Burn Out...

The end of year, everyone is excited? No. See, what really happens at the end of year is this:

1. Teachers freak out because they don't have enough time to fit all our learning - they start cramming.
2. Students get extra work so they can be able to learn everything teachers need to teach.
3. Teachers don't have anymore time, and forget to mark things.
4. Students ask about marks (I could happily wait a year for my marks.)
5. Teachers give MORE work, hoping the students will be too busy to ask about marks.
6. Students have excessive amount of work.
7. Teachers all give tests the same weeks.
8. Students have a lot of tests to do.
9. Final Exams - cramming!
10. Provincials - cramming!
11. NOW IT'S THE END OF THE YEAR.
12. Students need the two months of summer just to recuperate from end of year.

Mudhut Music

Casey's not here today, she's probably sick, last time I saw her, she was feeling pretty bad. But anyways, I'm sitting next to Nick, and wondering, "Nick! What do I blog about?!" and he's like "BLOG ABOUT THE MUSIC! YOU KNOW, WHERE YOU PLAY THE DRUMS AND DANCE AROUND THE FIRE?" so, that's what I'm going to blog about. As per Nick's instructions, when I go live in Australia we'll have a fire pit. And drums. And we'll dance around the fire happily. It'll be like in Pocahontas! And the kangaroos will dance with us. We'll dance to the Circle of Life from the Lion King. Awimbawet Awimbawet...In the jungle the mighty jungle the lion...oh that's not Circle of Life, that's The Lion Sleeps Tonight....Maaaaatoomeyahh matoowimeyyaya It's the Ciiiiircle of Liiiiiiife (That's the right song!) And we'll dance around and be merry.

English Project

Usually when I get projects that I can do on my own that don't involve presentations I'm all for it. But this Macbeth project is sooo creepy. First of all, it's a project on this huge piece of paper which, Jen has simplified for me - four pieces of computer paper kind of huge - and I have to (on one side) to a Character Concepts Chart. Meaning every character in Macbeth (I HATE Macbeth.) including the mini-mini ones like the messenger that tells Lady Macbeth that Macbeth is coming. So each major character gets 4-5 points, 4-5 quotes to support the points, arrows saying who is related to who and who did what to who, AND a drawing of what they look like. All the mini-but-not-so-mini characters get 3-4 points, 3-4 quotes, arrows, and a drawing. And each mini character gets 1-2 points, 1-2 quotes, and a drawing. Also on that side we need symbols, 2-3 points, 2-3 quotes, and a drawing. Motifs, 2-3 points, 2-3 quotes and a drawing. And the last thing for that side is 3-4 points, 3-4 quotes and a drawing for each theme in that play. (This is only on ONE side!) Now we come to the other side, which is in the form of Freytag's Pyramid. For each section (Inciting Moment, Exposition, etc.) We need what we think a part of the play fits that description (e.g. I think the climax is Banquo's death) 5-6 points, 5-6 quotes, and a drawing. So what that would look like is it would say:

Climax - Banquo's Death (Drawing of Banquo dying.)
-Something about Macbeth being jealous.
-Something about Banquo being cooler than Macbeth
-Something Old
-Something New
-Something Borrowed
-Something Blue
-Quote
-Quote
-Quote
-Quote
-Quote
-Quote

Really?

Now - creepy part. My dad has done Macbeth and he was trying to help out, and was like "didn't Macbeth say something about Duncan being a good king?"
and I was like "Yeah, he says 'Duncan has borne his faculties so meek' and it's on page 24 line 17'" Creepy enough? It really WAS on page 24 line 17! And I quoted that exactly! I think I should get full marks on my project - just for that!

When something happens...everything happens

Ok, so usually I'm fairly busy, not busy busy, but I can find something to do. But when i make plans to do something, everything just decides to be on that day. So my friend Erin's mom has this family plan thing at a gym, and I can join on it and it only costs me two bucks a month. So I go to the gym whenever she can drive. So I made plans to go out with them Friday at quarter to eight. Of course - totally thinking my friend's birthday celebration would be on the weekend. It's not. So after school I have to do recycling with my friends (where we recycle all the paper - and drinking containers in the school) and then something is going to happen, and then we're all going to take a bus down to a restaurant to eat. There we will give her the present that everyone chipped in for. But the problem is, I don't have a ride back - as I am stupid and have no idea how the bus system works. My dad is going out so he can't drive me home and I don't want to ask my friend's mom to pick me up. So luckily Casey was there to help me out and give me this number to text to figure out when the buses will arrive. Hopefully I don't screw it up. Tomorrow, Erin and I have a finance "seminar" tomorrow - which is good for the career area I would like to go into - Accounting. And after that when my dad picks us up at 5:30, we bring Erin home and my dad has to rush me to the theater to be at my friend's birthday movie which the friends who couldn't come (or weren't invited) to the Friday party are going. And then, hopefully we intend to get into Letters to Juliet. And then on Sunday I work for six hours. I wish that I could just go back in time and say I couldn't do any of it! But of course I can't and therefore need to just suck it up and do it.

Boyfriend?

So Casey was talking about her boyfriend and I totally interrupted her and laid down some rules. "He can NOT come live with us in our mudhut." She looked kind of shocked but then after some thinking said, "fine." So I thought about it and thought about it and I have come to the conclusion that if he REALLY had to come, say we needed someone to cook because I can't, he'd come. Also, if something needed to be fixed. He would live in the bathroom. But he isn't allowed to leave by the front hole, we would make a hole for him to leave through the bathroom. You have a cat-flap, a dog-flap, now I bring you the...Boyfriend-Flap! He can decorate it too! He'll have so much fun.
PS: If Casey's boyfriend reads this - we're best friends, kay?
PPS: If Casey's boyfriend ever becomes a rockstar, he can upgrade from the bathroom, but only if he builds me a bookshelf.

60L Backpack

So today Casey brought in her 60L backpack, and as we got to talking, she decided she was going to get me one so that when we move to go live in our mudhut, we would have our backpacks only. Like snails we would carry all our belongings on our backs. So, she told me I had to decide what I was going to bring with me in my backpack. I've decided that of course I'm bringing all my books, and I'm sure I could fit my guinea pigs in there and maybe...kleenex! It's awful when you're walking and your nose starts running and you're like "MAN I WISH I HAD A KLEENEX." My clothes and stuff like that will fit in there, and my mismatched socks. They always get to my drawer in perfect matching pairs, but I think at night they go have sock parties and then forget who their partner was and get back in my drawer with the wrong sock. So they're going in there. My Dino teddy bear HAS to come, he looks like Barney...but he's not, he's Dino from the Flinstones. And toilet paper, definitely need some of that, you never know if the leaf is actually poison ivy or not, so yeah. And who could forget? My handy-dandy wallet, with nothing in it. If I get attacked by random desert people, I can bargain for my life with that wallet! Now you'll be wondering how I'm going to fit all that stuff in there? Is it a Mary Poppins carpet bag? No! I know the secret of how they put the caramel in the caramilk bar! And therefore know the secret of how to fit all that stuff in there with plenty of room to spare! And no, I won't tell you.

This video is really cool and shows the things modern technology can do. Also, some people say that technology can take away the creativeness of people, but I think this video shows that it really just helps people add a new type of creativeness, a creativeness to take a picture, a flower for example, and make it look like a rooster, technology just helps that happen, for artists who can't draw, they can take pictures and alter it like this. It's just amazing!

This is a video of "Where's My Angel?" by Metro Station, I think it's a really cool song, but also, it's from the Alice soundtrack, that movie was a really good movie and really cool in 3D. I would definately recommend this movie to my friends, if you get a chance to see it, go! Also the song itself is a creepy sort of Alice-like song, which is something you don't hear everyday, overall a great song.

Dumb Ideas

So, one day in class, once again. Casey and I were doing an assignment, I can't remember what assignment it was. But I randomly noticed that on the outside bars of the document it said 86% so I asked Casey what it meant. We thought...and thought...and being completely computer illiterate, decided it was the mark we were getting, there had to be some program that marked our work as we did it, the teacher just typed in the criteria and the program would give us a mark based on that! So, a few assignments later, we were wondering how come the computer said we were getting one mark, and we got another. And then it hit me...it wasn't the mark! It was how big we were viewing the window! Some times we can look at something and thing too dumbly, but then there are times we look at something and make it look smarter.