School Creativity

I promised Ash to show him the master piece I was working on about 2 weeks ago, I'm sorry for posting it late but here it is. It's for school, my teacher asked me to do a cover for a file for our class, she needed it to be "creative". She didn't even say 'Good job' or anything when she saw it, and she had us working the weekend on it. Anyways, doesn't matter what she thinks! I like it.... :D
So there you go. ;)

Joke of the day

"English teacher: Please ask the question.

Student: What is you favourite types of barameg?

We had English and we were studying about the different types of programmes there are, so the teacher wanted someone to ask the question so one girl stood up and said the answer that is above. ^^
If you're an Arab you'd have no trouble getting the joke but if you're not, then the girl said the word barameg which means in English "programmes" so while she's supposed to ask in English she said the word barameg in her sentence.

Gosh it was sooo funny!! And God please forgive me if I'm making fun of the girl, but I'm not because that stuff happens and I just want to share this funny incident with you guys..

It's only been a week and a cracking up incident happened, let's see what the upcoming days reveal. Until then I bid you goodbye... :)

Wrong lessons in school

The sun is the centre of the universe.
Last year when we were studying an astronomy unit in science, they said the sun was the centre of the universe. It may be the centre of the universe, and let's focus on that. Have we discovered all of the universe? No, then the case is settled.
I had a nice time standing up and explaining why it wasn't so everytime a girl or the teacher said so. Just because there are 11 or 12 or something planets that go around the son, doesn't have to mean that it is the centre of the universe.
And they also teach us that the sun the is the number one source of energy in the universe, we all know that the sun isn't the biggest star in the universe, so they just need to stop generlizing things.

Your family should help you choose your friends.
I understand that we need our family's approval in certain things and that if they didn't think our friends worthy we should give their opinion consideratin. But let's think of it this way: Do you know you'll become friends with this certain person or that you will have a nice friendship with him/her before hand? No, you don't. So that means friends just happen, I mean yes they happen because of a certain situation maybe or that you feel connected or whatever but it doesn't involve planning it. At least in most cases.
That means your friends can't really help you choose your friends, they can help you with deciding whether to keep this friendship or end it. So when they teach us that our family should help us choose our friends they make us feel that our families should dominate our lives.

That's what I had in mind to crtisize, I may get more things school teaches us that is wrong but this will do for now. :)

Back 2 school

I'm finally blogging. Yay!

Ok, well I got back to the second semester of school to find that they changed our previous science teacher. Which was really awesome, she wasn't exactly my favourite teacher.

And it's been a good semester so far (I don't want to jinx it but it's been quite good).
I didn't get stares for my braces, but one girl in my bus was like 'I really like your braces, keep smiling'. I was happy to get such a comment because most of the comments I got were something like 'It looks scary, does it hurt...?'
But no stares so far. Which is awesome.
Now our school is too caught up with a competition about cleanliness, every year it's the same thing. Prepare the school for the competition and for the local judges and then the national judges that's if they picked our school.
They want us to know about the competition, clean the classroom, take part in the activities and do our homeworks, prepare well for our lessons, etc.
They demand too much, I'm down with homeworks/projects and such but more is unacceptable. Still, I end up saying 'OK teacher, I'll do it'.
Not just me, everyone else.

Oh and our results came out, thankfully they went well, which is good. Now we're loaded with work, you can see where I'm going, it's too much, and they're soo inconsiderate blah blah blah.

Besides school, there's hardly anything happening. I couldn't see the lastest episode of Grey's Anatomy and Dr. McSteamy was going to be on. Bummer! The first time he'll be on the show. Well, that's the down side of school, and you ask why I don't like it.

I did my complaining of the day, hope you had fun reading. ;)
Love

Do schools kill creativity?

I was looking at this site I got from NotJustTheFuture blog and this one video caught my attention. Why this one you may ask. It's quite simple to tell you the truth. Once I read 'Do schools kill creativity' I was highly interested.
I would highly recommend that you watch this video, the speaker has a really great idea and the presentation is really funny too. I had a few laughs and it really gets you thinking if school does kill one's creativity. And I mean if I had spoke about this topic I'd be totally unobjective (?) but when you listen to a former university professor you'll get an unbiased point of view.
It's kinda long but I'm sure you'll like it. It's like this:
When you're not prepared to make mistakes, you can't be creative and the worst thing you can do in your school is a mistake.

I really think he's right. Shouldn't schools be there to educate us and open our eyes that when you make a mistake it's ok. That's how you'll learn. I don't know about the school(s) you've been to but mine haven't really made it sound like it was OK to make a mistake.

So take a few minutes to watch the video and let me hear your opinions. Here's the link: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66
Sorry I couldn't post the video directly in here, I only know how to post YouTube videos.

Enjoy!

Funny incidents

sHello everyone,
I feel obliged to share these incidents that took place at school with my respected teachers.
This first one was with our English teacher, it is somehow a dilemma to understand what she says. She was asking about an other meaning of 'Summit' and we understood that she wanted another word that had the same meaning of summit. I am the person who jumps and hurries giving the wrong answer. Anyways I said 'mount' and my wrong answer isn't the case in here.
She was like 'No, not house'. Our group burst with laughter. Well, not much because it'd have been a trouble if she had heard us. Can anyone find the similarity in pronouncation between 'mount' and 'house'??
Next comes our science teacher. She was asking a question which I fail to remember at the moment but one member of my group was about to give the answer. Girls at our class have a thing for writing on the white board and so she said 'Can I come and write the answer on the board?' and the teacher said 'Correct, that is the answer' as if what the girl said was the answer for the question because apparently she somehow fancied she heard the answer uttered by the girl instead of the actual words that came from the girl's mouth.
Of course we laughed this off as well.
Another situation was that Huda was very tired and said 'Aaahhh' from tiresome and we were sitting in the back of the class and the English teacher said 'What's wrong Huda?'
Don't they just contradict themselves? They choose to hear what they want to hear!
This last one might be a bit irrelevant but anyways let's say it in here as well. I was itching my arm in class. And the teacher saw me and said 'What's wrong, you're itching?'
And I managed to say 'No, nothing. I'm just itching'
Teachers!! What can I say, sometimes they comment on the silliest of things.

Edit: One more was a girl trying to read 'Lovely' and said 'Love you'. The teacher said 'I love you too, but this is not the issue in here. It's 'Lovely'!

Hey people,
School has started (obviously) and it's been pretty hectic. 10th grade is different from other grades. There is so much going on and we haven't met all of our respected teachers yet.
I think this year should be fun. One time our Islamic teacher was headed to our class and we're like 'Please God let her go to the class next to us' She stood on the door and said is this '10/2'?' and we're like 'Aha :S'
Then she went to the class next to us and it was like a party in the class, cheers and claps and dances of joy. The teacher noticed but that didn't matter at all. :P (btw: I didn't cheer or shout or clap or any of that sort, joy filled my heart though) Teachers are teachers, a bit too annoying though but that's ok. Our exams are not coming from our teachers but from the directorate (?) of Education. It's kind of scary to think about it. Adds more pressure.
On top of all of this, our house has been going under renovation. It feels brand new, which is awesome. Life has been hectic I can say for sure.
Well, that's all for today. Too much happened to tell. I tried to be brief while updating you.
Good night

Back-To-School-Arrangements (part 3)

Tomorrow's school. WOOHOO, we'll have a great time. Yes, Yes we will.
I just need to get my pack-back done. And then it will be all settled.
I woke up at 11:30 a.m. today. Let me explain, I woke up at 6:30 a.m. because my brother came into our room and took something. I felt that he came and so I woke up, I had a hard time getting back to sleep so I spent 2/3 waking hours just trying to fall asleep. Now when my alarm clock went on I couldn't but turn it off, and tell my mom that I hadn't have my enough share of beauty sleep.
I woke up feeling kind of grumpy. Then it was all OK. I am ready for school. Not so sure school is ready for me but that is a different matter.
I've had a nice lecture on how school is great and so I won't be complaining about school out loud. I don't want to hear the lecture again but anyways I really think it's time to go back to school.

This year should be different, in a good kind of way. This year means new classmates, new teachers and the like. I hope we get good teachers. Or not necessarily. Any teacher is fine. :D
It must be weird for you to read this, you're used to the complaining me. I'd have talked on how bad the first day will be, how my teachers would be not my dream-teachers and so on. Whinning and nagging and not wanting to go back would do me no good. I have to embrace the fact that school is coming.
School is tomorrow and I could use all the good karma I can get. I don't want to start whinning in here, it would be the wrong foot to start on.
May it be a good start. ;)

Back-To-School arrangements (part 2)

Hello again, and welcome to the 2nd part of my school arrangements. I've kept up with my sleeping timing today. I'm terribly exhausted. I've been doing some chores around the house and so I think I'm going to call the rest of the day off-chores. But well, I had to do a last thing which was helping making pizza with mom.
I managed to get our room in a good shape to welcome school days. Once my sisters are off to Muscat we'd have plenty of space in our room.
I think what is left to say is that 'Deal with it, school is coming' I can survive another year comfortably since I survived 9 years quite well.
I've finished 'The King of Torts' today, and watched the re-run of bones which for a change we managed to catch and ate a lot of grapes while watching. Which was healthy, I guess.
Anyways today we got extra white pants since the ones we first bought were too cool for school. And I really mean that. I'll probably wear the first ones out rather than for school.
That's it for today I guess, I'm still in denial! :P, well anyways I'll come around. You'll notice it next time. For now good night.

Back-To-School arrangements (part 1)

It's all sinking in at the moment. The room needs to be tidy, school things need to be prepared well, and these kinds of things. I've managed to make my bed time more suitable for school, today for an example I woke up at 9:53 am.
Yes, I'm very accurate :P The mobile said so at least. That is a good timing to wake up in. I watched Babel which had a nice plot to it. I want to watch 'Bones' for probably the last time today since it's on 12 a.m. on Tuesdays. The re-runs are in a time when we never seem to catch.
I need to blog as much nowdays. I just need to do these last things from wasting time. I think the most important thing I need to do is just accept the fact that school is coming. :( I need to sort out my feelings.
Here are some of things that need to be said before I get caught up with school.
1- I might not be able to check blogs a lot.
2- I might be late in replying to comments/mails/posts and such.
3- I might start complaining A LOT about school/teachers/homework and the like so that'd be normal.
4- I'll probably be late in welcoming new members, not that late though. Don't fire me!
5- I'll do my best to keep up with viva, and if you want to write an article about anything mail it to me please or to Waed or Ash.
6- I'll be blogging less often.
If these signs were noticed then they're a good thing. I'm actually being a good student. Which is exactly what I need to be doing.
Let's try to arrange or sort out my feelings. I shouldn't worry about school, it's only four days away. That is a scary fact indeed. It shouldn't be though. I'll have time to be online, watch tv and do what people do with their lives. It's only my 10th grade.
I'll still hate school of course unless there would be drastic measures in my school. That is for sure. Hey, it's a normal thing. Now let me go tidy up the room and I'll blog again tonight telling you how it went and the remaining updates on my back-to-school arrangments. Till then, so long everyone.