The Daily Centerville Jr. High Times Gazette Periodical Enquirer: March 2009

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Everybody is sick lately

Posted by A Simple Student at 9:09 AM

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Viruses have been running around on a rampage. Geez, during a test, there was not one moment when I did not hear someone coughing or sniffling.

It sucks to be sick -- you can't run, can't think properly, or even function properly for the most part. You're either stuck at home and missing a ton of classwork. or you're in class and feeling miserable.

Oh do I loathe the infamous cough. The room is dead silent, *cough cough cough*, and everybody is staring at you.

This will probably all pass over by the end of April. Bundle up people! There are people who wear T-shirts and short shorts to school when it's 50 degrees in the morning! No wonder they're sick.

Sincerely,
The Editor

As you can see, I've been pretty under the weather lately. I'll try to most more articles soon.
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Friday, March 20, 2009

Educational Fair

Posted by A Simple Student at 9:49 PM

Yay! Centerville has one of the most inventive educational fairs.

There were hot air balloons, roller coasters, people dancing, fencing, and so much more other stuff. That's what I love about Centerville -- it is amazing how open it is to new ideas. I mainly just dawdled along, seeing all of the work that students and teachers put into all of these projects. I slept at 12 AM because of how late I got home that day.

You can literally spend an hour in there. It's really interesting, and even more fun to help teachers there too!

next article: Students and News. Why don't those go hand in hand?
Probably will be posted on Mon., Tues. or Wed.

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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Pi Day

Posted by A Simple Student at 9:32 PM

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Yay! For Pi! and Pie!

Time to celebrate our favorite non-terminating, non-repeating, irrational number!

Pies were everywhere. Apple, cherry, chocolate, you name it. By the way my fav was that apple pie. Simply delicious.

Centerville had a contest on who could say the most digits of pi. I didn't hear the results, but there were rumours of people knowing 300 digits! Woah, 300 digits of pi is a lot of numbers, really can't think of why someone would memorize that many. There was also a hula hoop contest. Maybe next year, how about "what you can make with only circles" contest. You make a creative thing out of just circles. Kinda weird, but I would love to see what people could do with it. (maybe a giant collage of CDs?)

I love pi and pie!

Sincerely,
The Editor
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

A Reflection of Past Years

Posted by A Simple Student at 12:12 AM

Being a teenager, you experience so many new things.

Dissapointments, first crushes.. ect. So many firsts.

It's just a learning process I guess. I remember not even caring what I looked like in elementary school. Now, I spend about 3 minutes just thinking about what I'm going to wear. Strange how things change.

Your mind also matures when you're a teenager. I never fully comprehended what my parent's fights were about. Why father wasn't there for graduation, award assemblies, conferences, or anything that was important to me. Why did he come home at 5 AM, with no explanation. The screaming, yelling, slamming of doors. I really started to connect the pieces together just recently. Either they stopped caring to cover it up, or I got smarter. And with that, came feelings of betrayal and hurt. I'm not the type to cry though. All these feelings start coming at you, along with homework to do, and people to deal with, it gets tiring. I think I get a tiny bit of pain everytime I come home with a "highest grade in the class" or "perfect score" and all I get is a door shut in my face. Not even a measely "good job" or "keep up the good work." Despite the hours you spent studying or the days you put into the project. (I'll write in more detail eventually)

Now, you really look at life. You have about 4 more years till college, then 4 more years after that till you're, for the most part, on your own. What will you be? Kids have already become millionares by the age of 14. You start thinking about hopes and dreams and accomplishments.

Then you look back when you were in kindergarten looking up at the 6th graders in the "big kid's" playground. You looked forward to go into 4th grade and being able to play in the upper grade play ground. Then you looked forward to jr. high. Now that I'm here, I realize how naive I was. 4th grade is really young to me now, 6th grade doesn't seem all that great to me now either.
My junior high years have gone by the faster than any of my elementary school years. Each week, you set you goal to complete this project, then next week there is always another one. Week after week. Then you realize the school year is done, and you look back and had some regrets. Like, why didn't I try harder in this class? or Why didn't I make the most of my time here?

I'm not afraid of the future. Just anxious I guess.

Time flies.

I've been extremely sleep deprived lately, sorry for the not-so-great article.

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

District Writing Test

Posted by A Simple Student at 10:21 PM

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You could hear a pin drop. Most students were writing, some stared aimlessly off into space. Basically, you had a little more than an hour to write an essay. Which gave ample time to proofread and read whatever book you wanted.

Writing is one of my worst subjects. Never have I been able to sit there and just write. Of course, blogging is different. So I sat there, and brainstormed. My essay was done about 20 minutes later. I remember I only read about 10 pages of my book during that free time. The rest of it was just me thinking about my dysfunctional family, feelings, just typical teenage angst.

I might write about my family one of these days. If anyone shows any interest.

Back to the point, the essay had an easy prompt, tons of time to finish and the stress level was none. I hear that the english teachers are hand grading them this year.

Sincerely,
The Editor

I think I might write a poem about the rain one of these days. I really like rain.

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Monday, March 2, 2009

Sign up for you classes!

Posted by A Simple Student at 5:12 PM

Today a Washington High counselor came and talked to the 8th graders on how to sign up and what to do to register for Washington High. Most of the information is on the white paper if you got it.

She repeated everything about 10 times. Which is only neccesary because there are always students who forget what to do. Pretty much all of our questions were answered. (side note: I'm glad to be sitting on the bleachers!) We missed our math classes, but it was better than having 500 kids all in room. The speaker was friendly, loud, and not boring.

I'm glad how all of this was all layed out. Props to the people who arranged it!

Sincerely,
The Editor

Sleep early! District writing test tomorrow!

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Sunday, March 1, 2009

Guest Article: International Fair Stress

Posted by A Simple Student at 11:04 PM

International Fair Stress

The International fair was just filled with stress... stress... and more stress.

There was getting there early to set our booth. Staying late to clean up. There was also homework to make up and teamates to deal with.

It takes a lot of work to make one of those booths. A ton of research, glueing, taping, cutting, cooking, baking, movie editing.

Yet, in the end, no one ever learns anything. Kids pass by just looking for stamps. Teachers just say "Good Job!" and that's it. Frankly, it really isn't worthwhile. The work from classes you missed pile up. You get absolutely no recognition for ALL of that hardwork.

All of us could have dropped out. Then there would be no international fair at all. All of the work was purely by the students. We met with the teacher just to get information. All of the planning, working, getting together, was all planned by us. We were the ones who ultimately decided when our deadlines were. We planned how the booth would look like. We were the ones who decided the shifts. We planned and did everything.

If none of us did this, there would be no international fair. We could've all have dropped out last minute and nothing would happen to us.

I really wish we had some recognition or a party, or something.

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