Back to School with M-L #2

          Hey hey hey! :) It's time for another Back to School with M-L! You know, to be honest, there are so many things I want to discuss about with the subject "back to school". We can talk about school supplies, homework, morning routines, night routines, teachers, students, friends, drama, classes, outfit ideas, heck, even breakfast and lunch ideas!! These are all of the things I cam think of right at the top of my head! Imagine if I took the time to think! I've been thinking of "smushing" a couple topics into one post so that I can get as many topics covered before school actually starts! You feel me?

So today let's talk about school supplies!



Alright, of course, we gotta have pencils. It's probably the number one thing to have for school, am I right? Anyway, there are so many types of pencils. There are mechanical pencils with 0.7 mm lead, or 0.5 mm, or regular pencils that require to have a pencil sharpener. I personally like mechanical pencils because I don't have to carry a sharpener with me, but I do keep one regular pencil in my pencil case because in my art class we need to use that kind of pencil and not a mechanical.Whichever kind of pencil you prefer, use it. You should maybe have as much as your school supplies' list tells you to have, but because I don't want to carry ten pencils in my pencil case, I usually have two to three pencils and keep the rest at home.

Pencils already have them, but you should also carry erasers with you. I don't know if I'm the only one, but I hate using the erasers on the pencil. I dunno why, I like them being new and unused! If I do have to use the eraser though, I'll use a bit and that's it. But yeah, get a bigger eraser for school because you're gonna need it. Just one is enough. I only carry one in my pencil case. May I suggest the Staedtler brand for your eraser? It is a lifesaver and it works really well!

Pens galore! Pens are important too, don't forget! At my school, for handwritten paragraphs or essays, we have to use either black or blue pens. Pens are like pencils, and it can help you write notes. You can use as many colors as you want. I think, and I don't have my pencil case with me by the way, but I think that I have black, light blue, dark blue, red, and green... yeah... I used to have a purple one, a brown one and an orange one, but I don't have them anymore because I lent them to people who either lost it, or they lost the cap of the pen which dried the ink up..! Oh well, it's my fault for even thinking about lending it to them. So yeah, pens are good to have.

Highlighters are a must! In my opinion. They help you so much with reviews and notes when you study! But if it doesn't help you, you don't have to use it or else all of the colors in your notebooks might be even more confusing for you. About three or four highlighters will do. I have four because that was on my school's supplies list. I have them in the colors blue, yellow, pink and orange. But, I can mix blue and yellow together to make green! So I have five colors! Smart, eh?

The basic art supplies. Pencil crayons, you should just have at least all of the colors of the rainbow,
black, grey, and brown. I don't think the color white is that important. Pink is good too, since it's not one of the colors of the rainbow. Just a small glue stick will do, and a pair of scissors.

Oh, bring a ruler and a calculator for your math class! Some teachers don't have their own rulers and calculators to borrow so you need to bring your own! It's pretty self-explanatory.

Post-Its can be pretty important. If you forget your agenda, you've got little post-it note to write it down on! I never used post-its notes before during classes. This next school year though, I'm going to bring a pad of post-its so that I can see if they will help me with school.

You need a pencil case to carry all of these! I suggest using pencil pouches, and not those boxes. If you drop your pencil box, it will probably crack or open. But if you use pencil pouches, it uses a zipper so it won't open on its own. And since it's more of a fabric, you can probably fit more stuff than if you used a pencil box.

Binders and notebooks. It's pretty self-explanatory. Duo-tangs can work too.

I hope you enjoyed reading! Enjoy your back to school shopping!

Keep Smiling,
M-L

Back to School with M-L #1

          Hello friends! How are you all? Can you believe that we're almost going into August?! That is why I want to start on all of those back to school topics here! I've been looking forward to doing these posts so much and now I can do them!
So first off on the list of the Back to School with M-L is what to bring in your survival kit in case of any emergencies!

This is probably obvious but we all need tissues. I'll be frank and say that I have at least two packets of tissues in my backpack right now. :) We all need some, okay? I walk home from school and it takes me about twenty to thirty minutes to get home so having tissues with me is very important. For example, once, my nose was pretty runny and I had to sneeze. When I did (this might sound very disgusting by the way, but it's what happened to me), snot kind of "shot" out and luckily I had tissues with me! That's why tissues are important!

Another thing we need- well, not really need but kind of what we should probably have, are mints or gum. It's useful for more than one thing. You can eat it if you're hungry, or you think your breath smells, or you use it as a tool to remember stuff during an exam. I have lots of mints and gum in my backpack! Not only because of the reasons I just listed but because it's good.

Band-aids or a small first-aid kit are essential. Obviously you don't need a whole kit with alcohol and gauze but just enough band-aids and hand sanitizers ought to do the trick.
Speaking of hand sanitizers, you need that too! Who knows if you'll have to tough something totally dirty filled with bacteria? Or you have to go to the washroom and the bathroom ran out of soap? Handy dandy hand sanitizer is there to save the day.

This is towards girls and it is pads for that time of the month. There's not much to say but yeah. Bring those and it will make your life easier. You won't have to ask anyone for some and it won't be awkward because you'll already have your own!

Money is a very important thing to have just in case you might need it. You don't need like, twenty dollars but you also can't have five cents. Just enough like five or ten dollars will suffice. If, for example, you forgot your lunch, you can buy some food from your cafeteria or vending machine. My school is somewhat close to Safeway so you can maybe take the bus or even walk to a store near you to buy some food and eat it before lunch ends. Maybe if your friend doesn't have enough money, you can lend some of yours to them and they will pay you back.

If you want, you can carry some lotion. For me it's annoying when my hands are very dry. Sometimes it even hurts. That's why I have a small tube of lotion in my backpack in case my hands are irritated. Although I barely use it because in the morning before I leave for school I put on some lotion and it's a very good lotion so my hands are soft pretty much the whole day. But still, just in case!

Have a few pencils, erasers and pens in case you lost or forgot your pencil case at home or something. It's "every man for himself" at school and so you are alone in a situation like that. People mostly might only have one for themselves or they just don't want to lend you one. Especially since you change classes regularly, and they're worried that you'll lose the thing they lent you.

If you have one, it's vital to bring your phone too. I suggest leaving your phone in your backpack at all times so that you don't lose it or break it or forget it. I keep mine in my backpack because I don't need to use it that much. All I need on that phone is to call, and that's it. But definitely have your phone with you in case you need to call someone. I walk home with my friend all the time after school, but then he crosses the road and I continue walking so usually I spend the next ten minutes alone until I get back home.

A few beauty products that could be of use are oil blotting sheets, if you wear makeup then a few of your makeup products, lip balm, elastics and other of your choices.

I hope you enjoyed reading! Happy Thursday!

Keep Smiling,
M-L