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[khaos]

There are a lot of people who act like dirty 1st graders in 7th and 8th. Especially gym class, where my grade (6th) is mixed with 7th and 8th. In the locker room, they're so loud, it makes me want to punch all of them in the face. You mess up, they scream at you like nobody's buisness. <_<

[rachiee]

The people who take gym class seriously are some of the worst people you'll ever meet. I've had the misfortune of knowing tons of people like that who will yell at you for stuff like being low on breath while running laps around the gym.

In grade 7, I even had this one toolbag curse and yell at me because I started panting heavily after one lap around the soccer field. He's kind of a jerk to everyone though, but especially to me as well as a few other people.

 

(slightly offtopic but: oh god, nearly every other post on this thread lately has been teal-coloured. I post here way too much. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? :P)

[khaos]

A good thing! :D

 

I have people calling me mushroom because of the way my hair is. <_<

 

I have to run a mile tomorrow, oh god. :ohno: Guess what we do after that? 45 situps and 30 pushups o_O

 

P.E. (gym) is the worst class for me. A least i'm not in cross-country, you have to run 2 1/2 miles tomorrow for that x_x

[rachiee]

One mile, 45 situps and 30 pushups? Dang. Good luck!

I was actually in cross country...for like, less than a week. Joining XC was probably my biggest regret, and quitting it was the best decision I ever made in my life. :yes:

 

I like playing sports every now and then, it's just that I refuse to join any school teams unless I like enough people on the team. I was considering trying out for cheerleading for a while (yes, I consider that to be a sport), but then I thought about the people who would also be trying out for that and I was just like yeahhhh no don't even think about it any further :/ Plus, I had mandatory extra help the day of tryouts. :laughingsmiley:

Aside from being relatively flexible, I wouldn't even make a good cheerleader anyway lolololol

[khaos]

I would try out for soccer, which is my favorite sport, but the problem is, the 7th and 8th graders are in the same team :O I kinda hate dislike them. <_<

 

Oh, and thanks for the good luck. :)

[rachiee]

I usually felt intimidated by the upperclassmen as well as some of the underclassmen. (Specifically, the popular sixth and seventh graders [as of last school year]. Anyone who's considered "popular" just scares the crap out of me. I don't know why, but it scares me even more when they're younger than me. It's a little irrational, but oh well)

Uh, anyway. This is probably a given for nearly every school, but there are a few upper/underclassmen (but mostly the latter) who aren't intimidating and are actually really cool and nice ^_^

 

My best friend knows a lot of underclassmen and I know more of them because of her. I only know a few upperclassmen because of my older brother's friends and being in the school play.

[The Meepit Commando]

I really hate the gap of respect between upper and underclassmen, as you call it :laughingsmiley: Although I would consider myself to be between middle and upper :rolleyes_anim: I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to join the soccer team, ALL my friend are trying out, and so will I, soccer is fun. :king:

 

Also Khoas, you are in 7th grade?

[Spritzie]

I know I'm behind here, but your lockers at previous schools didn't have the locks embedded in the door? The lockers were like that for me in middle school and HS. The only lockers with separate locks was the PE and band lockers.

[The Meepit Commando]

@ spritzie, yah same ALL the lockers in my JH have built in locks, besides the gym ones, I am not in band, so I don't know about them.

[rachiee]

Yup! I got my first lockers in grade 5, and I had two locks- one for my regular locker and another for my gym locker. I used both of those locks up until grade 8.

My regular lock was pretty beat up by the end of grade 5 but not bad enough to make me get it replaced (it's kind of a long and embarrassing story... it could easily be recognized by a few paint chips) but hey, it lasted me three and a half years. :woot:

With the high school, however, it would be safe to assume that since your locker changes every year, your combination does as well. I don't really like that concept as much as the "get a new lock your first year here and use it until you graduate" concept that I'm more used to.

[Spritzie]

That's interesting. I just figured all lockers had embedded locks since I'd never seen them any other way.

 

We had to supply our own locks for our gym and band lockers.

[The Meepit Commando]

embarrassing story..... lol

 

 

Second day of school today, would you believe me if I said I have a rough draft of an essay due tomorrow, a few pages of notes, and a questionnaire, I somehow managed to finish in a few hours. :mellow:

 

@ spritzie srsly mine where supplied, if you broke it you payed 5$ for a new one...

[Spritzie]

I would have refused to use a recycled lock for my band locker. When they used to supply locks for PE, they codes were actually kept in a rather accessible place and they had issues with things being stolen. With my instruments that I owned and were expensive, I wouldn't trust with a recycled lock.

[rachiee]

I remember that you had to pay something like $5-7 if you lost or severely damaged your lock. For the most part, everyone was really responsible with their locks. :P

 

I would've refused to use a recycled lock too, just because it could probably be defective or something. But when I took orchestra, I didn't have a locker for my violin because I quit in grade 4 (another embarrassing story) and the band/orchestra members didn't get their own instrument lockers until grade 5.

 

(I seem to have an abundance of embarrassing stories. :laughingsmiley:)

[-Ryan]

I'm not nor have I ever been in orchestra, but i've been in the rooms for it before and they always have huge freaking lockers that im always tempted to hide in. :3

[Tedhaun]

I was never in an orchestra, nor bother with that type of stuff. I've taken music classes back middle and elementary school, but that's really it.

[Wembly]

We had built in locks in our locker too and were not allowed to put our own locks on the lockers or the locks would be cut off with bolt cutters. :rolleyes_anim: This way the administration could get into the lockers to search them whenever they needed/wanted. Gym lockers we had to bring out own though if you wanted to lock them, most people just didn't use a lock because then again if you left the lock on at the end of the day they would bolt cut it since the gym lockers were only for the period you had gym.

 

Our band room had a couch and air conditioning, I was always slightly jealous since I never really had a reason to go in there.

[rachiee]

The band and orchestra (as well as the after-school concert choir, which I was a part of) shared a huuuuge room at my middle school. (Like, probably the size of a small gym.)

The band would meet every other day, and on the days the band members had gym, the orchestra members would have orchestra.

There was also the music room, which was pretty big and it was always really hot in there. On one-hour-delay days, my friends and I went into the music room during recess and just derped around in there. It was fun. But then, apparently, we were too loud or something and everyone who didn't play a musical instrument wasn't allowed to go into the music room during recess. :|

 

I believe that I was allowed back in with some of my non-instrument-playing friends once or twice; we just had to be really careful not to make too much noise.

[Spritzie]

I'm not nor have I ever been in orchestra, but i've been in the rooms for it before and they always have huge freaking lockers that im always tempted to hide in. :3

 

The band lockers varied in size, so the large instruments could have proper lockers, but they weren't being used for say, a clarinet or flute. Then there were huge cabinets for the drummers. I didn't get a larger locker until 8th grade when I had 2 instruments, one being a tenor sax.

 

We had built in locks in our locker too and were not allowed to put our own locks on the lockers or the locks would be cut off with bolt cutters. :rolleyes_anim: This way the administration could get into the lockers to search them whenever they needed/wanted. Gym lockers we had to bring out own though if you wanted to lock them, most people just didn't use a lock because then again if you left the lock on at the end of the day they would bolt cut it since the gym lockers were only for the period you had gym.

 

Our band room had a couch and air conditioning, I was always slightly jealous since I never really had a reason to go in there.

 

Our gym lockers were assigned at each quarter/semester. And after the end of the year, if locks were left, they cut them off.

 

The band and orchestra (as well as the after-school concert choir, which I was a part of) shared a huuuuge room at my middle school. (Like, probably the size of a small gym.)

The band would meet every other day, and on the days the band members had gym, the orchestra members would have orchestra.

 

In middle school, all of the music groups had their own room. The band and orchestra rooms were huge, the choir room wasn't quite so much. But they were all held every day. And with each grade, there were only 2 designated periods for electives, so they went on at the same time.

[rachiee]

The regular grade 7/8 chorus, which I was also a part of last school year, practiced in the cafeteria right before lunch. :P I know it wasn't all that long ago, but I have fond memories of being the first in line at lunch, and I usually got something relatively unhealthy like hot, soft cinnamon pretzels (which, by caf food standards, were top-notch), a pack of cookies or chips or a bagel with 2 butters (each butter was about the size of an Andes mint). I always brought a bottle of water with me because they cost a dollar at school.

 

I'm back in chorus for this year and since the high school has an auditorium, we practice in there. The seats in the auditorium are so much more comfortable, but I'll have to admit that I will miss sitting in those unbalanced, hard plastic chairs in the caf. :laughingsmiley:

[The Meepit Commando]

I feel weird, I'm the only one with not orchestra, chorus, band, etc.

[khaos]

I don't have band (I have computers instead :/) But I take help class every thursday with like 30 other people. I was told there were only gonna be two students in there. o_O

 

HEY, guess what I just found out? I have to run a mile and 60 situps and 45 pushups every tuesday and thursday for gym class. :axehead:

[The Meepit Commando]

lol have fun.... Yah good luck, what grade are you in BTW

[khaos]

6th

 

(Ryan, you posted! :P)

 

Like Rach has been saying for about 400 posts, I hate people who take gym class seriously. :worried:

[The Meepit Commando]

Why, It's a class, and an easy "A"