Rocket Man

Hey! So both Amanda and I are in seventh period, again and it is going as usual. "Edgar" is on his computer, his one ear phone in his left ear and he is obnoxiously chewing his gum and getting really into his Youtube and sports videos. You know just the normal day. "Wiz" is listening to Wiz Khalifa (as usual) and staring at Amanda and me/the computer screen as we type this. Mr. G is in his office, doing work and preparing for his "graduation" from high school and everyone else is either on the computers or sitting around talking about something I can't quite make out. Such an enjoyable class...Oh, wait.

Nothing has really happened to either Amanda or I since the start of the day. It's been pretty boring except for fifth period. Now, Our fifth period teacher is one of our favorite teachers, and that's speaking for both of us. His name is Mr. "Bradbury" and he is very funny, quirky, smart, and outspoken. He enjoys reading stories to the class, for example today: Mr. Bradbury decided today was the ideal day to read to his fifth period class one of his favorite stories Rocket Man. Rocket Man is a very inspirational story about a young boy who wants to be like his father but his father and mother don't want him to be a rocket man. Mr. Bradbury's response to what the father and mother are preventing for the boy is this, "do what you want to do and be happy with what you do." (Not quoted exactly.)

The end of the year is coming up, and (unfortunately) we have final exams. One of the hardest exams, at least for Sarah and me (yes---the writer has changed) would definitely be English. It just so happens that Mr. Bradbury is our English teacher. Him, being his funny self, spent a good ten minutes in class telling us about all the things we should NOT do on the writing portion of the exams. For example: "Do not write: the authors word make an image in my head---yes of course, they are words, that is what they are supposed to do". He then told us to make sure that our paragraph responses were not the same length as our essay (5 sentence paragraphs, and then 6 sentence essays---each paragraph within the essay to be about a sentence). The sad thing is, he told us that people actually turn in essays like that...wow.

XOXO
Sarah and Amanda