Lesson 1

Highschool Lesson 1: People are not good at keeping secrets. If you tell someone a secret you might as well tell everyone, because the person you tell will most likely tell at least one person. That person will tell at least one person, and so on, until eventually everyone knows.

Nobody knows everything about you, but everyone knows everything about that one thing you DON'T want people to know about. Whether it is a family problem, a boyfriend/girlfriend break up, a homecoming proposal or something that you may not have remembered doing last weekend - secrets are hard to keep to yourself.

Stuff happens. The best way to deal with it is to proboly just laugh it off or except that it happend and not make a big deal about it. If you make it a big deal, so will everyone else. Whenever people discuss their high school lives, they usually talk about the happiest moments or the excitement they have encountered not the gossip they heard.

There are no secrets in highschool, someone always knows something they shouldn't.

Highschool Love

"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 1.5

Some may believe love is walking down the beach; a stary and breezy night, hand in hand with the one person who makes them happy. Some highschool kids may believe love is walking down the hall, in a crowded and hot school, hand in hand with the person they are dating.

It kind of disgust me when I am trying to walk to my next class and can't get to it unless I were to walk in the middle of two kids (proboly freshmen) macking on eachother. When I hear them say "I love you" and "I'll miss you" and then follow with something like "I don't know if I will be able to wait till next hour to see you" or "It's going to feel like eternity till I see you again", I just want to walk up to them and smack them.

I'm not against the highschool dating thing, I was doing it too. I didn't ever do the "I'll miss you" "I can't live without you" thing but I dated a guy, one guy. Dallas and I met as freshmen and dating from then until this year, which is about 4 years.

It's hard dating in highschool. There are labels that get put on you, people who talk about you, and of course that one person who isn't happy that you are together and may do something about it. Kids are still growing in highschool and may find themselves growing apart from the person they are dating; no matter how much they don't want to.

A highschool sweetheart; it's overrated.

Happy Eating

Chicken Pita, Pasta Bar, Chicken Fajita, Baked Ravioli, Tortellini - sound appatizing? It would taste as good as it sounds too; except that it is coming out of a highschool cafeteria!

As highschoolers, we are all still growing. If not vertically, we are growing horizontally. Last year, we had a lunch line just for fries and burgers - and believe me - those fries were not FRENCH fries, they were GREASE fries. So this year they were taken away as well as HY-VEE chinees Fridays.

I wish lunch was more appatizing. Maybe I would accually stay and eat it if it looked presentable! Poor lunch ladies and lunch men, so much work! They open up a frozen box and stick it in the oven, hoping it will come out smelling and looking like it is suppose to. But all of us know that you can't usually stick baked ravioli in the oven, giving no attention to them and have them turn out the way they were ment to turn out.

Personally I would rather leave for lunch with my friends and go to Wendys and get one of the new $.99 burgers. It's cheaper, more fun and proboly more healthy.

HAPPY EATING!