So
once again there hasn’t been much going on at all and I expect this post to be
even shorter than the last one. I finished out last week with working and
getting things ready for school--as usual--before we went go-karting for a
friend’s birthday. It was really awesome because we were able to go up to 40mph
on the racetrack and we all felt completely safe! We had to sign a waiver and
stuff obviously but it was so worth the money we paid and for the amount of
time we went (30 minutes). There was a group of about 10 of us and majority of
us were just driving to have fun. Of course, my competitive-self wanted to go as
fast as possible and see how many times I could pass everyone else and what my
fastest time could be. After the first round, two people went to go watch us in
the next round from a viewing box above—one of those people had never driven
anything in her life before that day. That would be why she drove like 2mph the
entire first couple laps.
Anyways, by the next round some of us had figured out
how to drift the cars so we started doing that on every corner to avoid slowing
down too much. This was more of a friendly competition just to have fun but it
wasn’t too serious. We were also racing with some Bahrainis and they knew what
they were doing so we didn’t even bother with them. At the end, we saw the
results and Birthday Boy had a best lap time of 1:24.794. He was talking with
his roommate about how he had the best lap time of our group. Then his roommate
looked at me and says, “Weren’t you Lollipop?” (it showed our nicknames we
chose, not our names). Yup. I was Lollipop. I wasn’t going to say anything but
I beat Mohamed. I had a best lap time of 1:24.468. Barely beat him.
Afterwards
we all went to a restaurant called Veranda’s that serves some of the biggest
varieties of food at any place I know from Chinese to Homestyle Southern to
Indian to Bahraini to Mexican. Awesome place. Mohamed got a fruit cake served
to him and we all got a slice-which was amazing. Other than Mohamed’s birthday,
the week has been a big drag. A few of us got together to watch V for Vendetta on November 6th
because we were too tired after go-karting and eating to watch it on the 5th.
In
other news…there is no other news. Classes were this week. Like every week.
Grades were due. Like they’re always due. 1st quarter ended today.
That’s exciting, right? All the kids approach you asking you to give them an A.
And/Or complain that they have a low grade or that you didn’t do your job
right. That’s why I have a new sign going on my door J Can’t wait for conferences
to be over so then I can just concentrate on teaching again.
That’s
all for now, see ya on the flip side!
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