160

I wasn't gonna go to school today because I was really dizzy and stuff when I woke up. But I'm a trooper, so I did anyway. Just review in socials and math. During lunch I first had a Kiva meeting - we've started to lend. Very cool! And after the Kiva meeting I had a councillor meeting to work out a project she's having me do for one of the other teachers. That meeting went into period 4 but my teacher didn't care. Our film was getting edited by three people, so she let us go out and start filming students for the project (I just have to get them saying some nice words and stuff). In bio we had a sub so we watched a movie. It was of a hippo getting dissected. It had 350 pounds of food in it's stomach! Duuude. They have really thick skin, too. It showed four lionesses trying to take this one hippo down, with their claws and everything, but the hippo just kept running. It didn't even bleed. Impressive.

159

NOW there's six days left. Apparently we have to stay in until the 19th. The days are starting to drag on - I'm sort of sick of final projects and assignments.
We have an essay due on Friday for Socials about the environment and stuff - that's awesome. Writing about that is easy for me. In math we had a mock-test today, and we're supposed to do it tomorrow as well, but I got 58 of 60 questions done today - no big deal. I spent lunch editing our final film, because all of a sudden our carefully calculated editing time isn't enough time, and we have to get it done on Wednesday. Not a huge problem, because nobody else has even started filming yet, really, but it's still worrying. Tomorrow I have a Kiva meeting - we're actually deciding who gets the money, so that'll be fun! In film we watched the last of the presentations. In bio we did some notes, watched some fun videos, and did a tiny assignment. Yup.

One Fitty-Eight

Six more days of school left! And I have no homework this weekend. I don't know how I managed that, but it's amazing. This morning I decided to set my alarm a bit later so I could get a few minutes of sleep, and when it went off I realized I hadn't done homework that was due first block. So I did that while I ate my breakfast. I hurried to school, and then oh no! I forgot to make lunch. So I went home during spare and made a sandwich.

We had our presentations during socials today. Before the class I went up to her and asked her that since I was only 2% below an A, would it be worth it to rewrite any tests. She said she'd make an exception for me and we'd discuss tests on Wednesday. Well, when I started my presentation, I didn't need any notes or anything, and I said everything necessary. When I sat down she said, 'Meadow? You just got your A.' Haha, woo! In math I got all of the review for today done as well as yesterdays - yay! In film we kept on watching presentations - they were all good today! In bio we went around in groups of two deciding if plants were monocots or dicots by properties they had, and identifying their roots and stems through microscopes and stuff. At one point one of the guys turned and asked me something. The conversation went on, and some other people got involved, and so when I added something I wasn't totally paying attention, and I called him by the wrong name. He looks at me and is all, 'Friends off! Nope!' but then he said he'd forgive me on Monday, so I'm safe, haha!

One Fifty-Seven!

Today I learned that technically, since seeds are fruits "embryos," the part that we actually eat is like the uterus. Mmm... fruit uterus....
Got my presentation all ready for socials tomorrow! It's on Kiva. So... that won't be too difficult. She said we were allowed to pick something we already knew a bunch about.
Math was ok... as ok as it can be, I guess.
In film I did my presentation! I had technical difficulties though, so I was closer to 12 than 8 minutes, but everybody said it didn't seem like 12 minutes. The teacher said she didn't mind as well, because my lap top wouldn't sync properly and I had to cue everything up again on a different one.
In bio we just took a bunch of notes! Buuuuh. And we actually had a really long conversation about apples. That's why I like this teacher - she lets us engage her and each other in "debates," but really just questions and answering. Stuff like that. It's so sweet!

156 - An Average Number

Doesn't 156 seem average? I feel like it does.
Tomorrow we start preparing for 30 second presentations in socials. People are freaking out about it, and I just sort of chuckle to myself - I have a 10 minute presentation tomorrow in film. In math we did more review. It sucked - I was decent at the stuff when we learned it, but I can't remember any of it now, and she won't give us the next review sheet in line unless we completely finish the one before it - we're supposed to have this sheet finished for tomorrow. I understand 5/15 of the questions. And I have volunteering tonight, so I'm not going to have time. I'm gonna look at it after this post, but bio was heavy today as well, and my brain is gonna fall out of my head. In film we dubbed some voices in over hard to hear stuff and got the rest of the shots that we want, in order. They haven't been cut yet. Bio we started Plantae, finished the movies from yesterday, and watched a few of them.

154 and 155

I went to Karter's after school yesterday to get a final shot for film, but it turned out we didn't need it. So we have all of our footage for the final project, and it needs to be done by next Tuesday. Let's see... had a test in math yesterday. I only got 45% on it, but I really didn't understand that unit. Like, at all. It doesn't stay in my head when we look at one aspect one day, then a whole new aspect the next day. Blah, math. I don't really care - just doing my best. In film we edited. In biology we dissected our pigeon! I filmed, and they cut. It was pretty funky. Everybody around the class had different organisms, and people were holding up intestines everywhere. We got ours out, too. Mmm... innards.. In socials we had a mini debate / argument at our table, because our teacher had us writing down things in order of importance, then easiness. I said environment should be above some of the other things listed for importance, but the bottom of the easy scale. Then one girl said something about hating something to do with the environment / activists, and I didn't argue, I just simply said that I disagreed. Then she kept it up and the rest of us sort of let her go on. Then she got madder when we stopped replying because we didn't agree... I don't know. It was sort of funny.
Today I went home during spare to watch Lost, because Karter lent me season 1. It's been too long since I watched it, and I never finished the entire show anyway. In socials we got an assignment. In socials we have homework! What?! Yea, we do. In bio we tried to edit the dissection video but it was muy difficult because we were on iPads... I think our's looks okay though! We got it done, anyway. Math sucked because we started review, but I don't care. In film we did voice overs! The end.

153

Had a test in socials. I aced it (well, I technically don't know that yet for sure... but I did). In math we had our review, and I got it all done. During spare I did some pretty rockin' homeworks. In film we all started watching the first episode of Lost, because there were only like six people there. Karter edited some more of our film, but only one person can really do that. He stopped because he doesn't want to do it all himself cause he feels bad, so we'll get on that on Monday. I'm definitely going to borrow Lost from Karter. He has em' all. In bio we worked more on our dissection procedure. We found diagrams, defined things, looked stuff up... yup! I'm actually not going to be cutting into the pigeon, I'm going to be filming it. She needed somebody from each group to film, and I'm just as happy to do that as to dissect. Tada!

Now I have Ritz.