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Gah, DtE is dead. So, what's on your mind?
submitted by Melody, age 14, The Jolly Roger
(September 18, 2012 - 4:48 pm)
(September 18, 2012 - 4:48 pm)
Gah, DtE is dead. So, what's on your mind?
Oh! Darling. If you leave me, I'll never make it, Alone.
(September 24, 2012 - 3:30 pm)
A school day in my lovely life.
Japanese: Doing counters today. In Japanese there is a special word for counting each object. So small animals counter is ippiki, nihiki, sanbiki, etc. while people is hitori, futari, sannin, yonin, etc. SO BORING. Only interesting thing: the counter for 5 mechanized objects (like a car) is godai. And if you can't figure why that is funny, say it outloud.
English: Turning in 10 To Kill A Mockingbird essays. So now for about three weeks I will be free of English essays. *floats away in happiness* And then we did grammar and then my teacher found that he forgot to give us the vocabulary words which are due tomorrow. So then he printed them out and was literally throwing them out to a crowd of pushing, shoving kids. In an attempt to calm the chaos, he said "Girls first", and all the girls got really pleased, and all the boys got annoyed.
Math: Moved seats and I am with the annoying person who was at my table before. He will not stop talking, and he's one of those people who has to do the problem outloud. At least he's stopped insulting me in Chinese. He didn't know that I was in an after school program in elemntary school with two Chinese kids who knew some very bad insults and swear words. I've eventually picked up on a few.
Science: Review for a test on measurement. Boring.
Lunch: One of the seventh grade science teachers now officially thinks I'm crazy. Why is it that whenever I am saying something incredibly weird or odd sounding, a teacher has to walk by?
Tech: Working on an animation of a guy watching clouds and then falling asleep. So far, a cloud has mostly gone by, and he has shifted his position twice.
History: Took notes on economy of the U.S. colonies before the Revolution. I'm sorry, but I find a repeat of 5th grade rather boring. The wool act, hat act, and tea act are all so familiar. We studied the American Revolution and the Colonies in great detail in 5th grade.
So, how was your day?
(September 24, 2012 - 8:54 pm)
On the teacher-walking-by thing: That happens to me all the time....I'd be talking to my friends and just as soon as, say, my friend says "Dragon obsessed," and I mishear and say "Did you just say 'dragon incest'?" a teacher walks by and stares at me. Of course, sometimes it's my own fault. A summary of my day:
Science: Stuck seaweed into water with bromothymol (is that how you spell it?) blue to prove that it goes through cell respiration.
Today was the Mercy Day mass... Lots of singing.
Break: Milled about, talking about what to say to Siri (you know, the weird little voice thingy in apple products)
Geo: Gave our presentations on global warming. *snore snore* Listening to a bunch of classmates say the same thing about global warming in three different ways is not fun. Also switched seats. I'm next to this...average guy. He's odd.
P.E.: My genius teacher decided to play football. Since my two friends and I...ahem....have in enthusiasm what is wanted in skill... Nobody really bothered us. We just milled about while my two friends tried to get me to like Hatsune Miku.
L.A.: Switched seats again, then talked about.....what did we talk about...it's so boring, I don't remember.
Math: It's math. What were we supposed to do. Our teacher just passed out some notes and taught us about square roots, everything about which we knew from last year.
Lunch: Sat talking with my friends and an eighth grader. Most of our time we we filling out this weird little thingy, because the eighth grader brought up how cheesy and chichéd it is:
"I left everything to ___. My passion/dream is/is to become ____. I love ____ but ____ keeps us apart."
One of my friends': "I left everything to grow a mustache. My dream is to have the biggest mustache in the world. I love my mustache, but shaving keeps us apart."
Religion: Switched seats. I'm far away from anyone of interest. Then we talked about prayer and wrote journals about our experiences with our, as my teacher puts it, "little buddies", as some girls put it, "adorable little children", and as I put it "those four-year-olds that will torture us for the rest of the school year".
Lit: Had a spelling test. One hundred five percent. I could have gotten one hundred fifteen though :P
Spamdragon says 'knee'.
(September 24, 2012 - 10:36 pm)
@ Tiffany- "Bromthymol"
Also, ask Siri what the average airspeed of a swallow flying south is.
(September 26, 2012 - 5:46 pm)
An African swallow or a European swallow? Lol! Isn't that from Monty Python?
Also, thanks for clearing that up. I knew I'd gotten it wrong.
(September 26, 2012 - 8:34 pm)
Yep!
"Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?"
Welcome!
(September 27, 2012 - 2:08 pm)
English: Did some good hard talking about 1984. WEIRDEST BOOK EVER. I got lectured on adverbs, and accidentally offended my teacher.
Band: Got our part assignments back! I'm the section leader of the trombonies!
Chem: LAB. LABLAB And BURNING THINGS!! :D Only problem: My hair is curly, as in "out-of-control-there-is-no-way-that's-natural" curly. When I put my hair up for labs, one of three things happens: 1. There is no taking it down for the rest of that day. 2. Hair tie breaks, have to put up with a pencil or sit out of lab. 3. Minimal hair actually remains in the ponytail. I went with option 1, which was disappointing, because it looked really good today.
Lunch:
There's this iced tea that our cafeteria sells, and it is REALLY GOOD.
APUSH: Speculate on the Vietnam War. Read books under desk. Find a cool pen under my desk that I believe belonged to me at one point. Or one like it.
Stagecraft: Lean precariously off of the catwalk to adjust a counterweight = most terrifying experience of my life. Oh, sure, I may have only been what, 50 feet up? But when you lean off that teeny little path to move a sandbag THAT BIG? Ohhh, my gosh I want to liveee...
GO HOME FINALLY.
(September 25, 2012 - 4:03 pm)
Another day in the life of me!
Japanese: Used the laptops today, but found that they could only write in Chinese or English, and we couldn't change the settings on them. So we did some pages in our workbooks instead. Lent Yotsuba!& 11 to a classmate, who didn't feel like buying it.
English: Guess what? We have to write another essay. Wow. This time, it is the closing argument (or whatever that's called) for the trial of Tom Robinson. I'm on defense, and I'm presenting second on Tuesday (so we have a whole week to work on this). The prosecution is a girl in debate, so my presentation will be weak compared to hers. Not to mention the teacher will be filming us...
Math: Doing slope of a line today. I learned slope in fourth or fifth grade... Maybe third. Very boring class today.
Science: Test on measurement. Stuff like SI, metric prefixes from giga to nano, angstroms, moles, how to measure liquids with a meniscus, estimated digit rule, lab equipement, things like that.
Lunch: Suprisingly, my insanity level did not go up today in the eyes of my teachers. The one time my science teacher walked by, we were talking about piano and Certificate of Merit.
Tech: The girl next to me tried to get me to tell her what was on the test, and I told her two things: the test was on science, and it was on measurement (which we obviously knew). Then I proceeded to badger the girl next to me to add a helmet to the guy riding a bike in her animation. The guy in my animation fell asleep and started to dream. The program we are using is called Stykz, and it is SO HARD to put clothes on the people. For the most part, my stick figures are clothesless, but I tried to put a shirt and a hat on the guy in the dream... Result: someone said, "Hey, it looks like Link!" (not what I intended)
History: Finished notes, watched movie on Boston Massacre. There has been this "game" going around that consists of, if you say a question that ends in a one-syllable word, you get slapped. Only got slapped twice today, and once was on purpose. Slapped 3 people once each. I'm getting better at this. Tips for if this ever gets to your school: say 'giraffe' at the end of each question, and train yourself to say "nani" (Japanese for "what") instead of "what".
For some random weirdness. My CD player has favorite songs. For instance, right now, it loves the song Afterimage for some reason. It keeps on playing it for some reason.
(September 25, 2012 - 7:39 pm)
I think you might have hit the repeat button on your CD player.
(September 26, 2012 - 8:53 am)
So then. I feel like publishing a day in m life. Last one, I promise.
Japanese: Spent forever making notes on our school's iPads. They turned out prettty good. Cool thing for people with iPads: if you go into settings and select Japnese (romanji) sometimes little pictures will pop up after words you type. Like if you type usagi (mouse), a really cute mouse picture will pop up, and a hamster one too.
English: Worked with the person I'm going up against in the trial. We are still planning our essays.
Math: Took a quiz today. Twas very easy. As was the lesson we did. Slope-intercept form (y=mx+b) and standard form (ax+by=c). Math is pretty boring. I wish I was in Algebra II.... Had to go the office between classes for no apparent reason. Apparently, it was to get some prizes for this fundraiser thing. I had to tell her ten times that I didn't care about prizes, I just wanted to go to class. (I'm not exaggerating.)
Science: Graded the tests we took yesterday. I got 40.5 out of 40... *gloom* We could have got a maximum of 42.... I'm now very depressed.
Lunch: I bring my experiment notebook to school, and automatically everyone wants to pilfer it and read it. Honestly.
Tech: OH NOOOO! My animation forgot to save! AHHHHHH! I managed to get back to the point I was at. My horse I drew is bad. I'm such a bad artist. Of course, Red has a masterpiece over on his computer.... *grumble,grumble* Now my character guy looks more Link than before. My teacher kept on showing us random Youtube videos, and then tells us off for not working. The hypocrite.
History: A guy came in to talk about land surveying. Actually more intresting than it sounds, but he treated us all like fourth graders. And then we watched a movie on the trial of the Boston Massacre. I paid very close attention to it because of English. In other bnews, I didn't get slapped at all today.
(September 26, 2012 - 6:19 pm)
Since today is Saturday, I'll give you a day in my life from Friday.
Science: Took MORE notes on cells. For only like the twelfth time this week. Also, I have to build a model of a plant cell this weekend. So happy.
Band: Nothing new. Still too easy. :P None of the other saxophones are that great. (SHHH don't tell them.)
Songs are: Jubilance, Fire, Paths of Glory.
Jazz Band songs: Pennsylvania 6-5000, Basi-cally the Blues, Mamma Mia, and Soul Sacrifice (which is really hard by the way. Like REALLY hard.)
PE: Yoga unit. LIKE because the first ten minutes of class is basically sleeping and I have to get up at 6:30 every morning and I am always really tired. In other news, my grade for the unit is a C+ because the teachers have a new system where they start you at a C and you have to do extra credit stuff to get an A.
Lunch: Found a random pile of salt on the ground. My friend (who shall remain nameless here) put some on his tongue. After about three seconds, he began spitting. This phase continued for about five minutes. Then he went and drank from the water fountain for another five minutes.
Needless to say, it was pretty funny.
Algebra: 102% on first test. Also 102% on the last test, and 105% on the group quiz. Weirdly enough, I'm in an advanced eighth grade class.
English: Have read . . . *checks sheet* 18 books. 18 out of 26. With all my other homework and stuff, before the first trimester ended. Too easy.
We're doing a new thing called "Book Talks" where we have to advertise books like a mini-commercial. Three "Book Talks" a trimester. Gah. I will be no good at this, trust me.
History: SO much WORK. Uughh. I don't care about feudalism in medieval England.
Actually, I'm looking forward to reading about the samurai in medieval Japan. But that's not happening until somewhere around January.
Then there was a pep rally. It was very boring. The only mildly entertaining part was the dance-off, which the seventh grade OWNED, by the way. And we have fourth (last) place for "spirit points." Now we all go around giving each other high-fours.
By now, you've probably had enough of my life. So I will just submit this comment.
Spammy says exhh.
No, no. Click submit.
*clicks subm
(September 29, 2012 - 11:21 am)
OH MAW ZIPPER-EATING PLATYPUSES DANCING ON APPLE PIES FULL OF TNT!!!!! (that's OMZEPDOAPFOTNT by the way)
Sorry for that, I was just surprised that you play saxophone in jazz band. Tenor? Bari? Soprano? Alto? Please don't say alto. Everyone plays alto. I play bari in jazz band, tenor in normal band and marching band.
I wish to geek out about jazz for a minute. ^.^
Okay. Done.
Pep rallys? Oh, let me tell you IT DON'T GET NO BETTER IN HIGH SCHOOL. It actually gets worse, because everybody knows the guys on the team. Homecoming is next week for us, though. (I am right in assuming the rally was for homecoming?)
Meh.
(September 29, 2012 - 12:54 pm)
I play clarinet. I have had to play at the football games with it because regular band is marching band at my school. Yesterday it was raining really hard during the game. Hope you never get a woodwind caught in the rain. I luckily was able to cover it, and we only had to play for one quarter because everybody was getting soaked. It's in the auditorium airing out now.
(September 29, 2012 - 5:04 pm)
Eek. We're covering cells, too. *cowers* We're doing mitosis at the moment.
Feudalism in medieval Europe? Jealous.
(September 29, 2012 - 12:58 pm)
Ah, mitosis. I remember doing an evil diagram in seventh grade of animal cells vs. plant cells. I drew a lot of ribosomes. It was fun. "Circle circle circle circle GOLGI APPARATUS!"
(September 29, 2012 - 3:59 pm)