Rhys’s diary of literally random stuff

 I still haven't done my homework lol. I'm honestly lazy and feel too tired and I wanna go to bed. I think I'm gonna wake up early and do it but I mean I'm gonna have to do my arabic homework today though. Idk It's a minor and we're done for the semester so I'm not taking it that seriously anyways especially considering the fact that the semester has closed. Yeah, I'm gonna work harder for Math though. My GPA is apparently a 3.86 which yeah isn't that bad but I was hoping that it was gonna be a 3.9 at least but idk. 
  Idk I'm so worried about that doctors appointment and also really excited. I think that I have acidity and IBS. Probs both cuz acidity runs in my family so it makes sense. 

  Well I went to the doctors. She was nice and she listened so yeah it was good. I mean I didn't get any answers but we did a blood test and I'm supposed to take a stool test, like an at home one or smth. Idk kinda awkward, lol, but yeah. I just hope that they can find something there for me cuz yeah this has been going on for a long time and i dont wanna deal with it anymore without proper medications and stuff. 

Okay so my blood test results came back and everything is normal. I mean I wasn't surprised when they told us to take one since that's like the standard for basically everything but now it's just the stool sample. I mean I haven't given it in yet cuz yeah, and It's not somethign I can force right then and there so I'll give it in tomorrow morning or just whenever it happens. Lol. But yeah, I mean I hope their is something that they find though because these aren't normal and I cannot continue living my life like this every single day. 

It's so exhausting and I can't concentrate or focus and I just feel like fainting sometimes. Idk I must have some type of acidity or whatever like Gastritis or something but yeah we'll see. The results and stuff come pretty fast though so at least they're quick at this hospital. 

  Yeah I have school tomorrow and honestly I really don't wanna go. It's cuz I have to go to math tomorrow oh and I got a C on my math test. Which to be fair, at least it wasn't a D and my overall grade is still a B, so yeah thats good but still. I don't wanna look over my test tomorrow like I know I did pretty sucky on it and I don't wanna be reminded of it by seeing a big fat C on my paper. It already hurts that I got a D on the AP world test, a C on the chem test, and now another C on the algebra test. 

  I just wanna stay home tomorrow but I know for a fact that my parents would never allow me to stay home from school tomorrow. I mean they hesitate when Im sick. Idk I feel really hungry and I really wanna eat but im scared that my stomach is gonna act up again and stuff. So yeah and the most embarressing thing happened in class today in Math. So I didn't realize it but when I took my airpods out, my music still was playing from my phone and as the teacher was talking, I could kinda hear my music and omd, I quickly reached in my bag and silenced it completley and turned it off but omd Im glad no one noticed or anything. Thank god. The music was on pretty low volume so thats probs why. 

Yeah, I'm gonna go oil my hair since I'm supposed to do that for scalp psorasis, according to my derm, then I'm gonna eat some dinner, idk what, and then I'm gonna maybe study a bit or something and then take my supplements and stuff. My doctor today that I saw did say that I don't need iron if my levels are normal but she didn't tell me to stop taking my supplements that the dermatologist prescribed me, so I'll have to ask her if I should stop taking them cuz those pills have a lot of zinc in them. Like 22.3 grams and I take it twice daily. Apparently those are heavy metals and people with IBS tend to feel that irritation which is why I think I might have IBS cuz that pill seriously triggers a lot of pain and stuff so idk. we'll see. 

  Anyways, all the samples are back in the lab. So that's good and well this is bad. Apparently our overall grade hasn't been updated in AP world, but hopefully that remains an A for me cuz I really need an A in this class. But yeah, it's fine. Which reminds me that I need to start studying for AP world and APES. I didn't do much for APES but It's january and I gotta start working on it. Self studying is tough man but I gotta do it soon cuz I don't wanna be stressed in May. So I gotta get two sections done. Once I start it, I'll eventually get into pace. This whole weekend, I'm gonna make it heavy with APES + AP world. I think I'm also gonna skip thursday next year because honestly it's just a pep rally. I'll come for the rest of the days, cuz it's Wow week and we're going to an escape room and some other place. The other two days is like an academic planning day and some CPR certification day which are all pretty interesting. 

 I have math today. Not looking forward to it, mostly because we're gonna look over our Math tests today and I really don't wanna look over those. I just wanna move on from that C and just focus on the test that's coming up. I'm just gonna practice factoring a lot over the weekend until I become extremely good at it. Then review the lessons we've done this week, that way I'm actually gonna be learning stuff and I have to do my Quran lessons as well. I'll listen to the audios all today and take all the notes and everything that I need to. I'll memorize tomorrow and just do notes today, that way I'll be getting things done still and wont feel as if I've done nothing today. 
  Oh and also APES and AP world. My test for AP world is like Feb 5 which is pretty close. That's like 20 days away and I'm aiming to get at least a 4 on the exam. Multiple choice definitely isn't one of my strengths, but surprisingly I think SAQs, DBQs, and stuff will be good cuz I can explain my reasoning and stuff rather then be stuck thinking between two answers and wasting time. It's annoying and I'll have to do an extensive review on all of the units before the exam but I'm sure I can do it in sha allah. Good thing Ramadan is coming up soon, so I can be making dua about it during that time as well. 
  Yeah anyways I'm in Art class and the teacher is getting mad at these 3 girls because they keep trying to ditch their class to stay in Art here and the teacher says that they always ditch, which is lowkey true, and this girl keeps going, "But Miss, I'm a hardworker" 😂 Like gurl, ur literally trying to skip. Funny thing is, the teacher was like "No, You Are Not!" 😂😂😂 I feel sorry for the teacher lol 
  Also with the writing competetion I entered, I'm thinking of just not submitting anything. I mean I wish I could, but honestly I feel like instead of just entering one every month and just hoping that I somehow win, which yeah the chances are honestly slim since their are like 400+ submissions, sometiems even a 1000+ so yeah, winning is definitely low, but I'm thinking that I instead publish something of my own. Idk what but I'm thinking something to do with Jinns or something very like spooky and fairytale like. Idk or maybe just something silly like how a cat began to become the mayor of London or something. Lol, idk but I wanna practice some of it, and stuff so we'll definitely see how it goes. I also made a dystopia story in school so I wanna post that. 
  Also on my writing thread on 7 cups, I just post all the things I've wrote there, cuz I wanna keep a record of it that I can just look back on whenever. It's a nice way to see how I'm improving, what my style is like, my technique, etc; etc;  I just wanna see cuz I like to write, but I don't think of myself as a JK Rowlings style writer for sure. Idk if I'd ever be at that level but yeah I like to read and I love to write. It's just hard to write sometimes cuz I'm such a perfectionist and so focused on just having the imagery, dialogue, and everything perfect but yeah. Also gotta practice some DBQ. 
  The good thing is that she'll give us the prompt a few days before the test, so then I can practice writing the DBQ a few times, time myself, and so then on the actual test day, I wont feel so like nervous and feel so much anxiety since I've already practiced it multiple times and yeah. Usually those take her time to grade though cuz she has to go through every single persons essay first, but I'm okay with essays. With social studies, as long as you can get the point across, it's fine so it doesn't have to be super perfect english and whatnot, like they don't care about that but yeah I hate having to do essays on paper cuz it hurts my wrist. Lol my grandpa thinks I might have arthirits but I doubt that. I just have weak joints in genreral and my dad says that I should start going to the gym which is fine so yeah maybe. 
  I'm too shy to go alone though so I'll bring a freind with me. Though first gotta get stomach issues resolved first and then maybe. TBF everyone says I'm weak though It's not completely my fault. Honestly I think I'm too young to be lifting weights and stuff and honestly If feel like thats more of a trend with kids my age where they just lift weights and drink these crazy protein powders shakes, and I think I'll be fine without drinking protein shakes and whatnot. I'm only 15, soon to be 16, so I think It's fine If I just like wait a few years anyways. I'm not too worried about it honestly, lol. 

  Oh so I got back from school hours ago but was too lazy to take my laptop out. So my results and everything came from the doctors and stuff and everything looks normal. I tested negative for h Pylori bacteria or whatever so that's good alhumdulilah. The only other thing is that we still dont know what the issue is with my stomach 😅
  Well my mom messaged the doctor and asked her that if everything seems normal then what the issue is then cuz theirs gotta be something but yeah the doctor hasn't responded. My gut tells me its def an acidity problem with something more functional like IBS or something like that but we'll see soon enough once the doctor responds I guess. We're gonna get some antacid pills I think that the doctor said that she'd prescribe for me so we'll see but tomorrow is a weekend so we probs wont hear anything back till like Monday or something. 

It’s late at night and I gotta sleep. Yeah I didn’t do much today just like relax, yeah but gotta lock in tomorrow. I have class early tomorrow morning and then I have to go to a party for a friend cuz it’s her bday and stuff so yeah I gotta do that and lock in and crochet a bit so yeah lol.

 Haven't posted in some time but yeah it's wow week this week. So basically we do international trips once a year and they last one week. So you can choose to sign up for a trip, but obviously you've gotta pay and stuff. Last year I went to Croatia and Bosnia and it was amazing and I went with friends as well. Yeah, but not everyone goes, so all the kids that stayed behind have to do these activities. We have like two on campus activities and two off campus activities, so this year our on campus activities for 10th grade are Academic planning for 11th grade and we have this CPR certification thing to do and some actual outside Medical group is coming to test us and give us a certification which is kinda cool. Most people are pretty excited for that. 
  The off campus activities are Escape room, which is gonna be insane, and we're going to some place called Sensas. Idk I think Sensas sounds pretty cool and also Escape room but my friend literally skipped school for whatever reason and so I'm by myself and yeah idk how the escape room is gonna be like. Idk if their gonna do horror or not but I honestly hope we don't cuz lowkey I cannot do horror at all. Movies are one thing but like proper actors jump scaring me is something that I cannot do. I'm too much of a scaredy cat for that if anything. 
  Also we're doing academic planning right now though. It's not even actual academic planning like right now we're just playing games and then at 10:00, I think the counselors are gonna come and we're gonna start the actual planning and then after planning, we're just gonna play more games. We're doing some simulations but its taking forever becaues the teachers can't figure it out and the simulation is about some business deal and Idk I guess it's supposed to teach us like financial responsibility. Idk I think that school is useful but really only to a certain degree. Like Math, science, social studies, and English, all of them are useful. Like you def need to know english, but honestly only to really a certain degree. It only really matters if ur gonna major in that, but honestly, you probably wont need to know how to do a full 30 page analysis on macbeth and stuff. Or with Math, like chances are that you wont need calculus, unless ur going into something that genuinely requires calculus like idk being an engineer or something but really the baseline is Algebra. Honestly, I think that even Pre-Algebra is fine as well. Now if ur plan is to be an architecht, then yeah you'd need geometry and trig, but that's only if u plan to do that. 
  It's funny though, how we take advanced math like Calculus and stuff, but we never learn actual important stuff like how to fill taxes out, or how banks work, and what it's like to open a card. Most people probs don't know the difference between a credit card and a debit card. Heck, even I probably don't know that much about the difference between the two. 
  I feel like it should be mandatory for us to be in some lifeskills class. For every year of high school. I mean we take other advanced classses, cuz yeah a lot of times people in high school don't know what they wanna do, but instead of learning all of those, shouldn't we learn other things that they KNOW are gonna be useful to us? Like how to budget, how investing works, and all of that stuff. I feel like that would ACTUALLY prepare us for how university is gonna be. I mean whats the point of knowing this advanced statistics and calculus, knowing how to do 40 page essays, but not knowing how people pay their bills? Idk it seems quite silly that you know how to graph polynomials, you know how to find the zeros of the function, you know how to find where the line hits the y axis, you know how to solve for x, but what you don't know is how to budget money properly, how to fill taxes out, and idk stuff that's actually important. 

  I went to a place called Sensas yesterday where you use your senses to make it out of this puzzle kind thing and it was super fun. It was wayyyy better then Academic planning ever was, and today I had CPR training which was also kinda fun honestly. We did it on dummys and in the morning, while we were waiting for the guys to come, we did some games and it was honestly fun. It wasn't like board games or anything like that, like we did actual fun stuff so I'm glad. 
  I have my dentist appointment later today and I'm kinda scared to go cuz like two or three days ago, I was eating a steak and on one side of my mouth, I have a powerchain and well the steak was chewy so the power chain slipped off. I hope my ortho isn't that mad at me about it honestly. I'm kinda scared of the guy when he's dissapointed and my parents always take his side anyways. Yeah, but gotta brush well and use interdental tooth brush. Also I gotta get a new one cuz mine is getting older now. Yeah, and well their isn't really anything interesting happening now cuz CPR training is over and now we're just given free time till 2:30 so yeah. Some of my friends have sensas and one friend is at the Escape room today. My Escape room is tomorrow for us and apparently we get to do two rooms. They're like an hour each so that's gonna be sooo fun. We do one room then lunch and then another room, but yeah, and I have to start doing APES today for real. But yeah, I'm sleepy and tired right now since we're all done and I woke up really early for my class at 5AM.