9th grade

I think everyone thinks that 9th grade was a big year for them no matter where they went to school. 9th grade is the first year grades actually count which may not seem that bad, but this means that literally every grade counts. I have already learned a huge lesson when it comes to test taking this year in Mr. Rice's biology class. On the very first test of the year, the easiest test in his class, in got an 83. I didn't get this because i didn't study but because the skipped a COMPLETE PAGE!!! And the top it off, the page I accidentally skipped was the easiest page on the whole test. This grade did hurt my average badly but I found a way to pull it up to an A. Which isn't bad. Another lesson I learned about tests is I can no longer not study for a test the day of the test. A good example of this is my first two world cultures tests. Also the two easiest tests of the entire course I score an 86 & 84 in that order. After this happened I told myself to try studying in advance for a chance to see what happens. And what do you know I get a 92 followed by a 93 on my next two tests. So far 9th grade has drastically changed my approach to assessments. I used to be even more lazy then I am currently am, yes I know it is hard to believe, and never used to study for anything or did any homework. So far 9th grade, for the most part, has changed me for the better.

Thanksgiving

This thanksgiving was.....interesting. Let's start with what happened in the beginning of the week. On tuesday November 22, 2011 I had my second surgery. I had to miss school that day but luckily I didn't miss much. The only weird thing about that surgery was, unlike most people, I remembered everything even after they gave me the first dose of “feel good” medicine. They had to give me 2 doses which was very surprising considering how small I was. Anyway, this surgery basically allowed me to do nothing which sucked and what sucked even more was that thanksgiving was coming up. Wednesday came and went pretty fast but when Thursday came around the madness at my house started. The thing is every year our family throws a huge party at our house and usually have around a 28 pound turkey. But this year there was no turkey because the everyone didn't want a turkey. So, it was planned to not have a turkey until the day of thanksgiving. So you could imagine how pissed my mom was when she heard we wanted a turkey. She was so pissed that she wouldn't even help. My dad went and got a turkey. This luckily this wasn't a problem because we had just enough time to cook it. My parents and everyone else had a very adventurous day but sadly I had a very boring day.
This is why this was a very interesting thanksgiving.

Movie

       Sorry this is going up so late. This happened because accidentally saved this post instead of posting it.
       Forest Gump is the movie I had chosen this past week. It is one of the greatest movies ever. It satisfies all four criteria for a great movie: It is unique, it is very layered, it transports the audience, and has many complex themes.
       This movie is unlike no other movie because of its simplicity. Forest, protagonist,  is a below average when it comes to intelligence. However, this is what sets him apart from most other protagonist. This movie is also great because it is able to transport the watcher. It takes the watcher through Alabama, Vietnam, Washington D.C., and more. Forest Gump goes through every major aspect of Forest's life creating many themes such as faithfulness, truthfulness, equality, and many more.
       Forest Gump is a great movie. It covers the four major topics we addressed in class, making this movie great and critically acclaimed. Forest Gump is one on the greatest movies ever made.

CCG

So, what is CCG? Well CCG is a little joke group that Bristow Richards, Henry Long, Sam Palmer, Gabbie Rhinehart, Charles Dylan Mactutus (Chuck), Gilmore Oliphant, Lizzie Francis, Griffin Davis (Foup), and I created during our cross country season which sadly ends this Saturday. If you haven't guessed already, CCG stands for the Cross Country Gang.
During practices not much goes on, but during Cross Country meets that a complete different story. Well that is not all true. At 6 o'clock in the morning no one is really awake to really do anything amusing, we usually just blare music through Foup's speaker which usually has one faulty battery. So, we have usually ask everyone on the bus at around 6:15 AM I they have batteries, waking everyone up and getting them slightly annoyed. Once we solve this problem we are usually at the race sight. We take everything off the bus and set up shop, a little tent which actually is huge compared to all the other teams with no tables or seats. So, we get to lie on comfortable roots and rocks. After about 2 minutes of being under the tent, most of us get really bored, so we go usually get and dance really awkwardly around Foup's tiny speakers getting weird looks from every parent, coach, and athlete on our team and others. After we get booed enough for our terrible dancing then we go exploring usually lead by the freshman pack, Chuck, Bristow, Henry, and me. This, by far, is the best part about our trips. One of the examples of our random findings is a giant cement pipe that runs under the road. Without any questions Chuck and Bristow run straight into it. About 5 minutes later they come out and tell us to get the speakers. So, we get the speakers and start listening to music in a random cement pipe. Eventually, the rest of the CCG find their way to the tunnel and once again we get weird looks from every parent, coach, and athlete. If you haven't noticed, we get a lot of weird looks, but we don't mind. After the exploring stage of our meet days then we have the race, which isn't the highlight of our day. After putting our bodies through torture for about 20 minutes we usually just lie down under our tent for the rest of the meet. This is about the average CCG Meet day, some are crazier so a little more chill.