Day 4
Alright. Today. Kinda feeling crazy now, so I'll do my best. This log has been mostly events so far, but in a pseudo-stream of consciousness manner. Waking up was fine; I didn't take a shower because I had first free and would shower then. Breakfast was... oatmeal with cinnamon and raisin scones with some type of icing. I tried the oatmeal, and it was quite good. The scone was as good, but not in an oatmeal way. For morning meeting, Nick, Taylor, Patrick and I presented the Green Cup Challenge information. We're in first place of energy use per capita, and second and third in two other categories.
After showering first period, I had English class, with both Megans, Charlotte, Rachel, Taylor, David, and some other people sitting behind me [apologies! You all are loved.]. It was in the math room with Jack- a nice room and a great teacher, but the seating arrangement (four tables) isolates the class. We discussed journal keeping, and analyzed three poems about that. I apparently read ours very well; thank you Mr. Smith [My English teacher last year--the class was called Performing English]. The poem our group analyzed was about how one might write jewels when one writes a journal, and it's up to time to tell. Our homework was to write three pages in our journal (I'll probably describe Electricity by Sonic Youth), and read the Robert Frost poem people were stressing about yesterday. It might be hard (Spoiler: it kinda is but it's still understandable.).
We then had a farm seminar, before which I snacked on another scone and sat with Rachel and Charlotte who played thumb wars. The farm seminar was interesting- we mainly talked about what we wanted to learn about the farm this semester. I was drowsy. We put up four pages of goals. Environmental Science was next, where we hiked out to a site and saw in real life what we read about last night. Pat didn't tell us we could take notes until it ended, after he described the mindset of a farmer leaving large maple trees to tap for syrup. The hike back was tiring.
At least lunch was good: a hearty soup of some kind with great bread. Bruceworks for Work/Activities was next, and boy was that fun. We took the lattice off of a generator shield so people could get snow of from beside it, we installed two rows of helmet hooks using a massive hammer-drill, moved a bed from Tobold to the shop, and soldered on an extension to a pipe near the greenhouse for... some reason. I don't remember right now. I look forward to building things. Bruce is a pretty cool guy.
My next class was Precalc. It was just standard- I had [Girl who looks like the MA SNL cast member]
Jenny Slate and Rebecca Celli. No?
(I can't remember two names. Awesome.), Anika, and Lex at my table; Hallie, Rachel, David, Sam, and Megan K (a few more- I can only remember these) are also in the class. It was more sequences and series. Fun fun fun. In Spanish, we reviewed ser and estar. You better believe it. I feel really bad not being it the same situation as the Spanish 5 AP people; perhaps I could still take that course by just reading the texts they read and listening to her lectures?
Dinner was, again, good: corn, scalloped potatoes, ham, and biscuits. For the vegetarian option, THERE WAS ACTUAL SUCCOTASH. NOT JUST THE SUFFERING TYPE. I worked with Hallie on the math before and after dinner; we made some progress. I then moved to the E. Sci. room to try and get some work done with Jay, Freddy, Jake, Sam, Adrija, Hallie, and Megan B, but I did a shoddy job and was instead acting crazy, talking in weird voices and whatnot. It was a laugh riot. Now I'm back in the dorm and will finish English work after check-in, then sleep some. Tomorrow I'll do Spanish work during a free, and go to History and English, my two classes. Work some in the evening so Thursday night won't be hell.
Oh, before I forget: soldering was just insane. We had to spread the flux over the pipes, then slide the other pipes on it, heat it up with a propane torch, then at the same time take a solder wire and rub it over the joint as it melted to seal the two pipes together. I kept thinking it would burn me, partially because Bruce said it would really hurt if it did land on me. It was very fast-paced and exciting.
On a separate note... I really like the 9:30 check-in talks with Kit and Comfort or Dan. They are very fun. We recorded a sweet answering machine message afterward: “Hi, you've reached Miles Dorm, where Taylor, Rafi, David, Sam, Sam, Isaac, Jimmy, Patrick, Jake, Ian, live. We all live here.” It was another laugh riot. I wasn't even on time for the first few takes- that last one was like the fifth.
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