The joy of subs at end of term.

I am very pleased to say that I did in fact receive a 4.0 3rd term! It was a long time coming, but finally my hard work payed off! I was very nervous as the weeks passed, and the end of term came closer and closer. Wonderful timing hit as our math teacher had an emergency and ended up going to the hospital for surgery. We had lost our amazing math teacher, and with that we had lost our ability to do math. Our math classes struggled tremendously as the subs had us copy the notes and said "Okay, there ya go! Figure it out!" Yeah right. There was no way on earth that was ever going to happen. A week passed and we dealt with the sub who thought she was funnier than all the funniest comedians put together. She would tell us joke after joke as I sat there saying to myself, "Lady, just give us the notes!" The even better part was when nine o' clock rolled around every night and I literally stared at my assignments for half an hour. I do have to admit that the week did have an up side when we got a new sub.

This sub was actually quite an inspiration to me if I must say. He walked into the room and off the bat told us that the last math class he had ever taken was in fact, Geometry. He had never gotten past geometry, and even had the pleasure of telling us "Math is pointless, you will never use it in life." At this point I was completely in love with this old man and almost had an instant connection with him! I did however find it very surprising that someone who had never taken more than geometry was subbing the math classes. I mean seriously, the kids in Algebra 2 Honors are already smarter than him. How can he teach them when they know more than him? The funniest thing about this sub was his common knowledge. He passed out our quizzes and said "Make sure you bring them back next time!" Us honest students couldn't cheat and informed him that we had to turn them in by the end of class. But as you can see, we had quite the adventure with the different subs who made math better than it already is. While the subs taught, we had two quizzes, and when our math teacher did arrive at the school, there was no messing around. We got straight to the chapter test, and soon after had a test on the terms 1-3. I was barely at an A, and the determining factor of whether I would receive a 4.0 was that test. I had to ace it in order to get a 4.0. So as you have probably already realized, I was very nervous with all the pressure, especially since our teacher had missed a whole chapter. Luckily I did my very best and ended up getting an A on the test which led to my first 4.0 of the year. I am very excited and hope that my grade will stay that way through 4th term as well!