School Chit-Chat

like i said before the only thing i have and ever will disect was worms in the 4th grade... but that was fun because you can chop them up a lot and they don't die! my sister said that she did that today in school because she is in 4th grade. i remember all, well not all but most, of the girls in my class didn't even want to touch the worms. i like worms. they're not bad but other bugs...
 
I sure hope I'm sick the day we disect pigs. I could never disect something that big. I don't even like disecting bugs. I heard rumors that we have to disect cats too. -_-
 
Disecting cats? Oh my! I could never do that, I would probably faint from the sight of a dead cat that I had to cut opean. I get upset enough when I see them on the road. My stomache is starting to hurt just thinking about it.
 
Teara said:
Disecting cats? Oh my! I could never do that, I would probably faint from the sight of a dead cat that I had to cut opean. I get upset enough when I see them on the road. My stomache is starting to hurt just thinking about it.
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that's horrible. disecting cats is worse than pigs. i don't like seeing dead animals either. last year there was a dead cat on the side of the road where i used to walk home from school. it was there for a few days and nobody picked it up. gross. my mom had to call the town a couple times to tell them it was still there. i purposely walked home a different way those days.
 
Yay! I took the test and I think I passed it with flying colors! Hehe...
I already knew it was going to be very easy, but it was easier then I could've imagined! I took the reading portion today, tomorrow I'm gonna take the math one, and on the 10th I'm going to take some other one that shows how good you are compared to the rest of the nation. I did really good last year, and I expect to do really good again! I won't know my results until May though.
 
The National Association of Independent Schools is coming to my school tomorrow. I also don't have school on Friday because my school's headmaster has to attend the annual NAIS conference. :P
 
Congratulations 100Marios. We have a half day tommarow. And then later in the week the counciler from the high school is coming so we can choose our classes. I don't know how much I want to go to high school...I'd get nervious in my first year with so many students there that are older than me.
 
I'm sure at least one religion is against the dissection of animals. Most likely more. I'm not really sure, though. All I know is that I haven't heard anything about dissection in my school. x_X May be because it's Catholic, though... *shrugs* I don't feel like taking apart animals, so I'm not complaining.

We did watch animals doing... things...as part of our science class today, though. @_@ We finish the movie tomorrow. *cough*
 
I can't think of any religion that goes against it, just alot of people, including myself. Then again, I'm not a genius when it comes to differant religions.
 
Teara said:
Congratulations 100Marios. We have a half day tommarow. And then later in the week the counciler from the high school is coming so we can choose our classes. I don't know how much I want to go to high school...I'd get nervious in my first year with so many students there that are older than me.
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don't be afraid of high school... it's not that bad. at first it's a little strange but you get used to it really easily.

Today i got my course selection sheet too. i'm not sure what to take though. as a junior there are so many choices but my schedule is only so big. and then there are levels and... i don't know what to take. so far i think i'm taking:
lv.1 english 11
lv.H spanish (one of the few things i'm good at)
lv.1 american history (i would stay in honors but... it was too hard for me this year)
lv.H Pre-calculus (this one i'm not sure about)
lv.1 Chemistry (i hate chem... i took and intro course last year and almost failed... i might take some other science instead)
lv.1 treble choir
and then there is gym and my schedule is already full... with just basic classes. i only have 2 electives if you count spanish. this is such a pain

BTW... Congrats on your test jordan... we take our stupid CAPT test at the end of the month. we are the 1st class that has to pass to graduate. i don't think i'll have a problem though...
 
My post is going to drift away from the few on this page (it's still school related though, of course) but i'm just so happy with the results of what i did that i wanted to share it. ^_^

Well last Wednesday i went up to my History teacher, Mrs. Christie, at the end of class and asked her if i would be able to take "Higher History" for next year; she said that she'd have a word with the other History staff to see if i'd be able to take it as she'd only been teaching me for less than a year and then she'd get back to me at Lunch.
My friends and i use her room at Lunch because she so kindly lets us ^_^ so it was obvious that she knew where to get me in order to give me my answer, but the thing is she didn't even turn up and i was a little disappointed. So the next morning i caught her on the stairs and asked her if she'd enquired about my question. She said she had and that the rest of the staff were worried about me taking the subject at a higher level because it was "such a big step up" and that i should just look elsewhere. It was so horrible hearing that from her though, i really needed that subject because i want to teach History when i leave school....and...well....i really, really wanted to cry at that moment but i managed to stop myself and just gave her a small smile, saying "Thanks" then she headed upstairs and that was that.
I knew there was no way i was giving up though, i practically put my life on the line for that subject not to mention the teacher....besides i desperately needed it career wise.
So, i sat up until 11:30 on Monday night and wrote her a letter (well typed it...) basically i just explained why i needed the subject, how i felt about not being able to take it and a lot of other things. (i'd love to show you guys the letter, but i think it'd be too long to post up here, unless i posted it as an attachment or something....but i doubt anyone would want to see it anyway...)
Yesterday i gave the letter to her, explaining that i felt it would be easier to tell her how i felt in writing, rather than in spoken words. She read it while i just stood next to her feeling really nervous and like a complete idiot. When she'd finished reading it, she apologised for not seeing me at Lunchtime when she should have and for giving me my answer like that on the stairs, which i thought was really sweet of her. But she then told me that she'd still have to talk to the other staff about it and asked when i needed an answer by. I said anytime was fine and she found me at Lunch on the same day and told me that even though the rest of the History staff and herself were still a little worried, they'd now decided to let me take History!
I was so happy then, amazing the difference one little letter can make!

Anyways, that's what i wanted to share, apologies if i completely bored anyone to death!
 
The best class in the world is CAD! I love it...

sana morrette ne ente BOO ya!
 
Hikaru's Twin said:
My post is going to drift away from the few on this page (it's still school related though, of course) but i'm just so happy with the results of what i did that i wanted to share it. ^_^

Well last Wednesday i went up to my History teacher, Mrs. Christie, at the end of class and asked her if i would be able to take "Higher History" for next year; she said that she'd have a word with the other History staff to see if i'd be able to take it as she'd only been teaching me for less than a year and then she'd get back to me at Lunch.
My friends and i use her room at Lunch because she so kindly lets us ^_^ so it was obvious that she knew where to get me in order to give me my answer, but the thing is she didn't even turn up and i was a little disappointed. So the next morning i caught her on the stairs and asked her if she'd enquired about my question. She said she had and that the rest of the staff were worried about me taking the subject at a higher level because it was "such a big step up" and that i should just look elsewhere. It was so horrible hearing that from her though, i really needed that subject because i want to teach History when i leave school....and...well....i really, really wanted to cry at that moment but i managed to stop myself and just gave her a small smile, saying "Thanks" then she headed upstairs and that was that.
I knew there was no way i was giving up though, i practically put my life on the line for that subject not to mention the teacher....besides i desperately needed it career wise.
So, i sat up until 11:30 on Monday night and wrote her a letter (well typed it...) basically i just explained why i needed the subject, how i felt about not being able to take it and a lot of other things. (i'd love to show you guys the letter, but i think it'd be too long to post up here, unless i posted it as an attachment or something....but i doubt anyone would want to see it anyway...)
Yesterday i gave the letter to her, explaining that i felt it would be easier to tell her how i felt in writing, rather than in spoken words. She read it while i just stood next to her feeling really nervous and like a complete idiot. When she'd finished reading it, she apologised for not seeing me at Lunchtime when she should have and for giving me my answer like that on the stairs, which i thought was really sweet of her. But she then told me that she'd still have to talk to the other staff about it and asked when i needed an answer by. I said anytime was fine and she found me at Lunch on the same day and told me that even though the rest of the History staff and herself were still a little worried, they'd now decided to let me take History!
I was so happy then, amazing the difference one little letter can make!

Anyways, that's what i wanted to share, apologies if i completely bored anyone to death!
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That was a really good idea Sheridan! That was some good thinking! I'm glad she gave you the class, it would've seemed a little unfair if she didn't. Go Sheridan! Hehe.....

And thanks Snowangel! I took the math test today. It was also very easy, although I am more of a reading person than I am a math person. I have some other test next week too, it's supposed to help compare how well you're doing compared to the rest of the nation. I'm not the least bit worried. I took a test like this one last year, and I got a 9 out of 9 for both reading and math, and 95 out of 100 for each also. So you see, I'm a little smarter than what most would think, considering how I act sometimes hehe.....

And high school is not that bad Becky! I have to admit, I was shaking in my shoes about it all summer, but once I got there I realized that it wasn't so bad! People actually seem a little more mature then they do in Middle School. My sister says it's like a breath of fresh air compared to it. You defenitely get more freedom!
 
100marios said:
That was a really good idea Sheridan! That was some good thinking! I'm glad she gave you the class, it would've seemed a little unfair if she didn't. Go Sheridan! Hehe.....
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^_^ Thanks for that, Jordan!
And i could really kill myself for not doing this, so "Congrats on your test, Jordan!" Can't believe i forgot to mention that.....
 
I might as well jump in here too...I hate to start with a complaint but that was the most interesting part of my school day.

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I've about had it with my art teacher. She's in her early twenties and just out of teaching school, but that's no excuse for what she does to me. She has the WORST method of teaching I've ever seen...not only does she not have any guidelines for projects we do (you know...like a rubric), but she seems to grade on her own personal preference of the piece as opposed to grading on a standard of what that person has attempted to make. If the person is more talented, she gives them higher grades! I sort of fall in between the talented and the not-so-talented people in out animation class, and I can't get more than a 95 out of her (and getting a 95 from her is a miracle, I usually get less) no matter how hard I work or how closely I follow what she tells me. She always takes points off for effort and craftsmanship when she shouldn't be grading people on talent! Now today I just about had enough of her. She has this bad habit of telling me what to do with my drawing AFTER I've done it, and it's usually some vital detail about the work that I should have known beforehand. We're doing caricatures in animation right now, and she told us we need a background for our design. I'm drawing a picture of a person who has sort of a dull expression on his face. Now my teacher goes and tells me, after I design and draw the face, that she sees the person as arrogant and condescending and that my background needs to reflect his arrogance. She should have told me this beforehand so I could change the guy's face! Hello! Now I have to center my drawing around arrogance because she didn't disclose to me earlier that our background had to reflect the emotion conveyed the person...and knowing her as I do, if I don't do something pertaining to arrogance (no matter what I think he's conveying), she'll take a truckload of points off, because when she gives directions, it's her way or the highway. She's the worst teacher I've had in high school, and because of her methods she's really bringing my grade down. There's no way to stop her either, because telling her that you think her methods are wrong changes nothing...she doesn't listen to anything anyone says, and now because of her habit of telling people vital information too late, my whole project is messed up.



Just needed to rant about that a bit ._.;;
 
I had to disect the same fish again today in Biology. We had to do "brain surgery" and "heart surgery" on the fish. It was really gross. Of course my lab partner made me do it again. I had to pick out one of the fish's eyes to see what it was like behind it. Now next we disect a pig in probably a month...
 
*is thankful that she doesn't have biology* BTW, chairman, that art teacher sounds terrible... Well, she can say it a bit faster... I understand how you feel...
Well, in my Creative writing class, we were doing a Slideshow with powerpoint. I have no knowladge about powerpoint, and the only thing my partner does is play Toxic over and over again. -_-" And after I e-mailed it to my teacher, she said that she didn't get it. =/
 
@ Chairman Kaga

Aw... *hugs* I'm glad my art teachers haven't been anything like that. I'd really start to hate high school then. ;_;' It sucks following directions like that because it completely zaps one's creativity, but she does have a few good points there, I'm sure. Maybe in the future you should ask more questions when something is assigned and ask for a critiquing every so often just to make sure you're on the right track.. or at least on her track. XD

*sighs* We have a test tomorrow on reproduction in Science... I can't seem to bring myself to study, though. =\ I'll just forget it anyway, but I'm lazyy... @@;
 
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