Okay, in French class today, we made an acrostic poem with adjectives describing a person. Well, actually that was homework from before. What we did today, was that we had to make this poster, and decorate it. We spent the whole class doing it, but it's pretty fun actually. It's due by the end of next class, and I still have to finish writing it, fine line it, and colour it. Sigh, it's going to take a long time, but I want to make it look as neat and pretty as possible. Hopefully my French mark isn't going down.
Okay, you're probably wondering about the weird blog title, right? Well, it all had to do with today's English God Presentations. First, I passed my book tests! And we were also talking about how what we're going to do next term. In the end, we all agreed that we should do 1 book talk, and two book tests, just like this term. I don't really want to do another book test, but Mrs. Greskiw says that we don't have to write a book report, so I guess it's less pressure. Oh well, at least I can improve my public speaking skills. Ok, back to god presentations. So first up was Dionysus, Ares, and Orpheus. I'm not sure how they're all related, but they sure did a good job presenting. Dionysus was a pretty cool god, he had a lot of cool myths, one of them including how he was born (from Zeus thigh, can you believe it?) Well, his mother was actually Semele, the daughter of my goddess, Harmonia. Ares was just awesome. He was in full costume, helmet, armor, spear and all. He was pretty smart, he taped his script to the back of his shield, so he just looked down whenever he needed a que. Orpheus' story was really sad, not only did his wife die, but when he had an agreement with Hades to try to get her back, (he couldn't look back at her until he was on earth again) he accidentally looked back and lost her forever. When he got back on earth again, he was killed by worshipers of Dionysus. So sad.... They did a play together on King Midas, (Dionysus gave him the gold touch) Austin was King Midas, and he was a pretty good actor, actually. Next was April, yes, the almighty famous Hades. So she had her presentation, and she from the looks of it, she was pretty nervous, but she still did well. Near the end, she was going to tell the Persephone story (she kidnaps Persephone and brings her back to Hell) but instead, she did a puppet show. It was really imaginative, funny, and just totally awesome. She got the whole class laughing really hard. It was just amazing, she could do really well even when she's not even trying. She had stuffed animals as the characters, but that made it even funnier, especially the time when she got the Zeus stuffy mixed up with the Demeter stuffy. After her turn was Roy, or Jason, the hero with the golden fleece. I don't really know this story really well, so I sure found out a lot today. Next class, we have the rest of the presentations, but I wish we could do more. It's so awesome!
In P.E. today, we did a lot of weight-lifting, and since we started a new sheet, we had to do the same machines over again. This time we did them, they all felt strangely light. It was so cool, so I actually did get stronger! But they still take up a lot of energy, and I bet my arms are going to be really tired and sore again tomorrow.
By the way, Mr. Olson, it would be awesome if we could have a skating field trip. It's so fun! Maybe we could do it before spring break, to celebrate the ending of Term 2?
Stay tuned for tomorrow,
Dapple Grey
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