Hi guys! It's me again, and the reason why I did not blog yesterday was because yesterday wasn't really that eventful. So, lets get to it! Today in English we got an assignment where we have to come up with a myth explaining a natural phenomenon. We have to use a Greek god/goddess in our paper so it makes it more difficult. In band we got this new music called Alligator Alley. It kind of sounds like the music they played in line for the Expedition Everest ride at Disney World. In History we took a quiz and I thought that I did pretty good on it. I also decided to do the who Montgomery Bus Boycott project by myself. In Science we did a lab about looking for ships. My group found a ship and it was filled with toxic waste! In Spanish we reviewed our note and I feel like my brain is about to explode. In Geometry we took some more notes and now the math that we are learning doesn't seem so complicated anymore. After school I stayed for State practice and from 3:30 to 4:00 I got to play drum set in Jazz Band because Ben and Brian weren't there. Also, I had four hot chocolate drinks today, happy birthday Bigby! Tall drinks were a dollar today and after 6 p.m all drinks were half off! In Spanish I also signed up to volunteer at the family fun night at Simonds Elementary School. I can't wait to go there and help all of the little kids at my former elementary school. It will be so fun! Well, that is all I got for you guys today, SYWISY!
Patrick
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Monday, March 17, 2014
Moving Sickness
Hi guys! Sorry I have not posted lately but I just got a cold and I have not had the time to post anything. It is really bad, I have a horrible pressure in my ears and my sinuses are all clogged up. It is just terrible and I don't like it one bit. Ha, like anyone would like a cold! On Friday I watched Catching Fire with my mom and she loved it. On Saturday I helped my Paul move boxes and bookshelves and it was pretty draining. I had never slept so hard, especially because I got sick that night. Sunday was a day of rest, truly! God bless all of my family loading things into boxes while I am laying in my room doing nothing but healing ;). Today, we got assigned a project in History. We had to pick a person or event after WWII and make a song or something from it. So I came up with the Montgomery Bus Boy Band! I think I have mentioned this before but now I will actually be able to apply it! Today we also learned about tangents and chords. It was a lot of information to take in so it was a little bit confusing. I spent the rest of the day sitting on my reclining chair watching Adventure Time while drinking a Shamrock shake and a bottle of Vernors. For those of you who don't know what Vernors is (because you have been living under a rock since birth), it is basically a ginger ale. I also had some NyQuil. Even though this was the 5th time I had ever had NyQuil, it still taste like the exact same crap as it has tasted ever since the 1st time I have tried it. Well, that is all I have for you guys today. SYWISY and Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
Friday, March 14, 2014
Band Festival
So today was the day of epic proportions, PI DAY! I came in second place at the reciting competition, the girl who beat me got 111 and I only got 65 digits. I still got the homework pass so I am happy. Today was also the day of our band festival. The nice thing about it was that we were hosting it so I didn't have to worry about going to a different school at a call time and it was just easier. Plus the band makes thousands of dollars for hosting it. Since I am in percussion I was automatically elected for the set up crew. We were about to go on stage when I forgot my drumsticks! So Zach B and I ran all the way from the theater to the band room as fast as we could and we got back to the stage just as Mr. Garvey was getting on the podium. Overall I think the group performance was awesome, and my self performance was good. It was really hot under the lights so I was sweaty, that and all the running I did. I was on my feet today for all of festival and after everything was done it was such a relief to sit down! In the sight reading portion of festival, I played the bells, xylophone, and chimes in a song called "The Quest". There was one part near the end of the piece where I had a xylophone mallet in my left hand and a bell mallet in my right and I was playing two parts at once. It was so hard but we got a division one rating so I am proud of all of us!
Overall, today was a good day. I took a Spanish quiz and it was "muy facil", which means very easy. I was expecting a lot more tough of a quiz but it was just multiple choice and fill in the blank. In English we were rating our comic strips on the Cyclops chapter in the Odyssey. We rated them on "Future Artist", "Future Something Other Than Artist", and "At Least I Tried". Three people won the At Least I Tried and they got chocolate gold coins OF EXCELLENCE! One person won both the At Least I Tried and the Future Something Other Than Artist so he got two gold coins OF EXCELLENCE! Finally, there was one champion for Future Artist who won... drum roll please... a gold coin OF EXCELLENCE! It was pretty fun. Today in band class we practiced inside the auditorium and we also had SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) in the auditorium OF EXCELLENCE! Just kidding. In History we learned about the Cuban Missile Crisis and how that it was the closest we ever came to a full on nuclear war. By the way, students were taught that in case of a nuclear attack, take cover under your desks. Yeah, like a desk is going to help you, it would melt away like everything else! In Science we did a lab, not a formal lab though, it was more like "play with a slinky and record your data. I already told you about Spanish and Pi day so we can skip that.
Well, that is all I have for today. SYWISY! (See You When I See You).
Patrick
Overall, today was a good day. I took a Spanish quiz and it was "muy facil", which means very easy. I was expecting a lot more tough of a quiz but it was just multiple choice and fill in the blank. In English we were rating our comic strips on the Cyclops chapter in the Odyssey. We rated them on "Future Artist", "Future Something Other Than Artist", and "At Least I Tried". Three people won the At Least I Tried and they got chocolate gold coins OF EXCELLENCE! One person won both the At Least I Tried and the Future Something Other Than Artist so he got two gold coins OF EXCELLENCE! Finally, there was one champion for Future Artist who won... drum roll please... a gold coin OF EXCELLENCE! It was pretty fun. Today in band class we practiced inside the auditorium and we also had SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) in the auditorium OF EXCELLENCE! Just kidding. In History we learned about the Cuban Missile Crisis and how that it was the closest we ever came to a full on nuclear war. By the way, students were taught that in case of a nuclear attack, take cover under your desks. Yeah, like a desk is going to help you, it would melt away like everything else! In Science we did a lab, not a formal lab though, it was more like "play with a slinky and record your data. I already told you about Spanish and Pi day so we can skip that.
Well, that is all I have for today. SYWISY! (See You When I See You).
Patrick
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Black History Assembly
Hey guys! Wow, my second consecutive blog. I think I will start doing these things on a day to day basis instead of a weekly basis. Unless something totally boring happened, then it won't be worth writing about it. So today, after second hour, everyone went to the auditorium for the "Black History Assembly". It was supposed to be educational but it was more like a pep assembly for African American's. It was a little bit amusing but a waste of time in my opinion. There were a lot of vine references so that was pretty cool. Yesterday we had yet ANOTHER snow day and I got to earn money by shoveling another persons driveway. I am going to use that money to buy a new phone. Also, I came up with something great! In history I had an epiphany, the Montgomery Bus Boy Band! LOL! Well, Well, I guess that that is all the catching up I need to do. Bye!
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
High School/Catching Up
I started writing this blog in November and never posted it so here it is.
Well, this is it. Hey guys it's Patrick! I started high school back in September and so far it actually is way better than middle school like Zach told me. The teachers are better and the courses are better. The only thing I don't like so far is my advisory class and Spanish III. I really hope I don't have to take Spanish next year because it is really a struggle. On my first report card I got straight A's EXCEPT for one B. I have a GPA of 3.779, whereas my friend Ben has gotten almost all A+'s and a GPA of 4.2! The marching band season is over and the front line won section of the year! I am so proud of all of the hard work that everybody put into this season. I tried out for the fall plays and I got a role in the main play! I play the character George in a play of just 6 people! All of the drama kids are super nice but sometimes I am worried about their morals. Just sometimes though, not all the time. The play was so funny I could barely keep a straight face on stage! Summer (Drama Kid) invited me to Halloween party! So Zain and I went to the Halloween party and ate candy, went Trick Or Treating and watched the Exorcist. We all had a blast!
There is this one drama kid that really stands out to me, his name is Jake. Jake has just gone through some pretty tough times and through all of that he still keeps a smile on his face and it is truly remarkable. Jake was driving me home one day and the latch on his car door broke. It was freezing weather and there was frost stuck to his window. I helped him scrape off the frost and he had to drive to his house holding the door closed with his left arm. Which was pretty weak at the time because when he went to our school's blood drive, they were trying to find a vain and they accidentally hit a nerve and it gave him permanent nerve damage. Some of his symptoms are loss of blood flow and pain in the wrist. After we all went to Jake's house to switch out of the car to his Mom's van we all went out to eat at Culver's. That is when I was starting to show my first sign of strep throat, which was later avoided (thank goodness). Some other bad things happened to Jake through the rest of the month. During the opening night of the play, Jake was cleaning off the cornflakes from the table in between scenes and Zain accidentally turned on the lights while he was on stage, but it was not Zain's fault it was someone else who's name I am not going to list. After the play we all went to Leo's Country Oven. Jack (not Jake) gave us the directions to Kirby's Coney Island and we wasted gas. At the restaurant Jake and Jack both ordered fries and while Jake was in the bathroom, the fries and a vanilla ice cream came. Long story short Jake did not get any fries, but good news is that he was not charged for any fries either. I felt so bad that all of this stuff happened to Jake so I baked him a cake and I am delivering it to him today!
Until next time, bye!
Well, this is it. Hey guys it's Patrick! I started high school back in September and so far it actually is way better than middle school like Zach told me. The teachers are better and the courses are better. The only thing I don't like so far is my advisory class and Spanish III. I really hope I don't have to take Spanish next year because it is really a struggle. On my first report card I got straight A's EXCEPT for one B. I have a GPA of 3.779, whereas my friend Ben has gotten almost all A+'s and a GPA of 4.2! The marching band season is over and the front line won section of the year! I am so proud of all of the hard work that everybody put into this season. I tried out for the fall plays and I got a role in the main play! I play the character George in a play of just 6 people! All of the drama kids are super nice but sometimes I am worried about their morals. Just sometimes though, not all the time. The play was so funny I could barely keep a straight face on stage! Summer (Drama Kid) invited me to Halloween party! So Zain and I went to the Halloween party and ate candy, went Trick Or Treating and watched the Exorcist. We all had a blast!
There is this one drama kid that really stands out to me, his name is Jake. Jake has just gone through some pretty tough times and through all of that he still keeps a smile on his face and it is truly remarkable. Jake was driving me home one day and the latch on his car door broke. It was freezing weather and there was frost stuck to his window. I helped him scrape off the frost and he had to drive to his house holding the door closed with his left arm. Which was pretty weak at the time because when he went to our school's blood drive, they were trying to find a vain and they accidentally hit a nerve and it gave him permanent nerve damage. Some of his symptoms are loss of blood flow and pain in the wrist. After we all went to Jake's house to switch out of the car to his Mom's van we all went out to eat at Culver's. That is when I was starting to show my first sign of strep throat, which was later avoided (thank goodness). Some other bad things happened to Jake through the rest of the month. During the opening night of the play, Jake was cleaning off the cornflakes from the table in between scenes and Zain accidentally turned on the lights while he was on stage, but it was not Zain's fault it was someone else who's name I am not going to list. After the play we all went to Leo's Country Oven. Jack (not Jake) gave us the directions to Kirby's Coney Island and we wasted gas. At the restaurant Jake and Jack both ordered fries and while Jake was in the bathroom, the fries and a vanilla ice cream came. Long story short Jake did not get any fries, but good news is that he was not charged for any fries either. I felt so bad that all of this stuff happened to Jake so I baked him a cake and I am delivering it to him today!
Until next time, bye!
Moving
Well, by reading this title you probably can guess what this post is going to be about. A couple of weeks ago we finished the work that needed to be done for the house and it has been passed by the city. So now we are starting to move stuff into the new house and saying good bye to Madison Heights. Last weekend I was with Paul moving stuff to the new house, we gave brownies and flowers to our new neighbors because their Mom just died and we felt like it was the right thing to do. Anyway, Paul and I took two trips there and back. It is a nice coincidence that his work gave him a pickup truck, it makes it alot easier to move things than having to take a couple hundred trips with a SUV.
The marching band at my new school has little mini camps once a month. Last month they had an informational meeting and I got to meet some of the people in my section. They were very intimidating at first, but by the next mini camp that occurred yesterday they started, well, one person started, to become more friendly. Their marching band pit consists of only me and two others, its so TINY!
I will be starting at my new school in Franklin on April 7th. On April 2nd I am supposed to get a withdrawal form from the guidance office at Lamphere and throughout the day I am supposed to give it to each of my teachers so they can release me from their class. I am going to make a joke to my English teacher, "I am being released from the community, please check that you are okay with this!" LOL! But seriously this will be the saddest day ever! Also, my Mom ordered me a yearbook and, since I won't be at Lamphere when I get it, I am going to get Ben to have all of my friends sign it. I talked to him about it and he seems to be okay with it.
I went to Disney World! I had such a blast and it was a true magical vacation! We stayed at the Disney Beach Club Resort and it was so nice. I have lots of pictures but it would take me a while to upload them to here so I am just going to keep them off. We took the Disney Magical Express to our resort and they took our bags from the airport directly to our rooms. Talk about VIP, the DME was a shuttle bus! As soon as I stepped out of the airport I felt a rush of summer. 70 degrees, I felt like I was in heaven because of all the crap weather we have been getting in Michigan. I got to wear shorts in February! On the first day we just swam at the resort and walked to Epcot to see the fireworks show. It was so cool!
On the second day we went to Magic Kingdom, to see the Cinderella castle in real life was like a dream! The only downside to that day was that I lost my iPhone on the Space Mountain ride, but let me tell you that ride was freaking awesome! The special effects on all the Disney rides are awesome! I went on the Haunted Mansion ride because my Mom said that it was a must, and boy was it a must. I was expecting a jump scare the entire time so when it ended I was like, "Wait, that was it! I wanna go again!"
On the third day we went to Animal Kingdom and Vivian got to see a cheetah in real life, she felt so happy and I felt happy for her. The highlight of that day was that Vivian, Grandpa and Grandma Blue Eyes and I all went on the Expedition Everest ride. It was so cool, again, the special effects were amazing! Grandpa and Grandma were in the seats in front of us and Vivian and I were in the third row. It went backwards and forwards and it was so cool, but judging by the picture, Grandpa and Grandma didn't like it too much.
On the fourth day we went to MGM studios, or Hollywood studios. Vivian and I went on Tower of Terror and the special effects AGAIN were awesome! After that, Vivian and I went on the Rockin' Roller Coaster. We were in line but then we hear from the loud speaker "The ride is experiencing some technical difficulties so the wait time will be changed to a longer time. Thank you for your patience." Vivian and I decided to exit the ride and go find Grandpa and Grandma Blue Eyes and Grandma Joyce. We could not find them so we went on the ride. The lady operating the rides saw us coming in again and she asked why we left, so we told her, and she decided to give us FastPasses to the ride and Vivian and I were overjoyed. We me some people from Wisconsin in line. We got on the ride and Vivian didn't know it went upside down three times. So Vivian when on her first upside down roller coaster! Her first roller coaster was space mountain and now she is a roller coaster fanatic like me! I would like to tell you guys more about my Disney Vacation but I am starting to get bored of typing so I will just continue in my next blog.
On the band side of things, state is coming up in 2 weeks and apparently I am the only one doing 3 events in my entire school! I am going to have to get Ben to practice with me next week with our duet since we havent looked at it since February. I really hope we don't suck! Well, that's all I've got for you. I am going to start to go on a weekly schedule for these blogs since I have been kind of slacking lately, so until next week, bye!
The marching band at my new school has little mini camps once a month. Last month they had an informational meeting and I got to meet some of the people in my section. They were very intimidating at first, but by the next mini camp that occurred yesterday they started, well, one person started, to become more friendly. Their marching band pit consists of only me and two others, its so TINY!
I will be starting at my new school in Franklin on April 7th. On April 2nd I am supposed to get a withdrawal form from the guidance office at Lamphere and throughout the day I am supposed to give it to each of my teachers so they can release me from their class. I am going to make a joke to my English teacher, "I am being released from the community, please check that you are okay with this!" LOL! But seriously this will be the saddest day ever! Also, my Mom ordered me a yearbook and, since I won't be at Lamphere when I get it, I am going to get Ben to have all of my friends sign it. I talked to him about it and he seems to be okay with it.
I went to Disney World! I had such a blast and it was a true magical vacation! We stayed at the Disney Beach Club Resort and it was so nice. I have lots of pictures but it would take me a while to upload them to here so I am just going to keep them off. We took the Disney Magical Express to our resort and they took our bags from the airport directly to our rooms. Talk about VIP, the DME was a shuttle bus! As soon as I stepped out of the airport I felt a rush of summer. 70 degrees, I felt like I was in heaven because of all the crap weather we have been getting in Michigan. I got to wear shorts in February! On the first day we just swam at the resort and walked to Epcot to see the fireworks show. It was so cool!
On the second day we went to Magic Kingdom, to see the Cinderella castle in real life was like a dream! The only downside to that day was that I lost my iPhone on the Space Mountain ride, but let me tell you that ride was freaking awesome! The special effects on all the Disney rides are awesome! I went on the Haunted Mansion ride because my Mom said that it was a must, and boy was it a must. I was expecting a jump scare the entire time so when it ended I was like, "Wait, that was it! I wanna go again!"
On the third day we went to Animal Kingdom and Vivian got to see a cheetah in real life, she felt so happy and I felt happy for her. The highlight of that day was that Vivian, Grandpa and Grandma Blue Eyes and I all went on the Expedition Everest ride. It was so cool, again, the special effects were amazing! Grandpa and Grandma were in the seats in front of us and Vivian and I were in the third row. It went backwards and forwards and it was so cool, but judging by the picture, Grandpa and Grandma didn't like it too much.
On the fourth day we went to MGM studios, or Hollywood studios. Vivian and I went on Tower of Terror and the special effects AGAIN were awesome! After that, Vivian and I went on the Rockin' Roller Coaster. We were in line but then we hear from the loud speaker "The ride is experiencing some technical difficulties so the wait time will be changed to a longer time. Thank you for your patience." Vivian and I decided to exit the ride and go find Grandpa and Grandma Blue Eyes and Grandma Joyce. We could not find them so we went on the ride. The lady operating the rides saw us coming in again and she asked why we left, so we told her, and she decided to give us FastPasses to the ride and Vivian and I were overjoyed. We me some people from Wisconsin in line. We got on the ride and Vivian didn't know it went upside down three times. So Vivian when on her first upside down roller coaster! Her first roller coaster was space mountain and now she is a roller coaster fanatic like me! I would like to tell you guys more about my Disney Vacation but I am starting to get bored of typing so I will just continue in my next blog.
On the band side of things, state is coming up in 2 weeks and apparently I am the only one doing 3 events in my entire school! I am going to have to get Ben to practice with me next week with our duet since we havent looked at it since February. I really hope we don't suck! Well, that's all I've got for you. I am going to start to go on a weekly schedule for these blogs since I have been kind of slacking lately, so until next week, bye!
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