April 29, 2010

Long Term Substitute Teachers Should Not Exist

Long-term subs have to be the worst thing on the planet. My Honors Research Paper class just got one since our teacher (Mrs. Kummerer) is out getting surgery. I don't even know our sub's name. I do know that this is her first ever teaching job, that she is trying to be our friend and not our teacher, and she has taught me nothing. She gives us about 5 minutes of work and then claims that's all she had planned for the day so the rest of the period we just do whatever we want. We just had a test and we never went over or read some of the material. Plus! She talks so quiet that I can hear a word she says. I look around the room and just see people randomly turning pages in their books. My English class has become a joke. We blow bubbles, Matt played guitar one day, no learning happening. At all.



Because of this English class we are all going to become mullet sporting, uneducated fools. I can barely read anymore! I thought my shirt said "So Fierce" today, it definately says "So Fresh". My education is at a stand still!

April 28, 2010

Floor-duh.

So recently I just got back from Disney World for my senior class trip. It was seriously so much fun. I roomed with Kim, Kellso, and Molly and at first I barely knew them at all, but by the end of our 5 days in Florida, we were all good friends. We stayed up late, goofed off, ate lots and lots of food, and managed to piss each other off.

When we got to the Philly airport, it was about 4:30 in the morning and all of us loaded up on coffee, tea, and junk food. None of us knew where we were going, what we were doing, or who we wante dto sit by on the plane. That's probablly mostly because of the exhaustion. Seating arrangements in the airport alone were difficult. We had to sit in the seats at the gate next to ours and we all tried to fit on one row of seats, since they were the only seats left. We were a little squished.



Once we finally made it onto the plane, I wasn't sitting with any of my roomates. I ended up in the same row as Ryan and Dan, but it worked out just fine. Ryan fell asleep and Dan drew pictures of people sitting around us. I thought I would sleep the entire flight, but there was no way that was going to happen.

As soon as we landed we all got on our buses and headed straight for Epcot. We all looked and felt disgusting, but no one cared, we were finally in Florida.



During the first day we rode all the rides at Epcot, even the horrible ones like Honey I Shrunk the Audience, which Tara later re-named "Honey I Shrunk my Dick" and then we made it to MGM, which is now called Hollywood Studios. We managed to ride Tower of Terror 9 times that day and befriend some of the workers, such as, Christian, Giovanni, and Chris.

The next day we started off at Magic Kingdom, rode the typical rides like Space Mountain (twice) and then a water ride. I still think the castle is the best part of Magic Kingdom.



After doing all we could at Magic Kingdom, we went over to Animal Kingdom, which turned out to be my favorite park. We went on the safari, and rode a couple rides including the new Mt. Everest ride (While it was raining) and the Dinosaur ride that basically made me pee my pants. While on Mt. Everest for the 3rd time, it started to rain while we were in line. None of us really thought anything of it until we were locked in on the ride and it started to downpour. This rollercoaster quickly turned into a water ride and none of us were wearing clothes appropriate for water rides. As soon as we got off the ride, it stopped raining, completely. So we all went immediately for the bathroom. 7 girls fit inside the companion bathroom as Ryan patiently waited outside. Then while Joy was on the toliet, someone decided it would be a good time to take a picture, so they called Ryan over to take the picture and Tara and I ran over and sat on Joy's lap to cover her up. That picture is one big mess of wet clothes and runny make up.



I can't even begin to explain how often we were riding the buses to get from park to park. It kind of got old after a while. The whole not being able to find a seat and then when you did find a seat it was next to weird people you didnt know and small child that liked to poke you and make crazy faces at you as their parents yelled. It started to become rather unpleasant.



The third day we all went to water parks. The group I was hanging out with decided to go to Typhoon Lagoon. Molly didn't know the name of Typhoon Lagoon and called it Tampoon Lagoon, so we forever called it that. After water slides that gave us major wedgies, seeing way too many speedos, waiting way too long in line for lunch, and almost drowning in the wave pool, we wanted to go back to animal kingdom and ride Mt. Everest and Dinosaur again. However, from Tampoon Lagoon, you can only take buses back to resorts. So we would have to take a bus back to our resort to get on another bus to get over to animal kingdom. Someone in our group then decided it was a good idea to get on the first bus we saw and then get off at that random resort to get on a bus for animal kingdom. So we did that. We got lost, ended up riding the bus for a half hour and ended up at Saratoga Springs. As we got to one of the stops at Saratoga Springs, I noticed the bus infront of us said it was going to Animal Kingdom. So I yelled "ANIMAL KINGDOM BUS IN FRONT OF US!!!" and as soon as our bus stopped we ran off our bus to get onto the Animal Kingdom bus, scared we were going to miss it. Strangely, as we were running off our bus to get onto the Animal Kingdom bus, a BUNCH of kids from our school were running onto the bus we ran off of. As all of us were running, the two groups of us just yelled "boyertown!!" and kept running.

Later that night, we all went to Medievil Times, ate lots of food, cheered on our knights, yelled at Mike Lacek, and had a dance party. I don't think I have ever had that much fun there before. Especially when Felicia followed a boy into the bathroom by accident.



Day 4 of Florida, our entire senior class went to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. We rode as many rides as we could since we were only going to be there for one day. Unfortunately, Harry Potter wasn't open yet, but we still managed to enjoy ourselves. When we made it over to Univeral Studios (we did Islands of Adventure first) we wanted to ride the new rollercoaster Rock It. When we got to the line, the wait was 90 minutes, so we decided to do everything else and then come back to it at the end. We rode everything from the Mummy to Jaws. Then when the night was almost over we all grabbed hands and ran through the park because the parade was starting and we didn't want to get caught in the middle. We ran, almost took out a wheelchair, jumped over barracades, and when we got to the ride at 7:59, they wouldn't let us on. The ride closed at 8 and we just missed it. Disappointed we decided to get some ice cream, but little did we know, the shops all closed at 8 as well. So we all ran to the Hard Rock, got a table as quickly as possible, ordered ice cream, scarfed it down threw money on the table and ran out. We needed to be on the buses at 9, we made it there at 8:59. Record time.

Day 5 in Florida we only had a little bit of time left to be at the parks since we all had to catch our flights home later. So we all split up. Tara, Joy, Kim, and I went back to Animal Kingdom and then to MGM to ride Tower of Terror for a grand total of 16 times. As our fun at the parks came to an end, it started to downpour completely and none of us could change clothes because there was no way we could get to our luggage. When we all got onto the buses to go to the airport, all of us were soaked and tired and whining about having to ride the plane wearing soaking wet clothes, but there was nothing we could do. Once we got on the plane, I once again didn't end up with my roomates or anyone I spent time with. I was squished between Ryan and Joey. I ended up falling asleep on Joey which was really awkward since Joey and I had only met one time before that.

Finally we got back to Boyertown and Ryan took me home. It was midnight and I was tired, so I threw my luggage on my floor and fell asleep. I had school the next day.
Eventhough my roomates and I got on each other's nerves, there was some drama, and we saw men in speedos that should never wear sepeedos, Florida had to be one of the best times of my life.