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This week was really busy. I didn't like the Orientation Dance stuff during lunches. But what can I do about it? Probation kicked in. I need to make up a lot of stuff. I don't really have all the time in the world to do that, with band and like a million appointments, I bet I won't even get a chance to make up anything before Mr. Ing says we can't make up anything from the first half of the quarter. But that won't happen. I used up all my bad luck on having appointments on pretty much all of my afters school orientation practises. My mom just needs to tell me stuff in advance. I am .4 points short of getting my AR to 50%. We had an assembly thing where I learned that people don't give a crap about privacy anymore, and it's legal to see the history of all interactions on an electronic device by civilians, and scholarship people do that all the way back to when the recipients got their devices. I personally think that's unconstitutional and kinda like they have an automatic search warrant for anyone applying for a scholarship. Who even cares if someone was an immature jerk when they were 10 years old, and they hated on everyone? I'm angry about this and it doesn't even apply to me because my college tuition is already paid for by my family's own money. So that was unsettling when I went to that assembly. Oh yeah, it was Valentine's Garbage Day on Wednesday.  It was also this Catholic thing where they couldn't eat meat or chocolate. A bunch of people were giving away chocolate that day. Whoever created garbage day is a true idiot.

It's Beau's beautiful photography.

A highlight of the week would be when Beau took like 50 million pictures on Alize's phone of the Orientation dances. That's a highlight because it's funny and not that much else happened that was positive. A lowlight would be that assembly on Friday. That stuff is messed up. I was genuinely put off by that. It sounded like those scholarship people could see a complete history of everything anyone did on any app or document of an electronic device seemingly without the owner of the device's consent. Another lowlight is that probation kicked in and I don't really have a lot of time after school to make up for leadership stuff. Also, I barely have any time with my friends because I'm on probation and we have Orientation practice during lunch.
I learned that I have learned nothing. Mr. Ing said that there was a lack of progress in this class, that we never changed. I looked back on it, and I saw that I never learned. And I'll be left behind if I don't get my act together. What if I'm left behind by my boss when I'm an adult because I didn't get my act together there? what if I couldn't keep up with the industry and everyone in it? I know that if I can fix my grade and become a better person out of my comfort zone now, I'll be able to learn and get better in my career actually doing what I'll love.

Spiritness Week of All the Spirit Nobody Wanted (I changed my name to nobody for the duration that you are reading this blog)

Last week was spirit week. Last week I was absent Monday through Wednesday. Basically, I missed most of the biggest event we had. The one thing that I wasn't looking forward to, the cheer off, was on Friday. I still had to do it. We had to be at school at 6:30. Who in the world would wake up and get to school at 6:30? I wake up at 6:30, and it takes me half an hour to get ready! I guess there were these point things and it was a competition. So everyone put money in jars for points and bout chain link things. We had a nice dress out week, but I missed a lot of it. We needed to give everyone who was dressing out wristbands, which also gave them points. I was there on Hawaiian day, which is tourist day for me, and team colour day. We just wore our team shirts. Avoid being competitive at all costs because I get worked up.Not much happened on Thursday. On Friday, we had the cheer off. Every team did a cheer. I hated all of them, including ours. The only people who used a song I like turned the nuanced lyrics to a brainless cheer nobody liked. Yay! Spirit Week!

BOOOO 0/10 cheer!

A highlight of the week was Thursday. Why is Thursday a highlight? Nothing explicitly bad happened with the spirit week stuff. Nothing explicitly good happened. Judging by the way everyone else talked and acted over the past week or so, I'm going to assume that it Thursday was pretty much as normal as spirit week gets. A lowlight would be the cheer off. Trying to be "cool" when I hate the people that are "cool?" Not fun. Using some of my least favorite types of music? Not fun. The whole competition thing? Not fun. Making us have "attitude" when I don't know what "attitude is? Not fun. Being forced to take part in it? I REALLY HATE THIS THING ALREADY! The world would be a better place if the cheer off didn't exist. The other teams' cheers weren't much better. I did like the first part of ours. That was fun.

Look at how bored everyone is of the cheer off.

I learned that sometimes you have to do stuff that you absolutely despise. For example, the cheer off. I hated that SO MUCH! Yet everyone at Ilima could see me dancing during the cheer off. I did it for the like 130 kids (approximately) who liked the cheer. I wasn't about to ruin the cheer off for everyone because I personally didn't like it. How selfish is that? That's like something a 5-year-old would do.

GLO #1: Self-Directed Learner: I was self-directed when I remembered to come to school early.

GLO #2: Community Contributor: I participated in the cheer off for everyone else in my team so I didn't ruin it for everyone.

GLO #3: Critical Thinker: I was able to figure out how to put wristbands on people in the most efficient way possible.

GLO #4: Quality producer: I did my best on the cheer-off and I put on wristbands carefully and with precision.

GLO #5: Effective Communicator: I told my period in advance that I was sick on Monday through Wednesday since the doctor diagnosed me with the flu and said I was good to go back on Friday.

Hey look that's My back on the left.

GLO #6: Effective and Ethical User of Technology: I used the Leadership Facebook page to be updated on what was going on while I was sick.

I feel sick and I don't want to feel sick

This week... well... I was sick for half of spirit week. Home three out of five days of the biggest event in third quarter. I was at school on Thursday. I got there late. I didn't know what to do. I still felt a bit sick. The day was actually pretty normal. I expected every day to have a huge schedule change like winter fair; this didn't happen. On Friday, I came on time. I still felt sick, as you do when you are sick. I went to the health room because I felt dizzy (even though I wasn't that dizzy.) My team won the relay race. I didn't really care about that team stuff. I've forced myself to not be competitive because it always gets me too worked up. Definitely... underwhelming because I missed half of it.

Proof I was sick

I don't really have a highlight of the week. Nothing exciting happened to me when I was there. Mr. Ing frequently mentioned to us in the past months that this would be really major. I guess my highlight is that I didn't mess up in a very consequential way. As far as I know, no one got in major trouble like what has happened in previous events, (ISA, Intramurals, etc.) at least on Thursday and Friday. A lowlight of the week would be getting sick during spirit week. I'm thinking to myself how much more I could've learned if I was there. Sadly, this is all I'm going to get out of spirit week while in leadership. Also, on the last two days of the week, I felt sick and I could barely play my French Horn. In total, I give the flu a -1/10 for persistence in resistance to my immune system.

I learned that being sick makes it super hard to do normal things like paying attention in school when you're really tired and your head hurts and sleeping would actually be more beneficial to you in the long term. Trying to play a musical instrument that uses breath is also hard when your nose is stuffed and throat is sore and it's hard to take deep breaths because you'll be breathing mucus. I kind of went on a tangent about that but its true and I missed most of the week.

Do You Believe in the Power of Science and the Scientific Method?

This week was pretty good. I had fun. I liked working in the media center on Wednesday. In science we took a personality test thing. Basically there are 4 types of personalities: Sanguine, which is basically a social person. Choleric, basically a leader who steps up to do everything. Everything in their own way, I might add. Then there's melancholy, which is antisocial and emotional but also analytical and creative. And finally there's phlegmatic. That's me. I'm laid back and funny and efficient. After learning this, I've come up with a hypothesis about leadership. I'd better make hypotheses now before spirit week comes and I'm too busy to make them. The meeting about Emily I think Wednesday morning was really confusing to me, and yet it made perfect sense at the same time. Honestly, I don't really care a whole lot. My opinion is, it didn't seem like she was doing an awful lot in Leadership, so it wouldn't make much difference if she left.  Everything else wasn't that different and exciting, at least more than normal. I'm not really going to mention those things because they really aren't worth mentioning.

A highlight of the week would be science because of the personality stuff. I really liked the personality stuff. I really wish there was a place in the blog format to explain my hypothesis. Scratch that, I just came up with an idea. Anyway, a low point for the week would be everything not worth mentioning. They're just so mundane. Why is school mundane? SCHOOL SHOUD NOT BE BORING!!!! Great. Now I'm mad that school isn't fun anymore.

I learned that school is mundane. WHY IN THE WORLD IS SCHOOL MUNDANE? WHY? WHY? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY? Also I learned that you can't stop doing something you haven't even tried to do in the first place. I really am great at this learning from other people's mistakes shtick. I AM THE MASTER OF LEARNING! but not really. Saying something is one thing. Doing it is a whole other monster entirely.

My hypothesis about leadership and the personalities inside of it put into the form of a chart.