Actual Week #9

Okay no, serious talk here, folks!

Nothing really eventful actually did happen. I mean, I guess some friend drama? I know how hungry ya'll are for chisme. And I guess that drama helped me practice tenacity. I think. It was complicated and usually I'm the go-to person for them but this time I was at a loss so that didn't really help.

Friendly reminder to ya'll: if you guys are going through problems, PLEASE seek help. It doesn't have to be announced to the world or anything, just tell your parents, a friend, a doctor, anyone who can help.

Week #8

This week... let’s call it interesting.

First, we started off with some nice drama from some friends that left the school. If you thought you’re getting the chisme out of me, good luck with that.

Then, I had to cram to both study, do homework, and read a book I have a paper to write about on. Thank god Ms Merino decided to extend the due date to Monday, oof. Anyways, then we had like a lot of greek homework and stuff and I was not having it.

I probably sound like I’m just ranting at this point but honestly, I haven’t been able to practice much out of my virtues. It seems as the weeks progress it’s slightly harder to be virtuous because so many things take priority first.

I dunno, hopefully y’all are having better weeks!

Week #7

Not gonna lie, the week started a little bad but I suppose it progressively got better? I may or may not have procrastinated too much over the weekend but things worked out I guess. I didn't exactly practice much of my virtues but ya know, I made it to the end of the week!

And I've got a MUN conference this weekend in Punta Gorda and I'm carpooling with Grace so it'll be fun!

To all my debate teammates, hope ya'll do excellent this weekend! Go Archie!

Week #6

I know all my other posts have been about courage and while I have been slowly developing that in the background, I'd like to talk about excellence now.

I defined excellence as doing better than you did yesterday, essentially learning from my mistakes or from others' mistakes. If you don't know, I am in the Debate team and last weekend we had a conference at American Heritage Plantation. It was great! I really liked it a lot and it was completely different from middle school MUN conferences.

It was two days. One the first day, I was very intimidated by the high level of skills in my committee and didn't exactly know what was going on most of the time. By the time the second day came, I knew exactly what I wanted to do that day and actually managed to greatly affect the outcome of the committee. I practiced excellence and I felt really happy and proud of myself, something that's a little rare.

But also shoutout to Claudia for being my partner-in-not-knowing-what-was-going-on-at-all :D Thank god for the "filing typo" that helped us save Europe, Mr. Roper! (We were in a crisis committee about F. D. Roosevelt's cabinet in the Great Depression.)