All Good Things Must Come To An End

I have absolutely nothing to write about! With the year’s end creeping closer my ideas are running out and this may very well be my final blog post. Right now, at this very second in time, 8:56 am on May 25^th 2012 I am amongst my classmates as we all struggle desperately to finish our blog post requirements for the year. Everyone, except for three students, is arching over their computer screens either writing their blog posts of pretending to do so. For some of us it is overjoying to think that this post may be our last, while others silently mourn about how this is their last post, and of course we have those that are barley starting to write their first of three blog posts with the excuse that “I have all weekend to work on it”.

Every so often there is a beep from a Facebook message reaching a student who has forgotten to mute their computer followed by everyone else looking at the bottom right of their screen, double checking that they have not made the same mistake. However, all the students seem to be working appropriately despite the secret Facebook tab amongst the various others: Blog Ideas for Dummies and Blogger.com. But now, seeing as I have reached the word count requirement for the blog post I guess I will say my final goodbyes. It has been a good year and I have posted lots of acceptable work and honestly I am quite proud of this blog, but all good things must come to an end right? So goodbye, and remember…

Just Follow the Yellow Brick Road

FINALS Approch

The year is coming to a rapid close, projects are approaching deadlines and the anticipation of finals is in the air. As dead week creeps closer the questions about the finals begin to emerge, some students are going mad with questions. What will be on the test? Will we need to know Malaysia? Can you give us a study guide? But of course with a variety of questions comes a variety of answers from teachers. Some give us detailed descriptions of the test, some simply say “The test will be made for you,” and others like to leave it as a “surprise”.

Your never know, stress could lead to this!

The stories of last year’s finals also begin to arise from the higher ups in the student hierarchy. “The English final will leave your fingers twitching with pain” and “Half the class cried after the Math final last year” they say with a dead serious tone, it’s quite scary. The idea of such a magnitude that it can ruin your grades if failed is poisoning to a 9^th grade mind you know. It fills us up with terrifying thoughts of failing the test. However, everyone knows in the back of their mind that when we all approach the lined up desks in the fluorescently lighted room we are all going to be fine; and although everyone’s eyes dash back and forth trying to read the emotions of our companions, in the end we are all going to be relieved and believe me, there is no better feeling.

The Scorch Trials

Lately I have not been reading very much independently and honestly, its technology’s fault. I will just admit it now; I am weak when it comes to the temptation of technology, so naturally the desire to read is suppressed by this temptation. Fortunately I have read a variety of books anyways amongst them is The Scorch Trials. The Scorch Trials is a continuation of a book in my previous posts, The Maze Runner. The Scorch Trials begins with the same characters as in the Maze Runner; however, they find themselves once again in another life or death situation in which they are the guinea pigs for a scientific experiment meant to “save the world” from certain destruction. The kids in the story, having been thrown into a barren waste land of dust and the scorching sun must work together to get through the Scorch Trials alive.

The book was interesting to read, yet does not rank very high if I had a list of my favorite books. It was a book with a tremendous amount of mystery to it, maybe too much of it? It was because of this huge amount of mystery that the beginning seemed boring and confusing; however, as the book picked up it was full of climatic moments and intriguing scenes. Overall, I enjoyed the book but I think that it could have been much more interesting with less of a mystery factor to it.