Pirates!

Alright, I'll say one thing. The subject has nothing to do with this post, aside from this paragraph, it's mainly to draw your attention. It's worked though, hasn't it?

Mainly, this post is themed on the first few weeks of school, and contains a little bit about my Xbox-y stuff.

School. The first day. Yes.
I thought it would be different really, but it wasn't. The only noticeable difference is the obvious one, black school jumpers. Charlie Barrington made a good point that he'd grown up going to the same school as me and Ben (currently walking back from the bus stop at the time) all of his school life, and it was weird that we were the highest year of Highcliffe.

My timetable was relatively the same, with 2 new teachers and all of the lessons at different times than they were last year, but most of the teachers were the same. As I think I've mentioned I now have Mrs Hunt for Physics, which hasn't been that bad really. Aside from one lesson, but I'll come onto that in a bit.

I now have Mrs Cullen as a biology teacher, and I must say she is a most definite upgrade from the Frazer-nator. Miss Frazer, who is now married, knew what she was talking about, but was horrific at controlling the class. I believe a pair of scissors were thrown on more than one occasion, and that just about sums up her lessons.

Mrs Hunt doesn't reaaaaallly know what she's on about. A common answer of hers, if she doesn't know the answer to your question, is either "That's not my field of expertise," or, "You don't need to know that for GCSE level,". Both of which are quite annoying, seeing as a teachers job is to teach, not make excuses. Mr Evans was a much better Physics teacher than T-Hunt, " 'nuff said".

But, the best lesson of hers so far (not down to her) was last week's. Everyone else, aside from the people in question, was sat down. We hear the turning of the door handle, and look to the door. And in comes 4 people, only 3 walking, striding into the room. On closer inspection, we can see none other than James Bonney being carried by Luke Adams, Jack Case, and Tom IB. I'd just like to add that Luke isn't even in our half of the year, let alone our class!

As to be expected, she went ballistic. Genuinely red-faced from shouting, and that was just at the rest of the class for laughing. I dread to think what she was like with James, Luke, Jack and Tom! Then, when she came in from "having words" with them, she saw Callum standing up. Immediately, he was sent out for disruptive behavior. Her eyes then drifted to the back of the room, to see Theo waving his hands around. At this point, Theo was explaining an equation to Amy. Miss Hunt sent Theo out on the grounds that he was "playing golf shots". She then wrote on his Incident Report that he had acquired a meter ruler, and was hitting balls of paper across the classroom. Although, this is what Theo said, and he is an avid user of hyperbole.

It was a hilarious lesson, but laughing could have ended in an incident report, so there was not a peep from the class.

Now, on a more cheerful note, I'm finally gaining some money! Not from a renewable source, but it's money all the same. A few weeks ago, my Xbox 360 broke, as it came down with the 3 RRoD (if you don't get it, google it, I'm not going into any detail). This is a hardware fault that renders the Xbox useless, so it worth nothing. So, a week ago, I (well, I say "I", by this I mean "my dad") put all the other bits and bobs on eBay. These bits 'n' bobs consisted of a wireless adapter, a 60GB hard drive and a Xbox 360 controller. They were put on at 99p, and, all together, managed to scrape up £63! The Hard drive and the adapter went for £32 and £30.99, and the controller went for £13.50. Either way, a healthy bit of cash for what I paid for them.

I intend to buy a new Xbox 360 Slim, which has overcome the problems that cause the RRoD.

Anyway, that was a very long-winded article, thank you for reading it!