Yes yes, sad title. But I'm excited for this school year! I've got alot of amazing classes, and I've got a ton of amazing classes. My biggest class this year is Inklings. It's with a branch of Biola Youth, so really it's a college prep class. We're doing a ton of reading and writing. Last week we read and precised Mere Christianity. (The first two books in Mere Christianity, anyway. We're reading the rest of it this week.) The precis had to be at least forty-five lines long, and max was seventy five. I outlined every chapter, so mine just made it by, at seventy five lines. (Size ten font.)This week homeworks EASY! We just have to read the rest of Mere Christianity! I don't think I'm gonna have another week this easy again. Lol. When we're IN class, (Once a week) we discuss what we read. Last couple weeks we've been reading and discussing genesis. The first week we were only discussing the first two chapters. You would not BELIEVE how many discussions came up on just those two chapters! Everything from water being infinite, just like God, (In Chapter One, verse Two, it says "And the spirit of God was there, hovering above the waters." Our conclusion was that he created the actual earth (Just a lump with some water on it) in verse one, "In the beginning the earth was formless and void.") to a conspiracy theory that Eve wanted to eat the fruit, so that it would say WOMAN instead of MAN in the bible. (We had been talking about chapter one, verse twenty seven, where it says "God created him. Male and female, he created them both.") And we talked about faith in God, and we had to defend our faith using ONLY those two chapters. Man, I kept wanting to bring up other scriptures that would back it up, but that wasn't allowed! I really love that class, though. I love this class because the tutor, rather than just teaching us, she provokes our thoughts, and makes us think more about the subject, so WE come up with the answer through discussion.
We also have Logic, another Biola youth program. It's not nearly as intense as Inklings, though. Same tutor, same classroom, same day, just after lunch break. We discuss Formal logic, rather than material logic. (Formal logic deals with the FORM of an argument; material logic deals with what's in an argument.) Homeworks simple for this class. No writing, just reading. We're reading the logic handbook, and then turning in the exercises at the end of the week. The exercises are SOO easy, and they're open book, so really, they're just to let the tutor know that we are in fact, reading the book. In the first class, the tutor (I should tell you her name, so I don't have to keep refering to her as, "The Tutor." Her name's Miss Romero.) asked us for things that we don't see as being real, but some people believe in. So, someone brought up Santa Claus. (BTW...Here's a vid they showed us at CBCC, I thought it was HILARIOUS! http://youtube.com/watch?v=pUFgeFTPRnw) So, we discussed why we didn't believe in Santa! We had to go much deeper than "Because it's illogical." We actually went into all of the parents who put the presents there, rather than some magical being, we went into ALL of the impossibility's for him to be real. We took a poll to see how many people had believed in Santa when they were younger. There's about twenty people there, and not one of their parents ever told them that Santa was real. Our reasoning behind that, is, if they lied to us about Santa, could they be lying about Jesus? That's why MY parents never told me about Santa, anyway. They always told me (Yes, even as a five year old) That Santa was a way to replace the real meaning of Christmas. They also pointed out that the word SANTA is SATAN all mixed up. SOO, that discussion was quite interesting. Oh, and BTW, in both of my Biola classes, we are not allowed to call people by their first names. It's hard! I'm always like, "as Stev...er, Mr. Page pointed out," or, "Just like Jazm...er, Miss Sahakian said," and some of the people there have hard last names. There's one girl with the last name Moughtederi. (I think that's correct spelling...) Anyway, Logics tons of fun too!
I'm also in Mock Trial. I LOVE it! I've been cast as a witness! (BTW, if any of you don't know what Mock Trial is, say so in comments, and I'll change my post to explain.) Right now, with the case we're working on right now, I am "Detective Cameron Singh." We always pronounce the "H" because we think it's so out of place there. The case is people vs. Tanner. Supposedly (I think she's not-guilty) Loren Tanner (Eighteen years ago) abused her daughter, Virginia to the point of death. Sam (Lorens husband) and Loren both say that she slipped on the staircase and fell on her head. (She died by a hemorrhage at the back of her head.)Now, (Eighteen years later) Devon Tanner, they're son, is saying that he remembers that day differently. He remembers that Loren was yelling and Virginia was screaming in the upstairs bedroom, and that he heard a bump on the floor and quiet. Then Loren came down with a bloody Virginia in her hands, and Sam took Virginia to the hospital. While Sam was gone, Loren took the rug that had been upstairs, as well as some other things that had gotten bloody, and buried them in a bag in the yard. So now, eighteen years later, Devon calls in the heroic Detective SingH, (That's ME!!) and I find that instead of there being bloodstains under the floorboards on the staircase, there's blood in the bedroom. I also found other things, but we don't need to go that in depth. Oh, but you should know, I found the bag with bloody linens in it. So, the daring detective then arrested Loren Tanner. NOW, why I think she's innocent. (Or, at least, not guilty. BIG difference. Innocent, is PROVEN not guilty. Not guilty is just there's not enough evidence on the prosecution for her to be guilty.) Devon was only five years old at the time of Virginia's death. How many of you can remember any certain day (Yes, even a tragic one) THAT vividly? Also, Loren came to her pastor, a year after Virginia's death, and told him that she didn't fall on the staircase. She had Sam had been disciplining her, and Virginia was sulking. Loren reached out to comfort her, and Virginia pulled away and fell off the bed and hit her head on the back of the desk. Now, why would Loren change her story a year after the incident? She wasn't being put on trial or anything. Also, Devon said that he remembers being abused by Loren when he was young. But after Sam died, he was never bullied again. Now, isn't it possible that he SWITCHED the parents in his memories? That it had always been SAM abusing him, so as soon as Sam was gone, there was never any abuse! Anyway, that's my two cents. It's hilarious, the whole prosecution side thinks that she's not guilty. The whole defense side thinks she's totally guilty. Meetings are fun. Since I'm a witness, we do mostly drama exercises. (It is acting, after all!) And also, we're getting comfortable under pressure, and in front of alot of people. (We're going to be in courtrooms, after all!) In January, we're going on a road trip to Sacramento! YAY! We're going to be scrimmaging other teams on the way up and down. I think we're seeing the governor or something there?? Haha, I don't even know what we're doing! Lol. OH! And Blitz is our mascot!! Haha.
I'm also in five different clubs. Generation Joshua, (I'm the Chaplain) World Affairs, (Treasurer) Performing Arts, Aviation, and Service. GenJ is SOO much fun! Our Chapters name is P.R.A.Y. I forget what it stands for. I liked K.O.P.S better...Kids On Political Spree. Lol. Okay, so I have to tell you a story. Being the chaplain, I pray and read a bible verse before and after every meeting. So, what I didn't realize was, that everyone was looking at me to pray. I had forgotten I was supposed to pray, and I didn't know everyone was looking at me. My cellphone rang, and knowing it was my mom telling me she was here, I had to answer it. (Or else, in the car mom would have been yelling at me for not answering my phone. ) SO, I answered it and everyone was quite, listening. I was saying, Ya, I'll be right out. Everyone started bursting out laughing. I looked up and realized everyone was watching. Lol, it was funny.
Kasey
