My Physics teacher is unanimously agreed to have to capability of making anything, anything mark you, boring. Including things like rockets and stars and stuff that is normally pretty cool--to me, anyway. So my friend and I take it in turns to at least try and listen to her and not drop off, and the other will doodle ninjas or some such in the back of their planners...or on the desk. Well, I say take it in turns, but it's normally me listening, and my friend doodling--see, if it's me doodling, it is very likely that the "notes" taken on the lesson will in fact be a written conversation between my mate and the people sitting behind us...probably with pictures of ninjas, initials, chocolate bars or some lyric or other to boot. The funny bit is, we can get away with this airyfripperage, because my physics teacher has a habit of standing at the front of the classroom and talking for lord knows how long, (And here's the thing...) with her eyes shut. It got to the point where an extremely tall and rather, for want of a better word, noticeable guy (Nearing six foot and he has extremely bright, ginger hair) in our class managed to do the whole of the Macarena (360 degrees and all!) without her seeing. Although, there was one point where we were doing a Mexican wave around the classroom and she opened her eyes... oops. So everyone had to stand round the room, and we all had to do a Mexican wave--this tied in nicely with our next topic...waves.
And, speaking of waves, physics and such, an interesting revelation revealed itself (as they tend to do) the other day. You know geography, right? and the Antarctic? Well, chances are you won't know the Antarctic personally, but hey ho. Anyway, for our lesson one day we had to research job vacancies for the BAS (British Antarctic Survey), and I found one, here, and thought "Hey, these qualifications seem pretty familiar..." Turns out, Lunchista Fille's Maman (Or just Lunchista, as it happens), is actually qualified for a job modelling radiation belts in Cambridge, for the BAS. Learn something new everyday...Meaning that, as Lunchista is currently slightly and on varying degrees mainly unemployed, she could, if desired, go for an interview. Actually, written down, it probably looks slightly mundane, but it was surprising at the time, honest...
And then Summer came! All thoughts of Antarctica banished (Until I wrote this, which kind of broke the pattern...) we made a stop motion animation involving peaches and solar battery chargers. I'll explain a bit, shall I? It's to go with silly lyrics that have been written that go with the song "peaches" by the stranglers, about Solar panels (or our one is, the original...well, isn't really). And while we were filming said film, a letter came in the post about a "Happiness Centre" in the moors, said to "Bring peace and joy to peoples lives, helping to understand their struggles and assists in restoring harmony and balance..." etc, etc. etc. I dunno about you, but it sounded funny and a bit airy fairy to me. It almost certainly costs a bomb, so any peace, harmony and joy you experience there will immediately be negated by the stress of paying the bill.
Then, we looked at the list of activities. Some of them were understandable; Shiatsu, I've heard, is very relaxing and all that. Some were probably scams: Astrology Readings and Metamorphic Technique sounded particularly fake.
And then Summer came! All thoughts of Antarctica banished (Until I wrote this, which kind of broke the pattern...) we made a stop motion animation involving peaches and solar battery chargers. I'll explain a bit, shall I? It's to go with silly lyrics that have been written that go with the song "peaches" by the stranglers, about Solar panels (or our one is, the original...well, isn't really). And while we were filming said film, a letter came in the post about a "Happiness Centre" in the moors, said to "Bring peace and joy to peoples lives, helping to understand their struggles and assists in restoring harmony and balance..." etc, etc. etc. I dunno about you, but it sounded funny and a bit airy fairy to me. It almost certainly costs a bomb, so any peace, harmony and joy you experience there will immediately be negated by the stress of paying the bill.
Then, we looked at the list of activities. Some of them were understandable; Shiatsu, I've heard, is very relaxing and all that. Some were probably scams: Astrology Readings and Metamorphic Technique sounded particularly fake.
And then the corker: Hopi Ear Candling. Any ideas?
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