Lucid

Today, I took a difficult math test. So difficult that, the teacher, Mr. Vriesman, allowed us to take it home and work on it. However, my friends and I met up in the cafeteria after school and worked on it. I'm pretty confident on my grade. I also learned a lot on Trig Equations and Identities, and brushed up on some old skills that I was rusty on. The test was specifically on the law of sines and cosines, angle of elevation/depression, polygons circumscribed in a circle, and had a long word problem in which the teacher described a pathway that a person followed (with words like he went north of east by 42 degrees) and the we had to find the distance between the starting point and the end point, and the area of the shape (it ended up making a quadrilateral).
In Academic Decathlon, we worked on interviews. Nothing much needs to be said about this topic, just that I wrote about my activities in and outside of school and I talked about them. This was a simulation, not the real thing.
In AP World History, I listened to a lecture given by Ms. Klimke about the Medieval Period and learned about the feudal system, which was more complex than I had assumed. I actually have a test tomorrow on Chapter 17: The Foundations of Christian Society in Western Europe. I also learned about the Germanic invasions and the Franks, who established decentralized political insitutions. The adoption of Christianity by Clovis impacted society in Western Europe greatly. I wonder what would have happened if Clovis did not adopt Christianity...
In English, we did a Socratic Seminar on Julius Caesar (by Shakespeare). It was interesting talking about the different characters in the play (Cassius, Caesar, Antony, Octavius, Brutus). The whole point of the play was to illustrate some kind of power struggle. We're actually going to work on a project on the Korean War so I'm excited about that as well. I also borrowed a college Journalism textbook from Ms. Derdzinske so I plan to read it during the winter break. She also gave me a list of books that she personally liked, so I plan to read those as well.
After school, as I mentioned before in the first paragraph, my friends (Shawn Kim, Esther Yi, Stephanie Yi, Cristina Choi) and I worked on the math test. Afterwards, I went to Ramon (girls' water polo coach) and told him the reason for my absence (I did not attend practice for quite some time now, partly because the girls water polo team had two games this week). I helped him clean up the equipment and gave him my phone number and told him I would be attending the winter break practice. Hopefully, I'll be able to get a ride from a friend. Then, sleeping, I took a long bus ride home.
I can't wait to watch Pan's Labryinth in Spanish tomorrow! Estoy muy emocionado.