So many Problems...

We did it today! We had the unity of our class, probably for the first time in the past 8 years. Why did it work? Because everyone was so upset at our French teacher, because of the test, and the way he treats us. Before class, we all agreed on saying: Je ne sais pas!, je m'excuse, mais je ne sais pas! Meaning: I don't know! I am sorry, I don't know!... it was hilarious sometimes. I couldn't help laughing since the questions were really simple and still no one knew! Oh man, you should have been there to witness this. He dealt really nicely with it and we made pretty clear, that we are now adults and won't just obey to everything a teacher thinks to be the best for us! In the last 5 minutes he threatened us by saying, oh if you do that again, next hour, then I will take serious steps. We all don't want this to happen, but we will be strong if it has to be done! After class we got together and talked about whether to do strike another time or not. I suggested, that we should try working it out with him another time. There is no point to strike in the way we did, without giving it another try to solve the problem. All we want to achieve with this, is that there are only two days where tests can be written. We don't even ask of him to announce his tests, we just ask him to be a little more human, a little more understanding in how much students have to do. We ask for nothing else. Since there was no one else to talk with him, I went to do it. I know I was pretty impolite, but I, myself, got really annoyed, by him not agreeing in one single point, even though it was apparent that I had better arguments.
Some things I told him were: I don't see the point of asking this much from students, it is as much as all the other subjects together! In response to that he made me seem like I was too dumb to learn a page of vocabulary in a decent time, but the fact is, that all of the students take so long, if they want to do a good job - if the definitions are excluded all of this wouldn't be a problem at all, then it would only take about 20 minutes, which is totally agreeable. But the definitions are the time consuming part.
I also told him, that I will no longer put so much effort in my French grade, since I am not even taking the final test in that subject. I am preparing myself for just 8 points in French and I am ok with that, because I said to myself that it will be for my best. If I wouldn't have made this decision then one day soon, I would have gotten into a major crisis. There is just too much to do.
I tried to get him to say that he will talk it over with us, because I don't want my class and myself to strike for another time. I don't care about the steps he will take, not at all, I am just worried about the atmosphere in the class. I want teachers and students to be able to live in peace with each other.
My mom had a pretty good point during lunch. She said, that now, since we pretty much didn't leave him an option to agree without losing his face, he is trapped and has to say no to whatever we suggest. We have to find a solution that still leaves him with the authority he needs, but we can also agree on it! I hope everything will work out in the end. I don't want to be the one causing all the troubles, but nevertheless we found it to be important.
Ok, now for the rest of today, there was nothing major.
I had English during fourth hour. We got our test back. I actually stopped caring about my grade, but what surprise did I find when I looked at my grade - I got 15 points. This came totally unexpectedly. I am glad about that grade, because it will give me the opportunity to compensate my bad French grade which is definitely to come.
After coming home at 3:50, I taught my little recorder kids for two hours. The last two lessons were especially tiring, since they didn't have practiced at home. So I just got over the music with them. Finally I was done with teaching. I thought about going to sleep and just not practicing today, but then I remembered my new list of priorities. There is so much work ahead of me now, and I hope I will get everything done. One hour violin and one hour piano at least and then there are still all of my homeworks ahead of me. If I do everything I will probably be done by midnight the earliest and I am extremely exhausted already. Be sure that I will blog reltalks though. I thank you one more time to point out that Christ has to be our center in order for everything to fall in its place. Wish me strength for all my chores today. I want to be done before midnight. I will blog the final sentece whether I made it or not tonight...
Have fun doing your homework. I hope Chemistry is going all right. You deserve good grades. If you find some time, maybe you can blog about the beginning of Ramadan. I am extremely interested in that. Did you make it through the day, without eating anything? What kind of food did they eat after sunset?