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Geography Fair

May 26th, 2008 by hammond

Last Thursday, I entered the gymnasium where I could see hundreds of people running around with drops of sweat and could smell the wicked scent of curry at one of the stalls from Asia. I was at the Geography fair which is a fair that people in 7th grade must choose a country and participate in. I did this last year and I had Slovakia, which was very hard since I was the first person to have it in the schools history. I had to contact people from Slovakia and from the United States just to get items for my booth. After a while, my booth looked cool and professional. I didn’t want any part of my table and booth showing except for colors. Basically I loved my booth! When I came back this year, I started eating like I had never seen before. I could smell the sweet smell of burning scents on a table and could hear all of the commotion and footsteps of little kids running around and screaming. My heart was beating so hard my shirt was moving and I could feel the drops of sweat dropping down from my head meanwhile my stomach was aching from all the chicken and blueberry bread I had eaten. I felt like if I was about to explode and couldn’t walk anymore. I just felt like if I had to sit down. Afterwards, I went to go and chill at a friend’s booth. She looked pretty embarrassed since a lot of people were around asking her questions and I just sat down on her chair so we just laughed and had fun talking. Later on, I heard so much clapping it sounded like a concert. Yes, I know what this meant. It meant that the geography fair was over and I finally had to go home and study for a test I had to take the next day.

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New Science Project

May 15th, 2008 by hammond

It was 100 degrees; blobs of sweat were drooping down my face like if I had just come out of a pool. I could taste the sour and salty sweat that was now raining off of my chin onto the cheap floor that can barely last a couple of more ears until it collapses. I am in science class like usual on Thursdays, Tuesdays, and Mondays. We usually do not challenge our minds that much and go over 2 chapters, take notes, and answer the bore some questions on the end of the section. We were supposed to have a lab on magnets about the north and south poles and the magnetic field. The ant sized dial and the 2 cm compass was moving toward the north and south poles of the weak ancient magnet. Since this wasn’t working out that well because of the weak and old magnets loosing their magnetism, our teacher told us that we were going to have a lab that was going to last for the rest of the year. Have you ever had finals, this is just like them, you are going to need to know all that you have studied to be able to pass your test, in this case, create the project. I thought that this was going to be a boring, dull, and torturous project that was going to be fatal toward our grade and our day. In my mind was thinking, oh no, not another science project like our last one. We had to create a Rube Goldberg machine with more than three different types of simple machines and make a volleyball knock down some plastic bowling pins. So, of course I thought it was going to be super hard, especially since it’s going to last the rest of the year. No, I am actually more excited than a kid buying a dog. Have you seen that, the kids are so excited that they start jumping up and down like monkeys on ropes with tourists around. So, I am very excited and am choosing one of the four options we have. I will post a part two after finishing the project and tell you what project I picked and how it came out and functioned!

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How to Survive Spanish Class and Not Fail

April 10th, 2008 by hammond

The time is just ticking away meanwhile you are looking at the clock going slower than ever seen before. Your hands are sweaty from the hard sunlight penetrating through the windows meanwhile no fans can be turned on. You don’t understand anything that is going on. This is Spanish class in my school. The most hectic class (like I had explained in my last post), where one gets humiliated by the teacher on purpose in front of the whole class and where quizzes and pop quizzes are given to you at any moment and the average of students fail since it is impossible to understand what they are teaching you. Yes, I am one of many students who fail the quizzes once in a while and half to get my parents to sign them so I won’t get points taken off of my grade.

                I am not sure if my teacher does this on purpose just to get us and our parents angry or if she doesn’t do it on purpose and this is all just a “big coincidence”. I highly doubt this because I (as well as many other students) have gone through this torture and have to give my best effort in class even though everyone barely passes. For example, other people as well as I, can study for hours and barely pass with a D-. So, I am here to help you survive this class.

                First of all, since most of the time the class isn’t based on Spanish since our teacher brings up random stuff to talk about, only listen to what has to do with Spanish since if you listen the random stuff that doesn’t have to do with the class (even though we talk about this almost 90% of our class time) it confuses you very badly. Second of all, ask a lot of questions until you get the material you are studying clear. After that, don’t really study since you know that you’ll probably get a worse grade after you study than if you don’t or you just guess everything. I mean, you might want to go over stuff to know what the quiz or test is going to be on. Next, get easy grades high like easy quizzes, homework grades and other easy stuff up so you won’t fail. Finally, meanwhile you are doing an assessment, try to remember the stuff that you listened to in class and give it your best shot. I hope this will help you lots like it helps me pass the class with almost an 80!

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Grumpiness over Spanish Class

April 3rd, 2008 by hammond

Yesterday at school was pretty harsh and hectic. This is usually on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. I realized that it was hectic these days because of one certain class, yes Spanish class. First of all, I found this out because I analyzed all of my ideas. I came up with the days that I would wake up grumpy and not that happy as usual (this was Monday, Wednesday, and Friday). So I knew something in the ordinary was not right or just bugged me out. I knew that it was about school since it was only on the days I had school on. So, I made a list of all of my classes that day (Math, Literature, and Spanish). After finding this out I went even deeper into thought and I actually sat in class and did different tests.

Test 1- What classes was I most productive in and felt the shortest since I was doing something productive in and not realizing the time left or time it was taking? (Answer – Literature and Math)

Test 2- What class felt the longest for me? (Answer – Spanish)

Test 3- What class did I hate most? (Answer – Spanish)

In Spanish class most of the people never really understand what’s going on since it’s so complicated and our teacher is always grumpy and has TEACHER PETS! Yes, most people (including me) are not such a big Teacher Pet fan. So, since no one is doing anything productive and watching time just tick by so slowly in Spanish class, I realized that my grumpiness problem was because of knowing that I had Spanish class that day. But, I am still a little grumpy at night every other day that’s not Friday after school or Saturday knowing that I have Spanish the next day. It’s like Sundays, just knowing you have school tomorrow but I have double the pain on Sundays, I have school and Spanish the next day! So, I am finally getting over my grumpiness but I always have my up’s and down’s if you know what I mean.

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