Teachers bother me. I mean, that's a little cliche, but its true.
There's just so many things teachers do that make you think "really? why would you do that?"
For example, let's say your teacher is giving the class a lecture or explaining a new concept. They usually start it off with something like "please save your questions until the end." And there's usually at least one kid who puts their hand up during the speech, then they get "you can't be paying attention to what I'm saying if your hand is up, that means you're just focusing on your question," so the student proceeds to put his or her hand down and sits there until the end of the lecture. 
I see two things wrong with this. Firstly, the student gets called out for not being able to focus on the teacher if he or she has a question during the speech. Which is ridiculous because when all the questions are ignored until the end, the students have to remember what their question was throughout the whole speech. Therefore, they are not as focused a they would be if the teacher had taken 45 seconds to stop and answer their question when they thought of it. 
Secondly, if the students are asked to save their questions 'till the end, it usually means the lecture is quite long and the teacher just wants to get through it. If the teacher isn't interested enough in the topic to go into detail about it, what makes you think the students are going to want to sit and listen to the whole thing? When teachers say that you're not focusing if you have your hand up, they obviously don't account for the 95% of students who probably aren't paying any attention anyways. 

What do you want to be when you grow up? Where are you going after high school? What are you passionate about?
I have no idea.
It seems ridiculous to me that people are expected to have some some sort of answer to these questions. How are you supposed to know any of that at 15 or 16? Most people have very little experience at this age, how can you be expected to make such a life-altering decision when you're so uneducated?
I've tried a billion things -- cooking, photography, modeling, drawing, even boxing -- in an effort to find something I can be passionate about. Nothing's 'clicked' yet. If I don't enjoy anything, I'm not sure how to go about deciding a career path. 
I think decision making is so difficult because there are so many possibilities. Someone who's interested in becoming a doctor, for example, could specialize in anything from children, adults, cardiac, respiratory, or feet, to something like dental work or gynecology. How do you decide?
Then there's the huge possibility of making a wrong decision. What do you do when you put yourself through medical school, spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on your education, and don't realize that it was the wrong decision until the end?
Planning for the future is hard when you don't know where you want to go.

Yesterday we went to TEDxYouth Waterloo  There were a lot of speakers there with very different speeches and ideas revolving around the theme ‘chasing home’. Most of the speakers seemed to be rambling on about the thing they were passionate about; there were some musicians, some artists, and some people who just talked about what they had gone through in their lives.
I found most of the speeches uninteresting, I felt like they should’ve been more in depth and put-together. A lot of the speakers seemed to get off topic and a few even forgot their lines.
However, there were a few performances that stood out to me as better than the rest.  There was a spoken word poet named Holly Painter, who talked a bit about her life and presented a poem she had written comparing bullying to ‘The Hunger Games’. In my opinion, she was a very good speaker and her performance was really interesting, it definitely made me think about her message and left me wanting more.
Another speaker that I really enjoyed was Richard McLean. He talked about his struggles growing up and all the bad experiences that he has gone through to make him the person he is today. Richard now works in the mental health field and is an advocate for people who are homeless or are at risk of becoming homeless. His performance was really inspiring and I felt like I could relate to it more than the others as I know many people with mental health issues. 
Overall, I think the event was a really great experience and I learned a lot from it.

Hi, my name is Katelin and I'm a procrastinator. 
So, now that I got that off my chest, I feel like I should explain why this is my only blog post so far. My explanation is simple: blogging is difficult. 
For some people, writing blog posts comes as easily as breathing; for me, it's comparable to walking on your hands all day. It's not like I can't write or that I don't know how, in fact, my writing skills (so I've been told) are 'above-average'. My problem is the 'what'. Coming up with an idea or a topic for my blog posts is the difficult part.
I've been told -- more than once -- to read the news and express my opinions about those topics, or to write about something I feel passionate about. For starters, I hate reading the news. It's boring and rarely involves topics that I feel anything besides indifferent towards. Secondly, I'm not passionate about anything really besides sleeping. And let’s face it, if I were to write a blog post about sleeping, it would start off as me telling you how much I enjoy doing it, and about 2 sentences in I would decide to just take a nap instead. 
I guess the expectation is for me to have roughly six posts by now, and my excuse is definitely not good enough to justify this being my only one (I'll have to work on that). The idea of having to go through this process five more times to be caught up, and then at least twice every week for the rest of the semester is absolutely revolting. I had better start coming up with ideas and hope that this gets easier with every post.
So, 306 words and quite a bit of time later, I have finished my first blog post.