in memory of the puddle (aka lagoon)

Omer's over. May's over. School's over. at least regular classes r. it's the end. shavuos is here. june is here. soon soday will be history. there r still sat's (4 some) and many regent's left, but it will all fly by. by.

R' Lander visits

he spoke to the school and said the reason jews during 1st mikdash could do the 3 aveiros was b/c they didn't say bircas haTorah (not enough chashivus or ameilus) and so torah didn't protect them. if u learn torah intensely, even when ur not learning the yetzer hara won't get u. then they had a meeting in rw's office but then moved to the office, just like a kid would move from the kitchen to outside. then RL spoke to the 11th grade and said no i-pods um pcp's [sic] cell-phones or pocket pc's. ( i guess i-river's and palm pilots r allowed.) he also said u have to come on time to shacharis. they may decide to actually b more strict for us so we don't have a bad influence on the atmosphere. we can set up the first 2 seder's but the 3rd will be learned with yeshurunites, lucky them. rl didn't mention yom yerushalayim and no one had to guhlakhs.

Mazal Tov

Mazal Tov to R' Schmeltzer's son on becoming a Bar Mitzvah.

Weather

Weather in E. Stroudsburg
High Low Chance of Rain
Thurs 79 57 20%
Fri 82 57 40%(afternoon T-storms)
Shabbas 78 61 50%(T-storms)
Sun 83 57 10%

Soday history IV

continued soday history of the first year from bad lines and lag b'omer to BB poles and dora golding.

Wednesday, May 19

Dora Golding Shabbos Tommorow!
Remember not to be snobbish or snubbish
Remember to bring your Pajamas

Tuesday, May 18

News
BB Poles are place on the tennis court (lying down) and hole is dug
nothing too interesting happened today.

Sunday, May 16

Prof Harc makes unnecessary (incorrect) comma corrections on rough draft, and thats what he'll grade! he didnt make any real writing corrections.

R' Real gets in trouble in soday, the first time ever, today for toasting his toast!!!! Avi gets a 10 out of 10 on his gemara quiz and R'Real a 9 out of 10, a miracle!! i guess R'Real isnt having such a good day.

Friday, May 14

I biked to soday today, it took 14 minutes there, 10 minutes back. Good Shabbos!

Thursday, May 13

Major waterfights and fights in yeshiva today.
Bikeriding off-grounds stopped.
Issue of the Day: Why cant we get a signed permission slip to go off-grounds? It can say "I understand the Mesivta bears no responsibility for my son bla bla"
Minch: I already made the grades, i know you all well enough.."
Rimer math tests back, we start Logarithims. Silver math test today.
Karch: I'm grading the rough drafts[sic] and i turned around when a car was following me [ain't i great]
G-steen: I taught gang members, and i like heavy metal, and teenagers are rebellious, and dont smoke pot. (no science done today)

Wednesday, May 12

NEWS OF THE DAY
elson trips over a feather and krak smacks gedaliah with his hat hard.

AK makes it to Klutz Hall of Fame!
This morning he took a plate with two full cups of chocolate milk on it, and brought it to the coat-breakfast room where, as he put it "the cups lost their balance and emptied their contents on the floor" (and a little on AK's Pants.)

Elson gets water-gunned down in pouring rain today
He had gotten my tennis ball which he had left out. Even so, I didnt have mercy and after asking him if he was dry, i pulled out my gun and sprayed (it was pouring anyways)

Tuesday, May 11

Rimer math test tommorow on exponents (x^-3)/x^3
Term paper due this monday

News
Waterfight in school today, MF gets angry and uses mud

Monday, May 10

HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY
avi gets a haircut!!!!!

i remembered to daven mincha, i davened at 7:55 at young israel, and dont forget to count sfira today is the 35th day 5th week.

Lag Baomer trip's story below (first read the second one)
Poll: Who remembered to daven mincha?

We went to Lakewood and visited R' Shustel who gave us a few minutes of divrei torah, then we went to a bagel shop where weezy was eating the store out it's food, eating a bagel, a muffin a cup of ice cream and probably a few more things, and speaking of ice cream, R' Real was eating one in the van and not all of the ice cream ended up in his mouth, his pants and the car seat helped him finish the cup, (R' Real now u know why there's toilet paper in the vans) (and he has toilet paper instead of paper towel or napkins cause toilet paper is cheaper).

Lag Baomer Trip to Lakewood
We finnaly got to Blackbeards cave and for some reason we each gave him $20. But There wasnt much to use the tickets on. The main feature, Go-Karts wasnt open, so we were forced to play batting cages many times. Then we went to Lakewood and Avi will continue the story...

Sunday, May 9

News: non-soday kids visit soday today
Issue of the Day: What to do about the muddy, dirty soday floors?
Notice: Bring $20 tommorow

Saturday, May 8

Its Lag BaOmer!
Regular day Sunday, on Monday were going to Blackbeard's Cave (A nice long drive away) where well get sweaty enough to go visit a Rabbi Shlita in Lakewood. We will be departing (after a short 'learning' seder) at 10:00AM and returning at 6:00 (about 6:45) We are looking forward to an exciting day.

Thursday, May 6

Dvar Torah on Parshas Lech-L'cha
Hashem tells Avraham "Gadol V'avarechecha v'agdalah shemcha v'y'heyeh bracha" and next posuk "And I'll bless those who bless you and those who curse you, I shall curse"
the gematria of the two phrases is each 954. What else has a gematria of 954?

THE REBBI:reb chaim berlin, the school was named after him
THE LARGE ONE: i thought it was named after Wilt ChamBERLAIN!!!!

LINE OF THE DAY
THE LARGE ONE: REBBI, REBBI HE'S GOING TO BEAT ME UP
THE REBBI: ZVI, YOUR BIGGER THAN HIM (AND EVERYONE)
THE LARGE ONE: REBBI, IT'S A KNOWN FACT THAT BOBCATS ARE AFRAID OF RACOONS AND FOXES EVEN THOUGH BOBCATS ARE BIGGER BECAUSE THERE VICIOUS
THE SMALL ONE: ARE YOU CALLING YOURSELF A BOBCAT?
THE LARGE ONE: NO, I'M CALLING YOU A RACOON!!
THE REBBI PIPES UP: AND HIS NAME ISN'T EVEN BOB!!!

Football season begins!
Elson smashes into tree tree times, Gedaliah trips on tree stump ("A tree!" I shouted) The "Football field" is too small and dangerous, and people will stop playing.

Upcoming Events #4

This Thursday is the Dora Golding In-Shabbas. (Shmunch 10th grade and other 11th grade? B? Serve!? Nusach Ashkenaz.) This Friday is Yom Yerushalayim. (Hallel? No Tachanun? White Shirts?) Next Sunday is Rosh Chodesh. (White shirt at DG?) Next Monday is Yome Hamyuchas (and Mem. Day). Next Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday are Shloshes Yimai Hagbala. Next Wednesday you can get Sat Scores. Next Thursday Night through Shabbas is Shavuous. In 2 Sundays are SATs.
I may lain for the last time at Soday this week.

The post

The past post's title reminded me of the NY post.
Q: y would u think of such a paper, u only get the wall street journal!?
A: ah, b/c every morning it appears on the school's driveway. It disappears sometime during the day. I guess it's some free giveaway or s/t maybe?

spambot attack!

it seems a spambot put lots of comments saying "great site bla bla" on this blog. it then has a link to what seems like search results for things like mortage payments. i'm not sure the point in it, and i deleted most of them. I also put word recognition on the comment window so the bots can't do anything. In addition, I reduced the amount of posts showing on the homepage.

where's the daily day for 2 days ago?

grantstomblargebuildingwalkalongriverpassbathroomsandbaseballfieldsgo
torestarauntnearcomeseatcoldcutsgotomtjstareatwallsduringshmoozedave
nminchashakehandsgotoreservewalkaroundgotovaultleavetrafficbacktosch
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Link?Finally?

This might be a link to collegeboard.com. They have set May 31 as the day for recieving scores online.

R' Shmelczer didn't mention this

R. Moshe Shapiro in Teaneck

I've learned that R. Moshe Shapiro will be speaking in Teaneck/Bergenfield this coming Sunday evening. He will be speaking in Congregation Beth Abraham, which is led by R. Ya'akov Neuberger. Note the follow article by R. Neuberger: Halakha and Scientific Method (PDF)

(BG is going?)

SAT Scores

They keep on changing the date to recieve the scores. Originally we were supposed to be able to get scores online on May 22, but they pushed it off at least 2 times. Right now it's scheduled for May 31.

not many blogging

no-one posted about the meeeting. not even about the RL-DN argument (or the fact that they're not providing the physics and calculus they said or implied they would).

SAT vocab

for 3 years prof. harcerk has been teaching vocab words regularly, spending much of class time doing it. he wouldn't use the vocab book b/c he has a special list (from a long time ago, prob. when they still had antonyms and definetly still had analogies,) of words that r especially used on the SAT.
this past sunday, most 11th graders took the SAT. how many words were there on the SAT from 3 yrs. of vocab? 1

"i teach the words so u'll be educated...." said harcerk, "the words r just very likely to appear on the SAT."
but if only one word was on the SAT, we're probably not much more educated either. spending 15 min writing down some alphabetic vocab words each week is not the way to increase ur vocab. the best way is by reading, and u can also try learning large amounts in a more organized, interesting way. just memorizing a list of words is innefficient and rather pointless.

Form B?

If you click on this pdf file you will get the History AP 2006 form B essay questions. I don't know what form B is, but I would've done a lot better on that DBQ. Instead of writing about strange womanhood ideals and cults of domesticity (s/t i knew nothin about), i could've written about the development of tensions between the US and USSR, which i know very well. (AP essay site)
I would think e/o in the US would find that essay easier, it's also actual history unlike the long-questioned woman's studies one. What is form B?!

100th Post!

To the left is a chart of the web traffic to this blog. A lot of the visits were only for 0 seconds, so I'm not sure what they mean.
The majority of the posts were published in the first month of the blog. After that, there was much less posting, especially during Pesach vacation, but both traffic and posting are rising now; May may be as high as March. I know, I can't write a normal paragraph.
In honor of the 100th post, I put back some Google ads. I also put a button link on the side to some useful software. In addition, I put some famous Soday posts under that.

Upcoming Events #3

This Shabbas is Parshas Emor (and Parshas Shor). Next Tuesday is Lag Ba'Omer/L'aOmer. Wednesday is Mr. Shweidel. Shabbas is Behar Bechukosai and "Ya'an Uvya'an"

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SAT I

Many people took SAT today (can't discuss specifics). Pretty easy. Good essay topic. 4 math sections. Last writing section was hurried: 14 questions in 10 minutes. Scores available at collegeboard.com on May 22 (you may need an account-which you could make quickly). Also, May has a good curve, since most people who take AP's and are serious about studying don't take the May SAT

AP over

The AP is finished. All that's left is chemistry, where we really didn't need to do any of the textbook; English, which doesn't test knowledge that much so doesn't require much studying, and Math B for the Math B class. and the SAT's of course.
Were not allowed to discuss the AP or they say our scores will be invalidated. whatever.

AP History

Strange AP? (can't discuss free-response questions for two days)

Soday History (any number)

This story (from the original soday blog) happened two years ago from tommorow and many times since:

Wednesday, May 5

"The one whos picked first in sports is the best" said Proffesor Harcerk today. "And I was always picked first."
Harcerk continued "I used to run 30 m.p.h. down the street every day. I ran along a truck and he clocked it" "yea sure, you ran 30mph" said Diddy, but the Harc insisted it was true "I would tell you if I was lying, and you would be able to tell if it was something so ridiculous [sic]"

Soday History II

here are some posts from the blog 2 years ago, slightly revised:

Thursday, April 29

teacher: I was the fastest cutter, so a guy was jealous of me, and he threw a rock - pretty far up the hill. and I threw it over the hill, over the road, past the brook.... And he looked at me with many expressions and never bothered me again.

Wednesday, April 28

Just May and 23 days of June left!

“who wants to read next?” asked the teacher, even though he was teaching a ninth-grade class. no one raised their hand. “if you all raise your hands simultaneously -” he began saying for the millionth time, but this time was cut off “SHUT Uhh..” shouted the real. shutting him up.

LINE OF THE DAY
feshtanzii? -- mr. silverstien

Tuesday, April 27

mystery of missing markers solved:
teacher caught slipping markers in his bag- chayiv misah

LINE OF THE DAY
i need ketchup, but i'll settle for blood - eliyahu schwartz

How come no one mentioned this ?

Hunk? I went to the AP site and scrolled down! It appears there are later testing dates that no one mentioned. If really we all could of taken our AP's later, then why the [your filter does not allow these words to be displayed] didn't any one know about this?!

UPDATE: I wasn't the first person to scroll down. The later testing dates are for people who were taking a different AP or sick the first time, but there's no mention of that on the page I linked to.

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Tommorow

E/o remember to wear white shirts (and knitted yarmulkes) tommorow.

Purim Shpiel 2005

This is the shpiel from last year. Shco-ach to GA who typed up this shpiel, he spent 2 months typing. I checked it over. It took me more time to write this shpiel last year, and there was also more time to rehearse. It was also easier to perform. You can vote on which shpiel you think is better-written by clicking on comments.

Purim Shpeil
By AK with weezy’s help


Scene One
Purim in Israel
Nenner: Ey-Foh ha - um krias ha-mugeelah?
Israeli: Slichah?
Nenner: Ey-foh hakree As-hamugeelah?
Israeli: Ma Atah Omer?
Nenner: Ey-foh …
Israeli: (screams in hebrew)
Nenner: Ey-foh…
Israeli walks away

Scene Two
Two years ago (2003)
RR: It’s shreckluch! The police are narrowing in on us. It’s time to find a new HQ for our smuggling business.
RW: We need HQ’s in a place they’ll never suspect, a rural area like monsey.
RR: But we can’t just buy a place and say it’s our HQ we need a cover story.
RW: How about if we make a school. Then we have a good HQ, and we get to run a school.
RR: Gevaltik! (nods head and chews beard) But what if the kids find the smuggling center?
RW: We’ll get a building with an off limits area like a basement and no one will be allowed there.
RR: But kids might go there anyways.
RW: We’ll get old strict teachers to scare the kids.
RR: Yea, they can also give the kids so much HW, they won’t have time or energy to look in the basement.
RW: We’ll hire teachers that fit in our plan.
RR: How long do we plan on having this new HQ?
RW: Only a few years to be safe, then we’ll move again.
RR: How will we explain the end of a school? We don’t want anything to look suspicious.
RW: We’ll get a building that falls apart. If the doors break, the windows crack, the walls get holes and the toilets don’t flush we’ll be forced to move.
RR: Especially toilets they can’t work too well. Broken toilets always close schools.
RW: Are you being facitious?
RR: No
RW: We’ll also get really bad kids so the school gets ruined.
RR: Right, we’ll start with grubba am haratzim and every year try to get worse kids so eventually it has to close.
RW: But we have to be vigilant all year…

Scene Three
During The School Year
RR: Shrekalach! The teachers can’t come next Wednesday and were getting a big drug contraband delivery that afternoon.
RW: We need some way to keep them occupied that afternoon.
RR: I know! (gevaltik) We’ll have a two and a half hour seminar so everybody stays in the Beis Medrash.
More Recently
RW: This Wednesday night some trucks are delivering some “stuff”.
RR: It’s pashut We’ll have a shpiel.
RW: Shpiel? Isn’t that a basketball player? Shpiel O’neil
RR: (Rolls Eyes)
RW: Oh I thought it was.


Scene Four
In the middle of last year.
Rubin walks up to where Karch is throwing rocks over a hill
RR: Mr.Karcher! I hear you’re a very talented human being.
K: (Raising glasses) Why yes, in fact, in fact I was an exceptional minor league baseball player who could’ve made it into the major leagues. I was also a noted football player who could run over 35 MPH. I’m a professional musician whose performed before audiences numbering in the thousands. I’m an accomplished artist, writer and poet who had his works published in various magazines and books. I was the only one in my college class who got a 92 on a paper and for that my professor didn’t curve it. I’ve lived in 39 countries and speak 14 languages to boot.
RR: In that case, would you like a job as a teacher in a school which is really just a cover for an illegal smuggling business?
K: Well considering that my goal in life is to help and protect… OK, sure.
RR: Gevaltik
Everyone shakes hands, Rabbis leaves and Karch continues throwing rocks.


Scene Five

G-steen: These stuff are terrible, they’re hurting my spiracles (Shows spiracles) I can’t breathe.
Rimer: I never can. But I smoked this in kindergarten.
M: OK now. Myron c’mon now. It’s not up for debate now. Elias, what are spiracles now?
G: Spiracles take oxygen –
R: Hey Morton get me two cups of water
G: HEY! SHUT UP! My spiracles take in O2 through tracheal tubes which branch into smaller tubes which form a respitory surface where CO2 diffuses –
Nenner: (dropping cigarette on shirt) Dang! I always do that. That’s why I get these stains, and I only have 2 shirts. I couldn’t find any other in my size.


Scene Six
RR & RW are holding a bag.

RR: R’ Weiss, you have the stuff?
RW: It’s right here R’ Dovid (lifts bag) our last bag.
(Sirens or noise)
RR: OY! There’s a police car outside.
RW: Oy gevalt it’s the police! What do I do?
RR: Quick, flush the stuff down the toilet.
(RW runs out and jingles flusher)
RW: The flusher isn’t working! Stupid toilet!
RR: Oy shreklach!
(Policeman charges in, RW runs to BM tries locking door. PM stops them.)
PM: Freeze!
RW: But winters over, why should I freeze?
PM: Because the games over. You’re under arrest.
(forces them out of the room.)

The (shpiel should’ve ended here, but weez wanted a scene 7 as the) End