Thursday, January 31, 2013

A Rainy, Windy Day

Time to start another blog post!

How the street looked in the morning.
It rained a lot today, and the night before. I still remember hearing my house creek because of the high winds. I also remember the rain drops pounding on the roof; no, they literally pounded. I thought someone was actually on our roof, hitting it!

At 0530 hrs. my mom woke me up, but I fell back asleep. Typical Triston, I'd say. Then, at 0620 hrs., I naturally woke up, and went to brush my teeth, do my hair, and everything else you're supposed to do before going to school.

At school, during Social Studies, somebody's phone went off. The teacher wanted to know who's phone it was. Nobody admitted that their phone had gone off. Then, the teacher proposed a lunch detention for the whole class. And this wasn't the type of lunch detention where you go there and eat; this was the type where you go there before you get your lunch. Now, this got my class really mad at who ever it was who's phone went off. "Just admit it! There aren't going to be any consequences! She just want's someone it admit that their phone went off!" People began to shout. And it was true. The teacher wasn't trying to get the kid in trouble, or take their phone away. She just wanted to

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Laugh Out Loud!

Alright! If you haven't judged from the title, today's post includes a lot of funny bits that took place today at school.

Well, the first two periods of the day were pretty average, almost like every other day. I helped the teacher set up the VCR and get it plugged in to her Smart Board first period, and second period... We did math, I guess. It was math class, after all.

Art was the next period. We turned in our "contracts" and we took the pre-test, that allowed the teachers to know how much we know about art before the class started. After that, we began talking to each other, our art teacher joining in as well. The teacher told us about the other teacher that she didn't like, and kids who had that teacher began to talk about all the things he did/said that they didn't like. One girl said "He got mad at me because when he asked 'Why did we go to war with Britain (American Revolution)?' and I said 'For the Statue of Liberty?,' he got mad at me."
The teacher then proceeded to ask "So you are saying that we went to war with Britain for the Statue of Liberty?"
Everyone in the class began to laugh. Then, the art teacher said "I once heard a kid say 'How come the