Saturday, March 8, 2014 "When Will I Stop Coloring?"

Saturday, March 8, 2014
Week 29
Songs to Remember: When Do You Wanna Stop Working - Jamaica

        Today is like the first day where I have decided to do my homework on a WEEKEND. I'm usually distracted by a laptop sitting in front of my face saying "Go ahead. Watch some videos, it'll make you feel better." And I'm just like "Can't ... resist ... temptation ..." Music does help me focus though so thank the lord for Pandora. Also, this Daylight Savings Time is totally tripping my parents. Seriously, when my mom thought one hour less of sleep, she thought to move the clock backwards. If I hadn't noticed, I probably would've been one hour late to school on Monday.

        My Geography teacher seriously gives us way too much homework, and I can tell when a teacher gives us a lot of homework. He gives us about 2 to 3 weeks with a test at the end of the 2nd or 3rd week. We have until the day of the test to finish coloring (and labeling) a map, answering 20+ questions about the region we're studying (currently it's Africa), answer more questions or write summaries on a couple other worksheets, draw pictures on multiple worksheets, and color those too. All of that, before

        Now that may not sound a lot, but it is. The worst part is the coloring, it's just a hassle really, and tedious. My teacher gives us about one day out of the 2 or 3 weeks where we can have in-class time to work on finishing (or starting) these worksheets. On those days he plays a video about the subject and maybe even have us write notes about the video too. The video is so distracting, I mean, I don't really watch the videos at all. I try to work but it's pretty difficult considering how every 5 minutes in these videos, the tour guide goes "Ooh, look at this, something interesting that I must make a loud reaction about it so you all have to look at this video to see what I'm talking about!" Can't resist the temptation.

        And currently, including all the work I mentioned above, I still have to make a PowerPoint presentation for a country (everyone has to do this) which I have to present on March 27th. That's about 3 weeks from now and you might think that's a fair enough time, but it's not. I'm probably going to end up putting random pictures of architecture from Switzerland (the country I'm doing) into a slideshow while I ramble on quoting lines from Wikipedia, just so that my presentation will be the acceptable 6 minutes minimum.

        With all this, I'd like to thank my teacher for doing this. Not only has it "helped" me learn Geography by coloring in shapes on a map, it also has given me conversation topics that I could talk about with Tn. And so, thank you. He really isn't bad of a teacher, just, lessen on the coloring PLEASE. I BEG YOU. BAN COLORING PENCILS. BAN CRAYONS. Inb4 I get attacked by elementary schoolers for saying all this.

        When will I stop coloring, I don't know. See you tomorrow. Also, this controversy on the spelling of the word "Coloring" intrigues me.