I BROKE IT

I actually have an excuse for not blogging today, and that excuse is that I broke my phone charger. I managed to kind of fix it, but it only charged when I taped it completely flat... So I get to go buy a new charger today, which means I'll have two USB to wall adaptors for European outlets..?? Whatever shall I do with them when I leave? #firstworldproblems

But anyways, today I did homework and math and helped my grandma around the house some. We also went to a friend of my grandparents for the afternoon:)

Aaaaand then I stayed up skyping Stephanie and texting two other people until 1 am, whoops

April Fools Day!

Happy day of foolery!

Today I went to the Technorama (sciency hands-on center place idk) after school with some other people from different math classes... I thought it was pretty boring. Which is really sad because I was really really looking forward to going! 

The part that was kind of interesting was the workshop that we did as a class, where we worked with liquid nitrogen and frozen CO2 (dry ice!) and fire and lots of snazzy stuff. But I picked a bad partner who had no sense of wonder apparently. She would perform the experiment, go "neat." And move on. Hello? You just did this sequence of events that led to this thing suddenly erupting into flames??? Does that not make you want to stop and think for two seconds why? It's not like they were tricky experiments. Whoah, look, a glowing piece of steel wool burns like crazy when you put it into a flask with a bunch of oxygen. I wonder why. Duh. So that was a mistake. Oh well. Lab coats and goggles are always fun, I guess.

And I feel like the actual permanent displays were not that interesting. I was impressed at how much stuff there was to look at and fiddle with, but it was also still quite simple. It would definitely help someone trying to learn or understand basic math or science. Multiple visual representations of Pythagoras's Theorem that you can twist and take apart etc etc are definitely useful. Oh well! I went and spent an afternoon somewhat stimulating my brain. Example: what kind of mathematical formulas do they program this magnet-controlled ball with so that it creates beautiful, perfect patterns in the sand and how does that translate to the machine actually moving the magnet around? Sadly this was not explained on the plaque. 

That turned into a rant pretty quickly. Oops. I guess I'm just sick of stupid people.

Tomorrow I'm going to a friend's house for a sleepover because we don't have school Friday or Monday because of Easter! Yippee! :)

Math final & movie night

Today I went to the Zurich International School and took my final test for my online math class. It was not fun. But I think I did pretty well on it. 

And then after dinner I Skyped with my mom<3, and then Lara came over and we ate cookie dough and watched "The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud". It stars Zach Efron. Enough said. It was fun. Happy Saturday!

Silly teacher

Today was another average day, except my math class in the morning was canceled 30 minutes before it started... And it was supposed to be our first day with a new math teacher. So of course I was already at school and I just had to wait until next period... Oh well. Everyone else in the class was there too. 

I also attended the singing workshop again, and I'm so excited for Friday and Saturday! Yay!

Grades

Today we got our test results back for English and math. Our class average for math was 3.4 (on a scale of 1-6, which is how grading is done here), which is pretty bad. No one understood what the math teacher was even talking about during most of the lessons. I had a "bad" grade, but if the grades were based off of class ranking, I would have definitely gotten a way better grade. Basically, 3/4 of the people failed miserably and 1/4 got lucky and passed.

My English test was much better. I got a 5.5. :)

Tomorrow I get to sleep in because our history teacher is doing a "Projekts Woche" (project week) with another grade. And after school Lara and Aunt Claudia and I are going shopping for winter boots. Yippee!

Rainy Weekend

On Saturday I went to blau ring (a girl scout type thing) with Lara and a few other girls. We made "brannte mandelen" which means burnt almonds, which are almonds and caramelized sugar. They're so delicious and take almost 3 hours to make. Yay for cooking stuff!

I also downloaded ios 8 this weekend, and it's really cool. I recommend it to anyone with an Apple device :) the only thing was it took forever to download and then it crashed the first time I tried... Oops.

Sunday it basically just rained all day. It was gorgeous. I spent lots of time doing homework, especially math, because I have a test on Tuesday... And only two more weeks until fall break!

 

Cousin time!

This Saturday Lara and I went shopping (I needed jeans, mom, I promise)

Ate the most delicious ice cream

And biked to a poetry slam-type event. It was super awesome. 

Sunday we watched movies (until 4 am, whoops!)

Did some math (literally 3 hours)

And went to the pool because the weather cannot decide if it's summer or fall. 

End of summer

School starts tomorrow! (Eep!) and I'm going to miss this weirdly rainy summer. I went to the pool:

Went on some trips:

Decorated a tshirt with my cousin:

Skyped friends for a long time:

Made a bag from an old sheet and decorated it:

Enjoyed some beautiful sunsets:

And made a ladybug friend. It decided to fly into my room and onto my laptop to help me with my math. Best math buddy ever. 

Week of moving stuff

So this week:

Mom and Gage left-and arrived!-for home, I went shopping with my cousin,

Skyped with Katie,

Went to the "badi" (swimming pool) with Lara (three times!),

And moved into my new room! There was a lot of furniture and stuff and stuff and stuff to move. Today I started decorating... It's gonna be a while before the walls are more exciting:

Yesterday evening I went to a farm with my grandparents to meet with some of their friends. It was fun, but the best part for me was finding out that we were allowed to eat a bunch of cherries! I looove cherries.

And... I did a bunch of math. (Happy, mom? :p)

What is this magic?!

I have a spider bite on my ankle that has caused it to swell. I am not happy with this new development. At all. However, I Googled what a brown recluse bite looks like, and they are huge. So at least I know that it is probably not life-threatening. Just kidding.

Today we got crepes that we ordered a while ago as a fundraiser for the French club. I got a cinnamon crepe for lunch and it was the most delicious thing ever. Seriously.

It was definitely a most exciting day... Oooohhhh! We actually had homework!!! Math homework! I had to do three whole problems at home... I almost couldn't handle the workload.

Bye!

The School System Is A Joke

So, today I went back to school after a 3-day weekend... *woop woop*
1st period: French. I love the language and the teacher, but one of the kids asked what the word "deafen" meant. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Deafen
2nd period: Choir! Nothing to say. I love to sing.
3rd period: 21st Century Literacies. We had a lady come in to tell us about how difficult sophomore year is going to be. They tell us that every year, that "the next year of school is going to be soooo tough!"
4th period: English. We wrote an essay. It was fun.:)
5th period: Math. I played on my friend's phone the. Entire. Time. I just did the math homework that he assigned in about 15 minutes. Easy.
6th period: Biology. This class is fun. We have a good teacher. And we learned stuff. Woot.
7th period: P.E. Easy, but fun.

#sorrynotsorry
Rant time is over now.
Bye!