Day 152 of Schoolio

I just made the best smoothie. Like... better than the other ones. Most of the other ones, this is better than. GOOD gracious.
Found out that we have a test in socials tomorrow! .. wooo... I brought home the note package we need to have done - I think it'll be fine. This may be the final test for socials? I don't know. We had a pre-test in math today, and on Monday we do have our final test! This is such good news. I thought I didn't understand any of this unit (well, one lesson), and I was guessing on the pre-test, mostly, but I got a 75, so... Hey man. If I get that on the test, it'll be sweet.
During spare we went around and got money for Kiva again - last day! We also found out that one of the teachers left us a $150 cheque, and another teacher left us a $500 cheque! What! That's incredible hooray! In film we started editing - we have just one scene left. Our essays / presentations are happening on the 7th of June I believe. In bio we had a sub, so we did a work sheet, then we watched a 45 minute movie on sex. All kinds of sex! People sex, dinosaur sex, monkey sex, shark sex, bug sex, and on and on.

I had the weirdest dream last night! All the adults rounded everybody 18 and under into a huge arena to "protect them," then they started hucking bombs around and killing all the kids! I saved a bunch, and I even blew up an old woman who tried to kill me. Anyway... it was messed up.

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Day 150

I like Tuesday being the first day of the week - I'm getting used to all these long weekends!
In socials today we learned about some stuff. We got an A+ on that little booklet that we did! Wahoo. She said that our class' hand-ins were the best projects she's gotten back in a few years. Go us.
In math we had a sub - she's a really good teacher! That being said, I still didn't really get it, but hey. It's almost over!
During spare I went around to classrooms for Kiva again - it's a bit awkward, but that's alright. Asking for money always is! We got about $25 though, so it was a good day. That's enough for one little loan right there.
In film, since my group was filming all weekend, we didn't really have anything to do, so she let us watch other student projects from the years. They were good! Our filming went well this weekend. Once shooting was over for the day though, on Saturday, I jumped off a rock and hurt my knee again. It wasn't even a very high rock. Karter was taking fast-frame pictures of Mikayla and I goofing around, and I jumped, and I landed, and it hurt. He has a picture of it though! Meadow jumps, jumping, landing, knee moving, Meadow crumpling. Very artistic. In bio today we had a test - I think I did decent. I filled in a crazy huge review sheet and it wasn't due until  tomorrow, but that's a good thing, because now I don't have anything to do! OH! And on Monday we were filming again, and we were in a forest. I don't know if I wrote about it, but at one point, my bio teacher told us that if we licked a banana slug it would make our tongue numb. So I tried it. I licked a banana slug! Twice, because the first time didn't really work. Yes, yes I did.

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I went to Karter's after school, and then I got home late enough to be sleepy, and that is why I didn't post. Yesterday we took a bunch of notes in bio and started a review, which I got done in class. In film we read through the scripts of our screenplays and good things like that. Math was as fine as it can be when you don't totally understand what's being talked about, and socials is usually a blur - especially the day after.

Today in socials we had a huge history final. I think I did alright... The essay I know I did well on, but I'm not sure about the actual question part. We'll see! Math, same ol' same ol'. We're on the final unit though, which means I'm almost finished. Oh my goodness. In film Karter brought 'fill-in' props so we could get a feel for them, but since we didn't really have anything else to do after we read through it again, we walked and got slurpees (we were "seeing what we would do for the film in the outdoor scenes"). In bio we watched two groups of us dissect sea stars - I didn't offer to dissect one, cause I had just had a hangnail ripped off and I was bleeding. I didn't want sea star in me. Then we started another review for a big test that's coming up after the long weekend. We had to draw our own charts. It was funny how many people had problems drawing their charts and making them all line up.
Tomorrow we start shooting the film! I have to go to stupid Karter's at stupid 9:30 AM because that's the only time I was able to get a ride. BlaahSaturdaymorning.

Day of School One Hundred Forty-Seven

So, if we get out of school on June 19th, and we have one more day off between now and then... We have eighteen days of school left! That seems like more than 25, somehow.
In socials I'm so tired lately... Blah. I don't even know.
In math she got annoyed at the kids who keep not bringing paper into class, and told them that if they continue not bringing paper, they have to clean stuff for her during lunch hour... so I need to buy some paper. During my spare today we had a code red drill AND  a fire drill. So basically, up until now, if we had a real code red at any other time in the school year - we were SOL. The fire drill was rainy. I gave a guy from my bio class my review sheet, cause he wasn't there when we all got to fill them in! There isn't an assigned review sheet for the people who missed, so I just gave him mine to study. He can't have it during the test, so I'm basically just helping him study!
I went into the library to finish my big film essay today, too. I printed it off when I was done, but it turns out it isn't quite finished. I have until June 9th though. I'll probably work on it again tomorrow.
In film we... voted on which screenplays we'd work on. I'm in Karter's - no big surprise there. I think it will be good! I voted for his first, a skateboarding one second, then mine third. The skateboarding one wasn't my first choice because the people in it aren't always very reliable, and Karter wrote one of his characters after me. Mine wasn't picked to be done, but I don't mind at all! I think it was very cute, and the teacher loved it.
In bio we dissected a crayfish. It was good. We learned things, submitted things, cut things, and had an all out party!!
(that last part was a lie)

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We have another long weekend next week. THAT'S good. My foot's asleep - which isn't so good. Anyway...
I dunno. The film kids all liked my screen play! One of the other guys was gonna start telling us his, but when he said the name a friend laughed, and he didn't say it then. I think it was going to be really deep and beautiful, and I'm sincerely bummed that he didn't go on with telling us about it. I think the teacher will make him present it tomorrow though, with the other people who didn't get a chance to do theirs today. I bet it will be super sweet and we'll all want to do it. That would be classic.
I got 100% on a bio test. We were allowed to have a review sheet that we filled out, but still. I got 100%. I'm getting an A in that class now. Wooo.

This long weekend I went up to the Sunshine Coast with the youth leaders from the group that I volunteer with. We had such a great time! I kayaked, I saw some snakes, one of us broke his toe, my roomie got the flu or something all Sunday night (guh), and we missed our ferry so we had to wait for a few hours! Haha, such fun times.
We turned off all the lights in this huge massive house (like, twelve rooms. It was massive) that we were staying in, turned on a really old and broken record player (it played really slow and horrifying), and tried to make the It person crap their pants every time they came close. Me and this one guy kept finding each other first, so we kept having to be It. After I found him AGAIN, I decided to actually hide in a sweet spot. I curled up at the very head of my bed, underneath, and propped a pillow against me. They came in and felt around under the beds and even turned the light on by mistake at one point and I looked one of them in the face, but they didn't find me. Then the guy broke his toe and I came out so I didn't feel like a jerk.

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I had a test in every block today. Well, in film it was SORT OF a test. We watched our silent film project. It went well! One cut of music didn't work properly and kind of messed up the ending, but we can fix it before we submit it anywhere, or any parents see it, so that's good!
In socials the test was NUTS hard. We had matching, short answer, and two essays. It was open book, but even so, I had to cut my second essay short because the bell went. Good grief.
In math I only got a 61, but I think my grades overall have gone up two percent! So that's decent! In biology she let us have this sweet review page for the test as a reward for whoever was there today - so people who missed today don't get it on Tuesday - so there. I think I did super decent on that - which will be nice. It'll bring my percent up. The term is almost over! I'm so excited!
I'm going to the Sunshine Coast for the long weekend (well, this long weekend. There's three. I don't know why we make such a fuss about this one)!

Ready for the long weekend.

1Forty-4

My partner finished our project today. I glued more stuff... and tried to contain my excitement. We have a test tomorrow, and both times I asked her she just sorta mumbled. So now! I don't know what the test is on. Doh!
Math test tomorrow... At least I'm not the only one who has hardly any clue of what's going on. My friend who sits behind me doesn't, either. I just don't think the math lady is a very good teacher - straight up.
During lunch I stood by the Kiva booth again. Then the other girl and I went around and got people to donate change. We got like thirty bucks, so that's alright! That's a loan and a bit, already.
In film we kept watching Midnight in Paris, which we started yesterday, and I actually really like it!! It makes me feel intellectual. Verrrry intellectual.
In bio we finished our notes and started review. We have a test tomorrow, as well. Three tests. Yes that's right. At least they're all BEFORE the long weekend, which I won't study during. She also gave us a pop quiz of 'spot the mollusk' and we were all hesitant, but then she played 'Under the Sea' on Youtube, and we wrote down all of them that we saw. She's such a cool teacher! Really great.

After school I went to  Karter's house with two other friends. I played Marco Polo for the first time! Yup... and we broke one of their pool surfboards, but that's ok. The break wasn't where I was standing, so it wasn't me! Besides, they weren't real surfboards...
Now I go to babysit.

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I cut up a squid today, and then I ate some squid. Except that when the foods class came to our bio class, we had to clean up our dissection. Obviously. When we went into the foods class, they had us helping - that's fine. But they were telling us to do things and not giving us any instructions at all, and at the end they made us clean up again! And I saw a few of them not cleaning. I don't know. Blah. At least we got squid. The kid that we got stuck with though, I'm pretty sure he's a bit slow. He kept dropping knives and running into us and.. dropping knives. Then we offered him the plate of squid when it was all cooked (which we did), and he definitely took it all. Oh well.

Now I think it's beach time!

One Forty-Two

In socials today we started a project, but my partner isn't really letting me do anything. Bear in mind, that's fine. It's sort of a nice change from doing everything - and she's a really good student, so that's good! We have to make a children's book, with easy language, about a few of the prime ministers of Canada. And it has to be entertaining with like.... pictures and stuff. She's making all the facts rhyme, drawing the prime ministers, water colouring the background images (I was going to draw them, and started to, but... I guess not), and writing the whole thing. ... I get to type up the words she's written. Sort of annoying, but ahh well.
In film we kept on working on our screen plays. Today we had to describe our main character/s, and write the first scene. I'm going to finish it up either alter tonight or during spare tomorrow. After all, that's what spare's for... right? We watch our silent films on Thursday! Tomorrow we're in the band room, for a reason that I forget. But we get to watch a movie! She wouldn't tell us which one. It's like Christmas. I love surprises.
In biology we were going to watch our video project, but I think our teacher is just waiting until she has all the other videos in as well. She gave us a preview of how we'll dissect our squid tomorrow, and then she explained that we'll each be partnered with a kid from the cooking class that will be making us all calamari later. I'm pretty pumped about that detail.

Went to the beach with my dad after school! It was great! 60 SPF, oh yes.

Day 141!

On Saturday we filmed our project. It's hilarious and incredible. After we filmed it I just bummed around Karter's house and pool for about four more hours. I got tanned! And Karter mocked me because I put on sunscreen, but now who's tanned and who's burnt?! Take that.
In socials we had to take a lot of notes but I was really sleepy... we have to make a children's book or something, about the prime ministers? I dunno. I just remember that I have to bring pencil crayons for my partner, as well as save some links of the PM's faces so we can draw em'. ... sweet. During lunch I was going to stand by a booth thing for Kiva, because there's this big 'Change Revolution' happening at school, but apparently it doesn't start until Wednesday - so that's nice.
In film we finished our movie. It's so good! We got our music going on and everything - woohoo! Yea.... I like it. It's called 'Feelin' Testy,' and we all think it's hilarious except for one kid in our group, but he was outvoted. We didn't even shut him down completely... but everybody voted against him. So there you go.
In biology, everybody else was finishing up their projects, but since we were done, we just fooled around on the iPads. There was this app called puppet pals, and we made little skits. It was pretty radical.
Now I'm considering beach and / or front lawn. Probably front lawn. And reading! Oh boy.

Summer! It's... it's breaking through!!!!

139, 140!

Yesterday I went to Karter's with Mikayla after school to do homework before Duke of Earl back at the school in the evening, but we didn't actually do anything. Duke was great!! A bunch of the grade twelve guys sell tickets, then everybody goes and they put on skits and stuff - dresses, mocking teachers, bad jokes, etc etc. It was great! The stage crew was the muscliest guys in grade twelve, all wearing short shorts and oiled up. I wolf whistled quite a few times that evening - I won't lie. My friend Ben won! I was rooting for him. I even bought my ticket from him - so there.

Today we did an assignment in socials with the iPads, and I barely got it done in time. It was almost panic. We had to pick pictures that we felt related to certain aspects of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, etc, and why we picked them. It was good. I managed to get a surfing picture in there AND make it relevant. I'm just that good. In film we kept editing. Our movie is basically done - we just need music now. The ending shot is brilliant and hardcore. I made it slow motion, and it's pretty rad. In bio we started a project, too. There was a bunch of different paths to choose, and the one we picked is gonna be sweet. For ours we're filming a quick movie. Basically, Karter is a squid, I'm a pirate, and Matthew is a news reporter, and Karter's pool is our main prop. He's using pool noodles for his tentacles.

And the best part? We're following the assignment instructions almost exactly.

Formal Friday? Necklace. Nuff' said.

Day 138

I lost count of how many days are left of actual school... but that's ok. Anyway! Today I got into the socials class room and all the tables had been switched around. It scared me a little at first, because I was still sleepy. But then I was fine.
In math today we had a sub that was a great teacher! Really good at explaining everything.
In film... we kept editing. Editing away. I think ours' will be swell. On the way to get the computers with the teacher, I told her about trying to think of somebody outrageously older than us who we would totally marry. She agreed with Hugh Jackman, obviously, but she disagreed with Jason Isaacs! What! Come on, now.
In biology we did leeches. Pretty nasty. But then, I decided... they can't help it! It's just the way that they eat. Still though... bleuchh.
It was wild Western day or something at school. I was one of the only seniors dressed up, but I didn't mind! I got my picture taken for the yearbook. SO there, everybody else.

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Aquarium!! It was funtastic. See? See what I did there? I mixed fun and fantastic. Because that's what it was.
There's this one sea star that smells like garlic! And then this other thing, if you jab it or something (we didn't jab it), it can make an entire room smell like really delicious water melon... and the other fish don't like it. So it's defense. Funky!
And there were so many other cool things, too. I held a sea cucumber. Yea, I did. And crabs are related to spiders! What! I held one that looked like a big ol' watery spider. It was even hairy - except it didn't freak me out! Crabs don't count as spiders. They're like spider's attractive, foreign cousins that you want to get to know.

Day One Thirty-Six

Dissected a worm today! I liked it. I'm pretty sweet behind a scalpel and pair of tweezers. She asked what the 'scientific' term for tweezers was or whatever, and somebody said 'grabbers.' Haha... I love high school.
It was Monday today, and the 'thing' was the school colors. There was like... five of us dressed up. Bahaha. I miss tomorrow because of the field trip, but it's pyjama Tuesday. I'm pumped for the fieldin' trip. Anyway.
It's 18 outside, so I think I'm gonna go read or walk. Umm... we had a test in math. I got 18.5 out of 22. I've gotten it three times on different tests. A 19 is an 'A'. An 18.5 is a 'B'. ... hmmmmm.

Nuff' said.

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Something like 29 days of school left! Yes. Yes that is a good a thing. Yesterday I bought a bunch of Disney songs on iTunes. But only the good ones.

Today in socials ... see, socials kinda just blurs. It's so darn early and far away-ago. Ahh well. Oh! After the lesson the teacher started a big conversation about like... Harry Potter and movies. So we just talked about nothing for about twenty of minutes - it was pretty alright.
In spare I totally planned to do some research for a big essay that we have to do for film, but then I sat at a table and talked with a friend and a new friend instead. (it's the hard to type, because I'm singing out loud at the same time. Multi-tasking)
In math we did some review - test on Monday, I think. Yes ma'am.
In film my group finished our project today! I forgot to say 'that's a wrap,' but oh well. I had to walk down the hallway ripping papers out of a binder and throwing them, and a teacher was like, 'Umm, can you pick those up, please?' Because she thought I was actually mad. Then we had to explain that it was just a shoot. She stayed to watch, and then she complimented my acting. Yup! After that shoot we went outside and I had to drop kick a binder (and papers went everywhere and it was great), but we had to do quite a few takes, and people kept looking apprehensive, because they thought I was serious as well. No big deal. Just being bi-polar at school. Mmhmm.
In biology we did a big bit of notes. But that's okay, I like bio. Our first dissection is on Monday. It'll be my first dissection ever in ever.On Tuesday we go to the aquarium.

Now it's the long weekend. Begin sleeping.... now.

Day One Thirty-Four

Today in socials... we kept on learning stuff. It was pretty great. I did some corrections to my test. It's a quarter mark per new correct answer, so I bumped myself up five marks! So that's nice. In spare I reviewed for biology, which we had a test in today! Last night I had dreams of skinny white worms being dropped on my pillow and going in my mouth and eyes. Thanks for that, biology. Thanks.
"School gives me nightmares..."
In math we had a pretest today, and I only got a 75, but then I made sure I understood some of the ones I got wrong, and bumped it up to a 95, I think. As in... on the test tomorrow, hopefully, I can pull of an A. THAT would be nice. We kept filming, in film (what?! Filming... in film?!). Today when the teacher left the room (the class room that she was nice enough to let us use), we did a bunch of takes of a really fast scene were I huck a calculator against the far wall. We're artistic.

131, 132, 133!

Ok. I suck and forget to post on my blog. We all know.

School has been alright - I got a crappy grade on a bio test, but I'm decent in it otherwise so I think I'll be okay. I've been getting math, so that's good. In film we've started actually filming, so that's fun too! I'm the student who doesn't understand a test, and I just get more and more amped up until finally I storm out of the classroom and start hucking papers around. It was my idea, AND they wanted me to be the main in it. Normally I try to stay away from being the main if I had the idea for a story, but the other kids in my group wanted me to do it, so... there you go. In socials we started learning about the 60s! I'm pumped! I actually love the 60s. I wish that I was a baby boomer! I would have been right in the middle of Dogtown and The Endless Summer. Gah. Thinking about stuff like that actually chokes me up. I love it so... so much. I can't even- .... It's what I wish my life was! Entirely. Don't get me wrong, my life is sweet -.... but actually seeing and going to Zephyr in it's hay day? And the Z-Boys? I.... can't even describe... nope. No words! Anyway.
Since we have to learn about Canada in socials, we aren't really talking about surf culture. Pfft. But that's alright. ACTUALLY - one thing that was cool and got me pumped up all over again: The youth of the 60s were all called Zephyrs. Which makes sense. Zephyr shop. Z-Boys. It all fits! Whoaa.
That's been the last three days. Bit of everything, but more or less the same. 30 days left of school! Yea!

Today was the Sandcastle Cup (that's a big final rugby game against my school and our rival school). We won. No big deal.