Crazy Teachers and Crazy Lab Partners

Well, school is still chaotic, but a little less chaotic awesome and little more chaotic terrible.

Because, homework. Teachers are evil.

I have way too many teachers to remember them all, but first impressions count and I’ve managed to remember five of them. Some for the better, some for the worse.

My first class is Chemistry and my relationship status with this subject changes a lot. Right now, I’m doing homework on Lewis Structures and I hate it. I’m honestly so close to failing this class already. The drawings are just too structured and dotty.

Luckily, the class itself is just extremely fun. We have labs a lot and it’s so interesting to meet the different people. Thalia has this list of the best people to partner with depending on your goal.

There are the kids that you pair with when you don’t really care about the lab and just want to laugh. Yesterday, I paired up with Thalia (who is 100% in this category) and we spent the whole lab trying to cause the most explosions possible.

Next are the kids that will get you a hundred and are OCD, so they end up doing all of the work without realizing it.

And then, there are the kids that are the perfect, happy medium who can actually make the work fun and get 100s.

But of course, there are the more interesting and exciting options to get stuck with:

The kids that will get you a hundred and not let you do any of the work because they automatically assume you’re stupid.

And the kids that spend the whole lab trying to cause the most explosions, but on you.

The teacher is Mrs. Bertly and she’s totally scary. Imagine if you packaged the feeling of failing a test, getting kidnapped, and throwing up in public and had it thrown at you. That’s the feeling I get when she looks at me.

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Her absolute opposite is Ms. Winder. Ms. Winder is freaking awesome.

She’s our math teacher, who has warmed up to us more now that James and I shut up.

Ms. Winder makes class extremely engaging, but in a challenging way. Although I love the classes where the whole room goes on rabbit holes on topics not even close to the subject, it doesn’t actually help on tests.

All of my friends tease me because I actually adore Ms. Winder, even though I hate math.

Like I have always hated it.

I have always failed it.

It’s been awful.

But, she actually makes it where I can understand it without feeling too bored to pay attention. Almost all of the class has a lot of interaction, where we can actually say stuff instead of get lectured at.

Sometimes, she’ll hand out a bunch of problems and have us talk them out and solve them in a group.

Which yeah, sounds awful in theory.

But she’s hilarious and makes it work so well. Our teacher is a ball of sarcasm wrapped in a sunny attitude.

“Numerator goes on top, denominator is on the bottom, exactly like your grade will be if you don’t get this before the test. Yes, I know, you love me.”

Without fail, a kid always shouts, “Do we though?”

And without fail, she always smiles and calls, “I love you guys, too! Now, advanced factoring, do we really need it? Short answer: Yes. Long answer: No. Lezz go.”

You’d think she’d be my most eccentric teacher.

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Hahaha, sike! That’s Mr. Lockmet all the way.

This guy could probably teach to an empty room without noticing. He just gets freakishly involved in history.

“Imagine it! Blood spilling into the streets! The air tense as people avoid looking at the sharp blades of the guillotine.” Mr. Lockmet’s voice rises and falls dramatically when he talks and he always prowls the room theatrically.

What makes him so eccentric is his random talents, like sometimes you’ll come in class and there will be food from that time period or he’ll dress like a knight in full chainmail.

And I will absolutely never forget that time he grabbed my notes and origami’d it into a guillotine.

Complete with a decapitated head.

I actually have this soul crushing debate over whether I like him or Ms. Winder more.

I mean, come on! Ms. Winder is like hilarious and amazing and nice, but Mr. Lockmet is unpredictable and weird and quirky. For me, it’s almost as bad as Team Edward or Team Jacob was back in middle school.

Don’t worry, my Twilight phase has passed.

Now time for me to talk about James.

Our date was good, like really really good.

Like I-want-to-make-you-my-boyfriend-right-now good. I showed him all my favorite skate parks and he actually played my game! The one where you get shoved into the skate pool holding a bar of chocolate between your teeth and trying not to bite or drop it.

He jumped off the skateboard halfway down, tumbled the rest of the way down, and crushed the chocolate. Also, he has a kinda high pitched scream. But it was so hilarious and he tried and therefore it was the cutest thing ever.

Then, he paid for my Wendy’s Four by Four and life was basically perfect.

Also, he can do a creepily good Han Solo voice impersonation, so I’m pretty much marrying him.

And on that note, bye!

Kylie

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