Friday, May 9, 2014 "Relaxing Day."

Friday, May 9, 2014
Week 38
Songs to Remember: Not Spring, Love, or Cherry Blossoms - HIGH4

        There were a couple of fights at my school this past week. Too bad I didn't get to see them. Darn it!

        Today has probably been the most relaxing day in a while. In English, my teacher had us take like a 5-question quiz on what we read (or were supposed to read) last night, and after that, he played a holocaust movie for us. This was just one of the many movies I've watched today.

        For Biology, the teacher explained to us how we're going to be doing a group project during the next week or so. We're all in groups of 4 and each group is going to have to do a presentation on one or two mammals, and we have to give out quizzes and hand-outs and stuff.

        Also, it's worth 100 points. But what's even crazier is that it has to be at least 25 MINUTES LONG. Like, my solo presentation for Geography was only 8 minutes, and it was worth 150 points. Also, it's going to be on like May 22, that close to finals week (which is like June 1 to 4). After he explained all of that, we made our groups and he played a movie about animal and plant life, called "The Challenges of Life" for the rest of the period. Very relaxing.

        3rd period Drawing: all we did today was finish up our bamboo paintings (for those who didn't finish yesterday), claim a topic for an upcoming project, and turning in our Study Drawings (drawings we have to do, one every 2 weeks,with assigned topics like a face, an album cover, insects, etc).

        I already finished my bamboo painting yesterday so I didn't have to work on it at all. Everyone in the class had to choose one topic that has to do with endangerment to the environment/animals. Things like oil spills, litter, poaching, etc. I chose pesticides by the way. The upcoming project is that we have to spray paint (onto paper) a scene with our topic, giving a message in a sort of way. What's funny is that we're spray painting, which isn't really good for the air.

        We finally started basketball for physical education. We did drills like dribbling and keeping control of the ball. That's basically it.

        During Geometry class (probably the best part of the day), within the first 5 minutes of class, the lights on the far right side of the classroom, almost right above here I was sitting, was flickering. At first I saw like little flashes of light while I was reading my book and I thought it was just someone using the flash on their phone.

        But then people were looking at the ceiling so I was like "Oh, the lights flickering". Soon it went out and there was a smell in the air. I couldn't really smell anything since my nose is like stuffed all the time, but a lot of people were reacting to the smell. One person was like "Oh, it might be mercury" and my teacher was like "Yeah, I think we should just evacuate the classroom".

        Everyone was like "Aww hell yeah" 'cause you know, no lectures haha. We sat down at the tables where the Seniors usually sit (called the Senior tables) and just sat there for the next, what? 50 something minutes? We did nothing. Time went pretty slow, I was pretty surprised. I finished half of my book within that time, and it's a pretty lengthy book. The teacher had an electrician look into the light and the they came back saying "Yep, no danger. The light was touching a plastic sheath and it just burned the plastic. No mercury, just plastic."

        So we just stayed outside for the rest of the 10 minutes. It was awesome. So anyways, it's getting late so I'll see you tomorrow.