Thursday- Christie's Perspective

When I arrived in the choir room, I was really excited. The sub we had, Mr. von Bock, was really nice and was a very good singer, which is apparently why he was named the "Singing Revolution."

"Ah, tere Christie," Mr. von Bock said as I walked in. He was standing by the white board along with two other people.

"Hi, Mr. von Bock," I answered before turning to the other two and asking, "Who are you?"

"I'm Toris Laurinaitis," said the taller of the two. "Sveiki!"

"And I'm Raivis Galante," said the shorter. "Sveiki."

"Hello," I said. "So, what are you doing here?"

"Oh, well, we just wanted to see what Eduard was doing," said Toris.

"Are you going to help Mr. von Bock teach?" I asked.

"Yes, we are," said Raivis.

"Cool!" I said, walking over to the choir stands and standing in my spot, ready for choir to start. When the tone finally toned, Mr. von Bock, Toris, and Raivis were standing in front of the class.

"So, we'll be going over the music for the musical," said Mr. von Bock, opening his music. We were doing the musical the Titanic, and it was coming up very soon. I couldn't wait for it. My dress was really pretty, and I was one of the ones to survive too! So we went over the music, getting individual parts right and working on little details, like volume and pronunciation. This took the whole hour, so the tone toned much too soon and I went to my second hour class, Geometry. When I walked in, Mr. Karpusi was fast asleep on his desk, a sleeping cat sitting on his head. Everyone else walked in, looking over to the sleeping teacher before walking to their seats. After the tone had toned, everyone turned to Mr. Karpusi as he slowly got up from his seat to teach class.

"Today…we'll be learning about sine, cosine, and…tangent…" he said, writing the words on the board in sloppy handwriting. "Your teacher left me with the…umm…abbreviation SOH-CAH-TOA. Does anyone know…what the letters stand for?"

He waited a few moments, looking around the room with sleepy eyes. When no one answered, he said, "SOH stands for Sine Opposite Hypotenuse… CAH stands for Cosine Adjacent Hypotenuse… TOA stands for Tangent Opposite Adjacent…"

He then drew a right triangle on the board, labeling the legs with x and y and the hypotenuse with z. He drew the right angle symbol by the right angle and put a θ by one of the angles.

"Now…can anyone tell me what the cosine of theta…would be?"

When no one answered, again, he said, "How about…you…" pointing to Emily.

"Umm…" Emily said, pausing for a moment before answering, "Would it be…x over z?"

"Naí…" said Mr. Karpusi, nodding his head a little. "Now what about…the sine of theta?"

"Umm, y over z?" Allison tried.

"Naí," Mr. Karpusi said again. "Now…the tangent of theta?"

"So…that should be y over x," said Kevin.

"Naí…good job everyone…" said Mr. Karpusi, writing what the sine, cosine, and tangent of theta were. "Now for some…practice…"

Mr. Karpusi passed out some worksheets and let us work on them for the rest of the hour. Some people just talked with friends since they weren't really too sure on what to do. When the tone finally toned, I had completely finished the sheet. I packed up and headed into the hall for snack, heading over to my friend Erin and talking about the musical and our teachers. When the tone signaled that break was over, I headed to my locker and grabbed my gym bag, heading to the gym for gym class. After changing, I headed out into the gym and waited with others who had come out for everyone to come out of the changing rooms. Once everyone was in the gym, Mr. Zwingli said, "Okay, run until I say stop!"

We all started to run, and run, and run, until Mr. Zwingli finally said stop. We all stood near Mr. Zwingli and stretched until Mr. Zwingli deemed us stretched enough. Everyone scrambled to get a good badminton racket before he split us into groups of four and sent us to a badminton net. I was the first person to serve, so I sent the birdie over the net and to Josh and Ryan on the other side. They hit it back to Allison and me, and so the cycle continued. After a few sets, Josh and Ryan had won by a long shot. Allison and I weren't that good at badminton… The tone thankfully toned before Josh and Ryan could increase their lead, and we quickly changed, heading off to our fourth hour classes before the tone toned again.

I just barely got into my next class, Freshman English, before the tone toned. Mr. Kirkland looked up from the book he was reading and nodded slightly, obviously mentally marking me not tardy. I quickly sat in my seat and Mr. Kirkland came to the front of the classroom with his American Literature book open.

"Open your books to page 254," he said, waiting for us to do so. "Now then, I'm sure you all know the story of Romeo and Juliet, at least vaguely."

Most heads nodded in agreement.

"Good then. So, I was thinking we could do something slightly fun with this. We won't dress up or anything, but I was thinking we could act this out," said Mr. Kirkland.

Some people in the class groaned a little, while a few looked a little excited. After all, it is something different than normal.

"Oh come now, it won't be that bad," Mr. Kirkland said to those who groaned. "So, who would like to be Romeo?"

A few hands raised, and Mr. Kirkland called on Josh to be Romeo.

"And Juliet?"

I knew I wasn't going to be Juliet. I didn't really like Josh at all. In fact, he annoyed me to no end… Annie was the one who was chosen.

"What about the nurse?"

I looked in my book to see who the nurse was and decided against that one also. Analyse was the one to take that part.

"Friar Lawrence?"

Will took that one, and so the list continued on until we had filled almost every spot. Mr. Kirkland said he would take all the parts that weren't filled.

"Now then, shall we start? Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean…"

The class continued on like this, with people reading their parts when their turn came. We had almost finished half of Act I when the tone toned, signaling fourth hour was done and fifth was about to start. I headed to the science wing and into the Physical Science classroom. Mr. Bondevik and Mr. Steilsson were standing behind the front table, arguing about something. When they saw students walking in, though, they stopped their arguing and silently waited for the tone to ring. When it did, Mr. Bondevik started class.

"We're going to be learning about the different types of stars," he said, pointing to the board which showed the different types. But Mr. Bondevik obviously wasn't a very good drawer, because most of the pictures just looked like blobs.

"What's that last one supposed to be?" Audrey asked, looking confusedly at the big blob that was apparently a supernova.

"It's a supernova," read Mr. Steilsson, smirking a little. He then muttered something, which apparently made Mr. Bondevik mad. The two teachers then started arguing in a different language until someone raised their hand.

"Ja?" Mr. Bondevik asked, turning away from Mr. Steilsson to look at Drea.

"What language are you speaking?" asked Drea.

"Norwegian," said Mr. Bondevik at the same time Mr. Steilsson said, "Icelandic."

"Anyway," said Mr. Bondevik, ignoring Mr. Steilsson now. "Let's move on."

The rest of the class period was spent going over the different types of stars, until Mr. Steilsson said something in Icelandic about Mr. Bondevik's drawings. The tone was heard over their arguing, and most people quickly started eating their lunches, trying to partially ignore the bickering teachers.

I went over to Erin and we ate lunch, laughing at jokes and things that had happened throughout the day. When the tone signaled that lunch was over, Erin and I left and headed back to the Freshman hall, spending our break there talking and laughing. When the tone toned again, I said bye to Erin and headed to Foods class. Ms. Héderváry was happily humming by one of the counters, cleaning off some fruit that we were going to cut. When the tone toned, she turned to the class and said, "Today, as you all know, we will be cutting fruit and making some dip for it."

Ms. Héderváry then showed us the proper way to cut the fruit, holding the knife away from us and making sure our hands out of the way, before letting us cut the fruit. Once we had done that, she pointed to some ingredients on her counter and said, "Those are the ingredients for the fruit dip! Come up with your bowl and mix up some delicious fruit dip!"

I walked up with my partner and we added a little bit of each ingredient to our bowl, taking it back and mixing it up with a spoon before dishing it onto the plates with the fruit. By the time we had finished everything, the tone had already toned, so I grabbed my plate of fruit and started eating it as I headed to band. I walked into the band room after grabbing my flute and sat down next to Rissy, quickly taking my flute together and explaining why I was late at the same time. I then gave her a piece of melon, of which she took a bite and gave the rest to Jess. We played through Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Undertow, and "As all the Heavens Were a Bell". By then the hour was over, and I packed up and headed outside to my mom's car, telling her all about what I did that day.

A/N: Hehe, I added something from the new season to the beginning! XD So, Christie (not her actual name…) is a Freshman and my fellow flute, which is why I decided to do this one from her perspective (and also cuz I barely know any Freshman, like, at all…)! The next chapter will be from a Sophomore's perspective, and the one after that from a Senior's, since me, Jess, and Fang are all Juniors! Anyway, sorry for the late update, I was focused on 2P HetaOni! XD I'm making a sequel to it to, just so you know! Ooh, and today is my one year anniversary on this site! XD YAY! That's why I'm updating all of my stories today! Anyway, please review, because reviews are awesome like Prussia! XD