Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Jr. High

Okay, it's almost been 10 weeks into Jr.High and it's not bad. Here is my schedule:
1st period: Technology(wood shop), Mr.Orlando
2nd period:Band, Mr. LaCoppola
3rd period:1st semester Art, Mrs.Abel, 2nd semester Home and Career Skills, Mrs. Humphrey, and 3rd and 4th semesters Health, Mrs.Starace
4th period:Gym (1st and 2nd semester mon., wed. and fri. 3rd and 4th mon. and wed.) Mr.Jennings, Study Hall(1st and 2nd semester Tues. and Thurs. and 3rd and 4th Tues.,Thurs., and Fri.) Mrs.Vonderheide
5th period:English, Mr.Greco
6th period:Lunch
7th period:Math, Mrs.Hart
8th period:Science, Mrs.LaMena
9th period: Social Studies, Mrs. Vonderheide

The one part of the day I hate right now is Art. Technology is fine, Band is great, but then Art has to come around and ruin my day. The teacher is really mean, and I swear she is out to get me (and some of my friends). Okay, we had to do a grid project where you had to draw a project, make little squares around it, put designs in each of the the boxes, erase the boxes, glue it on a big colored paper, and your done. I ask if I'm done, she stared at it for about 5 minutes and said to glue it on the colored paper. So I glue it like the cooperative little angel that I am, and she walkd up to me after she trims it and says, "Oh, by the way, you did the project wrong." AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! In the following days it comes to my surprise that it's hanging up in the hallway! Wait, nevermind, everyone that has Art right now has their project hanging up in the hallway. And mean old Mrs.Abel doesn't grade on how well you did, she grades on "what grade you deserve". I really don't care if she found this on the internet, because she deserves to know reality!!! I really think that there are about 10 students in the whole Jr. High that actually likes her!!! Okay Sam, calm down, deep breaths, who cares if she doesn't know anything about Art class, the ten weeks are almost up, and then I don't have to be taught by that meany bobeeni until 8th grade. Gulp.
Okay, enough with the meeny bobeeni's, time for the nice teachers. Well, basically, I like ALL the classes EXCEPT ART. Technology is Okay and goes by quick. We are jsut learning drawing techniques such as Isometric, Oblique, and now I don't know what it's called, but we just draw 1 side of the object. EASY! But I find tech right now to be boring. It's not a challenge, but it gets boring with just drawing. Mr.Orlando is nice, but he kinda freaks me out. One day in Technology he kept saying the Golden Corral commercial thing where there's that dude saying, "Not a problem!"Hmmm. Yes. Very Strange.
I like band a lot. Can you guess what instrument I play? Not Flute, Clarinet, Trumpet, Saxophone, French Horn, Tuba, Trombone, Piccolo, or Oboe. It's the Percussion section! That includes (get ready for another long list) Snare Drum, Bass Drum, Tympani, Triangle, Crash Cymbals, Marimba, Bell Sets, Suspended Cymbal, Slapstick, Claves, I could go on and on (but sorry, no drum set here). The hardest instrument in Percussion I believe would be the bell set/Marimba. Go ahead, you try learning it, it's a lot harder than it looks! I would suggest to try percussion if you like hitting things, awesome solos, and you don't like sticking to the same instrument.
I'm not even gonna talk about Art again.
Gym is really fun. We have awesome units, but we have occasional dumb units. Those are Cross Country (which I wasn't half bad at) and, well, that's the only bad one so far. Study Hall is Great because Mrs.Vonderheide is one of the nicest teachers and me and my friends get to act like idiots for 43 minutes.
English is boring but we don't have a big English textbook. We read a bunch of books. Usually they are really good books, and I have no life, so I usually just read the books 2 weeks before we're supposed to finish them. But English class is really slow, so I try to daydream.
Lunch is a good time where I can talk to my friends, usually the ones that I have only 1 or 2 or no classes with. And I thought we didn't have recess in Jr.High, but we DO.
Okay, seventh period, math. This class goes by really fast, a lot of my friends are in it, and it's usually not boring. This is probably because 1 of my friends, Tyler, acts like a goofball. He came to school sick 1 day and he was coughing out a lung, and Mrs.Hart said "You better not get me sick!" in a funny way. Mrs.Hart wasn't in school the next day. LOL.
Science is actually a good class. It doesn't require a lot of note writing, we rarely get hard homework, and it's fun. One day the whole class, including Mrs.LaMena, spent half the time telling stories about funny stuff. It was great.
9th period Social Studies is one of my favorites. As I said, Mrs.Vonderheide is probably the nicest teacher in the school. I'm actually good at Social Studies, and the tests are a breeze. I only had trouble on 1 of my homework assignments, and that's because I didn't look in the book. It's actually fun too.
My locker was on the 2nd floor, but let me tell you a story. Okay, we all know that I am very fit, but most kids get winded when they travel 2 floors. Oncr you get to school, they make you wait in the cafeteria in the basement until 7:20, and school starts at 7:28. Then I have to go 2 floors to my locker. Well we have to do the same after lunch unless there is bad weather outside, then we go to the gym on the 1st floor. Well, I got sick of going 2 floors 3 times a day so I asked my friends if anyone on the 1st floor wanted to switch lockers. My friend Robert had a locker on the 1st floor, so I traded with him recently. Now I only have to climb 2 sets of stairs once each day to get to the 3rd floor for Science.
Jr. High is a great place. I made a lot of new friends, don't have to see the same ugly faces of my classmates for the whole day, and Jr. High is easy. These are great years ahead of me at school (A LOT BETTER THAN ELEMENTARY!!!!).

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Football 09-10

Alright, this season we weren't terrible, but we weren't good. Our record was 2-4. Our first game we lost 7-24. Our next game we lost 7-6 against Glens Falls. On our 3rd game, we lost once again to Broadalbin-Perth. But then we turned around. We won against our rivals Gloversville 28-20 (first win finally). Then we win again against South Glens Falls 35-12. But we really stunk it up our last game. We lost 51-8 against Scotia. We scored our touchdown in the 4th quarter, but there was only about 2 minutes left and the score was way too high to try for a comeback. So that's our incredibly fine football season. But I'm just hoping we can turn this around during basketball season.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Big Brother 11

This Season's contestants



Big Brother is a Great show. If you haven't seen it yet, I think you need to see a doctor because it's insanely awesome!!! The Houseguests are stuck inside a house until everyone except one is voted out. If you happen to be the lucky winner, you win $250,000! Every Week there is a nomination ceremony, award competition, veto competition, Eviction Ceremony, and Head of Household competition. Every week starts off with a Head of Household, or HOH, competition. The HOH has the power to make nominations, put up replacement nominess, and is safe from eviction. Every houseguest competes, except the previous HOH. The competitions are usually either questions of either true or false, or A or B, or the competitions are endurance competitions, like who can hold on for the longest. Then the HOH chooses 2 houseguests to put up on the chopping block, or on a spot where the can be voted off. But then there is the award challenge, where houseguests can win awards and the losing team will be put on big brother slop, which looks and by the looks of there faces, is nasty. But this season they are letting america choose nasty stuff (or tasty for other people) to give to people in adddition to slop. Next there is the Veto Competition. Bear with me people, it's almost the end of the week on the show. The winner can choose either of the 2 people on the block to get off of it, and then the HOH would choose a substitue to go on the chopping block. But only the HOH, both people on the chopping block, and 3 houseguests chosen by random get to compete. Finally, there is the eviction ceremony. All the houseguests except the HOH and nominees get to vote who goes home. Whoever has the most votes goes home and doesn't get to come back until next season. I don't know how long the season is, but it's long. The shows are on Sundays and Tuesdays at 8 PM Eastern time, and Thursday at 9 PM Eastern Time. The Thursday night ones are LIVE so you have to watch them. Oh, and just throwing this out there. If you happen to watch this season's episodes, root for Jeff, Russell, or Lydia. And this is Sammy, Signing off.

Monday, July 27, 2009

Zune vs Ipod

A 120 GB Ipod
A 120 GB Zune


In my Opinion, I think Zune is better than Ipod. When you have a Zune, you can either fill your zune up with music,videos,or podcasts. And when you buy music, you can either buy every song or album, OR you can buy a Zune Pass. A Zune Pass is $14.99 a month, and if you buy Zune Pass, EVERY SONG IS FREE!!! If you have an Ipod, you have to go to Itunes and buy every little song/album seperatly. It costs $30,000 to fill a 120 GB Ipod! Now that's CRAZY!!! Zunes come in different colors, and you can buy them with 4GB,8GB,30GB,or 120 GB. My Dad has a red 8GB, my mom has a pink 4GB, and I have a Black 120GB. The 120 GB are bigger, but that makes the screen a LOT better for watching TV shows, movies,etc. So if you have an Ipod, sell it on Ebay and take the money so you can buy a Zune and Zune Pass!!! The winner? You decide.

Friday, July 24, 2009

Football

Me beating up abby, with football jersey on.
The Philidelphia Eagles, my favorite NFL team.
The Eagles.


Football Training Camp starts starts August 1st, and I can't wait. Ever since I've got back from Aunt Chrys's house, there hasn't lately been much to do. So once football camp starts up, I'll be less bored and a lot more tired. I really hope that the middle school football team is a LOT better than the little league teams, because we went 2-7 last year (But better than the other team, because the went 0-9!!!). I really think we'll do better this year because we have all the players on 1 team, instead of 2 or 3 different teams. NFL games are also starting up around September, so I'm also excited about that. And if you haven't noticed, my favorite NFL team are the Philidelphia Eagles. We got close to the Superbowl last year, so I'm confident that we'll win the Superbowl this year!!! If not, I just hope the Giants,Redskins,or Cowboys win because they're all in the Eagles Division. I hope that we win!!!

Monday, July 20, 2009

Playfish Games








Playfish games are AWESOME!!! It has Word Challenge,Who as the biggest brain bowling buddies, and lots more!!! If you haven't tried some if not all, you have to! My favorite one is Word Challenge, because I'm a beast at it (Just in case you didn't know, Mother Goose had me help her). These games are applications on Myspace, Facebook, and some other popular online websites. If you only play one of these games, I urge you to play Word Challenge because it's AWESOME!!!! Word Challenge is quick, fun, and very addicting. Bowling Buddies is a bowling game where you can earn achievements as hard as the perfect game achievement, but as easy as the clown achievement. If you have a good amount of time on your hands, play Who Has The Biggest Brain because it takes a little while, but it has fun challenges. So I really recommend you to try at least one of these very addicting game, hopefully you'll try word challenge, and remember, if you don't, you're a loser. SO TRY ONE NOW!!!!


Sunday, April 19, 2009

A PICTURE!!!!!!!

WOW IT'S A PICTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!