Cheerleading is good for intellectual growth

I noticed that I have more focus and concentration when I study from 9 p.m. onwards. Of course, in spite of all my effort last night, I had a really hard time answering my tests today (Physics, Filipino and Health). It wasn’t just me who thought that they were more difficult than usual, but still. Quarterly exams make up a huge percentage of my final grade. Maybe I can talk my teachers next year into letting me do a special project or something, even if it means I have to do it over Christmas break. What the hell, I already have daily cheerleading practice after Christmas. I’m sure that ontop of my college essays, I can handle writing a paper or two. Goodbye vacation, then…

I still can’t decide if it was dumb of me to join cheerleading or not. I had forgotten how tempers run high during cheerleading season and was only reminded after school today when we had a meeting about what we’re going to wear. Rajelyn wants us to wear pants because a lot of the cheerleaders pull their skirts down after doing cartwheels and it doesn’t look nice. But a lot of us want to wear skirts because pants and cheerleading just do not go together. Personally, I really couldn’t care less about our costume. I mean skirts are cute and so is my ass, but they make me look smaller than I already am. Besides, I have horrible legs. On the other hand, I’d be more comfortable dancing in pants, but I wouldn’t exactly feel like a cheerleader in them. Well anwyay, because a lot of the cheerleaders are really belligerent and bitchy, this huge argument took place with everyone yelling at each other and all. For once, I just sat impassively in my seat and didn’t bother speaking up. I don’t think I could’ve been heard over the noise anyway and besides, I know Rajelyn will always get her way in the end since she’s head cheerleader. No sense wasting any energy over that. I wanted to leave the meeting since it was becoming so stupid, but decided not to because I do want to be a cheerleader and I didn’t want to piss Rajelyn off. So I stayed. It’s amazing how people can get so riled up over little things like that. It’s so…high school.