Rate My Teacher

Rate My Teacher.com- a great web site for many reasons. Firstly, you can put anyone on there, from Albus

Dumbledore to that annoying substitute who wouldn't let you go to the bathroom. Then you get to rate them,

from one to five depending on helpfulness, clarity, and if they're cool or not. Needless to say, when I'm writing

reviews some do significantly better than others. And by the way, I did add Albus Dumbledore. Didn't you see

him subbing for IST last year?

Best in the Business- Prime Ministers

Well, well, well...

It's that time of year when most people heave huge sighs and say, "You just wait for next year!"

That's right, ladies and gents, fantasy baseball is over... more or less.
With a commanding 14-6 lead over the Abu Dhabi Bullets, the Prime Ministers are set to become this years winners of the league finals. Now, I suppose it's difficult to be objective when it's my team we're talking about here, so I'll stick to the facts. Here are this year's numbers:

Prime Ministers
Season place- 2
Record- 129-89-35
Moves- 30
Playoff Byes- 1
Playoff Wins- 1
Playoff Losses- 0
Manager Experience- 1st year

So put your money on the Prime Ministers, because come October first I think we all know who the winner will be!

Sports

Wow. The seasons for sports are so different here from New Hampshire. Most of these changes are good, though. Firstly, Cross Country is in the winter, so I don't have to run as much, persay, as I would be in the US. That's fine with me though, as its about 40 deg. C. The heat would really suck, but the swim season just started.

After swimming for weeks during summer, I feel that this will be a very good season for myself and hopefully our team. Not surprisingly the team is smaller than last year's.

I'll be looking forward to seeing how the BHS team does in winter. They just added it to direct athletics, so I can check out the results for swimming, xcountry and track. Pressure's on!!!

ParTEY

Albert Einstein... science
Roger Federer... sports
Santa Claus... just a nice guy

These people are famous for being awesome in some way. They come along only every once in a while. Hmmm... this list seems so hollow. What about film? JAMIE FOXX!!!

Actually, I was just kidding. Although I respect him an actor, I'm not obsessed with Foxx. But it was cool to meet him. At the embassy party (at the US ambassador's home) we saw not only JFoxx, but fellow actors Chris Cooper(Seabiscuit, Bourne Identity) Jason Bateman (Arrested Development) and Jeremy Piven; the only movie I've seen him in is Rush Hour 2, as that gay guy at the department store.

I got autographs from all, and was able to talk to Bateman and Piven for a while. I don't know much about Arrested Development, but I told him the last ep. I saw was with the English girl he almost marries.
Piven talked to me about acting, which was pretty sick. He's a very funny guy.
Foxx, on the other hand, played checkers and chess with his security personnel the whole time. There must have been five or six of them. Okay, the guy even has taste testers to make sure his food isn't poisoned. Two!
Needless to say, I didn't get to talk to him. He wasn't talking to anyone, so I just stood right behind him and had a guy from the embassy take a picture.
All in all, it was a fun night. I was up till 1:30 doing homework, though (or 5:30 at night, NH time.)