IT IS FINISHED.
By it, I mean my board exams. Well, they're not REALLY over, there's computer theory left, but who counts computer theory as an exam right? LOL, you know what would be hilarious now? If I failed computer theory.
Wow, I have finished school. In all the American novels I've read, this is a big deal, because apparently a lot of kids don't get through high school over there in foreign. Here nobody cares, because everybody finishes high school. They don't even care if I go to college, which is like a freaking miracle in America. The only way to impress people here is if you study fourteen hours a day and get into IIT and then go into banking, which, BTW, makes no sense to me whatsoever. Why would you do engineering and then work in a bank? Indians, SMH.
So, Joanna, what are you going to do now that you've accomplished the amazing feat of getting through high school (hopefully)? Take a nice, long holiday? Go on a well deserved shopping trip and treat yourself to some free time? I wish. I've got to start preparing for entrance examinations now.
I really don't get this whole entrance exam thing. I mean, I get that I need to go to college and get educated so I can get a job and car and all that, but I really don't know what I want to study in college. And it makes no sense to me, working really hard for something that I don't even want. Actually, working really hard makes no sense to me, mostly because I am a lazy fool.
I'm just not passionate about anything. I like science, sure, but I also like playing the piano and writing and drawing. I don't want to end up in a job that entails sitting at a desk all day staring at four walls. I want to be with people and see the sun and the stars and feel the wind on my face. Also, as we have already discussed, I am a lazy fool and science is a lot of hard work.
I have no idea what to do with myself. Somewhere in the Bible it says that God has prepared us for good works, and I believe that human beings were put on this earth to be useful to each other, but I don't know how to be useful. And it's getting harder to dodge all the "what are your plans for the future" questions. You can only divert the subject to the weather so many times.
Questioner: So, Joanna, what are you planning on doing after twelfth?
Me: (thinks: 'freaking nosy busybody') Nice and sunny isn't it?
Questioner: (thinks I have not heard): WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS? AFTER TWELFTH? YOU HAVE PLANS, DON'T YOU?"
Me: (panicking slightly. A small puddle of sweat starts to form at my feet): How about them clouds, huh? Think it'll rain?
Questioner: (fiendishly persistent): Yes, but we're talking about YOUR PLANS, Joanna. What are YOUR PLANS? Or are you a misguided, aimless baboon with absolutely no foresight or purpose for your life?
YES. YES I AM.
Here are my resolutions for the summer:
1. To run everyday and get a hot bod.
2. To read something beautiful everyday, and thereby make my soul expand like a poisoned bullfrog.
3. To work harder on my writing.
I cannot put my last ambition any better than Betty Smith, speaking as the character of Francie Nolan.
"Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere-be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost."
Y'all should read 'A Tree Grows In Brooklyn'. It is a wonderful book. Until we meet again, fellow sojourners!
By it, I mean my board exams. Well, they're not REALLY over, there's computer theory left, but who counts computer theory as an exam right? LOL, you know what would be hilarious now? If I failed computer theory.
Wow, I have finished school. In all the American novels I've read, this is a big deal, because apparently a lot of kids don't get through high school over there in foreign. Here nobody cares, because everybody finishes high school. They don't even care if I go to college, which is like a freaking miracle in America. The only way to impress people here is if you study fourteen hours a day and get into IIT and then go into banking, which, BTW, makes no sense to me whatsoever. Why would you do engineering and then work in a bank? Indians, SMH.
So, Joanna, what are you going to do now that you've accomplished the amazing feat of getting through high school (hopefully)? Take a nice, long holiday? Go on a well deserved shopping trip and treat yourself to some free time? I wish. I've got to start preparing for entrance examinations now.
I really don't get this whole entrance exam thing. I mean, I get that I need to go to college and get educated so I can get a job and car and all that, but I really don't know what I want to study in college. And it makes no sense to me, working really hard for something that I don't even want. Actually, working really hard makes no sense to me, mostly because I am a lazy fool.
I'm just not passionate about anything. I like science, sure, but I also like playing the piano and writing and drawing. I don't want to end up in a job that entails sitting at a desk all day staring at four walls. I want to be with people and see the sun and the stars and feel the wind on my face. Also, as we have already discussed, I am a lazy fool and science is a lot of hard work.
I have no idea what to do with myself. Somewhere in the Bible it says that God has prepared us for good works, and I believe that human beings were put on this earth to be useful to each other, but I don't know how to be useful. And it's getting harder to dodge all the "what are your plans for the future" questions. You can only divert the subject to the weather so many times.
Questioner: So, Joanna, what are you planning on doing after twelfth?
Me: (thinks: 'freaking nosy busybody') Nice and sunny isn't it?
Questioner: (thinks I have not heard): WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS? AFTER TWELFTH? YOU HAVE PLANS, DON'T YOU?"
Me: (panicking slightly. A small puddle of sweat starts to form at my feet): How about them clouds, huh? Think it'll rain?
Questioner: (fiendishly persistent): Yes, but we're talking about YOUR PLANS, Joanna. What are YOUR PLANS? Or are you a misguided, aimless baboon with absolutely no foresight or purpose for your life?
YES. YES I AM.
Here are my resolutions for the summer:
1. To run everyday and get a hot bod.
2. To read something beautiful everyday, and thereby make my soul expand like a poisoned bullfrog.
3. To work harder on my writing.
I cannot put my last ambition any better than Betty Smith, speaking as the character of Francie Nolan.
"Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere-be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost."
Y'all should read 'A Tree Grows In Brooklyn'. It is a wonderful book. Until we meet again, fellow sojourners!
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