memory

hah so today was a fun day and I want to leave behind a memory. 

The start of my day was pretty ordinary, just like any other day I went into my first class, AP European History or AP Euro for short and we had a lecture on medieval times, papacies, schisms, the Hundred Year's War between England and France, and a little on Russia too. We have a test coming up real soon so that's why there isn't much fun stuff for the time being LOL. 

Okay so then we move on to my second block which is Honors Chemistry. 

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I have three APs this year and one honors class, and they all somehow ended up being on the same day... Oh shoot, I haven't even mentioned what my schedule this year looks like. Essentially, since school started, the schedules have been Monday 3 classes, Tuesday 4 classes, Wednesday all classes but for less time each, Thursday is Monday schedule, and Friday is Tuesday schedule. 

And you might be wondering, "But Jerry today is a Wednesday, shouldn't you have all your classes instead of just 4 of them?" Well, my very attentive reader, if this were a usual week you'd be correct. However, this Monday was Labor Day, an ironically named holiday in which we do not attend school.

Therefore, the Wednesday schedule has been wiped and the remaining 4 days we have left are in the formation of Monday, Tuesday, Monday, Tuesday, in terms of schedules. For organizational purposes, I'll name the Monday schedule "Schedule A" and the Tuesday schedule "Schedule B". So then, this week because of Labor Day we missed Monday, so the remaining 4 days will take the form of ABAB. 

Oh wow, all that explaining, and I still haven't gotten around to why I wanted to leave behind a memory of today LOLZ. 

In Chemistry we had a lab where we had 6 different stations around the classroom and each one had to do with measuring and analyzing the change in mass of an object after undergoing some sort of chemical or physical change. 

For example, in one station you had some iron wool, and after burning it using a seemingly very dangerous flame, (we took extra caution by wearing some shiny red safety goggles of course), it would turn into iron oxide after bonding with some oxygen from the surrounding air. 

And I also got called out by the teacher because I didn't show the process for some extremely simple conversations on my homework that I had turned in so I was only going to get partial credit on it sadly. 

 Anyway, then a few minutes later, my Honors Physics teacher from last year came in the classroom to visit, (he's retired now), and he says out loud to the whole class something that went like this, "Jerry's going to dominate this class like he did last year in Honors Physics, when he goes home he has a chemistry professor to tutor him, but don't worry coming in second is pretty good too." Wow. Now I have additional pressure LOL. 

Seriously though, when people have high expectations for you and they expect you to come in first every time it really puts a huge amount of pressure on you because even if you do super ultra mega amazing, people aren't surprised because that's what's expected of you anyway. But if you mess up a little and don't come in first, well oof, because you just failed everyone's expectations. 

Chemistry comes to an end and typically this is when I would go directly to my AP Capstone classroom because the class starts 5 minutes after Chemistry ends. However, I only went briefly to excuse myself from her class today and she told me I had to watch a few videos to catch up on classwork afterward to which I answered, "No problem at all". 

Now, why did I excuse myself from this class? Did I have a doctor's appointment? Was I not feeling well? Did I simply want to skip class for no reason at all? The answer would be none of the above. Today was actually the club fair where all the clubs in the school get to set up a table in the library and when it's the student's lunch break they can come to visit the library and see if they want to sign up for any of the clubs. And basically I'm there as a representative of the Investment Club to explain to people what the club is all about and get them to sign up. Pretty much like sales but easier since they don't have to pay to sign up. Still feels pretty good when a ton of people start writing their names though and the page starts filling up and then you turn to the second page and that page gets filled up too, and, you get the idea. It was when I was sitting down at my little table with a constant flow of 3 or 4 different kids around me saying hi and handshaking me that I thought to myself, "Wow you actually know quite a lot of people, Jerry, I'm thoroughly impressed. Buen trabajo!" 

So I was also walking around the library myself to see if there's any clubs that I wanted to join. I believe I signed up for two, TED-Ed and Noor. TED-Ed is outlining and writing out a TED talk of your own which you get to film. And then they send those recordings to the actual TED, and if yours was super good then you'll get selected and you get the chance to talk in front of a real live audience somewhere in America LOL. Probably an amazing experience if you get picked but I get to practice my public speaking either way so it's a win-win. Noor is for learning about cultures in Asia, mainly Islam I believe, and you can learn about the way they live and the language and the history behind it, and, they offer food too which is awesome. Food... yum...

I was strolling around the library some more when a teacher came up to me and asked if I wanted to host an interview with students that were at the fair to ask them about what they thought of it and which clubs they were interested in. The teacher knew me because she was actually my social studies teacher in 5th grade but now she manages the radio station at our school. She also knew that I sometimes help out Fox with his podcast so I knew how everything works. 

I told Rama to watch over the investment club table but I think he got distracted with chess LOL. Anyway, I went into the recording studio, which is right inside the library btw, it's this little room with see-through glass windows and professional recording microphones and big screens to edit the footage which looks pretty cool. 

So I began my interviews: The first interviewee is actually my friend from 11th grade, he's in my AP Physics class so I know him pretty well. He talked about the Aeronautics club which is a club that he founded and created last year and how he also wanted to join the robotics club. My mom is now pressuring me to go to bed already because I'm past my bedtime writing this... So I'm not going to go into detail about the rest of the interviews but I interviewed 6 in total. The second was actually Rama. The third was a senior who was the president of the TED-Ed club. The fourth was a senior as well who was in various clubs including the Fashion club and JSA. Fifth was a junior who was a committee head of the Be a Bee club which focused on spreading around the importance of bees and finding them new habitats to live in. And last but not least I interviewed a teacher who was the advisor of the English Forensics club which is a fusion of acting, speaking, and writing as well.