Rhys’s diary of literally random stuff
I just want a space where I can dump things completely random—just anything. The title means exactly what it sounds like and I’ll probably be posting writings, and maybe more personal stuff on here as well ❤️
I don't know if we're having school tomorrow. It's weird because the school hasn't even updated us. I'm hoping we don't so that I can just go home and continue sleeping. I'm so tired nowadays and I feel so drained and exhausted. I have to wake up though at 4AM to do class, but I'm gonna wake up at 3 instead to memorize my lesson which I didn't actually do and so that I can eat suhoor because I'm gonna fast again tomorrow.
If school gets canceled tomorrow, their might honestly be a chance that my test does as well, assuming that we don't have school on wednesday, which I hope we don't since thats when my test would be pushed back to. After that is when our break starts and on Thursday, I'm going to India and so that means the test is pulled back till after break which is honestly better since I don't really understand this unit in Math right now and honestly haven't done very much.
The email probs wont be sent till tomorrow morning since their still analyzing the damage the storm probably has done, but my school is in a very flood prone zone so I think we're good anyways. I just want break to start and all of this to be over so that then I can do whatever I want, and also because I have to finish something in English and I need 4 paragraphs for it, but so far i've only written one paragraph so I'm very behind and I have to do everything tomorrow since I'm supposed to submit everything on Wednesday and tomorrow is Tuesday. So yeahhhh, pretty sure I'm cooked, but if tomorrow is a virutal day, I'll have plenty of time to get everything done. Wish I hadn't procrastinated all day today though. That was pretty bad honestly and Im definitely gonna regret it if Wednesday isn't canceled and I end up going to school.
So school got canceled again today. My test in Math is basically delayed but I have to take it tomorrow if we have school. The area our school is in gets flooded fast because they don't have proper drainage systems in the Eastern province for whatever reason. I don't care about the test, I'd just like school to be canceled either way. I would basically have zero work for tomorrow then because I don't have to study or actually do anything. Besides, It already feels like school has started and the rain is expected to ramp up to a whopping 70% at 4PM so it'll be hard for them to drain everything out since teh rain only stops at 9PM so I don't know how they're gonna manually pull out all the water by 6PM either way. It doesn't sound logical but I might as well just start preparing for my test anyways just in case.
We're going to India on thursday night and I really don't want to go. It's not that I don't like India or anything, it's just that I get bored there cuz I have no one. Their isn't really anything for me to do there except get lectured by everyone on how I need to learn how to cook more and how I'm gonna settle one day and have a family. Just yesterday, my dad was going on about how their is a prime age to get married and how it's usually 20-21 and all this stuff.
I don't even really care. I only paid attention to half of it honestly. We talked more about university planning, where I want to go, etc; and we talked about a summer program that's happening in Yale this summer. Something like the Yale graduate scholars program or something that I might attend. I mean I'm gonna apply but It's Yale, they're an Ivy and I'm sure they're like super competetive and idk my grades last year weren't that great. It's only because of my grades this year that are semi-good. Depends honestly because the semester hasn't closed yet but if we don't have school tomorrow, we only have a break and a week after break till the semester officially ends. Hopefully that's how it is. Hopefully we don't have school because I can't go back there. Everytime I walk into that school, a part of me dies. A part of me is dying honestly.
Thinking about the summer makes me feel a little better though. We're going to the US and well usually I hate going to the US as well but at least I have people there and again, I'm thinking of going to that summer program so I might not even have to stay home either way. Besides, I'll be learning a ton of stuff about what I actually want to do in the future. I'm gonna just apply to a bunch of places and hope that I get accpeted I guess. I really want to go to Southwestern Medical centers one though because they have a really good psych program, it's just that I'm scared since the rest of the kids will probs know each other and I'm a shy kid and kinda introverted. I really don't want to be all alone in a whole different country in a program by myself.
We have school tomorrow. They just announced it and I want to cry. It's so annoying because they announced it today at 4PM since their isn't any rain but seriously I can't go to school tomorrow. I just procrastinated the whole entire time and I have so much work to do now. I have to make an introduction and a conclusion and finish my outline for english along with one body paragraph. Than I have to actually study for my maths test which I dont want to do but both of these things are due tomorrow and I feel like I'm just cooked like I'm gonna fail. I'm gonna have to stay up and get everything complete but I have to do English first since I have a short time frame to get that done and I'll have to stay up till 1AM just trying to get Math done.
I can't believe this. I don't wanna go. I just wanna stay home and idk do the test later. I was really hoping that I'd get to miss it. I know the ministry has to make the final decision but I dont know. The emails already been sent out and thinking of the work I have to do is so stressful. I wish I could just skip school tomorrow and just not take it honestly but I can't ditch class either since thats not exactly an option. I'll be in trouble and it'll just make me feel even more worse than before.
I know its kinda pointless, but Im just hoping that some miracle happens and its gets canceled again because I really don't wanna go. This doesn't feel fair. Why're they keeping school open on the last day honestly. Just cancel it.
Is it bad that a part of me is still hoping that we don't go to school. It's just wishful thinking and everything and I know that but a part of me just isn't ready. I'm not ready to go back there and take that test. My test anxiety and the stress from procrastinating so much is flaring up horribly. It's 8:10 PM and the ministry only makes announcements between 7-10 and I don't wanna lose hope but honestly its wishful thinking. I just dont want to go. I feel so overwhelmed. I feel like just crying so much. I dont even know enough to get a B honestly. Please, I just want school to be canceled and test to be moved after break. I'm not ready to go back there, I just want it canceled. In Sha Allah.
Okay, so school actually did get canceled and Alhumdulilah for it. The amount of times that I prayed and prayed was just wow. I'm so happy as well that we don't have school because I actually had my test today but because school is canceled, I have it after break which I honestly prefer. I feel great honestly, alhumdulilah. My friends and I got so happy after finding out that school is canceld because now break has basically started. We're gonna hang out with our friend who came from England at 1PM today and I'm excited for it. I'm gonna eat a whole subway sandwich 😂
I still have to lock in of course but on the bright side, I've already completed my body paragraphs for english. CERER and I did two of them, so now all I have to do is introduction and conculsion and that'll be after I finish lining everything up on my outline, but it should be pretty fast. I get two hours to do it as well. I have online school though, but we don't do tests online because it just doesn't make sense to do that because we have to show our work and thats where we get most of our points. I doubt that he'll make us do it at home.
Break started and I realized that I actually do have a ton of stuff to do. I signed up to self study for an AP outside of school and my exam for that AP is in may. I have a total of 9 units meaning that I have to get 2 done per month in order to take the exam with everything I know. I don’t know why I did this to myself when I already suffer from major procrastinating but I don’t know I guess I thought I could just do it or something.
Oh and we’re going to India tonight. Flight is at 2 AM so we’re probably gonna leave for the airport at 10PM. Not gonna get any sleep since it’s an overnight flight but I’ll try to get some notes done on the plane. Maybe read but idk. Have lots to do and I’ll probs be tired by the time we get their. We have a layover in Mumbai and than go to Hyderabad from there. Bohot lambi safr hai. The flight itself is like 4 hours or so. I’m not sure. It’ll be very exhausting I think but I’m allowed to bring my laptop and my things.
Just got to India. Flight was long and we had a layover in Mumbai. The Mumbai airport is sooooo slow. I thought that for such a big city, they would at least move things a bit quicker but the immigration officers were so slow and we were in line for 2 hours. We only had a 3 hour layover and honestly, we nearly missed our flight! I hope we just get a direct flight to Hyderabad next time because they’re so much faster. We were running around all of Mumbai airport and man my legs feel absolutely dead. I’m so exhausted and wanna go to sleep but it’s almost 5 PM and if I sleep now, then I won’t be able to sleep at night and then I’ll end up waking up at like 12 PM tomorrow which would be a full waste of time. The worst part of this whole thing was that when I was in the plane to Mumbai, I got my period in the seat. Now I had predicted that my period was gonna come soon so I already had a pad on thankfully, but my stomach, back, thighs, calves, and even my feet hurt. Idk why my feet feel numb and tingly but I googled it and it’s something called dysmenorrhea where you get cramps tha start in your stomach and the pain goes down to the feet during a period. Idk how accurate that is since it’s from google lol
My head is basically killing me though. The pain radiates down to my neck and shoulders and oh it hurts sooo bad.
Okay well I did end up falling asleep for maybe an hour. Only because mom made me but I do intend to sleep early tonight anyways. I feel so fatigued like my head, neck, shoulders, thighs, calves, and feet and just everything hurt so much right now. I don’t know if that’s just because of my period, sleeping cramped in the plane, or just emotional exhaustion from everything. The nap didn’t really help. If anything it honestly made it worse. I got a pandora though from my Nani so hopefully I feel better I guess 🤍
I have to get two units/chapters done every month for AP enviromental science. I like enviromental science. I think it's fascinating how animals can interact and how different species of birds eat from the same tree, but from different parts of that tree. Like the way they just interact with each other is honestly really cool. If I wasn't super interested in doing psychology, I'd definitely consider going into enviromental science. Just everything about animals, their ecosystems, the way they interact with each other, natural selection, etc; is so cool to me. Though 2 units/chapters might be alot since its already like dec 19 and im not planning to start till tomorrow. That means that I have 10 days to get everything done which wow, I might have t get like 2 sections done per day, somedays 3. It's okay though as long as I can get everything else done as well and on time. InShaAllah, It'll be fine.
We can plan and prepare for life as much as we want. But it is far more random and unpredictable than we give it credit for.
I hear your angst and struggles and hopes. And truly, i wish so many good things for you.
But life is unpredictable and we need to bend in the storm, be flexible, in order to survive. At uni my life was all planned out and now....it is nothing like i imagined it would be.
I guess i'm trying to say, yes, have your dreams but if life opens up a different path to you, try to be curious and open. Our perspective changes regularly and i believe that you will be where you are meant to be. What's meant for you, won't go past you.
All the best for the future wherever it may take you.