vow of silence

last friday/sat i did the vow of silence to raise money to build a school in africa. for 24 hours, i wasnt supposed to talk. from 3-10 on friday and 8:45-3 on sat i stayed in school where there were in school quiet activites to give us something to do but more importantly to monitor us to make sure we kept quiet. the first one hour of it or so is pure torture, everything moves so slowly when you cant talk. Writing things down on paper was done alot but it is a very slow substitute. You eventually have a basic grasp of reading lips and made up hand signals. After a while it does become something that you expect.
Somewhere during the long period of time that we were in school, we watched blood diamond which actually was a really good movie but it also related to the cause that we were contributing to. And they didnt tell us this til the very end when we watched a cnn documetry relating the events in it to what is really happening. So it all made sense at the end which i thought was quite cool as there was actually a point of the activites during that day. and talking once we finished was a very good feeling.

april... 12? sometime around that marks are due to university. I want that day to pass already! teachers arent getting any easier and my marks are falling slightly due to the many different assignments and tests that we have so frequently. stupid semestered schools, i'm sure they are feeling exactly the same way that they felt in december. After the marks go in, i forsee some classes getting smaller and smaller due to people not wanting to show up because they have gotten in already... and that list is quite long of the people whove gotten in... they arent cool... nothing to worry about, no more waiting? why cant engineering make decisions sooner, earliest is april but it could be as late as may? at least a month or more wait for me which is tough.

now i would like to proove why my data teacher is so bad. The way he marks and takes of marks for spelling and grammer in a data course already would have been enough to classify him as one of those *bad teachers that you wouldn't want. Even his teaching style, which is to not teach and get students to go to the board and explain it to the class makes it worse. But the data assignments he gives out? first of all we had to make a math jumble, that game in the newspaper, where you unscramble letters to make words which eventually leads up to a unscrambling a really long word to solve the riddle, well we had to make one of those. but now, "Find a mathmatical mistake in the newspaper". . . . .
what? that has to win the award for the worst assignment? newspapers dont make mistakes very often, and 60 students in both his classes are all supposed to find a different one?

looking for a way to do something with an mp4 file, its a movie, i cant read it, anyone have a program to view it or change its format? all the ones from google are all demos that need cracks which i'm too lazy to find.