Friday, March 27, 2015 "Mario at the Olympics."

Friday, March 27, 2015
Week: 32
Songs to Remember: CITY - architecture on Tokyo

        I wouldn't think that being in a gym of about 1500 students would be that hot. But now, I have. And yes, it was very hot in there.

        So, first period. World History. I expected things to go smoothly, relaxing, hopefully watch a documentary or something since it's Friday and next week is spring break. I was wrong. My teacher is white and so us students in her class joke around about it. It's fine 'cause she jokes around about it too. Let's just say we got into discussions about how my teacher's super-hero name would be "The White Wonder" and her catchphrase would be this bootleg animal sound or something because one student's phone notification sound was that. Also, British accents. She likes to do those. And bad dancing.

        English, was the usual. Work in the library, Chromebooks, ehhhh. Chemistry, we had a quiz that I was somewhat confident and somewhat scared for. Confident in that the equations would be easy to do ('cause they kinda are), but scared for the lab part. So he handed out the tests and told us the instructions. Quiz, 6 double-replacement equations, lab is to do the lab that we did this whole week but by ourselves to figure out what a mystery solution is, and extra credit is to name the unknown solution. You basically combine solutions to see where it fits on the chart we did. Turned out to be fairly easy.

        Today we had a rally, to be more specific, a preview for the battle of the classes tonight. Our school gym is too small to fit the entire student population at once, so there are two previous instead. Some buildings go to first preview, the others (more specifically the P.E classes and some others) go to the second. Me, being in P.E for fourth period, had to go to the second preview. The first one always better 'cause people don't repeat what they just did an hour ago and the reactions and performances are more genuine.

        I was hoping we wouldn't have to change because that takes about 5-10 minutes and changing back into our clothes would take another 5-10 minutes, therefore there would be more time for us to do P.E stuff, but no, we still gotta change. After about 25 minutes of P.E, we had to go back and change and go directly to the rally (the gym is like, right next to the locker rooms). The thing is, they don't allow you bring in backpacks ro any baggage for that matter. Their excuse is because there won't be any room. I get it. But I don't get how people fit everything into their lockers. I JUST DON'T GET IT. Only about 40% actually bring their backpacks to their P.E classes, 60% of them somehow manage to fit all their stuff into the tiny P.E lockers. Mine barely fits in. I don't get how people do it. Also, that's what he said. Sorry, couldn't not point it out (yes, double negative).

        Alright, so the rally started off fairly bootleg. I walked in, it was loud, music was playing, ripped jeans, skin was showing, hot night, wind was blowing, where you think you're going baby? Hehe, just kidding. I thought it was music playing, actually was a band. Like a student's own personal band, a band he started, not a real professional band or a school one. The first thing (besides the music) that I noticed were the banners. Apparently they're doing a Mario theme this year. The decorations actually looked really really good. They had big hand-made cardboard cutouts of Mario and Toad, mystery blocks and bricks, and coins (and what I what infer as Yoshi eggs) hung across the gym.

        But the banners, the only problems was our class banner. For the Juniors, their banner had a drawing of Yoshi on it with the name "Yoshi's Juniors" (their class color is teal). For the seniors, they had "Waluigi's Seniors", and obviously, their class color is purple. Even the freshmen had a better banner than us. They had "Daisy's Freshmen", their class color being orange. I mean, even Daisy. Our class color is pink so you would think "Peach's Sophomores" right? No, we had "Help Me Mario Sophomores". With Peach in a jail cell drawing. Right then and there when I saw it, I thought "Hey, that would useful for the project in English" where we discuss expectations for women and men and such. Would fit right in.

        So I sat in our class section of the bleachers. There was a dude playing New Super Mario Bros on the Wii in front of the projector. He obviously has never played it before (or at least, other than a Gameboy) as wasn't holding down B to move around, so instead of running, he was walking everywhere. Very cringy to watch. The real show started, they first did like, "roll-calls", which is to basically hype up everyone, even though people are sweating their balls off and are hungry. Like, it's pretty hard to scream and cheer to respond to "Let's hear it for the Sophomores!" when those conditions are happening. After that, I don't know, bootleg games with the teachers and volunteers. Of which, including that human-version of' "Hungry Hungry Hippos" that was posted on Reddit.

        They had the band play a song for a bit. When they sang the first few couple lyrics, all of which was just "Yeah, yeah, yeah". I was like "Oh my god, I'm dying". But then it sounded familiar and I was like "Wait, is this an actual song they wrote? Did they just use the rhythm and s*** from another song but put in their own lyrics?" And then it finally hit me- they were doing a cover of "Grenade" by Bruno Mars. Hehe, thought it sounded familiar. I never really listened to it. Heard parodies of it, not the actual song. And because I don't listen to Bruno Mars.

        Anyways, after the bootleg cover, the called down this girl (a senior) 'cause she won a shirt right. I was like "Aight". She came down and it looked like she had to answer a few questions or something to win the shirt. Her back was turned as she was talking to this other person, and from the back of the gym came these dudes with signs. Then I noticed the signs spelled out "Prom?" and I'm like "Oh, OK". She turned around, dude comes out, aaaand the yes. I'm like "Alright, alright, not bad. Guess this stuff actually happens". After that, they had like a couple dance performances by the Hawaiian club (lots, and lots of hip and leg movements. A lot) and the hip hop club.

        They definitely like using the song "Shake it off" by Taylor Swift. I thought the lyrics were "Shiggy ah, shiggy ah" all this time, until I asked my cousin about what song that goes like that. He sang "Shake it off, shake it off" and I'm like "Ohhhhhh". Oh- and also, during the rally they planned to do a game or something on this website, Kahoot.it. We use that in Chinese to do class game quizzes and stuff. The thing about it though, that people can put in any username they want. Sooo, yeah. They decided to ditch the whole idea all-together, heh. Not a very good idea on their part.

        Then it was lunch, then math (which was just I don't know, lectures) and we received back our quizzes. 51/68, not that great. It's exactly 75%, not someplace I'd like for it to be. Especially on one question on the quiz, where I did 10+10 instead of 10 times 10. That actually would've gotten me 3 points, and I would've been a bit more comfortable with my score. The lecture she gave to the class was actually pretty interesting. For the most part. The one part that I will take into consideration is to "Work hard. Don't work hard in the hopes that colleges choose you, work hard to have the ability to choose them". That reminded me of the girl who graduated from our school last year, who is also the one who started the math tutoring thing at the library.

        She had like a 5.0 GPA (probably higher) and so many colleges messaged her and wanted her to go them. She was offered by Berkeley, Davis, Yale, UCLA, etc. Basically every college. So, she chose Harvard, hehe. It proves the point that you don't want colleges to choose you, you want to be able to choose them. Also, she probably got into Harvard for free. 'Cause you know, scholarships. Lots and lots of scholarships... hell, they probably owe her money, heh, that's hard she worked.

        So, now here's the weekend. Yes, I did say hi to Yue while on my route (she actually said hi to me 'cause I wasn't paying attention). Yes, I did have a lengthy texting convo with Yn. And yes, I did play some League. Tomorrow- is work, and League. Tonight- is the start of a marathon. Awww yiss. So if you'll excuse me, I gotta spend my time gaining show knowledge.