seeing how much hair one person can manage to remove from the other girl’s head. I’ve never understood what could possibly be so important that you had to get into a hair pulling fight over it… oh well.
very funny!!! thanks rachel
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