Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Bark0 on April 21, 2009, 04:34:18 PM
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So here i am in bed...6:30 CT. It's the first day Of MCA Testing, a test which determines weather or not I get into high school, So i am pretty nerve wrecked. I grab breakfast, a shower, get dressed and ride my bike to school. I take the test (Pretty long and hard) and due to that, my rest of the day is in the dumps. I grab my book bag and head off to science class.
I get to my desk, and put my head down. it's 10:15 and kids are starting to arrive at class. An announcement over the speaker in the classroom goes on. "Attention: All 8th grade teachers who wish to see 'the man out back' please bring your students outside at this time." "Great" I thought "another job speech." So we wnent outside and it is cold. Very cold. 42 degrees with a wind of 40 mph. all i had was a small short sleaved casual shirt. :uhoh
So we wait outside for 15 minutes and all i see is 4 police cars circling the back lot of the school. no 'guy outback' "Just another D.A.R.E Thing I guess" We wait for another 15 minutes and a Helicopter fly's by. "Just another military training exercise" i think to myself (The Pessimist I am.) it circles around my school at about 1000 feet. "Now he's just showing off" i say. he goes out of sight as he roars past my school. But a minute later he comes in on the back lot of my school and to my suprise looks like he is beginning a landing procedure.
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I Watch as a Black hawk helicopter lands only 300 feet away from the crowd. dead grass and leaves fly at us at 100 mph. I duck down as girls and boys ahead of me are hit with them. :) the black hawk shuts down and everyone runs at full speed to it. we all gather around as the Pilot gets out and gives us a speech about the aircraft, what it was used for in Iraq and how to get your pilots license (Which i already know.)
After the speech nearly everyone had questions. one boy asks if it has air conditioning. the pilot responds with a "Yup I'll show you". He opens the side door of the Helicopter. :lol
Don't you love the smell of JP5 in the morning? :)
Pictures to come within the week (Teacher has to e-mail them to me) so please post to make sure this thread isn't lost within the BBS.
Thank you!
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Sounds like a pretty cool day at school, now I want to go back! (That was a lie) But, how did it go with the test? You fly Aces High, so I just know you aced it.
rkanjl
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Christ...you get to go at 10:15?! Lucky.
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Nice.
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Christ...you get to go at 10:15?! Lucky.
Try having to go to school at 9:00am and then go home at 3:30pm...
-FYB
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Try having to go to school at 9:00am and then go home at 3:30pm...
-FYB
And you think you have it bad....
7:30 to 2:45 every day.
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no School starts at 8:00 and ends at 2:45. I had Science class at 10:15. :)
As for the test, I won't know until the first day of school next year, when people stand at the door turning people down. :lol
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Well, what happened to me is....
I went to the shakespeare fesival. Had to carry a 50lbs box of prop up and down stairs all day.Then when we got on the bus there weren't enogugh seats so geuss who got to sit on the floor. :)
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We go 7:30 to 2:10 except on Wednesdays where we arrive an hour earlier. M/Tu/F we go to all seven periods. Wednesday is 1A23, Thursday is 4567. "A" would be "Advisory," a stupid little class that's meant to prepare us for the independent project we have to complete outside of class in order to graduate.
However, these past two weeks have been WASL testing for the sophomores. That means everyone else gets to arrive at 10:15 Monday/Tuesday and do that same split as on normal Wednesday/Thursday with Advisory first on Monday only. This week has early release on Thursday for parent conferences, so Wednesday will be late start with 1234, then Thursday will be early release with 567.
I'd rather go to school at 9-3:30 every day.
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0800 to 1700 in France when I was a kid. Up to 1900 once or twice a week if u had "specialty classes". :cry
Cool day mate :aok waiting for pics.
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Sounds like a fun and interesting day.
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You have to take a test just to get into high school!! So what if you dont pass?
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You have to take a test just to get into high school!! So what if you dont pass?
I think he is talking about getting into some good high school.
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sounds like and awesome day
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7:20 am - 1:47pm
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"Don't you love the smell of JP5 in the morning?"
No not at all.
When I was younger I worked for a company that was awarded the contract to clean out the million gallon JP5 fuel bunkers on the US Navy base.
Perhaps the worst job I have ever had to do. Pay was good as we got lots of "danger bonus". Every morning and after lunch the foreman would have to take "explosivity" readings and we had to wear non static producing clothing and use hard rubber scrapers on the rust to avoid any sparks. The tanks had been empty a long time but fumes were the danger, not the fuel itself.
Horrible job. Thanks for reminding me about it. ;)
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Well come on Mr. Teacher hurry up with those pics!
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Nice :aok
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Christ...you get to go at 10:15?! Lucky.
Ya know! School at 10:30am with blackhawks... what next? What happened to having to wake up at 6:30am and walking to school before 8am, getting out at 4 and walking home?
Try having to go to school at 9:00am and then go home at 3:30pm...
-FYB
Only six-n-half hours!?!? Are you in one of those school programs that lets you out early b/c you have a part-time job to go work at? I remember 8-3:45, and in the last couple of years it got trimmed to 8-3:15. And this is in LA, so unless there's an earthquake, school is in session (what's a snow-day?).
My parents might of complained about back-in-the-day having to walk uphill both to and from school, but I got the numbers to back my griping up!
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I saw somthing similar in home town. There is a golf course next to a middle school and the co worker im golfing with notice this blackhawk about 200 off the deck banks right and circles and lands on the 50yd on the schools football field all while the kids were standing outside about 30yds from the field.
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Try having to go to school at 9:00am and then go home at 3:30pm...
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I get to school at 0730 for a 0800 start, and on a VERY good day I get home around 1530. These last few days I didn't even get to leave campus until 2030.
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Yeah, it's 8AM to 3:15 here, but at least 4:30+ if you do a sport.
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Try having to go to school at 9:00am and then go home at 3:30pm...
-FYB
:huh
I hope your joking. 8-4 fer me
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When I was in JROTC in H.S. I was VERY fortunate enough to get to participate in something like this. We went to a local middle school where the Blackhawk landed and all the middle school students got to stand around and look at it and listen to the pilots. After about 2 hours the students went back to class and a group of us got to actually ride the thing, and I was one of them. We took off and circled around the area, after which they actually took us back to our high school and landed us on the football field. I was lucky enough to get the door seat on the back right side, and as we came in to land the Engineer opened the door and hung on the side of the chopper as we were still 100 or so feet off the ground. I have to say it sure beat riding the bus back. :D