Kody's Adventures Through Tabb

Because I am no longer attending York River Academy, I thought it seemed fit to make this an update page so I may show off some projects I do and explain how my day goes while attending Tabb High School.  Please feel free to comment if you have any questions or comments.

I will try my best to update it daily for something new to read.

NOTE: The First Day Starts On The Bottom Of The Page; Scroll Up For More Recent Dates

This is history people!  Read it.  Live it.  LOVE IT.  eat it.

 

Day Thirty Eight-Tuesday-March 24, 2009:

Wow, finally caught up.  I can't believe I got so far behind.  I didn't even think I was that far behind.  I just thought I was missing Friday and Monday.  Apparently I was missing last Thursday too.  That's crazy.  So anyways, it starts out in Web Tech where we get back our newspaper documents.  We have a comment or two on it, and we go on the computer to fix it.  Then we have to do another document.  It was some newsletter thing which we only had that class period to complete or it was late.  We had to type up a bunch of information, which wasn't much of a problem for anyone, because everyone there seems to be pretty good typists.  So I was the only one to actually fully complete it I think.  If not, then I'm hereby stealing all credit they earned.  So after class, I go to Atmospheric Science.  In Science class, we were told to do numbers one through nine in chapter six.  It wasn't too hard.  Just more stuff about wind and wind speed and why winds and yeah, other stuff like that.  The basics.  First grade.  Stuff like "what is the air pressure at sea level?"  "Why don't winds have updrafts from different pressured areas in ascending order?"  Simple stuff that a second grader can answer.  So I answer those nine questions, and turn it in next to the sink, where we turn in our work.  After that, it's time for my History class.

 

Here, the teacher announces that someone is selling candy for the SPCA, and if we wanted a candy bar or something to put a dollar in the box and take the candy we wanted.  So a bunch of people bought some, but I don't think they really cared to do it for the SPCA.  I don't even think they did it for the food.  I think they just did it because they want to exercise their right to eat in her room.  She lets us eat in there.  So anyways, after the chaos dies down, we talk about the Great Depression.  How people lived in Hoovervilles and had Hooverblankets, etc.  The president was ignoring the people's money needs, and wanted to stay out of business even though everyone was getting cut out of their jobs and such.  So anyways, after taking our notes in history, she gave us about fifteen minutes to do whatever.  I don't care about free time because it's boring.  There really isn't anything to do.  I mean, it's school.  So anyways, once it's time to go, I do.  Yea...lunch.  Once again, boring.  It's boring on "web tech days" because I don't get to sit with the other drama students.  I sit with a bunch of friends of Ryan.  None of them being Eric.  They're all boring and we don't really know each other.  So after lunch, I go over to English.  Garrett and I talk about Cinema's project, which was introduced yesterday and I didn't mention.

 

This assignment which I failed to mention in yesterday's entry, was a storyboard.  We have to pick a movie to make into a musical, and then make a storyboard for it.  She will be giving us the worksheets for it next class from what I understand.  Also, after we do that, we will be making a swede of a movie as our final project.  Our table of four will be doing it together, because we all united when she mentioned the project.  So yea, that's the project Garrett and I talked about.  We then went into the classroom, and I took a test on the play I've been reading, and I did a couple other assignments.  It's pretty easy work this week.  Not that hard.  Which is always good to see for me.  So after class, I walk home in the freezing cold, and get home to remember that I have my three hour acting class.  SPEAKING OF WHICH.  My play is on APRIL FOURTH.  GRAFTON BAPTIST CHURCH.  I DON'T REMEMBER THE TIMES, BUT I THINK THERE WILL BE ONE PERFORMANCE AT 6:00 AND ANOTHER AT 8:00 OR 9:00.  IT WILL BE GREAT, DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPERTUNITY TO SEE A DRAMATIC PRODUCTION YOU WILL NEVER FORGET.  BE THERE!  Okay, now that that's out of my system for now, I'll give you the cliche of the day.  In this case, the cliche of the past four days; "If I had a nickel for every time I heard that."

 

 

Day Thirty Seven-Monday-March 23, 2009:

Okay, we're starting to get to the stuff I remember.  This is yesterday's entry because this is one school day behind.  I start off in Statistics.  All we did here was work on some of the study guide of chapter three.  Not many people had it at all, I think only three did, including me.  So we go over some of that.  That was all we had time for in that class though because it was a big study guide.  Now we're headed over to Atmospheric Science.  Here is where I finished the second column of vocabulary terms of chapter six.  Not much else to elaborate on.  Same topic, wind and the recording of it.  That's pretty much all I have to say here.  Don't worry, I'll elaborate today's because I actually remember relatively a lot more information than the last two days seeing how it's only one school day behind.  So I now go to my Drama class, where we finally get our real life teacher back, and not some poseur substitute.  I learned the word "poseur" from Mr. Gustin and his vocabulary homeworks.  I used to regret having to do them; but I use some of his words quite often.  It's awesome.  (In memory of Mr. Gustin who has now moved on to bigger and better things)

 

So in Drama class, the teacher was a little angered by the substitute's grading job.  He decided to give the kids who had bad grades another chance to redeem thier scores, because he was cynical of the sub's accuracy.  So we start by watching the same improvisations we saw last time, still generating just as many laughs as last time.  Lunch comes along and it wasn't as much fun as on Day Thirty Five, but still fun.  So back at the room we use for Drama, we continue the presentaitons.  Sam and I don't get to do ours, but we'll do it next class.  So now I go to Cinema.  We finished Cabaret, so what else is there to do?  That's right!  Test on all the musicals we've seen!  WRONG!  My table went over to the box of movies, and got out the documentaries.  Eric added in Planet of the Apes into the pile for "comic relief."  So the teacher goes through them all, calling out their names, and we vote on what we see first.  We voted to see Planet Earth.  What about the test you ask?  Good question.  She wasn't feeling too well, so she decides to give it to us next class.  So we watch Planet Earth, making jokes all throughout the video.  We finish one section, and start to watch another section.  Before we finish this one, however, it's time to go.  It was a great walk home.  Nice and freezing.  Just the way I like it.  Joking by the way.  It was horrid.  The snow, the sleet, the glaze, the acid rain.  It was horrible.  So I get home, and the end.

 

 

Day Thirty Six-Friday-March 20, 2009:

Once again, this day is two school days behind, so I'll do my best.  I start off with Web Tech, where we work on the newspaper thing, and then we printed them out.  I really think that's all we did there.  In Atmospheric Science I seem to remember doing a column of vocabulary terms for preparation of chapter six.  It was about wind apparently.  That's all we did there.  In History, we went over some notes.  That's all I can remember for that class.  After that, lunch, yum yum yum, moving on.  Now for English.  I work a little bit on my English from what I remember, and can't finish anything because I left all my English stuff at home.  So I go to the clinic in hopes of getting back my survey, and of course she was unavailable that day.  So I was hopeless there.  I asked my teacher for an extension for my work, and she gave me until Monday.  This worked out great for me.  I walk home, this ends another day.

 

 

Day Thirty Five-Thursday-March 19, 2009:

This day is now three school days behind what day it actually is.  This essay thing is really starting to fade.  I'll try to write up an account of what happened.  It starts with Statistics.  Can't remember what we did.  I think we just went over some project coming up.  In Atmospheric Science I really can't remember what we did.  In Drama, we started presentations of our things.  However, we had a substitute.  During lunch we had a great time.  We all laughed and such at the different hilarious performances given on stage.  In Cinema class I think what we did was we finished up Cabaret.  It really was a pointless, horrible movie.  I hated it.  So then I go home.

 

 

Day Thirty Four-Wednesday-March 18, 2009:

So now for the real today's entry.  Once again I am a day behind, and I just finished writing up day thirty three.  I'm really starting to slack with these things.  So anyways, today starts in Web tech.  Boring routine day again.  We started a new project where we have to make a newspaper looking document.  We also had to add a few new words to our Desktop Publishing Dictionary.  These assignments took pretty much all class, and so I don't really have much else to say about here.  The finished document does look like a real newspaper though.  It's pretty NIFTY.  So now I'm going to Atmospheric Science.  We go over the stuff that will be on the next quiz/test thing we're having, and it's all about precipitation, fog, clouds, etc.  So after that, we don't really have anything else to do, so she starts showing us some more videos about tornadoes.  I know; it would have been nice if we had seen these yesterday during the tornado drill.  I feel so much more informed about tornadoes after those videos we watched.  Now I'm walking to History.  Nothing that noteable happened other than me being in her class.  That is always noteable because she's such an awesome teacher.

 

We talked about what was cool back in the 20's, and she passed back our tests which I got a 97% on.  Not bad eh?  Well, I would have got a 100%, but I was not on the top of my game on the day of the test, and I missed one after a misinterpretation of the question.  So we listen to a little jazz music to get the feel for back then's music style.  Then that's all we did for that class.  Now I go to lunch.  For lunch I have another Chicken Sandwich, and I'd like you all to know that the Chicken Sandwiches are still swapped with the cheeseburgers.  I wish they would just swap them back already.  They should know by now that I'm not going to fall for their little game.  Their trap.  Their plot.  Their..........scheme.  Their scandal.  There are enough synonyms for "trap" there I'd say, so I'm going to move on from lunch now.  Boring lunch day.  No events to report.  I go to my last class, English.  I mostly was reading my play for almost all class, and I answered a lot of the questions about it.  I also had to go to the clinic and see if she finished my survey, which she let slip her mind.  I also interviewed Mrs. Rollins, and she answered the questions.  Eventually I also have to go back to Mrs. Rollins to ask about my AP Exam to make sure it was ordered.  She said to ask the lady in charge of AP class affairs.

 

I head on over to her office, and I wait because her door is shut.  I reluctantly knock.  No answer.  I start to walk away, and some woman is walking towards the room.  I stop and wait to see if that's her.  It wasn't; she just blatantly walked right past the door as if it wasn't even there.  So I go back to the classroom, and continue to read the play, which turns out to be very boring.  So once class is over, I turn off the computer, and I put away my play into my bookbag.  I then begin to walk home, and I go inside.  Now to wrap this thing up real quick so I can get going: "No use crying over spilled milk."

 

 

Day Thirty Three-Tuesday-March 17, 2009:

Ugh, I am really slacking with these entries.  This is another occasion where I am a day behind...so I'm going to rush to finish both of them up.  Day thirty three starts off with me going to my Statistics class.  I don't remember all the details, but I know we turned in some papers, we finished our Do Nows, and we began to present projects.  A couple people presented, but on Thursday we'll finish up the presentations.  So long story made into a rediculously short one; I hop over to Science.  In science, I think that we went over our worksheets to make sure we had the right answers.  That's really all we did on that.  Then we have a tornado drill.  I do believe that all the schools across the state did, but I was lucky because I got to stay in the room because our room didn't have windows.  All I had to do was get under the desk.  So after that I go to Drama.  This is going to be like, my shortest entry ever.  Creepy.  So yea, in Drama, we read some pages in the book about motivations.  This would not be what you do, or how you do it...but why you do it.  You're a butler getting a drink for your instructor; but why are you doing it?  So you can be paid; so because of this is why you would want to go quickly and accurately so you can please him quickly in hopes of getting a little bonus.  However, if you were a younger brother getting a drink for a sibling, you would be getting them a drink because you look up to them and you want to please them because of that.  So that would make you get the drink in a different manner and perhaps even be a little more sloppy because you're not being rewarded for retrieving the drink.

 

So then he pairs us up into pairs.  (Read that last sentence again.)  (Read it one more time.)  Okay; so I get paired up with this kid named Sam.  We have to come up with a character or two; and we have to come up with an action, and the motivation for the action.  We chose that I would be a teacher, and he would be a student.  I am passing out a HUGE test, and he is taking it.  If he passes, his dad says he will get him a car.  So yea; motivational enough?  This skit has to be 2-3 minutes as said in the book.  No more and no less.  So once we talk all of it over, it's time for lunch.  I go, and there I have a great time with Jon who seems to act a lot like me.  (As if one of me wasn't enough??)  So then I go to the Drama room, and Sam and I work through it to make sure that we meet the time limit.  We do it, and get about halfway in between.  We have a great skit; so we're going to present those next class.  So now I go to Cinema.  We finish watching Across the Universe, and rather than take a test, she decides to just take the test on all four movies at the same time, after watching this last one, "Cabaret."  I'm not going to talk much about this one though because I really think this is one of the most boring movies we've watched so far.  I'd even like to watch Across the Universe again rather than Cabaret.  No joke.  It's that bad.  So now I walk home with Ryan, and yea; the end.  *once again I am skipping today's cliche because I'm a day behind...again.*

 

 

Day Thirty Two-Monday-March 16, 2009:

Okay, so now for the real today's entry.  What I mean by the real today's entry is that I wrote the last entry the same day as today's.  So here it is.  It all started with me going to Design, Multimedia.  Yuck.  Hated it, Hate it, Will Hate it.  Today we had to finish up a bunch of assignments.  It was pretty boring.  After that, we really didn't have anything to do other than leave.  It was a whole class time thing.  It took all class to do it, and then it was time to go.  I go to Atmospheric Science, where we go over some notes about Precipitation and such.  Not too hard.  It was easier than the worksheet because it's like...the same information as the worksheet, but the teacher gives us the answers.  This ends Science class, after which I head off to History.

 

Today in History we started the 1920's.  That's right, the good ol' Jazz Age.  The teacher was talking about the speakeasies and the 18th, 19th, and 21st amendment, and some catchy phrases to remember them by.  I'll now share those with you.  When you rate your girlfriend on a scale of one to ten, it has to be a perfect ten.  What do you get when you add 1+9?  Perfect 10.  1+9....19.  19th Amendment-Women are perfect 10-Women Suffrage.  Now for the 18th and 21st.  When a person turns 18 years old and are a legal adult, are they able to drink?  No.  18th amendment- prohibition.  People who turn 21, are they allowed to drink?  Yes.  21st amendment unrestricts drinking.  So yea, easy ways to remember those amendments.  So the teacher talks about how going against the 18th amendment was like a game to everyone.  So she goes over that girls start being "whores" as what their parents say.  It's because their dresses got really short, they started showing off their skin a lot more, and they let their hair down.  Their mother however, wouldn't show any of her skin other than her face, and would put her hair up in her hat.

 

So now I head off to lunch.  Oh, it was awesome today in History because we didn't have much time left over at the end at all.  I don't like just waiting around, but apparently the teacher does.  By the way, we also touched on the point that people were really ugly back then.  It was a joke though; she just found the ugliest pictures of people she could from back then.  So then I go to lunch and have my Chicken Sandwich, and I meet some guy I think whose name is Evan.  Or something like that.  So anyways, after lunch I head over to English.  Nothing really to report here other than I'm now reading a play and I have three assignments about it due on Friday.  So anyways, After that class, I head over to the exit of the building after class is over, and I get in the Behind the Wheel car for my last day of Behind the Wheel.  That's right, after today I will not have to take this class again.  Hopefully.  So I get in, and I watch this other kid who is in my Science class take his test.  So once he's done, I go and I end up passing, getting my temporary license.  That's pretty much everything I have to say about today.  Now for the cliche to end it all: "You can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs."

 

 

Day Thirty One-Friday-March 13, 2009:

I can't believe I forgot to do friday's entry...I'm so forgetful nowadays.  It's because of my driving thing.  But anyways, I'll try my best to fill this in as well as I can despite my having not been to school for about two days.  In case you're not catching on, it's Monday right now, and I forgot to do this entry.  So anyways, I start out by going to Statistics.  This is where we finish up our tests I think, and then we turn in our Hot Topics.  We say we're going to present them next class as well as our projects.  We talked about stem-and-leaf plots, and that's all I really remember from this class.  I then go to Atmospheric Science, where we did a worksheet, and that was what we did all class.  It wasn't really hard, just some precipitation stuff.

 

So then I go to Drama class.  Here we got in our pairs and reviewed what we're doing and how we're going to do it.  The lines we had to use were like this:

 

A: You're late.

B: I know, I couldn't help it

A: I understand.

B: I thought you would.

A: I have something for you.

B: Really?

A: Yes, this.

 

My partner and I made our two scenarios where a man (A) is waiting for his girlfriend (B) to come home (I was the man, and my partner the girlfriend.)  What got laughs from this was that my partner was a guy.  So everyone laughed when they saw me at the end kneeling down offering a ring to him, and he's fanning his face from the excitement.  So then we did one where a drug dealer (B) goes up to this guy he's going to sell the drugs to (A).  I was the dealer, and my partner the guy.  However, the twist at the end was that he wasn't just some guy, he was an undercover cop.  So he brings me to the ground and arrests me.  Then some more people go, and it's time for lunch.  I go and get my Chicken Sandwich and go back to class after lunch is over.  It was really fun after this.  We played a game.  This game was totally awesome.  What happens is three people are sent outside, and three people are brought on stage.  One of those three people has to guess what the other two are acting out, and the team that has the most guesses correct wins.  You know what to act out because Mr. Poland would hold up a card behind the guesser's head.  We lost, but it was still an AWESOME game.  I loved it, and I didn't want it to end.

 

Unfortunately however, it did, and I had to go to Cinema class.  It was really boring because of the movie we've been watching.  It's some sort of story about a guy who falls in love, it's taking place in the 60's, and it's just a really boring and lame movie.  The name of it is "Around the Universe" and I just think it's a boring movie.  So we watch it and watch it, and I get really bored watching it, but still do anyways, and eventually it's finally time to go.  So I go to the Behind the Wheel car, drive drive drive, blah blah...get home, the end.  I'm skipping the cliche so I can type up Monday's little essay thing before I forget what happens.  So here we go.

 

 

Day Thirty-Thursday-March 12, 2009:

Okay, same entry date, different day.  That's right, March 11 and March 12 are both being written at the same time.  That's because I am a day behind.  Now I am caught up, and I just have to finish this one up.  I'd like you to know that I didn't quite meet my deadline of thirty minutes.  The first entry took me thirty minutes, and I now have to type this one up which will not hopefully take up thirty minutes as well.  With all luck it will only take ten.  So time for some speed-of-light typing here.  So please excuse any grammatical errors.  Today started with my going to Web Tech class, where Mrs. Banks had us all work on fliers and stuff.  I had to make one up because during SOLs they did one that I wasn't there to do.  She still expected for me to have done one anyways.  She's so wacky.  She also wanted another few of them to be due the same day.  I finished one of them, and got halfway done with another one after finishing my makeup.  I actually liked having all the work because that way, I knew what was coming and I knew what I had to get done.  At least you're not sitting there in anticipation as to how hard your assignments are going to be.  Following tutorials in a booklet are easy.  So I print out my stuff, and give it to her.  It wasn't all completed, but she says I can come back during lunch to finish it up.  So we all go to our next class.

 

For me, this class was Atmospheric Science.  Today, seeing how we took a quiz yesterday, we started taking notes by answering some questions and filling out a table on a worksheet.  We were using our books to fill out stuff about the Bergeron Process and the Collision-Comdfjaiow Process.  The second one isn't spelled right, I just can't remember the name of it.  So I then leave that class after the bell rings, and I go to History.  Today, we were taking a Miller Quiz and a regular Test.  It was pretty easy and moderately fun.  She went around and graded our notes as one quiz grade.  She then has us do a Miller Quiz by having us go through a bunch of questions as a class, answering the questions in our heads, and checking the question off if we know it, and X'ing it if we can't remember.  After ten questions, we then turned to a person beside us or someone around the room and asked them for the answer to the ones we didn't know.  After the Miller Quiz was over, we continued the Miller Quiz by packing up our stuff, and sitting on the desks.  We then passed around talking beanbag head things, and we were asked a question when we caught one.  After that, we sat back down in our chairs.  After everyone was sitting down, it was time for the test.  It wasn't too hard, until the last pages which had pretty tricky ones.  I am confident with my grade though, so I should be fine.

 

So after class, I left.  I'm sure I don't need to say anything more than that, and yet I am by typing this sentence.  So I head off to lunch after finshing some questions I got from Cinema class.  So then I go to lunch, and find out that there are no Chicken Sandwiches today.  So I leave after having eaten a roll, some mashed potatoes, and some turkey.  It was pretty good, but didn't quite come up to Chicken Sandwiches' level.  So I then go to Mrs. Banks' room to finish my poster.  She isn't there.  What a sick joke.  So I go back to the cafeteria and wait for lunch to be over.  I then go to AP English where I sign on, and I head to the library to get a play.  That was all I really had to do today because I only had one more assignment, which I had to do at home.  So yea, after class I go to the Behind The Wheel car, and I drive.  Today I drove on the interstate which I dread because of the fast speed and the bajillions of cars.  So once I get home, I end the school day.  Cliche Time!  "I'm Tickled Pink!"

 

By the way, I missed my deadline of ten minutes by five.  Not bad.  SO....this is awkward...I already gave you the cliche so....umm....bye?

 

 

Day Twenty Nine-Wednesday-March 11, 2009:

Well, once again I fail to keep up with myself and I am writing this entry a day late.  I'm going to try to finish this as well as my second entry up within 30 minutes....so here we go.  This Wednesday started out with me going to Statistics.  It was pretty fun-filled and jam-packed of excitement.  It starts out with us talking about what's going to be happening during class.  We were talking about what papers needed to be turned in, and we turned in those.  After that, we were told that we would present our Hot Topic #2 on Friday, as well as our projects.  We probably won't end up doing both knowing Mrs. Brogan, but it's okay.  So today, I was given a pass to go to Guidance to work out my schedule.  So we start grading our study guides for chapter two, until it gets time to go to the office.  So me, along with a couple other students go to Mrs. Rollins, the guidance councellor, and we converse about our schedules.  I went second or third; probably second if I remember correctly.  I signed up for Government, Chemistry, Drama II, AP English 12, Math Analysis, and TV Production.  I'm not sure about TV Production, because I'd like to see if I could get a class with Garrett because it turns out he's a junior too.  Ryan and Eric are both seniors; and they're graduating this year.  Our team is falling apart.  So anyways...I went back to class and finished grading my study guide.  Then it was time to go.

 

I go a little ways down the hall to Science.  I got my seat changed because the girls all in the front wanted to sit together, and would fight over their seats.  So I got moved to the back next to a kid named Robin in my Statistics class.  I like it more back there because the side I got moved to has all the people I like.  So I go through a class back there, and I can't quite remember what happens....OH!  I remember.  What happened today was we took a quiz on fog and clouds.  So yea, that's it.  I'll just tell you about how I go to my next class now.  This would be Drama again, and I remember well what happens here.  We have the last people get together and talk about what they're doing to refresh themselves on what their improvisation was.  So we give them that time, and they start presenting.  Then lunch comes, and we take a break for that.  From what I remember, the line was once again closed.  BUT WAIT!!!!!!!   Oh no...it's not....OH!! YEA IT IS!  It's OPEN NOW!  This is great, I get a Chicken Sanwich today!  So I sprint to the line, and I envigorously grab my Chicken Sandwich and swiftly type in my code and I dash back to my seat and rip open the wrapping to my delicious meal.  I then eat it.  The End.  So I then go back to the Drama room where we finish the final presentations.  After they're all done, the teacher then tells us our new pairs.  We then break and are given some more lines.  I can't remember them now because I'm lagging a day behind, so I'll give them to you on Friday.  So anyways, we had to generate two stories from those lines, and we will be doing two scenes.

 

So once we talk it over and decide what we're going to do, we wait for the time to leave to finally arrive.  Once it does, I go to Cinema class.  It was pretty nice today because we got to finish up Chicago.  It turns out that the girl who wasn't guilty got hung, which cleared up some turmoil between Roxie (the main character) and her lawyer.  She's nervous, and to clear up her nervousness, Billy (lawyer man) sings a nice musical number about having to put on a show for the jury and the audience and the judge, which you can Click Here to hear.  They go through the trial, and after a nice little cliffhanger and a little suspense building, it turns out that she's found "Not Guilty."  So she then goes out and tries to get a job.  No one takes her though, because they don't think she's really that good of a singer.  Even though she is of course.  So Velma Kelly (the other jailmate whose lawyer was Billy, and was a star) comes to Roxie and suggests they come together for a duo act.  She eventually accepts, which the movie ends with the large musical number.  Click Here to see it.  So I go to the Behind The Wheel car after class is over, and then I go around for about an hour and a half until it's time to go home.  So long story short, I drive around, get driven around, and get taken home.  I'm going to skip today's cliche because like I said, I'm a day behind and it's getting late.  So this entry officially <ends here>.

 

 

Day Twenty Eight-Tuesday-March 10, 2009:

So today is going to end with a plot twist; so keep your eye out for that.  But before we get to that special surprise which won't be much of a surprise now...I should start with the start of my day.  This is when I go into the school, and I go to my first class, Web Tech.  Today wasn't that bad of a class, but I'd rather be in another class.  So today we just add to our Desktop Publishing Dictionary with some new words, and we start learning about graphics and such.  After that we look at her overhead to play a game splitting the class into teams.  We then battle it out to see who can get the most points by answering the vocabulary questions correctly.  It started with my team winning, but the other team eventually passed us and won.  So then she has us take a vocabulary test or quiz or something.  I take it with no problem and turn it in.  That is pretty much all we did today.  Except for one last thing; we turned in our quiz/test/somethings and then we grabbed a small snickers thing for doing well in the review.  So I store mine for later, and we get to leave.  Once the bell rings of course.

 

I am then heading to the other side of the building to Science.  Today in Science we took some notes about fog and how it forms; most if it I already know from the answers that we had to write for those questions we did in a previous class.  So since that's pretty much all that happened there, I'll move on to my next class which was tons of fun because it was history.  Now Jessica is pretty much no problem now; she's starting to talk to a bunch of other people.  I'm so happy that she's so outgoing because now she doesn't have to talk to just me.  So anyways, today, we took some more notes on World War I, and finished up that section.  Then...she has us pack up all of our stuff as if we're leaving the room.  She then has us break up into three teams.  Then, it's a mad dash for the desks and chairs when she instructs us to build a trench to protect yourself.  She then gives the teams papers and we are to write our names down on the paper.  This is our flag, which we hang on the outside of our trench, which are actually more like forts.  So the goal is to go and grab another team's flag, and bring it back.  The tricky part is that you have ammo to shoot the invaders with.  She gave us marshmallows which are machine gun bullets, dynamite sticks which are....dynamite sticks, and rocket missiles from a nerf gun which are bombs.

 

So when you get hit with one of the ammos, you have to stand there for 5-10 seconds depending on the object, and if the dynamite or the bomb get into your trench and blow up, your whole base has to stand there for 10 seconds.  Our team won once, and no other team was able to get both flags.  We played three games.  So in the end, she explained that all is fair in love and war.  She was talking about how some teams weren't freezing when they got shot, and people were using "body armor" which was someone with two bookbags on covering their body, and a jacket to fill in the holes.  That was a guy on our team.  So after that, we put the desks and chairs back in order and return the ammo.  So then it's just a matter of waiting for time to pass for us to leave.  So we do.  Then I go to my lunch.  Today it was weird because it's like, I go in.  I sit down.  I look, and the line I usually go in is closed; so I decide to wait.  I wait, and wait, and wait, and it doesn't open.  So I figure I'll just get a regular lunch without the Chicken Sandwich today.  So I wait for the large line to die down, and I go wait.  I get some sort of lasagna-noodle hybrid sort of thing.  It was okay, but nothing quite meets the overwhelming power of the Chicken Sandwich.  So I eat that down, along with a breadstick I got with my meal, and I wait to leave.  Jonathan didn't come to me today, but instead at the end of lunch, we had to stack up our chairs.  So I do that after a period of not realizing that we had to do that.

 

Then the bell rang, and I went to AP English.  I talk with Garrett back in that same branched hallway as before, and no one paid no mind.  So it just goes to show; if we truly were a problem, they would have asked us to move again.  So yea, it was no problem.  So we go in the room when Mrs. Brogan gets there, and then everyone logs on.  It was interesting today because it turns out I have a group assignment.  I got paired up with Desirae; I don't know who she is, but we contacted each other and are trying to work out a time to get on at the same time.  After I sent her a message or two, I moved on to another assignment.  This assignment is AP Exam practice; it was an essay.  It was pretty easy, and I turned it in.  Once I did that, it was time to go.  So I logout, and I wait for announcements to finish and the bell to go off.  So once it does, I leave and I head over to Mrs. Wallace's room who I was supposed to have talked to by now.  So she tells me about the National Honor Society how they're having some ceremony for other members because they havn't had their initiation yet.  It's tomorrow at 6:30.  I'm not sure if I can go or not yet, but yea, one way to find out.  Well, there are many ways but I can only choose one way, so I might as well choose the best option which I will have to run through my head to decide.

 

So I leave Mrs. Wallace's room, and then, rather than leaving from the front entrance like I usually do, I start heading towards my first class of the day.  The Web Tech classroom door is getting bigger...I'm walking closer....I'm almost at the door....AND I PASS IT!  I then keep going down the hall to the art room.  I am now getting close to that, and I eventually get there, and then I pass that.  I then get to the ending door of the hallway.  I go out the door and I look around since I'm going to get picked up by my Behind the Wheel instructor.  The other kid who is in the car drives around until we pick up another kid.  After that, I drive.  I drive around and pick up another kid at York, right next to YRA.  I even saw Mrs. Norton walking around!  So then we head off to the road again, and we go to a 7-11.  This is where the driving instructor uses the bathroom, and I swap drivers.  Then I get driven home, and that ends another day.  Cliche: "There's a sucker born every minute."

 

Day Twenty Seven-Monday-March 9, 2009:

Today is yet another Monday at Tabb High School, and it went great as usual.  It starts with me bringing my Statistics project with me to the classroom.  It's pretty good, but I can't show you for two reasons.  1: I don't have it uploaded and 2: it's too big to fit on the scanner.  But anyways, we turned those in today, and we also finished presenting any Hot Topic 1's we had left over.  After that, we turned in some other work we had previously done, and Mrs. Brogan also passed out any last assignments we had turned in before.  So once she passed those out, we finished watching the Statistics video and took our notes, finishing up Do Now #2.  She then assigned us the work that we had due and the work we had to work on.  So yea, I have a bunch of flash cards, a little book work, and some notes.  Just for Statistics; but that's pretty much the only class I get homework for, so it's fine.  So anyways, that pretty much sums up what we did there.  So let's move on to the next class, Atmospheric Science.

 

Not much to report because she was in a slow mood today.  She just assigned us to do like, six problems in the book or so about hail and sleet and stuff.  So I did that, turned it in next to the sink, and waited for class to be dismissed.  Once it was, I went to my Drama class.  Today, Genesis and I got to present.  He let us all have ten minutes to rehearse, and we did.  So a couple people went, then we went to lunch.  So today was a very interesting lunch day, so I'm going to tell you all about it.  It starts with me going in there, and finding not one, not two, but one table where we usually sit.  It's not just a table, but it's a round table.  So we're trying to cram everyone around it, and as it turns out, I didn't get lunch today.  I skipped out on lunch because we had bought Chinese Food last night which I LOVE.  So I was going to leave room for when I got home for plenty of Chinese Food.  Little did I know, it was pretty much gone.  Enough to fill me up until dinner though!  So lunch was fun, everyone played with the table and stuff, and eventually it was time to go back to drama.  Genesis and I eventually got to go, and allow me to explain our improvisation here.

 

When I said here in that last paragraph, it was referring to the general location of "here [in this entry]."  So that means that I can start this new paragraph with the same meaning.  So anyways, Genesis is over on the stage brushing her teeth and pretend-changing.  She then yawns and lays down on a bunch of chairs lined up.  I walk up the stairs, and I put my ear up to the door.  I open the door smoothly and quietly and walk in just as carefully.  I then check to be sure she's sleeping, and I put on some gloves.  Then I take out a bag and start putting a bunch of stuff in it.  I put in some perfume, some books, a pair of pants, makeup, anything I could find.  Eventually I get a phone call.  I start freaking out because a phone call while you're robbing someone's house isn't a great time to be on the phone.  So I eventually hang up and get back to work.  So I get tired eventually and have a seat in her room.  I take a break, and after a while get back up and go to steal some more stuff but I trip on something.  She then wakes up because of the racket I make.  I slowly edge over to the door, but she knows I'm there and she chases me out of the house.  It ended a little short of the required time, but no problem.  It was otherwise a great improv.  So some more people went, more went, and then it was time to go.  So he says we'll just finish those up next class.

 

Now for Evolution of the Cinema.  We started out by finishing up Singin' in the Rain.  We then proceeded to continue the musical genre with a modern musical.  It's actually an awesome movie.  I love it.  It's called "Chicago."  I'll tell you what's happened so far in great detail because I'm loving this movie.  It starts out with this married woman who is having an affair with another man.  However, she was only doing it to become a star because the man convinced her that he had connections.  But he lied, and he was walking out on her once he "got what he wanted" in my own words.  So she shot him before he was able to walk out, and she was going to try and put her husband to blame for it because he was soft and she knew he would.  And he was, until he started putting the pieces together realizing she was cheating on him.  So he gets her arrested, and she gets put in the Cook County Jail on Murderess' row until her trial.  She then meets a bunch of other girls who sing about their stories which is a funny song I loved in the movie.  Click Here to hear it, keeping in mind it may be a little innapropriate for some.  So after that, she decides that she needs a lawyer.  MaMa (The Jail's Matron) hooks her up because she will help the girls out if she gets paid.  So the girl's husband talks to the lawyer and works a deal with him, and he decides that if he makes her loved by the public, he can keep her from death row.  So at the press conference, he speaks for her, and "works the press in his fingers."  You'll understand that when you watch the video you see when you Click Here.  I like that song too because it's funny how they're lying and getting away with it.  The huge metaphor with the puppets and everything is also awesome.  So that's pretty much as far as we got today, so we watch that.

 

After that, it's pretty much time to go.  So after that class, she gave us some questions about musicals we need to answer by next class which I *cough cough* already did.  She also wanted us to answer some questions we copied down last class.  Some of them we can't answer yet though; so I think we're good.  So anyways, after that I walk home with Ryan.  We go the long way because of the stoplight.  So he tells me about his plan for life and he has it all worked down to the dot.  So then I walk the rest of the way home, not beating the bus because we stopped at his house again to talk some, and so I go in and yea; cliche time.  "Actions speak louder than words."

 

 

Day Twenty Six-Friday-March 6, 2009:

Finally, another week has passed with me no longer going to YRA.  It all started when I went to my first period class which is regretfully Web Tech.  It was just as long and boring as every other day I attend this class; but I did get all my work done.  I didn't really have anything to do.  I got back my graded brochure, and I got a 98.  She then had us go to the computers, and make final editions of our brochures so she could hang them up.  She also wanted us to finish up our Desktop Publishing Dictionary with all of the words in the worksheets.  So I did both of those tasks, and finished relatively quickly.  Fast enough to where I had about a half hour left of class or so.  So I waited and she eventually called us in no particular order to print out our brochures.  She made us take turns because we were printing on both sides to make the trifold brochure.  So I printed that out as well as my dictionary and showed her.  Then I'll just skip to the part where I leave the class because nothing else of interest really happens.  Except that there were no morning announcements today.  It was great.  So we leave when the bell rings, and I head to Atmospheric Science.  At science class, she informs us that we are going to have the matching the clouds test nexxt week.  She also then has us do two problems from the book about different types of fog.  Wasn't too hard and everyone finished up pretty quick.

 

Once everyone did finish and turned it in, she gave everyone a participation grade for it, and handed it back and we went over it a little bit through a power point she had made up.  However, since the seniors had to leave five minutes earlier than everyone else, we had to just skim over some of it.  We didn't really cover all the points, and we'll probably finish going over the power point next class.  So once class is over I have to go to my History class.  Not much has been happening this week because of SOL's, and so we're pretty far ahead of the other class.  So it's for this reason that we had to finish watching the movie, and then just taking one or two notes for the day.  After that, we were done.  So I then head off to lunch where I get my Chicken Sandwich.  I don't remember what today's tasted like, but they were still in their scrambled position.  They've also had corn dogs for the past few days, but I didn't really think that corn dogs were that vital of a topic to mention when you could talk about Chicken Sandwiches instead.  So once I finish my lunch, I still have just about all of lunch left to wait to go to my next class.

 

So I'll just skip the rest of lunch because nothing notable happened, as usual when talking about lunch, and get to the part where I start walking to English.  I get there, and I stand with Garrett in the mini-hallway to the Cinema classroom because it is right next door to our virtual classroom.  That's really the best I can describe it...so just try to imagine a large hallway, with a tiny branch of a hallway to one room.  Back in the big hallway, next to the mini-hallway branch is the door to my virtual class.  That's pretty much as specific as I can get while still keeping it relatively understandable.  So anyways, Garrett and I stand in that mini-hallway, and someone was like, "You guys should get out of the hallway."  I was just thinking she was a jerk because we weren't in the way, we stood on the walls so everyone could get through.  And then some tall guy tries to stare me down to make me move.  I of course was unaffected because I knew I was not at fault, and ended up staring him down.  Burrrrrnnnnn?  So anyways, the girl goes in the classroom, the guy walks away, and then we wait for Mrs. Brogan.  She opens the door and everyone goes in.  This class was especially boring today.  I only had one more assignment due in English because I was spending most of the week working on it at home.  So I was going to try to contact Dr. Williams on the phone, but Mrs. Brogan said I wouldn't be able to get him and I should just go for the Vice Principal, Dr. Hartley instead.

 

I was a little dissapointed that I wasn't going to get to make my call to Dr. Williams, but still, I went to the Vice Principal's office and waited for another guy to leave so that I wasn't interupting anything.  I go in and ask him if he has a moment and then ask him what makes a good leader.  He answers and I go back and finish up my assignment with his answer.  I then found out that we had until Monday to finish up all of our assignments.  I was freaking out because it's like, I was spending all this time outside of school working on all that work thinking I only had one week to finish like, six fairly large tasks, not to mention some of those days included SOL days, and that snow day at the start of the week.  However, it's nice to know that I have no work over the weekend.  Other than that Statistics project which is due sometime next week.  However, I am still awaiting an e-mail from the head of the drama department at Christopher Newport University.  So when he replies to the e-mail I sent him, I'll be able to do that.  So anyways, I have like, a full hour left in English because I have no work.  So I sit there all class waiting to leave.  I get to leave when the bell rings, and then I do.  So I leave, and start walking home.  Funny thing about walking home today was that the light told me to go the long way.  I denied its demands and waited for the light to change so I could go the fast way.  I was in a fast way mood today.  So I go the fast way, get home, and this ends another day with me no longer at YRA.  Cliche you ask?  Okay, hold on let me see here...."You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours."

 

 

Day Twenty Five-Thursday-March 5, 2009:

Well, it would seem that this Thursday is over, and it is just about time to call it a day.  However, this is only to the untrained eye.  This day is not over until 12:00 AM.  However, if you were referring to my school day, which is why you read this, then yes, another day is past totally over.  So seeing how you're so totally interested in finding out what I did today, I suppose I have no choice than to give in to your demands, and tell you all about what happened today.  Well, it all starts with me going to my seventh period class again. What happens at this seventh period class?  Well, I'm there about ten minutes again so the teacher have time to do their attendance.  OH!  Before I actually go into the class though, I see Garrett which was pretty awesome.  So anyways, eventually it's time for me to take my writing part of the SOL.  I'm not allowed to talk about it, so I'll just tell you that I had to go down the secret hallway again, and go inside the room beside the room I went into yesterday.  Today, we stayed in another hour longer than the last part of the SOL.  That was pretty lame, but it got me out of having to go to science!

 

So once it was time to go, the kids who didn't finish were escorted to the health room, and the rest of us were then prompted by the office to head to our class after seventh period, which today was our fourth period class.  This is Drama for me.  Since the teacher is such a good sport, he gave everyone until lunch to talk over their improvisations, and to make sure they had enough content in it to meet the time requirement of three to five minutes.  Genesis and I got a few more ideas before the bell rang for us to head to lunch.  So at lunch, it was a more enthusiastic environment than usual, despite the enthusiastic Jon who sits at our table was not present.  The sandwich was still in the hamburger's pile today, but it didn't fool me for a second.  I didn't have to wait in line too today, because I was the first one there in my class, who got let out a minute early.  The Chicken Sandwich wasn't quite as good as yesterdays, but yesterdays was just in one word, flawlessly wonderful.  Today's was just wonderful.  So after the fun lunch period we had, it was once again time to return to our drama classroom for more drama.  So we are there for about five minutes or so, and then Mr. Poland cuts off the lights, and turns on the stage lights.  We were about to start presenting our improvisations to the class.  Genesis and I didnt' get to go today though, we were one of the last groups to be assigned, and he goes in order.

 

So a couple people go, and the assignmnet we have to do as spectators, is pay attention.  He calls on a random person to critique their performance and say how they did.  I was one of these people today, and so I explained what they were doing and what their scene was about.  I'm not sure if we're getting grades on how well we critique or not, but it was pretty fun.  So eventually he lets us go, and I head over to my Cinema class.  Here, we started a new genre of movie.  That's right; no more film noir.  We're going to almost the complete opposite of film noir, which is none other than..........MUSICAL!  I don't really like musicals.  Oh well though, it's better than sitting there taking notes about musicals.  We started watching "Singin' in the Rain."  It's pretty good actually, except for some of the longer more pointless filler songs.  Those are sort of like those long sentences I put in to lengthen out my paragraphs when I don't have much to say.  But hey; it's okay....it's okay...So anyways, we watch up to some part where the famous actress gets mad because someone else is voicing over her parts because she has a bad voice.  So then Ryan and I leave, and we go the long way because of the stoplight telling us to.  We get to his house after talking about movies, which is the usual topic we talk about since we just came out of Cinema class, and then I go the rest of the way down the neighborhood to my house.  I go in, and this is where I'll end the entry for Day Twenty Five.  It will end right after I put in the cliche for today which will be a comedic one I found in my agenda: "The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!"

 

 

Day Twenty Four-Wednesday-March 4, 2009:

So now I'm caught up with my entries.  Well, I am once I finish writing this one.  So today, we were instructed to go to our seventh period class first, like YRA does every day.  This is because today we're taking the SOL's.  The Multiple Choice part at least.  We're doing the writing part tomorrow.  OH, by the way, I would like everyone to know that I accidentally unplugged my power while writing Day Twentry Three's summary, and so the site messed up my lower entries, and I had to enter them all in again.  Luckily I have them all saved to a word document, knowing that something like this would one day happen.  Back to the good stuff: the SOL.  I was confused, because once we finished up taking roll in seventh, we had to go to our testing site which I was totally ignorant to knowing.  I walked to the person who told me where I would be going yesterday, and she told me the room number I was supposed to go to.  I didn't even have to ask; she knew what I wanted to know.  So I try to find it by walking around the school; and eventually ask Mrs. Miller if she knew where room 319 was.  She told me it was down the "secret hallway."  So I go down this "secret hallway" and go into the room and, in the simplest way to put it, take my SOL.  So I finish it pretty quickly, leaving me a lot of time to wait.  And wait.  And wait.  And wait..........

 

Eventually an announcement comes on that informs us to go to our next class.  So I grab my bookbag, and go to Atmospheric Science.  This was our next class because the SOL test only took the first period's class time.  We were now just going to walk out the rest of our day.  In Atmospheric Science, we talked about what would be on our quiz next week.  It is going to be our cloud worksheet, just mixed up a bit.  We are going to have to label the coulds which should be pretty easy because Mrs. Findlay did a pretty good job with teaching me that.  Then we start watching a video.  I know we watched a video today about storm chasers.  It was okay...but not great.  So anyways, the seniors left while the rest of us waited and finished the movie.  Once it was done, we still had about one more minute to wait for the bell to ring, and once it did, we were outta there.  I was then going to my next class which was History.  I have no regrets with today's class.

 

Today in History, Jessica didn't talk to me.  Also, we didn't do much work at all.  It was awesome.  What we did do was simple.  She gave us back our posters to finish up, if needed, and I actually had thought of a new way to do my poster, but I had gone over my pencil marks with black colored pencil, so I was unable to rease it and change the words.  Oh well, it's still fine.  It has all she wants on it, so I'll still get a good grade.  Once we finished those, she had us hang them up wherever we felt seemed like a good place.  I set mine right next to where she sat at her desk.  Great choice, right?  She looks to the left and she sees my poster to remind her, "HEY!  Kody is in your class...you're lucky."  So once we finished with that, she went around and looked at some during break time.  Once everyone got back, we started "finishing" the movie we  started.  Now, I wasn't here when they initially started the movie, but it's okay because I've seen it before.  It's National Treasure 2 that they were watching.  We started at the part where they have his mom translate the first board, and we ended where the bad guy got the second translation.  I'm not going to go into all the details in the middle because this movie tends to drag out.  Once it was eventually time for the seniors to go, they did.  Mrs. Miller then informed us, that "if you want to be a senior, you can go."  She has got to be the coolest teacher ever.  So I go to the cafeteria five minutes early, with no real advantage because the express line wasn't open yet.  So I wait a while, and the window thing opens.  I buy my Chicken Sandwich, and go sit down.

 

Today's Chicken Sandwich, I would like to inform you, was indescribable in the most perfect way possible.  It was so delicious.  It was full of flavor, it was so juicy and the temperature was just right.  It was a masterpiece.  OH!  By the way, the Chicken Sandwiches and the burgers swapped places again.  Both yesterday, and today, I had to grab my Chicken Sandwich from the right pile and not the left.  It almost caught me yesterday, but I read the signs and caught on to what their sly move was.  So because this Chicken Sandwich was so perfect, there is no need to describe any more of my lunch period because it is all meaningless compared to the wonderful sensation going on while eating that sandwich.  So I go to my English, and Garrett and I joke around for about five minutes waiting for Mrs. Brogan to get there.  Everyone goes in, and we get to work.  I didn't really get much done because of the difficulty of the assignments.  She gave us one of the hardest poems out there to try and decipher, and she then is having us modernize it.  On top of that, she is giving us another vocabulary assignment, a couple reading assessments, and some more work to go along with it.  Crazy stuff.  I finished one of the assessments already at home, and I finished one assessment at school today, I finished some questions about the tough poem, and I now have to modernize it.  I then have to contact a Virginia leader and ask him a question, comment on his answer, and then post it on the group discussions.  Then I have one other assignment I do believe.  Tires me out just thinking about it.

 

So anyways, once I do all that, a lady comes in to talk to a kid who sits on the other side of the room.  I start freaking out because she is talking to him about what classes he wants to take next year.  I was like, "whaaaaaat?  We already did that?"  I was freaking out because I didn't fill out for my classes yet, and she was saying that he missed the signup.  The guidance councellor was supposed to go around to your English class and ask you what you wanted to take.  This never happened, so I had a bone to pick with her after the bell rang.  I walked into the Guidance office, and asked the secretary person about the classes.  She informed Mrs. Rollins who didn't realize she missed me.  It was a good thing I reminded her.  She forgot that I had virtual AP English, so she never came to my class.  So once all that is taken care of, she says she will get around to it.  So I leave school a little late today, the buses start leaving about the time I pass the stoplight.  I go the long way today because I was behind schedule, and the lights were telling me to go the long way.  So I walk all the way home, and go inside.  Now I need another cliche, and I can end this thing....how about...."Looks like you've been caught with your hand in the cookie jar!"

 

 

Day Twenty Three-Tuesday-March 3, 2009:

OH MAN!  I can't believe I forgot to write up this entry!!!!  That's right, this is being written the same day as Day Twenty Four.  So I'm going to try to rush to get this one done in order to get caught up!  So this day started with me going to school confused because of the snow day.  Do I go to my first period class, or my second?  I went with first, assuming that that was the class I had to go to.  However, after a while, we heard an announcement saying that we had to go to our second period class.  So I pack up my stuff and head down to my Statistics class relieved I didn't have to take Design, Multimedia.  So I go there, and as it turns out, I wasn't the only person who was baffled.  It turns out almost nobody knew what was going on.  Apparently if you have a snow day, the day you missed gets shifted over.  However, seeing how this week is SOL week, it changed because they had it all worked out.  So in Statistics, we found out that no one had their binders for class because they swap their stuff out every day for their different classes.  I was totally prepared though because I always bring all my stuff for the fun of it.  Plus my bookbag doesn't really get that heavy.  So that was good.  After the hour we spend looking at the other projects, we move on to our Do Nows and the movie, "Against All Odds #2."  Our Do Now was to write two questions with answers about the movie.  Like the same Do Now for the other video.  So once we started that, and got about halfway in I guess, it was time to go.  So we stopped, and then we left for our next class.

 

I was going to Atmospheric Science.  It's a little shady what we did seeing how I'm typing this up a day late, but I'll try my best to fill you in.  I think what we did was we got our average in the class...and we may have watched a short video...I can't remember really.  My class average is 102.5 or something like that.  Yea, bask in that number for a while.........................basking.................................basking................................AHHHHHhhhhh.  Okay, moving on.  Now I get to go to my Drama class which I have no problem with.  I easily remember what we did in Drama.  Mr. Poland has everyone get out their books if they have them, and hands out books to the people who didn't.  We read about four pages of information about facial expressions and controlling your movements, and stuff like that.  So we finish reading, then we read what the assignment is for the reading we had just done.  It said that we had to do a pantomime, and perform a scene.  It had about ten or so listed, and then one last choice to "make up your own."  Mr. Poland gave out the choices to people, giving the first ones to a couple groups, and then making all the groups left have the last option.  I got paired up with Genesis, and we had to make up our own.  So I could tell you what we came up with, but that would limit the things I have to say for after lunch.  So I'll save it.  So then we go to lunch.  At lunch, I have a Chicken Sandwich as usual, and it gets really crowded at my end of the table.

 

One of the kids there apparently has a friend who has a lot of friends and they all came and sat with each other, pushing me over.  I had finished eating though, so it was fine.  So anyways, eventually lunch is over.  I go back to Drama class. In Drama, Genesis and I came up with a couple ideas.  She thought of one that I can't remember, and then I thought about a kid cheating on a test with the teacher in the front suspicious of them, and then she came up with the killer.  A burglarly.  It was perfect.  We then worked out the emotions and stuff we would show on the stage.  It's going to be pretty great.  I'll tell you about it the next time I have Drama, which I think is this next Monday.  So anyways, after we finish thinking that up a couple other people come over, a couple being as literal as it can be.  That means that two other kids came over, and then the four of us talked for the rest of the class.  UNTIL some lady came in to talk to me about the SOL.  I'm in Virtual AP English, so I was already a little confused as to what I was to do.  She told me I was going to do what everyone else did, and that if I had any questions to see her.  After a while, it was time to go.  I went down the hall and went into my Cinema class. Here, we finished The Skeleton Key, and then took a quiz on it.  It was a great ending.  You just have to love that good ol' film noir.  It turns out, the shady old lady was one of the conjurers who had performed the ritual which in reality was a spell that made you live forever...temporarily?  This means that it makes you live longer, and you can continuously use it to live forever.  So at the beginning, when the conjurers were seen in a flash back with the kids in the attic and were found by the people in the house, and they then tried to explain themselves by saying that they were trying to teach the kids magic, it was too late because they already finished the spell, and had switched bodies with the kids.  The kids, being in the conjurer's bodies, were hung.  So at the end, you find out the shady old lady was another victim of their spell, and the lawyer was too.  The old guy who was paralyzed was a previously used body by them.

 

They then got Coraline, the main character's body, and began taking over her life as well as the lawyer's.  It was crazy because Coraline was now in the shady old lady's body, and was being wheeled away paralyzed.  The reason that they made her stay there that whole time instead of just taking her over right then?  It's because she had to believe in the magic for it to work.  So we finish this grim movie, and then take a quiz on it.  I didn't get all of the questions, and I messed up on one of them..the teacher really isn't that good.  The class overall is fun though.  So anyways, despite this grim ending, and this grim quiz, we leave the room and start heading home.  We went the long way I think, because I remember stopping and watching the street have air bubbles coming out of the road in a little patch of water.  It was awesome.  We played around with that a little, then finished our trip home.  Eventually Ryan stopped off at his house, and I walked down the street to mine.  It was really cold.  So this is where I'm going to end this one, because in case you skipped the first couple sentences, I am a day behind while writing this.  So I'm not going to search for a cliche for today because that train already left the station.  Oh; hey, there ya go!

 

 

Day Twenty Two-Friday-February 27, 2009:

Phew, I almost forgot to write todays!  That was a close one.  So since I almost forgot, I must have started to wipe it from my mind.  I'd better get started before it all dissapears.  FOREVER.  So my day starts out with me going to Mrs. Wallace or something.  It's for National Honor Society or something and she talks to me about that for a bit, and then I leave and I go to Statistics.  In Statistics we finish sharing the hot topics from last class (for the kids that didn't have them) and then we move on.  What we had to do for homework tonight was to do the even problems in the book.  These all having to do with making graphs.  It's fun and all when you could be doing "find x" and stuff like that, but it gets old pretty fast when it takes about 5-10 minutes per graph.  Especially when you have a bunch of variables.  So anyways, she also talks about the project, and we talk about our Chex Mix data and what we'll do with that.  That was our Do Now.  We had to write down our data on the sheet in an organized table.  So that's all I can really remember from that class, so I then go to Atmospheric Science.  At Science, we were just grading our papers on clouds and adding extra stuff in.  Once we finished we started watching a bunch of videos.

 

Video upon video, we watched more and more about violent storms.  They were pretty cool because...hey; they were storms.  A few intense and powerful lightning storms, some huge tornadoes touching down, some hurricanes.  So yea; that was pretty nice to not have to do anything all class other than grade the paper.  So after a bunch of videos, it's time to go.  I then go over to the Drama room for Drama class.  So today in Drama we were told to go to the Auditorium again.  Not for me to perform; just to finish up everyone else's performances that didn't go last class.  So we finish those up nearly as drearily as last time; but not quite so dreary as the other time because not as many people had to go today so it didn't get as dreary.  I just said dreary three times in that last sentence.  Awesome.  So after their performances we go back to the Drama room.  There, I take out one of my play's posters for the teacher.  He hangs it up on his bulletin board.  So he then pulls me along with some other kids out of the class.  I was confused because a couple minutes before, he said, "Okay, you can listen to music now."  I wasn't listening to music, I was watching Oceans 11.  Great stuff.  So anyways, I was confused because one second he is having us play music, and the next he is pulling me out of the class.  I was startled because I thought he might be calling me out for misunderstanding him.  But no, he was just telling me that if I, as well as the other kids with me, wanted to do something easier for the "prop committee" then we can hang up posters to advertise.

 

Everyone who got pulled out readily accepted, because of how simple and quick it would be.  We can't hang them in the school though; we're hanging them up around town.  So I already have one down.  Just four more to go.  We got five each.  So then we go back to class, and I get another good twenty minutes of my movie.  I then put my stuff up, and I get ready to leave; and once the bell rings I do.  So I go to Cinema class.  I was so early; I beat everyone else to the classroom.  The only other person in there was the teacher.  It was awesome.  So then kids came in.  It was lame again.  So anyways, we start a new movie today.  It's called "The Skeleton Key."  How did I remember the name to this one?  I'll never know.  But it's turning out to be pretty good.  It starts with a nurse quitting her job because the people at the last hospital didn't care about the patients, and she goes to a big house like the one that's almost identical to the one in "Stay Alive."  There is some guy who had a stroke and was paralyzed.  So she explores the attic for something and finds a door.  She can't open it and the creepy lady talks to her about it.  She goes back up, and picks the lock, goes in.  It's some sort of witchcraft room.  She looks around and finds a record.  Plays it at her house and it's some ritual words.  She talk to shady old lady about it, shady old lady tells a story about the old housekeepers who were "conjurers" and says that the reason for there being no mirrors in the house are because you can see the two housekeepers in mirrors.  I can't really say much more about that.  I havn't got that far into the plot.

 

Anyways, eventually it's time to go, so I take out my 6-5-4-3-2-1 sheet where we wrote down things for double indemnity.  Such as "1 thing we'd change," "4 things that make it an iconic film noir," and "3 things that contributed to the mise-en-scene."  Mise-en-scene (miz-in-sen) is mainly the "essence" of the movie.  So I turn that in, and then leave with Ryan for home.  We went the long way.  We talk, we talk, we talk, "Bye."  I walk, I walk, I walk, I get home, I just barely beat the bus, but I do, and I go in.  Wow; I thought I was going to have to dedicate a paragraph to apologizing for writing too little since it was a half day today.  However, even though it was a halfday I was able to force out three paragraphs of text plus some.  So I hereby withdraw that apologetic idea.  So now to wrap this puppy up with a nice cliche: "You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."

 

 

Day Twenty One-Thursday-February 26, 2009:

So seeing how Thursday is over and I only have a half day tomorrow, I guess I'm only one half day away from a 2 day and a half weekend.  So here's what happened today.  I started by going to Web Tech.  We got our brochures back, and we were told to edit it how she said, and make it better.  I did that, and then she had us all take turns printing it out on both pages like a real brochure.  I'm pretty confident with mine, and I'll be sure to upload it some time at school or something.  So that was all we did that class.  Pretty boring...until the end.  I was told to wait because she had to make a folder on her public thing so I could turn in the digital copy of the brochure.  She apparently forgot, so the bell rang and I was still there.  She told me to just throw it in some other kid's folder, and she'd get it later.  So I did, and all that almost made me late to my next class.  On the walk to Science, I was talking to lunch Jonathan because he and I usually run into each other when I leave the Web Tech room.  So eventually we part paths, and I go into the Science room about thirty seconds before the bell rings.

 

Today in Atmospheric Science we were doing some worksheets on clouds.  They were the same ones that Mrs. Findlay had me already do in her class.  I was so prepared it wasn't even funny.  So I finish up with all the cloud nonsense, and after a little waiting it's time to go.  I head around a corner, around another corner, make a right turn, go past the library, turn left, go straight a bit up to the next turn, but instead of going down the hall, I turn left into Mrs. Miller's room.  Yea; you probably don't understand my directions but they sure make perfect sense to me.  So in Mrs. Miller's class, I set down my bookbag, and set my me down in the chair.  I didn't get out my notes yet because it's a technique I use to ward off enemies such as Jessica.  I saw her starting to come in, so I dashed to my bookbag, pretending I just got in the class and was taking out my notes.  I have to do anything I can to avoid eye contact, and that is a great reason to not look up at her.  So today we were talking about F E A R again, and how it started as F E A R, then turned into F E A R, then ended up as F E A R, and that's as far as we've got so far.  So she also happened to mention the funny name for blimps.  Dingaries was it; but after googling it and getting no results for the word, I'm a little skeptical.  I may not have spelled it right.  Anyways, after that I have to make a poster for anti-war.  We could choose any topic to do it on; or do them all.  I chose three: trench warfare and how bad that was, unhealthy food, and dangerous weapons.  I'll upload it when I get it back.  She's hanging them up though; so it may be a while.

 

So now I head on to lunch.  Not much happens, I eat my Chicken Sandwich, eventually Jonathan comes over and we talk a bit...then it's time to go.  I go to AP English, and as usual I talk with Garrett forever while waiting for Mrs. Brogan to get there.  My usual wording for the next part: We all pile in the room.  I logon, and then I get straight to work.  I finish all my assignments today, which was some outline for an argument and an assessment on some twelve page document.  It wasn't that bad; I just used the control + f method to answer the questions.  We were allowed to refer back to the essay, so I don't see why we couldn't search through it.  So it's time to go after the BOOOOP goes off, and Garrett and I go seperate ways.  I start walking home, and once again decide to go the fast way because the lights always seem to change that way when I get to them.  The timing of them must be perfect.  So I turn the corner, and who do I see wayyyyy down the road?  Ryan!  He was just getting home, and as was I.  So I walk in, and the day ends.  Now for your cliche: "Birds of a feather flock together."  Till' tomorrow.

 

 

Day Twenty-Wednesday-February 25, 2009:

I can't think of a snazzy introduction to today...so I guess I should just get right into it?  Okay...good deal.  I started out by going to Statistics where I had already DONE my homework.  That Hot Topic thing.  I did mine on some bird flu article.  We had to relate the article to statistics, as I said.  Apparently she wasn't very caring about how you related it, because she was pretty leaniant with the few people who had their hot topics.  Also in Stats, we got back our pie plates.  Click that link to see mine.  Our Do Now for today was we had to compare our pie plates to the class as a whole.  Not just everyone else's individually, but the "population."  Wasn't too hard.  After that we turned them in.  Just for your information: I'm going in reverse order apparently.  Those were the only two assignments we did today, but I said them in the wrong order.  We actually did pie plates and then we did the Hot Topics.  So anyways, once we finish those, we run out of time, and it's time to go.  So I now am walking down a couple doors to Science, and I sit.  I remain sitting, waiting for the bell to ring, and as the bell rings, I stay in my seat.  The teacher goes over to her computer while I am becoming more and more acquainted with my seat, and she plays a video.  It's about wind and stuff, which I watched.  Sitting in my seat.  So eventually, after a long time, the video is over.

 

She then stops the movie.  Well, she doesn't stop it; it's already stopped because it ended.  However, she does go over and close the window.  So she stops the video even more than it was in the first place.  After that, she comes around with her grade book, and writes down our grades of the square scantron test.  I got a 102%.  How is a guy supposed to fail in that class if she keeps throwing A+'s at me.  Oh well, I guess I'll just have to deal with it.  She even said, "I'm sorry it couldn't be higher; but maybe next time."  She always compliments me because of my outstanding grades.  And just so you know, yesterday's italisized rule has been void since 12:00 AM this morning.  Ka-ching, take that!  So once I get my grade, I have no other option than to sit there and wait for class to end.  This eventually happens, after two kids make a paper basketball and start shooting for the plastic box again.  He only got it in once.

 

So I leave and head off to DRAMA!!  No cross-out today, that's right.  I actually did go to Drama.  Not only did I go to Drama, I had a relatively good time at first in Drama.  It starts with me going in the Drama room to complete emptiness except for everything that is usually in there.  It's just all stacked up on the sides.  We're going to the Auditorium today.  It was pretty fun.  We got our papers with our choreographed moves, and people take turns going on stage, having someone else read the movements and poses.  The person on stage then performs it all, and he gave us a grade from 0/6 to 6/6.  I got a 6/6.  Also, every time we finished making a move and pose change, we had to recite a line.  Anything; and so what do I recite?  That's right.  Some of my play lines.  Everyone laughed because they had no idea what I was talking about.  As I was walking off stage, someone asked where that was from, and I said, "it was from my..." and then I stopped, and instead of talking, yelled out, "PLAY....I'M IN A PLAY....A PLAY."  It got everyone curious, so some Tabbians may just come to that play.  So once I finish mine, a couple more people go, and we head off to lunch.  I eat my Chicken Sandwich; yum yum yum; and nothing really exciting happens this lunch other than me having my slice of heaven again.  So eventually it's time to go back in the Auditorium.  Now; I'm sure everyone is knowledgable of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."  (CLIFFHANGER UNTIL NEXT PARAGRAPH)

 

Yea; almost every kid recites the lines to that.  A couple kids do "Row Your Boat,"  someone does "Hey There Delilah," and a couple others; but for the most part, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" was all you should have expected.  It got old.  Fast.  Relatively fast.  Not really fast so much as "after the 4th performance of the same piece."  Eventually, after the long, dreary performances totally void of any emotion and in place of emotion, filled with monotone notes of voice, it's time to go.  I head on over to Evolution of the Cinema after we stop by the classroom before it's time to change classes.  I get there, and we start watching the movie again.  I have the name today.  It's called "Double Indemnity."  It's about an insurance salesman who goes to a woman's house.  I'm going to make another long story short: He falls in love with her, she falls in love with him, but it's not really love; she is just fooling him; and they try to kill her husband, they pretend like he fell off the back of a train, they actually strangled him and had a huge complex plan, the salesman's bud finds out the crime, but doesn't think that the guy is involved; just the wife and some guy who met with her alot the past few weeks.  So salesman goes to her, she is going to kill him because she has what she wants, he ends up killing her with the same gun she took out because she couldn't do it when he looked her in the eyes, but she did shoot him in the arm while he was turned around, and he runs, makes a phone call which was how the video was introduced, his friend is outside the door listening to the whole call, and finds out the whole crime which the salesman was telling to the friend on the phone.  So salesman asks him to just let him go below the border, friend says you'll never make it to the elevator, he goes anyways, dies before he gets to the elevator, and it's foreshadowed that he dies.  The End.  So I walk home with Ryan; the fast way because the lights changed in our favor.  I go home, and Woo!  Another day done!  Cliche of the day: "Take the bull by the horns!"

 

 

Day Nineteen-Tuesday-February 24, 2009:

Today was a Tuesday.  So you all know what that means!  That's right!  I get to go to Web Tech!  Wooooo!  I start by boldly walking in, and we enthusiastically logon to computers, and quickly as well as efficiently work on our brochures.  We then excitedly print out our brochures on twopages.  I then walk up lively to the irreplaceable teacher and confidently hand her the piece of perfection which was my brochure.  Now that you've read about my first class, I'm sure what you're thinking is, "What's with all the italicized words?"  I will unbaffle your minds by explaining to you the reason behind said italisized words.  The italisized words are the ones which I threw in to make the first class sound like I actually wanted to be in that class.  Their value has absolutely nothing at all.  However, if you look at the last sentence of my first classe's summary, you'll notice it says, "piece of perfection which was my brochure."  Yea, that was no lie; hence it not being italisized.

 

So once I finish that fantasy class, I head on to Atmospheric Science.  Today, we took a test.  Or a quiz.  One of those.  So I sat down, she handed out the scantrons, and I noticed..."THIS ISN'T THE CIRCLE KIND!"  That's right, the scantrons she passed out were the rectangular bubbles that go:  " [   A   ]  ."  That made the test/quiz assessment thing INSANE.  It was CRAZY.  And THAT.....is no exaggeration.  It.  Was.  Intense.  So I turn that in near the end of the class, and then eventually it's time for DRAMA!!  history.  I go to history class wearily because I know that the talking girl will be there...and yet my terrific teacher as well.  It's a bittersweet class; but the teacher makes it totally worth it.  Today in history, we were talking about how something in history happened, and how it changed mankind.  This vague statement is totally true because we were talking about World War I.  She gave us a couple catchy saying which I will now tell you all to help remember how the war got started.  To start, let's talk about the "bad guys."  They were Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey.  The "good guys" were France, England, America, and Russia.

 

The bad guys can be remembered by thinking about a Thanksgiving thing.  "Germany and Austria were Hungary for Turkey."  Simple as that.  Now think about wars: Who ends up to be the good guys?  The people who win.  What do you do to the people who win?  You fear them.  F E A R.  France England America Russia.  Awesome, right?  We also talked about how Arch-Duke Ferdinand was killed.  He was driving in his car, and some Serbians came up to where he was making a guest appearance to the Bosnians who Germany had just taken over.  The Serbains threw a bomb in his car (like the cartoon bombs), and he picked it up, and threw it back.  It blew up a bunch of Bosnians, and they're all freaking out, "WHY DID HE THROW A BOMB AT US?!"  And the car floors it because of the assassination attempt.  So Mr. Ferd goes around and says, "I think we should make sure those guys are alright."  So they turn around.  Meanwhile, in a bar, the Serbians are all mad at each other for the failure.  Then, "He's Back!!"  They then go out, shoot him, and his wife.  We also talked about the fancy name for blimps which I can't remember, and the fancy name for U-boats, "Underseebooten."  Mrs. Miller had a great time with those names.

 

So eventually we go to lunch, not doing the project thing I said we were going to do today.  I get my Chicken Sandwich, go sit down...eat...Jonathan comes over....BOOOOP...Outside of English class...Garrett and I joke about some pictures...Everyone piles in...Logon...OKAY.  Now to the work work part.  Not much to say.  I answer a bunch of questions about an excerpt from "The Grapes of Wrath" and "I Remember the Thirties."  After a little struggle with the deep inner meaning to the questions, I move on to the editorial part of the assignment.  Here is where I wrote a speech about my controversial topic, Capital Punishment, for presentation to Congress.  I am not actually presenting it, but that was the scenario.  So finally, time to go.  I logoff, and start my trek home.  I hop up the stairs, beating the bus home by, I'd say about ten minutes.  So sorry about missing my cliche for yesterday by the way, I forgot to add that in.  So, I'll just give you one for today, totally disregarding yesterdays.  "You can't teach an old dog new tricks."

 

 

Day Eighteen-Monday-February 23, 2009:

This is the start of a new week, and also the start of another entry into the large epic tale of my life at Tabb.  That's right, EPIC TALE.  So today started out with Statistics.  I'm starting to not like the teacher.  She doesn't actually teach; she has us read the book then take our own notes and do our own study guides.  She also gives out a bunch of projects she thinks are fun, but are actually just another ten pound book to the back-breaking bookbag which is the class.  (Oh yea; metaphor.  What you gonna do about it?)  So today we started talking about this new project.  We have to make a poster about college, our major, and what all of it has to do with statistics, if it does.  We have to research and stuff; and the poster can't be square..it has to be in a shape relevant to our major or the college.  So it's not going to be very easy.  However, once we stopped the hour long lecture about that; we moved on to another project which is due next class.  It's called our Hot Topics.  We have to go online and find articles about hot topics that can be related to statistics.  I found mine already; but I still have to COMMENT on it, CRITIQUE it, and RELATE it...yea...so anyways, then she gave us another project.  This project was where she has us get into groups of three, then we all get 'about' equal shares of chex mix.  We then seperate it and count how many of each thing we have.  We'll be doing more with this next class.  So that's 3 projects : 1 day.  How does she do it.

 

So once that project bonanza is completed, we finally get to leave.  OH: And she actually thought she'd have time for a VIDEO on top of all that.  So I head on to Atmospheric Science now.  Today was pretty easy.  She handed us back some papers; like a quiz which I got a 105% on, and our report which I got a 100% on.  I rock.  So then we played a game.  She asked us questions, and if we got them right, she gave us a point and we got to shoot some ball thing into a plastic box.  Nobody got it in.  So that was pretty fun today.  I knew that to get it in, you had to go underhand, so I did, and I ended up tossing it way up to the top of the cabinets.  It was great.  So once we finished the game, it was eventually time to go to my Drama class.  Today in Drama it was pretty funny.  Now; I'm not going to talk about it all yet because I want to start a new paragraph.  If I were to start talking about it here, it would really be a lost cause because I'd only be able to get a couple sentences in before the paragraph started to get a little lengthy.  No one likes lengthy paragraphs.  So once I finish this line with useless filler text, I'll go ahead and tell you about drama, but in a NEW paragraph.  Starting..........................................now.

 

So today in Drama, we learned about the stage parts.  Up left, Up center, Up right, Center left, Center Stage, Center right, Down left, Down center and Down right.  So then we learn what tomorrow's assignment will be, which will be where a classmate will tell us which part of the stage to go to.  BUT, on top of that, they're also going to tell us what position to take.  Our positions will have to be something out of: Full front, 1 quarter left, 1 quarter right, profile left, profile right, 3 quarters left, 3 quarters right, and Full Back.  I'd explain all this stuff to you, but it doesn't really matter at this point in time.  Point is, we're going to have to know what it means and how to do it.  So after we're done reading from the book and hearing about this new assignment for next class, it's time for lunch.  Today at lunch it was pretty nice again.  I got my Chicken Sandwich, the table was all lively, and I saw a kid I knew in Middle School.  He didn't see me though because he wasn't at my table, he was at the table joined to mine.  So I was like, a hidden threat to him.  Once I finished with lunch, I went back to drama where we did some improvs.  We got put into groups of four to five people, and were told an inanimate object which we had to make a scene for.  We got a merry-go-round.  We got a couple of laughs; and I sure had a good time.  One of the people in our group didn't know which way we were facing, and she ended up having to go around backwards because she was facing the wrong way.

 

So we finished up all of those, and then Mr. Poland, having little time left in the class, had some kids go up on stage.  He would then tell them an object, and they had to be it.  I didn't go up; but someone got PHONE, and they COPIED what I did for that one assignment a couple class periods ago.  I was DISGUSTED.  But it was good to see what I was like on stage.  I was pretty good if I did it the same as he did.  So anyways, after all those laughs I went to Evolution of the Cinema.  Here we watched the movie and finished it up.  It was a great ending.  The good guy's wife gets killed by a terrorist, he gets tricked into chasing after a van which he thinks there is a bomb in, when actually the bomb is in the car he is driving.  So the empty van goes in the F.B.I. building parking lot, and he chases after it; bomb in the trunk of his car.  So he goes in, parks, and everyone already thinks he is crazy to begin with because he was blaming his neighbor of being suspicious when he checked out clean.  So he goes in, the van is clear, he runs over to his car realizing "Everyone in here is authorized.  Except YOU!"  (Said by the FBI guy who supports the good guy.)  He then realizes the bomb is in his car, runs in slow motion over to his car, opens the trunk, it shows the bomb, then it shows you the terrorists hit the button, blowing up the FBI building.  So he dies, his wife dies, he gets blamed for the bomb, his kid gets taken away by some relatives, and the terrorist neighbors have a sign in their yard that says, "sold."  What a happy ending.  But hey; it's film noir!  So then we start a new movie; and of course I don't remember the name.  But we watch some of that, and then I leave with Ryan.  We walk home, and I stop at his house to talk for a bit.  So I didn't beat the bus home because while chatting with Ryan, it came and went.  Eventually though I walked on down the street to my house, and go in the door.  This is where another day at Tabb High School ends with a much happier ending than in Arlington Road.

 

 

Day Seventeen-Friday-February 20, 2009:

So is it just me, or is this my FOURTH Friday here at Tabb.  Hard to believe, doesn't seem like it's really been that long.  So eh, I guess as usual I have to start with the icky classes, these being Design Multimedia (Another name for Web Tech) and Atmospheric Science.  So in Web Tech, we're still working on our brochures.  The rest of the class had to define some more words in their dictionary of Desktop Publishing words, but I didn't because I went ahead and did it on Wednesday.  So we work on our brochures almost all class.  We had to work on putting in text on all the parts of the brochure.  The inside pages, the inside flippy page thing, and the front.  Next class we'll work on putting pictures into our brochure.  I already picked out some pictures I'm going to use, so I'm pretty much set.  So anyways, alot of work later, "BOOOOOOP" goes the bell.  So I head over to the other side of the school for Atmospheric Science.  Not much to report here.  I just go in, sit down, and we work on answering some questions she has on the board.  I finished quickly and she was impressed because of how great I am.  But who isn't, really?  So then Mrs. Sklute starts asking us a bunch of questions to check if we were comprehending the chapter, and then eventually it was time to go.

 

Now that Science is over, it's time to go to my History class.  It's always nice going to history because we have a fun time learning, and then we have a long break at the end of class.  It was pretty interesting today because we were learning about President Roosevelt.  She told us that the way to describe him was that he was a nut.  He was crazy.  She even supported this with things he did, and it was hilarious to hear her enthusiasm about how insane he was.  She was talking about how he would have animals in the white house, and how he went over a day with a broken arm without even caring.  It was great.  We also talked about how the US gobbled up Puerto Rico and the Philipines and Panama and Guam and etc.  So eventually we stop because she doesn't want to start talking about World War I quite yet.  That's pretty much it for this class.  We would have had another assignment, but the class felt that they had done enough for the day, and so she said she'd save it for next class.  It's some cut-color-draw thing.  I'm not sure what it is, but knowing her it's going to be a great assignment.

 

So once the bell rings I head to lunch.  I grab my Chicken Sandwich and who is at the table that I usually sit at?  To my surprise, Ryan!  It was quite a nice surprise to end the day with.  He told me about how he thinks he failed a PreCalculus test, and how he doesn't want to go to government.  We talk some more, we joke some more, then my other friend who usually sits with me, Jonathan, finally comes over.  Just in case I never mentioned this name before, Jonathan is not the same as any other "Jon" I've mentioned in the past.  This Jonathan is a full-named Jonathan, no abbreviation by me.  So if I ever say "Jonathan" I'm talking about the guy who sits with me on the days I have lunch on "Web Tech Days."  But anyways,  I think that he sits with his other friends at the "other" table, and then comes and sits with me when lunch is almost over.  So the bell rings and he says a couple words to me as I leave.  I head on over to the AP English class after Ryan gives me some Stride- The Ridiculously Long Lasting Gum.  And it's true; it is a very long lasting gum.  It lasted me the rest of the day until I got home.  So I go to the room, and talk with Garrett waiting for Mrs. Brogan to arrive.  She does, and we all pile through the door.  So today I finish up my assignments except for one.  But I pretty much finished it.  I only had to answer one more question, which I did here at home.  (You just got another glimpse into my out-of-school-life!)  So I leave the class, and walk home (wow, now that is a short summary.)  That's right, apparently that class was only worth about 5 sentences.  The Stride Gum is almost more interesting.  So once I get home, I open the glass door, hold it against my back so it doesn't slam shut, and I then open the door door and walk in, shutting the door door behind me.  Once I do that, the glass door closes on its own because of a spring in the door.  So I throw off my bookbag, and another day ends at Tabb.  Now for my finishing statement: "If I had a dime for every entry I wrote about my day..."

 

 

Day Sixteen-Thursday-February 19, 2009:

Okay, so I finished up day fifteen, which of course was a good one because I get to go to my two favorite classes.  That's right!  Statistics and Science!  But no, seriously, I go to Drama and Evolution of the Cinema today.  Statistics you ask?  Well, that is my first class of the day.  I started out by going here, and then we get good ol' sit there and don't listen to the teacher lecture work.  We were letting the last guy present his pie plate, then we went on to completing our test from last class.  I was mainly done, just had to proofread it, change a couple answers, etc.  So then the people who felt they were ready got to retake their quiz from a couple classes ago.  It was pretty easy this time.  I got a 100%, so I'm pretty awesome.  After that, she gave us a study guide.  Not just a study guide; this thing is like half of our statistics book.  It was huge; and it only covered chapter 2, which we talked about today.  It was about drawing graphs and stuff.  So this sheet was homework, and thought I don't usually give you looks into the life outside of school, I will tell you that I already finished the whole sheet along with an essay I had to write about two of the questions.  Two words: I am just that good.

 

So that's the basics of the boring class, and now onto an equally as boring class: Atmospheric Science.  Not a lot to tell you here.  We got two papers back, yada yada, we go over the notes we took ourselves, blah blah.  NOW, onto the good stuff.  Drama....the moment we've all been waiting a relatively short time to read.  (I'm not really writing that much today, am I?  I'll try adding in as much of my own commentary as I can to really stretch this baby out for all it's worth!)  So today in drama, we were told to bring a piece of paper, and something to write with.  "What in the world could we be doing?  I'm scared.  I wonder what the chicken sandwich will be wrapped in today?"  All these thoughts RACING through my head at the SAME TIME.  He cleared up the first two after he took roll though.  "Kody." "Here!"  Okay, skip skip skip...and...."Write down dialogue for two people."  Awesome.  I knew this was going to be fun.  He told us to think of an opening line by thinking about anything; but it can't be hello or anything simple like that.  Our dialogue had to contain lines for two people alternating turns speaking.  It also had to have a conflict.  So I think of, "What was that movie..." because I couldn't remember the name of the movie that we were watching in evolution of the cinema.  So then I rip through that thing; driving in the fast lane.  Ideas just kept coming.  Click here if you'd like to read it.

 

So once we finish writing our scripts, he pairs everyone up.  I got paired with a guy named "Steven Washburn" which I remember because I had to write his first and last name on a copy of our script to give to the teacher.  So we then have to pick which of our scripts is better, and then we have to act it out.  He thought mine was better, so we choose to do mine.  So then it's time to go to lunch.  Lunch is always great because I always get that delicious Chicken Sandwich.  Ahhhh, it's bringing back memories.  I remember opening the wrapper, picking up the sandwich, taking a bite, looking down at the wrapper to see the words "Delicious Delicious Delicious Delicious Delicious" written repeatedly on the wrapper in bright blue.  Put there for fun?  Probably not.  Subliminal Messaging?  Oh yea.  So anyways, I eat down that Delicious Delicious Delicious Delicious Delicious Chicken Sandwich, and then after the lunch block is over, I go back to drama.  We have about five minutes to review our script, and then we start presentations.  Steven and I didn't go first, so you'll have to wait for me to put in this sentence as some filler in order to make the wait seem more realistic.  "Steven and Kody."  OH!  That's us.  So we go up, do the performance, get some laughs after the punchline hits them, and then we go to sit back down.  Now, you may think ours is bad, but you should have heard some of the other teams'.  BUT, we didn't get to hear everyone's.  We eventually ran out of time.

 

So now it's time to go to Cinema.  Here, we were taking a Quiz on Westerns, some Film terms she never went over, Film Noir which she did go over, and Sunset Boulevard which we watched.  The western part was pretty easy, the film terms were killer, but Ryan helped me out with a couple he knew, and I took a good guess at some of the others.  The Film Noir questions were pretty easy, and the Sunset Boulevard questions were a piece of cake.  We then start watching the movie again.  The name of it is "ARLINGTON ROAD."  Garrett had said it ended with "Road" and I guess he was right.  I was also right in thinking it started with an "A."  (This is what my dialogue was based off of.  I didn't know what the movie was.)  So we watched this for a while, seeing Jeff Bridges do a bunch of research about his neighbor who is lying about his past...they kill his wife because she catches on, they kidnap his son, and now he's all freaking out for some reason.  So we finish up today by him walking home or something, I think he was sneaking up to his neighbor's house, I can't remember.  But anyways, time to go.  I walk out with Ryan, forget to get my coat from my locker, and we go the fast way today because he had an orthadontist appointment today.  I only tell you this because he told me on the walk home, if he told me after I went inside the door, I wouldn't have been permitted to tell you that because it would conflict with my own guidelines.  I walked inside when we passed by my house, and I suppose I'll stop here even though my life is just as exciting and action packed as my day at school.  Today, I will end my typing by saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater!" 

 

  

Day Fifteen-Wednesday-February 18, 2009:

Bad news, no drama class today...so unlike yesterday, today could not be referred to with "pretty interesting with a slight incline of excitement as the day goes on."  Rather, this day would more likely be called "somewhat okay with a small slice of heaven packed in the middle."  Now, before we start talking about the small slice of heaven, we should start with the "somewhat okay" part of the day.  This would be where we begin our venture into the unknown also known as the life of me.  Web Tech.  7:20 AM.  Today.  It was just like any other class...but easier.  Yawn.  I had to read some of a packet about Desktop Publishing.  Then, I got on the computer to start making a "dictionary" for "key terms" in the Desktop Publishing "packet."  So once I do like, about 10 of those, I have to start on my brochure.  She was just having us copy and paste our information into a three columned word document.  Man, if you guys are half as bored reading this as I am writing it, then please just skip the rest of this current sentence to the next paragraph, because this sentence is just going to be a long runon to try to keep your attention from the next paragraph as long as possible; so yea, try your best not to read any longer than you already have, and if you're still reading, then I must inform you are wasting all of your time that you could be reading more valuable information about my day in the next paragraph, by performing the action which I previously listed in this very same and very long runon sentence as being reading this sentence.

Next class I go to is Atmospheric Science, in which is pretty uneventful.  I love uneventful science days because I don't really like science that much.  If Mrs. Findlay is reading this, I love science; it's my favorite subject.  If she is not reading this however, science is one of my least favorite subjects..there are so many difficult terms to remember.  However, all we were doing today in science was just finishing up the notes which we abruptly stopped yesterday due to her anger building within her SOUL!  So I turn that in and wait out the rest of the class to leave for my next class.  This was US History, and I really like that teacher.  She is a great teacher, and she is making history one of my favorite subjects now.  History used to be my least favorite, unless Mr. Tremblay is reading this, in which case history was, is, and always will be my favorite subject.  What we did today was we went over a couple notes.  Once we did that, we had our guidance councellor for the juniors, Mrs. Rollins, come in and talk to us about the SAT, SOL, ACT, ASVAB, etc.  So once she finished talking, we went back to taking a couple more notes.  After that the talking girl (Her name is Jessica I found out today) talks to me a bit before starting to read some sort of anime comic.  She asked me if I had a login for some naruto fan site thing.  I was like, "uh, no?"  So then she rambles on about a bunch of other stuff and I try my best to block it all out, and then boom, time to go.  Mrs. Miller, the history teacher, lets the class leave a minute early every day because she's awesome, and so I get to lunch nice and early.

So, here is my slice of heaven.  If you didn't see this coming, you must not have read my third entry to this long autobiography about my life at school.  So if this is the case, I highly suggest you go back and re-read that day, along with any other days you may have missed so you can catch yourself up with the amazingly interesting life which is mine.  So anyways, you probably are not going to go down and re-read this day or any other day, so I may as well tell you along with anyone else who is ready this same paragraph that it was my Chicken Sandwich.  I always love this part of the day.  It was unusually delicious today.  It may have been the wrapper.  They had put it in some sort of saran wrap or something because they must have run out of paper-like wrappers.  So anyways, I chow down and eventually my friend comes and we talk and joke around some, and then it's time for my last class.  I head on to English, which if Ms. Oxley is reading, is my favorite class of all times.  So Garrett and I talk about the weather outside, predict the amount of rain, and a bunch of other stuff that I would bring up to you if I was trying to make pointless conversations.  He knows how to have a great conversation like me.  So anyways, Mrs. Brogan, my math teacher, who is also my English instructor, arrives.  We walk in and work.  I finish almost a whole assignment, but not quite because it was really confusing.  I had to analyze like, six poems which is really difficult because it's about the, what I call, "IMPLIED METAPHORS."  She is asking questions about metaphors that I apparently don't catch onto.  So I have a lot of trouble with this assignment.  Anyways, a lot of confusion later, I'm about three quarters done with the assignment and it's time to go.  So I logoff, listen to the ending announcements, and leave the room.  Now, today, I forgot to grab my coat from my locker, so the walk home was really cold.  I go the long way, and I'm glad I did.  Ryan's mom just happened to drive to the school to pick Ryan up, and she sees me on the way home, and gives me a lift the other half of the way home.  So I say we could end another day at Tabb by saying, "Cliches--Avoid them like the plague!" 

 

 

Day Fourteen-Tuesday-February 17, 2009:

Today can be summarized with one word: pretty interesting with a slight incline of excitement as the day goes on.  So let's talk about why today was such as it is.  It started with...Statistics...yay...So I go in the classroom and today we are finally presenting our pie plates.  I still can't show you that yet because I havn't got it back back yet, we just got it back to present, so I'll try to get you a picture of that as soon as possible.  So we present those and then we have a Do It Now.  These were pretty easy and interesting because we were comparing our pie plates with the rest of the pie plates.  What was funny was that most of everyone's pie plates were lacking with blue tootie frooties.  (Tootie Frooties are like Fruit Loops but with a different name if you are unaware.)  So anyways, we finish that and then we start on our test.  It wasn't too hard because, well, it wasn't.  So we start that and we're going to finish it next class.  Shouldn't be too hard.  So I then go to my Atmospheric Science class.

Today in Atmospheric Science, it was pretty boring, but definately better than being in Statistics.  IN STATISTICS, by the way, my teacher's name is Mrs. Brogan if I didn't mention her before.  So anyways, Mrs. Sklute, the science teacher for those of you who don't remember or didn't read Friday's summary, handed out a study guide for the chapter we're working on.  They weren't really "study guides" as much as they were "notes."  But these notes we had to fill in ourselves.  So, that made things a little difficult for everyone, but not so much for me because Mrs. Findlay already covered most of this stuff.  All of this stuff.  I just couldn't fill in the blanks with the words she was hinting at, so I grabbed a book to do so.  So I start filling that out and some kids aren't working on it.  This gets Mrs. Sklute mad and she collects them.  I start working on some Statistics homework which I...sort of forgot to do in a manner of speaking.  But anyways, I get pretty much done with that, and then before I know it it's time for a huge jump in fun for the day, drama.

I walk on over to drama class for one of the most fun days yet.  "Why?" you ask?  Well, it just so happens that I was about to tell you the answer to this very question!  So it starts out with the teacher, the real teacher, whose name is Mr. Poland, not the substitute which was mentioned on last Thursday's summary.  THEN, once it starts out with him taking roll, he has us recreate one of our inaminate objects from last class since he wasn't there to see them.  So it wasn't too hard.  However, the next assignment...was...AWESOME!!  I loved it, it was SO MUCH FUN.  So he hands out these short little stories about a little girl who is walking through the woods.  It's very dark and rainy, and so she's running to a house for shelter.  In that house, there is a monster, and long story short; she hits it and it turns into a bunny.  So our job was to recreate this story.  Not too hard; UNTIL I FINISH THE SENTENCE!!!!  Our job was to recreate this story WITH FIVE FREEZE FRAMES.  Now, I didn't know what freeze frames were so I suppose you don't either.  These are where you have total darkness.  The stage lights come on, and you are all in a pose.  The lights go dark again, pitch black, and they come back on.  Totally different pose.  It makes it so hard to find your way around the stage, which made things so much fun.

So before I tell you more about this, I have to go to lunch.  So I run to the cafeteria, get my GREAT Chicken Sandwich, and eat it.  I play around with my friend's water bottle for about 30 minutes, and then back to Drama I go.  So what we did for our freeze frames.  Well, starts out with me and everyone else being a tree except for one person who was a little girl running through the forest (us) in the rain.  The next freeze frame shows a monster (me and two other people), the little girl (same person), and a coat rack (we ran out of ideas for the scene..).  So then, the next freeze frame has the monster moved closer to the girl as if he is going to attack her.  She's on the ground totally scared.  Coat rack still present on the stage.  Next freeze frame shoes a bunny (the head of the monster), a desk (me), a chair (the other part of the monster), a girl mad at the bunny (same girl...), and the coat rack (guess who?).  So our last freeze frame shows us all as trees again except for the girl who is happily running through the forest of smiling, happy trees.  The End.  So then everyone else presents.  Ours was the funniest because we got to go first; and so it got kind of old after we did it, but it was hard for everyone not to laugh the entire time.  So now it's time for Cinema Class with the teacher being named Ms. Milne, where we are finishing Sunset Boulevard.  So in the end, the girl goes crazy and says her famous line, "Alright Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup."  Background information for that scene: That lady killed the man she loved because he was walking out on her, and because she used to be a silent movie actor, she figured NO ONE walks out on her, and so she killed him.  The news is there to interview her, and the cops there to arrest her, but her butler (the guy acting like the director) was her first husband, and he is trying to protect her because she is mentally unstable, so he is making her think she is on a real set of the play which she wrote.  It was a great movie.  Now, usually I would start a new paragraph by now, but no use because I just have to say that I don't remember the name of the new movie we started, but it's still film noir, meaning it's depressing.  So I then walk home the long way because I got out 5 minutes early with my friend, and so this ends another day at Tabb.

THE AUDITIONERS: The Auditioners, for those of you who don't know, is the play which I will be performing in.  I got the information about where it will be and what times it will be (there will be two performances).  I got a bunch of posters, so I'm planning to put some up at YRA, so keep a lookout for those (and possibly even me!).  So when it gets closer to the time for the actual play, I'll put the information up here.  It won't be until April, so I'll give you the information some time in March so you won't forget it.  Thanks!  Hope to see you all there! 

 

 

Day Thirteen-Friday-February 13, 2009:

Another week is over, and it won't be for another 3 days until I go back to school.  Let's try to make today a memorable one, shall we?  It all started when I went to my first class.  I never mentioned my teacher names; so I'll tell you those as I go to the classes.  My web tech teacher is Mrs. Banks.  She is not as good as Mrs. Norton, but at least I have something to do other than just sit there all class.  Doing what she wants us to do isn't much more meaningful though.  She is having us make a brochure for a job in desktop presentations.  I, like I said, am making a web design one.  So I did some more research and printed out a copy of the information I had found from last class and this class combined.  So the announcements go off and I go to my next class.  Atmospheric Science was relatively nice because we had book work again.  It was about the adiabatic changes to air temperature and such, and so I mainly just had to copy my answers from my old homework in Mrs. Findlay's science class.  However, just to be a good student and to make sure I pass the next test, I read the material to be sure I was knowledgable on what I was writing down.  So I turn in the work, and then it's just about time to go.  I head on out the door.  OH!  Before I go, I'd like to tell you all the name of the teacher.  Her name is Mrs. Sklute.  Also not as good as Mrs. Findlay, but at least I have something to do other than just sit there all class.

 

Once I leave her class, it's time I go to......History.  Now, I still get my same seat once I get there, but knowing that one girl; I think her name is Jessica; I'm not totally sure, but anyways, I go and sit down.  I wait to take out my binder so when she comes in I won't have to make eye contact.  I know whoever makes eye contact with her is considered a target in her eyes.  So even though I don't look, she for some reason labels me, and BAM.  Direct hit.  She not only targeted me, but came over and started talking to me.  Luckily class didn't start long after that.  So she had to go sit down, and class starts.  Now, I'd like to tell you that the History teacher's name is Mrs. Miller.  She is definately a great teacher.  She saved me from Jessica.  Woo!  I'm a jerk, I know.  So anyways, today we started talking about how the US was like pacman and the little countries were all like the ghosts.  We were going around eating all of them.  How we bought Alaska from Russia, we took Hawaii, and we stole Cuba.  We also talked about how newspapers were lying about their stories and their pictures.  In fact, she had one kid pretend to be a photographer, and she had another kid pretend to cut her head off with a styrofoam sword while the air photographer took their picture.  It was pretty funny.  So anyways, once we finish the notes we have about 10-20 minutes of free time left.  So I just wait until it's time to go and BAM!  It's time for my Chicken Sandwich again.

 

So today, the Chicken Sandwiches were fine.  They were back in their original position with the original wrapping.  So were the cheeseburgers, but I didn't feel like mentioning them because they're really just a sideshow for the Chicken Sandwiches.  So I buy up my chicken sandwich and head to my seat.  It took my friend a while to get his lunch and stuff, but eventually he did and he came and sat down for like 10 minutes.  Lunch seemed to go outrageously slow today.  I don't mean slow as in quiet like yesterday, I mean slow as in speed; like "WILL THIS MADNESS EVER END???"  no.  it won't.  I had to wait for quite a while for said madness to end, and when it finally did, I started to go to AP English.  Today in AP English, I had to work on writing a practice essay.  It was an actual exam prompt from previous years, and I had to respond to it as if I was taking the exam.  So what we had to do was read 2 letters between a guy from the Coca-Cola company, addressing a person who wrote a book.  This was because the person who wrote the book was using Coca-Cola's "It's the real thing" slogan in part of its own slogan.  So Coca-Cola was complaining, and then they got a response in which he mainly blows away all the things Coca-Cola said.  I wrote up the report, and if you'd like to read it, Click Here.  Also, I asked Garrett for the movie title.  I remembered part of it through the day, and I thought it was "Sunrise Boulevard."  I was close, because the actual title was "Sunset Boulevard."  Oh well, close enough.  So it's pretty interesting.  I'll tell you how it ends on Tuesday if we get to finish it.  So I'm sorry that I must end here, but after I say that "I then walked home and went inside" I have to end this day.  So;

I then walked home, and went inside.  AND THEN--

 

 

Day Twelve-Thursday-February 12, 2009:

So I've been home around an hour and 45 minutes, and it's about that time again to tell you about my day.  Well, today was not that great actually.  However, it is still my obligation to tell you all how it went.  So it starts off with me going to Statistics, remembering a worksheet I was supposed to do.  I start to work on that, and then she comes and opens the door.  I go in and sit down and continue working on it for a while.  Now, the questions on the worksheets had very vague ways of asking them, and so the answer was hard to get.  However, there was only one answer apparently she'd take, and so I got kind of annoyed at that.  Anyways, she isn't collecting it until the day of the Chapter 1 test, so I should be able to make some changes.  After that, she passes back our rubrics for our pie chart.  This was another downer here because she deducted some points.  It was for stuff that doesn't make any sense; and that annoyed me as well.  So we do a "Dow Now" and it's the exact same kind of thing as the Do Now where we listed examples of types of numbers.  I'm starting to think that Mrs. Collier would be a much better teacher to have than this one.  So anyways, we continue the pointless assignments and stuff for the rest of the class which seemed to never end.  Eventually though I got to leave.  I go out after I hear the announcements and the bell rings, and I head off to Science.

Today in Science we had a quiz on the relative humidity and stuff that we've been going over for the past like, week.  It wasn't too hard except for one question which we didn't really go over much.  Other than that though, I am pretty sure I nailed that thing.  So once we finish up with the quiz, we jot down a couple notes, and then it's time to go.  So now I'm going to Drama where, as I said yesterday, we're going to finish up that 3 part assignment.  So I go to the room and it turns out we have a sub.  I wasn't sure what to expect, so I brace myself for a bad class period.  It wasn't that bad though.  At first, we had been broken up into groups of 2 and we had to come up with two objects.  We then had to pretend to be one of those objects, and have the other person also do one.  Once you finish, the teacher has to be able to guess what it was.  Either him or the class; the class all were a bit smarter than the teacher today.  So anyways, my partner and I go up first, unknowing of the fact that we had to come up with 2 objects.  We were only prepared to present one.  So she lays on the ground flat and I pretend to pull a shirt off a hanger.  I then put it on her back and grab an air iron and start to iron the air shirt.  She was pretending to be "Is she an ironing board?" "IRONING BOARD!" "I think she's an ironing board."  The class was filled with a bunch of students' responses to our display.  So we go sit down because we didn't know we had to come up with two.  So we watch a couple more and then it's time for lunch.

 

I go and sit down at the table where it is unusually quiet.  I wait for the express line to open, and I go over and see that the Burgers are where the Chicken Sandwiches usually are.  What is up with THAT?  It's like they know I love my Chicken Sandwich, and so they try to take it from me.  They even changed the wrapper that the Chicken Sandwich was in.  What kind of sick joke is that?  Well, luckily I saw the sign on the top of the sandwiches which says, "Cheeseburgers" over the spot where the Chicken Sandwiches usually lay, and a sign that says, "Chicken Filet Sandwich" or something like that over the spot where the cheeseburgers usually are.  So I grab one and I go sit back down in my seat.  I chow down, and continue the very slow lunch day.  Once this unusually silent lunch day is over, I walk back to class.  It was weird because we had a sub, and I didn't have to wait to go in the room.  The regular drama teacher usually goes and eats lunch in the cafeteria or something and takes forever to get back.  So I go in and my partner and I have already come up with another object.  We go up and I sit on the ground and fold over.  I then start shaking on the ground and go "BRRRRRRRRRR!"  She then grabs my head and pulls me back upright.  "Hello?"  I was a cell phone!  People were totally baffled until she said hello.  It was funny.  So we sit down and then we watch a couple more people go do their objects.  We are then broken up into larger groups and we have to join together to make a machine.  Long story short: my team pretended to be a boat.  Another team did a boat, but it's okay, ours was totally better.  Theirs was a motor boat, but ours was a motor boat with a sail.  Nice.  So anyways, eventually that class is over and I start off for my last class and probably the high point of my day, Cinema.  This class we were starting a new genre other than Western.  YES!  We were doing Film Noir which is like opposite of the usual movie they made back then.  This kind of movie was depressing and dark, full of crime, and "it was becoming increasingly popular" in the US says the teacher.

 

So we start, and probably get about halfway through this new movie.  It's called...man I stink at remembering these names.  I vaguely remember it; a tad too vaguely to tell you.  I'll probably be able to tell you tomorrow.  So anyways, we watch a lot of that, and Eric makes a bunch of jokes during the movie about the people in it.  He always does that.  He and Ryan both make a lot of jokes about movies.  So anyways, we ended up with this part where the lady has tried to commit suicide and has tricked the man into dating her.  So; just from that you can see it's more depressing than the usual movies.  Anyways, eventually it's time to go and we can't watch any more.  Eric and Ryan leave, and I stay in the room to ask the teacher about the prop committee.  She says that she needs typewriters and stuff; so I'll probably see if I can find one of those.  Then the bell rings and it's time to go.  I walk home the fast way again because I didn't want to wait for the light to change so I could cross the street.  So I go home, go in, and another day ends at Tabb High School.  I'll see you all tonight at the Parent Partnership! 

 

 

Day Eleven-Wednesday-February 11, 2009:

Okay, I finished up day eleven and it is now that time again to tell you how it went.  I started out by going to school and then stopping by my first class room.  Of course I have to wait for the teacher to get there..but once she does I'm good to go.  I go in and I talk with one of my friends about Spanish and stuff; and then class starts.  Today our assignment was to do some research on a career having to do with computers.  She gave us a list of ones to choose from such as Game Designer, Graphics Designer, and of course out of the several she gave us, I chose Web Designer because I have the most knowledge with that.  So once I've done some research on the salary, requirements and things you have to do on the job, it was about time to go.  So I sit and listen to the morning announcments, and then I get to leave the classroom.  So once I leave, I head straight for Atmospheric Science.  I was pretty prepared for today because we were just writing down more notes about what will be on our quiz coming up.  I don't think it will be too hard because I know all that they're talking about.  So once I finish with that class, I had to then go to my next class which was History.  So the desks are in their previous positions today, and there were no longer clusters of desks.  This is unfortunate for me for 2 reasons.  1: I have to sit next to the girl who talks alot.  And 2: I have to break my neck to look up at the projector screen because I sit in the front of the room.

 

Now to solve one of these two problems, I ask the teacher if a seat is available in another location.  She explained to me that it was first come first serve, so anything goes.  So I sat down a row back from the regular place I sit.  This was about where my desk was when it was in a cluster, and it was a lot easier to look at the screen.  However, the talkative one still sat one row in front of me, so it was not very difficult for her to turn around and chatter her mouth off.  But anyways, today we had a quiz.  A quiz about big business and I don't think it was that hard.  I am almost positive I got a 100%.  So once the quiz is over we have a huge free time period where we just sit there for around 30 minutes.  This was a break so we could start the next section fresh.  So once we start up with the new notes, we only have to jot down one or two blanks and then we're done with notes for the day.  After that, she plays us the "Maple Leaf Rag" to show us how music changed from marches to this new upbeat peppy music.  So once we're done there, I head on out to the cafeteria for Chicken Sandwich.  In this case, Chicken Sandwich is taking place of the word "Lunch."  I figured that Chicken Sandwich was a much more appropriate term to use here.  So I gobble that up and my friend comes and we talk about...something I can't remember at this time.  Whatever it was, it was totally pointless and funny to only the two of us.

 

So lunch is over, and I head on over to my AP English room.  I talk to Garrett some while waiting for the teacher; and then everyone piles in the door.  So I found out that Garrett is actually taking Algebra in that class; not English.  Weird, right?  So I am able to complete a whole phone assessment where I call her up and I answer some questions about a reading passage over the phone.  It wasn't too difficult and it was rather fun.  Once the phone call is over, I don't really have much more to do.  Before I made that phone call by the way, I finished up the assignment from Monday which I said I finished but it was only "almost" finished.  This was because the assignment required 3 pictures to go with it.  So I hunt down those pictures and put those in the document and turn it in.  So anyways, skipping the part I already told you about, I sit and wait to leave.  I listen to the evening announcements, and it is time to go.  Once I leave, I am gone.  I walk home, go in the door, and then I end my day here.  Just goes to show, you can't judge a book by its cover. 

 

 

Day Ten-Tuesday-February 10, 2009:

It's been another great day at Tabb, and it's been actually more fun than usual.  It doesn't really get interesting until my last 2 classes, but oh well.  I will still start off from the beginning in hopes of building some suspense for the later more awesome parts.  To start out, I go to Statistics.  (I'll just skip the part where I talk about waiting for the teacher)  ((In fact, I'll just jump to the part where class has already started)).  Okay, so I'm sitting there and we're watching a video doing our "Do Now."  Today's was to take notes on a video and then we were going to write 2 questions with answers with anything having to do with the video.  They didn't even have to do with statistics.  It was pretty fun hearing various questions about Domino's Pizza.  It was an older video, so it was not totally straight with all its facts.  This was back when Domino's was just starting to serve thick crust pizza.  It was released in 1989 I think it was.  So we watch that and I write my questions.  We present our questions and then we move on to the next assignment which is not really coming to me right now...but it wasn't very interesting; it was like...notes or book work or something.  Well, anyways, after that assignment was over, we didn't really have time for anything else, so we got ready to leave.

 

It was now time to go down the hall to Atmospheric Science.  I go in the class and have my seat.  I am now ready to do some learning.  Now; today more than ever I thought Mrs. Findlay was a great teacher.  You see..my teacher in there is a lot less focused on having us work.  She was today having us finish up some notes and look over some PowerPoints on stuff we've already been talking about the past 3-4 days.  On top of that, on some of the notes she had blanks that didn't have words.  The blanks didn't need a word; they were just there.  Mrs. Findlay really knows what she's doing.  This teacher doesn't seem to be as computer literate as Mrs. Findlay; so her PowerPoints are kind of like Mr. Chapman's.  One or two had a background though..but still.  So after we take notes and such we write down the topics we will need to know for the next test.  We then leave this class for our next class, which for me was Drama.  Ah yes, here we go.  This is where the day gets awesome.  We start off by getting paired up by the teacher (after he takes roll of course).  So he writes up 4 lines on his board.  They were as follows:

 

"A. Excuse Me, I...

B. I thought that...

A. I don't know why...

B. What if I..."

 

So what we had to do with our partners was create a scenario in 5 minutes.  We had to act out our scene using those 4 lines in that order and make it so everyone could tell what was going on.  I was B, and my partner was A.  Since we got to be called to go up after the first people went, we got to go before lunch.  Now; we did a great job.  Everyone could tell what was going on, and so that made me feel really good.  What we chose to do was I stand there, and he comes up looking confused holding something in both hands.  It was a map (this was panamimed by the way).  So he starts by saying to me, "Excuse Me, I..."  We were in front of the building which was supposedly on the map.  So I turn around looking shocked and confused his map was so incorrect as to say it was exactlly where we were.  I turn around and look at the map and turn around and say, "I thought that..."  He says to me while staring at the map, "I don't know why..."  So I continue my period of confusion until I notice his map is upside down, and I say, "What if I..." as I grab it from his hands and turn it around for him, generating a nice room full of laughter.  So I really think we did the best; but you know..I was in it, so of course it was.  So we go to lunch and I get my Chicken Sandwich.  Shawn/Sean was doing his Spanish homework.  That's really all I remember about the table today; other than meeting a kid named <First Name> <SAME LAST NAME AS ME>.  That's right, his last name was the same as mine, just like me and we were all like, "woahhhhh."  So once lunch is over, I go back to the Drama room.

 

After getting there, we had to do another excercise.  This one was not quite as fun because you weren't allowed to talk and you had to do it alone.  That's the whole fun part of acting; but you know; either way...I guess it was alright.  So what we had to do was recreate what we do to get ready in the morning.  I know; right?  Boring topic, boring script, and boring props (This was another panamime).  So anyways; I try my best to make it through this boring assignment, and then it's time to go.  We didn't have time for the last of the 3 different excercises he had for us; so we're going to pick up with that one next class and then we're going to do something in the book.  Now it's time for one of my favorite classes: Cinema!  So like I said, we are watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.  It was pretty interesting this last part because of the large shootout at the end.  But; that might have been interesting, but once it was over we got a full hour of free time since she hadn't planned any more assignments for that day.  So once it was over, we got to just mess around.  We read some peoples' journals and talked about various movies, and just so I can refer to everyone at the table later by name:  The kid who sits next to me is my friend.  This friend is named Ryan.  In front of him is his friend who is also my friend.  This guy is named Eric.  Then sitting to the left of him is Garrett, and in front of him is me.  So you are now filled in with Cinema class.  Now once we had a bunch of fun with that class; it was time to go home.  So now there is just a couple last things I'd like to mention: I still have to bring in something for the prop committee.  I'm planning to bring in an old computer because we just happen to have one in our garage.  Now; I'm sure that you'd all like to get a glimpse into the outside-of-school life of Kody.  Well; I'll give you this glimpse by telling you this: ACTING CLASS TONIGHT!  I'll be sure to post the information about the location and time of the play so you can all attend.

 

This has been Kody here with your daily announcements of my school life, and I'll see you tomorrow here on the Daily Kody.  Thank you all, and good night.

  

 

Day Nine-Monday-February 9, 2009:

It is now official.  Day 9; February 9th; is hereby in the outbox.  That's right, another day has come and gone here at Tabb High.  Now, there are a couple significant events which I will point out during today, so keep an eye out for those.  So to start out this nice little summary, I will, as usual, begin by telling you how I started my day.  I began by going into the school and checking out the first class.  By the way, I liked it better yesterday when it was warm..anyway, I start by going there where we will be making our final modifications to our resumes which will be collected for a grade.  Actually, my resume was almost perfect.  Just a couple tweaks she found might need to be changed.  So I finish that and then we have a packet about "Successful Interviews."  We have to fill out a couple pages in that and then we turn that in as well before we leave.  It was not very hard; just a bit of Internet research.  So once I finish up there, I start off for Atmospheric Science.

 

Now, I may not have mentioned this, but I am starting to gain friendship with this one kid in that class.  I don't remember his name, but I will when the time comes (hopefully).  So in Atmospheric Science we did a lab.  We got a worksheet and got into teams of 2-3.  We then got a sling psycrometer and had to get the relative humidity of the classroom.  After that, we answered a few questions about humidity and water vapor and such, and then we turned that sheet in.  After that, it was just about time to get going.  I like how that class is short.  It's JUST at my range before I start losing interest.  It's a great timing.  I can only take so much of science, no matter who the teacher.  So after a while I head off to History.  Here is where a noteable event is coming up!  (Not until the end of class though).  So we start talking about more things having to do with big business and immigrant work conditions and unions and then we fill out some chart.  We didn't totally finish because the last box on there was something we didn't cover yet.  We'll go over it later she says, and now...NOTEABLE EVENT NUMBER ONE!  Someone recognized me.  I of course remembered him from the first day I was back; it took him this long to remember who I was though.  So he talks to me a bit and then it is eventually time to go.  So I head off to lunch.

 

I am going to lunch expecting to be able to eat with my friend's friend who is also my friend and then go to the library again.  Unfortunately, that didn't happen today.  This makes it noteable event number 2.  So I grab my Chicken Sandwich and sit down and wait a bit; maybe he is just running late?  Nope.  I sit there and eventually realize it won't be for another 20 or so minutes until I get to leave.  So I listen to my iPod until...BAM!  What in the world was that?  I'll tell you: NOTEABLE EVENT #3.  Noteable event #3 just happens to be when my friend slams down on the table.  I was quite shocked because I had totally forgotten we had that lunch together.  So we had a fun time playing with the crumbs and stuff on the table, and then it was eventually time to go.  So we both get up and start heading off for our next class.  I don't remember what he had, but I know that I was going to AP English.  So I wait for the teacher to get the classroom again; she tends to take forever...every...day.  So once she finally gets there, and she finally opens the door very slowly, and finally walks in equally as slow, and I finally get in and sit down, I get to log in and start working.  There was no telling how much work I had, so I tried to hurry so I could see all my assignments for the week.  Luckily it wasn't that many.  I was able to finish one today, and one of my assignments is just to give her a phone call.  So I do some work and at the end of class is noteable event #4.  Noteable event #4 is when I get the name of the movie I'm watching in Evolution of the Cinema.  I got it from the kid who is in both my AP English class and my Cinema class.  He says it was "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."  It is alot more interesting than the other video we watched; but we didn't have that class today, so I'll tell you about it tomorrow.  BY THE WAY: The kid's name is Garrett for later referal.  So I pick up my stuff and head on home when the time comes.  Thus ends another great day at Tabb High School.  Til' Tomoro' Yall.  Happy Trails. 

 

 

Day Eight-Friday-February 6, 2009:

Day Eight successful here at Tabb High.  Today was pretty fun.  I start off my rushing to my Statistics class in hopes of getting there in time to ask the teacher what to write on the back of my pie chart.  So I get to the room but she isn't there yet.  So I wait and wait and wait and wait and....WAIT!  IS THAT A SUB FOR HER CLASS?  No, it's a teacher for another class.  So I wait some more and a little more and some more and then...here she comes around the bend!  It's the final stretch!  SHE MADE IT TO THE ROOM!  So she goes in, I go in, some other kid goes in and I ask her what to write on the back of the pie chart.  She gives a pretty unrevealing answer still making what I have to write totally foggy.  However, I got part of it at the least and I wrote it down.  So I just hope I wrote the right stuff. So then we take some quiz and I am pretty sure I didn't get an A.  But I can retake it which I plan to do.  So anyways once I'm done there turning in all my work I get to leave and go to my next class.  So I walk down the hall to Atmospheric Science.  We actually didn't do bookwork today.  What we did do was work on some notes about humidity now that we've done some reading on it in the book.  Mrs. Findlay's notes were much more exact and were easy to learn from.  I really think Mrs. Findlay is one of the best science teachers out there.  YRA is very lucky to get her.

 

So anyways, once that class is over I head over to my Drama class.  Now; unluckily for me, I forgot we had homework.  We had to write down the names of 2 songs, 2 movies, 2 TV shows and 2 books.  I hadn't done any of it.  So my friend John (the one from lunch) helps me out and we start making some up very quickly.  I wasn't able to get them all done in time though.  However, it wasn't going to be collected for a grade.  It was just so we had some names of things to do for the activity we were doing today.  CHARADES!  It was lots of fun.  We were playing for the sake of our grades.  The team who came in first got an A, the team who came in second got a B, and the team who came in last got a C.  It was neck and neck between my team and team 1.  Team 3 was NOT going to win this one.  So we go to lunch halfway through the class and I try to stay in the library.  The librarian however, being the rules addicted kind of person she is, doesn't let me stay to do my English work which is due today.  So I am freaking out because it's going to be late.  So I got to the lunch room and I don't eat.  It's fine though because I got stuffed on waffles this morning.  I didn't eat because [the rest of this sentence has been censored due to copyright violations of Kody's autobiography and DVD].  So once lunch is over we go back to the Drama room for more Charades.  Our team ended up coming in second place after the epic battle between 1 and 2.  So we got the B and team 1 got the A.  Team 3 however, did not end up with a C.  They were given a last chance by the teacher to get a B.  This was going to happen by doing one last charade game.  If they could solve it in 60 seconds, they would get a B.  So they do it.  Yea; that's all that I need to say there.

 

So once we're all finished cheering for our good grades, we leave for our next class.  And, I head to Cinema.  I always get there after the other guys at my table.  It's so weird; they must run or something because I don't really take much time to get there.  I notice a little green ball rolling around the room.  What could it possibly be?  It's a gerbil in a gerbil circle run-around ball!  I couldn't help but laugh.  I don't know why but the gerbil looked so funny running around in that thing.  So we start up the movie which I still don't remember the name of.  This is because we didn't get a chance to see the title on the main menu.  She started up the DVD pretty quickly.  We watch some and watch some more and then I found out we had a pep rally.  As much as I love watching other people run around and do crazy games with no cash reward involved; I have to say it was pretty boring.  So eventually the pep rally is over after they do some stuff with skateboards and pyramids and cheerleading and basketball and drums.  So then I start walking home.  I don't quite get all the way home when my mom pulls up with the van to take me to [this part has been censored for the same reason as before].  So I hop in the van, and thus ends another day at Tabb.

  

 

Day Seven-Thursday-February 5, 2009:

Day seven is over and I am once again content with the outcome of the day.  The day starts with me going to my Web Tech class.  All class I actually had to work because I had my login information.  So that made the class a little more worthwhile and yet equally as boring.  This is because we were working on making a draft resume.  This resume was only going to be a participation grade; so if you turned on in, you were fine.  However, we're going to make another one next class for an actual grade.  I don't see the point in making a draft resume and then making a totally new one for a grade.  No sense at all in that logic.  So whatever; I finish my resume and I turn it in.  We then go on to our homeroom classes.  I go to my Science class which on these days is on the totally other side of the building.  What did we do this class?  Guess.

 

If you guessed "book work which Mrs. Findlay already covered;" you're right!  It was questions about relative humidity and water vapor pressure.  All I had to do was copy my answers from my work in Mrs. Findlays class to another paper and turn it in.  That was pretty awesome.  Once again; I'd like to give my thanks to Mrs. Findlay.  The mass of work she had us do is really paying off.  At the start of class, however, I turned in the report which I wrote for The Day After Tomorrow.  Click Here if you want to read it.  So once I casually give my paper to the teacher at the end of class, I leave for my next class which unfortunately for me; was History.  So I reluctantly head to the class in which I must sit with a previously mentioned annoyance whom attempts at distracting me from the teacher by talking.  I still don't know her name..but you know who I'm talking about.  So I go in and sit down at my cluster of tables, and wait for her to come in...BUT, to my surprise, three other students walk in first.  They then sit at my group of four tables, leaving her having to sit at another group.  She was fine with this though and she just kept talking anyways.  So the teacher today was talking about how immigrants tried to get better working conditions and such with two failed worker unions.  So once again she starts talking like a comedian.  Making vague jokes so that everyone can relate to them and then getting the whole room to crack up.  She is a great teacher.

 

So now it's time for lunch.  I start walking to the Express Line to get my chicken sandwich, but before I get there I see one of my friend's friends who is also my friend.  I decide to sit with him because he's a good guy.  So I get my Chicken Sandwich no problem and I go sit down.  Now; this is not needed to be mentioned, but I will tell you anyways: There was some kind of cockroach or something on the table.  Talk about a sanitary school.  It was pretty gross.  It fell off the table though not looking where it was going and my friend stepped on it several times and it wouldn't die until he got to around 10 pounds at it.  So we finish up lunch and he has me go to the library with him.  We do a little school work and play a little chess.  We ran out of time and didn't get to finish, but it was fun.  I now have got my plan for each lunch period.  I'm starting to settle in.  So I go on to English.  And usually I don't have anything to say here.  It's like, "oh great, I sit down and do work.  sweet."  WRONG.  I CAME TO THE ROOM.  [Silent Action Music] I WAITED FOR THE TEACHER. [Action Music Builds] THE TEACHER COMES. [Cymbal crash followed by more action music] I GO IN AND LOGON. [Action music is getting VERY intense....] I OPEN INTERNET. [I CAN'T TAKE THE EXTREMITY OF THE ACTION!!!]

 

Websense server is down.  Please try again later.

 

...no....No...how can this.......NO!!!!!  That's right.  Websense was down, and none of the class to go to any website.  So we sit there and start lining up to call our teachers.  I, being the genius I am, keep checking back though to make sure the server doesn't come back up without us knowing.  So one girl leaves to go home and work, and the others start to call.  Only one girl was able to call her teacher because I refreshed the page and the Websense Server was back on.  So everyone just sits down and gets to work.  The other girl who left doesn't come back until like, the end of class.  Why did she come back?  Apparently she said she had to stay after for something.  So did I.  It was the prop committee meeting after school.  So once AP English is over, I go next door to where the meeting was to be held.  I write down the props they need, and it's now a race against time to get in something easy so I don't have to go through an ordeal trying to get one of the harder things.  (They needed a lot of stuff that looked like it's from the 60's.)  So I leave the meeting since it was some 5-10 minute meeting where we write down props and then I walk home.  So my fingers ended up being freezing and who is at my house?  My aunt!  BUT as soon as I entered the door, my day at Tabb was over.  So if you want to know what happens next; wait for me to become famous and keep an eye out for my full fledged uncut autobiography.  Once you get the autobiography, wait for the DVD to come out; that will be an insta-classic.  So keep an eye out for what my life at Tabb is like tomorrow in THE TABB CHRONICLES.

  

 

Day Six-Wednesday-February 4, 2009:

Another nice day at Tabb we must now say our goodbyes to.  It all started in my first class; statistics.  It turned out we had several assignments due today and I was caught off guard.  However, I was not the only one who did not turn in all of these assignments.  In fact, only a couple of the kids actually did them.  So the teacher told us to get them done by Friday.  Rejoice for the new due date!  Hallelujia!  So one of the assignments we had/have to do is where we ask five adults to define "statistics."  I had already asked my parents; that's 2.  Before class started I managed to ask my history teacher.  That was 3.  2 More.  I couldn't do it in time, so I just went back to class and waited for it to start.  So once class starts I learn of the assignments we were supposed to do; etc.  So we finish that up and then we do a little more work by taking a poll around the room.  We then get assigned calculators, and after that we were pretty much out of time.  So I then start off for my Atmospheric Science class.  Here we have another day of book work.  Book work is pretty nice because it gives you something to do other than listen to a monotoned voice tell you what something is.  It was on the water cycle; another topic Mrs. Findlay already covered.  Mrs. Findlay is a very efficient teacher; the students of YRA should really respect her more.

 

So we finish up the book work and I leave the class for DRAMA.  Today at DRAMA I get to present with John.  I was a little nervous because I didn't know how strict the teacher was; but he turned out to like it.  He just thought it started to drag out a little longer than the time we were supposed to have; but he liked it.  But I'm getting ahead of myself.  Before we got a turn to present, we had to stop for lunch.  So I go to lunch and plan on getting a Chicken Sandwich.  HOWEVER, the "Express Line" as it's called was closed when I got there.  They hadn't opened it up yet.  So since I didn't feel like waiting for it; I just grabbed whatever was for lunch that day in the regular line.  It was meatloaf.  Not just regular meatloaf; good meatloaf.  It was like home made meatloaf..maybe not as good as a Chicken Sandwich; but still totally worth the money.  So I sit at a new table today hoping that the annoying girl doesn't notice me.  Luckily; she sat at a different table so she didn't even come looking for me which was awesome.  Some other guy was her first target spotted, so I got pretty lucky.  So I meet a couple of new people and I actually remember some of their names..There was a Shawn or Sean; don't know the spelling, there was Sarah, there was another John, and then one other guy who I don't remember the name of.  I only remember the names of the guys who sat on my right.  I sat at the end of the table by the way.

 

So lunch was pretty nice today.  Once it ended, I go back to DRAMA to present the "selfishness" emotion in the improvisation John and I had to do.  By the way, the John I was partnered with and the John I sat with at lunch were two different Johns.  Just in case there was any confusion there.  So we present and we do pretty well judging by the teacher's voice.  Then everyone gets a new group of 5-6 people which the teacher picked.  We did a statue game which was pretty fun.  We had to pick a topic (we picked "First Time You Moved") and then we had to say something about the topic in a sentence.  Example: Since our topic was the first time you moved, we all had to pick how we felt after we had moved.  After you say your sentence, you strike a pose having to do with what you said.  I say, "The first time I moved, I didn't really care."  I then raise my arms shrugging so that another girl comes up and says, "The first time I moved, I was happy to get to meet new friends," and she then grabs my hand as if she's shaking my hand.  Another girl comes up and makes a gesture and so on until our group is done.  So we finish up and the class is mainly over.  So we wait a little bit and I'm permitted to head on to my last class, Cinema.

 

I had forgotten I had a quiz in the class on Stagecoach, so I was unprepared.  I was going to look it up on the website before the class, but didn't find the time.  So we did some last minute cramming on it, and I was able to get most of the questions.  Some of them were really tough though, and I doubt many people at all got them.  Then we started another western movie.  It was a more modern one and this one's title I can't remember.  I'll probably have it on Friday.  So we watch this for the rest of class, and I think that I have to stay after today.  I thought that the "prop committee" for the Tabb High play was staying after school today after being told that by my Drama teacher.  I just happen to have to stay for it in order to get a grade from Drama class.  (Every student in Drama has to help out with the play in some way, and prop committee is the easiest way.)  So I find out that it isn't until tomorrow that prop committee stays after.  So I walk home the fast way in hopes of still beating the bus home.  I do it.  Of course I do; every story of mine has to have a happy ending.  So I beat the bus home and get on here to type up my day. 

 

 

Day Five-Tuesday-February 3, 2009:

Day Five.  I'm running out of food and water.  I don't know how much longer I can make it.  Tomorrow I'll go out into the wild and try to find some wild berries and fresh water.

Now that I'm done playing around with the introduction, I'll go ahead and start off with what happened today.  I start my day by going to Web Tech.  I still don't have my password, but I did a lot of the worksheet at home last night.  So I fill in a couple more answers in class because they were self explanitory and so it wasn't very hard to improv up some answers.  It was mostly information about myself.  I didn't realize there was another part though at the last page about "What Not To Do On A Resume."  So since I didn't have my login information, she said I was fine until next class and I should just finish it up at home.  During this class, she starts taking roll.  I wasn't on the class list, so she has me go to the Guidance Councellor to get that checked out.  I walk over to guidance, and make an inquiry about it.  Apparently I didn't have a schedule and we were all baffled.  They tell me they will fix it, and they get to work while I go back to class.  So when that class finishes up, I now have to go to Atmospheric Science.  I didn't know what to expect because we finished the movie.

 

It wasn't very bad actually.  I found out the report is due on Thursday, but I already did it with my spare time in Web Tech the class before.  I will upload the report on Thursday when it's due.  We got a book and we had to do a couple questions on the water cycle.  (These were some that YRA already did, so it was pretty simple.  Someone tell Mrs. Findlay I say she rocks.)  So we finish up the questions and class is mainly over after we finish reviewing the first question.  So then I head on over to History which I wasn't expecting to be any fun at all with the annoying girl there.  However, to my surprise we were going to play "Miller Monopoly" because we were talking about monopolies recently.  Now, this was actually TONS of fun.  We divied out the money how we wanted and then we had to try to get a monopoly by buying all 3 or 4 of one "ingredient" to making a "vertical monopoly."  (Don't know what it means?  Ask Mr. Tremblay, he probably knows.)  So we go around and buy the property for the ingredient with $50.  Once we got all of those, we also had to have a "labor" space.  You could buy these for $1 because labor was very cheap back then because of all the immigrants.  You also needed a railroad space which costed $60 to buy.  Any time someone landed on your space, they had to pay $20 unless they landed on a labor space, in which case they only pay $5.  Now, here's the fun part: that's it.  There are no rules.  We were playing like they did in the old days by using the laissez-faire rules.  You could do whatever you wanted to get your monopoly.  You can cheat by stealing from the bank or taking other peoples' money while they weren't looking.  You could skip spaces, refuse to pay money, anything to win.  It was awesome.  The teacher was even going around the room taking peoples' money and giving it out to other people in the class.  It was very fun; try to talk Mr. Tremblay into playing it when you start talking about monopolies.

 

So the game is over and I now need to go to lunch.  I get another chicken sandwhich hoping for the best; and it was another heavenly feast.  I guess yesterday's was just a fluke.  It was so good.  So lunch is over, and I go to my virtual English class.  A lot happens here; we go in and sit down and I actually have my password!  I get to logon!  After my computer gets turned on though, we have a bomb threat.  It was either a bomb threat or a real fire.  Two fire trucks came to the school with assistance from an Ambulance.  We stood outside for about five to ten minutes.  It was freezing.  Once it's safe to go back in, we do.  It's pretty chilly in the hallways, but a little better than outside.  The virtual classroom however was much warmer.  So I log on and get on my virtual English class.  After a while I look over and see the kid who is in my Cinema class.  He is struggling with his login and he keeps changing the login number and re-entering the password.  I was unsure what was going on, and I asked him if he forgot his login; and so I tell him he can go to Guidance or the Library to hopefully find some information about it.  So he does and I go back to work.  He comes back with no luck.  He apparently didn't get his password and username yet.  So he sits down and does work for another class.  I was going to logon and let him use my login; but he had other work to do so I figured he was fine.  So I finish about three assignments that class and so I get to go home proud of my accomplishments that class.  Three assignments is a lot in that class; the work is INTENSE.  I start walking home after stopping by my locker for my coat; and I notice...a snowflake?  I keep walking disregarding it.  Another one?  Two?  It was starting to snow!!  It then stops after I cross the street.  I keep going and eventually it starts snowing when I'm halfway to my house.  It starts snowing pretty well too, and I had to keep blinking because it was going in my eyes.  I didn't quite beat the bus home because the stoplight was not in my favor today.  Either way, it was fun because I got to enjoy the excitement of falling snow.  Once I got home it stopped though.  So ends the two minute snowfall, and day five of my adventures in Tabb.. 

 

 

Day Four-Monday-February 2, 2009:

Fourth day: over.  Let's just get right down to the business part of the first paragraph: I start out by going to Statistics.  It was actually a lot more fun than on Thursday.  We talk a little bit about what it is again, and then we start off by watching a video.  Halfway through the video we stop it to watch next class and are given another assignment having to do with some kind of fruit loops.  We also got some actual homework!  Yay!  It's just simple "collecting data" stuff.  We ask some adults a question in the book and we gather information and we'll be using that next class.  So that class ends and we venture through the halls again to go to Science.  I'd like you all to know that I didn't have my schedule today and yet I only made a wrong turn once.  Pretty awesome.  We finish up the video and then we talk about some of the fact and fiction in the video.  We now have a 250 word paper assignment which shouldn't be too hard.  250 words isn't that many considering I have to write papers in AP ENGLISH.  It's even about the fact and fiction in the movie which makes it even easier because we talked a little about that in class.

So we finish up there, and I now get to go to Drama.  Today is the day we start presentations of our "prepared improvisations."  I quoted that from my own mind in case you're wondering.  Once we start off a little in the class and role is taken, we get with our partners and go over the skit one last time.  Then we begin presentations.  We do about 3 and then we go to lunch.  I got another chicken sandwich, which wasn't quite as good as Friday's, but still good.  It tasted a little burnt or something, I don't know.  So the girl who talks a lot in my History class?  Yea, she saw me and decided to sit near me.  I'm going to have to sit somewhere else; somewhere less noticable.  One person came and talked to me; so I'll try sitting with them next time.

Lunch is over and I travel back to Drama class as fast as I can in hopes that she doesn't catch up with me or see me.  (She changed tables at the last 10-20 minutes of lunch.)  So I wait for the teacher to get back and he unlocks the doors.  I go in and sit down and we eventually get to continue our presentations.  A couple more people go and then eventually guess who gets to go?  Not us.  We didn't get to go today because we ran out of time.  I have been lead to believe that we are going to be the last ones to present.  That will be awkward, weird, and uh; everyone is getting one tonight! (If you've seen reindeer talk, which I'm sure all of you have, you'll get that.)  So it actually won't be very strange at all.  It will probablly be fun if anything because that means we will get to end presentations on a good note: The note of Kody.

So we finish up presentations in Drama and I'm off to my Cinema class where I get to sit at my friend's table, as well as the other two kids.  I will now refer to them as friends also because we seem to be getting along too.  So we start off with a quiz.  It was pretty easy because it was open note, and I had taken notes last class.  It was about genres and a couple questions were about the movie we were watching.  I didn't remember the name of the director; but I did remember the extra credit question which stated, "Why was the woman kicked out of town?"  It wasn't that word for word, but it was something along those lines.  So I finish that up and turn it in, and we continue watching the video.  I never mentioned the name so I will give the name of it to you here; it's called Stagecoach.  We finished the video today, and we were told that we're going to have a quiz on it next class.  She told us to go to the Internet Movie Database website to have our own review over it to make sure we knew the character's names and the plot.  So once again I get to go early with my friend, and we walk home.  I get home pretty early, and I end the day with this.  The Tabb High Experience : Day Four, is officially over. 

 

 

Day Three-Friday-January 30, 2009:

A third day completed at Tabb, and I think this was the best one yet.  I go to Web Tech class and once again I must sit there for about 90 minutes because I don't have my login information yet.  We were just working on resumes anyways, so I didn't miss anything important.  After that long ordeal, I finally got to leave for my second class.  This was Atmospheric Science where we still havn't finished watching "The Day After Tomorrow."  We're getting close to being done I think.  The eye of the storm just passed over New York and the kid's dad is on his way.  So we finish up there and I go on to History.  Here's where my day finally got interesting.  We were reviewing monopolies and then we started talking about immigrants.  The teacher started talking like some sort of comedian.  That is no exaggeration.  She was making jokes about how they would throw their "waste" from their "potties" out the window.  She was making jokes about the tennents and the people who lived in them.  I couldn't help but laugh at her; she is starting to turn out to be a funny teacher.  So she makes a bunch of jokes, and then my third class is over.  She explains how she saw me sitting in Web Tech earlier and she could probablly get me a password or something to logon.  I suggested that she got me something I could use later because I had virtual English coming up.  So she says she'd see what she could do.

 

Now it's time for lunch.  This is my last try of the week to get my Chicken Sandwich...AND I GOT IT!  I walked in that cafeteria and walked over to the right line.  I picked up a tray, and grabbed the paper wrapped sandwich.  I take it to my seat after paying for it, and open it up...BAM.  I got my Chicken Sandwich.  It was heavenly.  It was a perfect end to the school week....so good.  So once my heavenly encounter with a Chicken Sandwich was over, I had to go to my last class which was AP English.  So I go there and set my stuff down and run to the library real quick to see if she had my password ready yet.  She said no, she hadn't gotten an e-mail for it, so I'd have to make due without it until next week.  I accept that, and I ask my mentor (the teacher who was in the room while I take my virtual class) if I can go to my History teacher to get a password or whatever.  At regular school, they have to sign your agenda for you to leave the room; that's going to take some getting used to.  Once I get that, I travel around about 10 minutes I guess it was trying to find where I had come from History class.  I could not find it...anywhere.  I had to start retracing my steps from the start of the day.  Eventually I realized; that wasn't working.  So I eventually accidentally stumble upon the room luckily, and I reluctantly knock on the door because I hear her lecturing to the class.  She knew I was coming though, so she was perfectly fine with my interrupting her.  So she gives me a small note thing that says I should not be penalized for not having a password.  I wasn't going to get penalized in the first place; she just thought that she was helping.  She's a nice teacher.  So I go back and I give it to my teacher and she says I should call my AP English teacher.  So I try to, but I don't know the number.

 

So a couple other kids who are also in a virtual class try to help me find it.  One person comes over and logs onto my computer with their login and another kid is able to find the number themselves.  So I actually just logon to my virtual virginia account on the person's login who came over to my computer.  I think they were confused as to which account I didn't have.  I had my virtual virginia account, I just don't have my school account yet.  So I logon there with her ID for the day with her permission, and I clear it up with the teacher.  So I finish up my last assignment for English by asking my mentor a couple questions about women's role.  After that, I was done for the day and I just sat there for another hour or so.  There was another kid in the class who is in a couple other of my classes; so I think he's going to end up being my friend because he sits at my table in the last class on Monday.  Along with my other friend; and his funny friend.  It's like, my favorite class.  Even more favorite than Drama.  So the end of the day announcements are made, and I leave the classroom.  I walk home again, and get home JUST as the bus pulls up.  But I made it inside about 10 seconds earlier than if I had taken the bus because it starts turning around before it lets the kids off.  So I still got home earlier than the bus.  So ends day 3 of the Tabb High Chronicles. 

 

 

Day Two-Thursday-January 29, 2009:

Another day successfully completed at my new school.  I start off the day by turning in some paperwork in hopes of getting my login information tomorrow.  I am pretty sure it will work out in time.  I hope at least.  So after my dropoff, I walk around the school trying to find my classroom for math.  I couldn't remember the room number, and I forgot my schedule at home.  I ended up needing to wait for Mrs. Rollins to get me a copy of my schedule.  Once she did, I was pretty well off.  I make it to math, and we do some sort of activity thing where we write down a college we'd like to go to, what we'd like to major in.  For number 2 on that paper, we had to write down a Probability/Statistics scenario.  Mine was something about what kind of movie people would like to go see in the theater during the summer.  For number 3, the last question, we had to pick a board game which we will use later on to make a Statistics game.  I chose Life because it was like, the only one I could think of at the time.  So I finish with that class after having a fire drill, and I'm off to Atmospheric Science.  Pretty uneventful class again, just watching more of "The Day After Tomorrow," and then leaving.

 

So I leave that class, and now I start heading to...DRAMA.  This is where I met a couple people; I only know one of their names though.  His name was John and we are now partners for the next class's improv assignment.  Then, time for lunch halfway through the class.  So I go to get my chicken sandwich today knowing which line to get in.  HOWEVER, there was a choice I had to make; get the aluminum wrapper or the paper-like wrapper?  I had no idea which was Chicken Sandwich.  So I grab the aluminum wrapped one, and hope for the best.  Yea, it was a burger.  But oh well, it tasted pretty bad and all, but it was lunch.  So I eat and try to go back to class, but some lady doesn't let me leave the cafeteria.  (I was trying to leave because the table I sat at was the same one I had sat at yesterday.  But today, a bunch of OTHER people sat there because my lunch time was different than yesterday's.)  So I go back and sit somewhere else, and I met this one person, don't remember their name.  Then I met someone else whose name I also don't remember, but she's in my Drama class.

 

I walk back to Drama when it's finally time, and  I talk to John about the improv thing.  We chose to do selfishness, and we work out a little skit where he plays a video game (not for real, just miming) and I ask to play.  He says no, and keeps playing and eventually does let me play.  Then he goes and gets some chips and comes back and doesn't let me have any.  It's an improv, so I'm not sure how it's all going to work out.  I don't think we're going to do too well because we didn't really think it out because I really think he had his mind set on talking with his friends.

 

So I leave that class and I go to my next class, Evolution of the Cinema which is mainly how films started out, and what we have today.  We watched, well started watching a movie from old old times called "The Stagecoach" I think it was named.  Before we did this, however, we took notes on different genres of movies.  Before this, however, I had to walk in the classroom.  Who is in the room other than my friend?!  I immediately perked up and ran to the back of the room where he was sitting.  His friend was also in the class, who I knew just don't know his name.  I like him too though, so we entitled ourselves the Three Musketeers and sat down.  When we started to watch the movie, another kid who was new to the class came and sat with us because he was at a table that only had one other kid at it, and we were joking around.  So of course he chose to come over to us; It might have been because he knew someone else at the table; who knows.  I just know that we were then entitled the Four Musketeers, and watched the movie.  It was pretty boring, but after a while it was time to go.  I got to go 5 minutes early with my friend because he was a senior.  After that, we walked home (he lives in my neighborhood) and said bye.  I beat the bus home again about 5 minutes sooner than yesterday.  So ends adventure #2 at Tabb High School.

 

 

Day One-Wednesday-January 28, 2009:

I just finished day one at Tabb High School.  I started out by going to my new guidance councellor, Mrs. Rollins.  She assigned someone to lead me around and I believe his name was Danny.  He was also leading around a sophomore named Angel and he was a sophomore himself.  So we finish up and I go to my first class which was Design, Multimedia Web Tech.  The class which most know as Mrs. Norton's class.  So I go there for about 30 minutes and just wait because they (the other students) were finishing up their previous Power Point project.  Starting Friday, I think we're going to start working on resumes.  So once that class is over, I head on out and trek over to the Attendance Office for a locker.  I had some trouble opening it at first, but it turns out I had to pass zero TWICE for my second combination number which was weird.

 

So once that all worked out, I go to my next class which I have every day at second block.  This was Atmospheric Science in which we started watching "The Day After Tomorrow."  We ended with the part where the tornadoes are finishing up their attack in the huge weather change scene where a bunch of tornadoes popup.  So I finish up in there and go to my next class.  In this class, US History, I sit next to this one girl who really likes to talk it seems.  Some people (like me) may even find her annoying.  As for the teacher, she was extremely crazy.  She seems to really be overly enthusiastic about the subject; just imagine a little older version of Mrs. Collier; but for History.  So we finish up talking about monopolies and really rich guys after the Civil War, and I head on to lunch.

 

For lunch, it was strange because I actually bought lunch instead of packing.  This is because of the reason that at Tabb, there is no microwave in which I can warm my food.  So I didn't know where to go to get a Chicken Sandwich, so I end up going in the wrong line.  I decide not to make a big scene over it, and just order whatever was for lunch.  It was better than my expectations took me to believe it would be, so that left me content with lunch.  Once I finish up with lunch, I head on to my last class which was my new Virtual AP English room.  I don't have my login information however, so I was unable to do anything but run back and forth from her classroom to the guidance office asking a bunch of questions.  Ended up I had to sit there for about an hour and a half waiting.  So I end up sleeping with the lack of homework or classwork needed to be done.  So the day finishes up, and I get to walk home because my house is like, not even 4 minutes away on foot.  I judge this because I was listening to a song which was about 4 minutes long, and I didn't even get to finish it before I got to my street.  I go inside the house, and I end up beating the bus home.  I was home at 2:00.  Unbelievable.  2 hours early.  Stunned, I happily continue on with my day typing this up to tell you all how it went.