It has been snowing a lot here this past week, and getting colder, which has made walking to and from the bus each day quite annoying. I have been thinking of making a video or something walking around outside, just to show my faraway friends what everything looks like. Maybe I will do it this weekend if I have some time or feel like procrastinating.
We are slowly finishing up our first semester, and I feel like each day is just dragging on. Exams are a little over 2 weeks away, and even though I don't want to write them I want them to come faster and be over with. I don't particularly enjoy that we have to return after Christmas break to the same classes and routine. I would much rather begin second semester now, since it is a new year and everything.
Well Adam, I hope all of your traveling went well and that you didn't miss a flight or take a wrong bus. Germany sounds like an interesting place, especially if you've got friends there to show you around and hang out with. Hopefully you will take some video while you are there. It would be cool to get to see some of your adventure.
I agree with your points, Kayla, and still truly believe that Ron is a Gryffindor. I think that I was more thinking along the lines of if he could be in a different house, as opposed to if he deserved his place. I mean, without a doubt he a Gryffindor, but there are some good points to be made that he could belong somewhere else. Then again, that could be said about anyone, as people aren't really defined by only one trait. Of your reasons though, I think the Yule Ball robes was my favourite.
Congratulations on your grades, Katie. It sounds like you worked hard, especially in history considering your mid-course transfer. I liked the elephant fun facts. Here is another: elephants prefer one tusk over the other, just as people are either left or right-handed.
Good work on your grades as well, Kate. Hopefully mine turn out as well as yours. Don't worry too much about chemistry, it sounds difficult but it usually isn't.
Robotics sounds really fun, Kira. I hope you make a really awesome one and win some tournament that I am assuming you are going to enter. As for Percy, I think he belongs where he is, just like Ron. While he may be cowardly at times, and not trust in what he is told, he did go back to his family in the end and apologise. I think that would take a lot of courage, especially since he left them in such an important time, and the family is so big I would be scared of them. I did a bucket list for my tenth grade careers studies class, but the stuff that I put on it was more interesting things that I would like to see, not really things I want to do. I think that making an actual list to follow would be tough, especially if you weren't able to complete something. I am the kind of person who likes to cross things off a list, and be able to say that I have finished them, so that fear would bother me. I think I would prefer short-term lists.
Campion, congrats on passing your year. I was quite confused at first that you have received results for last year, but then I remembered that your system is different than ours. It seemed weird that they would let you do an entire half year of school before telling you if you had passed the previous year. I hope you are enjoying your time off, despite being sick and all. Feel better!
As for the question on time travel, I think it would be extremely fun if it were possible, but there are too many possible repercussions. Every action, no matter how minuscule, would have a consequence that could change history. I mean, eating an apple in the 1600s might result in you not being born. It could have been the apple that saved your ancestors life, or the reason they met their significant other. Like John says, "If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless." As much as I would love time travel, I would be too afraid of messing something up.
The contact lenses with Internet sounded really cool, but I'm not quite sure how I would feel if they were real. Like anything, they would be a great technology, but would be put to evil uses fairly quickly. We would end up using them in war, and even against each other. While the idea of knowing everything about a person before even knowing them might be nice at times, I think I am still too much of a fan of spontaneity and chance for that. Getting to know someone would take on a different meaning, and nothing would be private anymore. Also, as a last thought, I don't like the idea of putting regular contacts on (which is why I have been wearing glasses for almost five years).
I hope you all had great weeks, and that your weekends are fantastical and funfilled. Don't forget to be awesome!
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