Crickets! And other school-related things.
Who pissed off God and made him set a plague of crickets on the Jersey Shore?
Well, okay, exaggeration, but seriously. Math class last week, a cricket that scared my teacher and today one that chirped along with the lesson on polygons. In gym for at least a week and a half, one chirping near the locker rooms. And right now, for at least half an hour. It's weird.
Anyway, school!
It's less terrifying than it seems when you walk in. After your first week or so, you get used to it. And there's a courtyard I use to cross from the 600 wing to the 400(or vice versa), because otherwise it takes a lot of the five minutes I have. 3 lates to class = cut = detention, 9 = no course credit for you, go sit in the bad kid room. I have my bearings now, at least. If I don't have a class in or near it, I couldn't direct you to a room, though.
Speech and Debate is going to be a fun club. I'm going with Poetry and Prose(woo!) and Duo with my friend(he insists on Boot to the Head, the little addict), probably.
Missed Environmental Club meeting. I had S&D. I guess I won't be saving the whales this year.
I like my teachers. My Italian teacher is nice, my Geometry teacher...eh, not bad, my Reading teachers are fun - one likes to shout and scares a lot of kids(so far, he hasn't scared me yet, summer theater and the random loud mike screeches conditioned me a little) and the other plays devil's advocate for a conformist society. My Bio teacher's pretty nice, Home Ec is nice too, and my History teacher is fun. Basically, he tells stories to illustrate points, and if he pulls the textbook out of the door to close it, you know it's gonna be good. One was a story about him in religious ed and their teacher told them about a boy and girl who had sex, got the car stuck on the train tracks, and the girl got killed and the teacher was shouting about how she's going to hell for having premarital sex(seems a little harsh, God, she was in high school), one was about a kid being screamed at in religious ed for spitting on his cross(these were illustrating some point or other about Christianity), today's were about Confucious having said that respect for parents is above all else and one was about a girl who called her mother a bitch during a parent conference, the mom just bawled, and the vice principal told the girl off for it and made her apologize. The other was a kid who got told off by his dad for something or other, went outside to play, flipped the dad off, and got caught and screamed at. It's interesting.
Well, okay, exaggeration, but seriously. Math class last week, a cricket that scared my teacher and today one that chirped along with the lesson on polygons. In gym for at least a week and a half, one chirping near the locker rooms. And right now, for at least half an hour. It's weird.
Anyway, school!
It's less terrifying than it seems when you walk in. After your first week or so, you get used to it. And there's a courtyard I use to cross from the 600 wing to the 400(or vice versa), because otherwise it takes a lot of the five minutes I have. 3 lates to class = cut = detention, 9 = no course credit for you, go sit in the bad kid room. I have my bearings now, at least. If I don't have a class in or near it, I couldn't direct you to a room, though.
Speech and Debate is going to be a fun club. I'm going with Poetry and Prose(woo!) and Duo with my friend(he insists on Boot to the Head, the little addict), probably.
Missed Environmental Club meeting. I had S&D. I guess I won't be saving the whales this year.
I like my teachers. My Italian teacher is nice, my Geometry teacher...eh, not bad, my Reading teachers are fun - one likes to shout and scares a lot of kids(so far, he hasn't scared me yet, summer theater and the random loud mike screeches conditioned me a little) and the other plays devil's advocate for a conformist society. My Bio teacher's pretty nice, Home Ec is nice too, and my History teacher is fun. Basically, he tells stories to illustrate points, and if he pulls the textbook out of the door to close it, you know it's gonna be good. One was a story about him in religious ed and their teacher told them about a boy and girl who had sex, got the car stuck on the train tracks, and the girl got killed and the teacher was shouting about how she's going to hell for having premarital sex(seems a little harsh, God, she was in high school), one was about a kid being screamed at in religious ed for spitting on his cross(these were illustrating some point or other about Christianity), today's were about Confucious having said that respect for parents is above all else and one was about a girl who called her mother a bitch during a parent conference, the mom just bawled, and the vice principal told the girl off for it and made her apologize. The other was a kid who got told off by his dad for something or other, went outside to play, flipped the dad off, and got caught and screamed at. It's interesting.