Reassertion of Relaxation

            The perfect way to start off the week was going mountain biking with my friends on MLK day! I haven't hit the trail for a ride lasting more than an hour since September, before the big flood. Being able to bike on the nice day that it was, was the greatest feeling. The best part of the trail, Eldorado Mountain, was still closed off from construction of the highway that crosses the trail to get there, so we were again disappointed of not being able to get all the way there. But that didn't stop us from biking as much as we could on the accessible part of the whole trail, and we still made a day of it! Monday made me ready for spring weather, and less ready to go to school again. With a fun way of ending the three-day weekend, there came the first day of school in the short week. Last week was substantially better for me because of the decrease in amount of homework every day. A big factor was obviously not having school on Monday, but there was less homework to be given and more time in class for the homework to be done in general. The hectic element had left last week, and was back to the more normal 'working schedule' for me. The Rent musical rehearsals were less stressful from knowing the songs better and having practiced more, but also from having the reassertion of having much less homework to do once home. Luckily, this past week had little ALA homework, but of course lots of work was done in class and of course, there is a lot more to come.

            On Tuesday, we kept reading the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex, whilst we annotated on the themes we were given to annotate about. Then on Thursday, we wrote a hand written essay on which annotations that appeared the most throughout Oedipus Rex and their importance and literary use, proved from citations. In general, I'm not a concise writer, and always write in as much detail as I can possibly think of for essays or creative writing. Being a slower writer in time limited essays; I finally finished it and looked over it with five minutes before school ended, and thus had to finish reading the second half of the playwright for homework. Lastly, on Friday we went over how Oedipus Rex was going to tie in with our next project, which is our poster project on tragic heroes. For homework, we had to think of ideas of films that include a tragic hero and are fitting for the project, and that was it. I was happy there wasn't any reading or writing homework to do, because Friday was the day I had the most homework (for the weekend) of any other day this past week. The week was a good one, easy and hard, fun and moderately stressful, all in balance, which is what I wish every week was like during the school year, but unfortunately is not the case. I am excited for this project, not because of the hard work that is going to be needed to create it, but for the outcome and what the product will be/look like in the end. Every week is unpredictable, but for this week and the days to come, I think it will be quite a lot more packed with work and time consumption than last week, and a big part of that will be from the work needed to complete this very project.