It has finally rained over here! After all the time of waiting and sitting around sitting on my thumbs it has finally come! Even now I can look outside and see it. There is no feeling any greater then to see all of that beautiful rain outside and the pitter patter of the rain drops. Mainly because of all of the evil and terrifying summer weather.
Secondly we ran into one more problem. I mean really, another one? This one was so simple it really made me wonder if everything in this house was as all fun and games as I thought it was. The problem was just the fact the remote for the VCR wasn't working. The only reason why this was a problem is that I needed to watch a movie in french but of course I can't select the french option if I can't select it with the remote.
Today had some upsides including the fact that my work today was pretty easy. It mainly consisted of french. In fact work today consisted of 8 essay questions a bunch of reducing fractions and finally some reading. Really not much to today at all. While I was doing all of my work I had gotten my computer hunting viruses which ironically didn't have as much as I thought I had. Meaning my computer is faster and ready for all of the work waiting ahead for me (also its ready for my gaming).
Friday, August 31, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
First Time For Everything
Yep today was certainly that first time thing that people always talk about. For example I was brought along by Kristi to help with Made to Serve. For the people who don't know what this is, it is a group dedicated to handing out food to the people that need it. For example the homeless downtown. This is what we did. Including stopping by a place to help with dialysis. They really needed food as most of them didn't have good health insurance. So pretty much they get one thing off their mind.
On the other hand we finally got the crossword puzzles working. In fact I have my first one right here at my desk. Despite the problems last night on my computer and dads utter hating on my computer it worked just fine on his. I mean seriously dad I made the exact same puzzle on the exact same website and got the paper out of the printer. Maybe you just didn't realize that my computer just doesn't like you.
Well not much else has been going on lately considering that because of my recent trip with Kristi. But the good news is that I may be getting access to my first free day. Mainly because I am very close to being 20 hours ahead of schedule. This isn't as amazing as it might sound to some of you considering I had the 6 extra hours of make up work on Monday earlier this week. Which to this day I do not regret considering tomorrow I might get off of school early because I would have completed all of my work. Don't forget there may not be a post Monday as it is a holiday and there won't be much to post.
On the other hand we finally got the crossword puzzles working. In fact I have my first one right here at my desk. Despite the problems last night on my computer and dads utter hating on my computer it worked just fine on his. I mean seriously dad I made the exact same puzzle on the exact same website and got the paper out of the printer. Maybe you just didn't realize that my computer just doesn't like you.
Well not much else has been going on lately considering that because of my recent trip with Kristi. But the good news is that I may be getting access to my first free day. Mainly because I am very close to being 20 hours ahead of schedule. This isn't as amazing as it might sound to some of you considering I had the 6 extra hours of make up work on Monday earlier this week. Which to this day I do not regret considering tomorrow I might get off of school early because I would have completed all of my work. Don't forget there may not be a post Monday as it is a holiday and there won't be much to post.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Tae Kwon Do and feeling good
The title is accurate to an extent. First of all I am feeling really good about how well I did today for only my second day. On the other hand I'm not feeling so good about the fact that I am in excruciating pain and there is a subtle annoyance about some of the exercises I had to do. Including the dreaded middle stance. I would rather be doing some splits any day then to sit in the middle stance for more then a minute. I came home still in pain and am surprised to say I can still walk. Though I think that may be temporary.
We have discussed more in depth what I should do with my catapult plans! We first are going to build it. The type is most likely going to be a Roman catapult. Then I am going to study it in length. To be more exact I am going to study how far it can shoot, the maneuverability, and finnaly the all together extents of this catapult. Then I am going to present my actual catapult. I am still debating who might be willing to listen to this terribly boring lecture on catapults but I think I will find someone.
We are also having a bit more trouble with my all to simple curriculum. Or so we thought that it would be simple. For starters all we were trying to do was to get me some crossword puzzles printed off using my altogether flash cards. Well since we were using the almighty internet and as a whole the computer, it was not that easy. Earlier on dad had gone over my computer getting side tracked with all of the different items located on this particular system. But finnaly dad had started working to figure out that my computer is much to stubborn to work his magic on. So he has decided to that I will be able to try all of this again tomorrow. So hears hoping that everything goes well tomorrow.
We wait and see what happens.
Do you think that the plans with catapult are good?
We have discussed more in depth what I should do with my catapult plans! We first are going to build it. The type is most likely going to be a Roman catapult. Then I am going to study it in length. To be more exact I am going to study how far it can shoot, the maneuverability, and finnaly the all together extents of this catapult. Then I am going to present my actual catapult. I am still debating who might be willing to listen to this terribly boring lecture on catapults but I think I will find someone.
We are also having a bit more trouble with my all to simple curriculum. Or so we thought that it would be simple. For starters all we were trying to do was to get me some crossword puzzles printed off using my altogether flash cards. Well since we were using the almighty internet and as a whole the computer, it was not that easy. Earlier on dad had gone over my computer getting side tracked with all of the different items located on this particular system. But finnaly dad had started working to figure out that my computer is much to stubborn to work his magic on. So he has decided to that I will be able to try all of this again tomorrow. So hears hoping that everything goes well tomorrow.
We wait and see what happens.
Do you think that the plans with catapult are good?
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Growing Pains part 2
Despite this being a different day this post is pretty much going to be a continuance or follow up of yesterdays post "Growing Pains". This includes the weekend of work and fun. Which I still have some mixed feelings about. And some details about my time at the hospital with Kristi. The hospital visit definitely had some up sides and some down sides.
We will start with my weekend. My weekend mainly consisted of camping,eating,working, and playing. The camping part was not exactly fun. This included most of the working aspect of the trip including holding an umbrella over our gas stove to keep the wind and the rain away from our food and fire. This then continued into going to fetch water. Now this wasn't just fetching water from a lake no but a spiggot near some old stables. Now I bet your wondering what the heck I was doing near some old stables if I'm camping right? Well this is what is called SCA camping. So have any one of you reading this been to the Renaissance fair? Well SCA camping is like the Renaissance fair only with camping and one more thing, Boffers! These are weapons for kids made with PVC pipe, foam tube of some sort, and DUCT TAPE. I also have some pictures I will be posting with this as well some cool and some funny. And yes the guy in the uniform is carrying a spoon.
And so I come to my tragic tale of what truly happened in the hospital while I was there yesterday.
Well what happened was that my teacher Kristi went over things I could improve on and all of the work. So I really didnt want to go over this subject but as this is a open post blog I had to put this in as this is important to the rest of whats happened. Including if I was actually ready for home school. Yes she was actually considering sending me back to public school if I wasn't ready for home school. That would have ended my blog pretty quickly don't you think. Well things didn't go as bad as I had thought they might end which I thought it would end with shame dissapointment and even worse a very grumpy parent. Not to mention the failure of saying I couldn't really keep in home school for more then two weeks.
Well I have learned quite a few things from all of my working on my subjects. One of my favorites is Freakonomics. It was mainly the first chapter that tweaked my interest. It was talking about cheating in very common areas. Some more common then others. The one that got me was Teachers cheating for benefits. I also had an essay question based off of this one so I only got it finished yesterday with in all of the make up work. It went a little something like this. In relevance to the first chapter of Freakonomics my perspecive has changed drastically. For example if teachers were cheating for incentive in Iowa what does that mean for my own public school district. Even if we can't get held back they still have something to gain. This includes promotion, pay raise, or even recognition among the teachers, staff, and even students. How much of this was truly affecting the way I learned? Could I hve made it into bridges if maybe teachers hadn't done some magic for their students. These are questions that make me struggle to understand my school district and the forces sourrounding the very people around us. Anyway the paper was long and I am actually pretty good at creative writing so this didnt take to long but even now it makes me wonder what could have been different if something like this had happened in my district.
We will start with my weekend. My weekend mainly consisted of camping,eating,working, and playing. The camping part was not exactly fun. This included most of the working aspect of the trip including holding an umbrella over our gas stove to keep the wind and the rain away from our food and fire. This then continued into going to fetch water. Now this wasn't just fetching water from a lake no but a spiggot near some old stables. Now I bet your wondering what the heck I was doing near some old stables if I'm camping right? Well this is what is called SCA camping. So have any one of you reading this been to the Renaissance fair? Well SCA camping is like the Renaissance fair only with camping and one more thing, Boffers! These are weapons for kids made with PVC pipe, foam tube of some sort, and DUCT TAPE. I also have some pictures I will be posting with this as well some cool and some funny. And yes the guy in the uniform is carrying a spoon.
And so I come to my tragic tale of what truly happened in the hospital while I was there yesterday.
Well what happened was that my teacher Kristi went over things I could improve on and all of the work. So I really didnt want to go over this subject but as this is a open post blog I had to put this in as this is important to the rest of whats happened. Including if I was actually ready for home school. Yes she was actually considering sending me back to public school if I wasn't ready for home school. That would have ended my blog pretty quickly don't you think. Well things didn't go as bad as I had thought they might end which I thought it would end with shame dissapointment and even worse a very grumpy parent. Not to mention the failure of saying I couldn't really keep in home school for more then two weeks.
Well I have learned quite a few things from all of my working on my subjects. One of my favorites is Freakonomics. It was mainly the first chapter that tweaked my interest. It was talking about cheating in very common areas. Some more common then others. The one that got me was Teachers cheating for benefits. I also had an essay question based off of this one so I only got it finished yesterday with in all of the make up work. It went a little something like this. In relevance to the first chapter of Freakonomics my perspecive has changed drastically. For example if teachers were cheating for incentive in Iowa what does that mean for my own public school district. Even if we can't get held back they still have something to gain. This includes promotion, pay raise, or even recognition among the teachers, staff, and even students. How much of this was truly affecting the way I learned? Could I hve made it into bridges if maybe teachers hadn't done some magic for their students. These are questions that make me struggle to understand my school district and the forces sourrounding the very people around us. Anyway the paper was long and I am actually pretty good at creative writing so this didnt take to long but even now it makes me wonder what could have been different if something like this had happened in my district.
good news
I fixed the problems with people not being able to post. You all can now post without a Google account. If you spam you will be required to register accounts as I will turn off comments again
Monday, August 27, 2012
Growing Pains
Today was probably one of my most interesting days so far. Because today was all catch up work literally! Today started with my first long ride with dad on his scooter. This was amazing except that we were heading for the hospital where Kristi was at because of some terrible blood clots. Well most people dont know this but in my honest opinion hospitals are some of the most evil places ever!
Only because they have the evil looking white walls,ceilings, and floors that never change color under any circumstances what so ever. Then they are always seemingly cold. There is not a warm room in this hospital.
Anyway I went to work on catching up once i got upstairs. I started out with my flashcards. The total amount of flashcards today was 60. Can you believe it? 60 different flashcards spread between french and English from my Troyka book. This was all an extreme pain ut it got worse. I then had to do the actual assignments from my Troyka. this was 14-6 to 14-10. all in all I would say about 30 questions total. Most of it took me all day. There was a prelude in between these things but we'll get to that later. This later included the dreaded Essay Questions. But this time I had a secret weapon! That would be my teacher Kristi. For once in my home school career I finally asked for help. Despite all of the work I needed to do this blog entry is the last I need to do for the day.
I at least need to tell you guys one more thing before I wrap this up. First of all I will need to make a second entry for all of this to get everything in. Secondly I am planning my first project. The project I am planning for is involving a catapult. I really dont know much more detail then this because I still have to decide wether I should make one, teach about one, enter one in a science fair, or just flat out test one and its limits. I'm open to suggestions on that one but if you recommend one please back it up with a why or why not. I am thinking about building one then maybe as a later project test it. Anyway give me some review please.
Only because they have the evil looking white walls,ceilings, and floors that never change color under any circumstances what so ever. Then they are always seemingly cold. There is not a warm room in this hospital.
Anyway I went to work on catching up once i got upstairs. I started out with my flashcards. The total amount of flashcards today was 60. Can you believe it? 60 different flashcards spread between french and English from my Troyka book. This was all an extreme pain ut it got worse. I then had to do the actual assignments from my Troyka. this was 14-6 to 14-10. all in all I would say about 30 questions total. Most of it took me all day. There was a prelude in between these things but we'll get to that later. This later included the dreaded Essay Questions. But this time I had a secret weapon! That would be my teacher Kristi. For once in my home school career I finally asked for help. Despite all of the work I needed to do this blog entry is the last I need to do for the day.
I at least need to tell you guys one more thing before I wrap this up. First of all I will need to make a second entry for all of this to get everything in. Secondly I am planning my first project. The project I am planning for is involving a catapult. I really dont know much more detail then this because I still have to decide wether I should make one, teach about one, enter one in a science fair, or just flat out test one and its limits. I'm open to suggestions on that one but if you recommend one please back it up with a why or why not. I am thinking about building one then maybe as a later project test it. Anyway give me some review please.
Friday, August 24, 2012
Day 8
I have spent most of the day doing review work. This includes the essay questions i missed out on during the week. These were a pain as always but I dealt with them as I have done most of the school year so far. Even then it is still hard as nothing has changed from the constant questions that require some outside input for once in my life. As I grew up with filling in a circle or writing a letter to represent my answer never actually giving input.
French lessons are doing well lately. I am currently learning how to say things in relevance of in a restaurant. Including what would you like to drink. These are not extremely hard just time consuming out of my normal day making things a bit hard to work in. My French lesson is 30 minutes every day. It is actually shorter to write this blog then to go through all of my french! I look forward to seeing my improvement in my French and other curriculum.
I am going to go camping with my mom this weekend. This isn't as easy as it sounds as I still have the long drive. We are going all the way up to Nebraska. All in one car with everything we need. I hope I have everything. I have a nasty habit of when I need one object to do something I will forget it for my trip. An example is that I brought my computer to my moms to use because her computer that I use while I'm up there doesn't have the data mine has. Any way I go to hook it up and find that im missing a working keyboard and mouse! This ended in disappointment's as i went back to work on hooking up my moms computer again.
Have you ever forgotten something important?
French lessons are doing well lately. I am currently learning how to say things in relevance of in a restaurant. Including what would you like to drink. These are not extremely hard just time consuming out of my normal day making things a bit hard to work in. My French lesson is 30 minutes every day. It is actually shorter to write this blog then to go through all of my french! I look forward to seeing my improvement in my French and other curriculum.
I am going to go camping with my mom this weekend. This isn't as easy as it sounds as I still have the long drive. We are going all the way up to Nebraska. All in one car with everything we need. I hope I have everything. I have a nasty habit of when I need one object to do something I will forget it for my trip. An example is that I brought my computer to my moms to use because her computer that I use while I'm up there doesn't have the data mine has. Any way I go to hook it up and find that im missing a working keyboard and mouse! This ended in disappointment's as i went back to work on hooking up my moms computer again.
Have you ever forgotten something important?
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