Monday, November 25, 2013

This Thanksgiving Break - School Edition.


November 25

There are only three days left until Thanksgiving, and as any senior high school student does, I am going to play the game and tell everyone what I am thankful for.

I am thankful for a five day break; I would have been more thankful had it been a full seven days, but you can’t get everything you want in life. I am thankful that there is a day dedicated to eating – few celebrate unité this millennia. I am thankful that tests are over with for the next five days. I am thankful for the ability to sleep in and walk around all day in my pajamas if I so please. I am thankful for the future five day avoidance of the noise and stupidity in the hallways – seriously, some people need to grow up. I am thankful that we will all get a break. I am thankful Thanksgiving is so close to winter break now that the district has decided to make it a week longer – so few school days left! I am thankful for the math I won’t be required to do, but not even math. I am thankful for the halt of biology labs and the cessation of counting of cyclic cells – even if it is only temporary. I am thankful that this break affords so many freedoms from school, as long as the homework is done ahead of time. I am thankful for the advent – or rather recognition – of rhetorical devices, without anaphora, none of this would have been literary or shaped in any way or form to any English class I have taken since first grade; so thank you, Aristotle, Martianus Capella, and their teachers (or whoever the first to use this rhetorical jargon were), I appreciate you. 

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