Okay so I went to my orientation yesterday two days ago! (lmao by the time I finished writing this, lmao. I kept getting distracted) I had a pretty good time.

It started off that we had to go into the auditorium and find our prefect and go sit in that section (prefect is like the equivalent of homeroom, except it only occurs onces every 3 weeks a.k.a. twice a month to get important info and papers like transcripts and report cards). Anyway, I made friends with some people in my prefect. Anyway, after listening to a few speeches from the principal, ap’s, and saftey and health director and stuff, we were guided by our group leaders (older students) around different areas of the building such as the hall of fame, the library, the school store (where we bought our gym clothes and the specific lock needed for the gym lockers), the lunch room, the gym etc.

Then we headed to our prefect room where they just talked to us explaining different things about the bell schedule and clubs and other things like that. They handed out agendas/planners for us to have and gave out our program cards, transcript, lunch forms, and a notice about activating our new school provided email accounts.

We also got an activity that I believe was to help break the ice with our fellow students. It was a little game that required us to talk to each and ask questions to get to know each other and see if they fit certain categories like ‘Find someone who is a yankee fan’. Then they had to sign their name next to the category and the game would continue.

Anyway, we also got our ID cards and things like that, and I found out all my classes.

The way the schedule works in my school is that it runs on a two week cycle. Each day in the two school weeks is given a number from 1 to 10.

So Monday is 1, Tuesday-2, Wednesday-3 etc. When you get to Friday (5), the next number (6) is the following Monday. So 7-10 is Tuesday through Friday.

So 1-10 is two school weeks. Whatever order they have your classes in, after those two weeks, the cycle repeats. So you don’t have to have the same classes or the same order every week. Instead it’s every two weeks.

Now, depending on how many classes you’re taking, some people have a schedule from period 1-9 while others have a 2-9 schedule which means that…well they get to sleep a little more and have one less class x_X grrr.. But anyway, I have a normal, full day of 1-9. (Whereas 3 of my friends have 2-9 and 3 other friends have 1-9). I have no free periods..so yea, i wasn’t expecting any I guess, after all, it’s a specialized high school. (ALTHOUGH STUY STUDENTS GET FREE PERIODS! WTH!)

*sigh* well anyway. What I’ve gathered from comparing schedules with my friends is that most of the freshmen have two periods that change everyday. Because they change, those are the ones that you have to look at their cycle numbers for.

So 6 of my classes (7 if you count lunch) occur 12345678910 (which means every day) at the same times.

Period          Class

3             Geometry

4             English

5             Band

6             Lunch

7             Global

8             Spanish II

9             Biology

(Btw, the class that makes me and my other friends have a 1-9 is Band)

So you may have notices that I left out periods 1 and 2. Well that’s because those are the ones that change for me everyday. So here’s a list of my periods 1 and 2 every day in both week 1 and week 2 of the cycle.

Period(s)   Mon.   Tues.  Wed.  Thurs.  Fri.     Mon.(2)  Tues.  Wed.  Thurs.  Fri.

1             DDP    GYM    DDP  BIOLAB  DDP    GYM      DDP   BIOLAB   DDP  GYM

2             DDP    GYM    DDP  BIOLAB  DDP    GYM      DDP   BIOLAB   DDP  GYM

So as you can see I have all doubles every day 1st and 2nd. By the way, DDP is Design and Drafting for Production. It’s like a combo of art and technology.

So yea that’s my schedule.

So anyway, I know my friend Alex is in the same Biology class as me, Sam is in Global, Gym, DDP and Bio Lab with me, and Michal is in my same lunch period. So yea.