Tuesday, June 5, 2007

   Ranting Time.

Sooo... Today we started the standerdized testing. Oh fun fun. *UGH!* They're so annoying. I mean, we need to pass them all next year in order to graduate. AND! They're adding science for our class, so we have to pass those too! Luckily, they're doing the pilot for them, and if we pass this year, we get to skip them next year. Which is good, because who wants all of those tests at once?! XD We also are working on finals and stuff. Well, for foreign languages. So for the past three-ish weeks or so, we've been writing a paper in French class on a famous person from a French-speaking country. (I did Alizee Jacotey the singer. =P) So right now we're starting to work on our orals. (Our orals on the person we wrote on starts on Monday. So we're practicing our oral material and we're starting to make our visuals, which we have to have with our presentation.) I'm actually feeling pretty confident about my French final. (We also practiced for our reading comprehension test today. I should be able to do that too.) I'm NOT looking forward to Geography finals. *prepare for rant, skip if you want* I HATE OUR TEACHER. He's a nice enough guy, but he DOESN'T TEACH US ANYTHING!! I mean, we've learned a little about Africa and a bit about Europe (which is what we're doing now) but we seriously don't really do much in his class. I mean, we went ONE DAY of a five day video conference with Uganda. We went another day too, but only to watch. And then we get back to the classroom and says to us "I'll probably have you guys write an essay on Uganda in your final." It's like.. FOR WHAT?! We didn't STUDY it. We were just talking to the people there. To find out what life is like there. He didn't even tell us what kind of stuff we'd have to look for or study or remember so that we could write an essay. Just.. we'll write an essay on Uganda! Other than that Video Conference we did NOT study the country. I'm really kinda mad at him. And the other day! He was out and we had a sub who told us 'Yeah.. you have a test today." See, he TOLD us he'd give us a test on Europe and we went over some of the stuff, but he never told us it was going to be the NEXT DAY. (well, actually Monday.) God.. we were all tearing. >_< He's so annoying! He barely teaches. *cough* Rant over. Sorry. ^^" I'm not horribly worried about chem and English finals, however. I think I'll do okay with a bit of studying over the weekend. Sure, it's unnerving, but I think I can handle it. ^^" Anyway, enough ranting and enough about school. ^^" Questions: 1) Have you ever had a teacher who's done similar things? (Given you an unexpected TEST or told you to write an essay on something you haven't learned..etc.) 2) When do you get out of school? (or are you already out?) 3) What do you think of summer? (weather-wise, not the whole school-less-ness. XD) Oh! And if you haven't voted yet, please do.. I've only got four votes so far and they're all for something different.. ^^" haha.

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