to create so much pressure that I’ll soon blow up.
and I was positive that unless I got myself together,
I would watch me fall apart.
This is no place to try and live my life.
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I have this never-sinking feeling, that...If I don't get out of here, right after I graduate highschool, that Peoria is going to be someplace...I get stuck. Nothing against Peoria, but I feel as if it has nothing left to offer. Yes, all teenagers think that about their hometown..but I'm making the steps to get out of here, as soon as possible.
I'm taking as many classes as possible, and they're mostly relevant to what I want to master in. And alot of them, are one semester classes, which means they're more focused, somewhat.
I'm already getting tons of stuff from colleges...
And I'm taking an even bigger step..I'm setting up an appointment, with an ICC admissions councilor soon, to see if I can get myself set up with some basic college courses for either, the first and second semester of my junior year, or the last semester and a summer semester of my junior year, and I hopefully want to do this my senior year, as well. My Peoria Promise [ the stuff that pays for two years of college] doesn't go into effect until AFTER I graduate though..So..My mom and dad would be paying for the classes, but, in the end, it would be worth it. I deffiantly need to talk to an admissions councilor soon, to see what tests I need to pass, and if it's possible to get me set up.
These are all the classes I'm taking my junior year [in highschool, the college thing..still needs to be set up.]
Health Careers II [ I took Health Careers One, the first semester of my sophomore year, second semester was First Aid] {This is the Dual Credit class! :D } One Semester Class.
Health Care Connections One semester class
English 5-6 [fifth and sixth semester, so it's a full year class]
Journalism :D One semester
Spanish [1-2, first and second semester of this language, full year class.]
Mathematical Investigations {It's like..geometry, and algebra. It's a mixture. My guidance councilor strongly suggested it over plain geometry.} [full year class]
AP Psychology One semester class
US History [Full year class]
Andddd Early bird PE. [full year]
I quit ROTC, yes.
It didn't feel right for me anymore, honestly.
Senior year, I'll probably take a whole bunch of classes too. :]
I don't mind the work...It'll pay off, in the end.
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"Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it."
–– George Lucas
"No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work." Anonymous
"Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."
"Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it." John Sterling
"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
Samuel Johnson
"Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round – remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped." James Corbett
"There is no achievement without goals."Robert J. McKaine
"It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world."
Og Mandino
"I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut."John Wolfgang von Goethe
"Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals."Spencer W. Kimball
"Reduce your plan to writing... The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire." Napoleon Hill
