Yo whats up guy! Your man Elijah here back with another banger blog post. Today we are going to be talking about Grade Nine.
As you know, lots of people last year left the school to go to Grade nine from AEMS. Most of them went to Arborg High School, including Mr. Ewerts class Alumni, Ernest Agpalo and Jayden Hibbert. However, I moved to the city and I am going to St. Pauls High School now, which is a Jesuit school and its pretty cool. There is two gyms and they are both massive. In both the Gyms there is full Weight machines and it is like the exercise room only with way more stuff. There is over 160 kids just in grade nine and seven separate classes for the grade nines. I am playing for the U-15 AA Rangers Blue hockey team and there is lots of other AA kids at my school. There is also lots of AAA kids at my school. The kids here are insane at basketball too, but I think Ernest is better than everyone. Instead of having recess, we have a 50 minute break in the middle of the day to do whatever we want. There is a cafeteria with really good food. There is a shop to buy school apparel. There is two football fields. The whole school is really cool. You guys are very lucky though that you get two breaks that are both almost one hour long. We have 3 65 minute periods in the morning, a 50 minute break, and then 2 65 minute periods after that. I wish we could have almost two hours like you guys.
At our school we can get JUGs and MIs. If you get four MI you get a JUG and if you get a JUG you have to stay for one hour after school. If you get 18 JUGS you are kicked out. Luckily, most people here are well behaved so no one really gets any JUGs or MIs but some kids do get a lot. I have no JUGs so far and I am hoping to keep it that way.
Lots of the kids here are very athletic. Everyone has their own talents so some kids are insane at hockey, some are insane at football, some are insane at basketball, some are insane at running, and some are just really good at everything. There is multiple alumni from our school who have played or are playing in the NCAA or other college teams for football, soccer, basketball, you name it. Its really cool.
ALSO, GUYS REMEMBER JOSH AKINPELU!!!!! HE GOES TO THIS SCHOOL AND HE IS GOATED!!!!!
The main thing I am here for is to talk about the subjects in school. Here we have exams and currently I am studying for my Mid-terms. I have Social Studies, Math, and English for my Mid-Terms, but Math and Social Studies are finals, because in Semester two, we switch from those to Religion and Science. The English and Social Studies are not that bad, but I am here to warn you guys about math! I’m not necessarily struggling in Math this year, but it is my lowest grade by a lot and the Math in Grade nine is much harder than anything you have ever done before! We have to learn Polynomials and solve algebra equations using Polynomials. Mr. Ewert did a good job of setting me up for this but Polynomials and the algebra in Grade nine is still ten times harder than what we did last year. There is a bunch of little rules seem like they were made up on the spot. However, if you study for the math, it will click eventually, so I guess what I am trying to say is be prepared to do lots of studying for Math in Grade Nine because it will probably be the hardest subject for you.
Anyways, thanks for getting this far in my blog. Lots has happened since I graduated in June, but have a good one, and maybe I might post again later. See you!
Here is a link to My school website.