Mr. D thinks I have no friends...

Okay, so, today during Digital Journaling class Austin was playing the game "Tiny Wings" on my iPhone. Mr. D came up to him and took my phone away. Just a few days ago he was bragging about how he beat the game, but he was in fact lying. When he looked at the stats on my phone he started making fun of my high scores and saying I had no life and no friends (I think he was jealous). Then I got a text from my friend and it unfortunately just happened to have two profanities in it. He said my only friend was laden with f-bombs. I said I did have a BFFL (best friend for life) who was Kayla. He told me to get a good friend. After that he pretended to give me money to go buy a friend. Isn't he a great teacher? You may find this hard to believe after just reading my post, but he is actually one of my favorite teachers. He tells it like it is, and doesn't spoon feed us (even if this is what we want at times). He very encouraging and tells us to be ourselves (even if at the same time he is making fun of us for being ourselves). The point? I don't think there is one, this was just the first thing I could think of blogging about,and I only had 10 minutes.

Mr. D is forcing me to do this...

Mr. D thinks that I have an imagination, but of course I have to disagree with him. I don't know how to creatively express myself in any way. Doing things without structure make me uncomfortable, even if I'm good at the thing I'm being asked to make my own. For example, when I play the bassoon and the oboe (yes, laugh) I don't know how to make a song my own. I have to play it exactly the way it's written unless someone tells me how to add detail and my own style to it. My teacher sometimes get frustrated (well not really) with me because I don't know how to "noodle". "Noodling" is where you just play around with different notes and scales that you like to warm up. I feel like I am physically unable to do this because I'm afraid I'll sound stupid. I know this isn't true however because the point of "noodling" isn't to sound good, it's just to warm your instrument up.

Because I love it so much, I'm just going to throw something about TKD (tae kwon do) in here. Tae kwon do is a very structured sport and there's not too much you can do to it to make it your own. I love the structure of it, and how your being told what to do. I learn so much better this way. I think that might be part of the reason why I'm good at it and like it so much.