Okay, a whole bunch of things happened today, so don't be scared of this long-ish post. First of all, this is my first Superblog, or at least the first for this term. Anyways, we have to do one at least once a week, so this is going to be really awesome.
First we had applied skills, and we actually managed to do a whole bunch of brain presentations today: April, Natasha, Carina, and Mimi. There's been so many delays and problems, that it didn't seem likely that we would get through two. They were all really interesting, and I sure had a lot of fun doing their activities. Since we only have like three more people left, we have to bring our knitting supplies next class. Yessss! This is going to be awesome! To tell the truth, I haven't knitted before, and Jessie said she'll teach me. I can't wait! After this, I'll be able to knit myself scarves, instead of going out to buy them. Also, when you make your own stuff and wear it it makes you feel a lot more proud. I'm going knitting shopping tomorrow, since I couldn't find a 15mm knitting at the dollar store. I'm pretty sure I'll find it at Zellers, though. A lot of friends have already recommended it for knitting. I'm too excited!!!
After that, I had applied skills. I totally forgot that Dystra wasn't going to be here today. Mr. McGillivray told us that Dykstra was away in Victoria with the basketball team. So we joined up with his class for what they called "warm up". Normally, Mr. Dykstra would make us go in a circle, and someone would lead, and we would do all sorts of things like jumping jacks, lunges, jogging, etc. But with this class it was a lot different. Everyone just found a place at the mat where Mr. McGillivray told us to do 10 pushups, 10 crunches, and then planks. It was really weird, both me and Natasha were expecting more. Then we ran the bleachers. Having two class combined is definitely not a good idea. Our class was so crowded, we were barely running, it was like speed walking. You could barely jog, there was just too many people. Eventually, our class went into the weight room, where natasha and I did tons of work. We almost completed our second sheet! Also, he let us out early, which Mr. Dykstra never did. I actually managed to get changed before the bell rang!
In French, we just had a lot of quiet work to do. It was really nice. We haven't had quiet work sessions in a long time, and it was just awesome. We had really weird discussions one time, including university talk. (between class mates that sat near me : Mimi, Joanna, Judy...) It was really weird. Most of the time I was quiet, because I didn't know what to say. I mean, they were talking about university! And this is just our first year in high school! It makes me feel that time is flying by waay to fast. They were discussing whether they wanted to go to Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and others in the Ivy League. It scares me to think, that in just four more years, I would be heading off to university? Oh, where has thy time went?
In English we finished off the rest of our god presentations. It was just Hypnos, Atlas, and Iris. They were all really interesting, especially Iris. Bad thing was, her presentation had so much information, my hands were so tired from taking so many notes. I took a whole page of notes! In the end, Mrs. Greskiw announced that we didn't have to do the gods test after all, which was fine with me, since I've already read up on all of them out of interest. We just had to focus on our book talk and book tests. I already have two of my book tests books, Rumours, and Envy, which are both awesome books! I did the first one, The Luxe, for my book test.
I'm actually going to try to work harder and finish my book tests earlier. Remember my vow for the cease of procrastination? It's actually working well so far! I hope it stays that way.
I haven't had much blogs where I talk about Synergy. But if you really want my point of view, this is what I think: The students in our class help each other learn through friendly competition. It's true. We all help each other, more than we realize. People organize homework boards, they ask each other for help all the time on Gmail. From looking at other people's work that is better than ours, we have an idea of what we can do to make our own better. It's really synergizing. Also, we have a lot of friendly competition around, not intense battles where one tries to be better than the other. What I find really amusing is how humble people can be in our class. From what I observe, we have what I like to call "compliment battles." One person would start it off by looking at someone's work and complimenting it, most of the time calling it neat and pretty. The other person, not wanting to brag or do anything like that would shoot a compliment back (yeah, but yours is so...) This would go on, compliments shooting back and forth. It's really cool and it definitely makes everyone feel better about their work.
Okay, speaking of competition, I have a video to show you guys ! I just figured out how to upload it. Anyways, it's on the topic of competition, and it's about a man and a woman, competing to see who's better at something, all the while singing a song. It's pretty funny, and my friend showed it to me when I was in grade five. By the way, this is what you're not supposed to be doing. You shouldn't have competitions like this where there is a winner and a loser for everything. It's called "Anything you can do" from the musical film "Annie Get Your Gun".
Enjoy!
Dapple Grey
*Warning: There are some parts of the videos that are kinda inappropriate and weird, but it should be only a few seconds of the video. The rest should be fine. It's really funny!
Here's the first one. It isn't the original, but it's still pretty good.
Here's the second video, but in a cartoon-ish form. There are comments added to make it so much funnier!
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