Heavy Books - Back to School

You know, your parents walked 10 miles to school, carrying books, in the snow, uphill both ways, bla bla bla.

Well I did walk to school. The elementary was close, but the Jr. High was a half hour walk and the High School was 40 minutes. We didn't have backpacks, but we did have lockers, so we only brought home what was absolutely necessary.

Dearra's schedule seems to be conspiring against her this year though. She has three classes with very heavy books and those classes fall on the same day (Monday is every class for 40 minutes, and then the classes alternate days). Her classes are very far apart, and that makes it hard to get to her locker and make it to the next class on time. So on Tuesday and Thursday she ends up carrying her three biggest books all day long.

Why they couldn't put one of the classes with NO book on the day with two of the three that have large books, I don't know. I doubt they take book size into consideration when they schedule classes. All I know is, Dearra isn't very happy about it.

It is definitely NOT the time for the "uphill both ways" lecture...