First Week of School

This past Thursday was our first day of school at Catalina Foothills. Our school is a huge campus basically, with five buildings, about 16 tennis courts, a huge football/track field, and probably four or five softball/baseball diamonds. Our schedules are much more complicated than back in Madison because we only have 7 class periods in a day, plus lunch, so we don't have one of our classes each day. However, the campus is absolutly gorgeous. I'll hopefully post a picture of it soon. You can see the mountains from every side of the school and there are some amazing views of the city from the main courtyard that is situated between the buildings.

First period: Spanish with my hilarious, little teacher Mrs. Everist
Second: Chemistry
Third: Geometry
Fourth: I don't have a class this hour
Fifth: Honors English 10 with Mrs. Hedwig Dennis (her actual name is Hedwig) and she is very much into philosophy
Sixth: Photo Imaging where you learn to use both film and digital cameras
Seventh: Western Civilization (aka History)

AP US History Exam Results...

An AP Exam basically measures the achievement you would have in a college-level course and it can be used for recommendations for colleges. I took the US History Exam this past spring in Madison and was the only freshman. Normally, freshmen don't take the AP Exams unless they're trying to test out of Biology and for my exam, there were only 14 other people there. The grading system is from 1 to 5; 1 being no recommendation, 2 being possibly qualified, 3 being qualified, 4 being well qualified, and 5 being extremly well qualified.

I didn't do as well on the test as I had hoped. I only scored a 2 and they don't let you see the actual test after it has been graded so I have no idea what I did wrong. It's kind of depressing.

Picking Classes

Mum, Dad, and I went to meet with my councilor, Mrs. Lynn, yesterday to pick out my classes. Two seniors, Colin and Leah, gave us a tour of the school and told us what classes where in which building. There are a total of six buildings on the campus, surrounding a central courtyard.

I am going to take Spanish, Geometry, Chemistry, Honors Western Civilization, Photography, and Honors English 10. Because of the difference in how the History class systems are set up, next year, I won't have to take the same class as the other juniors. As a junior at Catalina, you take US History, which I already had this past year as a freshman, so I'll be taking an Honors European History class to build on my knowledge from 8th grade World History.