Okay, so it's Sunday morning and I'm one of the two people awake in this house and I can't sleep any longer so I might as well just update you on my classes right now!
You know, yesterday, I skipped church to go to these Saturday sessions that my school hosts for AP Physics and AP Calculus. You wouldn't believe how many people actually come out for those. If you go, you get extra points, which was the main reason why I was there. But I learned some stuff too as well. And I even got some homework done. That reminds me... I have homework to do. :S
So let's get it on with it.
AP Computer Graphics
Things have been going good so far in this class. The project we just finished were Mandala inspirations. And I was freaking out about it before because I had NO idea what to design and the first design that I created was shot down. But a girl that sat next to me helped me out and I fixed some things. In the end, I just stuck to what I knew and my teacher liked the design at the end.
Coloring it was another problem. I had no idea what color it was going to be. So my design had a bunch of faces on it and veiny looking lines and fly wing looking structures. It was supposed to have a theme, I said the human body, but it didn't really look like that. And so I was thinking that maybe I should make it red and brown and stuff so that it kinda did.
In the end, I just stuck with what I knew. Recently, as you can tell, I've been loving the combination of black, teal, and yellow and that's what exactly what I did. And then this awesome idea came to my mind to make the veiny things look transparent or something. And in the end, this is how it came out:
So after doing that, we are also supposed to use this design and make another creation. It seems like we're free to do anything we want as long as it fits into our concentration, which I didn't have until last night. I think I'm going with Distorted Reflections. This really cool idea came into my head to create a bathroom scene where someone is holding water in their hands and you can see my Mandala design in the water. I tried to practice that but it didn't look right at all. So now I'm thinking about making condensation on a mirror and putting the design in the droplets, as if it was gliding down a mirror or something. And maybe a hand almost wiping it away. I don't know... If I manage to do that, I feel like people would be like WTF is all this about?
I feel like sitting down in front of the TV and watching the History Channel... Seriously.
Another project that we are currently working on is making a poster for the Grease musical that my school is putting on. I've been searching up a bunch of Grease, 50s, and retro stuff. I want to stick with what I know, but I don't want to create something that has nothing to do with Grease, which is the problem I have now. So far, I have created a background which has a slightly grungy feel to it. I was confused as to what colors I should use because apparently, the color scheme for Grease is turquoise and pink but I feel more inclined to use black, white, and red because of the diners. I'm also undecided on whether I want to draw the characters or keep the actors bodys' intact (we're using the actual actors in the musical, apparently). I want to say it would be much easier to keep the body's intact but I have to draw on the clothes as well, and that might be hard. And it might not be allowed, I don't know.
So that's what's going on in that class. I'm liking that my creativity is flowing right now. It's all I can think about and I love it. I'm waiting on my free download of Photoshop which I'm sure I'm not getting any soon. But if I don't get it, I won't survive that class because much of my creativity explodes at home.
That's enough of this class.
AP Physics
Have I told you guys that I really like Physics. Seriously, I love learning it. Usually, I'm too tired to actually focus in class and in the night, when I have to write notes for homework. But in general, it's pretty cool knowing how things work and why things do the things they do. And why I feel lighter on the top of a roller coaster and heavier towards the bottom. It's cool stuff.
The only thing that's making it not fun is the fact that I FAILED the last quiz. I utterly failed and I'm afraid that I have like a D in that class right now. I'm too afraid to check. I was so depressed because I studied so hard the night before. When I took the test, I was so ready. And when I passed it in, I thought I did so well. And in the end, I got an E. I cried. I didn't cry that day. But I cried eventually.
Right now, we're doing circular motion and it seems pretty easy. Our test is on Friday and I guess I'll just have to study all week or something. My friends want to set up a study session at Wendy's. OMG. You know the crazy thing is that my friend got an A on that test and she didn't even study. I studied so hard and I got a freakin' E. Ugh... I was happy for her though. It was her first A. So yeah...
I went to the Saturday session to get some points and I'm gonna do some articles on Physics to get some points as well. I need at least a B before progress reports come out. I think I'll go again next week.
English Honors
Oh my gosh. I don't even know what to say about this class. Except that it's probably one of my easiest classes. Okay, maybe not my easiest. But seriously, I think I've had a 100% in everything that I've done so far and I didn't expect to be doing THIS well in this class. The only thing that doesn't make it my easiest class ever is because we still have essays. And I just finished an essay not too long ago which my teacher practically gave us all the quotes and analysis to. But yeah..
All we do in that class is read stories, answer discussion questions, and discuss. Sometimes my teacher checks them, sometimes he doesn't. And even when he does, I think he checks mostly for completion than content. He used to threaten us with a quiz if we weren't quiet and starting our Warm-Up once we got into class. One day, we actually got the quiz and it was the easiest thing EVER. On Fridays, we have vocabulary quizzes where we fit words into sentences and yeah, I do study the words, but most of them are words that I already know so that makes it easier.
Yo, this class is easier than my 10th grade class.
The only problem I have with that class is that apparently, he wants us to bring our textbooks back and forth from home to school. He must be totally insane. I mean, TOTALLY insane if he thinks I'm bring that big English book back and forth. I can't even bring that thing from my locker to class.
This is how it looks like, but it doesn't really give you any idea of how heavy it is:
Usually, I just take a book from the back but I feel like he watches and takes points off of people who do so. But I never really see him watching. I have no idea. I know it's all gonna blast in my face one day. But right now, I can't let my arms suffer. I already have a lot of other suffering to do.
World History Honors
Again, another pretty easy class. I mean, we get a good amount of work. Not too much. Not very little. But it's really easy stuff, at least for me. Nothing to worry about.
My friend got switched into his class in another period and she completely LOATHES his class. She has ADHD and I guess her last teacher was way more fun. But she just hates that class and I really don't know why. She says that he drones on about stuff. But I don't think so. I mean, he talks in a dull way sometimes but nothing that bad. He's funny at times and he's pretty chill. I don't like having to walk outside from upstairs in the building but... other than that, it's fine with me.
We're learning about the Renaissance and the Protestant and Catholic Reformation, which is pretty interesting. I feel like I've been bombarded with religion this past week. In my English class, we were reading Native American creation myths and we discussed other creation myths. And then we read about the Pilgrims and their beliefs. And we talk about religion in World History and mentioned how the invention of the printing press affected Christian unity and the Church. And then the printing press was mentioned in this video that I had to watch for Computer Graphics class. And then there was also that incident with those atheists on the bus...
So yeah, lots of things intense stuff happened last week.
There's really not much to say about this class. It's definitely harder than my Government class. We did NO work in my Government class. Seriously, the only thing I remember doing was book work, assessments, and taking notes. And I LOT of talking in between and not in between. And lots of laughing too. Lots of that.
World History is different, not in a bad way. There's really not much to say about that class and now I'm just rambling.
AP Chemistry
This is going to be a VERY long post, if you couldn't tell already.
AP Chem is a pretty chill class and I like the teacher. The stuff we're learning right now is stuff I already now. I like how we have a set date for all our work and it makes the class less stressful. Right now, we're going Stoichiometry, which I am the BOSS at but apparently, people lacked the proper education of Stoichiometry in their last class. That sucks for them because it can be complicated if you don't have someone who properly teaches it. And now they have to learn it all over again.
Balancing Equations is easily. The part that's hard is finding empirical formulas. I can never get the ratios right. And I need to learn it. That reminds me, I have homework to finish in that class as well.
We just finished a lab in that class in which we had to do a lab report. I liked the people in my group. I got the part of putting all the stuff together, and I'm really good at that. I feel like I always get the job of putting stuff together and I made sure to make it look nice too and I proofread everyone's work.
It's funny that although I don't utterly hate this class, it goes by the longest out of all my classes.
There's not much going on in that class. But I did get a 79 on the last test which made me sad because I made a lot of dumb mistakes. It wasn't even a hard test either. I was SO sure I had an A on that test. I hate when you think you did good and end up doing not so good. I was searching through that whole test, trying to find somewhere where he made a mistake so that I could get a B at least. But no luck. The problem I had were the multiple choice. I realized that I suck at multiple choice when it comes to math-related things. Partial credit is my friend.
Spanish 2 Honors
*sigh* This class... I don't know what to say about this class. I don't know whether I like it more than my last class or not. I'll say that I'm neutral. And it would have been better if there wasn't this rude-a** freshman in that class. She thinks she's too cute for herself and acts totally rude because of that. Like, on Friday, she bumped into me without a word of apology. Seriously, though?
And I hate where I sit. I used to sit towards the back in a corner. Now I sit in the front and it was so bad when we sat in groups facing each other. I had nowhere to look except at other people and I made this AWKWARD contact with this boy at another table and ugh, it was so bad. It was bad because first, he's cute... for a sophomore. Blond, pretty eyes, blah blah blah. And I sat not far from him in the seat I had before, and there was some awkward contact before. But it was the worst when I was sitting the way I was sitting. And after that day, he didn't sit in that same spot anymore and I felt bad. I wasn't sure if it was because of me (and my ugliness) or that whore of a freshman.
She reminds me of this girl that I read in a book over the summer who was freshman at this boarding school. And she was pretty and all the boys liked her and she enjoyed the attention. And she somehow got into a room of drunk senior boys and had group sex with them while someone video'd it and the video got out. And the girl played victim and all the boys got in trouble. Yeah... I wasn't not fond of that girl in the book (though I could agree that those boys should NOT have been having sex with a minor anyway).
Yeah, I wish the freshman girl in my Spanish class would go somewhere else. But even if she was gone, I still don't think I would like the class any better. We haven't learned anything new because a lot of the people in the class don't belong here. At least I don't think so. They have problems conjugating their verbs and stuff. And it's kind of annoying.
So I pretty much just draw in that class. I draw in all my classes but Spanish class, is straight-up art class for me.
AP Calculus
After Spanish class, I get this wave of disgust about going to Calculus class. I do not like the fact that I have math at the end of the day because I can't focus as well. I have to try hard to understand what's going on and let's just say I do A LOT of drawing in that class too. My teacher gives too much homework and he doesn't consistently check it and that bothers me. I got a 0 for homework because my teacher didn't say anything about homework and I come to school thinking we didn't have any and apparently we did. And ugh... That still bothers me.
I don't talk to anyone in that class. I don't know why I have problems making friends with smart people. I realized that when I went to the Saturday sessions that there was only two people I actually talked to in the Physics part. I talked to NO ONE in the Calculus part. What's wrong with me?
The Calculus teacher is a big ball of groady fun. He has a weird and icky voice but he always has funny stories to tell which makes my class a bit more brighter. He writes on the chalkboard SO weird and he always has chalk all over his clothes. He's like the stereotypical, slightly senile, but funny old man on TV who gives his children trouble.
Yeah, still don't enjoy that class. It goes by fairly quickly though but I still watch the clock.
The brightest part of my week is the B that I got on my test that I received back on Friday. That made me SO happy especially since I was sure I failed. It's funny because I thought I did so well on the Physics test and I failed. I thought I did bad on my Calc test and I did fairly well.
I have never been so happy for a B in my life.
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