School sucks after a summer of ctyi...

doonothing

hmm.. im almost sure thats something the mulliman said. but ok, if it isnt, i apologise again.

Hugh Hefner

I set off the fire alarm in school today (unintentionally). It was kinda cool.

mentalimplosion

'girls, has everyone here seen the sound of music?'
'yes, but i didn't understand it...'

'ok girls, that there is a male member of the dominican order'
'IS HE A NUN? WHY IS HE WEARING A SKIRT?'

i retract the statement about not having complete tools in my class.

Undergod

But let's not forget- teachers can be dozy too.
Today we saw a misspelling of "hepatitis" when it was written correctly in front of her. And haemorrhage now, seemingly, has an L in it.
In the past, hyperbole has become 'hyper-bowl' <cue us mimciking American football with star trek noises>.
Some of the material we work with is bad as well. Today we got a full stop in the middle. Of a sentence for no reason.

StupidLikeAFox

yeah, one of my old teachers thought criminals were kept in a ''prision'' and tried to spell transvestite 4 times before eventually settling for ''she-male''

Undergod

Illiterate and offensive! Winning combination!

StupidLikeAFox

oh and she wrote ''point of budwieser - €4'' when dealing with alcohol prices, and was adament there was no mistake, quoting the ad ''get the point, not the points'' in her defence. Yes, the fantastic irish education system.

In another class, we counted down the new year, completely spontaneous, at the top of our voices-
''10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!''
......in the middle of April

Good times.......

Barry Aldwell

ColHol wrote:

In another class, we counted down the new year, completely spontaneous, at the top of our voices-
''10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!''
......in the middle of April

Good times.......

Good luck in your Leaving Cert. You'll need it

StupidLikeAFox

Thanks mate, your a true gentleman

alaskagirl

school will never match up to ctyi. the classes arent as interesting. especially the compulsory ones (like alaska studies and lifetime personal fitness). the food there makes me fat if i eat it because only greasy, stereotypically american food is available for sale at incredibly high prices in the cafeteria (i always lost weight at ctyi cuz of the really undelicious food, which i sincerely miss griping about). worst, its way harder for normal people to get some play. it seems like the really ugly people and the really really skanky people are the only ones who ever get any action. and normal, wonderful, quirky people are just too inhibited or something to meet someone at a dance. plus its against the rules.

now that ive said lots of superficial sounding things that make me sound really obviously american...
school is actually alright. my friends are there, i have a few decent teachers, and now that im a senior i can get away with lots of stuff, like coming in for first hour late nearly every day and not getting detention, and filming mister potato head dolls using the urinals in the boys' bathroom during biology class, and leaving school when i want.

that said, school is definitely way not cool compared to ctyi. i miss ctyi. i want to go back. ive never forgiven my parents for not letting me go to my last year before i got too old. and im definitely coming back as an ra.

you guys are lucky, you actually CAN take a bus or train or whatever to see your friends. i only know ONE person in alaska who has been to ctyi. granted, we are good friends, but it's way not as good as being able to go to a reunion or take a weekend trip to visit other friends from ctyi.

i miss ctyi.

-clare

Undergod

alaskagirl wrote:

...alaska studies...

some things are really strange if you look at them the right way.

Raphael

Not really. We study Irish as a cumpulsory subject, why shouldn't alaskainians study their culture

StupidLikeAFox

Do alaskans have much of a history to study? just curious, i always viewed alaska as a sort of sahara desert covered in snow. Is there much in it?

Raphael

Sodomy non Sapiens Mr. Holligan, but I'm sure they can find SOMETHING to teach. Departments of Education have a knack for that

It wasn't me!

The bastards!

Raphael

Verily

freakydeadgirl

you think the post-ctyi slump is bad now. wait till you're a nevermore like me and can't go BACK.
it didn't help last week when i got the letter about the 2005 summer dates..
**sigh and depressed mutterings**

alaskagirl

although alaska isnt the sahara snow desert, nevermoreness yotally is. actually i live in a city of about 300,000 people. its not so sahara-y. and alaska studies is lame precisely for the reason that you stated:alaska has very little history. well, it has little history as a state, but lots and lots and lots of really annoying stuff to learn about russians ( who owned us before the usa) and native alaskans (who are like the rest of america's natives, but they have more seal and whale ceremonies and words for snow). the reason we have to take alaska studies is because some boys paintballed a native woman while she was walking down the street a couple of years ago, and so the district decided that we were ignorant about alaska natives and that we should be forced to spend time learning about them so that people wouldnt paintball them. seriously, its like having to have a black cultures class because someone abused a black person, or a 'homosexual history' class because they are not accepted by some people. its imposssible to be completely politically correct as a school district, and although i know that knowledge is key to accepting people, i dont think that mandatory classes will cut down on native abuse. some people are just going to be prejudiced and they wont be changed by a class at school, and others who are not prejudiced have better things to do, like learn how to speak english or do simple maths, both of which we obviously have a problem with, seeing as no schools are up to president bush's "no child left behind" plan, which he has left out in the cold and direly underfunded.

i want to get out of this country. who will take me away from here? help! now that he has been reelected he can do anything he wants and ignore all of his promises because he doesnt have to worry about being elected again!
thank goodness for australian citizenship.

and thats my tired rant for tonight.

Undergod

alaskagirl wrote:

...little history as a state, but lots and lots and lots of really annoying stuff to learn about russians ( who owned us before the usa) and native alaskans (who are like the rest of america's natives, but they have more seal and whale ceremonies and words for snow)

My point exactly

Shiney

Something interesting happens in my school nearly everyday.
This is what happen today.

(Backround info: Gillian's granny has been in hospital for ages)

Gillian, Lucy and Simone went on the hop to Smithfield ice-rink.
Gillian told her friend to tell teachers that her granny died if they got suspicious.
Mrs Rigney (evil year head) asked her where Gillian was and when she found out about Gillian's granny she rang Gillian's mom and told her "Sorry your about mother dying"
Gilliam's mom thought she was a nurse saying that her mom died and burst into tears.
She rang Gillian to tell her the 'bad news' and when she found out the truth, Gillian go tin a ****load of trouble

Raphael

That'll teach the stupid bint

StupidLikeAFox

Who would have thought a simple lie like faking someone elses death would have got out of hand? And it seemed like the perfect crime......

LiamD

You'd be surprised.....

It wasn't me!

Aonghus can't so I will. That's stupid, ignorant and cold. Bitch.

Raphael

It wasn't me! wrote:

Aonghus can't so I will. That's stupid, ignorant and cold. Bitch.

Thanks for covering for me dude

It wasn't me!

No worries man. You'd have done it to/for me!

Raphael

Yeah...

JenLorigan

In Religion:

"Now girls, does anyone know what adultery is?"
"Is it, like, burning down the house or something?"
"Well... I suppose metaphorically it's bringing down the house..."
"I said burning."
"Oh. Well... No."

Piste

In History

''So Edward Vl had to rule England when he was 9 years old''
''How was he nine?''
''Well, you see, when people are born they age chronologically each year so nine years after Edward was born he was nine years old.''

Also in History:

''I'll be telling your form tutor about you''
''I'll be telling YOUR MA about you''

It wasn't me!

JenLorigan wrote:

In Religion:

"Now girls, does anyone know what adultery is?"
"Is it, like, burning down the house or something?"
"Well... I suppose metaphorically it's bringing down the house..."
"I said burning."
"Oh. Well... No."

Heh. Excellent My year's been pretty quiet lately in terms of good quotes. There's always the old favourite though:

"Sir, how'd all them little micro-orgasms get in the soil?"

mentalimplosion

nothing beats watching eejits sruggle with sewing machines in fashion design

'uhm, what does the pedal do?'

'how do i stop it moving?'

Undergod

Something scares me about sewing machines. I know more or less how to use one, but... it's kinda scary.

In Chemistry

Teacher: What does -poly mean?
Student: Many.
(...a few minutes later...)
Teacher: So if you bond all the vinyl-chloride monomers together you get... (silence)... poly...
Student: Many!

This was the same student, I might add.

Later on.

Teacher: What happens at the oil refinery?
Student: They make oil!

It wasn't me!

Heh. It's funnier when they think they're right....

Undergod

My chemisrty class is so fun, my friend included a picture of Rammstein and flamethrowers in his project. Also discussed for a couple of lines whether it's better to be killed by a flamethrower or a nuclear bomb, and what your dying thoughts would be.

It wasn't me!

The nuke, clearly. The burning would be worse but you'd barely have time to notice it, assuming of course you're lucky enough to be killed in the actual explosion and not the aftermath. *shudder* I've seen way too many pictures of Hiroshima lately. Accursed physics project! :mad:

Undergod

Remind to tell you some of the hilarity (trans.: utter crap) that my Drug-Ed Class descended into next time we're talking.

Bazookatone

1) School sucks compared to CTYI
2) College is at least as good as CTYI (seeing as how it's got the pros, relaxed atmosphere, no muppets, but not the cons, Rory the RA)
3) School can never be as good as CTYI, because the people running schools don't understand the reason CTYI works. (more on that point later)
4) Hannah, are you stealing my "make numbered points in your posts" thing. Dammit Hannah!, that's my thing!
5) Please post more advice on my thread about how to get girls, the other stuff's gold.............of course,if you feel you're not SMART enough to give me advice on this topic....... (note subtle use of reverse psychology)
6) A permenant CTYI boarding school would be heaven on Earth, and it's been suggested a dozen times. I'm still up for opening one, though, if anyone's interested in funding it.
7) I'm going to go now and take a collossal dump

Undergod

Words of wisom, Bazookatone. Every one a gem.

mentalimplosion

studying 'the dead' in english:

teacher: so these women are gabriel's aunts
girl: oh, so he's their nephew?
teacher: yes
girl: and they're his aunts?
teacher: yes. do you understand now?
girl: um... i don't know.


tools. the lot of them

It wasn't me!

Bazookatone wrote:

7) I'm going to go now and take a collossal dump

Yup. Exactly what I wanted to hear. :rolleyes:

doonothing

Bazookatone wrote:

7) I'm going to go now and take a collossal dump

ooh, now THATS the kinda brutal honesty that (almost) never fails with the laydeez

NeoSlicerZ

Bazookatone wrote:

2) College is at least as good as CTYI (seeing as how it's got the pros, relaxed atmosphere, no muppets, but not the cons, Rory the RA)

No, college is far superior to CTYI.

Bazookatone wrote:

6) A permenant CTYI boarding school would be heaven on Earth, and it's been suggested a dozen times. I'm still up for opening one, though, if anyone's interested in funding it.

No, no, no, no. College > CTYI > Secondary,
That said, I regret going to CTYI this year, could have done something better with my time.

Hugh Hefner

NeoSlicerZ wrote:

I regret going to CTYI this year, could have done something better with my time.

Are you mad? If you went to Session 1 then I good not agree more (you could have come to Session 2).

PurpleFistMixer

Don't even start that...

It wasn't me!

...again.

NeoSlicerZ

Hugh Hefner wrote:

Are you mad? If you went to Session 1 then I good not agree more (you could have come to Session 2).

I went to S2, and quite frankly, got disillusioned with it. In college now, happy as can be, 'cos there isn't any staff looking over your shoulder, no irritating people that you have to put up with and there aren't any stringent rules really. I had thought of being an RA, but now, i doubt i'd want to.

mentalimplosion

Hugh Hefner wrote:

Are you mad? If you went to Session 1 then I good not agree more (you could have come to Session 2).

you know, not everyone is always going to enjoy ctyi, and yes there are other worthwhile things to do with your summer. just because you loved it this year, doesn't mean it's not a little naive to think that everyone else did.

Hugh Hefner

Woah, woah, woah. Light hearted comments can really turn against you on the CTYI forum, huh?

mentalimplosion

not really, just ones that annoy me

It wasn't me!

Bitter Ana? I had a good enough time this year, but nowhere near as good as last year.