Today, a field trip. Gotta say, I was pretty stoked at the opportunity to go learn about databases and microfilm technique but it actually ended up being pretty fun. I got a lot of sources for our National History Day papers (click HERE for the BS they call a theme...). My essay is about Garry Trudeau, the awesome dude who draws Doonesbury. I feel like I'm sticking it to the education system by not writing my essay about Thomas Jefferson or Winston Churchill, both of whom are certainly appropriate and worthy topics; I want to write about someone different. GB certainly is. Maybe if I feel like it, I'll post the essay here when I'm done.
We went to lunch at the student center. I watched Olivia consume a ridiculous amount of fried rice. I had spicy tofu and eggplant and it was A M A Z I N G. I don't have high expectations in the least for panda express but damn!
Walking back, we noticed a bunch of stuff set up for the democratic party candidates of fort collins, and they were yelling that Udall (Mark Udall, for US senate) would be speaking in half an hour. We begged our normally freakishly uptight history teacher, apparently in a good mood after recieving a box of free brownies, into letting us attend the rally. It was really cool; I've never seen so many politicians up close in the same place before. A bunch of us nerdy IB kids signed up to help get voters out on the big day (and the three before that). In return, we got Udall stickers, Udall lawn signs, really sweet Obama stickers, Obama posters and get this- Free T-Shirts! It was awesome. There was Obama trivia while we waited for Udall to show up (he was ridiculously late and talked for something like 15 minutes). We're going to wear the shirts tomorrow to annoy the militant conservative girl who sends us angry text messages about how she's going to burn the next thing featuring Obama she sees. She used to be our friend and now she's driving us all insane. Even other conservatives don't like her. She ditched the field trip to see Sarah Palin (*shudder*) speak, and sent us constant updates about the whole thing. Yeah, we're not too happy about her at the moment.
May November 4th arrive and everyone doesn't have to deal with any of this anymore!
They have moving shelves at the library. They were most captivating. And it was cool being able to use a computer that didn't have content blocker absolutely everwhere. Highschool internet sucks. No joke. How can computers be the ideal learning tool if they don't let us do anything at all, and we still do half the things they don't want us to do anyways? Geez... Don't get me started.
French word du jour: Aile meaning wing. Its a good word. Tu est le soleil qui seche mes ailes. From 'Flamme' last year's totally cheesy french song. You are the sun that dries my wings.
Fact du jour: Freerice.org, now not only your best and brightest SAT-studyin', world feedin', justified procrastinatin' machine, but it also helps with Math Facts, French, Italian, German, or Spanish vocab, Chemical Symbols, Map Reading, World Capitals, Art History, and English grammar. Wow! So much to learn! So go try it! I did 4000 grains of rice today, can you beat me?
We went to lunch at the student center. I watched Olivia consume a ridiculous amount of fried rice. I had spicy tofu and eggplant and it was A M A Z I N G. I don't have high expectations in the least for panda express but damn!
Walking back, we noticed a bunch of stuff set up for the democratic party candidates of fort collins, and they were yelling that Udall (Mark Udall, for US senate) would be speaking in half an hour. We begged our normally freakishly uptight history teacher, apparently in a good mood after recieving a box of free brownies, into letting us attend the rally. It was really cool; I've never seen so many politicians up close in the same place before. A bunch of us nerdy IB kids signed up to help get voters out on the big day (and the three before that). In return, we got Udall stickers, Udall lawn signs, really sweet Obama stickers, Obama posters and get this- Free T-Shirts! It was awesome. There was Obama trivia while we waited for Udall to show up (he was ridiculously late and talked for something like 15 minutes). We're going to wear the shirts tomorrow to annoy the militant conservative girl who sends us angry text messages about how she's going to burn the next thing featuring Obama she sees. She used to be our friend and now she's driving us all insane. Even other conservatives don't like her. She ditched the field trip to see Sarah Palin (*shudder*) speak, and sent us constant updates about the whole thing. Yeah, we're not too happy about her at the moment.
May November 4th arrive and everyone doesn't have to deal with any of this anymore!
They have moving shelves at the library. They were most captivating. And it was cool being able to use a computer that didn't have content blocker absolutely everwhere. Highschool internet sucks. No joke. How can computers be the ideal learning tool if they don't let us do anything at all, and we still do half the things they don't want us to do anyways? Geez... Don't get me started.
French word du jour: Aile meaning wing. Its a good word. Tu est le soleil qui seche mes ailes. From 'Flamme' last year's totally cheesy french song. You are the sun that dries my wings.
Fact du jour: Freerice.org, now not only your best and brightest SAT-studyin', world feedin', justified procrastinatin' machine, but it also helps with Math Facts, French, Italian, German, or Spanish vocab, Chemical Symbols, Map Reading, World Capitals, Art History, and English grammar. Wow! So much to learn! So go try it! I did 4000 grains of rice today, can you beat me?
Drink du toujours: ROOT BEER
Feast your eyes.
Makes my day a little better, how 'bout you?
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