Not Qualified For This! January 23, 2008

New Term… new schedual.. new doom.

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Right now I have a foods class in my schedual. It’s not that bad I’m sure. I have decent cooking skills and all. I’m not a picky eater. So I’m trying tot alk myself into enjoying the class a bit and I walk into the room. Who ARE these people?! Not a single face I recognize.

I don’t mean no friends. I mean I’ve never seen any of these kids before. And I’m good with faces. I may not have a name for you. But I’ll remember seeing you in a class or a hallway or a friend of a friend kind of thing. where have they been hiding?! Who are they working for? and why don’t I recognize them?

It makes me very nervous. I have social issues or something. Outside of a convention I’m terrible at talking to people. Even AT a con. I don’t approach people. The only difference there is when they say hello or try to hug me, I don’t Feel the need to ask ‘what do you want with me’ and/or deck them.

So I’m put in a class with nobody I even recognize. Then put in a group. three other people I have to… socialize with… or soemthing… work with. But i don’t know them. And they’re my age…sorta. I don’t know how to talk to them. I mean… I’m kinda awkward with adults, and I’m totally fine with little kids. They like me. People my age though? Forget it, I dunno how to deal.

I don’t think I can stay in a class where I have to work this closely with classmates I don’t know. So… I’m signed up for a schedual change. :)

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On the up side. I drewa pretty decent real-life-esq sketch from a picture of my friend Matt.

Finals. January 19, 2008

My school splits the year in half. I have hour and a half long classes. four a day. I like that schedual personally. ^^

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Well… first half is over. I only had one class with a final (being a senior and being a lazy fart, I didn’t take too many ‘real’ classes) Real classes being a class that takes a whole half. I took mostly quarter classes and they don’t have a giant end-all final. they’re educational.. just not final-oriented.

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My one and only final was my English class.. I like english actually… and I loved my teacher this year. She’s pretty cool and very laid-back about how you do her assignments. i mean you can’t go off and do a crappy job. but if you go a little off what she told you to do and still do a good job at it, she doesn’t mark off for straying on the topic.

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My final was to give an oral presentation about any piece from my anthology project I passed in earlier in the year. Most kids did songs or poems so that they could fill time by analyzing them. I decided I wanted to do mine on my excerpt from LOTR.

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but I couldn’t find a way to talk about that book or J R R Tolkien for 8 minutes and keep the class interested. Soooo… I decided to ramble on about how he made languages for the books. I had to have a visual of some sort so i wrote out names in the language.

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Eveyone thought it was interesting and I got a B… wheeeeeee So… I might actually get a good grade this term… it’s quite magical. XD

School Snow Nicknames and MOAR December 8, 2007

So… I finished* my DPHS site. I worked most of the kinks out (unless you’re looking at it on an uber laptop screen). And my DC teacher left me a message on the courseware asking if I’d like to make designs for all the other schools in the district. :: dances :: I feel so cool! XDD

*By finished I obviously mean it has all the pages but two of them have nothing on them because freewebs won’t let me. ^.^

It SNOWEEEDDDD not on my birthday… but the day afteer! that’s good enough for me! I had a small birthday party with friends and family at my mothers house yesterday. it was fun… we made sketti and sauce.. and had cake and ice cream.. and my friends actually hauled themselves out to my moms town in the snow for meee XD.

The boy had to leave early though because his little sibling had to go to bed by nine. Ah well. And now i have said little siblings socks in my backpack to give the boy next time i see him… cause the little one left them in Connors room. XD Go little kids haha.

Also… I guess my name is kinda strange eh? Welps. I got my nickname when I was in 6th grade and it’s followed me through school and a move to a new town. :: grins :: even the boy calls me it half the time. Alrighty. In 6th grade I had a friend named Rin. Well… I can’t remember her regular name now. I called her Rin. And I was WAYYY in to anime. Like REALLY. I’m nowhere near as bad now. Anywahhhy. She decided I should have a japanese nickname one day. At the time I was madly obsessed with Inuyasha. So I wanted the word Inu in my name. Inu means dog. And since I was always pretty short amongst my friends then. So she put Ki in the front of it. Telling me it meant cute. gahaha… not.

But ya know… 12 year olds and other languages aren’t always reliable. It really Means Energy. My nickname is really a strange mixture of the two words Ki and Inu. KiInu.. but nobody who reads it can ever pronounce it as two words for some reason. and over the years it’s just become Kiinu. And nost people just pronounce it Kee-noo now… heck even I do. but back then it started at Key-In-Oo.. threee syllables XD

It’s mutated into Kiinu over the years and I’m alright ith that XD So now you all know. KiinuNoBaka really just means Stupid Kiinu or… Kiinu has lots of Stupid. directly… XD

Annd… moar? hmm.. I have a pet bunny and Rat now… we’re just adding to our strange mixture of animals… the house is becomming noahs ark almost… Just gotta convince mom to let me have a bat… BUAHAHAHAHA it’ll never happen

Kiinu is an Experiment! August 29, 2007

Today was my first day of school. My senior year. w00t! I get a ride this year that isn’t the bus… yey!

MY homeroom was changed… which was weird… but I got moved to the library.. Because of the Digital Communicats class I took. As it turns out. That class is an experiment about intergrating online courses into highschools.

The point of the whole thing is to prove that we as students CAN learn off eachother witout a teacher leaning down our throats. That the web can be used to help us learn better. So over the course of this year 22 sudents will be enrolled in this course online without a teacher watching them.

We’re allowed to learn whatever we please, however we please. Just because it’s the first try. They’ve basically given us our own server with blogging capabilities and a forum. Our job is to learn how to best use our server. The best way to post blogs and the best way to post in the forums. How to post pictures there. And eventually, how to post up podcasts and videos onto it.

Our ‘assignments’ are to keep a blog and a personal word document journal about how we figured each thing out. even if we just learned it off of one of the other students who possted earlier in the day. we just copy their instructions and cite them with their username.

So we’re hopefully proving that students can learn off eachother without having to be in the same place at the same time with a teacher preaching to them and making them take notes. That we don’tNEED to be at school to learn. That the internet can be used for good. And that in a few years we can hopefully learregular courses on the site. But for now it’s just for our technology classes… and only a select few of them too.

But If I get an A or a B my name get’s put on one of those plaques on the wall that nobody ever reads… though it’ll still be cool to be on one. XD