There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home......for the holidays?

My title has a story behind it. My mom has this gigantic red shoe on our mantle that she puts out at Christmas. And her justification for it being a Christmas ornament is by mixing a quote from the Wizard of OZ with a holiday song.

So a great stress has just been lifted off of my shoulders. I don't have AP calc or AP bio for 2.5 weeks. Those are my only stressful classes. The only legit final I have to take now is that 100 word vocab test for Krams. But seriously, words like Zenith and prodigious? Yeah those are easy peasy compared to the ones I had to learn in Pre-AP. God, normal english is full of SO MANY morons! I mean really, where are the cool vocab words like fop or bacchanalian? I haven't analyzed literature in 6 months, I never thought I would want to replace an easy class with one that required a ton of homework, but I would rather work my butt off than sit in normal english. The first time we actually read a literary excerpt and answered questions on it, I was sitting there for the longest time writing like a novel for each question, quoting things as supporting evidence an whatnot. And then when I turned it in, people just had sentence fragments for an answer. I am disgusted by our school systems capability to teach english. I can honestly say that a majority of the people graduating have probably not improved in their english skills since middle school.

Now that my tirade on the decreasing intelligence of society is over, lets talk holidays. I honestly don't know what is going on. I have not bought anyone a single gift except my mother. I'm probably going to give all my friends presents over break instead of at school. Oh well.

I am much more excited for London! Just about 1 week until I'm packing my bags. Do you have any idea how stoked I am to run at the wall in king's cross station?? Oh I think you can only fathom a small percent of my excitement.