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Goodbye. Forever.
Article posted May 17, 2013 at 11:19 PM GMT0 •
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The thing that I will always remember is this: Everybody is fighting a different battle. The only difference between a friend and an enemy is that a friend knows the battle you're fighting. So thank you for reading loyally... Assuming you have been. Thank you for reading through my ups and downs, my complaints and advertisements, my triumphs and my failures. Thank you for enduring my pains that I've written, and thank you for proving that I can indeed write. So, goodbye, and thank you. I hope to see you another day.
Can you truly learn the easy way?
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Article posted May 17, 2013 at 11:19 PM GMT0 •
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A New Quote From Me
Article posted May 17, 2013 at 11:12 PM GMT0 •
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You know what? I'm going to change things up a bit. Goodbye. Goodbye, 7th grade, goodbye, awesome team teachers, and goodbye blogs. Yeah. It's over. In one week, to be precise, but it's over. This is the last blog EVVVEEEEERRRR. Just remember: You will never get to see what happens next in the Jade Chronicles. You will never get to see another entertaining narrative. To me, it's kind of bittersweet. I mean, it's like, YES! School is OVER! I can catch up on sleep! But the other side of me is just sad. I won't get to learn from my epically extraordinary team teachers anymore, which is a shame. I really love learning from all four of them. And, well, after school ends, I'm getting braces. D: Nooooooo=http:// But really, what have I learned in the seventh grade? (That sounded weird... Obviously I've learned about quadratics and polynomials and poems and mysteries and ancient Greece and economy and respiratory systems and water, but I mean more of like what I've learned about myself.) I've learned that all it takes is twenty seconds of courage to get something incredible rolling. I've learned the value of hard work more than anything, this year, when I made NJHS. I learned that I prefer cherry pie over pumpkin, and that I don't have stage fright unless somebody depends on me. I've learned that there is no easy way to learn something new. You don't learn to not stick your hand in fire because your parents told you not to- you learn because of your stinging finger and the tears in your eyes. If you don't suffer the consequences of "learning something the hard way," then you don't remember the lesson you learned, and you always have that little voice in your head saying, "How bad could it be?" I've learned more about sleep deprivation this year than I'd like to know, and I have learned that no matter how much you've learned, it's impossible to learn the nit-picky stuff in everything. I've learned my strengths and weaknesses more than I ever knew about before. I learned that if you know that you're not good at something, then when it comes up in your life you should change your name and move to Alaska. (Just kidding, you should move to Maryland) So, what have I learned that I will take with me forever, and always keep in mind? I've listed at least 20 things that I've learned. (What I want to say won't fit; see next blog for conclusion)
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Article posted May 17, 2013 at 11:12 PM GMT0 •
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History Happened To Happen A Long Time Ago
Article posted May 10, 2013 at 11:19 PM GMT0 •
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Once upon a time, there was armor. After armor, people started deciding it was time for a better weapon. Completely unrelated, the Chinese decided to make fireworks. Then people found out about this, and what did they do? Well, yeah, they said they were pretty, but what else? They made handheld noisemakers! (Note: I have skipped about 5 steps in the process, such as: Cannons, Siege Engines, and TNT) What did these noisemakers do, you ask? They killed people. Then, people decided it wasn't such a good idea to wear armor. But that has nothing to do with my project! I just wanted a snappy topic sentence. My project was about, well, armor, and why it was considered "functional." Seriously, how good does something have to be before a society decides it's just a good thing to use? I found out that plate armor=good, and chain mail=gross. Seriously, that stuff took 30 accomplished blacksmiths and apprentices 3 weeks to make one hauberk, and then all it would block is a sword. Really? REALLY? "I just payed lotsa money for that thing, and now I have an axe sticking out of my chest!" I learned some pretty cool, random facts, too. For instance, some women back then bought armor and snuck into the army! However, not many people really talked to me about my project, so I was pretty bored. The most interesting part was telling a particular person whose board was next to mine (you know who you are...) to stop telling people to grab him free samples. On break time, I found out that you can see the Great Wall of China from space, ballistas and catapults are operated using twisted rope, and that my epic paper mache Viking helmet of awesome could block a pencil stroke. I think world history influences our lives because without it, our lives wouldn't be anything near what they are today. We have our legends and myths about armor and weapons. We have the Pantheon, the Parthenon, the Great Wall, to see and marvel at the fact that they were built. Most importantly, we have more computer lag because of all the extra websites telling us about all this stuff! So, don't blow off history. It's who you are.
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Article posted May 10, 2013 at 11:19 PM GMT0 •
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Mal/Male
Article posted May 10, 2013 at 10:54 PM GMT0 •
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Article posted May 10, 2013 at 10:54 PM GMT0 •
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Authors Don't Write Stuff, Silly!
Article posted April 26, 2013 at 11:00 PM GMT0 •
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Hey, people! After reading the title of my blog, you probably think I'm crazy. I'd definitely agree with you. But, being an illegitimate author, I can tell you first-hand that it's not really writing the book. It's more like discovering it. So, this week's prompt is about our ASR (All School Read), Hero. What do I think of it? Well, I will say it's not the best book I've ever read, but it's still pretty good. It's got a good plot, good (sometimes colorful) vocabulary, pretty awesome characters... As I said, pretty good. One thing I would change, though, would probably be Shawn's (Shaun? Choun? How you spell that?) attitude. It really hasn't changed enough for being in the middle of the book. It'll make for a random, instantaneous change in the end and that won't give you as many of the patented "Warm 'n' Fuzziz." It's also kinda frustrating because it's really obvious that Mr. H is trying to help and that Sean (How you spell?) is more than just another community service kid to him. It is equally obvious that he kinda needs help. It's unrealistic, how stubborn he's being. Seriously, even I back down and say the other person is right when I'm wrong... With the exception of Dayton, because literally everything we do is argue about tiny, stupid things. Like, how old is that book character of whom is very cool. (21-22, but who's counting?) Or if that number is 4 billion or 4 trillion. (It was 4 billion). But with everybody else, I back down if proven wrong. That's why I'm a terrible debater. I will say, though, that it is an excellent storyline that I would have probably never been able to come up with. I lean more to the fantasy sort of side- the side of the world that nobody sees with magic and cool stuff like that. So, S.L. Rottman, I commend you for your work of art, even if I may not have written it that particular way. That's all I have to say on the matter. Wow. Feels good to have that off my chest. Thanks for reading, bye!
Question of the Blog: Giraffes, or sheep?
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Article posted April 26, 2013 at 11:00 PM GMT0 •
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Finland: The Greatest of Them All
Article posted April 25, 2013 at 11:20 PM GMT0 •
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Guess what I did at I-Towne? Well, yeah, I worked and stuff, but you wanna know what I did on my break? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! You probably don't want to know why, but I'm going to tell you, anyways. Basically, something in Egypt screwed up, and I spent my entire first break waiting for my picture to print. The ENTIRE time. Then, I went to work, which was actually ironically more fun than my break. I learned that pencilboxes are hard to build without the use of awls or automated screwdrivers. You wanna know what an awl is? Of course not. I'm still going to tell you anyways. It's a heavy little metal teardrop shaped thingy that you hammer into the wood and it'll make a hole for you to hammer your nail in without completely jacking it up. We didn't have one. So, sorry about the completely messed up nail job, Mrs. Lubich! Then, we went onto lunch, and World Summit, and I kinda might have zoned out, just a little right there. Then, it was my break again. Guess what? My picture STILL hadn't printed! What the heck??? So I spent half of my break trying to get the gosh darn picture straight, and then I had to spend the rest of it rushing getting stamped from each of the other 15 countries and getting the 4 activities done and ducking the Peacekeepers and didn't have any time for sightseeing or any of that fun stuff. Seriously??? Why!? Just... Why? I'm going to go off and cry in a corner. I think it's probably obvious what I would change. I think the best part was when I was selling sunglasses and was singing and dancing like a dork... And then sold, LIKE, 5 pairs. (Yippee! Just 28 to go!) So... What are you still doing here?! Go read Dayton's blog or Taylor's or something and leave me to mull over everything that went wrong in my most anticipated field trip of the year.
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Article posted April 25, 2013 at 11:20 PM GMT0 •
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Why On Earth Would You Think That Is Fun?
Article posted April 25, 2013 at 11:00 PM GMT0 •
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Chicken wings= Yummy. Right? Wrong. In science, we were... How would you put this? Playing with chicken wings, as Mrs. Lubich calls it. Just... Gross. We couldn't get the skin off and ended up slicing apart a bunch of muscles and even ended up making it bleed, and that was just plain gross. That's all I have to say on the matter. I didn't learn much, except for two things:
A) Even when something is dead, it's muscles still work. If yu prod it, it will make the bone move!!
B) Chicken skin is stubborn!!
Seeing as I want to be an author when I grow up (actually, I want to be and author now), science isn't exactly the most important subject to me, but I guess that was still an interesting day.
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Article posted April 25, 2013 at 11:00 PM GMT0 •
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YOU Want To Know What I'm DOING?
Article posted April 4, 2013 at 11:22 PM GMT0 •
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I'm doing my World History Fair project on... (Drumroll please... DURURUURURURURURUURUR) Medieval armor! Yeah, pretty typical of me. But my guiding question is truly epic: Why was armor considered functional? I mean seriously- it's expensive, heavy, clunky, and hot as a furnace in there. Honestly, I'm still kinda trying to figure that out. The closest reason I can find is that it's a heck of a lot better to run into battle with a clunky suit armor than in woolen leggings, a leather tunic, and a hand and a half sword. "Suicide run" is all that comes to mind at that particular scenario. So far, though, research is going pretty well. I've got a good bit of information and 6 credible sites. Yay me! I'm thinking for the 3D piece, I'm going to try and make a hauberk- basically a shirt of chain mail. Yup. I think this topic is really cool and it'll be really fun to have a project on it.
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Article posted April 4, 2013 at 11:22 PM GMT0 •
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Music Can Be a Bit Challenging...
Article posted March 1, 2013 at 12:02 AM GMT0 •
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Since this week's blog is another free-write, I decided that I was feeling music-y today and so I'm going to talk about my current favorite band song: Rise of the Vulcan (I don't know the composer). It's super-cool and fast and I get to play snare drum on it >:D. We're supposed to be playing it at quarter note= 160. Just think of it this way: we've got to squeeze 160 beats into one minute. Which is 2 beats a second. And that's not even counting the eighth notes- 4 per second- and sixteenth notes- 8 per second. And as the snare drummer... Well, I get to play lots and lots of eighths and sixteenths. I mean, we only played it at 130 and I could barely keep up! At the same time though, it's amazingly satisfying to hit a drum with a pair of sticks at high speed- and it's pretty loud, too. Which brings me to something I say most every day in my head: I love my job.
Question of the Blog: If you could be a snare drummer or a bass drummer, which would you be?
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Article posted March 1, 2013 at 12:02 AM GMT0 •
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About the Blogger
I love narwhals. That's all you need to know. Especially the ones that eat peanut butter.
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