Remember to Remember On Remembrance Day

Hehe. The title was a little inside joke between some giftees at my old school (invented by halalcohol and Yaning over at Giftees United. They are clever ones, and I must mention them both or else WWIII may start... :)

Today, I proudly wore my Scouts uniform to school, because it is remembrance day, and it is customary of scouts, girl guides, and cadets to wear their uniforms as a sign of respect on this day. To be honest, I actually only wore it because my mother (the infamous scout leader) told my brother and I to do so. Unlike him, I didn't have enough energy to carry out a shouting match this morning, plus I'm smart enough to know that my mother would eventually win anyways (and she did, he wore the uniform to school).

I felt like an animal in a zoo, because there was a significant amount of gawking at first, but after a while, I got used to it. As a matter of fact, many people even had questions to ask about the whole scouting program, which I, of course, happily answered.

I had to stand up in 2 classes to "show the class" the uniform. It was kind of embarrasing, but on the plus side, I did learn that Mr. Arkin used to be a scout! Until he became allergic to the wool uniform...but that's another story ;)

Speaking of which, computers class today consisted of going over the  integer addition program we were supposed to create (with accumulators and counters), and creating model answers for the test.

Okay, okay. You caught me. I've been avoiding the subject of the test like I avoid Twilight (ewwwwwwww!) and so no more stalling. Here we go...hold on, let me go eat my dinner first. And study geography. And tie my shoe (wait, I have no shoes on...). 

Just kidding! I did alright, but not the best I could have done. The mark was pretty saddening...a mere 79-point-something that doesn't even round to 80! I hate  not round numbers. :( Oh well. The reason for all the marks I lost was that I didn't properly read the questions. And so I proceeded to lose easy marks by skipping over parts of questions, and not reading instructions such as "Do not include the documentation template." That cost me precious time I could have used to double or even triple check my work.

I'm also a bit of a worry wart, and I often have issues thinking under pressure. Therefore, projects are my forte, not tests. But with more practice, I can always change the dynamics (haha, dynamics, forte, get it?)

Last post score

And so my final word, like that last post (which the trumpet player played amazingly, her tone was just so pure, and trust me, it is hard to play the trumpet, and yes, I do admit it, Brandon, if you ever read this, and yes, I should stop going on and on inside parentheses), is that I have officially given up on the 100% average dream. 

Let me clarify; before 9th grade started, I read in the newspaper that several students in an IB school in Mississauga managed 100% averages. Ever since school started, I'd been trying to achieve that as well. With my 96% French mark, my (hopefully) 90-something music mark, my 90-something geography mark, and now my really-low-80s computers mark, it's safe to say the dream is over. Until next year, at least. Well that's that. Until tomorrow!

Grace-sadface

P.S. Our geography teacher showed us this really cool website where you can see if WWI and WWII veterans lived in your house (or close to it!). Take a look!