Today was just another easy day with
little to accomplish. But something bad is that I am starting to
slack in some aspects. Like instead of posting my blog early I ended
up posting my blog tonight at about 10:00. This dosn't bode well for
all the work I will need to do on other days. Even with the watchful
eyes of the teachers i am falling behind in some areas at a time. I
hope to see this solved sooner then later.
Work was mainly on the computer
including research, review, revising, and French. For one of my side
projects I plan on working on going back through my French to make
the upcoming lessons a little bit easier. Revising was checking my
work on my computer that I did when I printed my 2nd draft on Adrian
Mole. So this one is the third draft.
Finnaly tomorrow is my second field
trip of the year. Already after a week from the last one! This is
just one of the many perks of home schooling among many. Including
flexible work days, Improvement in direct areas of focus for the
student, and just flat out good education. Honestly I look back at
how I started and what problems I had and seem to see most of my
problems I originally had addresed are mostly gone. For example I am
getting much better at going through essay questions. But on the
other hand more problems emerge. Like that I realize I don't really
know how to study after 8 years of public school.
Today was one of my make up days. Mainly because this is what I decided for myself. But it wasn't for school that I was doing all of this makeup work. In fact all of it had nothing to do with school at all. What I did today was all the laundry I could find laying about in my brother and I's room. This included my brothers laundry as well. This was a simple yet time consuming task that took me an hour just to fold all of the laundry. That's not including actually putting it away yet.
Despite all of the laundry I didn't really have much work to do today. Mainly because I had already started today's work yesterday. But there wasn't much to begin with. And this week is only going to get easier with my field trip this Thursday and little amount of work to do tomorrow as well. Including this Friday there is not much work left to do this week and I am literally just trying to find some house work to do like my laundry. Though don't get me wrong the house work is actually helping. I mean I haven't seen this house clean since last winter only because we started falling out of the swing of things in the beginning of spring.
I actually am working on my own private project that has nothing to do with school. But before I can continue I need some more duct tape. Only because I am working on perfecting my duct tape hat.
Which as you can tell is not the look of perfection yet. But once I get enough duct tape these hats are going to be worth-wile. Or that's the goal at least. Maybe even try to sell these hats off to people. And I do plan on doing more then one design of hat at some point, but for now its one style any size.
This Sunday me and my dad headed out for another free skool activity at about 10:00 AM. The only reason we did this is so that we could attend mushroom planting. Or if you prefer Mushroom plugging. What this consisted of was drilling holes into pre-cut and pre-dried logs and then pulling and then putting a pre infested dowel rod into the drilled holes so that the mushrooms that we wanted would grow. After putting the dowel rods in we had to put wax that we melted over an open fire on the dowel rods.
Before moving on to my second activity that day me and dad stopped at a restaurant and gas station called Papu's cafe. This was an interesting Mediterranean restaurant that also felt homey and comfortable. And secondly I also got to play some Galaga before starting to eat my actual food. Which what I had was called a Gyro platter. Which definitely its own flavor too it as well as the other flavors on my plate. After our meal we went over to Kristi's apartment to wait for Alex and then moving on to play Commniana with free skool.
Last post I had asked you guys how much is to much. Well I decided that too much has its limit depending on how much it is. Though some things are too much as soon as you have it. Including things like pure stupidity like burning down the house is too much. A bag full of candy eaten in one day is to much. Everything has an unspoken limit that doesn't need to even be uttered. The limits are another unspoken rule of the universe that we live in. Though everyone has there own limits for certain things. Even if they are not what we truly should be doing.
Before we start everything about my actual trip I want to tell you about my lunch. My lunch was at a place called Rosedale BBQ. This place was an amazing treat and could easily be on one of my top restaurants in kansas city. It was as the name described a BBQ joint but a famous one at that. It simply stole my heart with a bite of pulled pork sandwich and its old fashioned feel. This place is famous as one of the oldest restaurants in the city. In fact even presidents have eaten at this magnificent place. I mean who wouldn't want to eat here as it even has the old fashioned soda. You know the ones in the glass bottles.
What do you people think is the American Dream? I believe that it is all about having an equal country. Some may think that it's to be as wealthy as possible. being rich and wealthy in life is what happened in today's field trip which was also a Documentary called Queen of Versailles. This may sound like a chick flick but it is nowhere near it. In fact it is about a man named David Seigal and his wife Jackie Seigal. They both were living the dream as the richest time share owners in all of America. But they end up losing everything due to there stubbornness and lack of self control. Though this may sound sad (which it is) they did to themselves by not doing anything about the known problems. By the way I have posted the video on this entry for you to see
There were a several ironic things in this movie but I will only tell you a couple of them. For example one thing is that David was worrying about his children's college careers. Only because despite all of his glorious wealth did not store any money for college for ANY of his 8 kids.This was one of the many depressing things about this movie as nothing was dealt with when they had the chance to do so. Another thing is that Davids wife, Jackie seemed to have no respect for the man bringing home all of the money so they could buy all of the expensive stuff that they were buying. Including the garage full of bikes multiple copies of board games including 3 different copies of operation. I mean seriously what was wrong with this girl. And even worse is that she wondered why her husband was getting so mad at here as if she had ruined his life. Which even if she didn't ruin his life she was just making it worse.
Here's a quote from the movie that I would like to go into more detail about that really messed with me. "Everybody wants to be rich. If they don't want to be rich they want to feel rich. If they don't want to feel rich they are probably dead." What the heck is up with you! What kind of materialist are you. I mean seriously I know a many good people that don't want to be rich. Including me of all people. Mainly because I feel that my life right now is good enough the way it is. And yes being rich may give you a sense of entitlement but it also weakens you. For example if you were like David and had everything then lost it all you would be so used to having everything served to you on a silver platter things would feel so terrible that it would literally tear your life to shreds. I don't want to be rich for mainly this reason only because that depending on something to that kind of extent is good for no one.
This day altogether is one of my best days of home school yet but I am not done with this blog yet. I have found a very interesting thought train hidden in all of this documentary. We will always work our way up the chain no matter what. Also including me in some weird way. For example with me it's school. I started in a low part of Missouri and worked my way up to Parkville. but not really, I just got there because it was the best school district in Missouri. But even then I was not satisfied, I needed more then the best I needed specialized. Thus it led to the decision for home school. Which once again was not my thought but the parents. Though either way it was my decision to do so. Thusly we all wish to be above everyone else. And so I end with this question for you people reading my blog. How much is to much?
Today i'm posting early because I can't do anything else right now. I am waiting for Kristi to come home so she can start me on my math pre-test. After that I also need to review my Troyka book with her. Otherwise the only thing I can do left is to make flashcards for my french studies which will be done here after the blog. Other then this I am done for the day school wise.
Though today things are a bit different today has been extremely early. It included make up in essay questions which I had done all of them. While the other work I did was finish my math work and then I went on to French. This overall was probably one of my easiest days yet and tomorrow me and Kristi are going out to watch a documentary for my field work Friday which I will go into more detail about in tomorrow's blog.
This entire day I have been using my little desk space downstairs. I usually would have used the upstairs table but I felt more comfortable downstairs then anywhere else in the house. Mainly because i'm in a little corner with my computer right next to a light so there is literally everything I would need for school work. Besides I didn't want to carry all of my stuff back up the stairs until I need to.
today is literally our start of spring cleaning. Except that we don't exactly clean everything during spring. Mainly because most of the time during Spring we are in such a good swing of things that we don't actually have to clean anything because it's already clean. But since we got out of the swing of things we just went ahead and started overhauling things all around the house. For me, I didn't really clean anything tangible. Instead I cleaned up the computer on the top floor of the house. It was swarming with a load of viruses.
Today's work that actually required effort was mainly done by my teacher Kristi. She dusted upstairs and downstairs, caught up all of the laundry, and sorted the mail. All while still helping me with keeping up with French and English work. For me though my main amount of work was reducing fractions, essay questions, and review work. And seriously that doesn't really require much work at all.
Today really wasn't that bad despite all of the work done. I did my laundry which since I am at home every day (except sometimes weekends) I could easily do before anyone even got home. Except that Kristi was doing all of the laundry. then I got to hang out with a couple of my friends for a couple hours. This also made things nice despite the work because we just sat around downstairs and gamed a lot. And even then there was little to interrupt my day so far.
Well I have gotten some information a while ago I didn't tell on my post. I have every brake anyone in public school has except I can have a little bit more. For example yesterday was Labor day so since everybody wasn't in school and most people were home I didn't have school either. the "except I can have a little bit more" from sentence 3 meant that if I go over the current goal I can get one day off. This can build as much I work. So things like free school and made to serve count as my time and will go into my free days if I work over the normal amount for a school day.
Today was pretty much my normal day so far. It included some reading from Freakonomics and Hunger Games. I also went ahead and did my math. Which unlike last time which I struggled with as I had to do a bunch of reducing large fractions, I decided to split up the same amount of work along 3 days. The downside was that I had the large amount of fractions the first time and did not split it up.
On another note I have another project. It is a creative writing piece comparing me and Adrian Mole. I thought this might be easier and a lot less time consuming then the other choice. The other choice was to compare Adrian Mole to another character from a different book. This would definitely have take some more time and effort then to just compare him to me. Mainly because we have a lot of things in common.
