Anyways, so there is only 5.5 days of school left!! This year feels like it has flown by so fast.
By this time next week we will officially be Sophomores. (not like being a sophomore is that great)
okay...get to commenting.

How did everyone enjoy the benchmark test yesterday? I personally thought it was pretty easy as far as time and answering went. Im a little bit worrie d about today's test though, im not sure how long it will be, or if im gonna get finished in the required amount of time. I hate doing big long essays, and im also confused about our last final, are we just doing one big blog? Are we gonna get to talk about whatever subject that we want to? I dont think i listened well enough but thats what i took from the description. I know its a little late but did everyone enjoy the extra day added on to the weekend? I know I did, and the weather was really nice too.


Hey everyone. How was your weekend? Mine was really good, but Monday was really weird. I don't know if any of you watched the news, but some interesting things happened. On Monday, a drunk man was chased by the Springfield police through a few people yards until he was captured in the parking lot of Redeemer Lutheran Church having to use tire spikes and a taser gun. So here's where the story for me got interesting. My yard was one of the yards that he drove through! I live on a dead end street at the very end. I was sitting in my room and happened to look out the window as the blue truck came screeching into the neighborhood. He kept picking up speed, going about 60 mph, hopped the curb, and drove through my backyard and into the trees. Two police cars quickly showed up, parking in front of my driveway and jumping out with guns on foot to follow him. By now, I had moved away from the windows and from what my dad saw, the guy then reemerged from the trees and drove out of my backyard, past the cops, and down the street. What was also really amazing was that for a drunk guy, he was a really good driver. He missed our sprinkler system, tether ball post, trampoline, swing set and then many tress that could have totaled his car, not to mention the cops. If you want to watch the video or read more about what happened, here is the link. Other than that, my weekend was really boring but I never thought I would be able to tell that story. These are all pictures that I took from my bakyard.
tire marks from where the driver went into the trees























WOW! Our acting skills have a lot to be desired, you know that. While our acting jobs weren't they best, they were pretty amusing! It reminded me of little kids' performances. All though, considering the fact that we had so little time to prepare, they were really kinda good. I'm not sure which one was my favorite, I really liked them all (except the one I was doing!), they were so much fun!
So today in class we each performed a different act of Shakespeare for 60 second Shakespeare. My group did the prologue and it took quite a bit longer than 60 seconds, probably more like 260 seconds. We didn't have much time to practice the lines and some of the actions didn't go quite as planned, but I figure that we did fairly well for doing this acting on a spur of the moment. I still have a ton of unanswered quiestions from Act 4 and 5 that I really hope we go over tomorrow in class.
Lately ive really been seeing alot of things started from that post of reading great books six, and i just wanted to say, dang. Its been an eye opening experience to see some of the blunt things said and to everyone's opinions on it, and i just wanted to mention a quote. 
I enjoyed watching both of the Romeo and Juliet videos. However I enjoyed watching the modern version better. The differences between the two movies are very clear. In original movie it goes exactly with tho text, and is a very old theme. The characters wear different clothes than the characters from the modern video. Also in the modern video, the director added things in the movie such as drugs, guns, and fast cars. I believe they did this because it would get more attention from people today than the older layed back version. What about all of you, what do you all think about the two movies? What differences do you see?

Today in class we finished reading Romeo and Juliet! I never thought we would be done reading it has been done. Today during the last half of Act 5 I was the friar. The lines seemed to drag on forever. Plus I had (what felt like) a million line long soliloquy. I messed up a few times but the speech went surprisingly well in my opinion. I don't know about you guys, but I also have a ton of unanswered questions on the study guide.
and it was amazing, honestly I couldn't even put it down. It was about a boy that grows up in a bad part of town with his dad. His dad told him that his mom left him when he was little. Then his dad gets shot by drug dealers. It turns out his mom is the head DA and he goes to live with her. Anyway later he gets accused for dealing drugs and goes to jail for five years. There is a huge twist , you've gotta read this book.
I think that the post that was made on reading great books 6 was really controvercial. I know that I have had my fair share in controvercial subjects and thats fine. But what was really upsetting is the way that people responded to the things that that person wrote about. Its really not fair that they were so mean the that person just for sharing their opinions. Just like i was bashed when I posted that one thing. Its probably batter that we dont post about such controvercial issues anymore on these class things because kids these days are alot more strong minded and respond quickly and sharply to anything different than they believe. Its really risky to post about something that EVERYONE has an opinion because your gonna get EVERYONES opinion on the matter. Let alone 3 different subjects that cause such a ruckus as it is.
This weekend I watched alot of cool movies, one of them was a movie called blow, starring Johnny Depp. It was about the life of George Jung, a boy who grew up in a small town, and during college he and his best friend moved out to california, Where the new fad was getting stoned. He didnt have a job, and was too lazy to do a bunch of work, so his friend got the brilliant idea of dealing. He built up his reputation to the point where he needed alot. He stole a plane and got busted with 639 pounds of grass. He goes to jail, and as soon as he gets out, starts dealing coke, and the rest, is up to you to find out, its an interesting movie, and its kind of cool to watch the rise and fall of a mastermind right in front of your eyes.