Blog 10

Something that has frustrated me is the fact that I took a lot of time and thought into processing a letter to send to possible places to shadow. I sent out at least 6 letters and not a single person got back to me. Therefore, I had to revert to a plan B. I am going into a place this week to talk to the manager of a child department to figure out my service hours. Although I know where I am going, it took longer then it should have and I just got a little frustrated when no one was returning my emails or calls.

My biggest time waster would probably be some of the Google classroom work, sometimes it was a force to complete those. During the time of getting those done I could have been more productive in reading my book or writing my research paper.

I deal with stress by looking at the big picture. I remind myself that I am almost done with school and that if I push myself and try to avoid all the stress, it will pay off in the end. I do one thing at a time and not overwhelm myself more.

I am currently all caught up in everything. However, the past month I have been a little bit behind because of stress. I know it's no excuse but a mix of stress and the fact that senior year is almost over is not a good mix. I think when I go off to college all the stress will go away because most of my stress comes from finishing this year on a good note- trying to do that on top of working 5 days a week right after school, from working going straight to practice 3 days a week and most nights I don't get home till 9-10 and then I have no motivation to do work that late. Eventually I won't be working or doing sports anymore and my stress will decrease. I plan to get all my homework done in school the rest of the year and try my best to stay on top of things.