Post #55

Well, today was a pretty good day, especially for a Monday. lol. I actually have a short week, because I won't be going to school on Friday. You see, my grandpa is turning 90 this month, and we're having a surprise party for him this Saturday, and my parents and brother and I all have to fly to where all my family lives. So we'll leave Friday and come back Sunday, and that way I won't have to miss more than one day of school. One thing I know I will probably be missing Friday is our first pep rally. I'm pretty sure it's this Friday. I have very mixed feelings about pep rallies. The good thing about them is of course that we get out of class, and I also get to sit with my friends and talk to them. However, there are some downsides to it. Of course, pep rallies are extremely loud and noisy and give you a headache. Also, our school is already overcrowded with just 10th-12th graders. That's the reason that the 9th graders are still in the middle schools. But, since the 9th graders are still supposed to be part of the high school, our school insists on busing in all the 9th graders from the two middle schools, making the gym ten times more crowded. Then, since the pep rallies are at the very end of the day, all the 9th graders have to ride our buses home! The bus area is a total disaster. But anyway, I've gone way off topic, so I'll get back to the point. haha :)
So let's see, the first thing that happened today was quite irritating, but it all ended so funny. Well, we had our first test in science, and it was on the most basic stuff- the scientific method and the metric system, which we have gone over literally every single year since 3rd grade. Our teacher even let us use our study guides as long as we had them completed. Well, right before our teacher passed out the tests, the guy sitting behind me (remember what I said in an earlier post about what the people in this class are like? Well, this guy is one of them) suddenly said to me, "Hey! I didn't study and I don't have my study guide! After you finish your test, can you pass it back to me?" He even tried to bribe me into agreeing to let him cheat off of me and gave me a dollar (come on, if you're going to ask me to do something that big, at least give me 50 bucks! :) But there was no way I was going to let him cheat, since of course I think cheating is wrong, and besides that, how would my teacher not notice if I turned around and passed my test back to him?! So I told him those two things, but he kept insisting that he was sneaky so I would never get caught. But after awhile he finally gave it up and I gave him his dollar back. So, my teacher passed out the tests and I started working. I then noticed my teacher looking in the direction of me and the guy sitting behind me. And my first thought was, "Oh great, he must be trying to look at my paper." I just tried to cover my answers the best I could, and then turned the test in as soon as I was finished. However, I still couldn't relax even after that. The guy then started whispering to me again, this time asking if he could use my study guide since I was done. I told him that our teacher already knew that he didn't finish his and couldn't use it. I really hoped he would shut up because some teachers have really strict rules for talking during tests. Luckily he didn't say anything after that, but I then saw my teacher looking at us again, so I figured he was probably trying to look at my study guide now. I have to say, that was probably one of the easiest tests I've taken in quite awhile, and it's really quite sad that someone would want to cheat on such an easy test. But anyway, when the guy behind me went up to turn his test in, I saw that my teacher was talking to him quietly, and I could have sworn I heard her say something about cheating. I couldn't help but laugh to myself at this guy's stupidity. He actually thought that my teacher wouldn't notice him leaning over and trying to see my paper! What was so funny was how he had claimed that he was "sneaky", and here he was, getting a big goose egg on his 4th grade level science test. But I was a little worried, because if one student lets another student cheat, they get in trouble too, and I just hoped my teacher didn't think that was the case. So after class I made sure. I told her that I wasn't intentionally letting him cheat, and luckily she told me not to worry and that she would never think that I'd do something like that. So yeah, that was science. Ha-ha to that guy for getting caught like he deserved!!! lol.
And then I also had a test in history, but unfortunately we couldn't use our study guides. The thing that was really tormenting me, though, was that on our study guide, there were six essay questions, and our teacher was going to pick just one to put on the test. I had no idea which one he was going to pick, and I only knew how to answer three out of the six. You see, there still aren't enough textbooks for everyone in all of the classes to take home, so our teacher couldn't even assign us books yet, so we only had our notes to study. They were helpful, but they didn't have EVERYTHING. So I couldn't find the answers to the other three essays in the notes. So I just prayed really hard that he wouldn't pick one of those essays. When we got our tests and my teacher finally wrote the essay question up on the board, I breathed a sigh of relief and started singing hallelujah (in my head, of course. lol). He had picked the one that I was really hoping he would put on the test! So yeah, I was really happy about that. I think I did pretty well on the test! So yeah, today was pretty good!