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I was just chatting with my friend about the private school he goes to (the only one in this town). Even with me asking yes/no questions because he has bandages on his left-hand (and he is a lefty), I think I would probably enjoy it for more reasons other than that this certain person goes there *cheesy grin*. Me: She [this certain person] was telling me I needed to go there because you don't have to do much. Friend: yea Me: Do you learn anything that way? Friend: yea it is at ur own pace Me: Ah. Me: So if you're really good at something they let you do [more of] that? Friend: sure Me: Sounds like it combines the social advantages of public schooling with the learning advantages of homeshcooling. My question to you is this: How are you schooled (homeschooled, public, private, etc)? Why do you like being schooled that way? What are disadvantages of being schooled that way? What do you think the pros/cons of other schooling systems are? As for me: I'm homeschooled. I like it because I can move at my own pace, have more personal time with the teacher, take breaks when needed, and so I don't have to mess with goofoffs that go to other schools. The only disadvantages (and the one most people are concerned about us for) is that you can become socially lacking and "people-deprived". I could see this private school being good. I can see it missing some of the advantages of homeschooling, such as brakes and having goof-offs there (and that's where all the people who get kicked out of public school go ) But like I mentioned, it could be really good for me once my Mom runs out of math teaching abilities and before I'm 18 (I'm a few years ahead in that). I'm partially enrolled in our public school (taking band!). I'm of the opponion that it just plain doesn't work. That's always been a problem with state-run schools. There's so much you have to get done, and they don't let you speed up on stuff you're good at (at least in this state). Besides that, all the goof-offs and mean people go there. In fact the only advantages I have found would be that you can acquire social skills there. But for that, sports and other activities are just fine for me. Note: This entry will be locked and/or deleted if discussion gets to people saying one way or the other is always better. Different people have different tastes as different ways they need to learn. If this gets to that kind of discussion and or flame wars, action will be taken to at least this entry, if needed I can report members to authority. Please follow the rules.
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I thought the Free the Band thing was passed, but I've just received something else! I didn't know it, but apparently I won 2nd prize! I got a skate deck, poster, t-shirt, lanyard, Inika Hahli, an AAR CD, and Bionicle heroes for PC! The poster is in much better condition than the last one I got, and this lanyard card has Nuparu on it. The only thing is the t-shirt is very small. I might give it to my younger cousin for Christmas. And since I already have Hahli, I might give it to someone else for Christmas. I would of posted this earlier, but BZP was down. (And Bionicle Heroes is just so fun! )
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...There's no time like the present... Oh well. Bought some shtuff this week. First I received HeavensDust's second album, which is great. Yesterday I bought Come What(ever) May by Stone Sour. Ish also great. And today I bought a sword. A red wakizashi to be exact. It plain owns harder than a coffin nail. ----- Well, I guess I should do as I said in my other entry... So, here's my second message/letter to BoA. It's a lot more personal than my first letter... [EDIT] I removed the letter.. [/EDIT] ...go right ahead and add me if you want to... but not right now, since I'm heading off to bed. kthxbye -/-|-\- We will get true love someday...
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I was going to go to Califoria. I was going to see my friends there for the first time in months. But snow came. Flight delayed. That was at 8:00. Now it's around 12:00. The next flight could leave at 3:00. I hope it does. Yoshi
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Rainbow We had a party with the Demolay at an Eastern Star lady's house. We walked to the highly decorated homes on Throughbred Lane, and it is only on the pavement when you realize, this is a carnival! It's crowded enough, and home owners sell hot chocolate and churros on the sidewalk. When we return to the hostess' house, we ate cookies and watched "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer" on TV. Early the next morning, we volunteered at Rising Stars: a horse riding program for disabled children and adults. I first walked next to a horse with a young boy on its back. The supervisor told me how to hold the child's trembling ankle, and we were on our way. When we were done, the boy was ecstatic! Later, I got to ride a horse bareback! B) You could feel its body warmth and its spine moving under you. Job's Daughters We had our Installation on Wednesday. I'm not entirely fond of meeting Installation, but our Installing officers were busy on every Friday and Saturday in December. Nonetheless, the event was made special. School I finished Economics and the section work for Volume 1 Algebra! Home Life ♪It's finally looking a lot like Christmas!♫ We have most of our decorations up, and I dragged out some of my music installation decorations to decorate my room. The living room has Mom's glass ornaments and victorian theme, and the family room has Dad's train lights and his Lego train underneath the tree. Last night, we watched Elf on TV and today I helped Dad make biscuits. And, of course, I'm writing here. Comments Welcome!
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Off I go on winter break, the holidays of choice being the Winter Solstice and Christmas... Leaving HH alone with a munkey in Epics. I should be able to drop in at some point, but I'll be back for real on New Year's Day. Hopefully bearing Barraki and Aquaraiders. See you then! And Nocturn is completely and totally awesome in almost every possible way. Lime greeeeeen! Glow-in-the-dark blue! Whee! ~ ToM
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Well, school is over for the year! That's celebration enough to go back to a blog that I long abandoned! No more of Sale College, ever! I'm outta here! I'm also being punished for overusing exclamation marks! Now anyways, I'm probably not going to be on BZP much this holidays, due to various computer problems. Needless to say, my computer's terminal. Geddit? Terminal? Ah, why do I bother? In other news, there is finally a new episode of The Unknown Turaga: Land of Dragons! Please read! Dlakii TIME: 16 December 2006, 8:00 PM AEDT
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Never thought I'd do this, but I decided to post my first message/letter to BoA. And here it is.. [EDIT] I removed the letter.. [/EDIT] Who knows? Maybe I'll put up my second letter some time... PS: PSPX just crashed... <.< -|-|-
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All day yesterday (and today until about 5:15) we had no Internet! That was rather hard, due to the fact that we have Vontage. (An Internet-based phone service.) So we couldn't even use our phone! But I'm back again! In case anybody noticed I was gone. *sees that nobody noticed* um... well, it felt like a long time. Anyway, I drew a Bionicle-Christmas-themed picture a while ago, colored it up in Photoshop, and it just needs to be uploaded. But I'm wondering if I should wait till it's closer to Christmas to post it. Or should I post it tomorrow? On a random note: I was bored, typed Vakama's intro from MoL and recorded Microsoft Narrator narrating the said typed content. >Download & listen<
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I'm watching my brother dance around in the kitchen while making a sandwich. I have Relient K going...Does he know I am watching him? Or does he care? FINALLY got to see Cars, we got in Netflix today, and it is awesome, totally funny and the whole nine yards. Mom is watching it with the family now, because they went Christmas shopping today...And I have no clue what they got me! I asked for a video game...Mom said no video games. I asked for a Amplifier...To much money and mom said not enough room in our house. I asked for a flat screen monitor...to much money. I asked for some Bionicles...mom said no 'toys'. So yeah, basically they tore down my Christmas list. I hate to be the jealous type, but I wish that one day, I could actually have a nice Christmas, I really have never gotten a Christmas present more than $10-$30 dollars, and sometimes I want to cry when I hear that my friend is getting an iPod or something really nice, and they act that it isn't a very big deal. (I mean, they are excited of course, but not like it is the most amazing thing in the world) Out of the 10 commandments, I'm the worst when it comes to coveting. I really need to start to pray for myself to stop this. It can be a bad thing and make you miserable; everyone should be thankful for what they have, big or small. ...My sister is yelling at me to get off. I already told her I was after writing this, but no, she still yells at me... Sorry if it sounds that I am ranting again, just tired of my sister treating me so badly, but besides that I am fine. ^^;
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As you might be able to guess from the title, I've finally got my Nintendo Wii. And it's amazing. The controller is so clever, and so natural. And the design of everything is so slick... I also got Wii Play, Twilight Princess, and an extra Wiimote. So let the party begin! -Seran
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We have officially begun dealing with limits in Advanced Algebra. This is awesome. Meanwhile, we continue to read Ovid's Daedalus and Icarus. Cicero is easy after you get used to him; this is much harder, not least because it's in verse. But also much more fun. Whee! The most entertaining part, however, was when we noticed a Freshman's purse sitting on a desk, and we got the idea for the entire Latin class to get up, walk out of the room, and go through the school until we located its owner and then give it to her as a group. We actually did so with about ten minutes left of class – we had stopped at the head of a very long clause, didn't want to do the full thing right then, and so Dr. Jones asked if we wanted to go and find the Freshman. So we all got up and walked down the hallway together (with Julianne as Bearer of the Purse) and found her in Geometry class. Unfortunately they were taking a test, so we stood outside the door until Mrs. Broberg saw us, came over, and opened the door, at which point Dr. Jones and Julianne delivered the purse. It was hilarious. We then decided to go find Lowell, who had randomly walked out of Latin halfway through. At the front desk we found he had signed out for a doctor's appointment, and Dr. Jones then led us to the college advisor's office to sing "Happy Birthday" to him (even though his birthday is in March). He wasn't there, so we walked on to the Lower School, decided we wanted to have a class in the Teachers' Lounge, and opened and looked into a door to the statement from Dr. Jones: "There's a live dog in there." It then became a quest for the Ear (don't ask), which was missing. Someone must have put it somewhere, but to our knowledge, Leigh Ann and I are the only members of the Order of the Roving Ear... I also received Christmas presents of a bottle of orange soda, a chocolate bar, and a candy cane from Ally, Dani, and Rose. Yum... Third period included a discussion of the possible uses of candy canes as weapons. This was a fun day. ~ ToM
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For I have not updateth the blogeth in a month... eth. I don't know what it was the past few weeks. Somehow I felt like I had to get some things straight in RL first. Get good grades, some fresh inspiration for my writings. And now I feel like I reached that point where I can make a fresh (re)start. I'm back, and here to stay. I'll update the look of my blog over the next few days. -|IXI
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So, I need $5k more to pay for college this semester. Until then, I can't enroll for next semester. Ahh! Why is college so expensive? And why can't I find a loan to accept?? This is not good.
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If you've been wondering why it's taking me so long, it's because the cat is eating all my pieces. P.S. The blacked-out areas are where parts of my entry where since I don't want to be DQed. See my last post.
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Tip For Life #1: Always pack your backback the night before you go to school. I didn't heed this suggestion, and I forgot to do high-priority items this morning. As I turned in completed work, I learned that I now have two projects for Macbeth: "Read aloud to your teacher some of the pasages in the play which seem most significant to you."Design three costumes appropriate for either the hero or heroine of this video. Indicate the scenes in which the costumes would be worn."What they mean by "video," I will never understand. Meanwhile, I have to do some essay questions and a test. Then there's a lot of other homework. Good thing I have a Break before the semester ends! Comments Welcome
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I just got my my Free the Band prize in the mail! As mentioned in a previous entry, I won a T-shirt, lanyard and poster. Unfortunately, the poster is folded, so there's crease marks on it, but it's a good size. Probably around 2' long by 1½' wide. The lanyard card I got has Hewkii on it, and the shirt looks pretty good.
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Strange occurrences in the last week or so- 1. It seems that a lawsuit is being filed against me by eBay because someone used my e-mail address to set up an account, order massive amounts of stuff, then not pay. There also seems to be something about a fraudulent credit card involved. 2. I've come to a conclusion that students at my high-school are quite possibly the dumbest creatures alive. Last week I spotted two of them eating carrots we had been experimenting on in biology class then taking shots of a liquid experiment. 3. My cats are eating the Christmas tree. 4. Lego.com seems to have a firewall. Ho-hum, such is life. :wakeup2:
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I'm having fun at the moment playing 'dad' today; as he is off to Georgia teaching classes (Arc? Forestry? I forgot) He is giving me the duty to take over some of his work while he is away. So far I have gotten 5 phone calls in the last 30 minutes, most of which was something about a report, from all over the south. And I have just spent the last hour trying to find some bloody files that I need to burn to CD's. Dad has all his drives confused...and not to mention his desktop. I would seriously do some organizing for him, but I am afraid he will get onto me. Ugh, I still need to do school...I guess I will work on school while it's burning, but I think mom is giving it a bit easy on me so I can work for dad. So yay me. But I have no idea how he can work in this mess! Least I get to be on his X64 Windows XP Edition computer. (It's a super computer) I'm much better today also, but I am coughing and sneezing up a storm....I really need to work on more art, and finish those darn requests...Though my brain is dead. Can you guys help me a bit with suggestions on what I can/should draw? ... HAH! I FINALLY GOT BURNING THAT ROM(E)!...Now let's hope I'm doing this right. >>
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Wow. We had a blizzard. In Oklahoma. Weird. Two feet of snow. And it's still going. It's crazy. Crazy!
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It's been sleeting all day today, and now it's snowing! Everything's coated in ice with a predicted 6 to 8 inches in snow. Almost everything's going to be closed tomorrow, so we can pretty much consider ourselves stranded. How do I feel about that? Awesome! Great. Look how beautiful it is outside! Duh,duh,bumm,bumm... ... Huh? What? All that in one. ----------------------- Oh, and check out this apple I made last night.
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Today, the remaining snow gave me a 2 hour delay off of school. It also pushed a Science Test to tomorrow. Yoshi
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Today, it snowed. So, I got a Snow Day from School Yoshi
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Zomg just signed up for courses next semester. I am taking Math, English 102, Philosophy, and Sociology. -Omi
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Start A Bolg, Lose A Journal (or) Pointsettias
Soaring Strawberry posted a blog entry in blogs_blog_443
Background music: "Christmas Moods" (CD, 1998) My specialist's office called and told me that I do not have an infection. I'm not sick, this is part of a life long medical issue. I was going to note it in my journal, but it has vanished! I'm not worried, it'll turn up eventually. Anyway, the Christmas season is arriving! Here, it isn't heralded by 90% off sales at the mall or the fact that Thanksgiving is over. The Pointsettias are here. Every year, the Boy Scout Troop that my Dad and my brother, the Omnscient Voice (until he got his Eagle) have a Pointsettia fundraiser, and last year my (Rainbow) Assembly started the same. My parents are in charge of purchasing and storing the plants, and for the second year I went with them. We went to a local nursery, where seas of red float under white domes. Canals of pink and white are in another dome, with huge baskets hanging above. I chose a Jingle Bells, with red flowers speckled with pink (if it's white spots we call it "Glitter"). My mom's faveorite is the Christmas Rose, because the petals fold and curl to resemble a rose. Then my mom and I went clothes shopping at Khol's. I needed pants w/o elastic that fit me: my waist is too small for rear, so if I try to wear low-riders, you will find "A gap large enough to store a purse" (Mom) Fortunately, we found something that shrunk enough in the wash. While we were at it, we also bought a blue hoodie. Comments welcome. Gali Nuva Girl
