I feel like this week should be called New T-Shirt Week. On Sunday, I finally got to wear one of my new Hunger Games shirts. Then, I wore the other one Monday, and today I wore my new Lord of the Rings shirt. As I was walking in the door to yearbook today, my English teacher from last year stopped me and asked if my shirt said Mordor on it. I told him it did. He followed me into the classroom because he needed to talk to the teacher and said to her, "Check out the Tolkien reference on Haley's shirt." This started a Lord of the Rings conversation with the people in the classroom at the time. It was interesting. Turns out there's a Lord of the Rings fan in my yearbook class who is the last person you would have expected. Seriously. I've known her since elementary school, and I'm still surprised she even knows what Lord of the Rings is. People can surprise you.
I think I mentioned that we've been learning the Ammendments in government. Well, I did way better on that quiz than I thought. I only missed two of them! We took our test today, and it went way better than I thought it would too. I suck at memorizing lists of things like that. If you were to ask me what a certain ammendment is right now I don't think I could even answer.
One last thing for today: Sevenly.com is selling some awesome shirts, and for every shirt that's bought, seven pairs of shoes go to children in Honduras through Soles4Souls. They're pretty awesome shirts too. You should go check them out.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
I Get too Excited About These Things...
It's Friday! This week seemed to drag on. Unfortunately, this weekend I won't get to do the one thing that's most amazing about the weekend: sleeping in. I'll be at a car dealership at 9:30 tomorrow morning for Drive One 4 Ur School, but that's okay because I'll be helping raise money for our school. At least that's what I keep telling myself.
Before heading to AP U.S. history today, I had to stop by the yearbook room to get the camera in order to take pictures in AP English. Our English teacher made us come up with skits to help us remember our hardest vocab words, and I took pictures of each skit (except the one I was in, a boy in the class took pictures of ours). We came up with the skits just about five minutes before doing them, and our group's was particularly bad. Ji, Kayla, and I's skit basically consisted of the three of us standing around talking about random stuff as our word was "interlocutor."
As we were walking from yearbook to computer applications, Ji and I had an interesting conversation about dying hair. Ji wants to dye her hair blond. I mentioned how much I loved auburn/dark red hair, and Ji told me I should dye my hair that color. It's not going to happen, but I have a feeling I'm going to be pestered about it a lot from now on.
This is random, but our lunch today was chicken tacos, something we've never had before. It was oddly good, which is weird. We also had a very interesting conversation at lunch today. You'll just have to wonder what it was about though because there's no way I'm saying here. It wasn't bad or anything, but if taken out of context, some people might find it offensive. (It wasn't and nothing bad was said about anyone or anything. It's just hard to explain.)
I'm not going to lie, third block (when I peer tutor at the middle school) has been stressing me out since I started. I don't want to go into details as to why, but it hasn't been that great. Today, however, was a good day (yesterday wasn't too bad either), and I think things are starting to look up. Let's hope I didn't just jinx myself. In the first class I'm in, I had to go help a boy try and find a paper in his locker. (Something that definitely isn't tutoring, but none of the kids needed help on homework at the moment.) While we were looking through his locker, the middle school principal walked by us and asked me if the boy was behaving for me. I said he was, and the principal said that was good and maybe the boy would get a reward later. That boy seemed so proud of that. When we went back into the room (after finding his paper) he repeated all of it to the teacher. This is the same boy that's been talking to me every day I go over there, and I've helped him with stuff a few times. Even during the stressful days, he's made me feel just a little bit better.
The second class I help in is where the majority of the stress has been coming from, but today was extremely different. I think everyone's starting to get used to me being there, and it's nothing like it was the first week or so. I helped some kids go over multiplication and then the whole class played Bingo where they had to solve a multiplication problem to figure out the number.
When I got to government, I got this thing that Haley had made in foods class and saved for me, Jordan, and Laura. They were kind of like no-bake cookies with a Hershey's Kiss on top. They were really good. Jordan and I ate ours before class started, even though we may not be allowed to eat food in class. The teacher watched us and didn't say anything so...
Before I stopped to write this post, I was looking at this website. This website is awesome. I found out about this orphanage in Mexico from the front page. I know want to volunteer at this orphanage next summer. This is almost becoming a dream. It would be an amazing experince. I'd just have to pay to get there and for room and board. I could learn Spanish (because three years of it in school did no good). Plus, it's far from home without being across an ocean. I want to do it... I wonder if I could convince someone to do it with me. Ji grew up in Guatemala. She could come with me and even translate for me. I want this to happen. I want this to happen so much...
I also found a new t-shirt site. (If you follow me on twitter, you know if bought several t-shirts from here and here lately.) Now I've found a new site that has a new shirt each week. The best part? Each time you buy a shirt, money goes to charity. It's going to be tough not buying each one. I'm trying really hard to decide if I want to buy the one that's available now.
I wrote this whole blog post about half asleep. I honestly remember just about nothing I just wrote. If it's incoherent, blame my lack of sleep.
Before heading to AP U.S. history today, I had to stop by the yearbook room to get the camera in order to take pictures in AP English. Our English teacher made us come up with skits to help us remember our hardest vocab words, and I took pictures of each skit (except the one I was in, a boy in the class took pictures of ours). We came up with the skits just about five minutes before doing them, and our group's was particularly bad. Ji, Kayla, and I's skit basically consisted of the three of us standing around talking about random stuff as our word was "interlocutor."
As we were walking from yearbook to computer applications, Ji and I had an interesting conversation about dying hair. Ji wants to dye her hair blond. I mentioned how much I loved auburn/dark red hair, and Ji told me I should dye my hair that color. It's not going to happen, but I have a feeling I'm going to be pestered about it a lot from now on.
This is random, but our lunch today was chicken tacos, something we've never had before. It was oddly good, which is weird. We also had a very interesting conversation at lunch today. You'll just have to wonder what it was about though because there's no way I'm saying here. It wasn't bad or anything, but if taken out of context, some people might find it offensive. (It wasn't and nothing bad was said about anyone or anything. It's just hard to explain.)
I'm not going to lie, third block (when I peer tutor at the middle school) has been stressing me out since I started. I don't want to go into details as to why, but it hasn't been that great. Today, however, was a good day (yesterday wasn't too bad either), and I think things are starting to look up. Let's hope I didn't just jinx myself. In the first class I'm in, I had to go help a boy try and find a paper in his locker. (Something that definitely isn't tutoring, but none of the kids needed help on homework at the moment.) While we were looking through his locker, the middle school principal walked by us and asked me if the boy was behaving for me. I said he was, and the principal said that was good and maybe the boy would get a reward later. That boy seemed so proud of that. When we went back into the room (after finding his paper) he repeated all of it to the teacher. This is the same boy that's been talking to me every day I go over there, and I've helped him with stuff a few times. Even during the stressful days, he's made me feel just a little bit better.
The second class I help in is where the majority of the stress has been coming from, but today was extremely different. I think everyone's starting to get used to me being there, and it's nothing like it was the first week or so. I helped some kids go over multiplication and then the whole class played Bingo where they had to solve a multiplication problem to figure out the number.
When I got to government, I got this thing that Haley had made in foods class and saved for me, Jordan, and Laura. They were kind of like no-bake cookies with a Hershey's Kiss on top. They were really good. Jordan and I ate ours before class started, even though we may not be allowed to eat food in class. The teacher watched us and didn't say anything so...
Before I stopped to write this post, I was looking at this website. This website is awesome. I found out about this orphanage in Mexico from the front page. I know want to volunteer at this orphanage next summer. This is almost becoming a dream. It would be an amazing experince. I'd just have to pay to get there and for room and board. I could learn Spanish (because three years of it in school did no good). Plus, it's far from home without being across an ocean. I want to do it... I wonder if I could convince someone to do it with me. Ji grew up in Guatemala. She could come with me and even translate for me. I want this to happen. I want this to happen so much...
I also found a new t-shirt site. (If you follow me on twitter, you know if bought several t-shirts from here and here lately.) Now I've found a new site that has a new shirt each week. The best part? Each time you buy a shirt, money goes to charity. It's going to be tough not buying each one. I'm trying really hard to decide if I want to buy the one that's available now.
I wrote this whole blog post about half asleep. I honestly remember just about nothing I just wrote. If it's incoherent, blame my lack of sleep.
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