I have not posted in more than 2 weeks. I've forgotten, procrastinated, and fallen asleep before doing this. This is me writing two weeks worth of blog in less than 20 minutes.
I've been getting really behind on A Tale of Two Cities. Right now, I'm only on chapter 14 in book 2 and should be done with part 2 by now. I think that there are more than 30 chapters in book 2. I need to do some serious reading.
Something that I've noticed is that the book really isn't all that hard to understand. It was a little like understanding Shakespeare for me. I read it, thought about it for a second, and then moved on. I've heard a lot of people say that they have no idea what is going on. These people are either ahead or right where they are supposed to be in reading and maybe that has something to do with it. I don't really understand how others can't understand it. It seems pretty simple to me. There are parts where the wording takes some thought, but they are not very numerous. It just takes a little bit of thinking to figure out what Mr. Dickens is saying.
I've been able to maintain my grades pretty well this term. I've got all A's right now except for an A- in math. It's just barely an A- though and it will probably go up nearer to the end of the term. Geography has been a new class for me this term. I've enjoyed it, and it hasn't been to much of a strain on me. I enjoy being in the class, learning the subjects, and, sometimes, the assignments. Computer Technology has been another new class. It's fun, but I already know most of the stuff that we are learning. I can attribute that to growing up with computers and my dad being a computer person. I'm just doing it because it is required to graduate and I want to get it out of the way.
I just recently got an email from my science teacher with the results for the Science Olympiad competition at Westminster. My partner and I got 1st Compute This! (These events are explained in earlier posts). When we took the test, I had forgotten the paper that is required for each team to participate in an event. While my partner started on the test, I halfway across campus to the gym, where our stuff was, got the paper and ran back. That was kind of annoying, but it surprisingly didn't take too long. My partner had only finished a few questions, so I started making the graphs that were part of the test. We had to use Mac laptops which were a pain. It took so much of our time just figuring the layout of the computer. We didn't know a lot of the commands and where the programs were and had to figure them out. I was really surprised that we were able to finish everything, but, when we were finished, I felt like we had done really well. We actually did do very well,but this competition was just a practice and we weren't able to earn any medals or anything.
For Storm the Castle, we got third. I was okay with that because the competition was run right. The event supervisors were supposed to make a counterweight that fit inside of a 15X15X15 cube. They didn't and the weight was too tall. When our trebuchet fired, the weight hit the bottom of it because we had built it for a 15X15X15 counterweight. I wasn't too worried about this though; it was just a practice competition and what we did didn't change anything.
I wasn't able to get all my blogging in right now, but I will finish it up tomorrow for sure.
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