My day started out okay. Well...I woke up a little late, and breakfast wasn't made gluten free, so I peeled an orange and my mom fried some eggs for me. Daddy read scriptures to us at the table because we ran out of time to read them together.
Jess and I didn't get out the door until 6:35--fifteen minutes later than we were supposed to. I had to hurry and grab some snacks for lunch.
I got to seminary a little late, but in time to lead the song, as always. Seminary was good; it wasn't until later that it really started going wrong.
I had AP Lang today, and so school started out rough, as it always does when I have that class. It wasn't terrible, we just had a test. That I didn't finish. And I mean, Ms. S lets us finish our tests in I.C., but lots of people got done with their tests, but I couldn't think of enough pictures or literary characters as examples.
But in Spanish it got really bad. We started a new unit, so we got a bunch of new vocabulary, as I was expecting. We did take the unit test for the previous unit on Wednesday. But it seemed like everyone picked up on the new words so fast--and I couldn't.
The unit is on health and food and such. I was trying to explain to my teacher that I don't usually exercise a lot because I don't want to break myself. When she asked what I was breaking, I said "me," but that wasn't what she was looking for apparently. She was looking for "yoga is relaxing" or "I like stretching" or something along those lines. But it was really hard to explain to her that I have a chronic illness, so I cannot exercise--when I do, I usually end up in pain for a long time.
Also, my partner who I sit next to, who I am supposed to have lots of conversations with (in Spanish, of course), is really condescending. She is a native speaker, so she is naturally more gifted at Spanish than I am. I was trying the best I could to have a good conversation with her, but she always looks at me like she's better than I am, not just at Spanish, but as a person in general.
As I tried to converse with her with my very limited vocabulary, she kept giving off that I'm-better-than-you-let's-get-this-over-with kind of vibe. To anyone who has not had that experience, be grateful, it's not pleasant.
Basically, I was near tears at the end of Spanish class, and I actually did shed a couple tears while I was standing at my locker getting my lunch. My friends made me feel a little bit better, but it still wasn't pleasant with the Spanish class incident so fresh in my brain, burned to the front of my mind.
So just to recap. Today was horrible: it was full of feelings of inadequacy and tears.
Luckily, Mom got my text I sent her at lunch telling her to come get me. So she did. And I left school and hung out at Jo-Ann's for a little bit. I received a $20 gift card for my birthday, so I decided to use it. I bought some earring hooks and some charms to go on them. My favorite ones are the scissors. Because, why not? So now I have two pairs of scissor earrings.
My day got better, but I'm just glad I was able to some home to a loving mother. I'm glad that my grandma knows me so well, she gave me a Jo-Ann's gift card that I was able to use today to give me a pick me up.
You know what would make this day a lot better? Ice cream...
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