2009.06.22 Summer School. Ugh.

Yes, I'm (unfortunately) in summer school, for three weeks (except Fridays). And my teacher is the most boring person on the face of the earth. It's not his fault -- he's rather old and is new to our school. It also doesn't help that there are lame and obnoxious people in my class as well.

Get this -- today we were beginning to read Animal Farm, By George Orwell. We were writing a small response paragraph, and the guy sitting right on my left asked the teacher aloud, "Is Stalin dead?"

... Really? Was that even a serious question? Joseph Stalin died of a stroke on March 5, 1953. Today is June 22, 2009, and he's been long dead and gone. We had only just finished watching a video about Stalin's rule of Russia, which mentioned that he died at the very end of the video; the narrator wasn't being inconspicuous, if you were paying attention.

another student who I have known to miss a lot of class for the most ridiculous of reasons kept up his reputation for being tardy a number of times and also going to the bathroom and almost not returning. At the beginning of class the teacher couldn't figure out the Aeries system so he had to take attendance manually. That student took the attendance up, and was gone for more than half the period. When he finally returned, not only had he picked up a bottle of spring water, he didn't even return with a pass!

These certain foolish people I have the misfortune of calling my fellow peers will probably continue to give our poor old teacher a hard time for the rest of the session. I disapprove of these shenanigans.