It's All Routine

Additional Mathematics is new to me. Heck, it's new to all of us (meaning the Year 10s). Though after the first ten classes, it's not really as hard as the first impression it gives. And our first impression was horrible. Horrible.

Mr. Edward Kulpa helps lessen the stress of it all. He's a pretty good teacher. Oh, and he's from the little town of Townsville. Yes, he knows the Powerpuff Girls.

But that's not what I'm here to blog about. Sure, having Add. Maths four times a week could be counted as "routine" but not in my case. It's the fact that every time we have our "Surprise Pop Quizzes" (we've had three so far), I begin my usual "routine". If you're a 10 Terran (1), you might have noticed. No, it's not cheating.

It's that little competition between Joshua and I for better marks in thus said quiz.

We do it all the time. It just comes naturally. It usually begins with Mr. Kulpa writing the first equation on the board, then either him or me says "Oh, it's on" or something of that nature.

Bernard: Hey, Josh. You know what that question says?
Joshua: Umm, what?
Bernard: I think it's saying "I'm about to whup your butt".

And when the results come back (Mr. Kulpa writes the answers on the board beside the questions), you can see our heads move at exactly the same time from the board, to our books, to each others books. We shield our answers at any moment we're not scribbling on the flimsy back pages. We just started from today to actually get one another to mark our answers. Stops the cheating. We've tied once.

From today, I rank 3-1.


We're such geeks.