Schule

Ja, Schule war gut.

I'm in a German mood. Today in Deutsch class, we learned tongue twisters-or tongue breakers as they're called in German. Herr Baldwin was asking who should say them out loud for the whole class to hear and this German exchange student in class started yelling, "Bianka! Bianka!" I'm not sure why. He wasn't even looking at me when he said it. Bottom line: I had to read the tongue twister auf Deutsch. It was something like, "Fritz fischt frische Fisch, frische Fische fischt Fritz." So basically Fritz is fishing for fresh fish. It reminded me of the Dr. Seuss' tongue-twister book.

I'm liking German right now. It's fun and Herr Baldwin is my favorite teacher. Ever. Second only to Madame Bryant. She's hard to top. Like our last year AP Euro class. Bryen won't admit it, but she knows we are her favorite/best AP Euro class. Ever.

AP Stats is pretty good. Dinkelmann is an old guy trying to act like a teenager and I really don't like him. Payton is OK but it's his first year teaching AP Stats so he's not very good at it at the moment.

Volanksky is a nut. I have this really odd sensation that every time she talks, I'm reminded of someone I know/knew but I can't quite put my thumb on it. It's annoying me so much.

Psychology is interesting, to say the least. I like Bonner but the people in the class are not the best. I'll survive though.

On a side-note, I hate 200 IM's.

My Lunchbox

Do you guys like my new lunchbox?

So Yeah

Summer is almost over and I feel like everyone is blogging about school, their schedules, nostalgic summer feelings, etc. But I don't even have my schedule and I'm not feeling very nostalgic.

I'm excited for school to start. The part I'm most excited about? Quiz Bowl (duh).

Time for a ridiculous, eye-rolling-worthy story about a fond memory:

Once upon a time, I was a freshman. We had a seminar about different school clubs that were available. So I go and I visit the "quiz bowl" booth. I had read about quiz bowl in this great book called The View from Saturday and it sparked my interest. That was the first time I saw him.

Robert.

He's a legend, something any quiz bowler would aspire to. Even though he's gone, we still remember him. Even Peter isn't that good.

Anyway.

So I talked to Robert and considered joining quiz bowl. My friend Samantha went to the first meeting but I didn't. I think I was afraid. Quiz bowl is pretty intimidating. (Psh.) She told me she wasn't sure if she was going to do it for sure so then I doubted my interest. Silly me, I wanted a friend to join with me. But I went to the second meeting and I liked it. Mr. Baker was/is great. It was everything and more I had hoped it would be. So I joined.

To be quite honest, quiz bowl is probably one of the best decisions I ever made. It opened up new dimensions for me. It was quite the eye-opening occasion and being the nerdy geek I am, I love every minute of quiz bowl.