An Update on my SUPER Exciting Life

This is an Update on my Super (not) Exciting (Still not) Life:

1.) My name is still Anna (if it's not then I've been putting the wrong name on all my papers)
2.) my birthday is this Thursday (I'll be 13)
3.) Dad let me drive the car around the church parking lot (putting heather, Sarah, and his lives in danger)
4.) We wondered where nonmembers learn to drive
5.) I have my mock trail class trail this Friday (I'm on both trails [there's the 6th grade trail and the joined 7& 8 grade trail] )
6.) my spelling still stinkz
7.) I like pi 3.1415926535897
8.) The vice principal still dislikes me for no apparent reason (must be because of something my siblings did...........)
9.) I'm 1st part/chair in both Jazz Band and Regular Band
10.) I need 4 more value projects for my personal progress church book thingy
11.) I only have 1 class with one of my best friends (and we don't even get to sit next to each other!!!!)
12.) I have a cough
14.) I think I might have triskaidekaphobia

School

Things I learned/ Noticed so far in 7th Grade:

1.) My science teacher is crazy
2.) Desks are unsanitary
3.) If you chew your tongue the teacher thinks your chewing gum (this happened to someone else)
4.) You go deaf for a while if the vice principal yells in your ear (this DID happen to me)
5.) The rule book says no knives that are under 3 1/2 inches are aloud at school (there's another rule saying no weapons, but I just thought that rule was funny)
6.) There's a typo in the rule book that's been there forever
7.) Band is loud
8.) If you're the only trombone in the class you get picked to solo a lot if your teacher also plays trombone
9.) Nouns are your friend
10.) There's a monster that runs around and steals your pencils
11.) If your smart you end up doing all the work in groups

And that's all I have learned so far (so things I relearned)

Okay.........

Tweedledum

Today I did something I never do, put in my contacts. My social studies teacher goes berserk when I wear them so I don't enjoy wearing them. That and the fact that they're really uncomfortable to put in.
Anyway, today during AA (the school claims it stands for Advisor/Advisee, but it really stands for Alcoholics Anonymous) the teacher had us play Quiet Ball. The game where nobody talks and the ball gets beemed at the people no one likes (luckily I'm not in that catogory.) When I got out (I didn't throw the ball far enough) this boy who is really annoying kept saying things like, "Anna, you look really rot without your glasses!", "Anna, will you marry me?", "Will you consider it?", "If I give you this mask will you marry me?" The mask was a mask he made in art, and it was really beat up and had holes. During all that time he was saying this I was ignoring him, because, well he's an idiot and he was said a bad word last week...... I don't think I'll wear my contacts again anythime soon.

Rain, rain, stay all day...

If you've read my mom's blog you know that we got off school today because of rain. We get out of school for everything. Snow, no snow, too cold, too hot, blocked parking lot, rain, if the superintendant is having a bad hair day, or even if they don't have enough subs. We get out a lot. Today when we woke up it was raining hard. Immediately, every student in the county's mind went to the same question "Is school cancelled yet?" There's a creek behind our school, and if the creek gets over the bridge, we can't have school. We went to seminary; when we came back it was still raining. In the parking lot at school, there was an alarminly small number of cars there. Today was Senior Skip Day. For those of you who don't know, this is a day when seniors skip. It is not sanctioned by the school. They announced it several times. Regardless, three pages of seniors were absent. We only had half our class in physics. In trig, we had mostly everyone. Our teacher was aware of the distraction, in the form of rain, that held the attention of the class. She told us to just accept that they would not cancel school and to just pay attention and learn our trig equations. Someone asked if they had ever made the student body stay after classes ended because they couldn't get out because of flooding. She laughed and said that they couldn't keep her, she was leaving. The interstate would have to close to keep her from getting home. Throughout the class, students that parking in the far back lot were called to move their cars. This has happened in years past. The bridge floods and no one can get out. Luckily, the seniors were gone, leaving their parking spots. Last year when this happened, some were not so lucky. They had to move their cars to the elementary school lot and ride a bus back to school. One kid's car actually started to float away. They didn't cancel school for that incident. Fifteen minutes before the end of second block, we were all starting to lose hope. They have to announce early dismissals before lunch. Then it came, the much anticipated announcement: Three hour early dismissal! Our trig teacher apologized for dashing our hopes. She was as excited as the rest of us. We went to lunch, and at the end of first lunch, the assistant principal announced that those who had cars could go ahead and leave. I found Nick, Sarah, and the two boys we take home and we were out of there. My feet did get wet though. I had to walk through three inches of water to get to the car. But, oh, it was worth it!

On a Roll

FYI this is Tweedledum, NOT Tweedledee. I'm 3rd chair trombone in the BMS Jazz Band and we know a total of three songs, 1 of which is a Christmas song. Our school concert is coming up and we are learning 'Stray Cat Strut'. Our band director decided we would learn 4 measures on Wednesday. We did learn 4 measures. It was the last four measures, too. I know the first 16 measures, add that to the four we learned in class, and that means I know 20 measures out of a 54 measure song! That really is an accomplishment for me. Most people wouldn't agree with me on that mainly because the first 16 measures in my part are rests, but for me, It really is an accomplishment!

Things I Should Be Able To Do

There are certain things that people just expect you to be able to do, like tell your left from your right, do basic arithmetic mentally, or navigate with a map. Well I can't do any of those things. It's not from lack of effort. I've tried a million mnemonic devices to try to tell which one is my left and which one is my right. But I still have to think about it. When I'm driving someone will say turn left and it's three seconds before it connects and I know which way to turn.

I also cannot do simple arithmetic in my head. I got a 97% on a geometry test once because I said that 6-1=4. Of course that was part of a much larger problem (I was determining what type of quadrilateral it was.) One would think that somewhere before I got to Trig I would have learned how to do that. I've gotten so that I can add most single digits, but when you start throwing in numbers over nine, I face a quandary of gigantic proportions. Usually I just get out my calculator (I love that thing!)

As for navigating, I've inherited all those skills (or lack of skills) directly from my mom. If you've ever been in a car with her, you know what I'm talking about. We get lost going to places we've been hundreds of times. Even if I have a map, I get lost. It's a curse. It's all my mom's fault.

Seminary

My mom commented the other day that it was a miracle that we (Sarah, Nick, and I) were all still alive. After dropping off Anna at the middle school, she sees us driving back from seminary on our way to the high school. I sit in the front seat with the seat reclined all the way back. Nick is usually lying down in the back seat and is also asleep. Sarah is hunched down in the driver's seat, so that you can only see her eyeballs peeking out over the steering wheel. It was decided that it is the blessings of seminary that keeps us all alive each morning.

Our seminary teacher is Brother Frame. He's a lawyer. He goes so in depth into everything that I don't think we will finish the New Testament. We're in 1st Corinthians right now, but that's only because we skipped half of Luke and all of John. We convinced him that they were like re-runs of Matthew and Mark. For the last two years he has been pretty lenient with attendance. So lenient, in fact, people who never once came got credit for the year. We have since corrected his ways and he now has nothing to do with attendance. Our secretary records it and Brother Frame's wife inputs it into the computer.

For half the year Nick, Sarah, and I enjoyed being half the class. If we couldn't be there, the class was cancelled. Our parents ask who was there everyday, and we answer everyone except whoever wasn't there. It sounds like more people than there really are. Fortunately, another family with two more high school students moved in bringing our total number to eight.