Joel sucks
In physics we had to make a motor. On tuesday night I got all the stuff and put it together, with no results. I took the thing to school Wednesday, where I discovered the problem was that I had not done a good job sanding the wire. The nail files Mr. V had available worked much better than the sandpaper I had tried using the night before, and I was able to finish the project.
Mr. Weber's student teacher is gone. This is very much a good thing. In addition, we've started the satire unit.
I got to stab stuff at fencing on wednesday. I fenced Adam some, which was good. Some of the members have started wearing "H"s on their fencing jacket in honor of our old Fencing Master Steve Hilbert. I unfortunately never had the priviledge to fence or train under Steve, having joined the club after he passed away. I do, however, fully intend to honor his memory and what he represents to our club by getting on of these "H"s and wearing it with pride.
Anyways, there were only two people for the new beginner class, although hopefully there will be a better turnout next week. Lisa offered to teach people in the open group sabre. So we split into sabre instruction and a round robin. Then Joel turned up and tried to start a lesson. Lisa and Joel went outside to talk in the hall, and only Lisa came back. We had our sabre instruction, and got to fence some sabre, which was awesome. At the end of the night Leslie kindly offered to lend my brother her old foil so that we could fence on our own.
Later I found out that when Joel and Lisa went outside to talk, Joel had laughed in Lisa's face (which is of course majorly disrespectful and against our code of conduct). Lisa did not put up with this, and Joel left. I also learned some other things about Joel, so here's a list of both old and new reasons Joel sucks:
-When Steve passed away and Kevin tried to take over the club, Joel showed up and supported Kevin.
-Joel just showed up and started acting like he's in charge when he really wasn't. People ended up stuck with his stupid drills because they thought it was mandatory.
-Joel is behind on dues. When this was brought up, he insisted that he shouldn't have to pay dues because he's an instructor
-Joel taught an entire beginner class modern, Olympic-style fencing even though we're a classical french fencing club.
-"Board of Directors" power grab
-When Leslie politely brought up the fact that Joel's students were fencing a little erraticly and overly aggressively, and politely requested that he talk to them about it, he laughed in her face, called her a sissy, and told her that she was just mad that his students were beating her.
-The above mentioned incident in which he laughed in Lisa's face.
Moving on...
Thursday we had shortened classes and the fashion show at the end of the day. The fashion show is the stupidest, biggest waste of time ever invented. But hey, free study hall.
After school we had a lot of people over. It was crazy. Then we poisoned Andromeda. My mother had brought down some cookies and Andromeda had already started eating one when it was discovered that they contained peanut butter peices. Luckily, Andromeda ended up fine, although I think she ended up with a headache.
Then, Camp Fire. Not many people. Afterwards much time spent with a group of people all around the computer while someone wouls show off their Diablo II character. It was kinda pathetic...
In conclusion, it is now Spring Break. which means no school.
Mr. Weber's student teacher is gone. This is very much a good thing. In addition, we've started the satire unit.
I got to stab stuff at fencing on wednesday. I fenced Adam some, which was good. Some of the members have started wearing "H"s on their fencing jacket in honor of our old Fencing Master Steve Hilbert. I unfortunately never had the priviledge to fence or train under Steve, having joined the club after he passed away. I do, however, fully intend to honor his memory and what he represents to our club by getting on of these "H"s and wearing it with pride.
Anyways, there were only two people for the new beginner class, although hopefully there will be a better turnout next week. Lisa offered to teach people in the open group sabre. So we split into sabre instruction and a round robin. Then Joel turned up and tried to start a lesson. Lisa and Joel went outside to talk in the hall, and only Lisa came back. We had our sabre instruction, and got to fence some sabre, which was awesome. At the end of the night Leslie kindly offered to lend my brother her old foil so that we could fence on our own.
Later I found out that when Joel and Lisa went outside to talk, Joel had laughed in Lisa's face (which is of course majorly disrespectful and against our code of conduct). Lisa did not put up with this, and Joel left. I also learned some other things about Joel, so here's a list of both old and new reasons Joel sucks:
-When Steve passed away and Kevin tried to take over the club, Joel showed up and supported Kevin.
-Joel just showed up and started acting like he's in charge when he really wasn't. People ended up stuck with his stupid drills because they thought it was mandatory.
-Joel is behind on dues. When this was brought up, he insisted that he shouldn't have to pay dues because he's an instructor
-Joel taught an entire beginner class modern, Olympic-style fencing even though we're a classical french fencing club.
-"Board of Directors" power grab
-When Leslie politely brought up the fact that Joel's students were fencing a little erraticly and overly aggressively, and politely requested that he talk to them about it, he laughed in her face, called her a sissy, and told her that she was just mad that his students were beating her.
-The above mentioned incident in which he laughed in Lisa's face.
Moving on...
Thursday we had shortened classes and the fashion show at the end of the day. The fashion show is the stupidest, biggest waste of time ever invented. But hey, free study hall.
After school we had a lot of people over. It was crazy. Then we poisoned Andromeda. My mother had brought down some cookies and Andromeda had already started eating one when it was discovered that they contained peanut butter peices. Luckily, Andromeda ended up fine, although I think she ended up with a headache.
Then, Camp Fire. Not many people. Afterwards much time spent with a group of people all around the computer while someone wouls show off their Diablo II character. It was kinda pathetic...
In conclusion, it is now Spring Break. which means no school.