Freshman high school class review

Ok -- maybe I'm stuck in the past but at least I can write something I know
about and others can relate to. And I hope I can get others input on this
stuff too.

So now I'm gonna rate ALL my classes taken at Padua. My ratings are based
both on the teacher AND the students, taken from MY point of view.
Therefore, a lot of my grades won't be what you may feel. But anyways, here
it goes:

Freshman Year
2nd Period Honors Algebra I with Miss Zamborsky - B
-What an incredible class to start off with. I always look back and wonder
how all of us in that class (Me, Eddie, Lisa, Christina, Kim, Jen) were
total strangers to each other at the time, and for the most part, I didn't
really even talk to any of you guys for the duration of that year. In fact,
the 2 people that I probably talked to most were John Chmura (sat to the
left of me) and Mike Easton, who sat to the lower left of John? I got to
sit in the back corner for the first semester, and in the front corner next
to the teacher's desk during the 2nd. I think Zambo did that on purpose
after all the foolery I had done during semester 1. Math classes aren't
supposed to be fun, but at least I tried to make this one tolerable. My
grades were good in the class, until 3rd quarter when I started seeking the
counsel of Eddie for tutoring. Well, that's how the 2 of us became friends,
I guess. So really I would give this class an "A" after the fact, but since
I'm rating the class itself it has to be dropped. Zambo acted like a
disgruntled postal worker half the time, and she yelled at me whenever I
didn't do my homework (on many occasion, as with most other classes :)

3rd Period German I with Mr. Uhrin - C+
1st year German was probably the best, because I was first introduced to
everything, and I actually learned something that year. Until that point in
time, I had never heard of Falco or anything. Thank you Mr. Uhrin for doing
that. Uhrin was pretty cool, he was pretty easy but he easily ran out of
things to say really quick. What can I say? The class was average.

4th Period Gym/Health with Miss Blanchfield/Mrs. Woytek (same person) B/C
I always loved gym class, because I love sports no matter who I'm with. And
I really didn't have too many friends in that class, but that didn't stop me
from having a good time, either. I know Miss B. wasn't the greatest
teacher, but she didn't get in the way much during freshman year (I think
the marriage increased her PMS frequency by 10x.) Well, health was another
"average" class because everything happened as expected without any real
highlights or downsides either.

6th/7th Period World History with Mrs. Giulivo - B
I think Mrs. Giulivo is one of the best teachers at Padua, mainly because of
her ability to communicate with the students. Her classes were extremely
easy -- or I should say...she made them as easy as possible by offering
tutorials after school when she gave out the answers to her tests. Like
Mrs. Apostle, she always kept a very positive attitude about everything.
The only part that kept this class from being an "A" was that I really
didn't know anyone in the class. Oh well.

8th/9th Period English with Mrs. O'Malley - C
First off, I'd like to say that this class would've been a B or better if I
had actually known Joe Gags back then. Otherwise, it was a very difficult
class that wasn't very interesting either. I mean -- who really wanted to
listen to Romeo and Juliet on a 33 1/3 record? A Midsummer Nights Dream was
the absolute worst. But the class kept moving and I learned a lot. And the
final exams were the easiest part of the entire class. And we graded papers
of the Junior class half the time too. Mrs. O'Malley was a pretty difficult
teacher, and was pretty stubborn too.

10th Period Old Testament with Mr. Eyerman - D
This class had the potential to be a lot better if Eye-in-the-skyerman was
just a little more interesting. But most of the time I found myself
daydreaming when I should have been learning. There was a lot about this
class that I liked, but the sheer boredom (and the fact that i had just come
from English) didn't help much really. Oh well. It wasn't exactly fun
seeing his sweaty armpit stains everyday either. Let's face it, the class
was a drag...

11th Period Computer I with Mr. Link - B-
I should have never had to take this class. It is supposed to teach you
keyboarding skills and I was able to type 60 WPM before even setting foot in
there. Be that as it may, the entire class was a breeze, and I got and A+
both semesters. I probably could've been using my time more productively,
but at least I could show off to everyone. And it was pretty funny watching
Mr. Link get mad and yelling at other students. Yay.

2nd Semester
4th Period Christian Life with Mrs. Apostle - A-
The class was easy, we learned, we partied. We worked hard on the book
project too. By that time I had met a couple good friends (matt burton and
sean esson and I think brendan was in the class too) and we all had fun and
excitement. Watching the breakfast club was the best. The class was just a
shred away from perfect, which is reserved for one class only.

10th Period Computer II with Mr. Flachbart - B
This class should have been called "How to use Microsoft Works v3.0" which
is a totally obsolete software program, but most of the skills can be
transferrable to other software packages such as Office, etc. Everyone in
that class was pretty cool. Flachbart left us alone most of the time, and
let us work at our own pace. Life was good in that class. Hey Joe, weren't
you in there too? I hardly even seemed to notice back then, how funny...

Ok, enuff writing for today. If I feel like writing more I'll continue with
the other 3 years in future installments. I wanna see what you think and
I'll talk to everyone later.

-Chris