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Saturday, March 25, 2006

Friday the 24th

     I was about to call my Friday the ultimate free time. There were a few obstacles and a few major laugh trips, and the last day of brutality for some.

     The major breakthrough was the fact that teachers were not attending the classes (except the science teachers with the very eager approach to simulating torture and knowledge at the same time). Filipino only became trouble for Pia because she finished her all-revised portfolio at 3 am. It was to be submitted to the supervisor, and our oh-so-great Filipino teacher didn’t come. Shocking for Pia… She missed a lot of slumber hours.

     Trigonometry went out with the “culminating” activity of having a quiz bee next Tuesday. I went volunteering to be the quiz master but Benjie was the quiz master. I became a contestant - no! I hate math contests, I really do. I am not good at math. I was telling everyone that I didn’t want to be a contestant, but I hushed myself up to avoid getting myself into trouble again.

     Physics was the usual teaching experience for Ms. Hedia. Fort he first time I didn’t listen to her, and I didn’t know the lesson beforehand (I’ve never read about it - details of electromagnetic forces) because I was playing Ragnarok on June’s phone.  It was Nikolai was playing, but then I saw it and was amazed by its cuteness. When the time came for “answer correctly, you can go” part, I copied Russel’s solution and scooted off.

     Free time started afterwards.

     After buying some food (our schedule whacked our biological clocks for hunger) and eating, I got the Stainless Longganisa and went to the retail to buy drinks and sat on the foot of the basketball court. As I was reading the first few pages of Stainless Longganisa, Bryan Bertol came in. Afterwards we talked a lot - about people in the campus, mainly. I was sure he was waiting for Mendel to come down and have their Chemistry clean-up (all those under Ma’am de Paula were not having lessons, those under Ma’am Coco, well, suffer more than the usual clean-up). After some long talk with him I went up the room and asked whether that Chem Olympiad would commence.

     The story behind the Chem Olympiad was a major laugh trip. Nikolai and I came late and we were left with 15 minutes to answer. While the others answered deeply with faces that of serious traces likewise of a periodic examination, Nikolai and I (with Pia soon following) were laughing and made a commotion at the Chemistry Lab. We finished the test, and we were left with 5 minutes of more destructive comedy. People who were answering looked at us with glaring eyes. We were still laughing then.

     Why would we even pass that laugh trip exam? We weren’t even sure about the question on “What element has a name that means hard-to-get?” If you know the answer, please tag it on my board. We really don’t know.

     I went up three floors and called out Carlos Miguel so that we could watch Angelica dance for their Latin American dance project under Ms. San Jose. When their performance started with Linnaeus’ African dance with all the boys, John Paul was the ultimate African star. He was so addressed in dancing that he really looked like an African. We also watched Darwin’s sensual Latin American dance courtesy of Romel Matthew Reyes. There were 4 sets of dances - a pair solo, then three dances of different people (some dancers were being recycled though).

     Angelica’s dance came next with some of the girls dressed as men. Their Latin American dance was okay, with a few mistakes that made Angelica mouth the words “poise”.

     After their performance was Darwin’s African music, with fire, leaves and bows and two drummers. It was long performance, and the drummers made an ending to make everyone smile. Slow beats rushing to a faster pace, and then stops. With all suspense built up, there was the last thud. It was done.

     After watching, we played Scrabble. Then Hertz watched the Schindler’s List. I wasn’t finished playing yet, and Therese was already helping me and CM. I missed the liquidation (which I called liquification and for once I made up a word, because there is no such thing as liquification in the dictionary) but I was there when the sniper shot down two Jews. That was the end of the brutality.

     English became a talk about the missing book, and we were forced to pay again, but we were saved by the funds left from the chemical buying and the physics decors.

     When Chemistry came, Ms. Coco discussed the missing 4 electrons on yesterday’s equation. Afterwards we answered another equation that when you get it correctly, you could miss the Tuesday class, or get it wrong and attend another torture session. I got it wrong twice, but I was exempted because of the seatwork on percentage yield.

     Advanced biology was to move the chairs task and wait until we were free to go. After 10 minutes Nikolai, Marc and I went to play DotA. Marc was teaching papa Nikolai the methods of using Balanar. After a few games (which I used Luna and Rhasta) I went to SM to buy a gift. I also went to Quantum, and I found Jonathan there and I played with him. I played Para before I went to Blue Magic and walked to McDonald’s for chicken and coke float.

     I went home tired and sleepy, and I slept in the bus again, awakened thrice by the bus conductor for tickets, fare and the door slam to signal our arrival at Alabang.

     That’s another Friday; hope you enjoyed sharing this day with me (how dramatic). Ciao~

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