First day of new classes

Andrew replaces chemistry and Japanese with health and CAPS - Critical Analysis and Problem Solving. I remember he thought CAPS would be dumb, but he says it is surprisingly fun and interesting, though the teacher has a lot of rules. He brought me the list of them to sign. The rules remind me of our Freshman Engineering classes: assignments for grades must be in pen, pencil is only okay for homework - which must be done in a spiral binder and never removed, etc. It was Matias's favorite class, and Andrew has the same teacher.
The first day everyone had to give one interesting fact about themselves. Andrew's was "I put peanut butter on pancakes." Then they got to bring up any question they wanted for classroom discussion. They spent a lot of time talking about why they are here - why people exist in the universe.
Andrew says health looks like a lot of busy work. It sounds uninspired, not much different than the health class I took as a freshman in Springfield, Virginia. At least my teacher was a cool old lady paramedic.

Mali's new class is art. She says the first day is always boring, and has high hopes for the rest of the class. She asked Andrew if he signed the exacto knife pledge. She looked for his name, but only found Olivia's because hers was really big.