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Today was more enjoyable than most days are. So during science, Carol and I made paper cranes and then during pottery, as I didn't want to crush them, I had them out on my table while I was glazing my pot. Ms. Muise saw them and she has paper and is going to give Katy and me a pass to go someplace and make a huge paper crane tomorrow during class. So that makes me look forward to pottery tomorrow.

Then, after gym, we were standing around outside in the courtyard waiting for the bell to ring so we could go to lunch. Steve and John, for some reason, were racing each other across the courtyard and Steve slipped and slid into the door. The joys of momentum. I laughed, and I know that that's cruel, but it's schadenfreude.

We ate outside, as it was beautiful today, with a bunch of people and talked.

During english, we painted and it was fun.

History we had a fake peace conference and although it was stupid and unrealistic, it was more fun than normal class. Plus my group spent much of the time we were supposed to be using to prepare for it, talking about our hatred of k4 and chebator.

Spanish, k4 was talking about what led up to the spanish civil war. And it actually was interesting, although she kept making mistakes. It's not 'communistic' it's 'communist', it's not 'turkian' it's 'turkish'. She also defined a republic as a group of men ruling a country. A republic is a representative government not anything else. She was saying that the U.S. started out as a republic and is a democracy now, not a republic. A democracy is a republic and we aren't a democracy anyways. She also said that a republic could be the same as a communist society but wasn't always. And her english grammar is atrocious, but that's true any day. So history and spanish were more bearable than they normally are.

After school, everyone was outside and it was fun. We played monkey in the middle with like 15 people. 3 or 4 people were in the middle at a time and everyone else was around them. If you had the ball and you were tagged by someone in the middle, than you were in the middle. And if someone in the middle intercepted the ball when you threw it, you were in the middle. It was fun and we played it for a while until Dan threw the ball backwards into Mattie's nose, which started to bleed, so we stopped. A little while later, someone from a building across the street came over to tell us that someone had called the police for some reason. Hanny and Cyrus had been sparring for a little while, but they were sparring, not trying to kill each other, not that someone across the street would be able to tell. So everyone split up and Hannie left. Most of us stayed trying to look innocent when the police did show up. Only one cop came - not like that Carol; I'm not talking about fake! - and he left after talking to some teacher for a little while.

And my only homework is to study for history, like I'm going to do that.

Date: 2005-03-31 03:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cbizkit.livejournal.com
OMFG they might have called the police because of the track kids running around. We're in violation of some school-board thingie's decision that we can't run in front of the school... XD

Date: 2005-03-31 03:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meorae.livejournal.com
Ok. Well the person from across the street came over to us and I assumed that was because we were the ones that caused the person to call the police.

Plus the policeman didn't come over to any of the track people. And people were still running in front of the school.

Date: 2005-03-31 06:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cbizkit.livejournal.com
Why would someone call the police because of kids throwing a ball around?

Well, I guess it'll be in the police report. Hah.

Date: 2005-03-31 06:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meorae.livejournal.com
It could hit someone! No idea. But Cyrus and Hanny were sparring, so it might have looked like a fight.

And it will be in the police report.

Date: 2005-03-31 06:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arsinyk.livejournal.com
A republic isn't the same as a democracy. In a democracy, everyone votes on everything. In a republic, everyone votes on representatives who then make decisions. (Omg, I just got that the root is 'public'. *slow*) Anyways, the US is a democratic republic or something like that. We were never an actual democracy because the founding fathers didn't know whether this was going to work *at all* and wanted a sort of safety guard against a total collapse of the government if the people actually *couldn't* govern themselves. It's also way to hard to count the votes of everyone in the county for *every* law. And now we never will be a democracy because 1) no one has the time to put that much thought into the issues and 2) we are ruled by power-hungry politicians who don't want to lose their powerpositions.

Of course, all of this is remembered from 6th grade so it might not be entirely accurate.

Date: 2005-03-31 07:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meorae.livejournal.com
From what I remember, from 6th grade also, the definition of a republic is just a representative government and that a democracy is automatically a republic because it is representative of the people in the society. I agree with everything else you said though. And either or both of our memories could be off, but what k4 said was wrong.

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