| Well recently at school, I've been kind of mad, I mean, as I've mentioned in the past about spammers and retards and people who think the computer is worthless...but it's just, everthing is getting to me. Plus recently I was talking to these girls, and they were saying I was so mean because I was telling them WHY i didn't like my old teacher and i called her mean. THAT'S IT! THEY HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN MY ENTRY, "(MOST) TEACHERS OI......THEY ARE A PIECE OF WORK!" I mean, how pethetic is that? Yeah, I made up a similie for girls.(this applies to about 90% not NECCCARILY all.) Girls are like bugs on the windshield. Their there, their annoying, but you don't really care about them.
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Ok so recently, I've dealt with a lot of retarded people and such, like people arguing with me for an hour saying that the WII doesn't come with a nunchuck and then after an hour, the person lies and says, "Oh, I thought you meant nunchucks from...........China!" Which itself makes no sense. I've also dealt with people who think I'm crazy for thinking at school your a slave, kids who lie constantly, spammers, and think using the computer is the most boring an pointless thing ever unless you are typing a word document or something. What's up with that? I've talked to a FEW wise people, (Thank god!) and one of them said that don't call people retarded. Everyone has a purpose in life, even if it's showing people not to act like them. That inspired me, in a way that is. I mean as you can see i still call people retards, BUT u know. It's hard to describe, but in a way it changed me.
Another thing for the upside, we had some fun at school for Dr. Suess' birthday, and Linda Sue Park, author of the newberry award medal book, A Single Shard, traveled across the country to visit our school. (why I don't know.) It was really awesome to meet her. At first, she talked about her Korean culture. She said that on your 1st birthday, the Korean tradition is to play a fortune game. What you do is the parents lay 6 things on the table for the child to grab, depending on which one they grab determines their fortune. On the table lays: A spool of thread, some money, a piece of cake, a bit of rice, a book, and a pen. If you pick the spool of thread, it's supposed to mean you'll live a long life. If you pick the money, it means you'll be rich. (which her brother picked and he makes a very good living!) If you pick the cake, it means you will be lazy and fat. (ouch!) If you pick the rice, it means you will always have some food toe at. if you pick the book, it means you'll be a teacher. And if you pick the pen, it means you will be a writer. Guess which one Mrs. Parks picked? The pen! Anyway she also talked about writing and how she got her ideas. She said an idea is a mathmatical formula: world + imagination=idea. She talked specificly how she got ideas for some of her books such as A Single Shard. (I'm not going to go into that though) She said when she writes, she rewrites and rewrites. And she says it's fun. She gave the example of a basketball. You don't shoot it once, you shoot it over and over. It's the same with writing, which is why she rewrote her book, The Kite fighters 38 times! At the end, she took questions, but she couldn't answer mine. My question was, "Why do you think the people who award the Newberry Medal Award chose your book, A Single Shard, instead of one of your other books like, Seesaw Girl?" She said she doesn't know the secrets to how they decide who wins the award. That gave me an idea for writing my own book. What is the idea? I can't tell, I don't want anyone to steal the idea.
Anyway overall I think today was ok. Life isn't THAT bad
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Wow two blog entries in one day. That's never happened before. Well if you read my last entry you know I've been bored this weekend so. Ok well I'm writing this because all my entries so far have been about issues in our world and I don't wanna' be known as a complainer. There are some good things in our world. Our technology, our government, democracy, freedom of religion, ands the freedom to create. Now if I talked about all of these, this would be a really long entry which is why I'm only going to talk about freedom to create. Even as a kid, we may not be able to get a job, but we can create anything. A story, a song, a poem, a project, a blog, a website, a club, a friendship. We can also create things in ourselves such as a good performer. We have the freedom to be whoever we want to be and make what we want to make. To me, this is the best freedom to have. I feel lucky to have it. It empowers you, it lets you do anything you could possibly want. Even if you don't have freedom to do everything you may want in school, just think about that. There is a positive side to everything, all you have to do is find it. Think of life as a game, the goal, to try and be as happy and succesful as possible. (That game part wasn't my idea. Credit goes to anonymous.) When you look at it that way, you will most likely be a lot happier. If you aren't happy in life, well life sucks. I hope this blog doesn't make you dislike your life. It's just sometimes, I don't like certain things about life. I may seem like a total depressed person who complains about everything, but sometimes, even I look at the bright side of things. And you know what, this felt really good to write. I hope this changes your look at things. (and your look at me) Please leave your comments, tell me what your thoughts are about this. I read all comments submitted. If you want to discuss this topic live you can in my chatroom. I personally think you should. Telling how you feel about something is fun. That's why i made this blog.
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| I can't believe it, here it is, Sunday night and tomorrow is school AGAIN. I mean it feels like the weekend just started. And of course I wasted my weekend doing nothing but play warcraft and eat brownies for the most part. I was bored. There was never anything good on TV. I was taking a break from editing my website, my favorite blog (http://www.blog.aliencam.net) wasn't updated over the weekend, and there were no magic shows...or (good) movies or anything else out that we could see. We were going to see this israeli singer but just when we were about to leave my dad checked online they were booked. Of course. I've been getting sort of depressed lately. I mean to me, people seem to think kids have no right in this world to do anything and well.. as a kid life is pointless. I know, that really isn't completly true, but that's how i feel sometimes. Actually make that a LOT of the time. I mean every day is the same, we go to school where we have no rights. My teacher has told us that with rights come responsibility. She backed it up by pointing out when your 18, you have to pay taxes but you can also vote and are considered an adult in many cases. You also get to call all those commercials that say, "You must be 18 or older to call." So in a way, people could argue with my point, but we have plenty of responsibilities with school but if they want to lay a few more things on us (besides taxes) we can take it. Even though we don't pay taxes, that doesn't mean we should always be at the mercy of adults as much as we are.
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STUPID STUPID SCHOOL!! OK so recently, people have been passing notes-a lot of notes. (I haven't though)Today, the Principal took it into hand and we found out that these weren't any old notes. Many notes apparently were threatning notes, sexual notes, or notes calling people "Obscene names" As one of my teachers said it. I haven't seen anyone passing these notes nor have I recieved any myself, but the Principal and my teachers seemed to make a very big deal. And actually, it didn't just seem like they were making a huge deal out of it, they were making a big deal out of it. And actually, much more then they needed to. Ok so at 1:00 PM today, the principal comes into the classroom, and starts talking about the note passing. At first no one seems to care, but then he says that unless someone admits between now and the end of the day, (3:00) the whole grade will stay after school UNTIL someone admits it. After he said that everyone's jaws dropped.
So the day goes by and here it is 2:50 when the Principal comes in saying, "If you would like to admit now, you can." Of course no one said anything. So 10 minutes pass and it's 3:00. One of the other teachers starts poking her head in the doors saying, "Better start calling home." So the teacher starts calling people up to call home. (considering we are not aloud to turn on our cell phones in classrooms.) Pretty soon people start complaining, and I ask, scared to death, "Is it really legal to keep us at school overnight?" It was a stupid question but I didn't know for absolute sure and I wanted to know. And of course my teacher lied and said, "There is no law saying we can't. But all i can tell you is I have a life and I'm leaving at 6:00." Now I know that there are laws saying they can't because our parents have custody of us, our teachers don't. So luckily after a few more minutes of staying after a few kids get up and finally admit it. Ironicly, three happened to be in my classroom. So after about 15 minutes of waiting, the Principal came in and announced we are all dismissed. Now how stupid is that? My teacher lied saying that we could stay over night to scare us, our Principal kept us after school and was ready to keep us after school for hours, and we had no say towards this. If you think about it, we really don't have many rights at school. Everyone claims we are such a just and fair world, so civil, with equal rights to all-but are we?
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OK 'lemme tell you, school in Arizona, aient always so hot... My brother who is in high school, his FAVORITE thing in the whole world is to learn. And you know what? He hates school. SCHOOL! Something is wrong there.....As for me I've had a mixed bunch. Some teachers have been terrible while others have been great. For example, one of my teachers, is pretty retarded..... One time we were doing this project, you had to like immitate a spider web pattern, which sounds fun like she's a good teacher right? But no, she had to be a meanie about it. Ok so we were using colored pencils to make a pattern like a spider web when woops- I messed up the entire pattern. I raise my hand to ask for a new one. When she comes to me I ask her for a new one and she says, "Just erase the colored pencil." It's like, what the crap is that? So I try erasing it and sure enough it wont erase. (obviously) It says on my colored pencils in big bold letters, NOT ERASEABLE! So I raise my hand again and my teacher is like, "Figure it out." So I just sit there not knowing what to do. A few minutes later i raise my hand again, and like before, without letting me even talk she just says, "Figure it out!" So I just sit there. I stare at the big old clock wishing I could magically make it go faster. I keep waiting until finally like 20 minutes later she says to me, "Why aren't you working?" She of course gave me "The look" that showed she was about to punish me. I then studdred, "I can't erase it." "Why?" Then a girl sitting next to me saved me the trouble of having to say anymore and she said, "his colored pencils aren't eraseable." Thank god I said to myself. My teacher loves the girls and hates the boys. Since a girl had said that for me, it didn't make her as mad. (Yeah I know, discriminationnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn) She then handed me a fresh piece of paper and walked away still a little pissed. Now I finally transferred classes so I have a better teacher then that old...old.... (i'm not going to finish this sentence so I don't say anything too mean)
As for nice teachers, there's the new one I transferred into for example. She doesn't mind repeating herself if you didn't hear, she likes both girls and boys, and she lets us have our fun sometimes. The only thing that gets a little annoying is if we are talking she gives us extra homework. On the bright side though, it's always very little. Overall, she's a fair teacher. Still I'm not sure if I even know the true meaning of a fair teacher considering all my life I've lived in Arizona, ranked 49th in the state for education. In my opinion I still have, and had some great teachers. When I grow up I might become a teacher, just to help Arizona become a little better in education!
I've become depressed multiple times because of crappy education and being a slave to the teacher(s). My brother said that yes, in school you will have crappy teachers, but you just have to keep remembering that when you are out of school, college will be loads of fun, and after college you can get a job and do basicly whatever you want. Whatever you love to do. I think my brother is pretty right.
The point is, it takes 15 years of school before you can really be happy and be able to do what you want and not have to always be hoping your teacher is a good one!
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January 14, 2007
This is my first blog entry! I'll give you an introduction of what my blog is about: my blog is all about my life, what I've been thinking, and what happened on certain days-just like a journal you'd keep at home, though, I don't release all my very personal feelings. Feel free to comment on my blog and tell how the entry made you feel. I hope you enjoy reading my blog!
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