OK, so although I couldn’t participate in the actual day of silence, our schools GSA diversity club had a Day of Silence which I participated in, and I’m about to tell you about how much this annoyed me. So I wanted to do it, and so did tons of other kids, and we all got stickers and passes for class, but at least 1/2 the people gave up first class, and 1/4 gave up over the course of the day. One of my friends didn’t talk all day, not just until school ended. Last year I did the all day one and it felt really good to talk after. But the main thing that bothered me was Chorus.
So we had a substitute for class today, who I happen to like. And when I walked into chorus I noticed that 1/2 the class was sitting down and writing on notepads saying that they weren’t going to sing. And this wouldn’t have bothered me, except for the fact that before this class I saw most of those kids talking, and after Chorus I saw most of them talking with their friends at lunch. Most of those kids just did it to get out of chorus. Now I did the exact opposite, I knew the sub so I thought I would help her out with the class so I decided that I was going to talk for that class period because it’s Chorus and it’s a grade. I’m not going to have my grade suffer because of a Day of Silence. So we ended up getting a few kids to sing, but the worst thing was that during when the kids who decided to sing where singing, the kids who objected to singing because it was the Day of Silence were TALKING. They were sitting down and talking while I was singing as loud as I could to make of up the lack of Basses. There are usually only 2 basses that sing anyways, and the other one was my friend who decided not to talk for the entire day. And after class I saw more than half of the kids take off their stickers and start talking at lunch. I don’t know if it’s me over reacting or if I have the right to be mad at those kids, but I was mad, and my friends know I rarely get mad.
Aside from that I only have one slip up and it was last period during yoga. Everyone is usually quiet in yoga so I just kind of forgot I was doing the Day of Silence because I was quiet anyways, and the teacher asked me a question and I responded, but after that I kept quiet, so I think I did OK.
Now I’m tired.
FF) The Average Pregnancy is actually 10 months, not 9