Randomness on a Sunday

I haven't posted anything in like a month and a half!!! May was so hectic and everything!!! But now, it's June, and school's almost over! I've basically done NOTHING this past week, since all the grade 8s (or the majority at least) were away in Quebec, Halliburton,  New Brunswick and wherever else, on our graduation trip. Since I couldn't go to New Brunswick (only 40 people were allowed), I decided not to go. There were about 30 that didn't go, and only 6 that went to school. Actually, it was more like 4. We went to the AGO to see the Picasso exhibit (which is actually pretty cool) and got to learn to make graffiti at the Harbourfront Centre.
Anyways, before I leave to go to drawing class, (we're starting painting today) check out this video of my friend Nicole, honking like Canadian geese. We were filming a French geography project at her place (a few weeks ago) but she had lost her voice at a One Direction concert the night before.

lovelovelove

-T-

Easter!

Well guys, it's Easter. We've made it more than halfway through the school year. (There's only 56 more school days) We've had homework, projects, tests and teachers that we just absolutely disliked no matter how hard we tried not to. But for now, we get a weekend to rest, to put school and work out of your mind. Unless you're like me, you've probably been lounging on the couch, watching TV and basically doing nothing productive for the past 2 days. Now, we've still got tomorrow to rest up, and just enjoy our life without the everyday hassle of getting up early, work, work, and more work.
Now, for those of us that aren't so lucky, and are loaded with a TON of projects and tests, we've been using this time to do the things that we have to do. (Like those 4 French book reports that I have to do...) Or not... But the thing is, we were not procrastinating. We weren't! We were simply thinking about the homework, and trying to come up with the best way to do it, while we casually sit ourselves in front of our computers, listening to music. And we weren't surfing the net! We really weren't! We were looking for inspiration! That way, when we start the project or the assignment, we can do better. We'll be more focused. Ahem...
But seriously, we need more time to relax, to spend time with our family (yes, we do spend quality time with them...) and just more time to not have to worry about that big test you have coming up, or the HUGE Science project that's due in 2 days. We need time to de-stress!!
It's Easter, and we still have one more day of Freedom. Use it wisely. ;)

lovelovelove
-T-

New teacher, New schedule

Today was the first day back after the March Break. And our class had a few [major] changes to our schedules and classes.
The HSP teacher at my school was a LTO, which means that she's a long-term occasional teacher. She left because of personal reasons (it was never revealed to us why) and so now, our principal has to get a new teacher to teach HSP. (It's the Homeschooling Program) My English teacher has a background of teaching HSP, so, our principal pulled him, and got him to teach HSP. Permanently. So, now we have no English teacher. Another teacher, a math and gym teacher at our school, is covering for our English teacher for the rest of the year. So he's teaching my old English teacher's classes plus his own. Every class except ours, since we have English the periods that he has to teach math. So now, our principal needs to hire someone to teach our class English. Our old English room, room 209, is now being used by the teacher teaching his classes. Now, we have English in room 104- the Family Studies room. There's stoves, ovens, refrigerators, washing machines... It's a really bad room. And, it's on the first floor, which is technically the basement, which no one likes. For the next week or so, we're going to be having supply teachers until they find someone. The only stability is our student teacher, Ms. Williams. The bad thing is, she's now supposed to be in 2 places at once- teaching us English and teaching another class (this morning, it was health). It's gotten all messed up.
The second change is that because of this shift with teachers, we have a new timetable. We have all the same teachers as before and same rooms (except English) but just a different schedule. I actually liked my schedule from before.
They say change is good, but I'm not so sure about this. I hope they get a good English teacher. (The previous one was... but I had just gotten used to his teaching style. Now, it starts all over again.) Let's hope this works out...

lovelovelove
-T-