half days

Well, half days at my school are totally blow off classes. It's pretty fun yet kind of pointless at the same time. We don't have any electives, but usually there is something that the teachers have planned like the talent show or the spelling bee. So, I had math first. Our math teacher thought that it would be fun to tell us a story, of course it was a math related story that all of us had heard 10 times or so. Then, I had social studies, we did absolutely nothing. I enjoyed this because I got to read. Next we had the spelling bee, it was pretty interesting. I AM SO GLAD YOU WON SINDHU!!! After this I had another class that we were read another story to, this one was more interesting though. Then I had my favorite class, language arts. I was very happily surprised that we did actually work during this class, not hard work, but it was fun. Then, I had science last, we did a cookie experiment. We had to tell which cookie tasted better, there was one with sugar, and one with splenda. It was so easy to tell just by looking at them, you did not need to taste them. One looked all perfect and round, and the other was all lumpy and unappetizing. Neither of them tasted very good though, they were made by our foods class, no offense guys, I am in that class too. This was the half day in the life of an eighth grader.

Northern Downpour

I really like this song called Northern Downpour by Panic! At the Disco. My favorite lines are "We should feed our jewelry to the sea, for diamonds do appear to be just like broken glass to me." It is completely true if you think about it, because if someone brought me a piece of a broken diamond, I would not be able to tell it apart from a piece of broken glass. This leads me to believe why we don't just were glass. There are many different theories of why we do not do this, but I can not really put my finger on the right one. The only part of this line that does not make since to me is "we should feed our jewelry to the SEA." I mean, isn't that supposed to be really bad for the environment, for the fish. I mean, I can just imagine a little fish swimming around and this diamond necklace three times the size of him coming crashing down from the surface. :( Poor fish. Although again, I agree with them. I just think that maybe we should feed our jewelery to a dumpster or some kind of jewelry recycling bin.

Some People are Just not Sports Fans

A month or two ago I went to a Red Wings game with a friend, (for all of you non-sports fans out there, that's hockey). It was one of the most exciting games I have ever been to. The next day I was talking to one of my best friends, and this is how the conversation went...
Me- Winnernerd, did you watch the hockey game last night?
Winnernerd-ummmmm........no
Me-(realizing that this is Winnernerd) never mind
Winnernerd-your talking to me, em
Winnernerd- i dont even know what the sports channel is
Me- right

Breakfast Songs

Okay, so I was talking to my language arts teacher, he is really cool, and somehow our conversation came to me not believing that he had never heard the waffle song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtlaTNI1TaU). So, later that night, I emailed him the waffle song. He responses with the toast song, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrF_K1w2haE. Which I thought was pretty hilarious, I mean, he is one of the most eloquent people I know and he emails me the toast song. After this, I of course have to send him back an email, so I send him the egg song to follow the breakfast song theme.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNndX9qua1o. Also, just for the fun of it, the badger song.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOxR7rTYuSI
if you have not gone and seen these videos, do that now!!

The Dismal Swamp Canal

First of all, before I get started, let's say you were in charge of naming roads. if you have to name this little road in the middle of nowhere in North Carolina, would you name it Dismal Swamp Canal even if it was a dismal swamp canal, even if you were in a bad mood or wanted to make fun of the locals? Well, I think that the person who named this road Dismal Swamp canal with a huge bear sign every 100 feet (no joke)had to be out of his mind, and to top it all off, there was a hiking sign, like whatever cruel person named the road really expected you to hike alongside a Dismal Swamp. So, we were driving home to Michigan and we were currently in North Carolina. My mom was driving and my dad was attempting to navigate. Of course my dad has already gave my mom directions for about 17 wrong turns and a dead end. We were driving along when we started seeing these huge bear signs a lot. They really freaked my mom out, but she was acting pretty ok at the thought of a bear, if you think about it. This particular wrong turn we actually saw a road sign, like the road was important enough for someone to name, we thought that this might be a good thing. When we saw the road sign that said "Dismal Swamp Canal", we kind of just knew that we were not going the right way. We really were not in the mood to see said Dismal Swamp canal, so we turned around before it came into sight. In case anyone cares, we are now safely home.

Catch Phrase

As I hope everyone knows, today is the start of 2009! That means that last night was New Years Eve obviously, (well, I hope that it's obvious). I am in North Carolina for New Years visiting some friends. Somehow, we ended up playing a game called catch phrase. Most of you probably know the game. Well, if you don't, all you have to do is look at the phrase or word that you picked and give clues for your team to guess it. We played girls vs. boys, but there were not enough boys, so I was forced to join the boys team. At least they changed the name, now, we were the boys enhanced team. Okay, so it was now my mom's turn, I looked over her shoulder, (This is not cheating I was not trying to guess her word), and I saw the word piranha. I was thinking, not that difficult, you know, just say man eating fish or something. She was not thinking the same thing though, and she says plant. At this point people are just shouting out random plants, but then she shouts out man eating plant. There is not a commonly known man eating plant, so someone shouted out Venus Fly Trap, thinking that it was the next best thing. At this my mom's face turns bright red and she says, "I don't actually think that it is a plant", but then the buzzer goes off and it is too late. When she says the word was piranah, no one can do anything but laugh.