School is coming to an end

Well, yesterday I finished my last Final Exam! Woohoo! There are three days left of school, and I guess we're just going to be sitting around, wondering 'Why are we here?!'. They don't have anything scheduled for us. On Tuesday, as the High School has a half day, but the middle school does not, my friends and I are going down to Mrs. Sirota's room in the Middle School for a visit, and to eat lunch with her, as we did everyday in 8th grade. All I can say is I am so excited for summer, because summer=no math homework+more organ practice+big trips to Boston and Indianapolis+my second organ recital. So I am so excited!!!!

Conics Celebration

Oh Algebra 2, how I wish I could just take that class every day for the rest of my life... okay maybe not. BUT despite that I have a little bit of trouble with math, and Algebra 2 isn't my favorite class in the world (because I'm just not too good at it!), out teacher, Mrs. Horn, is very nice, and it can be a good class. Today, after finishing our big unit on conics, we had a 'Conics Celebration'! Mrs. Horn encouraged us to bring in party food, etc. as long as it was conics related! I brought in twizzlers, representing directrixes (or is it directri?), or a latus rectum, or a radius, or diameter. You get the picture. Anything in the shape of a line segment, elipse, circle, cone, or of a parabolic shape was exceptable.
Here's a picture of my Algebra 2 class (not everybody, but most of the class) at the Conic Celebration, with me at the far left. Hmmm... I didn't realize I was that tall... :)

Skipping

I love skipping and sometimes I can't stop the urge to SKIP!
Here's me and my friend Rachael having a skipping race (I won).

Justo Lamas

This past Tuesday, Argentine singer, Justo Lamas, came to our school and performed a concert (maybe 3 hours long) for our Spanish classes, along with Spanish classes from many schools in the surrounding area. It was allot of fun, Southern Columbia School district seemed to get the most into it, while Tri-Valley school could not have been less into it. They sat there, looking board out of their minds, they didn't sing along, didn't get up, didn't dance, they didn't enjoy themselves one bit. They were swearing and constantly talking about 'how gay' the concert was. After it was over, I got the attention of all the Tri-Valley kids, (who were sitting in the 3 rows directly behind me) and yelled at them about it... I felt proud of myself :D. They were too committed to being, manly, manly tri-valley men to participate in a Justo Lamas concert. Anyway, here's a picture from after the concert, me and Justo Lamas.

Earth Day :D

Yesterday, as many of you know, was Earth Day! I had a fun Earth Day for one, we spent 5 hours in school picking up trash in the town park, around the lagoon, skate park, and pool, along the river, and all the way down Fort McClure Boulevard. Doesn't sound like a great time, but it was fun. 5 hours out of class so we can help out, do something important. I thought it was great and I had a good time, but by the time we were finished my back felt just a tad sore from bending over and standing up to pick up trash constantly for 5 hours. We ended up getting just unbelievable amounts of recyclables and trash, some interesting finds: a jet ski, toy rocket, fishing rod, fishing supplies, fishing license, action figures, shoes, shopping cart, carpet, rocking chair.
Here are some pics from Earth Day.

Human pile

Laughing

Sleeping

Gone fishing

Shoe flag

Action figure we found by the river.

Erotic pose

Jet-ski

My Ecology teacher, Mr. V, sitting in a rocking chair we found.

Exchanged Students Assembly

This past Friday (a week ago now), my high school had a 2 hour assembly all about our 8 foreign exchanged students.
Our SGA president kicked the assembly off with a little speech about our exchanged students program, then our assistant principal, Mr. Bressi, took the stage to basically regurgitate everything our president had just said.
After that, the house lights dimmed in our newly renovated auditorium, and our 3 German exchanged students made their way to the podium.
Mark Patrick Wagner leaned into the microphone,
"Um... Hello. I am Mark Patrick."
Then the two other german students (whose names I can't recall!) stated their name as well, Mark Patrick leaned into the mic again.
"We are obviously from Germany." There was an awkward silence as Mark took out a projector remote, and started their slide show. Mark and the other 2 explained how the government works in Germany, as well as German history and geography. One of the 2 German girls told us about October Fest, the other told us about German Architecture, and Mark Patrick told us about German foods. They presented pictures of their families and friends back home. One of the girls stated,
"... And also, I like American Football. I've liked it for 2 weeks now, um... it's actually pretty cool." she then laughed. When they were finished we applauded, and somebody in the Seniors' section of the auditorium yelled, "Go Mark Patrick!"
After this, our 2 exchanged students from Indonesia took the stage. One was In Tan (sorry for spelling), and again I can't recall the other girl's name. They played a video about Indonesia, and did traditional Indonesian dances, which were quite incredible!
Before leaving the stage, In Tan said, "I'm so excited for Fair Week! Aren't you too?!" the entire school cheered, we Bloomsburgians do love our fair!
Next was our exchanged student from Vietnam, whose name is on the tip of my tongue, but I just can't recall it! She was very excited and happy, and she told a few jokes. She talked about her 'annoying 9 year old sister back home', and about 'ugly school uniforms back home' and how she was glad she didn't have to wear one here. When quoting one of her new friends here in the US about being a big sister, she used the word 'bitch', and then said, "I don't know what that means." One could see teachers glaring at each other, trying to use nonverbal facial language to affirm what they'd just heard.
After her, was our Swedish student, who had a very short presentation, probably only 2 or 3 minutes, as compared to the other students half hour presentations. She seemed very shy, not really nervous, but just like she didn't want to be there!
Lastly we had Omar, from Mexico. (All the girls have been raving about how hott Omar, a Junior (11th grader), is)
His presentation, much like the one by our Vietnamese student, was very energetic. He talked about how different our food is, and how he misses Mexican food terribly. At the end, he did a dance for us too, and the students cheered for him when he was finished.
After that, Mr. Bressi made his way back up to the podium. I heard a couple of 'boos' come from the senior and junior sections of the auditorium, Mr. Bressi laughed it off, saying "Ha! You can see how much assistant principals are liked here in the U.S." He turned to the general area where the booing had came from, and smiled, "I'll let 'em off the hook this time! Omar, you should be glad Mr. Bonomo wasn't here to see what you just did to his stage!" Mr. Bressi joked. (In case you are wondering, Mr. Bonomo is our principal) "Well, that was a very successful assembly; it was allot of fun, and I know I learned quite a bit! Um... At this time, we will be dismissing Juniors and Seniors to their Second Period classes, and once all students are dismissed, I'd like to see all the exchanged students in my office."
Soon after, Sophomores and Freshman were dismissed to period 2 classes, and I made my way across the school and up the stairs to Spanish with Mr. Manor.
I must say that I really enjoyed the assembly!

Knoebels' Grove

Last Weekend, my family went to my father's company picnic at Knoebels' Grove Amusement Park. Here's some pictures and video of the wonderful time we had.


Here they are, about to take off!
Here are some swans that were under a bridge in the Amusement Park.
Wilder and Maeve rode the antique cars while Riley and I rode the Phoenix Roller coaster.