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Finally my Spanish class has another teacher. And of course, she's from a country outside the U.S. which means she has an accent. She's from Honduras. Blech. Nothing wrong with being from Honduras, but the accent is DEEP. She's only been in the U.S. for 7 years. She's still learning the grammer here. I've caught a few grammatical mistakes when she talks, but I don't bother her with them. I understand that she's still learning, it's fine with me. But the accent, nargh! Good news is, we are starting on the chapter before the one we started with my other Spanish teacher. Yay! Our grades start over which is kind of a bitter sweet thing. Good news is our grades start over; bad news is that I had a 110/A+ which I was fine with, but now we start at 100/A+... All well. I'll get straight to the point on this paragraph.. I got a 21 on the ACT. Yes, yes, I've heard many things from it.. 1.)That's very good for a first try, 2.)Not too bad, 3.)I can do better than that, 4.)"What hope is there for me now?" <-that was a question from someone who hasn't taken it yet. Anyway, I've got mixed feelings on it. I've found out that Harvard accepts only people in the top 10% majority of high school classes. Since my class is eligible and I'm in the 10%, that gave me confidence. Tulane, out of all things, requires the same thing along with being within the 50% of the people who got a 28-31 on the ACT. I've got two years to bring it up. Good news, I haven't taken future maths and sciences that were on the ACT, but I will be taking them later in my high school career. Funny thing about ACT's, it seems that this time the Occupation Circle thingy was right on the dot with what I wanted to do. It said everything in the medical field suited me best. I was surprised that it got that. So, that's about it for this group of words. Moving on.. The 4-Month English paper is now on the next step is a topic outline. Bad news, Wikipedia is now not a reliable source because of the person who posed himself as having a Ph. D. and changed much information on Wikipedia. I'm afraid he may have changed up the article on John Calvin. I looked over the article with another of my sources and it matched up so I'm hoping he didn't mess with it. The topic outline shouldn't be hard to do, seems easy enough to make. I'm hoping that I can get enough information on Calvin to make a four page long paper. Oh, uhh, I'm finally going to the DMV tomorrow. After school I'll head over and go try. Wish me some luck. :wakeup2:
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The 10th and 11th grade English classes are doing a 4 month long paper over an author we chose about two weeks ago. I chose John Calvin. I think I did good since all of the students had to have a different author then someone else in all of the classes. I was hoping to do Charles Dickens, but he was taken. Plato was my second, but there isn't much information on his life. The paper is about how is works were influenced by his life (i.e.- health, childhood, family, etc.). Good news is he lived during the Middle Ages, and Marting Luther and more people were around this time. The paper is going to be MLA Format, and it must be 4 pages long. i have 5 points and the usual MLA paper needs 3. My teacher is extending the limit of points since the paper needs to be 4 pages. I'm beginning to think I have a career chosen for after college. You've probably taken a guess and said "You're going to be like House?" Well, technically you're right. Right now the diagnostic medical field has gotten my interest, it may change :wakeup2: . Well, I got to go. Open house at my school is tonight, and I got to go to the library to get books on Calvin (at least 5 fyi). Later peoples.
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First off, I got the iPod Shuffle. It's TINY!!! Today was ok. I got good news from the sub for today's Spanish II class. She said that my old Spanish teacher went to go work in the medical field. She's working with preparing substances, objects, etc. for tests. Kinda like preparing a biopsy of a irregular mass to test it for cancer or if the cancer is malignant (bad, the cancer can spread) or benign (good, the cancer is isolated to that spot only). I'm just glad she got a job right off the bat after leaving. And I also think that the new teacher will be in tomorrow. I'm not sure though. My English II class had to turn in a paper. About a half of 150 people didn't turn in their paper.. wow. My teacher was kinda.. what would the word be... ah, angry. She didn't seem to be in the best mood, but that usually lasts for a bit. Biology quiz today. Nobody studied, including myself. It was too easy. It's discussing the physiology/anatomy of the skin, bones, etc. I watch House, I have parents that work in the medical field, I look up stuff if I'm interested or curious in something. I'm not being over confident, it's just that I like medical stuff. It comes easy to me. Well, American Idol is on and House is coming up. Later.
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Well, I'm guessing you'll understand the metaphor once you're done reading the entry. My Spanish teacher quit today. That's three teachers this year to quit.. Two English teachers and now this one. It's really a shame that she left. We had become good friends and the class had just now gotten used to her teaching and her deep accent. Now we're probably going to have a sub for a month.. I feel like it's the tests were what made her think of quitting. I believe five people dropped out of Spanish II because of bad grades. It wasn't her fault though. She was still getting used to the English grammar while she knew the Spanish already, which was a plus for a Spanish teacher to come from a Spanish country. I've been having problems with one particular person these past few weeks. He's deliberately been putting me on the spot in class, making me feel like an cool dude. He's also been pushing me around, speaking literally . He'll lightly push multiple times. He's seriously getting on my nerves. I'm thinking if I ignore him, he'll just go away.. He has this aggravating voice. He has this high pitched voice, and he stares right at his "victim". He's just one of those people. I have hopes all of this will improve over time. High school drama= evil. Whatever . Maybe I should switch schools .
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Yep, I finished about 5 hours ago now. It was actually easier than I thought it would be. Although there was stuff on there I have never seen before in my life, it was alright. I wasn't worried about the test because I have much more time to get a better score. I got like two and a half years to go. I can make a good grade by then, right? I did the writing portion. That was evil! I wrote three pages on a subject on which I'm not supposed to say. It's not breaking the rules on BZP, but by the rules of the ACT test. The rule is that I cannot say what subjects were on it. Besides, I believe the topic changes with every ACT test. But, wow. I didn't know that I knew the words I wrote down. I reviewed my paper, and it actually made sense. I got to use all the persons I couldn't use on a school paper (i.e.-he, she, and I. Except you, why would you be telling the scorer something? ). Anyway, my brain is fried for today. I slept when I got back from the test, but I first had some Cane's chicken strips . I seriously feel I did great on it, for my grade level anyway. I mean, I haven't taken Trig or Calculus, but you get the picture. Well, the results will come back in 4-7 weeks. By the way, if you remember me telling you about the PLAN test, we got our results back from that just a few days ago. It said I should work in construction XD . No offense to those who do, but I'm not construction material. Anyway, it said my best subject was Social Science. It said I got a 27 for the Science test on the PLAN test, but the results for everyone was messed up badly. The smartest person in my class, it's only my opinion though, got a 20 on it. She's a heck of alot smarter than that. I got an 18 . Anyway, I don't give much credit to those kind of tests. I'm just glad all of this testing is out of the way for a long time :wakeup2: .
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Well, it seems as if I've made an enemy with a teacher today, not good... Today, my class had our weekly spelling quiz. No big deal, right? For some reason she lost her temper and said, "No more talking." We were talking because everyone was finishing up, about 2% of the people in the class were still working on it. There was a noise around me about two seconds after she said no more talking, and that noise (according to the teacher........ and no one else) sounded like "i", "p", "e". She said, "Who said that?! Who said 'i,p,e'?" Then she looks smack-dab at me. I was looking around, wondering why she was looking in my direction. I handed in my quiz with the rest of the class, and when she got out a red marker, she wrote something on a quiz. I could barely see the work on the back, but it had the same format as my quiz. So I'm guessing she thinks I said something to cheat, and she gave me a 0......... If I do have a 0, I will be mad. You don't know how mad I get when people blame me over something I did NOT do. I know I did not cheat. I KNOW. If I do get a 0, she'll probably give me a referral and send me to the Superintendent or the principal. If I do get a referral, I would hope it would be the principal. The reason is only because she would trust me, and I've never been in trouble enough to have been sent to the office before. Wish me luck...
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Well, it took three days to take the Spanish test. English and Geometry had complications, being too busy! Monday's problem, there was about 20 billion things to do in-class. Tuesday's problem's, there was a pep rally at 7th hour and both English and Geometry were cut short; I couldn't take the Spanish test in class due to there being a lesson for a test that we have schedualed tomorrow. Today's problem, Spanish was finally done, but the English and Geometry teachers put too much again for the lesson. Whatever, I guess I'm more than ready to take the quizzes for the lessons I wasn't in school for... But on the plus side, I'm caught up in 5 classes. Now it's just English and Geometry I have to deal with.
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Thanks to the generousity of my World Geography teacher and my Spanish II teacher, they have excused a large number of quizzes and tests for me. Take the number of tests/quizzes from my last entry, then compare it to this: Spanish- 1 testGeometry- 1 quizEnglish- 1 quiz Never underestimate the kindness of teachers, yo.
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Ya know, usually when you miss school, you don't have much to make up... But 5 days of school is horrible! I have (or had) a total of 13 quizzes/tests to make up in 6 classes.. Here's the list: Biology- 2 quizzesBible- 3 quizzesWorld Geography- 2 tests, but if I do well on the upcoming test that was already schedualed before I was out, then I won't have to take the 2 testsSpanish- 1 test and 3 quizzesEnglish II- 1 quiz, but I jumped into a research paperGeometry- 1 quizNote to self- When sick, get a shot, go back to school the same day. Don't even think about missing another day. Of course, you read the parentheses, right? Well, here's a list of what I had to do today: Biology- both quizzesBible- 2 quizzesSo that leaves me with about 9 quizzes/tests left to go. And I got 3 days to make it ALL up. Wish me luck people.
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Yeah, I got back late last night from my Beta trip NOT knowing I had strep throat along with the flu. I made it back home from the doc's about 2 hours ago.. Nausea, throat "redder than a cherry", aches, wheezing, coughs, fever, etc. Anyway, besides the fact I had that for 2 days, the trip was actually fun. My school's group talent didn't place so that kinda made things a bit shakey, the chant got 3rd which was good for the entire state including some school's from Arkansas, Texas, and Alabama. At least, I believe they were from those states. l didn't really get much sleep, 6 hours Wednesday night, 4 hours Thursday, and try sleeping on a bouncing bus.. Well, I'm just glad to be back home, "there's no place like home." By the way, the Caddo Parish School Board did close school Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. So that was fun before the trip .
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Beta trip starts tomorrow. I'll be out Wednesday evening-Friday evening. I'm hoping it won't be much of a waste. I feel a bit awkward about this trip, especially with all the icy storms coming through like crazy lately. Another thing, Shreveport is going to get 1 inch of snow tonight. I'm hoping they will cancel school like the other schools did today. The roads are so icy and I-49 is closed. So many people were on Mansfield, Bert Kouns, and Youree. The "Hollywood Lanes" of Shreveport, hehe. People who usually drove on them were, by me, called the I-49er's (<- you may laugh whenever necessary). The snow probably won't stick, but it will make the roads icy so some closures of school will be necessary. Stuff on the trip when I get back. Don't be too anxious. :wakeup2:
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Migraines are evil . I had one yesterday and today, but it's gone now. Anyway, it looks like I'm headed to Lafeyette, LA. next Wednesday. Even though I'm being forced to.. It's the Beta Club State Rally. Here's the schedule.... Wednesday- Leave school at around 5:45 p.m.Arrive at the hotel in Lafeyette around 9:00 p.m. (doubt it)Lights out 11:00 p.m.Thursday-Arrive at CajundomeSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT for a looooooooong time...Do the Chant with the other 25 peopleSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT for more time..Friday-Sit just a bit shorter than the first sitting timeCollege Fair, that I will likeSit for just a bit longerGo back to hotel and get packed to goLeave hotelArrive in ShreveportThat's the 17th-19th I believe, I may have the dates wrong. But yeah. More fun for this school year..
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Well, my English teacher is going to be fine! The cancer actually went away. They found it on a lymph node during a scan, and once they looked at it during the procedure to get a biopsy (I almost positive that means seeing if it's benign-good, or malignent-bad.), they found that the cancer shrunk. She's going to be out for the week and will be back next week! Man, it's a rush getting back to work. Not in the good way . This stage of the Trial, they will be much more work then the 1st stage. Biology teacher is getting faster in notes, and making the class read alot more than usual... Problem is, I hate reading, only on certain occations do I like to read . ACT exam is coming up, I'm getting ready to the best of my ability, even though I still barely have time for anything now-a-days. I get to take it at the nicest place to take it. That takes a load of worrying, now for more . Well, it's time to get back into the swing of things. Much more later.
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Yes! Yesterday was the last day of school, which meant no more exams. The last 2 were easy. Anyway, I have good news: I studied a total of 3 days for my Spanish exam, which in turn got me a 93/A! I was 1 of 4 people to get an A on the test. The highest was a 95. I needed a 90.5/B to hold an A, but I got a 93. I'm almost positive that I have all A's again this semester. If it is, that will look good on my transcript. 9th Grade Semester grades: All A'sAll A's10th Grade Semester grades:All A's(will start this semester after Christmas Break)Now that's pretty darn good .
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Aye! The exams begin tomorrow. Day 1 of Exams- 3rd hour exam. World Geography is just 1 chapter. I studied, and I know I will do well on it. I'm not being over-confident, but the chapter was just too easy . Day 2 of Exams- 2nd and 7th hour exams. Bible and P.E. There isn't an exam for P.E. so nothing to worry about in that. Bible it should be easy like World Geography. Day 3 of Exams- 4th and 6th hour exams. This will be the hardest day of the exams, Spanish II and Geometry. The Spanish exam will have over 1200 words for us to conjugate in the correct tense. Ouch. And Geometry will be somewhat easy. Just a little harder than Bible. Last Day of Exams- 1st and 5th hour exams. Biology and English (Grammer, Literature, and Spelling). Biology seems to be a so-so class, not hard but not easy. English will be the same as Biology. Work, work, and more work until a well-deserved Christmas Break. :wakeup2:
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Gah, stinky Spanish 2 tests . It took me the ENTIRE HOUR to get one test done... I mean, the people who were in Spanish 2 and are smart were late for their next class because it took so long. It was so hard, I mean having an entire test written in Spanish, plus the directions in Spanish, you get the picture. And another thing, I had a head injury the day I got out of 3rd grade, and it damaged my sight and reading parts of my brains, like badly. About 1 and 1/2 square inch of the left side was a hole. The scary thing was, my friend's mom could see my brain . So with the head injury, a piece of my shatter skull impaled the sight and reading parts of my brain. So in short, after 7 years from a head injury, now my sight is going bad . So anyway, I need to get some contacts . And on another bad note, it was dodgeball day, and a P.E. teacher, who's a lil egotistic , decides to say "ok, everyone who's in the corner are cowards, and they are out." I WAS JUST GETTING A DODGEBALL, I mean, a few dodgeballs were thrown in that direction and were in the corner, so some people including myself go to get them. And another thing, he "choose fairly" between everyone, and he gave the other team the advantage. Funny thing was, my team won and it was around 20 to 3 when it ended, so I'm guessing he got mad and decided to join the other team and cheat... :wakeup2: What a fun day .
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A full week of school is all I have left. Thank goodness. Tomorrow the 4.0-ers go on a trip to eat. Catfish Village in Waskom, Texas. The same place for the past year . That will be fun. Exams start the day after tomorrow, I won't have to worry about the first exam. It's World Geography. It's just one chapter. And he already gave us what is going to be on the test . Spanish is evil. I did some figuring and I'll have to literally know over 1,200 words and what they mean by Monday. Why?!?! Blasted verb tenses and irregular verbs. Everything else is fine. But seriously, why should the people, who have an A in a class, have to take the exam for it? I mean that can bring their grade down to a B. That's like the teachers saying, "We want your grade to go down." Blasted exams . Nothing much really happened today. Just the usual day at school I guess.
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It's getting close into that ever coming break nearly everyone in school looks foward to. Yesterday, there was a fight in the middle school area of my school. It was 2 guys like the classic fight usually is. Anyway, it seems that 1 of them was having a bad day, and someone was runnning their mouth about it. He wouldn't start, then in the hall, the fight abrupted. I was in a class in the hall (Spanish classes are in that hall ), and I heard this yelling and the Security Administrator was jetting down the hall. No one wants to get in his way when we running . Anyway, the 2 guys have been suspended until further notice, probably when they can settle this. The entire "weight training" class (I put that in quotations because they really don't weight train like high school does ) was in trouble. They go by the philosophy of collective responsibility. I despise that with a passion . I believe I mentioned the book The Great Gatsby in a past entry. My English class finally got that book report out of the way. Here's a fun fact, my class has had a chance to read our books from October!! The book report had to be 2 pages, or 4 at most. Front page was 1, the back was 2, another front page 3, yadda yadda. My friend got his up to 4, I was impressed really. I got mine up to only 3 pages then 4 words on the back . By the way, if anyone can tell me what my sub-title is from, you will recieve kudos :wakeup2: . Here's a hint, it's not from House..
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Wow, I have over 1000 views, rock on. Today was pretty good. Graded papers were great, mostly A's. Tomorrow, my English class has a in-class book report over the book we've been reading........ for the past 2 months . And I just started to read the book today, and finished it. Anyway, it's The Great Gatsby. I personally liked it. Fitzgerald is an excellant writer i my opinion. Although the setting is back into the Jazz era in the northern part of the country. I recommend it to anyone who likes reading about 1910's-1940's. Enough book reviews. There's been a series of minor robberies around my area, particularly in my suburbs. I believe I know who it is, because I know what the purpose would be if it was him. And I think it may be someone else, for the same reason as the other. I mean, it's Christmas decorations... What's the point?
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Well, my left leg is acting up.. It's seriously starting to hurt to even walk. I made a list of what happened to my leg, and it's somewhere in this blog, but I'm lazy . I'm considering going to a doctor, but I wonder if it's just growth pains or not. The doc who performed the surgery said there shouldn't be any pain after the swelling and whatnot had gone down. The problem: it hurt two months after, and the pain now is increasing week after week. Dr. House would most likely say "Well, apparently the doctor messed up and put in a bad screw, but maybe you can get a screw driver and just take it out yourself *sarcastic smirk*." And as for today, nothing special happened. My English teacher came back, she seemed fine. The funniest thing is that she's on pain medication and it's making her completely loopy . She's usually an on-task teacher, but today we went from somewhat of a depressing poem to her unusual family tree. (Don't ask) Exams are coming up, for all of us I'm pretty sure. First exam is December 14, which is Bible. December 15 is 4th and 7th, but my 7th hour doesn't have an exam so it's just 4th hour which is Spanish. That's the killer. December 18 is 1st and 5th hour which is Biology and English (3 subjects for English: Grammer, Spelling, and Literature). And the last day, December 19, is 3rd and 6th hour which is World Geography and Geometry. I may be wrong, but I think I'm close. Still alot of work ahead though.
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Woot, this month is going by fast. The only thing about this month I am not looking foward to are the exams. Spanish mostly, everything should be easy-moderate. Spanish is on an entirely different level. My English teacher had surgery Friday, which I thought she just said "examination". I guess they had to go inside to see what messed up the gears (just a saying ) . Anyway, she'll be back tomorrow and we won't be sure what's the prognosis until tomorrow. Hopefully, it won't be anything bad. I'm sure alot of you guys are having a much easier December than me . Hehe. Ok, people. If you want to see the major fight between Mudbugs and Laredo, Google Mudbugs and Shreveport. I don't believe the website has any forums, pretty sure anyway. But after the entire site is downloaded (it will take a while), look at about 1/2 way down the page and you'll see the CHL Box with the phrase "Laredo Fight" on the bottom of it. Click that, then if you want t Wildfong starts off with just a regular text example of a fight. The movie will be kinda small, but if you want to make the movie bigger, right click, then go to zoom then full screen or whatever. I love hockey if you didn't notice .
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Wow, what a day. Today, all of 10th grade had to take a mandatory PLAN test. It took 1 hour to fill out our name and other info, then we had to put in what our interests were. It didn't have any of my interests. But that was just the info part. What took longer was the actual test. First, the English test. That was the easiest English test I've ever had on a major test like this. Second, the Math test. Opposite of the English, it was evil! And I'm usually good on major tests with Math. Then the third, the Reading test. It had a total of only 3 compositions to read, then answer like 15 questions. The Reading wasn't that hard. But if I had a choice, I wouldn't have taken it. Then the last, Science. It had some medical questions on it (i.e.- antibiotics, etc.), that was the easiest thing for me. Since I watch House, and my parents work in the medical field . Then it went to harder stuff. The entire test took from 8:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. The results will say what field I should go into for work. Funny thing, that system is completely messed up. My sister took the test at another school, and it said she should be an engineer . She's no where close to an engineer. Well, Christmas is coming up. Everyone around here, and I'm sure in your area too, people are setting up the lights and what not, going shopping, yadda yadda. It's gonna get really crowded around Shereveport this time around. Since we've gotten around 10 new stores in a mall, and an entire Boardwalk of shops. (To see what I'm talking about, just Google "Boardwalk and Shreveport", and you should come across a link ) Well, I can't think of anything else to blab about, so that's it for today. :wakeup2:
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The new title will be used for breaks like Christmas, Spring, yadda yadda. And that's how many days I have 'till I'm out for Christmas. Now to the point of the blog posting . Wow, you'd think that the teachers would hold of on cramming tons of the work, but NO.. Yeah, each of the classes had at least 2 days worth of work, seriously. Today was torture. Most of the projects from the week before Turkey Break were graded, but we don't see the grades until Wednesday. Anyway, today did go by pretty quick, and I was glad it did. The rest of the days need to go this fast, except for the hours when I have mid-terms in that class, they will need ALL the time in the world for them . OH, over the break, I played Gears of War (young kids DON'T PLAY UNLESS YOUR PARENTS APPROVE THE GAME), it was the best thing to happen for the 360. Well, that's my opinion. This is kinda off, but hey, it's my blog . One of my friends bought the PS3 and Wii when they were released. He works at Best Buy, so he was, believe or not, first in line. He bought the PS3 first with all the accessories included, so it cost him about $800+. He bought the Wii later on. He put the PS3 on Ebay for $1000. Before the first day was done, it had gone up to $3200+!! It ended Saturday, but I haven't been able to hear the final bid on it. He goes to a different school, so I haven't been able to talk to him. Mudbugs played Rio Grande Killer Beeson Friday and Wichita Lightning on Saturday. The Killer Bees game wasn't that great since we lost 1-0. Wichita was a push over, 4-1. Wichita is kind of a rival to us so we had a fight or two. Anyway, I went iceskating after the games, and it's harder than it looks. But because of my bum-left leg (it's not medically bum, but it's heading there the way it's been), I couldn't skate for life. I did, however, learn to speed up. The problem was if I tried to slow down, my left leg would give in and start to wobble around. I didn't fall, but it takes time to have control over a leg it has been (in order of my life->) 1.) curved inward like a cork screw, 2.) needed metal bars to straighten out, 3.) broken in three places (both leg bones and the ankle, 4.) started to grow like a knocked-knee would, and 5.) had surgery to stop knock-knee growth. Evil left leg . I think that's all I got to say for this entry. I'm out.
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Gah, this stinks. This is the end of the Turkey Break, and I do NOT want to go back to school. There is just too much work to, plus mid-terms are coming up in December.. Seriously, the only classes that sound ok are the easiest that have small mid-terms.
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Yes! Finally, all the tests and projects are DONE! No more, nada, zilch, nothing, zero! Feels sooo good. And I felt like I did pretty good on everything .
