Friday, January 9, 2015 "Relaxing While It Lasts."

Friday, January 9, 2015
Week: 21
Songs to Remember: Think - Bigstar

        Probably about half of my papers I wrote this week is a day off. Today I thought it was 8th. Yesterday I thought it was the 7th.

        So I watched this interesting movie in World History. It was called "The Wave" and it's a fairly old movie, made in the 80's. It's a dramatization of a real-life experiement conducted in Palo Alto High School back in 1967. There's this teacher dude and he's teaching about WW2 and Nazi's and stuff right. He gets to the part where how the Germans did not know that concentration camps and stuff were happening right. A couple of his students ask how that was even possible, that there was no way they couldn't see that over ten million were killed.

        The teacher dude didn't have an answer, so he read up on some books about Nazi's and decided to do a little experiement. He would try to mimick what Hitler did and recreate the Nazi Army in his classroom, but without the students knowing it. He told them that it was a youth group, called it "The Wave", and said he was teaching them success through discipline. So he made rules and stuff like sit up straight, say "Mr.Ross" before you answer, etc. He even made symbol for the group and a hand-sign thing. Soon the students began following him more and more, becoming more serious about it, soon getting out of hand and people start getting hurt if they don't join in.

        A couple students see through this, that it was going too far so they asked him to end the whole group thing. The next day, he organizes an assembly and told them it was a national youth group, that other schools across the nation did this as well. He wanted to show them who their true leader was (spoiler alert for the rest of this paragraph). Everyone's in their seat, all are wearing blue without "The Wave" arm bands like the Nazi's. He turns on the projector to footage of Hitler. Everyone was on like shock, some even cried. They were like "Aww s***, we were f***ing Nazi's".

        And the movie ends there. Really f***ing scary actually. The thought of having like, hundreds of youth under your control. Also they were very stupid to act that way just 'cause they were in a "youth group". But anyways, really cool history stuff, and with it being an experiment conducted in a high school in 1967 makes it even cooler. And not only did we watch a movie in World History but we watched one as well in English. Well maybe not movies, they were episodes really. They were episodes of "The Jeffersons", show back in the 70's - 80's. We were discussing racism and stuff due to the stupid test we're taking this year, the topic being racism.

        The Jeffersons was a show that dealth with a lot of that, showing the stereotypes, but being satirical of it as well. In one episode, one of the characters (an African American man) saved another man's life (a White man) from a heart attack. People were like " You breathed life back into this man!" But when the white dude found out that a black man had saved his life, he wished he had died. And with that hate, the black dude was like "I should'a inhaled". Now that was f***ing GOLD. Also, no need to be offended by my terms, I'm just describing alright.

        And keeping with the trend of having labs on every Friday (I guess for maybe the beginnings of each semester), we did a lab today. It was about seeing if a liquid was conductive or not using a little device thingy. You take the device, put the the metal ends into the liquid, if it lights up, it's conductive, therefore it's an ionic compound, aaand yeah. There were a lot of liquids, ranging from apple juice to egg yolk to beer to aspirin. Very easy, very quick, all in all alright. Also, Yue went to the counseling thingy today, hoping that she gets to switch back to 3rd.

        So, we have new locker rooms. But, they're their use is only temporary. As in, you're only allowed to put in your stuff and lock it for the class period ONLY. Meaning that after class is over, you get your stuff and take your lock with you. I'm guessing they did all this to prevent more thefts. And to reduce the amount spent for like, 5 times the lockers. If they find any locks at the ends of each class periods, they'll cut em'. And today was the day that we practices dressing out and using the new locker rooms.

        Well, I went in, and uhhh, wasn't really what I was expecting. It was well lit, but like, there were already like a s*** ton of people already inside. It was small as f***. Like the distance between a row of lockers and another row is about, ehhh, 5 feet. Very cramped. I was thinking of going to the back to see if I can find a locker and space, but it looked to as of there wasn't. I then thought "Wait, if I go to the front there's probably some 'cause people don't want to change or be close to the people coming in and out". And whadya know, there were some empty lockers with moderate space. They have like lockers on the bottom, which I don't know why because no one is going to choose the bottom lockers.

        After we all changed, we headed to the gym, but it was locked. They waited a good 10 minutes before letting us in. Nice right. We sat in there for 10 minutes, along with them taking role and checking our shirts, shorts, and shoes to make sure they're the right color and kind. Surprisingly it went by quick and I went back to the locker room, took my stuff, and booked it. But with no time to do my leftover Chinese work from last night, I did it during lunch time. I WS expecting to use the time today in P.E, 'cause you know, you gotta take advantage of free time. But there was no time in P.E today unfortunately.

        Fortunately though, the lesson today for math was fairly easy. At first it looked like we were going into the deep s*** using symbols that didn't even look human, more like crop circles. But no, it was just a summation sign, and uh, it was alright. Quiz on Wednesday, thank goodness it's Wednesday. It's nice 'cause tests and quizzes generally aren't held on Wednesdays 'cause they're shorter days. That'll ensure that I could focus on just math. I'm also going to eventually need a graphing calculator, which is going to cost a hefty amount of money- for a calculator.

        And again, 6th period, we do a class activity again where we go around and ask people questions (in Chinese of course). We write down if they answered correctly or not, give the paper back to the teacher then the teacher reads out a question and has someone answer it. Fairly simple, but actually took a lot of time. Probably took about 15 minutes or so for everyone to finish answering. There were also these 2 dudes who were helping out the teacher; they were former students of hers. One fo the dudes gave us some advice for college, that in order to minimize the amount of math classes, you take computer science, then you only have to do a bit more math classes and you're good. Also, 8 classes in college where he goes. Yeah, I'm not ready for hell just yet.

        And procrastinating on work is just what I'm gonna do for the weekend. Most of the work isn't due until next week and it's not that difficult either, just tedious. So I decided to do em' on like, nights or sometime like that. This weekend I can actually relax for once, there's not really much weight on my shoulders right now for work. Ahhh, I'm enjoying while it lasts. Continuing with my grinding addiction, I saw that there were free skins being given out to League players for good behavior (a majority). I logged on, hoping for a Braun skin, iBlitzcrank, or just any support skin really, buuut I got Aether Wing Kayle instead.

        My first thought: "I don't even play Kayle". But my buddies told me it was a legendary skin and when I looked at the splash for th skin, I was like "Wait, oh this skin. Cool". I guess I'll be testing out my skills with Kayle soon. I'll also be grinding out some RotMG and GTA V as well. Prism of Dancing Swords, you will soon be mine. See you tomorrow.