Saturday, August 30, 2014
Week: 2
Songs to Remember: Boom Clap - Charlie XCX
Sometimes I think too in-depth on a situation and I just start to feel depressed and regret. But then I realize that I'm thinking too much and I'm just like "Drew, this is the second week of school, what the f*** do are you thinking?"
So I slept late at night and woke up to doing some homework. My math teacher decided to give us only like, 10 questions to do instead of the usual 20 so that was nice I guess. I really hope El doesn't think of what I asked her as asking her out. I didn't really depend on it as being a date, it was more of a casual thing, 'cause at that time, it was 6th period, Friday, 3-day weekend, so I was feeling "whatever". And 'cause of that, I need to remind myself " Drew, what the f*** are you thinking".
Since it's a 3-day weekend, I got enough time (that is, if I don't wait 'till the last minute) to do the rest of my English homework, and work on that online presentation for Chinese class. I'll also be able to catch up on the latest episodes of "Running Man". Also, double IP weekend on League of Legends, so that's something I could do.
Ummm, it's 11:40 PM, aaand, I can't seem to remember what it is I want to talk about. There's a lot of things that I want to talk about, mostly experiences at school, but I can't seem to remember. Yeah I can't really seem to remember. I'm actually sitting here, looking at my phone's screen thinking about what to write. Just give me a minute. Hmm, I could talk about stupid stuff I find on Instagram? I don't know, should I? I'm kinda deciding whether I should talk about Yue or not, 'cause I don't really feel on diving into that info right now.
Sooo, how was your day? Whatcha gonna do for the weekend? Nothing. And then when I'm back at school: " How was your weekend?" And that's why I love weekends. Because they're weekends and because I get a free start on conversations before and after weekends, asking ",What are you gonna do for the weekend?", and "How was your weekend?". Oh and uh, my world history teacher never got my Tom Cruise message I sent to her. Or at least, I hope she doesn't mention it to me. I kinda regret sending it actually. Don't do stuff like that, unless you're really feeling whatever.
So uh, is Yue gonna go to prom? Who's she gonna ask if she does? What about homecoming, does anyone really care about homecoming? Or the winter ball and s****y dances like that. Asking the important questions here, people. You know, I've never been to a dance before, aaand I'm kinda glad about that. I really don't know where I'm going with this.
I guess I'll end it here, umm, my parents said (mostly my dad) that they were going to go see the movie I saw with my friends yesterday night ("As Above, So Below"). My mom is like "Me scared? Oh please" and I'm like "Mom, I'm sorry for what yore about to experience". So tomorrow they're probably gonna go. Umm, maybe, probably tomorrow. If not then dad, why'd you lie to me.
Oh my god I'm tired. I still need to catch up on my shoe though. So uh, see you tomorrow.
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Friday, August 29, 2014 "As Above, So is El."
Friday, August 29, 2014
Week: 2
Songs to Remember: Waiting For a Sign - Scratch Massive
As I was eating dinner after I got home from watching "As Above, So Below", I noticed the mug that I was drinking from is a mug that my uncle got me from Paris. Bootleg coincidence right?
So since I'm kinda tired and sleepy, I'll make this first part short. World History, Greek, roman, sloths, ligers, slothzillas, Jennifer Aniston, quiz, boring. And now for English: group project, presentation on a certain kind of plagiarism, art plagiarism, Chromebooks, homework, extra boring.
Chemistry: kinda boring as well. Classwork, homework, meh. No I didn't talk to Yue today, I'll do it on Monday in which I'll have an easy " So how was your weekend" opening.
P.E, we practiced that one jump-shot thing, of which I forgot the name for (not spiking). Out of about 8 tries, I hit about 2 of them over the net, and we were right next to the net. Not bad in my book. God, I am so sleepy right now.
Gates of hell, the usual. Kinda ties in with "As Above" right? Anyways, work, classwork, confusing problems, barely anyone understood, work, boring, yawnojg, right now, homework, work.
Oh, I'm already talking about Chinese already. So today we were supposed to get started on making a BlendSpace presentation on Lesson 1 of Chinese, which is basically greetings and "Yes" or "No" questions. We had to take a picture of our group, so there was finally a picture of me and somebody else (besides my parents), in a long time. We spent about the whole period starting on the first slide. Well probably finish it over the weekend. Thank the lord for the inventor of labor day. I f***ing love you (and on the second week of school too).
So since I was going to the movies with my friends (whose both are also named Drew. Crazy, right), I was like "What if I were to invite El?" I mean, casual, not Mich effort, and horror movies. You all know how that is? No, it's not putting your wiggle-worm through the bottom of the popcorn bucket with a hole in it. You know? The usual scary parts and you get the scared hugs and stuff. Dating 101. Just kidding, I'm more of a, Dating -3637 kind of person.
So El and I were walking out the classroom, I start off with "So, what are you gonna do for the weekend?" And she's like "Nothing really, just trying to get as much sleep on as possible" and I was like "Yeah, me too". Then I was like " Today, I'm gonna go see this one movie, 'As Above, So Below'. Have you heard so it?" And she's like "Nope, what's it about?" And I explain to her a bit of the movie and she's like "Scary? I don't do scary movies that well" and so I was just like "F*** it, Drew, do whatever" and so I asked her "I'm going with Drew and Drew today, you wanna cone?" And she was like "Naww, scary movies are too scary" or something like that. Knowing what happened last year with Tn, this this time I'm playing it super-duper casual, trying to make it as casual as I can possibly be. Even stooping to filthy casual level.
So I was like "Yeah, it's going to be pretty scary, I'm probably gonna a have nightmares, heh". Then we were like "Bye" and I was like "Well, it went better than I thought it would". Just kidding, I was hoping for a yes, by at least I played it casual. Everything should be casual, casual, casual. So, I go home, message the dudes, my dad drops me off at the mall, I see both of em' and they were like " Okay, buy a ticket for TMNT at 7:00" ('cause we're there at like, 6:30). I pay for my ticket, we go inside, and they insist that we all go to the bathroom. So I was like, whatever, and go in. I didn't know this was part of the plan of theater-hopping until like, after we go in the theater.
Outside of the theater for "As Above, So Below", we see these 2 girls, kinda our age, high school i guess, lookes like it. One of them was like "Wait holdon, we need to take one more picture" and my friend Drew (we'll call him Drew H and the other Drew N) was like "Photo-bomb!". So, we go into the theater and we sit down, trying to act like we're 18. I'm like "Damn, I should've refrained from shaving for a few days, would've made me look even more older". I don't like mustaches or beards, 'cause mustaches on high school students just look irregular in my opinion, so that's why I shave.
I never done something this bad before. I though this was going to be more complicated, but no, it seemed pretty easy to go from theater room to another. There were no like security guards really watching. Those girls we saw from outside went into our theater as well, and my friend was like " Wow, those are the girls from outside". One of my friends insisted on hopping to another theater after this and see "TMNT", but it was gonna be pretty late so I was like " Nawww, I'm good".
So I'm watching "As Above, So Below". I was expecting to be scared and to be honest, only a few scenes got me. I mostly know where the scare scenes are already due to seeing the trailer for the movie. They literally showed like everything in the trailer. There was this one part, where the character " Benji", the dude holding the main camera, was sorta stuck when crawling through the bones. I was really feeling the claustrophobia from that scene, and I don't even think I'm claustrophobic. That scene was nice.
The sound design of the movie had like, loud chants, howling, lots of atmospheric audio stuff. Oh, and the tour guide, he looks and talks just like PewDiePie. I wonder how many times he's been asked "Can you do the catchphrase for me?" "My name is, PAPILLON!".
So all in all, there was a lot of running around in the movie. I liked how there was this running gag in the movie (spoilers) when the main character, Scarlet, kept on running through the statue as if it was nothing. People actually laughed at those parts because it was so bootleg. The statue's like " Oooooh, I'm a ghooooost" and she's like "Move b****, get out the way". Bootleg. The whole movie was not as scary as I thought it'd be, having see mostly all the scare scenes in the trailer. I gotta say though, I thought the ending was gonna be either they die, or they live, but instead it was some bootleg trippy s***. Pretty cool, I never would have thought of that.
Anyways, interesting movie, though kinda repetetive at some parts, just running through hallways, hearing loud chants and whatnot. Sooo, uhhh, yeah. I'm kinda sleepy right now, I know I forgot something, don't know what. Sooo, see you tomorrow. Oh yeah, I give the movie a C by the way. Oh and I also love the ending credits, really really nice music and visuals.
Week: 2
Songs to Remember: Waiting For a Sign - Scratch Massive
As I was eating dinner after I got home from watching "As Above, So Below", I noticed the mug that I was drinking from is a mug that my uncle got me from Paris. Bootleg coincidence right?
So since I'm kinda tired and sleepy, I'll make this first part short. World History, Greek, roman, sloths, ligers, slothzillas, Jennifer Aniston, quiz, boring. And now for English: group project, presentation on a certain kind of plagiarism, art plagiarism, Chromebooks, homework, extra boring.
Chemistry: kinda boring as well. Classwork, homework, meh. No I didn't talk to Yue today, I'll do it on Monday in which I'll have an easy " So how was your weekend" opening.
P.E, we practiced that one jump-shot thing, of which I forgot the name for (not spiking). Out of about 8 tries, I hit about 2 of them over the net, and we were right next to the net. Not bad in my book. God, I am so sleepy right now.
Gates of hell, the usual. Kinda ties in with "As Above" right? Anyways, work, classwork, confusing problems, barely anyone understood, work, boring, yawnojg, right now, homework, work.
Oh, I'm already talking about Chinese already. So today we were supposed to get started on making a BlendSpace presentation on Lesson 1 of Chinese, which is basically greetings and "Yes" or "No" questions. We had to take a picture of our group, so there was finally a picture of me and somebody else (besides my parents), in a long time. We spent about the whole period starting on the first slide. Well probably finish it over the weekend. Thank the lord for the inventor of labor day. I f***ing love you (and on the second week of school too).
So since I was going to the movies with my friends (whose both are also named Drew. Crazy, right), I was like "What if I were to invite El?" I mean, casual, not Mich effort, and horror movies. You all know how that is? No, it's not putting your wiggle-worm through the bottom of the popcorn bucket with a hole in it. You know? The usual scary parts and you get the scared hugs and stuff. Dating 101. Just kidding, I'm more of a, Dating -3637 kind of person.
So El and I were walking out the classroom, I start off with "So, what are you gonna do for the weekend?" And she's like "Nothing really, just trying to get as much sleep on as possible" and I was like "Yeah, me too". Then I was like " Today, I'm gonna go see this one movie, 'As Above, So Below'. Have you heard so it?" And she's like "Nope, what's it about?" And I explain to her a bit of the movie and she's like "Scary? I don't do scary movies that well" and so I was just like "F*** it, Drew, do whatever" and so I asked her "I'm going with Drew and Drew today, you wanna cone?" And she was like "Naww, scary movies are too scary" or something like that. Knowing what happened last year with Tn, this this time I'm playing it super-duper casual, trying to make it as casual as I can possibly be. Even stooping to filthy casual level.
So I was like "Yeah, it's going to be pretty scary, I'm probably gonna a have nightmares, heh". Then we were like "Bye" and I was like "Well, it went better than I thought it would". Just kidding, I was hoping for a yes, by at least I played it casual. Everything should be casual, casual, casual. So, I go home, message the dudes, my dad drops me off at the mall, I see both of em' and they were like " Okay, buy a ticket for TMNT at 7:00" ('cause we're there at like, 6:30). I pay for my ticket, we go inside, and they insist that we all go to the bathroom. So I was like, whatever, and go in. I didn't know this was part of the plan of theater-hopping until like, after we go in the theater.
Outside of the theater for "As Above, So Below", we see these 2 girls, kinda our age, high school i guess, lookes like it. One of them was like "Wait holdon, we need to take one more picture" and my friend Drew (we'll call him Drew H and the other Drew N) was like "Photo-bomb!". So, we go into the theater and we sit down, trying to act like we're 18. I'm like "Damn, I should've refrained from shaving for a few days, would've made me look even more older". I don't like mustaches or beards, 'cause mustaches on high school students just look irregular in my opinion, so that's why I shave.
I never done something this bad before. I though this was going to be more complicated, but no, it seemed pretty easy to go from theater room to another. There were no like security guards really watching. Those girls we saw from outside went into our theater as well, and my friend was like " Wow, those are the girls from outside". One of my friends insisted on hopping to another theater after this and see "TMNT", but it was gonna be pretty late so I was like " Nawww, I'm good".
So I'm watching "As Above, So Below". I was expecting to be scared and to be honest, only a few scenes got me. I mostly know where the scare scenes are already due to seeing the trailer for the movie. They literally showed like everything in the trailer. There was this one part, where the character " Benji", the dude holding the main camera, was sorta stuck when crawling through the bones. I was really feeling the claustrophobia from that scene, and I don't even think I'm claustrophobic. That scene was nice.
The sound design of the movie had like, loud chants, howling, lots of atmospheric audio stuff. Oh, and the tour guide, he looks and talks just like PewDiePie. I wonder how many times he's been asked "Can you do the catchphrase for me?" "My name is, PAPILLON!".
So all in all, there was a lot of running around in the movie. I liked how there was this running gag in the movie (spoilers) when the main character, Scarlet, kept on running through the statue as if it was nothing. People actually laughed at those parts because it was so bootleg. The statue's like " Oooooh, I'm a ghooooost" and she's like "Move b****, get out the way". Bootleg. The whole movie was not as scary as I thought it'd be, having see mostly all the scare scenes in the trailer. I gotta say though, I thought the ending was gonna be either they die, or they live, but instead it was some bootleg trippy s***. Pretty cool, I never would have thought of that.
Anyways, interesting movie, though kinda repetetive at some parts, just running through hallways, hearing loud chants and whatnot. Sooo, uhhh, yeah. I'm kinda sleepy right now, I know I forgot something, don't know what. Sooo, see you tomorrow. Oh yeah, I give the movie a C by the way. Oh and I also love the ending credits, really really nice music and visuals.
Friday, August 29, 2014
Thursday, August 28, 2014 "Measuring Yue and I."
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Week: 2
Songs to Remember: Taken for a Fool - The Strokes
This is probably going to be a long post, just saying. Also I can't really think of anything clever to so for these first few sentences.
So I'm in World History class, teacher says stuff, we take notes. The end. English class, the teacher is not making it easy for anyone. Based on her rules and s***, but that's about it. Today we just went on the Chromebooks and did a practice quiz on plagiarism and copyright. Then we heard librarian talk about online resources for about 20 minutes. The quiz was bootleg though, and not in the good way. It wasn't really multiple choice, it was more of a "Yes" or "No" thing. It wasn't a real test or anything, just to test our knowledge on plagiarism and stuff. We lick on either "yes" or "no" (whichever's correct) and it'll take us to a page explaining the answer.
But most of them (99%) had instead of a solid "Yes" or "No", they had " Probably not, but it can be". Like every single question answer was just "Probably, but it could be" bs. Like, is it f***ing yes, or no. YES, OR NO.
So today, our teacher was having us do another experiment again (not really an experiment, more of an activity) and he had us go around the room, measuring stuff like our arm-spans, height, shoe size, etc. I was like "Yes, yes, yeeeees. Please let us choose our own groups". And guess what? He said " You and your partner" and I'm just like "More like, Yue and her partner". Yeah that's right, pun city. I can't get enough of her name.
But then, this dude who sits next to me, you know, the guy who's about double my height, could probably kill me with his own thumb, he asks me if I wanna be his partner. And I just answer " sure", just 'cause I wasn't thinking. Then he was like "You know, only if you want to". When it was time to start working, the dude was like " So are we partners or" and I guess he saw me and Yue pointing to each other and he was like "You wanna be partners with her? It's cool man" and I was just like "Ffffffff*** yeah!" Cool guy, cool guy. Very understandable.
So Yue and I start working on measuring stuff. We start with measuring the length of the classroom in meter's, done by using 2 meter sticks, each of us having one and moving each to the end of the other and repeating. Only until we almost reach the other side of the classroom does Yue realizes and tells me "Wait, did we count?" And I'm just like "Ohhhh my god" and she and I were laughing for a bit and we decide to do that one later, since it was sorta crowded with many people doing at the same time.
The next easiest thing to do was measure each other's heights. And like, I measure her height, she measures mine and I'm just thinking "Oh my god, is this really happening right now? Me measuring her height? Together? As lab partners for this one activity? Ohhh my god". She's like " Oh I'm short, you're so tall" and I'm just thinking "She's almost as tall as me, just a few inches less, and I'm 5' 4"." But I can see that it was cute so I'll go with it. The next thing we do is measure each other's circumference of each other's heads and then our arms spans and our shoe sizes.
During this whole time, my mind was half- in awe of believing this is happening, the other half trying to maintain consciousness. With all this measuring of each other, there was a lot of physical contact, mostly around the hands and arms. I do admit, when I was measuring the length of her elbow to her fingertip, I did purposely place my hand on her hand to help measure with the ruler. I don't regret anything. After we were done measuring ourselves, we had to weigh some objects like nickels, pennies, and ourselves. I went on the scale and I saw my weight for the first time in... I don't know, years? The last time I saw my weight was when I was 100 lb. I stepped on the scale and I was 109 point something lb. And I was like "Aren't you gonna weigh yourself" and she was like "I weigh myself everyday so I already know my weight" and then shewas like "I'm 1 lb heavier than you" and she was like chuckling a bit and I was just like "Oooooooh mmmmyyyyy goooooddd. Where is NY junk food?" I stay up way too late at night (like I am now) and so that's probably why I can't gain much weight. Besides the fact I'm in my teens, I lose a lot of calories staying up at night. Not too late though, I usually sleep at 12:00 AM.
So Yue and I were done doing the activity stuff, we were just sitting at a desk and converting the measurements, as so it says on the paper. As we were doing so, she asks me if I have a Facenovel, and I'm just like "Yeah" and so she hands me her phone to search myself up. I was thinking like "Well, you certainly made me waste a lot of my time on the research on Facenovel. At least now I don't have to send a random friend request". And so we're done with the activity, period ends, I walk out with Yue, and since my mind's half a functioning at that time, I asked her something I probably already asked her. I think I asked her " Is Honors Pre-cal hard?" In which I'm like "F***, we probably already covered this". So we converse, for a bit. She's like " Honors pre-cal is so hard, I don't ubdeetsna dit, I'm so dumb" and I'm just like "Yesss, the perfect time to slip in a compliment" and I'm like "You're not dumb, you're pretty smart". And she goes to her next class and we're good.
She also physically touched my right arm a bit when she left. " Looks like I'm not washing my right arm from now on". Just kidding. Definitely not complaining about the physical contact. Anyways, probably the 2nd, if not, the best time I've had in chemistry so far, the first being on the 1st day of school. Now if only this wasn't only in chemistry class. But, I gotta remember that dating a senior would just be a 100% chance of bad.
Next was the gates of hell, a.k.a, P.E. Today we practice doing serves. Was it serves? I forgot what it was called. I think it was serving. We had to hit the ball with the heels of our hands (yes, heels). I think I only got it across the net about 1 time only, out of like, 15 practice hits? Yep. The teacher tested each of us on one serve each. About 50% of us failed, some miserably, whole the other 50% hit it way over the net, in which one dude hit the ceiling light. It didn't fall though, btw.
So when P.E was over, and everyone was standing outside the gate, waiting for the bell to ring for lunch, I see Vt, and how she's talking to this one dude who's like, taller than me. The bell rings and I'm walking to my locker, a new route this time, and It's in front of me with her friends. Whole walking, I see her do the same thing she did with me. She's like "You're Randy right?" Or something like that. Then she's like "Yesss" and I'm just like "Okay, what the f***?" Like, "Ohhhh myy gooodd". I'm just like, no, I don't want to have anything to do with this. And why does she sound like she's so congrstulative of herself on remmebering soneones's name? Or something. Anyways, I don't want anything to do with it. Inb4 there becomes a Vt arc.
Anyways, I go sit down at my usual spot, my buddy, or actually a dude I know, know more than some people, whom o see around, but don't really talk to. He's in my P.E Volleyball class and his name is Drew as well. I always see him eating his lunch at the same place I hangout when we're released early from P.E, and by same place, I mean 3 feet away from me. So I was like " 'Sup Drew" and I'm just feeling weird, having to say hello and saying my own name. And he's like "Hi Drew". And so we talk a bit about Volleyball and I guess were friends now. I'm guessing that since he invited me and our mutual friend Drew (yes, 3 Drews), to go see a movie tomorrow. Pretty random, but, the movie we're gonna go see is " As Above, so Below", so I'm like "Ehhh, friends, movie, Friday, horror genre, probably gonna be scarred for a while, Ehhh, why not".
The movie's rated and we all know what happened las time when I went o go see The Purge: Anarchy. So I was like " Isn't it rated r" and he was like "We could pay for another movie and watch it anyways" and I'm just like "*gasp*, Drew! I thought you had more integrity than this" and I WS just like "Ehh, I've never snuck into different movies before, why the f*** not" and so I was like "What time?" So apparently we're going to go see As Above, So Below tomorrow, I'm probably gonna s*** my pnats since I've never watched a horror movie in theaters before. Unless you count "Monster House" then uhhh, nope.
Since it's late, I'll just summarize the rest of my day. Math, work, lots of work, hard. Chinese class, go over homework, practice speech, I get a note, counselor wants to see me, I walk across the school, she says there's a problem with academies, I told her I told the academy teacher last year, she's like "Okay", I walk back to class across the school, 5 minutes left of class, I walk out with El, she doesn't go with me all the way through the back of the school this time, instead goes back to her old route, aaaaand I'm home.
And I play some AT: Battle Party with my buds, my best bud arguing with n other buds about college, I wish to help, I finish some homework, aaand I'm seeing a horror movie tomorrow. See you tomorrow. "I'm not gonna aim high and be let down" -Best Bud, 2014.
Week: 2
Songs to Remember: Taken for a Fool - The Strokes
This is probably going to be a long post, just saying. Also I can't really think of anything clever to so for these first few sentences.
So I'm in World History class, teacher says stuff, we take notes. The end. English class, the teacher is not making it easy for anyone. Based on her rules and s***, but that's about it. Today we just went on the Chromebooks and did a practice quiz on plagiarism and copyright. Then we heard librarian talk about online resources for about 20 minutes. The quiz was bootleg though, and not in the good way. It wasn't really multiple choice, it was more of a "Yes" or "No" thing. It wasn't a real test or anything, just to test our knowledge on plagiarism and stuff. We lick on either "yes" or "no" (whichever's correct) and it'll take us to a page explaining the answer.
But most of them (99%) had instead of a solid "Yes" or "No", they had " Probably not, but it can be". Like every single question answer was just "Probably, but it could be" bs. Like, is it f***ing yes, or no. YES, OR NO.
So today, our teacher was having us do another experiment again (not really an experiment, more of an activity) and he had us go around the room, measuring stuff like our arm-spans, height, shoe size, etc. I was like "Yes, yes, yeeeees. Please let us choose our own groups". And guess what? He said " You and your partner" and I'm just like "More like, Yue and her partner". Yeah that's right, pun city. I can't get enough of her name.
But then, this dude who sits next to me, you know, the guy who's about double my height, could probably kill me with his own thumb, he asks me if I wanna be his partner. And I just answer " sure", just 'cause I wasn't thinking. Then he was like "You know, only if you want to". When it was time to start working, the dude was like " So are we partners or" and I guess he saw me and Yue pointing to each other and he was like "You wanna be partners with her? It's cool man" and I was just like "Ffffffff*** yeah!" Cool guy, cool guy. Very understandable.
So Yue and I start working on measuring stuff. We start with measuring the length of the classroom in meter's, done by using 2 meter sticks, each of us having one and moving each to the end of the other and repeating. Only until we almost reach the other side of the classroom does Yue realizes and tells me "Wait, did we count?" And I'm just like "Ohhhh my god" and she and I were laughing for a bit and we decide to do that one later, since it was sorta crowded with many people doing at the same time.
The next easiest thing to do was measure each other's heights. And like, I measure her height, she measures mine and I'm just thinking "Oh my god, is this really happening right now? Me measuring her height? Together? As lab partners for this one activity? Ohhh my god". She's like " Oh I'm short, you're so tall" and I'm just thinking "She's almost as tall as me, just a few inches less, and I'm 5' 4"." But I can see that it was cute so I'll go with it. The next thing we do is measure each other's circumference of each other's heads and then our arms spans and our shoe sizes.
During this whole time, my mind was half- in awe of believing this is happening, the other half trying to maintain consciousness. With all this measuring of each other, there was a lot of physical contact, mostly around the hands and arms. I do admit, when I was measuring the length of her elbow to her fingertip, I did purposely place my hand on her hand to help measure with the ruler. I don't regret anything. After we were done measuring ourselves, we had to weigh some objects like nickels, pennies, and ourselves. I went on the scale and I saw my weight for the first time in... I don't know, years? The last time I saw my weight was when I was 100 lb. I stepped on the scale and I was 109 point something lb. And I was like "Aren't you gonna weigh yourself" and she was like "I weigh myself everyday so I already know my weight" and then shewas like "I'm 1 lb heavier than you" and she was like chuckling a bit and I was just like "Oooooooh mmmmyyyyy goooooddd. Where is NY junk food?" I stay up way too late at night (like I am now) and so that's probably why I can't gain much weight. Besides the fact I'm in my teens, I lose a lot of calories staying up at night. Not too late though, I usually sleep at 12:00 AM.
So Yue and I were done doing the activity stuff, we were just sitting at a desk and converting the measurements, as so it says on the paper. As we were doing so, she asks me if I have a Facenovel, and I'm just like "Yeah" and so she hands me her phone to search myself up. I was thinking like "Well, you certainly made me waste a lot of my time on the research on Facenovel. At least now I don't have to send a random friend request". And so we're done with the activity, period ends, I walk out with Yue, and since my mind's half a functioning at that time, I asked her something I probably already asked her. I think I asked her " Is Honors Pre-cal hard?" In which I'm like "F***, we probably already covered this". So we converse, for a bit. She's like " Honors pre-cal is so hard, I don't ubdeetsna dit, I'm so dumb" and I'm just like "Yesss, the perfect time to slip in a compliment" and I'm like "You're not dumb, you're pretty smart". And she goes to her next class and we're good.
She also physically touched my right arm a bit when she left. " Looks like I'm not washing my right arm from now on". Just kidding. Definitely not complaining about the physical contact. Anyways, probably the 2nd, if not, the best time I've had in chemistry so far, the first being on the 1st day of school. Now if only this wasn't only in chemistry class. But, I gotta remember that dating a senior would just be a 100% chance of bad.
Next was the gates of hell, a.k.a, P.E. Today we practice doing serves. Was it serves? I forgot what it was called. I think it was serving. We had to hit the ball with the heels of our hands (yes, heels). I think I only got it across the net about 1 time only, out of like, 15 practice hits? Yep. The teacher tested each of us on one serve each. About 50% of us failed, some miserably, whole the other 50% hit it way over the net, in which one dude hit the ceiling light. It didn't fall though, btw.
So when P.E was over, and everyone was standing outside the gate, waiting for the bell to ring for lunch, I see Vt, and how she's talking to this one dude who's like, taller than me. The bell rings and I'm walking to my locker, a new route this time, and It's in front of me with her friends. Whole walking, I see her do the same thing she did with me. She's like "You're Randy right?" Or something like that. Then she's like "Yesss" and I'm just like "Okay, what the f***?" Like, "Ohhhh myy gooodd". I'm just like, no, I don't want to have anything to do with this. And why does she sound like she's so congrstulative of herself on remmebering soneones's name? Or something. Anyways, I don't want anything to do with it. Inb4 there becomes a Vt arc.
Anyways, I go sit down at my usual spot, my buddy, or actually a dude I know, know more than some people, whom o see around, but don't really talk to. He's in my P.E Volleyball class and his name is Drew as well. I always see him eating his lunch at the same place I hangout when we're released early from P.E, and by same place, I mean 3 feet away from me. So I was like " 'Sup Drew" and I'm just feeling weird, having to say hello and saying my own name. And he's like "Hi Drew". And so we talk a bit about Volleyball and I guess were friends now. I'm guessing that since he invited me and our mutual friend Drew (yes, 3 Drews), to go see a movie tomorrow. Pretty random, but, the movie we're gonna go see is " As Above, so Below", so I'm like "Ehhh, friends, movie, Friday, horror genre, probably gonna be scarred for a while, Ehhh, why not".
The movie's rated and we all know what happened las time when I went o go see The Purge: Anarchy. So I was like " Isn't it rated r" and he was like "We could pay for another movie and watch it anyways" and I'm just like "*gasp*, Drew! I thought you had more integrity than this" and I WS just like "Ehh, I've never snuck into different movies before, why the f*** not" and so I was like "What time?" So apparently we're going to go see As Above, So Below tomorrow, I'm probably gonna s*** my pnats since I've never watched a horror movie in theaters before. Unless you count "Monster House" then uhhh, nope.
Since it's late, I'll just summarize the rest of my day. Math, work, lots of work, hard. Chinese class, go over homework, practice speech, I get a note, counselor wants to see me, I walk across the school, she says there's a problem with academies, I told her I told the academy teacher last year, she's like "Okay", I walk back to class across the school, 5 minutes left of class, I walk out with El, she doesn't go with me all the way through the back of the school this time, instead goes back to her old route, aaaaand I'm home.
And I play some AT: Battle Party with my buds, my best bud arguing with n other buds about college, I wish to help, I finish some homework, aaand I'm seeing a horror movie tomorrow. See you tomorrow. "I'm not gonna aim high and be let down" -Best Bud, 2014.
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Wednesday, August 27, 2014 "El Walking and Comas."
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Week: 2
Songs to Remember: Hot Baby - BESTie
After thinking about the amount of time I've talked to El since school started, I was like "Woah s***, I've talked to her in class like, 10 times. It's already been 2 weeks?!" Yeah I don't remember what I talked about at all.
Just some news, my dad's brother, my uncle, had a stroke. It happened about 2 days ago I think. And no need to feel sorry for me, it's alright. My dad was like "You're cousin is pretty upset. You better tell him on Facenovel" and he told me to tell him "I'm sorry for what happened to your dad, he'll be out soon" and I'm just like "Why have me do it? This is just like the time when you unnecessarily talked to that girl telling her 'I'm sorry for you' on that bus trip at Yosemite". Like, that's not something someone should do, or actually, it's not necessary. If my dad were to have a stroke, I'd rather be left alone and think for a while, rather than be constantly reminded "I'm sorry for your dad, your dad, your dad" over and over again. It'd make me even more upset. Anyways, I hope he makes a good recovery. It was probably die to high-blood pressure, though I'm not too sure.
Then it got me thinking, if I were to be in a coma, what would I do? Well, be a vegetable, for one. If were to be in a coma, just read to me all the posts from my blog, including this post, and yell at me "WHO ARE YOU" I love that phrase, it's my favorite question, "Who are you?". I don't kbow, why, I just like it. Also be sure to play " All Those Friendly People" for me too.
So, onto school. I took notes on World History. Enough said. Today the teacher explained how we have to answer questions and wrote sentences regarding 15 vocabulary words every week. Not so hard, but with all the s****y rules she put in place for how we come up with the sentences, it makes it a lot more difficult.
Chemistry was men, I tries to say hi to Yue in class, her and I and some other people got to class early so it was pretty empty, and I waved as she was looking at me and uh, got nothing. And this is why I have greeting issues. We took notes on converting units of measurements, like grams and meters, then we had to complete a worksheet on conversion. Pretty easy, pretty meh.
And so now, after chemistry class, is when the gates of hell open. 'Course it still does when the lunch end bell rings, but now it's also after Chemistry. Yes, P.E. Yeah, that thing yesterday, my problem, yeah I'm kinda over it. The life problems part at least, I still want the dude who called me "nervous kid" be f***ed over. I knew I should have never picked Volleyball, and there's not even any cute girls here, ones that date me anyways.
So we had more partner practice today, but luckily my buddy, one whom I know but don't really hang out with but is always in the same P.E period as me, decided to be a sign of hope for me and be like "At Drew, let's partner up" and I was like "OH THANK YOU BASED BUDDY". We worked on setting today, in Volleyball. Pretty casual, if I do say so about P.E.
Lunch, then gates, etc. The teacher went over a new lesson, we work on a worksheet in class, finish rest for homework, etc. F***ing word problems man, I swear. I still do em' even though they're confusing as s*** and not relevant to actual reality hut whatever. I mean, who wants to know how many pencils are produced per hour out of 1000 pencils?
So as usual, I walk to 6th period, Chinese, somewhat hard, sonewhat easy. Just kidding, things are pretty brutal, I thought it was gonna be a cakewalk on the beginning. I mean, the teacher was just talking, I mean, we colored pictures, it seemed pretty easy. Then the teacher layer it on us and I'm just like " Ffffff, I'd still take this over math and English". So today El was wearing something different than usual. Her clothes were pretty classy, I guess. We said Chinese words and stuff, and that was pretty much all we did in class today.
El and I always walk home (not exactly home, but like, the same route out of school) everyday now. Not bad, not bad. I got to think of more things to talk about instead of her teaching me me Chinese. Yesterday, Yue and I (I still think it's pretty punny) were walking out of chemistry and I was like "What class are you going to next" and I didn't know if had asked that already or not. She responded with "Honors pre-cal" and she looks at the textbook I'm holding and she's like "I see you're in Algebra 2/Trig" and I was like "Yeah, I'ma be taking pre-cal next year, but u don't know if I should take honors or regular" and she was like " *gasp* Regular of course!" And then we're like "Bye".
After that, I was like " Conversations through observations, not bad, not bad". I'ma have to make note of that. As I was saying, El and I walk out, and she sees this dude, since like, yesterday, and she was like "Hiii!" And they hugged yesterday, and today it was like a bootleg "hello" and my 15 year-old introverted social-anxiety-ridden mind's all like "What. Why don't I get hugs" Just kidding, I'm just trying to not have my paranoia or jealousy get the better of me, like it usually does. So we walk where we usually walk, and she continues to walk with me even past the path where we're supposed to go separate ways (she usually goes home through the front of the school and I go through the back). I was all like "Okay, I'll go along with this". But all I could think about while she and I were walking through the back of the school, I was just like " Hooooooly f*** is it hot". When my WeatherBug all said it was going to be sunny, it's going to be sunny.
El was testing me on my knowledge or some common Chinese phrases like "Ne shi xuesheng ma?", which by the way, means " Are you a student?" And I didn't even have to use Google translate for that. We walk to crossroads and she's like "Are you going that way or that way" and I'm like "That way" and we go our separate ways home. I'd be surprised if she walked with me through the back of the school, just to walk with me, and has to walk all the way back to the front. If it were that case, then I'd do a big "Hell yeah".
So it's 11:58 PM, writing these posts everyday help my self-expression in which I keep inside of me all the time (if you think about your own personality, you'd ask yourself "Wait, why do I like this?" And it'd be really weird. It's like that thing where you read "You're now breathing manually, and you start breathing manually. Weird right). It also helps tiring myself and my hands out for bed. Sooo, uh, tomorrow's Thursday. See you tomorrow. And I probably forgot something.
Week: 2
Songs to Remember: Hot Baby - BESTie
After thinking about the amount of time I've talked to El since school started, I was like "Woah s***, I've talked to her in class like, 10 times. It's already been 2 weeks?!" Yeah I don't remember what I talked about at all.
Just some news, my dad's brother, my uncle, had a stroke. It happened about 2 days ago I think. And no need to feel sorry for me, it's alright. My dad was like "You're cousin is pretty upset. You better tell him on Facenovel" and he told me to tell him "I'm sorry for what happened to your dad, he'll be out soon" and I'm just like "Why have me do it? This is just like the time when you unnecessarily talked to that girl telling her 'I'm sorry for you' on that bus trip at Yosemite". Like, that's not something someone should do, or actually, it's not necessary. If my dad were to have a stroke, I'd rather be left alone and think for a while, rather than be constantly reminded "I'm sorry for your dad, your dad, your dad" over and over again. It'd make me even more upset. Anyways, I hope he makes a good recovery. It was probably die to high-blood pressure, though I'm not too sure.
Then it got me thinking, if I were to be in a coma, what would I do? Well, be a vegetable, for one. If were to be in a coma, just read to me all the posts from my blog, including this post, and yell at me "WHO ARE YOU" I love that phrase, it's my favorite question, "Who are you?". I don't kbow, why, I just like it. Also be sure to play " All Those Friendly People" for me too.
So, onto school. I took notes on World History. Enough said. Today the teacher explained how we have to answer questions and wrote sentences regarding 15 vocabulary words every week. Not so hard, but with all the s****y rules she put in place for how we come up with the sentences, it makes it a lot more difficult.
Chemistry was men, I tries to say hi to Yue in class, her and I and some other people got to class early so it was pretty empty, and I waved as she was looking at me and uh, got nothing. And this is why I have greeting issues. We took notes on converting units of measurements, like grams and meters, then we had to complete a worksheet on conversion. Pretty easy, pretty meh.
And so now, after chemistry class, is when the gates of hell open. 'Course it still does when the lunch end bell rings, but now it's also after Chemistry. Yes, P.E. Yeah, that thing yesterday, my problem, yeah I'm kinda over it. The life problems part at least, I still want the dude who called me "nervous kid" be f***ed over. I knew I should have never picked Volleyball, and there's not even any cute girls here, ones that date me anyways.
So we had more partner practice today, but luckily my buddy, one whom I know but don't really hang out with but is always in the same P.E period as me, decided to be a sign of hope for me and be like "At Drew, let's partner up" and I was like "OH THANK YOU BASED BUDDY". We worked on setting today, in Volleyball. Pretty casual, if I do say so about P.E.
Lunch, then gates, etc. The teacher went over a new lesson, we work on a worksheet in class, finish rest for homework, etc. F***ing word problems man, I swear. I still do em' even though they're confusing as s*** and not relevant to actual reality hut whatever. I mean, who wants to know how many pencils are produced per hour out of 1000 pencils?
So as usual, I walk to 6th period, Chinese, somewhat hard, sonewhat easy. Just kidding, things are pretty brutal, I thought it was gonna be a cakewalk on the beginning. I mean, the teacher was just talking, I mean, we colored pictures, it seemed pretty easy. Then the teacher layer it on us and I'm just like " Ffffff, I'd still take this over math and English". So today El was wearing something different than usual. Her clothes were pretty classy, I guess. We said Chinese words and stuff, and that was pretty much all we did in class today.
El and I always walk home (not exactly home, but like, the same route out of school) everyday now. Not bad, not bad. I got to think of more things to talk about instead of her teaching me me Chinese. Yesterday, Yue and I (I still think it's pretty punny) were walking out of chemistry and I was like "What class are you going to next" and I didn't know if had asked that already or not. She responded with "Honors pre-cal" and she looks at the textbook I'm holding and she's like "I see you're in Algebra 2/Trig" and I was like "Yeah, I'ma be taking pre-cal next year, but u don't know if I should take honors or regular" and she was like " *gasp* Regular of course!" And then we're like "Bye".
After that, I was like " Conversations through observations, not bad, not bad". I'ma have to make note of that. As I was saying, El and I walk out, and she sees this dude, since like, yesterday, and she was like "Hiii!" And they hugged yesterday, and today it was like a bootleg "hello" and my 15 year-old introverted social-anxiety-ridden mind's all like "What. Why don't I get hugs" Just kidding, I'm just trying to not have my paranoia or jealousy get the better of me, like it usually does. So we walk where we usually walk, and she continues to walk with me even past the path where we're supposed to go separate ways (she usually goes home through the front of the school and I go through the back). I was all like "Okay, I'll go along with this". But all I could think about while she and I were walking through the back of the school, I was just like " Hooooooly f*** is it hot". When my WeatherBug all said it was going to be sunny, it's going to be sunny.
El was testing me on my knowledge or some common Chinese phrases like "Ne shi xuesheng ma?", which by the way, means " Are you a student?" And I didn't even have to use Google translate for that. We walk to crossroads and she's like "Are you going that way or that way" and I'm like "That way" and we go our separate ways home. I'd be surprised if she walked with me through the back of the school, just to walk with me, and has to walk all the way back to the front. If it were that case, then I'd do a big "Hell yeah".
So it's 11:58 PM, writing these posts everyday help my self-expression in which I keep inside of me all the time (if you think about your own personality, you'd ask yourself "Wait, why do I like this?" And it'd be really weird. It's like that thing where you read "You're now breathing manually, and you start breathing manually. Weird right). It also helps tiring myself and my hands out for bed. Sooo, uh, tomorrow's Thursday. See you tomorrow. And I probably forgot something.
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Tuesday, August 26, 2014 "Nervous Kid."
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Week: 2
Songs to Remember: Hard to Explain - The Strokes
Why is high school P.E so serious? Isn't getting fit and exercise good enough? We have to go MLG NBA All-star on people? And we get graded on if we're physically gifted or not?
So we basically worked on our Zombie Hammurabi's code project all period. My teacher played "Anaconda" by Nicki Minaj on Pandora during class. Nobody gave a f*** so it was aight. Pretty calming period.
English 2A was slightly good, slightly bad. Slightly good, as the teacher had us watch a report on how this author plagiarized basically word for word of James Bond stories. Then she had us watch this YouTube video of how video copyright works. I think the video was called "YouTube Copyright
Basics". Yep, definitely that. You can search it up on YouTube.
The next video she showed was this YouTube video on music plagiarism. The video had like comparisons between songs and their plagiarized counter-parts. The video's called "MUSIC PLAGIARISM: The Most Obvious Song Copies!". A lot of the songs, all the girls were like "Ooohhh nooooo!" 'cause their favorite songs like, Taylor Swift's "Haunted", or Coldplay's "Viva La Vida", were actually copies. A lot of lives were changed today from that video.
At the end of the period the teacher had us turn in our essays from yesterday and after we akk turned them in, she was like " Some of you did only one" and I was like "What" and she was like "You all had to write 2 essays, the full one and the condensed one" and everybody was like "What the f***". Yesterday she did not say anything about 2 essays, nothing, nothing about the number 2. People were like " You didn't tell us" and she was like "I repeated it" and I'm just like "What the f***, you did not mention 2 at all, and I was listening actually". Well, looks like everybody won't be getting A's, mostly 'cause of s*** like this
You know, chemistry class ain't all that fun anymore. During the first couple days, now that was a once in a lifetime opportunity. The next few days I was like "I can't wait for chemistry". Now it's just like "Ehhhh, I have P.E next". So uh, yeah. We went over the homework from the past few days and that was about it. Oh and uh, during class, after we went over the homework, the teacher asked us to hold out our arms, kinda like as if you were going to push something. Then he was like " Alright, now do this with your left hand, now your right, in, out, over under" and just, a bunch of weird hand tricks and everyone's all like "What".
After he was fibished, he was like "That you just did was called (something with a c, I don't remember what the word was)". And then he's like " In which you work your hands so they're ready for note-taking. Now, get out a sheet of paper". And I was just like "You cheeky c4nt m8, having us exercise our hands for note-taking. Not bad, not bad". He probably does that every year to his classes. *sigh* I swear, his tactics though.
So it was physical education time, my now least favorite part of the day, worse than Algebra II/ Trigonometry. Today the teacher had us start practicing passing. We had to claps our hands together, arms out, squat, the usual Volleyball stance. I think I got it down. But that's the easy part. After that, the teacher had us pair up to practice our passing and I was like " F***", 'cause barely know anyone here, people I know who I don't talk to/ don't wanna talk to, and people who just don't wanna be partners with me, and I understand. I wouldn't want to be partners with me either.
And of course, that day, there just had to be an odd number of people (you see the flaws with this pairing system), so of course, I had to be the one to go to the teacher and be like "I don't have a partner". She had me be grouped up with this one girl and this one dude, who seem to be getting along happily, until I came and it was my turn to pass and hit the ball. But that wasn't the bad part of all this, no it got worse.
The teacher blew her whistle to signal evrybody to stop, and as she told everybody to stop and sit down right where they are, a ball rolls to me, from like, someone across the gym (accodentally of course). I sat there listening to the teacher like a good student I'm expected and supposed to be. The teacher challenged everybody to pass the ball along with their partner and to see which pair could keep rallying the ball the longest. Well, the dude sat out for this one so I participate. Everyone stands up, the teacher was finished explaining and then was like " What is that Volleyball doing there?" And with everybody's eyes on me, I passed the ball back to the group who had it. As I was about to do it, this dude across from the gym was like "NERVOUS KID!" I had the feeling of "Oh my f***ing god". Another dude joined in with him. I just wanted to f***ing bolt out of the f***ing place after he said that and everybody watching.
What? Is it 'cause I'm 5' 3"? 'Cause I'm kinda short? Or is it the glasses? Do I look nerdy? Might as well call me faggot, a wimp, nerd. Why say "nervous kid"? Is it 'cause the teacher was there? Might as well announce it on the speakers for the whole school to know, 'cause I guess it's true. I guess I'm not that great at Volleyball so far, nor do I have much social skills, nor do I speak aliud what pops up in my mind. Some people, they're going places alright. 'Cause P.E is such a gratifying thing to excel at, I mean, if you're suck, might as well not even participate right? When was the last time colleges cared about physical education classes in high school?
Physical tests like this is a huge f***ing issue. Everybody (a majority of people) can pick up a pencil and write. Less people of that majority can, I don't know, dunk a basketball. Or maybe run a mile, 'cause of asthma. People take physical education way too seriously, as if you their whole life depended on excelling at it. Physical education is so biased towards people with the right genetics. Short people? Nope, can't be good at basketball, gotta have the tall height gene for that. Football? Got to have the right body-mass for that, anybody below 120 lb should just stay on the bench.
And the people who judge others 'cause of lack of skills, probably don't even know who they are. Has the dude who calls short Asian teens "Nervous kids" ever experienced depression? Probably not. Ever struggled in sports? Probably not. Gets girls? Probably. Can talk out of his ass? Probably.
After that happened, we just started again on the rallying and I was just thinking "I should just kill myself after school, after I write this so people know who to blame for how I am". Or I could just run away, since I'm too scared to end my life, 'cause I'm such a " nervous kid". Maybe I just won't do anything 'cause I'm so "nervous"? God, I wish the school-year would end already now, just so those f***ing seniors (hopefully they're seniors or else so help me) leave and I'd never have to see their asses again.
In the end, I'm too scared to kill myself. I'm always gonna be 5' 3", probably already hit NY growth spurt so this is probably the tallest I'll ever be. And forever will Reddit be one of NY closest friends. As this one person had said " Tall people have experienced what it's like to be short and tall, but short people won't". So if I do kill myself, if I do die, and you hear or see a news report on "High school kid commits suicide and kept his life story on a blog", then you'll know one of the reasons why.
I really don't want to go to P.E tomorrow. Oh and did I mention how I didn't have a partner? Yeah, odd numbered f***ing classes. And no, I don't want to be paired with the teacher. *sigh*, I'm probably gonna have to be in that awkward god-forsaken 3 person group again. Please, kill me now. This arc should be called "Life problems of a nervous teenager". And remember those times when I talked about if I had talked to a girl or not in my day? Yeah, good times.
So are we all equal? Can we really do what we put our mind into? Do some people get an easy life on a silver-platter? I don't see it that way. See you tomorrow.
Week: 2
Songs to Remember: Hard to Explain - The Strokes
Why is high school P.E so serious? Isn't getting fit and exercise good enough? We have to go MLG NBA All-star on people? And we get graded on if we're physically gifted or not?
So we basically worked on our Zombie Hammurabi's code project all period. My teacher played "Anaconda" by Nicki Minaj on Pandora during class. Nobody gave a f*** so it was aight. Pretty calming period.
English 2A was slightly good, slightly bad. Slightly good, as the teacher had us watch a report on how this author plagiarized basically word for word of James Bond stories. Then she had us watch this YouTube video of how video copyright works. I think the video was called "YouTube Copyright
Basics". Yep, definitely that. You can search it up on YouTube.
The next video she showed was this YouTube video on music plagiarism. The video had like comparisons between songs and their plagiarized counter-parts. The video's called "MUSIC PLAGIARISM: The Most Obvious Song Copies!". A lot of the songs, all the girls were like "Ooohhh nooooo!" 'cause their favorite songs like, Taylor Swift's "Haunted", or Coldplay's "Viva La Vida", were actually copies. A lot of lives were changed today from that video.
At the end of the period the teacher had us turn in our essays from yesterday and after we akk turned them in, she was like " Some of you did only one" and I was like "What" and she was like "You all had to write 2 essays, the full one and the condensed one" and everybody was like "What the f***". Yesterday she did not say anything about 2 essays, nothing, nothing about the number 2. People were like " You didn't tell us" and she was like "I repeated it" and I'm just like "What the f***, you did not mention 2 at all, and I was listening actually". Well, looks like everybody won't be getting A's, mostly 'cause of s*** like this
You know, chemistry class ain't all that fun anymore. During the first couple days, now that was a once in a lifetime opportunity. The next few days I was like "I can't wait for chemistry". Now it's just like "Ehhhh, I have P.E next". So uh, yeah. We went over the homework from the past few days and that was about it. Oh and uh, during class, after we went over the homework, the teacher asked us to hold out our arms, kinda like as if you were going to push something. Then he was like " Alright, now do this with your left hand, now your right, in, out, over under" and just, a bunch of weird hand tricks and everyone's all like "What".
After he was fibished, he was like "That you just did was called (something with a c, I don't remember what the word was)". And then he's like " In which you work your hands so they're ready for note-taking. Now, get out a sheet of paper". And I was just like "You cheeky c4nt m8, having us exercise our hands for note-taking. Not bad, not bad". He probably does that every year to his classes. *sigh* I swear, his tactics though.
So it was physical education time, my now least favorite part of the day, worse than Algebra II/ Trigonometry. Today the teacher had us start practicing passing. We had to claps our hands together, arms out, squat, the usual Volleyball stance. I think I got it down. But that's the easy part. After that, the teacher had us pair up to practice our passing and I was like " F***", 'cause barely know anyone here, people I know who I don't talk to/ don't wanna talk to, and people who just don't wanna be partners with me, and I understand. I wouldn't want to be partners with me either.
And of course, that day, there just had to be an odd number of people (you see the flaws with this pairing system), so of course, I had to be the one to go to the teacher and be like "I don't have a partner". She had me be grouped up with this one girl and this one dude, who seem to be getting along happily, until I came and it was my turn to pass and hit the ball. But that wasn't the bad part of all this, no it got worse.
The teacher blew her whistle to signal evrybody to stop, and as she told everybody to stop and sit down right where they are, a ball rolls to me, from like, someone across the gym (accodentally of course). I sat there listening to the teacher like a good student I'm expected and supposed to be. The teacher challenged everybody to pass the ball along with their partner and to see which pair could keep rallying the ball the longest. Well, the dude sat out for this one so I participate. Everyone stands up, the teacher was finished explaining and then was like " What is that Volleyball doing there?" And with everybody's eyes on me, I passed the ball back to the group who had it. As I was about to do it, this dude across from the gym was like "NERVOUS KID!" I had the feeling of "Oh my f***ing god". Another dude joined in with him. I just wanted to f***ing bolt out of the f***ing place after he said that and everybody watching.
What? Is it 'cause I'm 5' 3"? 'Cause I'm kinda short? Or is it the glasses? Do I look nerdy? Might as well call me faggot, a wimp, nerd. Why say "nervous kid"? Is it 'cause the teacher was there? Might as well announce it on the speakers for the whole school to know, 'cause I guess it's true. I guess I'm not that great at Volleyball so far, nor do I have much social skills, nor do I speak aliud what pops up in my mind. Some people, they're going places alright. 'Cause P.E is such a gratifying thing to excel at, I mean, if you're suck, might as well not even participate right? When was the last time colleges cared about physical education classes in high school?
Physical tests like this is a huge f***ing issue. Everybody (a majority of people) can pick up a pencil and write. Less people of that majority can, I don't know, dunk a basketball. Or maybe run a mile, 'cause of asthma. People take physical education way too seriously, as if you their whole life depended on excelling at it. Physical education is so biased towards people with the right genetics. Short people? Nope, can't be good at basketball, gotta have the tall height gene for that. Football? Got to have the right body-mass for that, anybody below 120 lb should just stay on the bench.
And the people who judge others 'cause of lack of skills, probably don't even know who they are. Has the dude who calls short Asian teens "Nervous kids" ever experienced depression? Probably not. Ever struggled in sports? Probably not. Gets girls? Probably. Can talk out of his ass? Probably.
After that happened, we just started again on the rallying and I was just thinking "I should just kill myself after school, after I write this so people know who to blame for how I am". Or I could just run away, since I'm too scared to end my life, 'cause I'm such a " nervous kid". Maybe I just won't do anything 'cause I'm so "nervous"? God, I wish the school-year would end already now, just so those f***ing seniors (hopefully they're seniors or else so help me) leave and I'd never have to see their asses again.
In the end, I'm too scared to kill myself. I'm always gonna be 5' 3", probably already hit NY growth spurt so this is probably the tallest I'll ever be. And forever will Reddit be one of NY closest friends. As this one person had said " Tall people have experienced what it's like to be short and tall, but short people won't". So if I do kill myself, if I do die, and you hear or see a news report on "High school kid commits suicide and kept his life story on a blog", then you'll know one of the reasons why.
I really don't want to go to P.E tomorrow. Oh and did I mention how I didn't have a partner? Yeah, odd numbered f***ing classes. And no, I don't want to be paired with the teacher. *sigh*, I'm probably gonna have to be in that awkward god-forsaken 3 person group again. Please, kill me now. This arc should be called "Life problems of a nervous teenager". And remember those times when I talked about if I had talked to a girl or not in my day? Yeah, good times.
So are we all equal? Can we really do what we put our mind into? Do some people get an easy life on a silver-platter? I don't see it that way. See you tomorrow.
Monday, August 25, 2014 "Hey, I Know That Guy."
Monday, August 25, 2014
Week: 2
Songs to Remember: Her - Block B
I was gonna put something funny here but I forgot. I think I remember what it was; my Chinese teacher was like "Reading your guys' essays make me want to kill myself" or something like that. I was like "If I had to read over a hundred essays about Chinese greetings, I'd probably kill myself too".
So we're actually doing something for World History. I asked for it, I guess I got what I wanted. Sorta. She starts us off with a project. Now in other cases, I'd probably just freak the f*** put 'cause I always procrastinate on projects, but this time ull make an exception 'cause this is kinda a fun project (yes I just used fun and project in the same sentence). My teacher starts us off with having us answer some questions about Hammurabi's Code. You know, that " eye for an eye thing"?. Yeah, that. After that, she's like "Have you guys heard of "The Walking Dead"? We're all like " Well, yeah".
So she shows us the trailer for The Walking Dead and I'm just like "Oh my god, this is going to be like first period English class last year. After that, she hands us all this guide paper thing. It's a paper with instructions written on 'em, okay? She explains the project to us, in which we have to think of rules, laws, and regulations if there were to be a zombie apocalypse in our city. I was like " Hey, this is something I could get behind". After reading about Hammurabi's Code, we gotta make rules and laws for like religions, defense, trade, crime and punishment, etc. Really, really cool project.
Cool as in something unique and interesting. I mean, I don't think I've done a project in any other classes where there's zombies involved. With the topic of zombies as interest, the projects is practical for real life situations, such as if a zombie apocalypse were to happen (hopefully), we'd have the knowledge to re-build and restart a community. That's why I give this sorta learning technique a 9/10, I mean, i actually wanna do the work, just 'cause its zombies.
So, I get started right away and start writing a bunch of s*** down. With my knowledge of zombies, apocalyptic situation, survival (all from video games, movies, and shows), I basically grasp the idea of the rules for an apocalyptic community. I probably worded that wrong but whatever. Anyways, I'm probably gonna get an A++ for this project or so help me. I also watched the complete first season of The Colony so that is gonna help a lot.
For English, we actually sorta had our first essay today. I'm saying "sorta" 'cause all we have to do is follow a template and we're done. This one dude, let's call him Dv for now, sots behind me in class. He's with Tn and their friends in the debate team by the way. He cones in today and he was like "Hey what's your name" and I'm like "Drew" and he's like "I'm Dv" and I'm like "I know you". His voice was a lot higher than I thought. Oh, and I just remembered, for the first sentences of NY post, I was gonna wrote about how Tn's in crutches.
On the first day of school, I saw her with crutches (I'm guessing she broke her legnor something, I don't know) and I was just like " Oh, looks like the tables have turned. Looks like the boot's on the other foot now. Get it? 'Cause-" Just kidding. Sorry, I don't mean to be mean. I just felt like saying it, no mean intentions intended? Just an observation like "Oh, what happened?" And uh, yeah. I mean, I got to write everything I think.
Anyways, I saw Yue coming from here locker and I was like "Yooo, she has the same locker place as me. Looks like I have a new route". Lel, but still I don't sit next to her. It'd be fun if we were friends, and I'm now not asking for much more than that, 'cause, well, its got bad written all over it. She's a senior, I'm a sophomore, its just 100% chance of bad. But I don't even know if friends would even work, we got like nothing to really talk about. Except, like, helping me with Chinese class. That's about it.
I think her and I on the first few days of school were kind of a fluke. I don't know, maybe she wasnt thinking straight on the first couple days and was like " I should be friends with this dude". 'Cause during class today, everyone had to get up out of their seats and go around the classroom to find and label equipment on this worksheet. Yue and I (I still think that's really funny) were pretty awkward on it, probably 'cause I didn't really have high self-esteem today. Thaaat's probably why. If the teacher ever has us do lab partners and let us choose, you best know that I'ma get right to it; bolt across the room to her desk.
Oh and I also got out of my "0" period on my schedule, you know, that class in which I thought was the academy, but its actually a class in which I DO NOT remember at all, signing up for. No memory whatsoever. I asked the teacher and she was like "We had a Google doc setup and you filled it out" and I was just like "When is 0 period?" And she was like "7:00 to 8:00 AM" and I was just like "Oh my god, what the f***, are you crazy- get, just- get- just get me out of here". And she got me out of the class. Thank goodness for the simplicity.
So, as I left off, after 3rd period ended (chemistry), I had to go to the restroom. I don't remember if I peed before I left home, or I forgot. Either way, I had to go. I waited until the bell rang to go. It took me about 1 minute to go, 1 minute for everything else. Passing time is about 6 minutes, so I by the time I was halfway to the locker rooms for P.E, and since it had been about 2 minutes just to walk there (the supervisor s locked the gates to the boys locker room. So that meant I had to walk AROUND the large gym to go through the gate on the other side, and then to the boys locker room. I can't just yell for them to open the lock, once its locked, it's locked and you're probably f***.
So as I was walking around the large gym and through the blacktop for where freshmen usually stand for roll call, Vt's there, I didn't notice her until she was like "Hey, I know that guy" and I was just like "F***, I was to be the one to say that" and she was like "Drew right?" And I was like "Yeah" and she was like "Yesss" and I was just like "What the f***? Are you adding me to your people who I remember online lost?" Anyways, my plan, or, foresight really, of what I wabted to happen, it went pretty bad. I changed, fast, and went outside. Our class was to meet at the gym 'cause Volleyball.
I see my classmates and I'm just like "F***", 'cause, there weren't that many cute girls really, and almost everyone's taller than me so I'm just like " God help me now, please, just an inch taller. HOW MUCH CALCIUM DO I HAVE TO INTAKE". So the teacher (same teacher I had for badminton *shudders*) went over like the etiquette for absences and tardies and cuts and whatever. She said that mostly the girls are the ones bad at Volleyball and I was like "Oh, am i gonna prove you wrong". She said that the sports here at the school in which students rarely gets A's in are Volleyball and Basketball and I was just like " Oh my god, I don't belong here". We're going to be starting starting right away tomorrow so I'm just like "Please be gentle". Please.
After that forecast for disaster, there was lunch, hell, etc. God, is the lesson hard for Algebra Ii right now. I mean, no necessarily hard, just, difficult to comprhend. It's word problems, which are fine, but they word it so you have to figure out the equation drpn what they're saying and then solve it. The hard part's not solving it, it's figuring out what they're saying like, oh my god. It's like " Mike has 2 watermelons less than Steve, Steve owns 5 as many mansions as Melissa, how many trees are in America?" Like, the wording is very confusing, that's all. Hopefully we can just finish the chapter and move onto something more, less word-y.
Oh man, 6th period Chinese class. El was wearing her usual clothes today. I was wondering about her height and after watching Domics' "Breakups" videos for entertainment, I was like "El is shirt enough that I can rest my chin on her head". You know, just, hashtag Chinese class things. And uh, we just went over the homework, the teacher told us some stories, goes over what is for homework, and we leave. And uh, yeah.
So what am I gonna do now? Well I'ma sleep now that's what I'm gonna do 'cause it's 12:18 AM and my hands are cramping. And I know I forgot something and I know I'm gonna have to make new plans. After I sleep for course. See you tomorrow.
Week: 2
Songs to Remember: Her - Block B
I was gonna put something funny here but I forgot. I think I remember what it was; my Chinese teacher was like "Reading your guys' essays make me want to kill myself" or something like that. I was like "If I had to read over a hundred essays about Chinese greetings, I'd probably kill myself too".
So we're actually doing something for World History. I asked for it, I guess I got what I wanted. Sorta. She starts us off with a project. Now in other cases, I'd probably just freak the f*** put 'cause I always procrastinate on projects, but this time ull make an exception 'cause this is kinda a fun project (yes I just used fun and project in the same sentence). My teacher starts us off with having us answer some questions about Hammurabi's Code. You know, that " eye for an eye thing"?. Yeah, that. After that, she's like "Have you guys heard of "The Walking Dead"? We're all like " Well, yeah".
So she shows us the trailer for The Walking Dead and I'm just like "Oh my god, this is going to be like first period English class last year. After that, she hands us all this guide paper thing. It's a paper with instructions written on 'em, okay? She explains the project to us, in which we have to think of rules, laws, and regulations if there were to be a zombie apocalypse in our city. I was like " Hey, this is something I could get behind". After reading about Hammurabi's Code, we gotta make rules and laws for like religions, defense, trade, crime and punishment, etc. Really, really cool project.
Cool as in something unique and interesting. I mean, I don't think I've done a project in any other classes where there's zombies involved. With the topic of zombies as interest, the projects is practical for real life situations, such as if a zombie apocalypse were to happen (hopefully), we'd have the knowledge to re-build and restart a community. That's why I give this sorta learning technique a 9/10, I mean, i actually wanna do the work, just 'cause its zombies.
So, I get started right away and start writing a bunch of s*** down. With my knowledge of zombies, apocalyptic situation, survival (all from video games, movies, and shows), I basically grasp the idea of the rules for an apocalyptic community. I probably worded that wrong but whatever. Anyways, I'm probably gonna get an A++ for this project or so help me. I also watched the complete first season of The Colony so that is gonna help a lot.
For English, we actually sorta had our first essay today. I'm saying "sorta" 'cause all we have to do is follow a template and we're done. This one dude, let's call him Dv for now, sots behind me in class. He's with Tn and their friends in the debate team by the way. He cones in today and he was like "Hey what's your name" and I'm like "Drew" and he's like "I'm Dv" and I'm like "I know you". His voice was a lot higher than I thought. Oh, and I just remembered, for the first sentences of NY post, I was gonna wrote about how Tn's in crutches.
On the first day of school, I saw her with crutches (I'm guessing she broke her legnor something, I don't know) and I was just like " Oh, looks like the tables have turned. Looks like the boot's on the other foot now. Get it? 'Cause-" Just kidding. Sorry, I don't mean to be mean. I just felt like saying it, no mean intentions intended? Just an observation like "Oh, what happened?" And uh, yeah. I mean, I got to write everything I think.
Anyways, I saw Yue coming from here locker and I was like "Yooo, she has the same locker place as me. Looks like I have a new route". Lel, but still I don't sit next to her. It'd be fun if we were friends, and I'm now not asking for much more than that, 'cause, well, its got bad written all over it. She's a senior, I'm a sophomore, its just 100% chance of bad. But I don't even know if friends would even work, we got like nothing to really talk about. Except, like, helping me with Chinese class. That's about it.
I think her and I on the first few days of school were kind of a fluke. I don't know, maybe she wasnt thinking straight on the first couple days and was like " I should be friends with this dude". 'Cause during class today, everyone had to get up out of their seats and go around the classroom to find and label equipment on this worksheet. Yue and I (I still think that's really funny) were pretty awkward on it, probably 'cause I didn't really have high self-esteem today. Thaaat's probably why. If the teacher ever has us do lab partners and let us choose, you best know that I'ma get right to it; bolt across the room to her desk.
Oh and I also got out of my "0" period on my schedule, you know, that class in which I thought was the academy, but its actually a class in which I DO NOT remember at all, signing up for. No memory whatsoever. I asked the teacher and she was like "We had a Google doc setup and you filled it out" and I was just like "When is 0 period?" And she was like "7:00 to 8:00 AM" and I was just like "Oh my god, what the f***, are you crazy- get, just- get- just get me out of here". And she got me out of the class. Thank goodness for the simplicity.
So, as I left off, after 3rd period ended (chemistry), I had to go to the restroom. I don't remember if I peed before I left home, or I forgot. Either way, I had to go. I waited until the bell rang to go. It took me about 1 minute to go, 1 minute for everything else. Passing time is about 6 minutes, so I by the time I was halfway to the locker rooms for P.E, and since it had been about 2 minutes just to walk there (the supervisor s locked the gates to the boys locker room. So that meant I had to walk AROUND the large gym to go through the gate on the other side, and then to the boys locker room. I can't just yell for them to open the lock, once its locked, it's locked and you're probably f***.
So as I was walking around the large gym and through the blacktop for where freshmen usually stand for roll call, Vt's there, I didn't notice her until she was like "Hey, I know that guy" and I was just like "F***, I was to be the one to say that" and she was like "Drew right?" And I was like "Yeah" and she was like "Yesss" and I was just like "What the f***? Are you adding me to your people who I remember online lost?" Anyways, my plan, or, foresight really, of what I wabted to happen, it went pretty bad. I changed, fast, and went outside. Our class was to meet at the gym 'cause Volleyball.
I see my classmates and I'm just like "F***", 'cause, there weren't that many cute girls really, and almost everyone's taller than me so I'm just like " God help me now, please, just an inch taller. HOW MUCH CALCIUM DO I HAVE TO INTAKE". So the teacher (same teacher I had for badminton *shudders*) went over like the etiquette for absences and tardies and cuts and whatever. She said that mostly the girls are the ones bad at Volleyball and I was like "Oh, am i gonna prove you wrong". She said that the sports here at the school in which students rarely gets A's in are Volleyball and Basketball and I was just like " Oh my god, I don't belong here". We're going to be starting starting right away tomorrow so I'm just like "Please be gentle". Please.
After that forecast for disaster, there was lunch, hell, etc. God, is the lesson hard for Algebra Ii right now. I mean, no necessarily hard, just, difficult to comprhend. It's word problems, which are fine, but they word it so you have to figure out the equation drpn what they're saying and then solve it. The hard part's not solving it, it's figuring out what they're saying like, oh my god. It's like " Mike has 2 watermelons less than Steve, Steve owns 5 as many mansions as Melissa, how many trees are in America?" Like, the wording is very confusing, that's all. Hopefully we can just finish the chapter and move onto something more, less word-y.
Oh man, 6th period Chinese class. El was wearing her usual clothes today. I was wondering about her height and after watching Domics' "Breakups" videos for entertainment, I was like "El is shirt enough that I can rest my chin on her head". You know, just, hashtag Chinese class things. And uh, we just went over the homework, the teacher told us some stories, goes over what is for homework, and we leave. And uh, yeah.
So what am I gonna do now? Well I'ma sleep now that's what I'm gonna do 'cause it's 12:18 AM and my hands are cramping. And I know I forgot something and I know I'm gonna have to make new plans. After I sleep for course. See you tomorrow.
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Sunday, August 24, 2014 "Skyping, It's Sunday, I'm Tired."
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Week: 1
Songs to Remember: Back seat - JYJ
My friends and I were video-chatting on Skype. My buddy picked Volleyball for P.E and he was just like "I'm gonna have lots of fun trying to get girls in P.E". I'm like "Hey, great minds think alike". 'Cause you know, there's barely any guys in Volleyball.
So, my day was alright. I procrastinated a bit too long on writing a 3 paragraph (or 200 word) essay on a topic related to lesson 1 of Chinese, which is on " greetings". I got it finished though. Just imagine when I'd have to write an essay for English and get judged harshly on it. I don't know which would be worse; me procrastinating to write it, or the grade I'm gonna get on it. And why is there even a word for procrastination? That is so bootleg.
Oh, and uh, my cousin's got school tomorrow so he's gonna be on an adventure. He's about 6 months older than me. He's a junior now, and I'd be one too if I were born earlier (as I wasn't in time for the starting school year). So he's gonna graduate before me, college before me, eh.
Sooo, I guess I'll introduce (or rather, remind my existence to her) tomorrow, and uh, find out my classmates for P.E Volleyball. And maybe, just maybe, something will happen in World History and English class. And by something, I mean anything besides essays, please. Oh I just remembered- my teacher was talking about religions on Friday, and she mentioned Scientology and how Tom Cruise talked about Scientology, so I decided to send her that "Superhero movie" parody of Tom Cruise's rant. Not my best decision. I don't know how she's gonna react to it.
Today I just Skyped woh my friends and my cousin and played some League games, along with watching "Domics" videos. I also need to catch up on watching Running Man. Aaand that's about it. I'll see you tomorrow.
Week: 1
Songs to Remember: Back seat - JYJ
My friends and I were video-chatting on Skype. My buddy picked Volleyball for P.E and he was just like "I'm gonna have lots of fun trying to get girls in P.E". I'm like "Hey, great minds think alike". 'Cause you know, there's barely any guys in Volleyball.
So, my day was alright. I procrastinated a bit too long on writing a 3 paragraph (or 200 word) essay on a topic related to lesson 1 of Chinese, which is on " greetings". I got it finished though. Just imagine when I'd have to write an essay for English and get judged harshly on it. I don't know which would be worse; me procrastinating to write it, or the grade I'm gonna get on it. And why is there even a word for procrastination? That is so bootleg.
Oh, and uh, my cousin's got school tomorrow so he's gonna be on an adventure. He's about 6 months older than me. He's a junior now, and I'd be one too if I were born earlier (as I wasn't in time for the starting school year). So he's gonna graduate before me, college before me, eh.
Sooo, I guess I'll introduce (or rather, remind my existence to her) tomorrow, and uh, find out my classmates for P.E Volleyball. And maybe, just maybe, something will happen in World History and English class. And by something, I mean anything besides essays, please. Oh I just remembered- my teacher was talking about religions on Friday, and she mentioned Scientology and how Tom Cruise talked about Scientology, so I decided to send her that "Superhero movie" parody of Tom Cruise's rant. Not my best decision. I don't know how she's gonna react to it.
Today I just Skyped woh my friends and my cousin and played some League games, along with watching "Domics" videos. I also need to catch up on watching Running Man. Aaand that's about it. I'll see you tomorrow.
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Saturday, August 23, 2014 "Ice Buckets and For Future Reference."
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Week: 1
Songs to Remember: 11th Dimension - The Strokes
Hey, guess what? I won't be talking about school today! And also guess what? I get to sleep in! And it's only the first week and weekends already seem godly.
So all I've been seeing on Facenovel right now is just people getting "hacked" and godamn ALS ice bucket challenges. Is it on KnowYourMeme? I think it is. People are either posting videos of themselves doing it, or posting statuses saying not to do it. And both sides are pretty much joining band-wagons.
There was this one ice bucket challenge video from this one guy at my school, the one who posted a picture of his Hatsune Miku life-size pillow (I screen-shotted the post, thought it was gold). The first thing I see is that he liked his own post and I'm like "Alright". In the video he says "I'm shaking right now, I'm so scared" and I'm just like "It's like you've never taken a shower before in your life".
And for the people getting hacked, why ya'll gotta click those links, or go to them. And it's not like there's an actual person on their account, it's just spam bots, it's not like they're changing everybody's profile pictures to p3n1ses. Pretty funny if it did. And umm, yeah.
So El messaged me on Facenovel today; I got a notification on my phone and I was like "Oh, oh, is it El, it's El". She messaged me asking about what we're supposed to write for our essay for Chinese class. I mean, the assignment info is on school-loop (the website to manage our grades and such), so I don't even know why she asked.
And I was like "Hey, it's like that one time when I asked At? I don't remember what acronym I used for her, I think it was At. Anyways, it was like that one time I asked At on Facenovel, asking her what our new P.E teacher would be after the 3 week period. She was like "We got the same teacher, yo". And I continued on aaaaand she un-friended me.
So El was like "What did we have to write about again?" and I was like "We got to write about a topic related to lesson 1" (literally, the teacher wrote it 'write about a topic related to lesson 1', which is about like, greetings). Then she was like "What are you writing about?" and all that. I don't remember how it went and I don't wanna look at it. She ended it with "thx Drew, I'll see you on Monday" and I was like "I'll see ya too".
You see, I'm writing about all this for future reference. You see some of these things happening again and I'll be like "Ay, it's like that one time blah blah blah". All this I can draw where I my mistakes were, and learn from em'. Like that one time with Ez and blah blah blah. See?
Well, today I played some Battle Party and League and that was about it. Very relaxing. Uhhh, there's something I should talk about, I know there's something, I just don't know what. Always happens. Oh- my uncle's staying here for the weekend, after driving his daughter (my cousin) back here to my house where she's staying for another year of college. I think this'll be her last year in college. I think. Anyways, see you tomorrow.
Week: 1
Songs to Remember: 11th Dimension - The Strokes
Hey, guess what? I won't be talking about school today! And also guess what? I get to sleep in! And it's only the first week and weekends already seem godly.
So all I've been seeing on Facenovel right now is just people getting "hacked" and godamn ALS ice bucket challenges. Is it on KnowYourMeme? I think it is. People are either posting videos of themselves doing it, or posting statuses saying not to do it. And both sides are pretty much joining band-wagons.
There was this one ice bucket challenge video from this one guy at my school, the one who posted a picture of his Hatsune Miku life-size pillow (I screen-shotted the post, thought it was gold). The first thing I see is that he liked his own post and I'm like "Alright". In the video he says "I'm shaking right now, I'm so scared" and I'm just like "It's like you've never taken a shower before in your life".
And for the people getting hacked, why ya'll gotta click those links, or go to them. And it's not like there's an actual person on their account, it's just spam bots, it's not like they're changing everybody's profile pictures to p3n1ses. Pretty funny if it did. And umm, yeah.
So El messaged me on Facenovel today; I got a notification on my phone and I was like "Oh, oh, is it El, it's El". She messaged me asking about what we're supposed to write for our essay for Chinese class. I mean, the assignment info is on school-loop (the website to manage our grades and such), so I don't even know why she asked.
And I was like "Hey, it's like that one time when I asked At? I don't remember what acronym I used for her, I think it was At. Anyways, it was like that one time I asked At on Facenovel, asking her what our new P.E teacher would be after the 3 week period. She was like "We got the same teacher, yo". And I continued on aaaaand she un-friended me.
So El was like "What did we have to write about again?" and I was like "We got to write about a topic related to lesson 1" (literally, the teacher wrote it 'write about a topic related to lesson 1', which is about like, greetings). Then she was like "What are you writing about?" and all that. I don't remember how it went and I don't wanna look at it. She ended it with "thx Drew, I'll see you on Monday" and I was like "I'll see ya too".
You see, I'm writing about all this for future reference. You see some of these things happening again and I'll be like "Ay, it's like that one time blah blah blah". All this I can draw where I my mistakes were, and learn from em'. Like that one time with Ez and blah blah blah. See?
Well, today I played some Battle Party and League and that was about it. Very relaxing. Uhhh, there's something I should talk about, I know there's something, I just don't know what. Always happens. Oh- my uncle's staying here for the weekend, after driving his daughter (my cousin) back here to my house where she's staying for another year of college. I think this'll be her last year in college. I think. Anyways, see you tomorrow.
Friday, August 22, 2014 "Bootleg Plot Twists."
Friday, August 22, 2014
Week: 1
Songs to Remember: Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
There're are lot of bootleg things I overhear people say at school. What kind of bootleg things? I don't even remember.
World History is still pretty boring. Boring as in slow. We haven't even read a page in our textbook yet, in which we all don't bring 'cause we don't need em'.We had a quiz today, not necessarily about World History. There were a few questions about religions and continent names and stuff, but that was about it. It was like a 7 question quiz. Oh- I just remembered something bootleg. So there's this one dude in our class right, his name starts with a J and has long hair so his friends call him "Jesus" (the dudes I referred to delinquents).
My teacher has us all write on index cards, "3 lies and a truth". Basically we write 3 lies about ourselves and 1 truth, then people in the classroom guess who it is, then guess which of the 4 is the truth. It's like a little game to play when there's some time left near the end of class. So the dude, referred to as "Jesus", moved to a different class yesterday I think. He's not in our class anymore. My teacher still had his index card thing so when we were playing the game today, my teacher read off his card and the first thing he put was "I died and came back to life".
Oh my god, the class was laughing their asses off. That was one of the most bootleg things I have ever heard. Holy f***, when I heard it, I was just like "Oh my lawd, that was bootleg". I cannot explain how bootleg it was. Oh my god. Anyways, just something bootleg I heard in class, probably the best thing to come out of World History this whole week.
English 2A is still a bore, the teacher had us continue us reading an article and "going in deep" in the meaning. Pretty boring, but, I'm glad it's not an essay. Boring, but better than essays. So uh, yeah, nothing much in English.
Chemistry is not that fun anymore, emphasis on that. We did watch this one bootleg video on lab safety. Ehhh, comparable to Bill Nye videos, not as bootleg as Bill Nye videos, but close. The teacher had us watch the video, take notes on it, and that was that. And I didn't even say hi to Yue.
4th period, oh boy, probably the mvp class of the day. Why? Ploooot twiiiist. Today we were supposed to be picking our classes for the next, 3 weeks or so. After I got out of the locker room, the gym door was locked so basically everybody, including my friend and I chatted outside for a bit. About 3 feet in front of me, I see someone vaguely similar. Kinda looked like Vt a bit. More so than anybody else I've seen. I try to see the name on her P.E shirt and whadya know, hehe, it said "Vt". I was like "Oh my lawd". My friend was just chatting away at me and I'm just staring into space like "Oh my lawd".
Ploooot twiiiist. First thing I noticed after I figured out it was her: she's about as tall as me. I'm like "Ffffffffffff". Well, at least she's not taller than me so I'm happy about that, I guess, ehhh. Who would've known she'd be in my P.E period. F***ing plot twists everywhere man, I love em', and hate em'. Love em' 'cause it spices things up a bit, hate em' 'cause they're plot twists. Anyways, we went inside, they took roll, we filled out an information card, and there were 3 choices: volley-ball, softball, and rug-ball.
I was eager to choose volley-ball, mostly 'cause I'm no good at softball or rug-ball, but 'cause lots'a girls choose volley-ball. But, I'm short as s*** so it might not be the best for me. My friends were like "Hmmm, rug-ball, or softball?" So they ended up choosing softball and that's fine. One thing I'm concerned with in softball is hitting the ball. We only get 2 pitches in softball here. I either hit the ball, or, I'm a lost cause for my team. Rug-ball, ehhh, I'm not the fastest runner, definitely not the fastest, and I'm not the best catcher. The best I do is block the offense on the other team. That's about it, all about the defense.
Oh and I forgot to mention. When I was walking from English class (2nd period) to Chemistry (3rd period), I heard "Drew!" and I saw Em and El and Em was all like "Yooo, I haven't seen you in a long time". We hugged and their friend (the big dude) was like "I don't know this guy. Is this the guy from Facenovel?" And then we were like "Bye" and I went to Chemistry. I mean like, she saw on the first day, but I didn't think she knew what I looked like, or forgot, it's been several months so I forgive her.
Lunch ends, hell, the usual. Class was pretty brutal today, the questions were pretty hard, and I know all you college people are like "Lel, this noob high-schooler thinks his work his hard, he has no idea". Yeah, I don't have an idea, 'cause this stuff is difficult, or rather, challenging, for a high-schooler, which is what I am, right now. Anyways, I don't know why I had to say that, but, the work was pretty challenging today. And, yeah, homework on the weekends in which nobody likes.
Chinese class, pretty fun, teacher cracks some jokes, El and I small talk (or actually, she small talks and I just try and attempt and small talk as best as I could). We went over lesson 1 a bit, on how to speak the words, with the teacher saying the words and we repeat after her. She'd also do hand-motions to help us remember the meanings, like a book-opening motion for "xuesheng", which means "student". Her technique actually works, I like it.
El also dressed differently today. Anyways, I walk to my mom's car, I run into a friend from Biology last year. We chat for a bit, and then yeah. So, what to expect on Monday. Well, I'll certainly have to let Vt know I exist again, I'll have to ask my teacher if I could change seats, and the usual.
Sooo, uh, how's your day going? Great? Great. I know that I forgot something I wanted to talk about, but I can't remember what it was. This always happens. Anyways, I'm finishing this post on my phone, so I'll see you tomorrow.
Week: 1
Songs to Remember: Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
There're are lot of bootleg things I overhear people say at school. What kind of bootleg things? I don't even remember.
World History is still pretty boring. Boring as in slow. We haven't even read a page in our textbook yet, in which we all don't bring 'cause we don't need em'.We had a quiz today, not necessarily about World History. There were a few questions about religions and continent names and stuff, but that was about it. It was like a 7 question quiz. Oh- I just remembered something bootleg. So there's this one dude in our class right, his name starts with a J and has long hair so his friends call him "Jesus" (the dudes I referred to delinquents).
My teacher has us all write on index cards, "3 lies and a truth". Basically we write 3 lies about ourselves and 1 truth, then people in the classroom guess who it is, then guess which of the 4 is the truth. It's like a little game to play when there's some time left near the end of class. So the dude, referred to as "Jesus", moved to a different class yesterday I think. He's not in our class anymore. My teacher still had his index card thing so when we were playing the game today, my teacher read off his card and the first thing he put was "I died and came back to life".
Oh my god, the class was laughing their asses off. That was one of the most bootleg things I have ever heard. Holy f***, when I heard it, I was just like "Oh my lawd, that was bootleg". I cannot explain how bootleg it was. Oh my god. Anyways, just something bootleg I heard in class, probably the best thing to come out of World History this whole week.
English 2A is still a bore, the teacher had us continue us reading an article and "going in deep" in the meaning. Pretty boring, but, I'm glad it's not an essay. Boring, but better than essays. So uh, yeah, nothing much in English.
Chemistry is not that fun anymore, emphasis on that. We did watch this one bootleg video on lab safety. Ehhh, comparable to Bill Nye videos, not as bootleg as Bill Nye videos, but close. The teacher had us watch the video, take notes on it, and that was that. And I didn't even say hi to Yue.
4th period, oh boy, probably the mvp class of the day. Why? Ploooot twiiiist. Today we were supposed to be picking our classes for the next, 3 weeks or so. After I got out of the locker room, the gym door was locked so basically everybody, including my friend and I chatted outside for a bit. About 3 feet in front of me, I see someone vaguely similar. Kinda looked like Vt a bit. More so than anybody else I've seen. I try to see the name on her P.E shirt and whadya know, hehe, it said "Vt". I was like "Oh my lawd". My friend was just chatting away at me and I'm just staring into space like "Oh my lawd".
Ploooot twiiiist. First thing I noticed after I figured out it was her: she's about as tall as me. I'm like "Ffffffffffff". Well, at least she's not taller than me so I'm happy about that, I guess, ehhh. Who would've known she'd be in my P.E period. F***ing plot twists everywhere man, I love em', and hate em'. Love em' 'cause it spices things up a bit, hate em' 'cause they're plot twists. Anyways, we went inside, they took roll, we filled out an information card, and there were 3 choices: volley-ball, softball, and rug-ball.
I was eager to choose volley-ball, mostly 'cause I'm no good at softball or rug-ball, but 'cause lots'a girls choose volley-ball. But, I'm short as s*** so it might not be the best for me. My friends were like "Hmmm, rug-ball, or softball?" So they ended up choosing softball and that's fine. One thing I'm concerned with in softball is hitting the ball. We only get 2 pitches in softball here. I either hit the ball, or, I'm a lost cause for my team. Rug-ball, ehhh, I'm not the fastest runner, definitely not the fastest, and I'm not the best catcher. The best I do is block the offense on the other team. That's about it, all about the defense.
Oh and I forgot to mention. When I was walking from English class (2nd period) to Chemistry (3rd period), I heard "Drew!" and I saw Em and El and Em was all like "Yooo, I haven't seen you in a long time". We hugged and their friend (the big dude) was like "I don't know this guy. Is this the guy from Facenovel?" And then we were like "Bye" and I went to Chemistry. I mean like, she saw on the first day, but I didn't think she knew what I looked like, or forgot, it's been several months so I forgive her.
Lunch ends, hell, the usual. Class was pretty brutal today, the questions were pretty hard, and I know all you college people are like "Lel, this noob high-schooler thinks his work his hard, he has no idea". Yeah, I don't have an idea, 'cause this stuff is difficult, or rather, challenging, for a high-schooler, which is what I am, right now. Anyways, I don't know why I had to say that, but, the work was pretty challenging today. And, yeah, homework on the weekends in which nobody likes.
Chinese class, pretty fun, teacher cracks some jokes, El and I small talk (or actually, she small talks and I just try and attempt and small talk as best as I could). We went over lesson 1 a bit, on how to speak the words, with the teacher saying the words and we repeat after her. She'd also do hand-motions to help us remember the meanings, like a book-opening motion for "xuesheng", which means "student". Her technique actually works, I like it.
El also dressed differently today. Anyways, I walk to my mom's car, I run into a friend from Biology last year. We chat for a bit, and then yeah. So, what to expect on Monday. Well, I'll certainly have to let Vt know I exist again, I'll have to ask my teacher if I could change seats, and the usual.
Sooo, uh, how's your day going? Great? Great. I know that I forgot something I wanted to talk about, but I can't remember what it was. This always happens. Anyways, I'm finishing this post on my phone, so I'll see you tomorrow.
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Thursday, August 21, 2014 "At Least I'm Trying."
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Week: 1
Songs to Remember: Delilah - Bigflo
Now its not so exciting anymore. It really just feels like a routine now. Or, its maybe because I don't know what to talk about. That's it, where's the link /r/social skills?
So we've doing basically nothing in World History this past week. I guess the teacher's taking it slow, and I mean slowww. I'm not complaining, much, just a bit boring. Yeah there's not a lot to talk about World History right now.
English class is basically the same thing as World History, taking it slowww, inb4 I get bombarded with essays and I'm crying asking it to stop. The teacher gave us an article to read and practice underlining and circling key terms and all that. Pretty silent the whole period. The teacher also told us how she was on Pinterest for a few hours and found something that blew her mind. She wrote down on the board "Harry, Ron, and Hermione". Instead of the " a" in "Harry", its a triangle. Instead of the regular " o" in "Ron", it's a bigger " o". Instead of an "I" in Hermione, it's a line. She was like it "The deathly hallows!" And she was like "Oh my goooooood, mind = blown".
And I'm just like " Umm, okay". I thought she was gonna stop at "Harry" and the triangle and be like "ILLUMINATI". Like, come on, I couldn't be the only one to see through that. But it is now confirmed; Harry is Illuminati. Yeah you see how boring it is in English that it comes to this. Also, nothing much else to talk about for English.
So I'm walking to Chemistry class and I see Yue walking in front of me and I'm like "Hey" and she's like "Hey". I see cups and powders and liquids on the lab tables and I'm just like " Please let it be for our class" and the teacher's like "Alright guys, we're going to be doing our first lab today" and I'm just like "Oh praise the lord, I might have a chance to sit with Yue!". I was hoping he'd let us pick our own groups, I was really hoping he'd at least let us have the freedom to do that, aaand, he had divided us into groups randomly. And I'm just like " Fate, please!" He did it by counting people in numbers like "You're 1, you're 2, you're 3, etc. All 1's go to this table, all 2's, etc". Kinda like that.
I was focusing so hard, like you have no idea how hard I was concentrating on getting the same number as Yue. I heard the teacher pit Yue into group 3 and I'm just like " Please have me be 3, please, please, please". Well, my prayers were obviously not answered 'cause I was in group 5. The experiment today was the "Bubble" experiment, where we tested what kind of bubble solution is a there best. There were 3 different kinds of bubble solutions, one with soap and water, one with soap, water, and salt, and one with soap, water and sugar. I was thinking the sugar would be the best since sugar and water is sticky and therefore less popping. I was right.
We had to pour each solution onto the table and put a stars directly on it and keep blowing. Pretty cool at first, bit then it turned messy, like really messy. Messy as in I was almost late to my next class 'cause I had to stay behind a bit to clean up but it was fine since my next period was P.E. Please Mr.Sales, please just let me sit with Yue for day, just one more time. *sigh* Why does she have to be a senior? You see, this was already a 100% chance of bad since day 1.
I think I'ma have to lie in order to get that seat. I don't like lying to a good teacher, but I gotta do what gotta do. Maybe I'll be like "Oh, I can't see the board very well from the back, may I move to the lab table right over there specifically?" Or something like that.
P.E, we all had to change today. my locker's in front of 2 dudes so I'm just like "Why is so cramped". I got dressed, they took attendance, then we waited for it to be over. I forgot that upperclassmen (anyone except freshmen) get to choose a specific class, like, basketball, or jogging, or badminton, and stuff. Probably gonna pick something where there's a lot of cute girls in there. Unless its something I don't like for the life of me, in which icute girls would probably not be worth it. I mean of needed to work out, I could just do bootleg push-ups at home.
Bell rings, lunch, gates of hell. This time the teacher had bus do more work, in which nobody finished so we had to finish the classrlwork on top of our usual homework. Fffffff. Took me a good 2 hours or so to complete it all, not including World History and Chemistry homework. Probably the hardest day in this class so far.
Now for something I want to talk about- Chinese class with El. Today El came in late today, late as in later than she usually is since I always see her at her desk when I walk through the door at the sane time the bell rings. She also wasn't wearing her usual clothes which usually consists of a green T-shirt and a gray jacket. Today she was wearing this white, blouse, thing. I don't know what its called. Today we went over the first 2 pages of lesson 1 for our Chinese textbook, which consisted of simple words like "you", " me", "hello", " teacher", "student", those words. Pretty fun, well, at least not boring.
So the bell rings and I walk out with El, and she and I going the same until the part where we leave separate ways, but this time, she's like " Oh, I'm going this way this time" and I'm just like "Mkay". Walking out the classroom, I'm trying to think " Okay something, just something so that it doesn't have to be silent". So I talk about how I couldn't really understand what the teacher was reciting and how I need to remember the meanings. Not bad, not bad, I'm risking it at least, im tring. Gotta risk it for the biscuit, as I had said that one time. And so I'm like "Bye" and shes like "Bye" and I'm just like "Ehhhhhh, I want to feel successful, yet I don't feel like I want to succeed what I wan rto succeed". You get what I mean? Of course not, neither do I.
And I forgot to message Vt today. I'll do it tomorrow or something, hopefully shell be online or else on gonna get a super late reply and it'll be bootleg. I also gotta talk to Mr.Sales about the seating, talk to this teacher about my period 0 on my schedule, and talk to El, Yue, and all the above. I'm tired right now so I'll see you tomorrow.
Week: 1
Songs to Remember: Delilah - Bigflo
Now its not so exciting anymore. It really just feels like a routine now. Or, its maybe because I don't know what to talk about. That's it, where's the link /r/social skills?
So we've doing basically nothing in World History this past week. I guess the teacher's taking it slow, and I mean slowww. I'm not complaining, much, just a bit boring. Yeah there's not a lot to talk about World History right now.
English class is basically the same thing as World History, taking it slowww, inb4 I get bombarded with essays and I'm crying asking it to stop. The teacher gave us an article to read and practice underlining and circling key terms and all that. Pretty silent the whole period. The teacher also told us how she was on Pinterest for a few hours and found something that blew her mind. She wrote down on the board "Harry, Ron, and Hermione". Instead of the " a" in "Harry", its a triangle. Instead of the regular " o" in "Ron", it's a bigger " o". Instead of an "I" in Hermione, it's a line. She was like it "The deathly hallows!" And she was like "Oh my goooooood, mind = blown".
And I'm just like " Umm, okay". I thought she was gonna stop at "Harry" and the triangle and be like "ILLUMINATI". Like, come on, I couldn't be the only one to see through that. But it is now confirmed; Harry is Illuminati. Yeah you see how boring it is in English that it comes to this. Also, nothing much else to talk about for English.
So I'm walking to Chemistry class and I see Yue walking in front of me and I'm like "Hey" and she's like "Hey". I see cups and powders and liquids on the lab tables and I'm just like " Please let it be for our class" and the teacher's like "Alright guys, we're going to be doing our first lab today" and I'm just like "Oh praise the lord, I might have a chance to sit with Yue!". I was hoping he'd let us pick our own groups, I was really hoping he'd at least let us have the freedom to do that, aaand, he had divided us into groups randomly. And I'm just like " Fate, please!" He did it by counting people in numbers like "You're 1, you're 2, you're 3, etc. All 1's go to this table, all 2's, etc". Kinda like that.
I was focusing so hard, like you have no idea how hard I was concentrating on getting the same number as Yue. I heard the teacher pit Yue into group 3 and I'm just like " Please have me be 3, please, please, please". Well, my prayers were obviously not answered 'cause I was in group 5. The experiment today was the "Bubble" experiment, where we tested what kind of bubble solution is a there best. There were 3 different kinds of bubble solutions, one with soap and water, one with soap, water, and salt, and one with soap, water and sugar. I was thinking the sugar would be the best since sugar and water is sticky and therefore less popping. I was right.
We had to pour each solution onto the table and put a stars directly on it and keep blowing. Pretty cool at first, bit then it turned messy, like really messy. Messy as in I was almost late to my next class 'cause I had to stay behind a bit to clean up but it was fine since my next period was P.E. Please Mr.Sales, please just let me sit with Yue for day, just one more time. *sigh* Why does she have to be a senior? You see, this was already a 100% chance of bad since day 1.
I think I'ma have to lie in order to get that seat. I don't like lying to a good teacher, but I gotta do what gotta do. Maybe I'll be like "Oh, I can't see the board very well from the back, may I move to the lab table right over there specifically?" Or something like that.
P.E, we all had to change today. my locker's in front of 2 dudes so I'm just like "Why is so cramped". I got dressed, they took attendance, then we waited for it to be over. I forgot that upperclassmen (anyone except freshmen) get to choose a specific class, like, basketball, or jogging, or badminton, and stuff. Probably gonna pick something where there's a lot of cute girls in there. Unless its something I don't like for the life of me, in which icute girls would probably not be worth it. I mean of needed to work out, I could just do bootleg push-ups at home.
Bell rings, lunch, gates of hell. This time the teacher had bus do more work, in which nobody finished so we had to finish the classrlwork on top of our usual homework. Fffffff. Took me a good 2 hours or so to complete it all, not including World History and Chemistry homework. Probably the hardest day in this class so far.
Now for something I want to talk about- Chinese class with El. Today El came in late today, late as in later than she usually is since I always see her at her desk when I walk through the door at the sane time the bell rings. She also wasn't wearing her usual clothes which usually consists of a green T-shirt and a gray jacket. Today she was wearing this white, blouse, thing. I don't know what its called. Today we went over the first 2 pages of lesson 1 for our Chinese textbook, which consisted of simple words like "you", " me", "hello", " teacher", "student", those words. Pretty fun, well, at least not boring.
So the bell rings and I walk out with El, and she and I going the same until the part where we leave separate ways, but this time, she's like " Oh, I'm going this way this time" and I'm just like "Mkay". Walking out the classroom, I'm trying to think " Okay something, just something so that it doesn't have to be silent". So I talk about how I couldn't really understand what the teacher was reciting and how I need to remember the meanings. Not bad, not bad, I'm risking it at least, im tring. Gotta risk it for the biscuit, as I had said that one time. And so I'm like "Bye" and shes like "Bye" and I'm just like "Ehhhhhh, I want to feel successful, yet I don't feel like I want to succeed what I wan rto succeed". You get what I mean? Of course not, neither do I.
And I forgot to message Vt today. I'll do it tomorrow or something, hopefully shell be online or else on gonna get a super late reply and it'll be bootleg. I also gotta talk to Mr.Sales about the seating, talk to this teacher about my period 0 on my schedule, and talk to El, Yue, and all the above. I'm tired right now so I'll see you tomorrow.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 "I'm Don't Like Where This is Going."
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Week: 1
Songs to Remember: Obsession - Boyfriend
The school year's new, people are new, but I'm not really feeling new. I just don't like the direction I'm going.
I'll be doing this post on the Blogger website on my browser on my phone, rather than the Blogger app 'cause that thing actually makes me do twice the work. So, Wednesday comes along, I feel like today was better than yesterday (way better), but not as good as Monday was. God, I still remember those on my god moments like they were yesterday. First period world history is going pretty slowly, we haven't really gotten started on anything that has much to do with world history. We did color a map today, and labeled stuff on it, but that's pretty much it. I have a feeling that this class is gonna be just like my English class from last year. On a good way though.
2nd period, one of the more exciting classes of the day, exciting due to the people in it, not because its English 2A. The teacher has yet to get started on anything (while on Algebra 2/ Trigonometry, might as well have actual homework on the first day). She had this chart on the board, with these 4 types of group workers. North, is supposed to be the ones who just starts right away. East, are the ones who think of the big idea first. South, are the ones who think of others and equality first. Then West, who plans things first. She asked us to go to different parts of the classroom depending on which type of group worker you are. Thinking back on all the group projects I've done with other people, I just did whayever and got started. So I chose North, a bunch of people chose East, some people chose West, and one person (my female buddy I guess) chose South. The teacher's like "What is this? She can't be the only one who's in South!" She probably was thinking that people got in groups with their friends instead of what they actually are. So, some people got up and moved to South, just 'cause the teacher was like "What is this?". Anyways, the teacher told us to work as a group and answer some questions on a piece of paper, questions like "What are the strengths of your type of group" and "What are your weaknesses" etc. We did that the whole period, We also got our textbooks (and by textbooks I mean paperback vocabulary books) durinfnthe period as well. That was pretty much all we did.
Okay, so, my chances of getting closer (figuratively and literally) with Yue is pretty slim if we don't talk. The teacher dude just had to have a seating chart. All we did today was go over the homework, take some notes, filed some stuff, and that was pretty much it. Oh and while he was passing out folders for us to wrote our names on (to create our filing folder for our work), he was like "How's it going Neena? How's it going Marki?" And when he got to me, he's like "How's it going Drew?" I was "It's going alright". What I should've said was " Ay, you just remembers my name! Let us pick our own seats now! Please, I beg of you! I'm on my knees". So when the period ended, I was going to talk to him about when he's gonna switch seats again, because today was Wednesday and on Wednesdays, I thought lunch was after 3rd period today, and not 4th period (Every Wednesday is a short day, no break, but lunch).
But no, lunch is still after 4th period, I'd be late, so I just walked out the door with Yue and I'm like "Hi!" And then I'm like "So you said you're from Malaysia right?" And she's like "Yep" and I'm like "What's it like over there?" and she's like "Well, let's just say it's like 350 days of summer a year" and I laughed a bit and I asked her where she hung out at and she was like "The cafeteria" and I'm just like "F*** me". I never go to the cafeteria at all 'cause I bring my food from home, 'cause the line's LONG. I said bye, she said bye and I'm just like " So, she makes jokes, her friendly-ness, her smile, its just like ohhh my god". I never call a girl hot, the last time I called a girl hot, was... I don't even remember. I only call girls hot if I mean it. And god, she is as hot as Malaysian weather. I'm being honest here.
The teacher said that we might be doing a lab experiment tomorrow, so I'm parting to god and crossing my fingers, hoping that we will AND, we get to pick our own group. Please Mr.Sales, please. Also that's not his real name by the way. I'll tell you his name at the end of the year.
Anyways, next period is P.E and, luckily I did not get a cut, from that incident from yesterday. We sat down, they took roll, people bought uniforms, we stood in line to get assigned a locker, I get my locker, it's far in the back, probably gonna get my stuff jacked, we sat in the gym for the rest of the period, bell rings, lunch start, I do my usual lunch activities like eat, talk, catch-up, etc. Yesterday during lunch I say my old pal back in 6th grade (I mean I guess, its a long story, very childish arguments, we're cool now), walking with a girl. And uh, it was right in front of my face so its not like I was looking at him and the girl far away in a tree with binoculars. This event's relevant to what im'a talk about later. Anyways, bell rings, I go to hell for 50 minutes.
buildongWell, today's teaching wasn't all that bad. After the teacher went over the homework and I was like "Yay, I got em' right!", I was like " Mkay, this isn't so difficult. Time-consuming, but not that difficult". She didn't really give us any time to do the homework, so I spent a good hour on it. So far, I'm having ups and downs with this class. Not stuggking with math, but struggling to cope with the teaching.
And finally, 6th period Chinese class. Fairly exciting class and surprising. Probably the 2 words that best describe this class. My 5th period's all the way back behind the L building and my 6th period's in the portables (P building). the walk from my 5th period to 6th period is about, ehh, I'd say the length of our school's football field (or soccer field, whatever). The school gives us 6 minutes to get to our classes. I'd say it takes about 6 minutes to walk from a to b. Good thing my Chinese teacher's cool about it though. She is probably the liveliest teacher I've had. In good way, of course. So today we went to go get our textbooks, we're all standing in line, I'm standing with El, we get our books, I try to pronounce Chinese words, I fail miserably, El and my buddy give me a lesson, all in all it's in good fun, gave me some excitement for the day from the lack of excitement in my other classes. We go back to class and the teacher explains our homework, to add her class on some online work websites (like Blend space and Quizlet). We go home, I talk with El as we're walking out the classroom, o say bye, she says bye, I go home.
Oh and how I talked about how I saw my buddy with a girl, he changed his status on Facenovel to "on a relationship". He posted it publicly so everyone sees it. I give it, ehhh, ffffff-, uhhh, 2 weeks. Maybe 3. Sorry for being douchey (douchey? Is it a word?), I just don't know wh- I just remembered why. F***ing envy. *sigh* not again.
Anyways, the real problem here us that I don't like where I'm going. EL? It's going fine. Yue? Could may well be way better. Classes? Not what I was expecting, I was hoping for a bit more, just a tiny bit. I was playing " Adventure Time: Battle Party" with my buddies and it just occurred to me. I'm doing the same things as last year- this is not different. I'm not talking more in class, I'm not taking more risks (or any risks for at all for that matter) and I basically hang out with the exact same people, in the exact same way. I do a good job on identifying my problems, I accept them, but I don't do anything to solve them. Now that's my real problem.
Oh and that internet story I was going to talk about. So I was searching up Yue's Facenovel so I can add her so I can be in contact with her for when she graduates and leaves for college. I didn't really know her spelling so I tried a bunch of variations and typed them onto Google, hoping to find her picture on Images and go to her Facenovel from there. This is not stalking okay? If I wanted to stalk, I'd do it in a more efficient way. Anyways, I stumbled upon a picture of what looked like her, so I went to the page where the image is from and it turns out, that page is a blog whom a guy posted about his days living in Malaysia.
I was like "Wait, this can't be Yue" but then I read how the dude's like "She left 2 weeks in Malaysia. I'll miss her" and stuff like that. I was like "Woah, a dude who's in Malaysia postes stuff about a girl who left Malaysia to California, and is now here at my school. Pretty crazy to think about really, I don't know, it seemed I teredting to me when I once found it out. The dude was calling her hot stuff and all that and I was like " Wait, is she a playa? Does she do this guys all the time?" I've seen this happen in movies. But I trust her, and its probably pretty lonely her where she ain't with her friends soooo, explains a lot.
So, what have I learned today? Well, I learned that I'm repeating things I've done last year, I want to change as I don't like where i m going, and I need to make stuff happen through my own actions, I can't just wait for stuff to happen. Also, where is Vt? I cannot find her in this small school. I've never seen her in real life (only pictures) and I don't know what to expect.Would it be creepy if I were to meet her now? A couple months after we last talked? Ehhh, I'll take the risk. Anyways, I've done a lot of typing on my phone for now. I'll see you tomorrow. Oh and if there's any grammatical and spelling errors, its the phone.
Week: 1
Songs to Remember: Obsession - Boyfriend
The school year's new, people are new, but I'm not really feeling new. I just don't like the direction I'm going.
I'll be doing this post on the Blogger website on my browser on my phone, rather than the Blogger app 'cause that thing actually makes me do twice the work. So, Wednesday comes along, I feel like today was better than yesterday (way better), but not as good as Monday was. God, I still remember those on my god moments like they were yesterday. First period world history is going pretty slowly, we haven't really gotten started on anything that has much to do with world history. We did color a map today, and labeled stuff on it, but that's pretty much it. I have a feeling that this class is gonna be just like my English class from last year. On a good way though.
2nd period, one of the more exciting classes of the day, exciting due to the people in it, not because its English 2A. The teacher has yet to get started on anything (while on Algebra 2/ Trigonometry, might as well have actual homework on the first day). She had this chart on the board, with these 4 types of group workers. North, is supposed to be the ones who just starts right away. East, are the ones who think of the big idea first. South, are the ones who think of others and equality first. Then West, who plans things first. She asked us to go to different parts of the classroom depending on which type of group worker you are. Thinking back on all the group projects I've done with other people, I just did whayever and got started. So I chose North, a bunch of people chose East, some people chose West, and one person (my female buddy I guess) chose South. The teacher's like "What is this? She can't be the only one who's in South!" She probably was thinking that people got in groups with their friends instead of what they actually are. So, some people got up and moved to South, just 'cause the teacher was like "What is this?". Anyways, the teacher told us to work as a group and answer some questions on a piece of paper, questions like "What are the strengths of your type of group" and "What are your weaknesses" etc. We did that the whole period, We also got our textbooks (and by textbooks I mean paperback vocabulary books) durinfnthe period as well. That was pretty much all we did.
Okay, so, my chances of getting closer (figuratively and literally) with Yue is pretty slim if we don't talk. The teacher dude just had to have a seating chart. All we did today was go over the homework, take some notes, filed some stuff, and that was pretty much it. Oh and while he was passing out folders for us to wrote our names on (to create our filing folder for our work), he was like "How's it going Neena? How's it going Marki?" And when he got to me, he's like "How's it going Drew?" I was "It's going alright". What I should've said was " Ay, you just remembers my name! Let us pick our own seats now! Please, I beg of you! I'm on my knees". So when the period ended, I was going to talk to him about when he's gonna switch seats again, because today was Wednesday and on Wednesdays, I thought lunch was after 3rd period today, and not 4th period (Every Wednesday is a short day, no break, but lunch).
But no, lunch is still after 4th period, I'd be late, so I just walked out the door with Yue and I'm like "Hi!" And then I'm like "So you said you're from Malaysia right?" And she's like "Yep" and I'm like "What's it like over there?" and she's like "Well, let's just say it's like 350 days of summer a year" and I laughed a bit and I asked her where she hung out at and she was like "The cafeteria" and I'm just like "F*** me". I never go to the cafeteria at all 'cause I bring my food from home, 'cause the line's LONG. I said bye, she said bye and I'm just like " So, she makes jokes, her friendly-ness, her smile, its just like ohhh my god". I never call a girl hot, the last time I called a girl hot, was... I don't even remember. I only call girls hot if I mean it. And god, she is as hot as Malaysian weather. I'm being honest here.
The teacher said that we might be doing a lab experiment tomorrow, so I'm parting to god and crossing my fingers, hoping that we will AND, we get to pick our own group. Please Mr.Sales, please. Also that's not his real name by the way. I'll tell you his name at the end of the year.
Anyways, next period is P.E and, luckily I did not get a cut, from that incident from yesterday. We sat down, they took roll, people bought uniforms, we stood in line to get assigned a locker, I get my locker, it's far in the back, probably gonna get my stuff jacked, we sat in the gym for the rest of the period, bell rings, lunch start, I do my usual lunch activities like eat, talk, catch-up, etc. Yesterday during lunch I say my old pal back in 6th grade (I mean I guess, its a long story, very childish arguments, we're cool now), walking with a girl. And uh, it was right in front of my face so its not like I was looking at him and the girl far away in a tree with binoculars. This event's relevant to what im'a talk about later. Anyways, bell rings, I go to hell for 50 minutes.
buildongWell, today's teaching wasn't all that bad. After the teacher went over the homework and I was like "Yay, I got em' right!", I was like " Mkay, this isn't so difficult. Time-consuming, but not that difficult". She didn't really give us any time to do the homework, so I spent a good hour on it. So far, I'm having ups and downs with this class. Not stuggking with math, but struggling to cope with the teaching.
And finally, 6th period Chinese class. Fairly exciting class and surprising. Probably the 2 words that best describe this class. My 5th period's all the way back behind the L building and my 6th period's in the portables (P building). the walk from my 5th period to 6th period is about, ehh, I'd say the length of our school's football field (or soccer field, whatever). The school gives us 6 minutes to get to our classes. I'd say it takes about 6 minutes to walk from a to b. Good thing my Chinese teacher's cool about it though. She is probably the liveliest teacher I've had. In good way, of course. So today we went to go get our textbooks, we're all standing in line, I'm standing with El, we get our books, I try to pronounce Chinese words, I fail miserably, El and my buddy give me a lesson, all in all it's in good fun, gave me some excitement for the day from the lack of excitement in my other classes. We go back to class and the teacher explains our homework, to add her class on some online work websites (like Blend space and Quizlet). We go home, I talk with El as we're walking out the classroom, o say bye, she says bye, I go home.
Oh and how I talked about how I saw my buddy with a girl, he changed his status on Facenovel to "on a relationship". He posted it publicly so everyone sees it. I give it, ehhh, ffffff-, uhhh, 2 weeks. Maybe 3. Sorry for being douchey (douchey? Is it a word?), I just don't know wh- I just remembered why. F***ing envy. *sigh* not again.
Anyways, the real problem here us that I don't like where I'm going. EL? It's going fine. Yue? Could may well be way better. Classes? Not what I was expecting, I was hoping for a bit more, just a tiny bit. I was playing " Adventure Time: Battle Party" with my buddies and it just occurred to me. I'm doing the same things as last year- this is not different. I'm not talking more in class, I'm not taking more risks (or any risks for at all for that matter) and I basically hang out with the exact same people, in the exact same way. I do a good job on identifying my problems, I accept them, but I don't do anything to solve them. Now that's my real problem.
Oh and that internet story I was going to talk about. So I was searching up Yue's Facenovel so I can add her so I can be in contact with her for when she graduates and leaves for college. I didn't really know her spelling so I tried a bunch of variations and typed them onto Google, hoping to find her picture on Images and go to her Facenovel from there. This is not stalking okay? If I wanted to stalk, I'd do it in a more efficient way. Anyways, I stumbled upon a picture of what looked like her, so I went to the page where the image is from and it turns out, that page is a blog whom a guy posted about his days living in Malaysia.
I was like "Wait, this can't be Yue" but then I read how the dude's like "She left 2 weeks in Malaysia. I'll miss her" and stuff like that. I was like "Woah, a dude who's in Malaysia postes stuff about a girl who left Malaysia to California, and is now here at my school. Pretty crazy to think about really, I don't know, it seemed I teredting to me when I once found it out. The dude was calling her hot stuff and all that and I was like " Wait, is she a playa? Does she do this guys all the time?" I've seen this happen in movies. But I trust her, and its probably pretty lonely her where she ain't with her friends soooo, explains a lot.
So, what have I learned today? Well, I learned that I'm repeating things I've done last year, I want to change as I don't like where i m going, and I need to make stuff happen through my own actions, I can't just wait for stuff to happen. Also, where is Vt? I cannot find her in this small school. I've never seen her in real life (only pictures) and I don't know what to expect.Would it be creepy if I were to meet her now? A couple months after we last talked? Ehhh, I'll take the risk. Anyways, I've done a lot of typing on my phone for now. I'll see you tomorrow. Oh and if there's any grammatical and spelling errors, its the phone.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 "What Am I Supposed to Do?"
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Week: 1
Songs to Remember: Quit Playing - U-Kiss
For the first day of school, I wake up early. Second day comes, excitement's over and I want to sleep in.
So my first period's kinda become my resting period (World History), resting as in recovering from waking up so early. The teacher is pretty chill, chill as in, not rushing into class as soon as possible, unlike another teacher *cough* Algebra II/Trigonometry *cough*. So far we haven't done anything history related in her class, besides getting our textbook. Tomorrow we'll probably be starting the lesson.
2nd period (English 2A) is still pretty calm (for now). It's always calm before the storm. Next thing I know, I'm scrambling on my computer trying to finish an essay. Today all we talked about these "Life-long Learning Standards". You know, those "Students will be collaborative workers who" etc etc. You can search up "Life-long Learning Standards" and probably find what I'm talking about. Anyways, we just discussed it the whole period. My teacher wants everybody to talk, more participation and discussion, but nobody seems to wanna talk. Probably 'cause we're all good kids.
Chemistry has got to be favorite class so far, along with Chinese of course. I sat down in my seat, with Yue (the hot girl I talked about) next to me and I'm having the mindset like "I won the f***ing lottery", just, oh my god. The next thing I know, the teacher tells us all to stand up, out of our seats, and move to the sides of the classroom. My expression is just like "No, no, no, no, no, this cannot be happening" But it's happening, we're changing seats.
I'm just like "Fffffffffff, why god, why? You gave me this and now you're taking it away from me? It only lasted one day". So as I was standing on the right side of the classroom, Yue and her friend standing in front of me, Yue's looking at me and I'm just staring off into the distance 'cauuuusee, I'm scared to look people in the eyes, it's like looking into their soul.
So the teacher's like "Okay, I put all your names into a machine and it randomized all your seating" and he began calling out people's names for their assigned seat. I was just praying, like, "Please, oh my god, please, at least let me be close to her, at least". About 4 columns of seats left (2 columns are connected), teacher called some people, and then me. 2 empty columns of seats to my right, I'm hoping that Yue sits like, remotely close to me.
The teacher calls everyone's names besides Yue and this one other girl. He then sits them at a lab table, all the way to the left where I can't even see her. The guy I'm sitting next to is like a senior and he's on the football team, probably about twice my height, not gonna lie. So I'm just like "Why?". The teacher then tells everybody that we're going to be going to get our textbooks at the bookroom, not too far from our classroom.
We all get up and out the door (in sort of a line). I'm standing behind Yue, she doesn't appear to be talking to her friends. She turns around and faces me, eye contact meets, mostly 'cause I chose to, I'm getting sweaty, I'm thinking "Ooooohhhh myyyy ggooooooodd", and she's "Hey" and I'm like "Hi". Yue and I start talking a bit. She explained that she was from was from Malaysia and moved here since last September (2013). She asks me if I was born here and I'm like "Yeah". There were some quiet parts, I mean, I'm not really sure what to talk about, I guess I was still in shock that this is happening to me. I mean, what am I supposed to do? So I'm like "Okay, I'll just stick with school stuff. It's safe, on subject, and fun, sorta".
I ask her "So what classes are you having difficulty with?" And she's like "Ugh, Honors Pre-Cal" and she's "Oh I'm a Senior, I'm taking it to boost my gpa up". And that basically confirms it for me that "Oh, well, this is 100% chance of bad". We get back to class, as we're walking through the classroom door, Yue's like "Do you have any friends here?" And I'm just like "Okay Drew, breathe, just breathe, don't die on me damn it!" I answer "I know some people here, but I don't talk to them much". And she's like "You can talk to me, you can talk to me anytime" with that slight accent of hers and I'm just like "Mhmm".
She goes back to her new seat, I go back to my new seat, the teacher passes us all this work sheet, it being a "text-book scavenger hunt" which is like "Find 'pineapple' in the glossary" and "What chapter is chapter 11 about?", that sorta stuff. I do as much as I can, the bell rings, I leave, we all leave, I go to P.E. I really need to talk to my teacher about changing my seat, I hope he understands, good thing he met his wife in high-school, soooo, yeah.
P.E was pretty much the same. They took roll, told us some info, let us buy our uniforms, and had us in line for our lockers. And of course they can't just be like "Okay, choose a locker", they got to assign us all one. My friend and I are standing in line, talking about random stuff. We get to the front of the line, the teacher comes out from the teacher office in the locker room, says "Sorry guys, you're gonna have to come back tomorrow". I'm like "Fffffffffff".
My friend and I and the rest of the guys in line, we all walk out to lunch, upon hearing the bell ring. But, it was only the P.E bell (which always goes off), and that bell is supposed to be the bell for P.E teachers to send their students back to the locker rooms to change. It's like, 10 minutes before the actual dismissal bell. So we all walk out, I hear my name but I'm so far away I didn't really know if they calling me specifically.
So during lunch, my friend tells me that we were supposed to stay inside and how we weren't supposed to leave yet. He also said that the teacher was gonna threaten us with a cut, but he's like "I don't think she saw you so you're fine". I'm like "What the f***?" The teacher said to come back tomorrow, the bell rings, I infer that we waited so long in line the period ended so we were allowed to go. I mean, the teacher did say to come back tomorrow, he didn't say to come back tomorrow after staying here for 10 more minutes. I could be my own lawyer.
I eat lunch, talk to my buddies, do some of my unfinished Algebra II/ Trigonometry homework (hey, I only had 2 questions left to do. I didn't do em' last night in spite of my teacher). Bell rings, gates of hell open, I cry, knowing I have Algebra II/ Trigonometry next with that teacher. So my buddy and I both have that class, we go in, teacher's like "Okay class, today we'll be checking out textbooks so be sure to bring your ID card". We go get our textbooks, come back, it's pretty quiet, everyone's writing, I'm trying to get a head-start on the homework, I see that everyone's writing but their textbooks are not open.
Then the teacher's like "Okay, let's go over the warm-up. I'm like "We had a warm-up?! Nobody even said a thing!" Good thing we didn't have to turn in our warm-up. She then gets started on the lesson, saying that we have to do the lesson before we attempt the homework. Not my type of thing, considering that if we need help, we could just look in our textbooks for the steps.
Her accent makes it so difficult to understand what she's saying. She says "cross" instead of "plus". I didn't really understand about 35% of it, so I just went with the book as my guide. After she's done, she has us all pass up our homework. This one student was like "Umm, I wrote down my answers on the sheet you gave us". The sheet was like a 2 pages with the questions. Yesterday the teacher told us we could just write on the sheet OR we could write it on paper.
So the teacher assistant takes a look at it and he's like "Yeah, this is points off" and the teacher's like "You didn't follow my instructions" and I'm like "Oh my god that is f***ing brutal. If that'd happen to me I'd f***ing try to switch to a different teacher as fast as possible. The thing about the teacher is that she wants us all to learn math in HER way, no matter if it's easier or harder than in your own way. Let's say an equation to solve would be "5x +2 = 12". I'd write my work like "5x = 10, x = 2". My teacher would have us all write it with the equal signs in the beginning like "10 = 5x, 2 = x" like that.
My geometry teacher (good teacher, like his methods, isn't picky as long as you understand the work) would have us write it however we wanted, as long as we solved it correctly. He didn't even care how you formatted your paper. But this teacher, it's like "You have to write it like this, if you don't, I'm taking points off". Like, holy f***, the class won't be about learning Algebra II and Trigonometry anymore, it'll just be "Follow my instructions exactly". People will fail, not because that they don't understand it or get incorrect problems, but because of the grading. I'd understand college grading, but this is f***ing Algebra II/ Trigonometry in HIGH SCHOOL. Seriously. I could be my own lawyer.
Anyways, I just finished a lot of homework tonight, about 90% of it is hers. So, 5th period ends, I hear angels sing, I see heaven as in the front door, and leave for 6th period. I sign in on the sheet at the front door, and there's a table with piles of different color-less pictures, like birds, dragons, about 8 different ones to choose from. I picked the dragon, just to be different. I sit down with El again, and today we're supposed to be coloring.
I don't see how this has to do with the Chinese language, but I'm not complaining about her ways of teaching. As we're coloring, I'm talking with El a bit about stuff like her classes, yaddah yaddah yaddah, kinda awkward but we're both awkward so it's fine. The teacher also jokes around in Chinese and also helps us learn Chinese while we're coloring, asking us to repeat after her. Pretty cool, considering how we're in 6th period, we're relaxing while coloring, helps us focus our mind, helps take in the material better. See, now that's how to teach, not "I'm taking points off, You didn't follow my instructions".
Anyways, class ends, homework is to finish coloring, that was it. And you know what? Yue was kinda looking at me a lot yesterday, and I was just staring into space. I don't know, I don'r really know what to talk about with El and Yue. And, I have no idea where Vt is at. Like, am I going to have to be asking around "Hey, do you know a Vt?"
So Yue's a senior, if we do become good pals, or even more, it probably won't work out by the end of the year. She's gonna go to college, I'll still be here in high-school, it's a 2 year difference, aaand, it's just a 100% chance of bad alright. Like, what am I supposed to do? It's getting late, I'll see you guys tomorrow then. Oh, and uh, I have something pretty crazy to talk about tomorrow, something I found online.
Week: 1
Songs to Remember: Quit Playing - U-Kiss
For the first day of school, I wake up early. Second day comes, excitement's over and I want to sleep in.
So my first period's kinda become my resting period (World History), resting as in recovering from waking up so early. The teacher is pretty chill, chill as in, not rushing into class as soon as possible, unlike another teacher *cough* Algebra II/Trigonometry *cough*. So far we haven't done anything history related in her class, besides getting our textbook. Tomorrow we'll probably be starting the lesson.
2nd period (English 2A) is still pretty calm (for now). It's always calm before the storm. Next thing I know, I'm scrambling on my computer trying to finish an essay. Today all we talked about these "Life-long Learning Standards". You know, those "Students will be collaborative workers who" etc etc. You can search up "Life-long Learning Standards" and probably find what I'm talking about. Anyways, we just discussed it the whole period. My teacher wants everybody to talk, more participation and discussion, but nobody seems to wanna talk. Probably 'cause we're all good kids.
Chemistry has got to be favorite class so far, along with Chinese of course. I sat down in my seat, with Yue (the hot girl I talked about) next to me and I'm having the mindset like "I won the f***ing lottery", just, oh my god. The next thing I know, the teacher tells us all to stand up, out of our seats, and move to the sides of the classroom. My expression is just like "No, no, no, no, no, this cannot be happening" But it's happening, we're changing seats.
I'm just like "Fffffffffff, why god, why? You gave me this and now you're taking it away from me? It only lasted one day". So as I was standing on the right side of the classroom, Yue and her friend standing in front of me, Yue's looking at me and I'm just staring off into the distance 'cauuuusee, I'm scared to look people in the eyes, it's like looking into their soul.
So the teacher's like "Okay, I put all your names into a machine and it randomized all your seating" and he began calling out people's names for their assigned seat. I was just praying, like, "Please, oh my god, please, at least let me be close to her, at least". About 4 columns of seats left (2 columns are connected), teacher called some people, and then me. 2 empty columns of seats to my right, I'm hoping that Yue sits like, remotely close to me.
The teacher calls everyone's names besides Yue and this one other girl. He then sits them at a lab table, all the way to the left where I can't even see her. The guy I'm sitting next to is like a senior and he's on the football team, probably about twice my height, not gonna lie. So I'm just like "Why?". The teacher then tells everybody that we're going to be going to get our textbooks at the bookroom, not too far from our classroom.
We all get up and out the door (in sort of a line). I'm standing behind Yue, she doesn't appear to be talking to her friends. She turns around and faces me, eye contact meets, mostly 'cause I chose to, I'm getting sweaty, I'm thinking "Ooooohhhh myyyy ggooooooodd", and she's "Hey" and I'm like "Hi". Yue and I start talking a bit. She explained that she was from was from Malaysia and moved here since last September (2013). She asks me if I was born here and I'm like "Yeah". There were some quiet parts, I mean, I'm not really sure what to talk about, I guess I was still in shock that this is happening to me. I mean, what am I supposed to do? So I'm like "Okay, I'll just stick with school stuff. It's safe, on subject, and fun, sorta".
I ask her "So what classes are you having difficulty with?" And she's like "Ugh, Honors Pre-Cal" and she's "Oh I'm a Senior, I'm taking it to boost my gpa up". And that basically confirms it for me that "Oh, well, this is 100% chance of bad". We get back to class, as we're walking through the classroom door, Yue's like "Do you have any friends here?" And I'm just like "Okay Drew, breathe, just breathe, don't die on me damn it!" I answer "I know some people here, but I don't talk to them much". And she's like "You can talk to me, you can talk to me anytime" with that slight accent of hers and I'm just like "Mhmm".
She goes back to her new seat, I go back to my new seat, the teacher passes us all this work sheet, it being a "text-book scavenger hunt" which is like "Find 'pineapple' in the glossary" and "What chapter is chapter 11 about?", that sorta stuff. I do as much as I can, the bell rings, I leave, we all leave, I go to P.E. I really need to talk to my teacher about changing my seat, I hope he understands, good thing he met his wife in high-school, soooo, yeah.
P.E was pretty much the same. They took roll, told us some info, let us buy our uniforms, and had us in line for our lockers. And of course they can't just be like "Okay, choose a locker", they got to assign us all one. My friend and I are standing in line, talking about random stuff. We get to the front of the line, the teacher comes out from the teacher office in the locker room, says "Sorry guys, you're gonna have to come back tomorrow". I'm like "Fffffffffff".
My friend and I and the rest of the guys in line, we all walk out to lunch, upon hearing the bell ring. But, it was only the P.E bell (which always goes off), and that bell is supposed to be the bell for P.E teachers to send their students back to the locker rooms to change. It's like, 10 minutes before the actual dismissal bell. So we all walk out, I hear my name but I'm so far away I didn't really know if they calling me specifically.
So during lunch, my friend tells me that we were supposed to stay inside and how we weren't supposed to leave yet. He also said that the teacher was gonna threaten us with a cut, but he's like "I don't think she saw you so you're fine". I'm like "What the f***?" The teacher said to come back tomorrow, the bell rings, I infer that we waited so long in line the period ended so we were allowed to go. I mean, the teacher did say to come back tomorrow, he didn't say to come back tomorrow after staying here for 10 more minutes. I could be my own lawyer.
I eat lunch, talk to my buddies, do some of my unfinished Algebra II/ Trigonometry homework (hey, I only had 2 questions left to do. I didn't do em' last night in spite of my teacher). Bell rings, gates of hell open, I cry, knowing I have Algebra II/ Trigonometry next with that teacher. So my buddy and I both have that class, we go in, teacher's like "Okay class, today we'll be checking out textbooks so be sure to bring your ID card". We go get our textbooks, come back, it's pretty quiet, everyone's writing, I'm trying to get a head-start on the homework, I see that everyone's writing but their textbooks are not open.
Then the teacher's like "Okay, let's go over the warm-up. I'm like "We had a warm-up?! Nobody even said a thing!" Good thing we didn't have to turn in our warm-up. She then gets started on the lesson, saying that we have to do the lesson before we attempt the homework. Not my type of thing, considering that if we need help, we could just look in our textbooks for the steps.
Her accent makes it so difficult to understand what she's saying. She says "cross" instead of "plus". I didn't really understand about 35% of it, so I just went with the book as my guide. After she's done, she has us all pass up our homework. This one student was like "Umm, I wrote down my answers on the sheet you gave us". The sheet was like a 2 pages with the questions. Yesterday the teacher told us we could just write on the sheet OR we could write it on paper.
So the teacher assistant takes a look at it and he's like "Yeah, this is points off" and the teacher's like "You didn't follow my instructions" and I'm like "Oh my god that is f***ing brutal. If that'd happen to me I'd f***ing try to switch to a different teacher as fast as possible. The thing about the teacher is that she wants us all to learn math in HER way, no matter if it's easier or harder than in your own way. Let's say an equation to solve would be "5x +2 = 12". I'd write my work like "5x = 10, x = 2". My teacher would have us all write it with the equal signs in the beginning like "10 = 5x, 2 = x" like that.
My geometry teacher (good teacher, like his methods, isn't picky as long as you understand the work) would have us write it however we wanted, as long as we solved it correctly. He didn't even care how you formatted your paper. But this teacher, it's like "You have to write it like this, if you don't, I'm taking points off". Like, holy f***, the class won't be about learning Algebra II and Trigonometry anymore, it'll just be "Follow my instructions exactly". People will fail, not because that they don't understand it or get incorrect problems, but because of the grading. I'd understand college grading, but this is f***ing Algebra II/ Trigonometry in HIGH SCHOOL. Seriously. I could be my own lawyer.
Anyways, I just finished a lot of homework tonight, about 90% of it is hers. So, 5th period ends, I hear angels sing, I see heaven as in the front door, and leave for 6th period. I sign in on the sheet at the front door, and there's a table with piles of different color-less pictures, like birds, dragons, about 8 different ones to choose from. I picked the dragon, just to be different. I sit down with El again, and today we're supposed to be coloring.
I don't see how this has to do with the Chinese language, but I'm not complaining about her ways of teaching. As we're coloring, I'm talking with El a bit about stuff like her classes, yaddah yaddah yaddah, kinda awkward but we're both awkward so it's fine. The teacher also jokes around in Chinese and also helps us learn Chinese while we're coloring, asking us to repeat after her. Pretty cool, considering how we're in 6th period, we're relaxing while coloring, helps us focus our mind, helps take in the material better. See, now that's how to teach, not "I'm taking points off, You didn't follow my instructions".
Anyways, class ends, homework is to finish coloring, that was it. And you know what? Yue was kinda looking at me a lot yesterday, and I was just staring into space. I don't know, I don'r really know what to talk about with El and Yue. And, I have no idea where Vt is at. Like, am I going to have to be asking around "Hey, do you know a Vt?"
So Yue's a senior, if we do become good pals, or even more, it probably won't work out by the end of the year. She's gonna go to college, I'll still be here in high-school, it's a 2 year difference, aaand, it's just a 100% chance of bad alright. Like, what am I supposed to do? It's getting late, I'll see you guys tomorrow then. Oh, and uh, I have something pretty crazy to talk about tomorrow, something I found online.
Monday, August 18, 2014
Monday, August 18, 2014 "100% Chance of Bad."
Monday, August 18, 2014
Week: 1
Songs to Remember: You Only Live Once - The Strokes
Well this is it, the start of a new series. Oh and by the way, this post will have more o's in it than the title of the series "100% Chance of Bad."
So the alarm I set on my phone rings, I wake up at 6:45 AM. My mom still hasn't woken up yet 'cause she doesn't wake up that early, more around the 7:00 ish. I went in my closet to look for the clothes I was gonna wear. Since 7th grade, I wore hooded sweaters every single day to school, partly because it's cold in the morning, but mostly because it helps me feel secure. I decided to go with a long-sleeved shirt in which I'd roll up the sleeves. I don't know.
My mom wakes up finally, around the 7:00 mark. I go to the bathroom, brush my teeth, wash my face, do my hair, the usual. I got dressed, checked to make sure I didn't forget any papers or anything. Ate breakfast, checked things one more time and headed for the car, at about 7:30. The drive to school took about, ehhh, 5 minutes maybe. The traffic? My mom drives me close to the school, I get out and walk there. Sure beats the traffic and waiting.
First things first- (I basically had a check-list for what to do during that morning, from getting my schedule to getting my locker) I got to go get my schedule. School-loop (this website company that lets us see our grades online for our school) was online this morning so I got to see my schedule early. It showed: Period 0 - Universal Studies, Period 1 - World History, Period 2 - Eng 2A, Period 3 - Chemistry, Period 4 - P.E, Period 5 - Algebra II/Trig, and Period 6 - Chinese 1. I was really confused for a second, like "Wait, how many classes do I have?" Turns out, that academy teacher put me in her, uhhh, period 0 class? There's not even homeroom here (besides the silent sustained reading time at the start of 5th period)? So I was like "Uhhhh, guess I'ma have to go see that academy teacher again".
I already saw my schedule online, I just wanted to make sure it was correct (and teachers will want to see your schedule to see if you're in the right class) so I went to go get my schedule. Luckily it was the same place as last year to get my schedule, and luckily it was a short line. Sort of. I stood in line, saw some people I knew and I was like "Yep, this is the right place". There were 2 staff people handing out the schedules this time. When I got to the front, the person was like "Okay, what's your name?" And I said my name and she was like "Oh, people with that last name go over there" and I was like "Oh". So I stood in another line (the second line was like 8 people), Ct was in line in front of me and she was like "Hi" and I was like "Hi".
Finally I got my schedule. I was like "Should I stay here and wait for Vt, or should I go look for where my classes are?" And I went with the latter since there were some buildings that I don't remember where they were. My first class was World History in the F building (our buildings are labeled by letters and rooms by letters and numbers) so I was like "Wait, where is the F building?" And when I saw it (it wasn't hard to find at all) I was like "Oh, it was here in front of my eyes". My next class was English 2A at the E building and I was like "Wait, where's the E building?" Then I saw it and I was like "Oh, it's right next to the E building". My second class was like, a few yards away from my first one.
So I went to go see the rest of my classes- I knew where the L building is (for chemistry class) but not the room, turns out it was in the back, the gym for P.E (only on the first day, the teachers take attendance, give info and that's it, same as last year) I knew where that was, L building for Algebra II/Trigonometry, and Chinese class was located at the P "building" though it's not really a building, just several portable buildings hence why it's called the "P" buildings. Took a bit of a while to find that class, and I was don searching for my classes.
I then went to go get my locker. I went to the same place where I had my locker last year, but all the lockers there were taken, with the exception of the lockers on the bottom, like, inches from the ground. No way did I want those lockers. I saw a locker place close to that place, at the F building which is right next to the G building where my old locker was at. There were still some good lockers, the ones that were inches from the ground, but a few feet so it was fine. I put my lock on it and went to go turn in my reservation paper for my locker.
As I was going to the room to turn in the paper, this lady was like "Hey, we're not accepting locker papers yet, wait until break" so I was like "Whatever" and so since I didn't have anything else on my list (besides seeing if I could find Vt), I decided to go back to the place where I got my schedule and see if Vt's around. As I arrive to the place, the first bell rings and I swear, everybody just SWARMS around. I was like "Wow, so this is how rowdy the first day is".
I went to my first class, looking through the window a bit to see if I have the right class (I don't know why). I went in, looked around for a few seconds, and sat down in a seat I which I deemed as not too close to the teacher, not to far back, not too far in the front, but in the middle. I was also in front of some girls, who some turned out to be people I know. The classroom wasn't the standard classroom, the seats were arranged differently. A set of seats on the left side of the room, a set of seats on the right side, the teachers desk at the top right corner, board in front, and a small table with projectors in the middle. I always choose to sit on the left side of classrooms, I don't know why.
I saw a dude I knew when I entered the classroom, a dude I haven't talked with in, uhhhh, 2 years. I see him around, don't really talk to him at all. Recognized a couple dudes I know, don't really talk to them, one of them I haven't talked to since 8th grade in art class. The girls I know I've known since 6th grade and 7th grade, don't really talk to them. The rest seemed pretty new, new as in I've never seen them before. Teacher introduced herself and I could see she was an easy-going teacher. Easy-going as in chill, jokes around, not too strict, empathizes, knows how to take a joke, all the concepts of a good, fun teacher.
The second bell rang signalling the start of class. I looked around and I was like "Oh my god, this is a small class. There's barely anyone here". There were about, ehh, 15 people in class. The seats around me on my side of the room were empty, besides those girls and this one dude who chose to sit 2 spots behind me. Soon, like, 5 minutes into class or something, I don't know. These 4 kids storm in, not that rowdy, but rowdy enough to be considered somewhat rowdy. I instinctively know "Yep, here are the delinquents".
About 2 of those kids knew the teacher before, as the teacher mentioned how they were in her class last year. So the teacher introduces herself a bit more, takes attendance, then hands us all this work sheet, which was like this "Find someone who, uhhh, likes rock music, or, find someone who wants to be a doctor". Those kind of work sheets and I was like "Uuuughhhh". The class was pretty small, about 21 students including me (one kid came in late during the middle of class).
So we all got up (forced to get up really), and went around asking people for signatures for the work sheet. As I was signing this dude's worksheet (one of the delinquents), he was like "Hey Drew, remember me? The little chubby kid with glasses?" or something like that. I was "Uhhh, is it you? The voice is familiar, the look and everything is all, different, like, way different". And I was like "Oh, my, god, it's one of my buddies back in 7th grade". Hooooooooooly f*** does he look different. He had fairly short hair back in 7th grade and wore glasses. Now his hair's more definite, and he no longer wears glasses.
Pretty crazy, how he looks so different I didn't even recognize him until he asked me. His voice is kinda the same though, kinda. Sooo, the whole period was me being like "Hi, I'm Drew" then the other person's like "Hi, I'm blank, nice to meet you" and I'm like "Nice to meet you too". Then we exchange papers, sign a box, and get on with our lives. Not bad of start really, fairly relaxing and comfortable. We did the work sheet thing until the bell rang, and I got on to my next class.
With the class being pretty close to my first class, I was the first one in and the teacher was like "Hi" and I was like "Hi". The classroom was the same as the last one, with the exception of the table in the middle. Then there was that awkward one student and one teacher in the classroom silence. It wasn't until a few more people came in where I was like "Not bad, not bad of a class". I saw my buddy that I made through Biology class last year, he was at the tutoring place as well. He sat on the other side in front of me.
Then like, a bunch of other girls sat down on his, I swear like 5 girls, cute ones, some I knew, some I didn't. I was like "Oh my god dude, you're in the god spot". More people came in, with them sitting on my side of the room now. Those people being several I know, one being that one dude, then my best bud's girl who he asked out but soon turned out awkward, and then her friend and another girl. Cute girls being here in my class, I knew I made the right choice of English 2A, I was like "Oh, my, god". This is already good.
I was like "This couldn't get any better". Good thing I was wrong, 'cause Am walks in and I'm like "Ooooohhh myyyy goooddd". Then a buddy of mine walks in and I'm like "Ooooooooohhhhh myyyyyy goooooooodddd". Class starts, the teacher's pretty boring, to some extent, I know she can be exciting if she wants to. She talks about how she's going to be brutal in the grading, brutal as in being honest about our work to prepare us for "the real world" and I was like "Oh damn, now, she knows what she's talking about. It's all about the real world".
Then she talks about how she's heard some students nickname her the "homework murderer", in which she jokingly accepts. She says that it's because there's so much red pen correction on students' papers she grades that it's like the paper is "bleeding". I was like "Woah, that's pretty brutal". So I get kinda bored when she's talking about how class will be and I look to my right and I see one of my buddies towards the back of the room and I was like "Whaaat, he's here too? I didn't even notice him" I'm like, "Ooohhh myyyy goooodd, this is great, this is going to be a hell of a year".
It was pretty quiet, mostly because we were all good students (mostly) and we'd want to let the teacher talk. She then asks us if we have any questions about class and like, it was pretty quiet. A couple questions were asked by my buddy in the back, asking stuff just 'cause no else was, like "What's your favorite book? What are we going to be reading this year?" After a bit of just whatever, class ended and it was break time. I went straight to the place to turn in my locker paper, there was already a line, not too long, but kinda long. I was standing in line, soon then, everybody just disperses, I'm guessing that they're holding off locker paper collecting until lunch time. I'm like "How long are you going to be holding off for?"
Seeing as how my friends aren't at our usual hangout spot, I go to the place where I got my schedule (the L building) to see Em, El, and their friends. As I go there I do see El and Em, El says hi to me but Em doesn't appear to recognize me, I don't blame her. Oh yeah I forgot to mention, I saw Em and El walking to this classroom to pick up their schedules as I was walking to get mine. Didn't say hi though, I was too busy, walking that is.
Uhhh, the bell rings, I go to my chemistry class. The teacher doesn't appear to be there, so I was standing around with a couple other kids in the class. I see a bunch of tanks (as in glass containers), with one with a turtle in it. Some more kids come in, and finally, the teacher comes in from the science teacher's lounge. He's like "Take a seat anywhere you'd like". This time it is the normal classroom layout (minus the lab table around the perimeter of the classroom), teacher desk up front, board up front, all seats are in a rectangle, facing the same way. So I sit at the top right seat, almost at the front, one seat behind the front front. One person's sitting in the front-left of me, while there's an empty seat to my left and an empty seat in front of me. The rest of the classroom seats, full. These 2 girls were standing near me whispering and I was thinking "Uhh, maybe they want to sit together, Drew, maybe you should ask them and move to the front and let them sit together".
Instead I just sit there, being me, and then this, this, oh my god, hot girl was like "Umm, is that seat taken" and I'm like "No" and she's like "May I sit there" and I'm like "Yeah, sure". And I'm just like, "Oooooooooooooooooooooooooh mmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy goooooooooooooooooooooooooodd". Probably one of the biggest oh my gods in my life (and by the way I'm not actually saying it, I'm thinking it). It was like "My prayers have been answered. Okay girls in first period, cute girls in 2nd period, and now a hot girl sitting next to me in 3rd period. What's next?"
Crazy right? So her friend sits in front of me, I know its her friend 'cause her friend turns around to talk to the hot girl. They talk in Chinese though (or Cantonese, sorry, I don't really know how to tell Chinese origin languages apart. Or was it mandarin? Or is that a form of writing? You see what I mean). Anyways, the unexpected happens, the hot girl holds out her hand for me to shake (called offering a handshake, Drew) and says "Hi, I'm Yu" or something like that, I couldn't hear very well 'cause of how shocked I was, aaand partly 'cause of her slight accent. I shook and hand and I was like "Hi, I'm Drew, nice to meet you".
I was like "Okay act normal. But wait, I'm not normal". The teacher (who I'm glad I have, I always hear him shouting in the next room while I was in Biology. He doesn't angrily shout, he channels his voice in a loud matter) is a really cool dude, chill, understanding, jokes, the usual good teacher stuff. He talked about some classroom etiquette while also talking about how the class pet snake laid 8 eggs and in about 60 days we'll be having 8 baby snakes in class. He also said that last year, his students bundled up about $130 to buy a "bird-eating spider". And I'm like "Oh, my god". He said that he'll have it soon, can't really remember when.
Continuing to talk about stuff, the teacher's talking about how he met his high-school sweetheart and got married to her. Then he's like "Look to the person next to you, they might be your high-school sweetheart" and the hot girl smiles a bit and I'm just trying to act like "Oh what, I didn't hear anything" But really, that was really bootleg, like "Ohhhhhhhhhh my god".
While talking about stuff, the teacher's like "So who's a sophomore here? We got a lot of sophomores. Juniors? Some juniors. Seniors? We got one-two-two seniors" and you better believe that hot girl raised her hand. I'm like "Ooooooooooohhhh myyyyyyyyyyyy goooooooooooooodddd". F***ing plot twist strikes again. I was like "Well, at least we can be friends, hopefully". I did not see that plot twist coming.
After a bit for talking about how class works, what we'll be doing, I notice his shirt says "I flunk students periodically" and it had a periodic table on it and I'm like "Oh my god". Like, seriously, those bootleg science teacher shirts. I also saw a small sign near his desk which says "Pencil" and shows a picture of a pencil, then it says "Assault pencil" and shows a regular pencil, but modded to look like an assault rifle with a stock and magazine, then it says BAN PENCILS and I'm just like "Ohhh myy gooddd". You can look up the image online, just search up "Assault pencil". Bootleg is what I have to say.
So the hot girl notices I have Chinese on my schedule so she's like "Oh, you have Chinese. Did you choose it or did they out you in?" I was like "I chose it". I couldn't really hear her that well, partly due to her slight accent, I couldn't think straight, or because the teacher was talking loudly. Anyways, the bell rang, class was over, the girl gets up to leave, she's like "It was nice meeting you" and I'm like "Yeah, you too". I still can't get over the fact of how she's a Senior.
P.E on the first is the same as last year, we sit down, the teachers explain stuff, take attendance, talk for the rest of the period. I sat by myself 'cause none of my other buddies (except one) has the same P.E period as me. As I was sitting and just staring into space, there's these delinquents at the back of me, I overhear them talking about "Pick a job which doesn't involve math" and this one dude's like "Fashion" and the other dude's like "Fashion does require math you retard, you measure the size of people" and the dude's like "But I already know what size I am!" And I'm just like "Ohh my, god, this could keep me entertained for days".
Bell rings, we exit the gym, lunch begins, I see people swarming to the place to turn in our locker papers. I was trying to find the end of the line, but it was so long, I mean it curved several times. While looking around, my best bud and a friend of mine was like "Drew!" and I was like "Oh hey, how's it going". We check each other's schedules while standing in line, then all of sudden the line just moves up abruptly. We were soon at the front of the line and there's this lady standing there with a stack of pink papers. I was like "Oh my god, they can't handle the sheer amount of students" so they were just like "Just give me your papers, just give me em'" So I gave her my paper and I got my locker.
There uhh, new locker program didn't go as well as they planned. So it's lunch, I catch up with a bunch of my friends, we eat, talk, then walk on over to the L building for some reason. Then the bell rings we all go to our classes. My next class was Algebra II/ Trigonometry. Me and some students waited outside since the door was locked. The teacher unlocked the door, then we formed a line to go in one by one as she checked us off on her paper thingy. She also had assigned seats so I was like "F***". She was a generic somewhat old, but not too old, asian teacher. People said her class for Algebra II/ Trigonometry is the hardest.
She starts off the class by re-organizing people, people came in late so she had to organize them too, spends about the first 10 minutes of classes making sure the seats were right. She then talks a bit about the class, I see on the board there's already homework so I'm like "Oh my god, this gonna be a hell of a ride. F*** me". The teacher tells us how we have to donate one ream of copy paper and a box of tissues per student. Then tells us how we have to have a SEPARATE binder for the class, with dividers for notes, paperwork, etc. And I'm just like "How much money do you want us to spend, just, give me a number".
She gave us a bunch of stuff to do, there wasn't enough time, so says "Ehhh, bring it home to do it" and I'm just like "Oh, my, god". If I did not have her as a teacher, my schedule would be PERFECT. But no, life is like "You can't have it this easy" and I'm just like "Well just f*** me over a bit then". Bell rings, 6th period starts, it's Chinese class, I see my buddy walking the say way as I am, turns out he's in my class. The teacher has us sign in rather than taking attendance. My buddy and I go to the back of the classroom (very decorative classroom) and I see El and she's like "Hey Drew" and I'm like "Hiii". The seats are in columns, with 2 columns of seats, then a space, then 2 columns, then a space. I hope you understand what it kinda looks like.
With an empty seat next to El in the back, I sit next to her, my buddy sits a couple feet to my left. I was like "Ohhhhhhh, mmmmyyyyyyyyyy, gooooooooodddd, this is too good". So I'm sitting next to El, I got one of my buddies sitting close to my left, there's lots of cute girls in this class, I'm set for life. The teacher turns out to be a very unique teacher. I thought she was going to be a generic asain teacher, but no, she's actually pretty cool. She looks like she's in her mid 30's, but has the soul of a 20 year-old.
So we do this Chinese bow thing, led by my buddy as the "leader" of the class. Then she tells us more about the class and a bit about herself. She's heavily influenced by technology, I mean, she has like, 2 iPads, a Nexus, a couple laptops she won in a give-away. She also watches K-Dramas, uses Facenovel a lot, she even says to message her on Facenovel is the fastest way of reaching her. She then tells us that these aren't our permanents seats, and how she's gonna move us around every lesson or something like that.
I just like "Why, oh why, do you do this to meeeeee". I got the best seat right now, and it's not permanent. Just gonna have to make it last I guess, or pray that I get a seat next to El, either's fine. She then hands us all a piece of paper, to write 3 things of what we did over the summer, we short things, and by things, she means things we don't do everyday like eat, sleep, etc. Then she divides us all into groups (4 desks is 1 group). So me, El, and 2 dudes in front of us are a group, We got to go to the front of the class and introduce one person, telling what they did over the summer, hobbies, etc.
So El's gonna introduce me, I'ma introduce her, I tried to make some small talk, ehhh, went okay. About 3 and a half groups went up, aaaand we're gonna be continuing the introduction, tomorrow. So it was the first day of my Sophomore year. Definitely unexpected I can tell you that. Looks like it's going to be an interesting year. Didn't see Vt today though, hopefully I can find her tomorrow, or something. And so, that concludes episode one of "100% Chance of Bad." I'll see you tomorrow.
Week: 1
Songs to Remember: You Only Live Once - The Strokes
Well this is it, the start of a new series. Oh and by the way, this post will have more o's in it than the title of the series "100% Chance of Bad."
So the alarm I set on my phone rings, I wake up at 6:45 AM. My mom still hasn't woken up yet 'cause she doesn't wake up that early, more around the 7:00 ish. I went in my closet to look for the clothes I was gonna wear. Since 7th grade, I wore hooded sweaters every single day to school, partly because it's cold in the morning, but mostly because it helps me feel secure. I decided to go with a long-sleeved shirt in which I'd roll up the sleeves. I don't know.
My mom wakes up finally, around the 7:00 mark. I go to the bathroom, brush my teeth, wash my face, do my hair, the usual. I got dressed, checked to make sure I didn't forget any papers or anything. Ate breakfast, checked things one more time and headed for the car, at about 7:30. The drive to school took about, ehhh, 5 minutes maybe. The traffic? My mom drives me close to the school, I get out and walk there. Sure beats the traffic and waiting.
First things first- (I basically had a check-list for what to do during that morning, from getting my schedule to getting my locker) I got to go get my schedule. School-loop (this website company that lets us see our grades online for our school) was online this morning so I got to see my schedule early. It showed: Period 0 - Universal Studies, Period 1 - World History, Period 2 - Eng 2A, Period 3 - Chemistry, Period 4 - P.E, Period 5 - Algebra II/Trig, and Period 6 - Chinese 1. I was really confused for a second, like "Wait, how many classes do I have?" Turns out, that academy teacher put me in her, uhhh, period 0 class? There's not even homeroom here (besides the silent sustained reading time at the start of 5th period)? So I was like "Uhhhh, guess I'ma have to go see that academy teacher again".
I already saw my schedule online, I just wanted to make sure it was correct (and teachers will want to see your schedule to see if you're in the right class) so I went to go get my schedule. Luckily it was the same place as last year to get my schedule, and luckily it was a short line. Sort of. I stood in line, saw some people I knew and I was like "Yep, this is the right place". There were 2 staff people handing out the schedules this time. When I got to the front, the person was like "Okay, what's your name?" And I said my name and she was like "Oh, people with that last name go over there" and I was like "Oh". So I stood in another line (the second line was like 8 people), Ct was in line in front of me and she was like "Hi" and I was like "Hi".
Finally I got my schedule. I was like "Should I stay here and wait for Vt, or should I go look for where my classes are?" And I went with the latter since there were some buildings that I don't remember where they were. My first class was World History in the F building (our buildings are labeled by letters and rooms by letters and numbers) so I was like "Wait, where is the F building?" And when I saw it (it wasn't hard to find at all) I was like "Oh, it was here in front of my eyes". My next class was English 2A at the E building and I was like "Wait, where's the E building?" Then I saw it and I was like "Oh, it's right next to the E building". My second class was like, a few yards away from my first one.
So I went to go see the rest of my classes- I knew where the L building is (for chemistry class) but not the room, turns out it was in the back, the gym for P.E (only on the first day, the teachers take attendance, give info and that's it, same as last year) I knew where that was, L building for Algebra II/Trigonometry, and Chinese class was located at the P "building" though it's not really a building, just several portable buildings hence why it's called the "P" buildings. Took a bit of a while to find that class, and I was don searching for my classes.
I then went to go get my locker. I went to the same place where I had my locker last year, but all the lockers there were taken, with the exception of the lockers on the bottom, like, inches from the ground. No way did I want those lockers. I saw a locker place close to that place, at the F building which is right next to the G building where my old locker was at. There were still some good lockers, the ones that were inches from the ground, but a few feet so it was fine. I put my lock on it and went to go turn in my reservation paper for my locker.
As I was going to the room to turn in the paper, this lady was like "Hey, we're not accepting locker papers yet, wait until break" so I was like "Whatever" and so since I didn't have anything else on my list (besides seeing if I could find Vt), I decided to go back to the place where I got my schedule and see if Vt's around. As I arrive to the place, the first bell rings and I swear, everybody just SWARMS around. I was like "Wow, so this is how rowdy the first day is".
I went to my first class, looking through the window a bit to see if I have the right class (I don't know why). I went in, looked around for a few seconds, and sat down in a seat I which I deemed as not too close to the teacher, not to far back, not too far in the front, but in the middle. I was also in front of some girls, who some turned out to be people I know. The classroom wasn't the standard classroom, the seats were arranged differently. A set of seats on the left side of the room, a set of seats on the right side, the teachers desk at the top right corner, board in front, and a small table with projectors in the middle. I always choose to sit on the left side of classrooms, I don't know why.
I saw a dude I knew when I entered the classroom, a dude I haven't talked with in, uhhhh, 2 years. I see him around, don't really talk to him at all. Recognized a couple dudes I know, don't really talk to them, one of them I haven't talked to since 8th grade in art class. The girls I know I've known since 6th grade and 7th grade, don't really talk to them. The rest seemed pretty new, new as in I've never seen them before. Teacher introduced herself and I could see she was an easy-going teacher. Easy-going as in chill, jokes around, not too strict, empathizes, knows how to take a joke, all the concepts of a good, fun teacher.
The second bell rang signalling the start of class. I looked around and I was like "Oh my god, this is a small class. There's barely anyone here". There were about, ehh, 15 people in class. The seats around me on my side of the room were empty, besides those girls and this one dude who chose to sit 2 spots behind me. Soon, like, 5 minutes into class or something, I don't know. These 4 kids storm in, not that rowdy, but rowdy enough to be considered somewhat rowdy. I instinctively know "Yep, here are the delinquents".
About 2 of those kids knew the teacher before, as the teacher mentioned how they were in her class last year. So the teacher introduces herself a bit more, takes attendance, then hands us all this work sheet, which was like this "Find someone who, uhhh, likes rock music, or, find someone who wants to be a doctor". Those kind of work sheets and I was like "Uuuughhhh". The class was pretty small, about 21 students including me (one kid came in late during the middle of class).
So we all got up (forced to get up really), and went around asking people for signatures for the work sheet. As I was signing this dude's worksheet (one of the delinquents), he was like "Hey Drew, remember me? The little chubby kid with glasses?" or something like that. I was "Uhhh, is it you? The voice is familiar, the look and everything is all, different, like, way different". And I was like "Oh, my, god, it's one of my buddies back in 7th grade". Hooooooooooly f*** does he look different. He had fairly short hair back in 7th grade and wore glasses. Now his hair's more definite, and he no longer wears glasses.
Pretty crazy, how he looks so different I didn't even recognize him until he asked me. His voice is kinda the same though, kinda. Sooo, the whole period was me being like "Hi, I'm Drew" then the other person's like "Hi, I'm blank, nice to meet you" and I'm like "Nice to meet you too". Then we exchange papers, sign a box, and get on with our lives. Not bad of start really, fairly relaxing and comfortable. We did the work sheet thing until the bell rang, and I got on to my next class.
With the class being pretty close to my first class, I was the first one in and the teacher was like "Hi" and I was like "Hi". The classroom was the same as the last one, with the exception of the table in the middle. Then there was that awkward one student and one teacher in the classroom silence. It wasn't until a few more people came in where I was like "Not bad, not bad of a class". I saw my buddy that I made through Biology class last year, he was at the tutoring place as well. He sat on the other side in front of me.
Then like, a bunch of other girls sat down on his, I swear like 5 girls, cute ones, some I knew, some I didn't. I was like "Oh my god dude, you're in the god spot". More people came in, with them sitting on my side of the room now. Those people being several I know, one being that one dude, then my best bud's girl who he asked out but soon turned out awkward, and then her friend and another girl. Cute girls being here in my class, I knew I made the right choice of English 2A, I was like "Oh, my, god". This is already good.
I was like "This couldn't get any better". Good thing I was wrong, 'cause Am walks in and I'm like "Ooooohhh myyyy goooddd". Then a buddy of mine walks in and I'm like "Ooooooooohhhhh myyyyyy goooooooodddd". Class starts, the teacher's pretty boring, to some extent, I know she can be exciting if she wants to. She talks about how she's going to be brutal in the grading, brutal as in being honest about our work to prepare us for "the real world" and I was like "Oh damn, now, she knows what she's talking about. It's all about the real world".
Then she talks about how she's heard some students nickname her the "homework murderer", in which she jokingly accepts. She says that it's because there's so much red pen correction on students' papers she grades that it's like the paper is "bleeding". I was like "Woah, that's pretty brutal". So I get kinda bored when she's talking about how class will be and I look to my right and I see one of my buddies towards the back of the room and I was like "Whaaat, he's here too? I didn't even notice him" I'm like, "Ooohhh myyyy goooodd, this is great, this is going to be a hell of a year".
It was pretty quiet, mostly because we were all good students (mostly) and we'd want to let the teacher talk. She then asks us if we have any questions about class and like, it was pretty quiet. A couple questions were asked by my buddy in the back, asking stuff just 'cause no else was, like "What's your favorite book? What are we going to be reading this year?" After a bit of just whatever, class ended and it was break time. I went straight to the place to turn in my locker paper, there was already a line, not too long, but kinda long. I was standing in line, soon then, everybody just disperses, I'm guessing that they're holding off locker paper collecting until lunch time. I'm like "How long are you going to be holding off for?"
Seeing as how my friends aren't at our usual hangout spot, I go to the place where I got my schedule (the L building) to see Em, El, and their friends. As I go there I do see El and Em, El says hi to me but Em doesn't appear to recognize me, I don't blame her. Oh yeah I forgot to mention, I saw Em and El walking to this classroom to pick up their schedules as I was walking to get mine. Didn't say hi though, I was too busy, walking that is.
Uhhh, the bell rings, I go to my chemistry class. The teacher doesn't appear to be there, so I was standing around with a couple other kids in the class. I see a bunch of tanks (as in glass containers), with one with a turtle in it. Some more kids come in, and finally, the teacher comes in from the science teacher's lounge. He's like "Take a seat anywhere you'd like". This time it is the normal classroom layout (minus the lab table around the perimeter of the classroom), teacher desk up front, board up front, all seats are in a rectangle, facing the same way. So I sit at the top right seat, almost at the front, one seat behind the front front. One person's sitting in the front-left of me, while there's an empty seat to my left and an empty seat in front of me. The rest of the classroom seats, full. These 2 girls were standing near me whispering and I was thinking "Uhh, maybe they want to sit together, Drew, maybe you should ask them and move to the front and let them sit together".
Instead I just sit there, being me, and then this, this, oh my god, hot girl was like "Umm, is that seat taken" and I'm like "No" and she's like "May I sit there" and I'm like "Yeah, sure". And I'm just like, "Oooooooooooooooooooooooooh mmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy goooooooooooooooooooooooooodd". Probably one of the biggest oh my gods in my life (and by the way I'm not actually saying it, I'm thinking it). It was like "My prayers have been answered. Okay girls in first period, cute girls in 2nd period, and now a hot girl sitting next to me in 3rd period. What's next?"
Crazy right? So her friend sits in front of me, I know its her friend 'cause her friend turns around to talk to the hot girl. They talk in Chinese though (or Cantonese, sorry, I don't really know how to tell Chinese origin languages apart. Or was it mandarin? Or is that a form of writing? You see what I mean). Anyways, the unexpected happens, the hot girl holds out her hand for me to shake (called offering a handshake, Drew) and says "Hi, I'm Yu" or something like that, I couldn't hear very well 'cause of how shocked I was, aaand partly 'cause of her slight accent. I shook and hand and I was like "Hi, I'm Drew, nice to meet you".
I was like "Okay act normal. But wait, I'm not normal". The teacher (who I'm glad I have, I always hear him shouting in the next room while I was in Biology. He doesn't angrily shout, he channels his voice in a loud matter) is a really cool dude, chill, understanding, jokes, the usual good teacher stuff. He talked about some classroom etiquette while also talking about how the class pet snake laid 8 eggs and in about 60 days we'll be having 8 baby snakes in class. He also said that last year, his students bundled up about $130 to buy a "bird-eating spider". And I'm like "Oh, my god". He said that he'll have it soon, can't really remember when.
Continuing to talk about stuff, the teacher's talking about how he met his high-school sweetheart and got married to her. Then he's like "Look to the person next to you, they might be your high-school sweetheart" and the hot girl smiles a bit and I'm just trying to act like "Oh what, I didn't hear anything" But really, that was really bootleg, like "Ohhhhhhhhhh my god".
While talking about stuff, the teacher's like "So who's a sophomore here? We got a lot of sophomores. Juniors? Some juniors. Seniors? We got one-two-two seniors" and you better believe that hot girl raised her hand. I'm like "Ooooooooooohhhh myyyyyyyyyyyy goooooooooooooodddd". F***ing plot twist strikes again. I was like "Well, at least we can be friends, hopefully". I did not see that plot twist coming.
After a bit for talking about how class works, what we'll be doing, I notice his shirt says "I flunk students periodically" and it had a periodic table on it and I'm like "Oh my god". Like, seriously, those bootleg science teacher shirts. I also saw a small sign near his desk which says "Pencil" and shows a picture of a pencil, then it says "Assault pencil" and shows a regular pencil, but modded to look like an assault rifle with a stock and magazine, then it says BAN PENCILS and I'm just like "Ohhh myy gooddd". You can look up the image online, just search up "Assault pencil". Bootleg is what I have to say.
So the hot girl notices I have Chinese on my schedule so she's like "Oh, you have Chinese. Did you choose it or did they out you in?" I was like "I chose it". I couldn't really hear her that well, partly due to her slight accent, I couldn't think straight, or because the teacher was talking loudly. Anyways, the bell rang, class was over, the girl gets up to leave, she's like "It was nice meeting you" and I'm like "Yeah, you too". I still can't get over the fact of how she's a Senior.
P.E on the first is the same as last year, we sit down, the teachers explain stuff, take attendance, talk for the rest of the period. I sat by myself 'cause none of my other buddies (except one) has the same P.E period as me. As I was sitting and just staring into space, there's these delinquents at the back of me, I overhear them talking about "Pick a job which doesn't involve math" and this one dude's like "Fashion" and the other dude's like "Fashion does require math you retard, you measure the size of people" and the dude's like "But I already know what size I am!" And I'm just like "Ohh my, god, this could keep me entertained for days".
Bell rings, we exit the gym, lunch begins, I see people swarming to the place to turn in our locker papers. I was trying to find the end of the line, but it was so long, I mean it curved several times. While looking around, my best bud and a friend of mine was like "Drew!" and I was like "Oh hey, how's it going". We check each other's schedules while standing in line, then all of sudden the line just moves up abruptly. We were soon at the front of the line and there's this lady standing there with a stack of pink papers. I was like "Oh my god, they can't handle the sheer amount of students" so they were just like "Just give me your papers, just give me em'" So I gave her my paper and I got my locker.
There uhh, new locker program didn't go as well as they planned. So it's lunch, I catch up with a bunch of my friends, we eat, talk, then walk on over to the L building for some reason. Then the bell rings we all go to our classes. My next class was Algebra II/ Trigonometry. Me and some students waited outside since the door was locked. The teacher unlocked the door, then we formed a line to go in one by one as she checked us off on her paper thingy. She also had assigned seats so I was like "F***". She was a generic somewhat old, but not too old, asian teacher. People said her class for Algebra II/ Trigonometry is the hardest.
She starts off the class by re-organizing people, people came in late so she had to organize them too, spends about the first 10 minutes of classes making sure the seats were right. She then talks a bit about the class, I see on the board there's already homework so I'm like "Oh my god, this gonna be a hell of a ride. F*** me". The teacher tells us how we have to donate one ream of copy paper and a box of tissues per student. Then tells us how we have to have a SEPARATE binder for the class, with dividers for notes, paperwork, etc. And I'm just like "How much money do you want us to spend, just, give me a number".
She gave us a bunch of stuff to do, there wasn't enough time, so says "Ehhh, bring it home to do it" and I'm just like "Oh, my, god". If I did not have her as a teacher, my schedule would be PERFECT. But no, life is like "You can't have it this easy" and I'm just like "Well just f*** me over a bit then". Bell rings, 6th period starts, it's Chinese class, I see my buddy walking the say way as I am, turns out he's in my class. The teacher has us sign in rather than taking attendance. My buddy and I go to the back of the classroom (very decorative classroom) and I see El and she's like "Hey Drew" and I'm like "Hiii". The seats are in columns, with 2 columns of seats, then a space, then 2 columns, then a space. I hope you understand what it kinda looks like.
With an empty seat next to El in the back, I sit next to her, my buddy sits a couple feet to my left. I was like "Ohhhhhhh, mmmmyyyyyyyyyy, gooooooooodddd, this is too good". So I'm sitting next to El, I got one of my buddies sitting close to my left, there's lots of cute girls in this class, I'm set for life. The teacher turns out to be a very unique teacher. I thought she was going to be a generic asain teacher, but no, she's actually pretty cool. She looks like she's in her mid 30's, but has the soul of a 20 year-old.
So we do this Chinese bow thing, led by my buddy as the "leader" of the class. Then she tells us more about the class and a bit about herself. She's heavily influenced by technology, I mean, she has like, 2 iPads, a Nexus, a couple laptops she won in a give-away. She also watches K-Dramas, uses Facenovel a lot, she even says to message her on Facenovel is the fastest way of reaching her. She then tells us that these aren't our permanents seats, and how she's gonna move us around every lesson or something like that.
I just like "Why, oh why, do you do this to meeeeee". I got the best seat right now, and it's not permanent. Just gonna have to make it last I guess, or pray that I get a seat next to El, either's fine. She then hands us all a piece of paper, to write 3 things of what we did over the summer, we short things, and by things, she means things we don't do everyday like eat, sleep, etc. Then she divides us all into groups (4 desks is 1 group). So me, El, and 2 dudes in front of us are a group, We got to go to the front of the class and introduce one person, telling what they did over the summer, hobbies, etc.
So El's gonna introduce me, I'ma introduce her, I tried to make some small talk, ehhh, went okay. About 3 and a half groups went up, aaaand we're gonna be continuing the introduction, tomorrow. So it was the first day of my Sophomore year. Definitely unexpected I can tell you that. Looks like it's going to be an interesting year. Didn't see Vt today though, hopefully I can find her tomorrow, or something. And so, that concludes episode one of "100% Chance of Bad." I'll see you tomorrow.
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