The first day of school is a day often dreaded but at the same time very crucial and exciting. If you think about it, there are soo many ways to mess it up: you could forget to bring your binders, miss 15 mintues of one of your periods because you couldn't find the room, or come back home with a pink slip because you forgot that wearing flip flops is a thing for summer and summer only. But you know what I think is the absolute WORST thing you could possibly do that would defintly make you start the year on the wrong foot? Miss the first day of school. Or hey, while your at it, why not miss the next day after that? And the next day? And the next day, and the next day, and the next day.....heck! Why not the entire first week? Of course that would cause some major issues (i mean think of the make-up work!) Well, that's what I did for my junior year, just skipped the first week and then some. But don't get me wrong! I didn't do it on purpose (I don't hate school THAT much). It just so happened that i caught a terrible illness that was very contagious and prevented me from school,(stupid pneumonia) or doing anything! I couldn't drive anywhere, excercise, go outside, read, or watch TV! (It hurt my eyes too much) All I could do was lay on a sofa and wallow in misery, and if that was too boring there was always trying to eat and drink food without it coming back up. All in all, it wasn't fun missing school (crazy as that may seem) in my opinion. to be honest I'd rather be complaining over homework-deadlines than on how terrible i felt. I think the worst part was the seclusion part though. I mean man was I disappointed! All these friends I had been looking forward to seeing after being seperated all summer, they were all right there at school and I could barely even text them! Of course I was missing events too, a bunch of stuff was definetly going on in school when I wasn't there...so I had even more make up work haha. So anyways it was bad, but at least i'm here now and can get with my junior year, so I guess I should stop complaining! Instead lying around and coughing(well that's not quite gone yet) i'm here at school and enjoying every fun,stressful, and awesome second.