5/3 Letter to Future Self

 Dear future self, I hope you're doing great. Soon, high school will be over, and it has been a long four years. In August 2020, we were getting on our uniforms and signing into a Zoom call for class. It's hard to believe that all that time wasn't just a strange dream that I prayed to end. High school may not have been the most fantastic four years of my life, but I know that my time had good moments and great memories, and that's all I wanted. Being able to overcome COVID-19, virtual school, harsh relationships, manipulative friendships, and horrible teachers was not easy, but it made me the person I am today. 

The strength that I have and you will have going foreward is part of growing up. If I could return to the virtual days, I would tell myself to “just breathe and push through it.” I will tell myself this now and hope to say it in the future. You're going to be grown up and fabulous. I hope you continued to dance; maybe you stayed with criminal justice or didn't. No matter what, I'm proud of you. A significant change is coming up; there will be more hardship, and we will have to grow up eventually. It's going to suck for a while, but you're still strong. Keep to your strengths, be kind, funny, and compassionate, and continue growing. Ella has been such a fantastic sister to you and was the reason you got through high school, and helped her through college and nursing school. Be there for the people who were there for you, and support and pray for those who weren’t. In 5 years, you'll be a badass adult who thrives; we didn’t peak in high school, so we better thrive in the future. First year was a blur, sophomore year sucked, junior year was a mess, and senior year was the best. Never let the bad things that happened weigh down the memories and impacts you made in high school. The bad friendships were still friendships, ended relationships were still loving, and bad things happen to good people. We may not have been the best people in high school, but growing is more critical the dwelling on who we used to be.  

Always be the person you are. As silly as it sounds, you are the one person you're stuck with. Never fail to love yourself just as you love others. Future you, I hope you're successful, not in the money or job sense, but in the happy sense. The future will give us new challenges and tests as we grow up, and how we do it is based on who we are.

Always be awesome,

Addie Peay 

May 3, 2024

5/1 Reflection

 Today we made our own poem in class. Mine was centered around dance and how that impacts everything I do. 

Our sweaty feet and sticky skin

From five to ten for 252 days,

rehearsing till the day ends

Laying down and taking in the people around us

the music starts again as our bones begin to fuss

Staring up at the blinding lights of the space,

tasting the sweat dripping off our face 

We’re all bruised, but our bodies are tough,

no matter the challenge, we are doing what we love

4/30 Reflection

 Today in class, we continued to read simple poems. The wording of the poem really makes me appreciate all the tiny, simple things in my life that I usually overlook. I plan to continue to enjoy all the little things in life that make it great. 

Reflection 4/29

 Today in class, we started looking at more poems; the poem we read was about a red wagon. Reading literal poems has always been a refreshing way to look at poetry.

Reflection 4/26

 Today in class, we worked on a Newsella assignment. I personally am not a big fan of our newsella assignments but the article was very interesting. The article was about climate change and how scientists are using certain tools to study it. 

Reflection 4/25

 Excused absence. 

Reflection 4/24

After a long week of EOC testing, we are finally back to our regular bell schedule. Today in class, we watched a video about a woman and her child who live off minimum wage in New York. Most of my classes focus on budgeting and finance as a whole, so I'm glad we have an assignment that correlates with my other classes.