exam material

It was start of exam week at Maggie and of course the one class I didn’t show up for is the first class that had an exam of the week for me. As I lay in bed the night before my exam I had a dilemma  myself weather to try and study for the exam till the early hours of the morning, which we all know is a stressful thing to do for all teens, or I could just say F.I.S.H and go to sleep. The next morning as I awoke I realized I slept in and I rushed to get dressed to get to school before the gymnasium doors open for my fellow students to enter and start the same exam that I am unfortunately unprepared for. Once I arrived at school just barely on time I sprinted to the front doors once inside I calmly walked to the gymnasium with butterflies in my stomach which just showed up out of nowhere, as I scanned the room for a spot to take a seat my palms started to sweat then I got a whiff of thirty different body odors of my fellow students. Finally after what seemed like for every I found a seat and as I sat down i felt the left over ABC gum that a student before me kindly left to be found. 

Why I Hate School But Love Education

In the poem “Why I Hate School but Love Education” by Suli Breaks he elaborates on today’s education system in school and why most people say that you need to go to school to get a good education, and how some of the most richest people in the world “[never] graduated from a higher learning institution.” The Theme of this poem is that yes education is the most important part of life to succeed but half the time school does not teach us what we truly need to know, “If there was a family tree hard work and education would be related but school would probably be a distant cousin!” In the poem I like how Suli uses multiple metaphors, the one that stand out to me the most is “‘Proverbs 17:16’ it does a fool no good to spend money on an education.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ZmM7zPLyI

Homework Blues


       As I shuffled into the classroom, I knew that Mr. Van Camp would never believe me. I looked at my scuffed shoes and mumbled, “My homework is not done, Sir. I do have a good excuse though."

       " This is not the first time your homework has not been completed. Perhaps," Mr. Van Camp suggested, "it's time to speak with your parents."

       "Please, you have no idea what will happen to me if you phone my home," I moaned. It looked as if he was going to fall for my story.

      "Well, let's hear your excuse. It better be good."

     “Well, you see Mr. Van Camp,” as I started to speak “you are aware that I work out after school and when you weren’t there I hurt my wrist.”

     “Is that so Jullian? Because to my knowledge and my eye sight you were working out your wrists with 40lbs”

     Jullian stated, “Well you see I was pushing myself too hard yesterday!”

     “Is that all of your great excuse Mr. Kruger?”

     “No that’s not all” Jullian had more to say, “you see not only did I hurt it while working out… but I fell while walking down the stairs from the weight room!”

     Mr. Van Camp then replied, “Oh I see, so that was the loud bang, boom, and BAM that I heard outside the room once you left?”

     “Yes that was what all the commotion was about” replied Jullian.”

     “Okay Jullian I guess you’re safe this time… but next time your homework better be complete or you better have an amazing excuse” exclaimed Mr. Van Camp.

Attack

In the short story "Bluffing" Written by Gail Helgason, there is a grizzly bear attack. Have you ever heard a story of a couple and you just knew that one or even both are straight faced liars? Well Liam and Gabriella are a couple going for a hike in Jasper BC to have a surprise picnic at the lake; at least it’s a surprise for Gabriella. "At noon... [They] reached the lake [Gabriella found a rock of flat limestone along the shore... Liam dug into his pack and pulled out a small bottle of Remy Martin, French bread, a wedge of Camebert, and chocolate-covered almonds", After Liam reveled what they were celebrating for Gabriella was upset and she rush off with Liam following. As the "sandy shore of the lake ended and Gabriella crashed through a thick stand of dwarf birch and rock willows...the willows gave way to huckleberries", she found herself facing a grizzly. After her attempt to back away slowly failed she went down into a fetal position and told Liam who was closely behind her to slowly walk away, "after one long minute, she [hears] the rustle of footsteps through shrubbery... [Liam] is running away as fast as he could." When Liam awoke at the hospital and finally talked to Gabriella three weeks after the attack Liam tells Gabriella that he meant to run away from the bear so it wouldn’t attack her. When he tells her this he is lying because we all know that in doing this he is a coward, UN manly and has no common sense, the reason being for this is because he ran when his girlfriend clearly told him what to do.  

Jullian,

Smoking

Do you ever look at someone whose smoking and wonder how old they are, and how it has affected their lives? Well with some people it doesn't affect them physically therefore they don't think about it as much as others where it does affect them physically. Let’s be honest though we all know that smoking cigarettes is bad for your health and when you smoke it changes the way people look at you. Once in Mr. Van Camp’s blog, a picture of an old women smoking a cigarette, her face was basically skin and bone, it had no definition to it, her cheek bone as well as her jaw bone were very visible to the naked eye. Her skin was old and wrinkly like a witch from a movie you may have seen as a child, her lips were so dry and cracked that if you zoomed in on them you could mistake it for the ground of the Gobi Desert. When you looked at her eyes the one looked has if there was a mist of disappointment that she ever started. I'm not saying that this is how you well look if you were to start smoking but just remember that this is a possibility of how you may look.  

Jullian