School Trouble
Lets start off. I spent the last 2 years in Germany. I hated it. I was born in Ca, USA, and compared to that, Germany was incredibly corny. Plus there was the fact that my brain absolutely refuses to learn any language. During these 2 years I was able to squeeze a very basic sense of the language and was able to understand and speak simple sentances, along with threats and curse words, though I usually used those in friendly jives with the few friends I picked up there.
I returned to the US about 3 months ago and was stuck into 10th grade. I am very happy in my current possition, although semi-stressed from the massive lifestyle changes Ive had within the last three years (Ive been through 5 different classes and 4 different schools in the last three years. Anyway, Im getting off my own topic. So lets get back on...
One of the threats I learned while in germany was "Ich will dich stechen", which means "I'll stab you".
A couple days ago I was sitting Biology class here at Monterey High, California, and our teacher turns on some incredibly crappy german techno music. To the people who didnt understand the music, they wouldnt realize just how crappy the lyrics were. Anyway, it somehow came down to me knowing german and my teacher asking me to say something in german. The first random thing to come to my head was "Ich will dich stechen". I didn't mean it as a threat, he simply asked me to say something, and so I did. He then asked me what it means, and I, in the day dreamy mood of the morning so stupidly told him; "Ill stab you" (this really got the kids attention from the entire classroom). A few kids were like "Oh god, you can't say that to a teacher!". And I just dully looked arround wondering what the hell I just said. The teacher being a nice guy waved it off and replied to me with "Fick dich arschloch" which meant **** you ****". I didnt really care. A few kids asked the teacher something like "wellwhat does that mean" and he replied telling them it was an appropriate response to what I said, which was true.
Later when we started watching a movie or copying notes (forget which exactly) he walked towards the back of the classroom passing by me, and I took the chance to let him know that I didn't mean it directed really towards him. He told me he didnt really mean what he said to me was truely meant towards me. I though to myself "whatever, Im not dead, so I must be doing okay".
(BTW, I have hium third period, right after first break.)
So today at first break me and my friend Sam sat in our group's area and decided to draw some ns sci fi gun concepts. All was happy. I went into science right after break, still carrying my pad in which we had drawn about four (crappy) gun concepts on, and laid it on my desk. We started copying the test off the board and He came arround checking on everything, just looking arround, and saw what my friend and I had drawn. He asked me "What are these"? to which I replied "Just some gun concepts for a game I play." At this point he stared at me hard for about 5 seconds and said something like "You better not have anyplans to bring anything like these into class and I said "ofcourse not, I would never draw weapons in here". (continues to stare) I correct myself with meanings getting mixed with "I mean I would never actually take out a gun and do anything with it here, but I would draw it like I have on paper." He jokes arround "If you do Id have to take you down. Don't you join the dark side." I continued to defend myself and explain in more detail what they were for "Im trying to draw these for a game called natural selection." He gave me a dirty look when I said "natural selection".
Just before I left germany, I wrote a small article that I posted here called "Humanities Natural Selection (or Lack Of)" which I posted here:
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=76474&hl=humanities+natural+selection' target='_blank'>http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/in...tural+selection</a>
When I came here I was still proud of it and decided to give it to my Biology teacher hoping for some criticism. I think he took a negative reaction to it. I never actually got arround to speaking about it with him though.
So I can only guess he thought that I was psycho and believed that I was going to be the "selector". Apparently he canceled the thought out, to my luck. And started speaking to some other students arround me. I went back to my work.
Anyway, I just felt that was funny and scary at the same time, and thought it could be entertaining for you people.
BTW, earlier today in my last period, PE, I punched the biggest guy in school in the side of the head after I blew up. He had been harrassing me since the first day of school I attended and I always just rubbed it off. Today, after getting hit in the head with a basketball, I finally exploded. Thankfully, he didnt get angry enough to kick the sh*t out of me. I apologized. Shook hands. And the day passed on. And now I sit here at 5:37 pm, extremely tired from this incredibly dramatic and traumatic day.
I returned to the US about 3 months ago and was stuck into 10th grade. I am very happy in my current possition, although semi-stressed from the massive lifestyle changes Ive had within the last three years (Ive been through 5 different classes and 4 different schools in the last three years. Anyway, Im getting off my own topic. So lets get back on...
One of the threats I learned while in germany was "Ich will dich stechen", which means "I'll stab you".
A couple days ago I was sitting Biology class here at Monterey High, California, and our teacher turns on some incredibly crappy german techno music. To the people who didnt understand the music, they wouldnt realize just how crappy the lyrics were. Anyway, it somehow came down to me knowing german and my teacher asking me to say something in german. The first random thing to come to my head was "Ich will dich stechen". I didn't mean it as a threat, he simply asked me to say something, and so I did. He then asked me what it means, and I, in the day dreamy mood of the morning so stupidly told him; "Ill stab you" (this really got the kids attention from the entire classroom). A few kids were like "Oh god, you can't say that to a teacher!". And I just dully looked arround wondering what the hell I just said. The teacher being a nice guy waved it off and replied to me with "Fick dich arschloch" which meant **** you ****". I didnt really care. A few kids asked the teacher something like "wellwhat does that mean" and he replied telling them it was an appropriate response to what I said, which was true.
Later when we started watching a movie or copying notes (forget which exactly) he walked towards the back of the classroom passing by me, and I took the chance to let him know that I didn't mean it directed really towards him. He told me he didnt really mean what he said to me was truely meant towards me. I though to myself "whatever, Im not dead, so I must be doing okay".
(BTW, I have hium third period, right after first break.)
So today at first break me and my friend Sam sat in our group's area and decided to draw some ns sci fi gun concepts. All was happy. I went into science right after break, still carrying my pad in which we had drawn about four (crappy) gun concepts on, and laid it on my desk. We started copying the test off the board and He came arround checking on everything, just looking arround, and saw what my friend and I had drawn. He asked me "What are these"? to which I replied "Just some gun concepts for a game I play." At this point he stared at me hard for about 5 seconds and said something like "You better not have anyplans to bring anything like these into class and I said "ofcourse not, I would never draw weapons in here". (continues to stare) I correct myself with meanings getting mixed with "I mean I would never actually take out a gun and do anything with it here, but I would draw it like I have on paper." He jokes arround "If you do Id have to take you down. Don't you join the dark side." I continued to defend myself and explain in more detail what they were for "Im trying to draw these for a game called natural selection." He gave me a dirty look when I said "natural selection".
Just before I left germany, I wrote a small article that I posted here called "Humanities Natural Selection (or Lack Of)" which I posted here:
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=76474&hl=humanities+natural+selection' target='_blank'>http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/in...tural+selection</a>
When I came here I was still proud of it and decided to give it to my Biology teacher hoping for some criticism. I think he took a negative reaction to it. I never actually got arround to speaking about it with him though.
So I can only guess he thought that I was psycho and believed that I was going to be the "selector". Apparently he canceled the thought out, to my luck. And started speaking to some other students arround me. I went back to my work.
Anyway, I just felt that was funny and scary at the same time, and thought it could be entertaining for you people.
BTW, earlier today in my last period, PE, I punched the biggest guy in school in the side of the head after I blew up. He had been harrassing me since the first day of school I attended and I always just rubbed it off. Today, after getting hit in the head with a basketball, I finally exploded. Thankfully, he didnt get angry enough to kick the sh*t out of me. I apologized. Shook hands. And the day passed on. And now I sit here at 5:37 pm, extremely tired from this incredibly dramatic and traumatic day.
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i got 3 hours now to do a semesters worth of government homework and im playing gta....
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Can we say "worthless?"
Dude, I was sorta the same way at school. It just got worse and worse... I started skipping a school a lot to get away from it and such. Then a teacher said behind my back that I was skipping school to play videogames or something, because that's probably the one thing that I liked at the time.
Then I just stopped caring. Bam. Nothing mattered anymore. My grades started climbing from that point on.
Stress is bad. Just take a breath, think about how big it is in the realm of things, and move on.
american schools are horrible places where they treat kids like criminals, and theres nothing you can do about it, so be a little more careful and get out of there asap.
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Ya, in canada the kids shoot eachother all the time, and they just smile and say "boys will be boys"
lol. Public schools are evil. I left my old public highschool right before then implemented id cards. My favorite thing to do during studyhall was to sneak past the hall moniters.
Private School FTW!
How sadly... true
O.o
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Can we say "worthless?"
Dude, I was sorta the same way at school. It just got worse and worse... I started skipping a school a lot to get away from it and such. Then a teacher said behind my back that I was skipping school to play videogames or something, because that's probably the one thing that I liked at the time.
Then I just stopped caring. Bam. Nothing mattered anymore. My grades started climbing from that point on.
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its not that i skip school or get bad grades its just im a procrastenator (spelling?)
im actualy getting a B in that class <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Granted, everything that happened to you was circumstancial, but if he truly thought you were a deviant or something, he should have helped you instead of accusing you.
my 12th grade english teacher was a sexist communist lady that yelled at me cuz im a guy
I almost like going to school, because it's mostly just socializing with my friends. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Then at the end I said guns don't kill people, bullets do. All of the pinko commie teachers at our school thought I was psycho and called in my parents for a meeting. In the end, it was all good. My friend wrote his on giving the world a blindfold and a pack of cigarettes because we're all going to die so we might as well sit back and enjoy a smoke. Now that's classic...
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A normal one... or so I thought. People's experiences with schools in this thread is starting to make me think maybe my school is the oddity, and not the other way around.
my school held what they called a terrorism drill, where we were to pretend there was a shooter walking around and we were all to hide in our rooms and by NO MEANS step into the hallways or even look out the windows, we were only to keep the blinds closed until the PA system said it was okay to come out. one kid was suspended for going to the bathroom, and noting the number of police with guard dogs walking the halls. (we normally had two pseudo police at all times, and now the whole county's police force was there)
everyone saw out the windows anyway, the huge number of squad cars. turns out they were performing a complete locker and parkinglot search for drugs. fifteen people in my graduating class of 150 were arrested that day, thats one in ten. my best friend was arrested for having his brothers pipe under his car seat, he didnt even know about it. i was upset they had searched my coat, with a half dozen pockets, presumably because the dog smelled the M&M's in there.
This is how much respect they had for us. everyone called their friends who went to the other town highschool, because they were scheduled to do the same thing that afternoon. seventy kids skipped school that day, and there were no arrests.
My school installed metal detectors the next year. This is how much respect my school, a lower-middle class all-white suburban midwestern school, has for the children who are our future. **** them.
Uhh.. yeah, a "terrorism drill." My school had been doing these things since before 1999. It happens. Public schools suck.
my school held what they called a terrorism drill, where we were to pretend there was a shooter walking around and we were all to hide in our rooms and by NO MEANS step into the hallways or even look out the windows, we were only to keep the blinds closed until the PA system said it was okay to come out. one kid was suspended for going to the bathroom, and noting the number of police with guard dogs walking the halls. (we normally had two pseudo police at all times, and now the whole county's police force was there)
everyone saw out the windows anyway, the huge number of squad cars. turns out they were performing a complete locker and parkinglot search for drugs. fifteen people in my graduating class of 150 were arrested that day, thats one in ten. my best friend was arrested for having his brothers pipe under his car seat, he didnt even know about it. i was upset they had searched my coat, with a half dozen pockets, presumably because the dog smelled the M&M's in there.
This is how much respect they had for us. everyone called their friends who went to the other town highschool, because they were scheduled to do the same thing that afternoon. seventy kids skipped school that day, and there were no arrests.
My school installed metal detectors the next year. This is how much respect my school, a lower-middle class all-white suburban midwestern school, has for the children who are our future. **** them. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Now that's just disgusting. I feel really damn lucky, seeing them pull bs like that.
It's the thought that counts right?
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Its week 9 of school.
I've done 2 assignments of math.
Quit bitching.
2. stechen is an acceptable form of stab, but for any verb to actually focus on the completion of an action the inseperable prefix er- works the best.
Therefore:
<i>Ich werde dich erstechen</i> would be 'I will stab you to death.'
while:
<i>Ich will dich stechen</i> would be 'I want to poke (stab) you.
[I suppose I'd actually go with Tyrain if you literally want to make the threat instead of grammarically, as it seems he's actually from Germany, though.]
Now, all you people are crazy with your schools. Maybe you just need a rather fun outlook on school or something (if that's possible). You'll always do better with things if you take an active interest.
However, I'm not sure why people have so much trouble with school. The lowest grades I've ever gotten are B- in Biology and Jazz History, the most boring classes I've ever taken. That's not really with studying or anything going on, I just tried to learn it when it was taught...and then you don't need to study what you wrote later.
I suppose it can't work for everyone, but...eh <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> .
On the particular topic of this thread: try to see if your teacher is a gamer, bring in a couple of screenshots of NS printed out and a game description from the site. Not only does it show you're not lieing, you might get a cool teacher who's into gaming or something (nope, didn't have one...pffft. Did have a few bullies freshman year, and maybe one sophmore year...once the fighting starts and they find out you're not quite a pushover...that tends to stop).
[Plus, in college people are more mature...although drugs seem to be a bit more rampant.]
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<span style='color:red'>Soon you won't go anywhere on these forums. MUAHAHAHAahahahahah!!!!!1</span>
which suburb? - I live in Crystal, so were pretty close.