<p>We start September 6 and end Monday June 19</p>
<p>but hey im still going to Socorro June 18</p>
<p>SOCORRO >>> OJAI</p>
<p>That's what Warren Harding said. And we all know what happened to him.</p>
<p>hm....i guess in terms of school ny sucks the most
we started on Sep 7-8, and will end on June 28-29 (we have these state exams also that last for a week and a half :( )
ah well, i'm still leaving 10 days short...YEEEEY! :)</p>
<p>on account of being away from our families for 6 weeks....how do you parents feel about that?
i, for example, have a lecture on how to behave myself, what to do, what to say/not to say, etc, etc, almost every day.....it is kinda annoying, to be honest, but i understand them :)</p>
<p>are your parents easier on that? (hopefully)</p>
<p>School ends June 17, thankfully. I go back to school August 15th or something like that. Grr...SSP basically eats up all but two weeks of summer. Oh well - it'll be a blast!</p>
<p>mine's over TOMORROWWWWWWWW.!!!</p>
<p>AHHHHHH</p>
<p>"are your parents easier on that? (hopefully)"</p>
<p>I've done a bunch of programs like this and a few trips across the country without them, so they dont give me problems.</p>
<p>hi guys again!</p>
<p>I haven't been to this new thread but I'm still alive and kickin and I'm going to Soccoro too!! </p>
<p>I will follow tradition and introduce myself a bit more. Right now I'm a Junior at the Singapore American School and I love math and physics so SSP sounds really awesome. Astronomy and astrophysics have also been really interesting to me since I did a 7th grade project on black holes and wormholes lol; last month I read Hawking's A Briefer History of TIme and it was great! Anyways, for my favorites:</p>
<p>1)Color -- COPPER (go Oil-- I grew up watching the oilers)</p>
<p>2)Team/Player --- Hockey: EDMONTON OILERS/ RYAN "THE MULLET" SMYTH</p>
<p>3)Favorite Music -- I love listening to alternative rock like the Flaming Lips, Pink Floyd, Nickelback, Creed, etc. Just a mix of rock I guess.</p>
<p>4)Movies --</p>
<p>5)Favorite Composers--- I'm not much of a music person so I can't really say.</p>
<p>6) Favorite ice cream flavor--- Ice cream costs a fortune here in Singapore but back in Canada I loved cookies n' cream!</p>
<p>7) Favorite Book --- Farewell to Arms.</p>
<p>8) Number -- Number 2. I dont why but I love this number.</p>
<p>9)Day of the week -- Wednesday: MATH CLUB! :P</p>
<p>Following Daniel's additions: </p>
<p>10) Aircraft
Wow, uh the B-2 is cool.</p>
<p>11) City
Edmonton, New York City, then Boston.</p>
<p>12) Season
Since I used to live in Edmonton, winter is my friend.</p>
<p>NOW MY ADDITION :):</p>
<p>13) Country
Thailand-- the food, scenery, and people are great there</p>
<p>Socorro:</p>
<p>1: Hannah, "shadowdancer", VA, USA
2: Jeremy, "J M Pham", ON, Canada
3: Matthew Young, "poignantpianist1," West Chester, PA
4: Daniil/Daniel/Dan, "Hriundeli", NYC, NY
5: Ahra, "kisstheskyxx", NM
6: Kevin Chan, "Kev.Chan", SF Bay Area, CA
7. Peck, "Petter," Singapore! :) </p>
<p>Ojai:</p>
<p>1: Chris, "oasis", Taiwan, OJAI
2. Daniel, "Captain Koloth", NJ
3. Henry, "Cipher3D", California</p>
<p>any CTYers here?</p>
<p>what are we all reading?</p>
<p>me: Invisible Man, Ellison</p>
<p>Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Luis Zafon. It's surprisingly good. I wish my Spanish was good enough so I could read it in the original version though...</p>
<p>I did CTY for five summers. Moravian, Washington College (blech), Lancaster, Lancaster, Saratoga.</p>
<p>sorry if this is a really dumb question, but what is ssp?</p>
<p>A summer program: <a href="http://www.summerscience.org%5B/url%5D">www.summerscience.org</a></p>
<p>oh, ok thank you</p>
<p>Well I just ended a MAJOR reading marathon to catch up with all the books I hadn't read for english class (and some of them are plays actually)</p>
<p>-Great Gatsby
-Death of a Salesman
-Little Foxes
-Streetcar Named Desire
-Long Days Journey into Night
-The Sun Also Rises</p>
<p>None of them were particularly hard books... it was just a lot to read. I think my favorite was Long days Journey into Night. Streetcar was pretty good too. Gatsby was ok, but Foxes, Death of a Salesman, and Sun Also Rises were pretty tedious. </p>
<p>6 books, 7 days... I think I'm going to go on a little vacation from reading now.</p>
<p>wow koloth what did u take</p>
<p>i went to washington college it was terrible i took history of math</p>
<p>then lancaster for probability and game theory</p>
<p>then carlisle (AWESOME) for pop culture</p>
<p>Moravian: flight science
Washington: Model UN (UNAG)
Lancaster '02: Astronomy
Lancaster '03: Chemistry
Saratoga: Physics
Only the in the first, second, and fifth years did I feel like I actually learned something. Washington College was awful. Between the food and the dorms it felt like a giant prison. The other three were livable.</p>
<p>I remember reading the Great Gatsby in American Lit. It was alright, but definitely not the kind of style I'd enjoy in contemporary literature. Now Ben Franklin's autobiography...that is the epitome of boredom...and egotism :|.</p>
<p>I don't get why some books are classified as classics - take "The House of the Seven Gables", for instance. That has to be the most boring and pointless book I've ever read. But it's a classic, so We Must Read It. Now take a book like The Hunt for Red October, for example, that's actually interesting and exciting - NO! Can't have any excitement, sorry, sorry... what about science fiction? WHAT? How DARE you invoke science fiction in my English class? </p>
<p>It can be a little absurd.</p>
<p>Well for one thing The Hunt for Red October is too contemporary and classics "must" include the good literary analysis stuff like irony, symbolism, theme, motifs, personification, similies, metaphors...all that good stuff. I doubt you'll find a lot of those in contemporary novels, and even if you do, it'll not be read in English classes just because it's "too recent." Perhaps 50 years down the road people will start appreciating our literature...who knows? =p</p>
<p>Best English required reading in high school:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Jane Eyre
The Giver (7th grade but the best required reading ever)</p>
<p>Average English required reading in high school:
The Great Gatsby
Scarlet Letter
Great Expectations</p>
<p>Bad English required reading in high school:
Huck Finn
Silas Marner (UGH!)
The Chosen
Romeo and Juliet (too cliche)</p>
<p>Well, this doesn't have anything to do with books and literature (sorry), but oh, THIS IS HORRIBLE..</p>
<p>My parents.
Bought.
Chicks.</p>
<p>Both Male and female.</p>
<p>I told them to buy just female chicks so that when they grow up, they can just lay eggs (eggs that are not fertilized) but noooo, my parents INSIST -well, they don't listen to me anyway - that we buy a male chicken (rooster, whatever) too so that the hens can lay tastier eggs. FERTILIZED EGGS! EGGS THAT CAN BE CHICKENS! <em>T___T</em> Freakin' A, how can eggs be any "tastier"? Blah, they all taste the same to me anyway.</p>
<p>And then, and then they said that when the hens grow up, we're going to EAT THEM! <em>gasps in horror!</em> And the sick and horrible thing is that they MEAN IT..<em>sniffs</em></p>
<p>This is HORRIBLE...because I love chickens T<em>T and eggs T</em>T and after a while (the chicks grow up), I'll have to eat FERTILIZED EGGS (not like the artificially fertilized eggs at the grocery store) or no EGGS! T_T</p>
<p>Two horrible places....but alas, I shall choose NOT TO EAT EGGS AT ALL because...<em>sniff</em> I don't want to eat chickens....<em>cries</em></p>
<p>But happier ideas...
I'm torn between the Da Vinci Code and X-men III today..What to watch?
Hm.</p>
<p>And also, PIRATES OF TEH CARIBBEAN II will come out July 7th or so, in them iddle of SSP. I wonder if they'll let us go watch it cuz frankly, that'd be sick.</p>