A Great Week

I would like to start this off by saying that this was a great week. I don’t know where to start, but I think I’ll start with my favorite event. We were dissecting cow hearts in science, and when we were done, we put all of the chopped hearts into this big garbage bag. Scott was pushing it down the aisle of desks and for some reason he picked up the whole thing and put it on Jason. Jason got really worked up and started to cry. All of a sudden, Kris, Alicia and Whitney went right past Scott to Jason. They all hugged him and Alicia strode over to Scott and hit him so hard, I’m sure you could’ve heard it in Mrs. Walker’s room. I don’t like to say that I encourage violence like that, but in this case, it just fit. I smiled. Those three could have so easily just laughed at the whole thing, but the comforted Jason instead. I was doubting earlier this month that Craig Brabant taught us any long-term lessons. Now I know I was wrong. I was so proud of them.

In every grade in jr. high, I’ve taken home ec. I didn’t necessarily like it, either, considering I was so bad at it. Mrs. Crossman didn’t make it easier by involuntarily making me feel stupid. I never really liked her much until this week. I don’t know what’s changed about her, but I just like her more. She calls me by my name and asks me if I need help. And she threatened to kill us. You wouldn’t think death threats attract a kid to a teacher, but it does, because a teacher wouldn’t really ever even hurt a kid, let alone kill one, thus showing a sense of humor. Maybe I’ve grown to know home ec. to the point where I’m not helpless and stupid at everything. Or maybe she saw that home ec.’s not my strong point. Maybe she just likes grade nines. But I like her now.

At dance, Mel was talking about starting a ‘beautiful girls’ club. Let’s just say… I avoided her for awhile. I could just hear her say, “Oh yes, a beautiful girls club. We can all join. Oh. Except you.” I sat at her table at dinner break. She told me I was beautiful. I was not expecting that. I don’t even care that she was blatantly lying; she was decent for once. I’m impressed. Math was fun today. Mrs. Terenta told us to yell. I wish I had a tape recorder. In science we got chocolate hearts for doing our dissections and Mark almost got two even though he wasn’t there. I ratted on him! In gym we played ping pong. Mark and I won all but one game. I worked on my letter in LA. Kim and I are making a site with lots of addresses for this project. I got my scrapbook back! This has been such an awesome week.