New School!!!

This year my sisters and I are going to be going to a charter school for the first time. I am really excited about this new school because I'm going into eighth grade with a whole new group of people. The new school is called the International Leadership of Texas (ILT). The school's motto is to strengthen the mind, body, and character. I really am looking forward to going to this school because not only is this like a big restart button, but it also is a more advanced curriculum. Some of the differences between this school and Chisholm Trail MS (previous school) is this school has more hours. My previous school started at 9:20 and ended at 4:30, whereas this school I would start at 7:45 and end at 3:45. That's an hour added onto school. Another major difference is that this school looks like a community college and my old school looks like a regular middle school. The charter school also holds about 1300 students, whereas Chisholm Trail has only about 900 students. ILT has a total of nine periods. At this school, they teach Mandarin Chinese and Spanish to all of their students. Although this school doesn't have as many different electives, this school makes it up for its activities. At this school, there's soccer, volleyball, basketball, baseball, softball, track, and cross country. I love the variety of sports here and I really can't wait until school starts!!!

International Leadership of Texas

Chisholm Trail Middle School

Soccer Game!!

Last night was my first soccer game. I can officially say that soccer is my favorite sport. The game was against another middle school in my district called the Tidwell Titans. Since there were two teams with no substitutes, we all had to be in the game the whole time. I played the left outside midfield and I loved my position. I got to do the throw-ins if the ball went out on the other team. The only bad part about soccer is all the running. I'm not a very fast runner, but I can run for long periods. Running for an hour in cleats and shin guards that I'm still trying to get used to isn't really good. Since we had no subs and both A and B team was exhausted after their specific game, we might just combine the two teams so that we have subs for when we get tired. But until next Monday, we won't know what's going to happen for our next game in two weeks.

UPDATE!!!

Since the last time I blogged, a lot has happened. At my last track meet, I placed sixth place for discus at the zone meet. I was ecstatic when they told who placed on the big speaker. I tried out for the soccer team and got on B team. It seemed really hard at the tryouts, but it got easier. Today we ran a mile at practice in under 9 minutes and I actually got it. I also took the 7th grade Writing STAAR and the 8th grade Math STAAR. The writing test was a two-day test that you had to answer 46 revising and editing questions and write a total of three essays. The math test was absolutely horrible. There were 64 questions total on the stupid test and we only had four hours to take it. I took 3 hours and 35 minutes to take the test. I know I did good on the test. I just hope I get commended on the test.