Half Way!!

Well as the year drags on it becomes harder and harder to come up with original ideas to blog about, so unfortunately this isn’t that original. But now as the year is still quite new we start yet another semester, this is about the ninth time in our education that we have been through one of these. I think though that at the same time we probably are all quite excited that we get start new classes with a new blend of peers and friends, and most importantly in some cases new teachers. I can personally say that I am extremely happy to be done with Geography, not necessarily because of the teacher but more the subject. In my eyes Geography was more a waste of our time, because, seriously we really didn’t learn much of anything new. And yet that is just my opinion, and for some of you, you were really quite excited to be done with computer technology, and from what I’ve heard it might be because of all of the typing but I guess I will find out this semester.

Still in some of our classes this is just the mid point of the course, not that this does not make us just as happy. I mean, just think, just TWO more term projects in science!! Halleluiah!! Or, if you look at it in Honors English standards, we have only this many more blogs to do!

But now look at it in more of a sentimental way. Only half of a year more and we all get split up and sent to different schools. Most of you have been together since, oh, about first grade. Or some of you like me had never met anyone at this school before in your entire lives, and you had about one friend coming into the school and had to build from there. But I think that regardless of the situation, and regardless of what school we go to, and regardless of what we all may think now, I think that we will all be somewhat “put out” by having half of our friends go to a totally different school.

Some of us already have one and some of us are fairly close to getting one. But the half way mark in this school year shows that we are all that much closer to getting one, that is right, it is a job. But just remember that whatever you do try to do something that will always make you happy not necessarily what this man did:

Zoo Job
One day an out of work mime is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zoo keeper grabs him and drags him into his office. The zoo keeper explains to the mime that the zoo's most popular attraction, a gorilla, has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla until they can get another one. The mime accepts. So the next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes. He discovers that it's a great job. He can sleep all he wants, play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime. However, eventually the crowds tire of him and he tires of just swinging on tires. He begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition, and dangles from the top to the lion's cage. Of course, this makes the lion furious, but the crowd loves it.

At the end of the day the zoo keeper comes and gives the mime a raise for being such a good attraction. Well, this goes on for some time, the mime keeps taunting the lion, the crowds grow larger, and his salary keeps going up. Then one terrible day when he is dangling over the furious lion he slips and falls. The mime is terrified.

The lion gathers itself and prepares to pounce. The mime is so scared that he begins to run round and round the cage with the lion close behind. Finally, the mime starts screaming and yelling, "Help me, help me!", but the lion is quick and pounces. The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says,

"Shut up you idiot! Do you want to get us both fired?"