inquiry project round 2

This semester we are repeating our Inquiry Project that we did last year but with a new essential question and groups. My group is Katie Ho, Rishika Daryanani (sorry if I spelled your name wrong Rishika), Cecilia Yeung, and myself. We are reading books that are going to give us a better perspective on the oppression of women around the world. As we are all females, I think that this topic will be something that will really open my eyes. We live in about the most modern city and country in the world where women are - generally speaking - viewed as equal. However, how much discrimination occurs that we are so used to or expect that we don't even see it as wrong? Hopefully our research will reveal what women go through just to have a life where they are treated half as fairly as we are everyday. On one hand, I feel like there is still a significant amount of sexism in all parts of the world, but on the other, I feel as though we take for granted how lucky American women are. I think this may be the perspective from which I write my essays. Hopefully this topic is not as depressing as my one last semester was.

Beginning of the End

This week I was really afraid of starting government class. Everyone from last semester made things seem really difficult and unfortunately I submitted my UC apps saying that I was going to take honors in government. It's not that I don't think that I am capable of completing the work that he assigns, it's just that I don't believe I have enough time to complete all the work. I have a job, and I dance 3 days a week, and I teach a dance class. I feel like I hardly have enough time to breathe as it is and I'm afraid that if I'm being forced to write 9 page papers every week that there's no way I'm going to be able to keep my head above water. The one good thing about this week was that I woke up Tuesday morning really afraid to walk into calculus and find out my grade on the final. I had an 86% in the class without my final grade and I was definitely fearing that there was a possibility my overall grade would fall to a C+ or lower. However, I scored a 90% on the final and my final grade in his class was a 90% exactly as well. With the very large amount of school that I've missed since the accident, I am really proud of myself for studying really hard and finishing the semester with straight A's :) But the idea that this is my very last semester in high school makes me really sad. I'm relieved that the work will be over, however the idea that I can never come back to this, is an overwhelmingly depressing thing for me. I really hope these last few months are ones that I will never forget.