Post #32

Wow...well, yesterday was quite an eventful day at school. From broken shoes to tornado warnings, it sure wasn't dull. But let me start at the beginning.
Well, I was sitting in Spanish class, conjugating verbs into the imperfect past tense, when suddenly, the thing between my toes on one of my flip flops popped right out. There was no way for me to fix it, and as much as I didn't want to go down to the front office and tell them I have to call my mom because one of my shoes broke, I figured that was what I'd have to do. But of course, this happened right as the bell was about to ring to dismiss us for lunch, and I knew that if I went up there now, I'd miss lunch. So somehow, I was going to have to walk all the way to the cafeteria with a broken shoe and wait to go to the office afterwards. So, I tried my best to make my way down the hall (I'm sure that looked pretty comical, considering I had to drag one of my feet along the ground). But eventually I ended up getting behind everyone else and it took me a good 5-10 minutes to get to the cafeteria. When I finally did get there, a janitor noticed my shoe and asked me about it. He told me to go up to the office to call someone so they could bring me another pair of shoes. I asked him if I would still be able to eat if I did that, so then he called over Mr. Wilson, one of the assistant principals to ask him if he'd let me just come to the last lunch (luckily I have 3rd lunch, which is the second to last lunch period). So Mr. Wilson told me to go ahead and go to the office to call home, and told me to stop by his office afterwards to get a pass so I could just go to 4th lunch instead. So, again, I got to walk through the halls dragging my foot along the ground, but luckily I didn't pass very many people since classes were going on. I suppose I could have just taken my shoe off and gotten there way faster, but that would have looked weird too, and besides, I didn't really like the idea of having my foot touch that floor that thousands of people have walked on over the years. So, I finally did get up to the office and I called my mom, and she brought me another pair of shoes. So then, I went back to Mr. Wilson's office and he called my Spanish teacher and told her I would be going to 4th lunch. So, I did get to miss the rest of Spanish class. lol.
And, throughout that day, it had been looking extremely dark and gloomy outside. We knew we were probably in for some storms. Things got a bit more extreme than that, however. We had just barely gotten to 4th block, the last class of the day. I was in English class, and my teacher had just passed out our vocabulary quizzes, when suddenly, someone in my class said that they thought they heard the tornado sirens going off. My teacher opened the window, and sure enough, they were going off. Then our principal came on the intercom and said that we were in a tornado warning and he told us to all go to our assigned areas for tornado drills. My school is really not a safe place to be during a tornado, considering it is busting at the seams with over 2,000 students, which is over the capacity that the building can hold. Not only that, but we have to cram everyone on the first floor of the building, and not everyone even fits in the hallways, so some people have to stay in classrooms and sit up against the wall. My class had to sit in a classroom. Our classroom was pretty small, but at least we got to go into another classroom that was bigger. No one was really worried or anything, since every time the sirens have gone off here, nothing bad has happened. The last time we had a destructive tornado here was years ago, probably before any of us were born. But, we still had to stay in the classroom until the warning was over. We ended up sitting there for almost the entire block, so it was almost an hour and a half. That was really not pleasant, considering it was quite boring to just sit there. People were talking and stuff, but I didn't really know anyone in there, so I just sat there the whole time. And, lucky for me (that's sarcasm just so you know), these two guys who were sitting right next to me decided it would be fun to pull out their iPods and sing along to their obscene rap music as loud as they could. But thankfully, about 3 minutes before we were supposed to get out of school, they went ahead and dismissed us since things were clearing up. So yeah, that was quite a day. Luckily everything did clear up, and by about 5:00, the sun was back out. So we still ended up having our musical at my school that evening. My parents and I decided to go and see it even though I didn't really know anyone in it. It was pretty good, and I was amazed at how well some of these people acted and sang.
Well, I guess that's all for now. Later. :)