Bob+Jones

Hi I am Bob Jones I am awesome. Impressions of the first day: Firstly we started with going to the Gym on the first day of TIS Summer School 2011. My first impression was how many more people came than from last year I was also very anxious because looking at the roster we found an unfamiliar name which we thought would be a new student that we were really excited to meet but it ended up being Giulia who wouldn't come next year. We were really excited to get started but it did take a while after a small speech welcoming us all we headed up to our homeroom. We had Miguel as a our homeroom teacher and or room was Paul Lantree's room during the school year which was right next to the library. I was glad that it was on the third floor because that meant one less flight of stairs to climb than during the school year which was fun but to be honest I did miss the feeling of awesomeness of the 4th floor and the lockers and the halls I have gotten used to. Anyways our first period of the day was Japanese. We were supposed to have Tetsuo Sensei as our teacher but instead we got Yuichiro which was O.K. to. I thought we would be having worksheets but we ended up starting a project where we got into pairs of an interviewer and an interviewee and started making 10 questions and 10 answers so that we could film by our next lesson. I got partnered up with Giulia and we sat next to Erika and Royi. Clearly there was a difference between the levels of Japanese as me and Royi were in the first two levels while both Giulia and Erika were Japanese natives. We got 10 basic questions that both of us understood by the end of the lesson. Next we had Sports and I was really excited because this is in most cases the funnest class. Well it lived up to the expectations we made two even teams of 5 to play a combination of Kickball and Cricket. This happened by Phil pitching the ball and the team would have to kick it then run from the wickets to the door and back before Phil re-pitches and knocks down the wicket. We had some arguments over the score so we started over again but only had 10 minutes. Then we had Break where we played the ever so popular 4 square a very boring game that never seems to get boring not much to talk about here. After that we had a double period of Math where we started learning about compound interest which we already learned in school so it was obviously directed to the 6th graders. It wasn't very difficult though because we learned but it started to get boring. Around half way through we played on the I-Pads for 10 minutes then we continued. After that we had lunch and I had the usual lettuce then we went outside to play we had our hearts set on soccer and started playing but the game didn't work out and we ended up playing 4 square. After that we had English where Susan read a book called 'The Lotus Seed' and then asked us to write our impressions and connections to it in our notebook and I found that very interesting. After that we had Music where we learned about how to do loops on Garage band which was incredibly new to me and I had trouble with that. Anyways after music the first day of Summer School was complete.