lame class

calculus, trigonometry, chemistry...sound familar...do you use them in everyday life? If your answer is NO! then you are part of the millions of people across Canada that feel the same way. So my question is why do we take these couses in high school? We are not going to need them in everyday life...only if we are going to become a mathematician or a chemist. So i think that i am going to come up with my own subject in school, and make it so stupidly hard to do, just to mock the lameness of the other classes.

the pen drop

it makes me laugh everytime i see someone doing the pen drop and on occation i catch myself doing it and stop to laugh at the immaturity of it. So heres what it is: after someone is finished the assigned notes in class they smack their pen or pencil on their notes, as if to say "I'm done everyone". Its so stupid but i think that everyone is in a race to see who can write their notes the fastest and the winner is made by smacking their pencil on the desk. Almost like a runner going through the ribbon at the end of the race. They need to make a big ending. I know that i race with my friend that sit beside me in class... although they dont know it we are constantly at war to see who is the fastest note taker. ( apparently im fast at writing biology notes but slow at taking math ones). Every aspect of ours lives is made a competition. I think that competitivness is a good thing in school. It creates a drive to strive for a higher mark (because you dont want the class bimbo beating you on the assignment). I am a very competitive person and make everything i do into a game to see who is better. Even note taking races are a very serious matter.

So you're in the car with your friends and your favorite song comes on. You start to sing and after the chorus you have no idea what the words are. Up until this point you were singing really loud and now you have basically toned down to a little louder then a whisper. At this point the car has turned silent and are all listening to what you're singing. Another embarrassing car singing moment is when you sing the wrong verse of a song. You tune into a radio station and catch a good song half way through. You start to sing loud at the chorus and continue singing what you think is the next verse but you totally screw up and stop. ALL eyes are on you. Of course they make fun of you. Lastly, the most awkward of all singing in the car mishaps is when you sing the wrong words. You think that the words are something else and you sing them so wrong and everyone else in the car is like what did you say? Of course you just kinda mumble something that sounds similar to what the songs says. One good example that i have of this is from a commercial on the radio. I was 9 and the sleep country commercial came on and at the end they say "why buy a mattress anywhere else?". My rendition of it was Why get arractions anywhere else?" Because that wasnt awkward! So I have found a solution to all of these problems.....lipsync! Thats what I have resorted too. Doesnt draw attention to yourself and most of the time no matter what you say it looks like what the song is singing. The other options is just dont sing...but wheres the fun in that?

classic "partner look"

Oh the classic "partner look" as I call it. Your sitting in class and the teacher says that you will be put into partners. You immediatly turn to find who you want to go with (and hopefully they are thinking that they want to go with you). Now in my younger school days when the teacher said partners, everyone would call across the classroom -Wanna be my partner?- Then slowly as we got into older grades it just turned into a look towards your partner and a nod. I have now found being in grade 11 that when the teachers call out partner up! we just turn to look at the partner and once ours eyes have met we resume to listening to the teacher. Occationally I will notice someone will raise the odd eyebrow towards their partner but most of the time its just a look. Its odd to think that we have grown up in so many different ways... even in the choosing of our partners. In a sense we have adapted to our enviroment.