Fighting the Current

the average far below average...

I walked into Latin today ten minutes before the end bell--I had been up in the computer lab getting the details on an SAT prep program. I thought there was something wrong when I walked in but I just attributed it to the dreariness of the day. It's been raining for several days here. Even the teacher seemed a little depressed. I found out after I left why everyone seemed so sullen. My entire Latin class (save one, maybe two) failed our most recent test. There are eight people in the class. The one who definitely passed had a 71 (two points above failing). It was not me. The other one took the test today, and I don't know how she did. In a class of eight that should not be happening. We all knew it. We knew it in class, asked questions, did it on the board. I don't know what happened. This is our first year with this teacher and she assumes we know more than we do. The nun who used to teach us went by her own rules half the time. And our current teacher has given us about 50-75 words we have to know. She gave them to us in the beginning of the year, but we only breezed through them in class and had never seen half of them before. She might give us a curve or a re-test. I really don't know. I don't even know my score.

I have a Physics test tomorrow. Things just keep getting better and better. At least I am pretty confident on this material.

I'm considering sending my class ring away to be resized. It's just about a half-size too big. I have to ask my grandfather what material is in soldering, because I have an allergy to certain types of metals and I really would like to be able to wear my ring.

The entire school is peeved about a day off we were awarded for a fund-raiser we had. We have school for three hours on December 23. Christmas Eve Eve. And yet they give us December 9 off.

Listening to a MIDI from one of my brother's games. It's an Egyptian-ish thing. I need to find some real Egyptian music with real instruments.

I do have to study Physics now though. I have to study long and hard. I want to do well this quarter. Or rather, keep doing well.