I'm so stressed about euro right now!  we did not have a teacher until the mid september since Kaplan is now sick, so school assigned us a new teacher.  mr pope, well, he seems really cool, but i just don't really think his teaching style works very well for me.  He always talk in some foreign languages while teaching, and ask us questions in other languages, i mean we are already havnig troubles with understanding the materials he's covering in english, there's no way that we are goin to understand those stuff in french, spanish, german, dutch, russian and who knows what other languages he speaks.  and in class, basically he's not really lecturing, but keep asking us questions, how do we suppose to answer all thos questions if we dont' even understand what the text is talkin about.  he's always like," you guys have to read the chapter!  If you read the chapter, you wouldn't have any problems with this class", seriously, if we could undertand all the stuff in the book by ourselves, then why do we need a teacher?  And he gives us all those websites and videos, and music, i just dont' think they would reallly help us.  I'm not trying to say that they absolutely useless and he's just wasting his time.  I actually think that it is really thoughtful of him to spend all much time online searching for this kind of stuff to help us understand better, but we need to focus mainly on the text and the stuff we have to know for the exam, those websites and stuff are just supplements which could possibly help us to understand the text.  If we even did not understand the text, what's the point of us go online and watch all those videos.  And he always call up people to the board, and give him/her a marker and say, "you teach us the main concept of this chapter!"  Why do we need you as a teacher if we could teach ourselves.  And the stupid class participation points, that is so elementary, i mean teachers use class participation points to make sure the kids pay attention in class in MIDDLE SCHOOL, but this is high school and this is an AP course, everyone in this class all wants to get a good grade, of course everyone is going to pay attention. this is just stupid, it gives us too much pressure, cuz he says, "if i ask you a question, and you can't answer it, you just lost all class participation points of the day."  We are serious about our grades, could not be able to answer the question does not mean that we are not paying attention in class.  This is so STUPID!  and OMG, i hate group work and group discussion, i absolutely hate them. The first day of class, he said he hates group work too, and he' s not goin to make us do group works very often, and now, basically, we have to do group disccussions everyday and we have to present the information we discussed in group in front of class and everyone's gonna take notes from what ppl is presenting.  and He throws pens and markers in classroom everyday, so violent!  and yells at us for not knowing geography well.  He talks about how he was a student teacher in McKean, and how good this euro teacher in McKean is and how well he did student-teaching there, why couldn't he just go back to Mckean with his stupid class participation points, group discussion, marker throwing, self-teaching, and all those kinds of "good" stuff with him~!!!!  im not trying to say he's a bad teacher or what, i mean he's not bad at all, he is fun and he's really cooler, much cooler than a lot of ap teachers, but his way of teaching is just not working very well.  I don't want to do poorly on the ap exam and i do't want my grade in this class to affect my GPA.  In average, i spend 3-4 on euro everyday, and still could not keep up with him, i just don't understand anything in that class.  i dno't get it, i mean is it my problem that i can't understand or is it his problem~  okay, now, enough complaining about the his class.... let's talk about him.  I heard that he's now dating Kudlick (my 10th grade english teacher) , haha, i don't know, maybe its just a rumor.  today, during euro, Garnell said something about kudlick, and pope smiled and last week, he said he's gonna watch the field hocky game, cuz kudlick is the coach. haha

calc is hard too, i hate it when koliss assign each person a question, and only us like 15 seconds to answer them, and he would make fun of you if you got the answer wrong or made some silly mistakes, and everyone in class in really nervous about the class.  A lot of band people are in that class, and in band everyday, ppl are like talkin aobut hwo scary to answer those questions, haha!