Dear Shirley, Earth Angel:

A fancy calculator that requires entering parentheses. Hope you get used to it soon. I’ve has a new fancy cell phone for months and I still don’t know how to operate the simple functions I used to know on the old phone. Wish I had the old phone. But you have to adjust and take on the new technology. Have (patience) with the calculator until it works for you.

Andrew is in the second block ap calc but that doesn’t keep him from competing with you and Dave is nowhere to be seen. Zach, javi and sal are new names for me. Your special friend is in A Lunch so you see him and still friends although he now has a girlfriend for three months or so.

It is good you have only 9-17 peers in your various classes. I hope this means you get more attention, helpful, laid back, encouraging personal attention from the teachers.

I am not surprised your inner bully bullies you where you are weak or insecure- this is why it is called bully. A helpful, gentle, patient and kind inner critic is what I would like you to have… everywhere. It would be so very cool, wouldn’t it, if the inner bully would become extinct like your old calculator and the inner critic would be like your new calculator.

I don’t know if you will have much time to read and post here, now that you are back to school and getting used to a new schedule, new classes etc. Take care of yourself and schedule your time well. Be gentle with yourself every day.

anita