Today (Last Day Of School)

So today was my official last day of school in SPFHS. Woow.

The first three periods were not sad at all, I just couldn't believe I was not going to be there anymore. I feel like I didn't get emotional or anything because I haven't really bonded with those teachers and I didn't really have friends in those classes. But then gym came, which was one of my favorite classes because of how small it was. I seriously loved everyone in that class, and I discovered how much I like playing volleyball, it was so much fun.

Lunch was also sad, because it was the last time I saw the people in my table, and they have been my friends since the very beginning.

Astronomy, Spanish, and Italian were really, really sad. My teachers really made me feel special and they showed me how much they appreciate me. In Spanish, the teacher and my classmates recorded a video saying why they are going to miss me and it was the cutest thing.

Then the bell rang, and I had to say goodbye to that high school. The one I hated so much, but ended up loving. I had to take all of the things out of the locker and just walk away.

I know I didn't make a change in anybody's life in that school. I came out of nowhere from another country, and then I randomly left. I didn't make any kind of impact or anything. But nobody in that school can imagine how much they meant to me. Even the people that I've never talked to. Each hallway, each room, each class, each teacher, each person, they all made a change in my life. And I will never forget the mornings that I spent in that school with all of them.

Today

So I was supposed to have my presentation today to just get it over with, and there was no time, so I'm in the first one to go on Monday. It pisses me off, because I was emotionally ready to do it, and now I have to prepare myself all over again and spend the whole weekend thinking about it.

But it was a good day. I had fun in school. English is going good, Math with Sam (I'm gonna tell about him later) is pretty cool, History... well, the worst one so far, gotta present that crap. Health is cool, we are doing CPR and it's the only useful thing that we learn in gym. Lunch with those sophomores is actually reaaaally fun, I spend the whole time laughing about the stupid things they say. Last year I was sitting with these popular girls and it was not nearly as fun as what my lunch is like right now. I love astronomy, it is the most interesting thing ever. Spanish is really cool because we get to learn about all of the different cultures in Latin America and next week I'm presenting about Argentina, and I'm obviously not ready for that (Spanish is my thing baby), and then Italian with freshmen is also the funniest thing ever, plus the kid that sits next to me is the hottest freshman everrrrrrr. I feel like a cougar.

Anyway, I had fun this week, and I'm starting to feel a little bit more confident and more comfortable in my school. It took time, but I finally feel like I'm stating to belong here, and maybe that is why I am starting to second guess my decidion about going back to Argentina.

And by the way, thank you for reading my stupid things, and thank you to the ones that comment, I really appreciate it. I always reply to you on the same post, but I don't know if you get a notification or an email or something, so in case you didn't read my replies, I just wanted to say thank you for your support!

FEEL THE FEAR, AND DO IT ANYWAY.

Tomorrow is my presentation!

Frankenstein

So I was reading Frankenstein for school. Actually, I was Spark-noting it (if you are American you probably know what SparkNotes is - best website ever). So anyway, I was reading the summary and the analysis and I felt really interested about the story.

It's about this crazy scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who loves nature and who wants to discover all of the misteries about life and death. While he is in college, he decides to create a creature, but it doesn't come up the way he expected it to be. This thing looks like a monster and it is really ugly, so Victor decides to leave it there and walk away. He practically abandons the creature because it is just different from him. The poor creature is left alone, and as time goes by he learns to speak and read, and he starts to understand the world and the society where he lives. People run away from him, and nobody likes him because he is just different. Nobody takes the time to actually get to know him. He tries to make friends, but nobody is brave enough to look beyond his face and discover that he is actually a really good person. This makes him hate everybody, specially Victor, who created him and left him alone. He compares himself to some Bible characters, such as God, Adam, and specially Satan. He starts killing everybody related to his creator, and when he finally meets him, he asks him to create a female version of himself, just as ugly as him, so they can run away to South America and live together in the jungle where nobody else is gonna judge them. Victor accepts to do that, but then he regrets it because he realizes that they can have kids and create a whole new "specie of evil" in the world. The creature gets really upset and ends up killing everybody in Victor's life until there's nobody else. At the same time, Victor's guilt for creating such a thing and for letting it kill everybody, makes him weaker and crazier, so at the end he is left alone just like he left the creature he created. He starts feeling the same way the monster felt, and he starts looking for it to take revenge. At the end of the book, he ends up being the monster he thought the creature was.

My point is how society just leaves people alone because they are different. Victor was the one that made the mistake and he just didn't take responsibility for it. The only thing that the creature wanted was to have a friend, to have someone that cared about him, and someone to lean on whenever he needed a hand, just like Victor had his friends, Elizabeth and Henry.

I think we can all feel a little bit related to the creature. Sometimes we are left alone, sometimes we are judged by society, sometimes we just want to have a friend, and nobody is willing to let us in. We can be the most popular kid in school, and we are still gonna be judged, we are still gonna be alone sometimes.

What I like the most about this book is the title. I mean, when we think of the word "Frankenstein" we think of a monster who wants to kill everybody, and we instantly believe that Frankenstein is that monster. In reality, Frankenstein is the creator, Victor, that's his name. He is the real monster. He is the first one to judge the creature, the first one to leave him alone...

So from now on, don't try to be a monster like Frankenstein... just accept that people can be different. We are all different...

If you wanna watch a 8 minute video about the story go here:

http://www.sparknotes.com/sparknotes/video/frankenstein