Wednesday, March 11, 2015 "Strings and Rice."

Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Week: 30
Songs to Remember: Deja Boo - Jonghyun

        Apparently it's half-way through week 30 already. Wow. And next week is CAHSEE testing. I read the scheduling for it and it said that the math section only goes up to Algebra I. I can see why this test really is going to be an insult to our intelligence.

        Anyways, World History. We did a worksheet today, 'course the teacher just has to assign us book-work (which required our textbooks) today, 'cause it was raining today. My World History book has been in my locker for this entire time, haven't touched it since last year (not even a New Year's joke). But anyways, whatever. Umm, English was just discussions, discussions, discussions. Like, okay. Chemistry, I thought we would be doing a lab today, nope. We're doing double-replacement reaction worksheets, yeah. And we got our tests back today from the solutions test. Got a 56/78. Sssss, was hoping for something higher. Got all the multiple choice right except for like 1 or 2 (worth 1 or 2 points each), just missed like, 3 free-response questions which were like, 3 points each, and that was why it looks lower than it actually is. *sigh*, well, hopefully it won't bring my grade down much. I currently have an A- or so in this class, I'd rather it stay that way. B+ range for chemistry is not something I would like now that I'm in the A-zone.

       As for P.E, I'm still in the s****y 89.99% B+ zone. And of course, we did weights today, just like we did on Monday. And Friday. And Wednesday. And 3 days of the week. But seriously, the locker room brings out the ignorance of so many people it's ridiculous. Just spend 10 minutes in the high school boys' locker room and you'll see what I mean. Your IQ drops by the second in there. Aaaand then there's math. We got our tests back today. Sssssss, yeah, thought I did better, apparently not. Nobody got a 100%, even the ones who do get 100%'s or 90%'s regularly. Zi even got a 75% on this one. Now that's when I know it's bad. Me, I got a 50/73. Sssss, yeah. Was not expecting that. My whole front page was marked in red, I got most of the stuff right on the 2ns page, and on the third page, apparently my deducting skills in the multiple choice department was off because I got both the multiple choice questions wrong. And partly the graph too. Total was a 56%. And not just me. Everybody got s*** scores. I heard one dude got a 40. Like, man. The teacher said that for the front page, it was directly from the homework and she's like "I just changed the numbers a bit, I thought this would be a freebie page, guess not" and I'm just like "No, just no. Please don't change the numbers, it makes the answers look wonky and people redo them because of that. Just use the even problems from the book or something, but don't change the numbers".

        Hopefully it won't bring my current B+ down too much. I'd like it to stay where it is now that I've climbed my way out of the deep C hole. And for Chinese. We just did the usual stuff with reading the textbook aloud with hand signs. Then people went up in pairs to read from the textbook. The homework for today is to do a recording of oursleves reading the text, and since it's all online, I can't exactly do it in class. So I just sat there. And listened. While doing the usual handsigns and whatever. Somehow we got into storytime 'cause the teacher told is about how one of her past students was like "Hey Ms.K, guess what my friend got me for my birthday?" and the dude opened a box. In it was a G-string. I mean, I was just like "Alright, okay, now this is why I still look forward to this class everyday". I think we were talking about the Chinese characters for the country "Japan", and our handsigns was to stomp the ground with our feet, mimicking sumo wrestlers. And of course sumo wrestlers wear "G-strings" and the teacher mentioned that, and I was, "Okay". Bootleg story though. She was like "Oh you teenagers, you teenagers are really... interesting". Yeah, yeah we are.

        The next story she told was how she read this one article or something about how this dude who was cooking rice at an airport in Hong Kong got arrested. Just 'cause he was cooking rice. He was a dude who bought stuff from other countries, then brings em' back to his hometown to sell in his little shop. He spent most of his money on the merchandise and his flight was canceled, so he had to spend the night at the airport. Good thing he had on himself a rice cooker, and rice. I'm like "Okay". But seriously, who brings around a rice cooker and rice with them? "Well for emergencies like this of course". Yeah, of course. So, he was to either pay a fine, or spend 10 days in jail. A news place covered the story, got fame and popularity for being the ones to cover the story, paid the dude's fines and got him a hotel to stay at for a bit. Lesson learned people: always carry around a rice cooker and spare rice.

        Alright, so I gained about 800 points on points2shop today because of this amiibo-craze going over me, I want an amiibo. The one I want costs $27 on amazon, or 2700 points. I'm already 1/3 of the way there. Hoping to order it by Friday. Also, saying hi to Yue when going the new route. So, see you tomorrow.