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Sonic Silence

My heart raced with excitement just before we stepped on stage. My memory flashed back to the rehearsal we had an hour ago. It took us three try’s to get it right then and that was only in front of the other bands now it was in front of a crowd of strangers. We made a dramatic entrance as the announcer spoke “They say just before a sonic boom there’s SONIC SILENCE”.

The drummer clicked us off. Click, click, click, click, and our bass player came to life and played. I waited for the part where I started playing while I looked into the audience and estimate how many people there were. There were a lot more than I expected. It was like a sea of random faces. Then my guitar sprang to life as I started to play. It started off great we were almost like a recording. Then came the second verse which we weren’t very confident about. Our singer started to sing but it was like someone had stolen the right words from her memory. We realized she must have forgotten the lyrics and was improvising which was fine except the rest of us couldn’t figure out how long to play the verse it was like suddenly the whole world had changed.

Luckily after looking around at my band mates confusing faces we came to a silent agreement to start the chorus. We blazed through the chorus like a wild fire and continued onto the bridge. We played the bridge as the singer sang then came time for my guitar solo. I had been practicing it all week, but suddenly my mind went blank like someone had erased the chalkboard that was my memory. So I had to improvise. I was so nervous my hands were shaking like an Eskimo in the arctic so it was extremely hard to finish the solo.

The rest of the song was perfect right up until the ending which we hadn’t practice as much and in rehearsal we had done terrible. At that point everyone was lost. Everyone was following some one else like a confused conga line of doom. Then thankfully the drummer found an opportunity and signaled the ending.

We didn’t exactly know where to exit on the stage so we just left from the way came. We saw the other bands and they said “good job” and we wished them good luck and headed for the exit as excited as a little kid on Christmas morning. We confessed all of our mistakes and how relieved we were that the show was over. After all the bands had finished playing their songs everyone came outside and we reflected on how awesome everyone did. The energy after that show was intense everyone was so excited and relieved. The parents to pictures so they could remember the moment, but I knew I wouldn’t need a picture to remember this experience.

Sensory detail:sound

It sounds like a train going by a house making metal pipes shake. Knocking things off there shelves and waking the residents of the house. Then passes temporarily leaving the house in peace.

Then it starts sounding like a ghostly wail in a rickety old haunted house. Then the symphony of harmonicas and trumpets comes in. Joining the ghostly wail in it's sad lonely song and makes the room shake even more like it might cave in. Slowly scaring away everyone who comes near making the ghost wail more in it's loneliness.

Also it kind of sounds like a hollow metal pole being slammed against a hard metal wall making it vibrate violently. Shaking wildly back in worth making a weird swooping sound.

It reminds me of the sound of the sea of nothing in the yellow submarine movie. Hollow and ominous like there is nothing there, but makes a sound anyway just to be heard. It also reminds me of The Beatles song "Northern Song" the way you can complain about what it sounds like but it will still sound the same and there's no changing that. Also sometimes there's nothing to complain about.

Lastly it sounds like a lonely harmonica player playing his lonely song while locked in jail. Just like he's waiting for someone to join his sad song so maybe he might not be so lonely. Then he finds his song can't reach anyone so he stops playing.

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The Locker Problem

Locker Problem

The locker problem was that there were 1000 lockers and each locker needed to be tested by being opened and shut. The first kid opened all the lockers then the second kid changed the state of every other locker then the third kid every three lockers etc…
After going through all the numbers we found there were 31 lockers open. Those specific lockers are open because they were changed the state of an odd number of times like open close open. Strangely all the open lockers are perfect squares like 1 4 9 16 ect... I think the perfect squares are all open because each perfect square goes up by an different odd number. More specifically every locker goes up by a higher odd number as shown in my diagram below. I think this effects why the lockers were open an odd number of times.

S.L.O.B What I did this weekend

She walked to the wall crying yet again. She wrote down her feelings of sorrow on the small slip of paper and put it on the wailing wall. She cried her eyes out for another few minutes then went back to June, Lily, Rosaleen, and Neil in the kitchen.

She noticed the burnt pancake in the trash and that lily was gone she started to hum "oh! susanna" which made June come and comfort her. Neil left after eating a pancake as May finally calmed down. June went to go practice her cello leaving May alone in the kitchen.

She started making another pancake as she thought about what lily might be doing and if she would want another pancake.

Order of Operations

3²(7+2)-32

3+4/2(5²)

8-4/2+5=6

Favorite Fictional Character

From the 1968 film "yellow submarine" my favorite fictional character is Jeremy Hillary Boob Ph.D. he is a strange green and brown gopher with a blue face. He lives in the sea of nothing where John, Paul, George and Ringo in their yellow submarine appear after being sucked up by a vacuum monster. "ad hoc ad loc and quid pro quo so little time so much to know" this is one of Jeremy's favorite quotes and if you can't tell he always speaks in rhymes. John, Paul, George, and Ringo ask Jeremy if he can fix there engine, and being a multi talented guy Jeremy helps them as he says himself "eminent physicist, polyglot classicist, prize-winning botanist, hard-biting satirist, talented pianist, good dentist too". Sadly though he is very lonely, but Ringo takes pity on him and brings him to the yellow submarine and that's where his journey begins.

He is one of my favorite fictional characters because he's very unique and he looks at things in his own way. He may not be the coolest character in the movie but he saves the day on multiple occasions even if people don't appreciate him.

He is a special character to me because he always seems able to be happy no matter what happens. Also he always seem to have a sense of humor even in the tough times. Another thing i like about him is he always rhymes his sentences. Even though it's hard to understand what he is saying some time I'm sure almost everyone who saw this movie thinks that he brings a creative personality to the plot and makes the movie defiantly more interesting. So that is why Jeremy Hilary Boob Ph.D. is my favorite fictional character.

What Is Math? What is Physics?

To me to do math is to learn what makes things work and also to explain things. Math looks like explanations and today's technology. you can find math anywhere to explain something and what makes the technology work. Everyone uses math even if they don't realize it cause math has to do with almost everything.

I think physics is an explanation of the way people and animals move. I think we are doing physics right now because moving can be explained by physics. You can find physics by looking at anything because everything has something to with physics. I think everyone who moves uses physics cause movement is physics.