Dear Future Freshman Part II

   Okay, so this may be a day late, and I admit that, but really, I would consider it lucky that it got done at all. I still don't understand how a guy like me, who can't seem to even decide what to eat for breakfast, is supposed to give advice to another person, but I guess that I have to give it a shot.

   So, in this part I'm going to talk about, well, stuff. Mostly the whole academics part, since that is something that I can talk about that you probably want to know about. You might be expecting high school to be some sort of cold prison with tough teachers that give you a hard time and throw pop quizzes at you twice a week. I can guarantee you that it is not, since that was basically what I imagined when I came. As long as you try, you will do fine, I guarantee it. Also, the teachers are great and always try to help as much as they can to make you do your best. By the way, the school isn't actually that big and scary, it's only three wings and four floors. At some point you'll realize that it's actually pretty small, unless, like me, you have Mr. Princic's class at fifth period, which is the absolute farthest away from the cafeteria that you can get.

   Okay, so maybe I wasn't wicked on topic, but I'll try to do better for the next one. Always room for improvement.

Dear Future Freshman

So, I guess that this is supposed to be my guide for surviving high school. Sadly, I was never any good at this so, lucky you, having to read it. I'm writing this at 11:00 by the way, which brings me to my first point. 

   DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, PROCRASTINATE, EVER. It has always been my weakness, and in high school, it will be your downfall. One teacher will give you some insane project, that will scare you, but you'll feel like you can take your time, because it isn't due for a few weeks. Then, you get slapped across the face when two other teachers assign projects that are due the exact same day as the other one. Your work load triples and you start tearing your hair out and possibly even sobbing. If you go down this road, you will be up until at least one in the morning several nights a week. For instance, I had an English assignment that I fell behind on slightly. I figured that I'd be okay, as I had done most of it, but then my history teacher assigned an assignment that turned out to be 53 paragraphs due two weeks later. In total, not including the English, it turned into 53 paragraphs,  24 pages, 21 political cartoons, 14 days, 14 citations from 8 sources, 12 debate prompts, 3 essays, 3 days up past midnight, and 1 complete nervous break down to top it all off. Then I had to finish the English, which was NOT fun.

    That brings me to my second point. You need to PARTICIPATE IN CLASS. We only got that project because there were only like 3 people (including me) who actually opened their mouths and said something in his class. So do me a favor, and don't let that happen to you, trust me, it was not a very enjoyable experience.

   Lastly, get involved in some after school activities. Believe me, I was never into that. I was the kind of person who came to school, did what I had to, and went home. When I got to the high school though, I decided to get involved. Now I'm a member of the drumline (which is not just drums, trust me I'm a guitarist), and am kind of a part of the council of social concern. I'm loving it, and I'm just really glad I found something that I could do and enjoy, as opposed to middle school, where all I could see was sports teams. They have a lot of those, if you're into that, but they have have lots of other stuff though. Literally, if you're into it, they have it, so you should do it.

   That's all the help that I can give, so good luck.

My Super Awesome But Way Too Long Week

   Another week done. This one seemed to drag on forever and ever. I'm just glad I made it through it and also that I have all ten of my fingers.

   So Wednesday, we performed at band night and since I'm the only person there who wasn't in band, it was kind of awkward. I played once and spent a lot of the rest of the time either playing scales in the band room or listening to the rest of my friends play. 

   Sadly, one if the kids in the drumline with me had an accident in wood shop and ended up slicing up his fingers pretty badly. He's okay now thankfully but it stinks that he didn't get to play that night. Instead, I ended up playing his drum to make the thunder noise which was actually pretty fun but scared me a lot since you have to hit it really hard and I thought that I'd break it.

    Finally, this week my boss offered me some hours for next weekend which I'm like ecstatic about since up to now it hasn't exactly been a paying job, but then again I guess you really can't pay a guy to clean the toilets and do all the other odd jobs around the place. Still, I get paid and I can't wait because it's going to be awesome.

Another Week

   Another week, another blog. Who knows? Maybe I'll write a decent post at some point. My week has been absolutely crazy and I don't even know how I dealt with it. Let's just say that certain people can be extremely stubborn and their actions end up messing up the lives of those around them. It hasn't been very fun at all, and that's all that I have to say about that.

   In addition, I'm not feeling overly optimistic about the upcoming show, as the Pit hasn't been as well off without Amy, who is still MIA. Speaking of which, Amy, if you're out there, we kind of need you.

   In other news, Joel and I are going to have the greatest children's book that has ever been written, and it will be absolutely fabulous-ish.

   So, besides all of the sh*t that I really don't feel like talking about here, this is my life at the moment. I want a new vacation already, which isn't even okay, and I'm just hoping to make it to summer.

VACATION

   It has been a wicked long week and I am so glad that vacation is finally here. I decided that I'm going to sleep until at least 3 tomorrow and then spen the rest of the day shredding on my guitar to celebrate. After that, I'll probably spend the rest of the week being the weirdo that I am and trying not to make my dad send me off somewhere to, "be tested," and, "learn to be a normal human being."

I'm not looking forward to that at all. 

   I'm really hoping that I don't have drumline over the weekend because it's just been murder for the pit since Amy mysteriously vanished like a month or so ago. I'm really starting to wonder what happened to her, since nobody mentions her absence. If we do go, at least Nora and Phil will be there so it won't be completely terrible. Plus, maybe I'll get lucky and something will happen to Tim so that he can't come back and make our lives like a living hell. 

   That's all that I've got this week, if anybody actually decided to read through this whole thing.

The Faster and The Furious...er

   So apparently today is national sibling day, so my brother asked me if I wanted to go and see Furious 7 with him. We went and I regret absolutely nothing. With all of my movie critiquing geniousness, I give the movie a 10/10 and a 100,000,000/10 for complete badassness. I'm pretty sure that almost none of that was English but I really don't care right now. IT WAS EPIC. Besides the usual guys, Jason Statham was in it too, which kind of made it hard to root for either side, since he's my favorite actor, yet the rest of the team are so cool as well. In the end, I really just wanted Statham to kick the Rock's a**, but sadly that didn't happen, yet. He totally would have though, any day of the week and if you don't believe me just watch this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RX93O5p9pI0. At the end of the movie, Hobbs (The Rock) locks Statham away in an underground cell. Statham tells him that he will just get out anyway, and Hobbs looks at him and then replies with something along the lines of, "Okay. When you dig through 38 feet of cement and steel, I'll be waiting for you, with my fist and a bodybag." I'm just gonna say, no cell can hold Jason Statham. He would have clawed his way out and then killed Hobbs as easily as if he was a fly. Other than that part great movie, GREAT CARS, and tons of action. Everybody has to watch it, like right now.

The Book Thief Review

   So I'm not going to get the chance to watch the movie, so my review is going to be of the book. Overall, I really enjoyed it, and I think that it is one of the better books that I have read that is set during the time period. I like how Markus Zusak managed to create his own world, showing the Germans as actual people, at a time when most just see them as evil Nazis, murdering Jews left and right. Yes, that is shown, but shown with it are the few exceptions, those that chose not to follow, but to see the world in a different light, and that's what I really like about it.
   In my opinion, the author could have shown more of how the war was progressing throughout the book, instead of showing the small glimpses of it it as it turned around. We only really start hearing about the war when it takes the bad turn for Germany and the allies start coming back. I think that if it had made other connections to the war earlier in the story, that I would have connected even better with it, seeing the highs and lows in the Book Thief's life in response to the war itself.
   All in all however, this book is great. The characters are awesome, their personalities are so interesting, and the plot is fabulous. The only thing is, I don't think I want to see the movie because then I can't picture Rudy running against Deutschner like this anymore http://youtu.be/jdZ6RA_c6oE.