Non Euclidean

I spent a good deal of time drawing little triangles on a marble today.

Why? I'm learning non-Euclidean geometry. It is FACTINATING. A little hard to grasp, but so cool. Yes. I actually like something in math. Non-Eucldian geometry is cool.

Hopefully I won't have to do a bunch of boring proofs. Those proofs are what killed regular Euclidian geometry for me.

You May Laugh...

Last week I finished my exams for Quarter Three. I barely survived. :) Learning the stuff is so much more enjoyable than studying and memorizing the stuff. My Theology test asked the most obscure questions...

Now I am starting Quarter Four. For the first time, History and Literature are sharing a book-- The Great Diolouges of Plato. The Republic is for History and other dialogues for literature.

This morning I got started on reading History. It is infinitely more interesting than Thucydides, and doesn't hop around like Herodotus. But it is insane. I have no idea how I am going to survive another nine weeks of this. Look at this quote from my work today:

"So then in general, in the use of each justice is useless, but in their uselessness useful?"

SAY WHAT?!

Edit: I have since figured out what that sentance means, and I now proclaim to all the world that Plato is rather cool. Socrates (he's the character in Plato, long story) has a delightful habit of turning everything upside down and inside out-- and I get to do that to him in some of my essays. :)

School

So, who is excited about the school year? I was... until I began. :P My subjects are pretty fascinating, but man do they take forever! I guess that is why it is called high school. I am three weeks into the school year so far.

I am using Kolbe Academy, pursuing the Summa Diploma, and doing Honors in just about everything. Thankfully Honors is not that much harder than regular classes. I have to write an extra essay per week per subject. Thankfully I can scribble an essay in about half an hour.

Here are my subjects:

History (Ancient Greek)

Literature (Ancient Greek)

Theology- Bible studies and alot of reading from the Cathechism

Biology

Geometry

English (Composition and Rhetoric)

Latin 2


I am reading the entire Histories by Herodotus in the first quarter. >:( He is an author from the ancient Greeks. Every few paragraphs, he goes off on wild tangents and you can never follow him. Hopefully the other Ancient Greek texts I will study for history will not be so annoying.

First quarter I am also reading another entire book- the Iliad. I like it much better than Histories. Of course, being Homer, it draaaaaaaags, and it is hard to follow, but at least everything is written chronologically!

Theology is very enjoyable so far. I have to read a ton of encylicals (sometimes fun, sometimes looooong). So far I have been learning about the history of the Bible- how it was written, and the different translations, etc.

Biology is facinating. Not as much as Physics was. ;) But it is soooooo much better than chemistry. I was really upset when the first chapter in the Biology book was a review on chemisty. Now I am studying the cell. Yay! Tons of memorizing, though.

So far in geometry I have not actually done geometry. Rather I am doing conditional statements and sylogisms and what not (major deja vu from Logic class). This week I started on proofs.

English= ultra easy. Therefore, English= very fun. :) Yes, I am lazy...

I have not begun Latin yet. I was a year ahead last year, but got very confused and tired of teaching myself. Mom signed me up for Memoria Press' online class, using the same book and timeframe that Kolbe does. It starts in a week or two.


I know I am doing a ton of complaining... its really not that difficult *cough* *cough* and I am studying some very interesting things.