Preseason Picks and High Five
Yesterday we made our annual showing on High Five. Our team of Colin, Max, Ted, Jonathan, Kiva, Khalid, and I routed the opposition from Kelso (somewhere in Washington, I'm told), finishing with about 2350 against their 2020. It was pretty fun, we won some free stuff that I will probably never use, and it forced me to stay up until about 2 AM doing spanish homework. I'm pretty sure that I have written more in spanish class this year than I have in english. That says a lot about both classes.
In other moderately interesting news, it turns out that the speech and debate portion of the OSAA is self-absorbed enough to have a coaches' poll to rate the various teams at the beginning of the year, much like you would expect in football or basketball. But remember, this is speech and debate. It turns out that we were rated first and favored to win the state tournament in our dear, rainy state. That's fine and dandy, but it would be awfully embarrassing if we lost, now wouldn't it?
One last bit of humor: So there is a new activities director at Wilson this year. He's a little odd, particularly vague when dealing with financial matters, and atrocious at estimating market demand. First, he wanted to buy 100 license plate frames to resell for $20 each. Would you pay $20 for a license plate frame?--much less one with your high school name emblazoned on it? I think not. Now he's organizing this trip for 15 people from leadership to this conference at the beach. He decided to rent two "huge" houses for everyone. One day he said, "Well, I've got these two huge houses that'll fit everyone; they're costing us like, like, $1200." The next day: "Well, I've got these two huge houses that'll fit everyone; they're costing us like, like, $1400." Inflation must really be out of control after all.
That's nearly $100 a pop.
Too bad we didn't get the fly question correct, or else our score would have been 120 points higher. My guess would have been fruit fly (also incorrect).
I actually think the licence plate frames wouldn't be that bad of an idea. Marketing them to the students would be, but I'm sure plenty of parents would buy them. And I think a bunch of us are going to talk to Sra. Flores on Monday to have her complain to Coleman about the workload. You should join us.
I knew that mayflies only lived for less than a day in their adult form, but didn't think they were only talking about that. That makes me mad at myself.
You whiners. Spanish 9-10 is easy. You've gotten used to spanish homework that takes 5 minutes a night and now it takes like...10, 15 maybe. And you have to write essays, but those are what actually improve your composition ability. Anyhow, just do your work.
Generally speaking, I agree. This assignment in particular though, was particularly unpleasant and involved writing roughly 4 pages on the "common errors and pitfalls" of Spanish.