15 of December - Tuesday

Lucas wasn't the only one to get into an Ivy League University, though he was the only one to be shaved; for now, anyway...

Julia and Giovanna were accepted into Brown University! Congratulations to them!

14 of December - Monday

Lucas has been admitted into Columbia University in New York!
WE HAVE AN IVY LEAGUE PAULEAN IN THE U6!

Of course, Lucas wasn't gonna get off lightly. Break time was filled with the sound of electrical shavers are we shaved all of Lucas's hair off.

Photos are below but if thats' not enough for you, here's the video footage of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL9apVw4_c0

4 of November - Wednesday

With the International Day coming up this Saturday, the School's staff began to work on the enormous tent that will be used to shade everyone.
The field, where the tent is usually set up, is not available, as it will host a football game the week after that and the inevitable mess caused by the international day will not be cleaned up in time.
The enormous tent is being set up in the middle of the open patio of the school, much to the discontent of the pupils and teachers. This is because we are forced to take large detours around the field and near the covered area in order to get to classes. I also find myself wondering how they're going to get past the milestone of setting up a tent where a massive tree lies. Undoubtedly they'll find a way, or else they wouldn't have picked that location for the tent.

20 of October - Tuesday

For the first time in the term, our TOK lessons took place in the classrooms. Up until now, all our lessons took place in the Chapel downstairs where we had the students doing their oral presentations. The orals shall continue but in the classrooms.

This seems to be college week! Only today, we had talks at lunch time from Boston University and Chaplan University. After school there were 6 Universities including Babson, Hofstra and the University of Miami.

I say it's college week because of the fact that tomorrow and Friday are also going to host a series of other colleges.

30 of September - Wednesday

The end of the second month of term is pulling up. Expect to get a lot of "A pinch and a punch and the first of the month!"'s tomorrow, my dear readers!

Both the Form 5's and the Upper 6th Grade round was today. In tutorial this morning some students got terrible news, some got fairly normal news and some got spectacular news. Those who were not in the morning tutorial for any reason (such as myself) received them after lunch in the tutorial period then. (By the way, I imagine that the Wednesday tutorial period which has been around since probably ever is to consider the tutorial period lost once a week for assemblies.) Your guess is as good as mine but I think it seems like a logical explanation for it.

Pre-contested events today included the popular hurdles and the oh-so-longed-for high jump.

During the lunch break, Walsh University came for a talk although, unfortunately, very few students attended the talk. Although we are going to be getting some more college talks soon it does seem that their number is decreasing, what with all the college applications and all.

Following straight after the Walsh talk we had Mr. Mugan explaining to us and giving us more information about the dreaded Extended Essay. The presentation focused more on the actual details of it, like the layouts and the abstracts...

Oh, and as as final note: Sodexho concocted a new desert for us today. Actually, it was more of a change from one of the regular deserts. Instead of using "Sonho de Valsa" bomboms to coat the pavê we have, they used "Negresco" cookies. Whilst I do prefer the Sonho de Valsa Pavê I confess I rather enjoyed this new desert. Oh, and why do they insist on mixing the best deserts with the worst main dishes and vice-versa? We had pavê for desert but the damn battered fish as the main course!

11 of September - Friday

The end of the week arriving and most of the school already turning on their "relax" gears.

Today was a pretty normal day with nothing out of the ordinary happening, though I must say that Vicky's stretching exercises during P.E. though were spectacular and extremely envigorating. I don't know exactly how to word this because describing pain as "good" without sounding like a masochist is extremely hard. Hmm...despite it seeming like every cell in my body was screaming in agony when I was done, it was a "good" pain because it was one that left me (and I'm sure the others as well) with the feeling that we had improved our fitness.

It certainly was a healthy and good alternative to dodgeball, an activity that I've been wanting all week but never seem to find enough people willing and able to play when P.E. lesson finally arrives.

9 of September - Wednesday

It sure seems this week is being quite uneventful.

During maths today (our first lesson) many of my classmates came in to talk to Mr. White in order to get a permission slip to go to Graded. I didn't go, so I'm unsure how the talk went, but I'm pretty sure it was some sort of university talk too.

Lunch time was a tense one where, all of a sudden, one of the puffs would come out of nowhere and smash you or the person next to you on the head. Yes, it was an all-out war of puffs. It sort of reminded me of how dogs fight. One second they're just staring at each other and, out of the blue, they're tearing at each others throats. Similarly, there we all were, just sitting on the sofas when one person would get up and randomly attack another. This usually led to a collective attack on the surprised, assaulted individual.

Suffice to say that all was going great and it was lots of fun until some people came down, decided to lie on the puffs and spoil our fun. Oh well...c'est la vie.

Ah, yes. I might as well talk about something I read in the newspaper this morning. Well, today is the 9/09/2009. I read in the newspaper that a hospital near my house has 23 caesarean sections reserved for today because some parents think that it will be cute for their children to be born on the 9/09/2009....999.

7 of September - Monday

Holidays!

The 7th of September is the Brazilian Independance day and, as usual, no school for us today. Yaay for us.

3 of September - Thursday

The second draft of everyone's Extended Essay is due in tomorrow. From what my friends have been telling me and from what I've seen lately, Extended Essay drafts are very similar to the TOK essays. We're given ages to do it (in the case of TOK essays; a month) so people who don't do it immediately end up forgetting about it until the week (or weekend if you're lucky) before it's due when a friend reminds you about it. Then most people react in a "Holy Sxxx" attitude and work their sorry little asses off to get it done. Yeah...this Extended Essay deadline is not the final draft; but people are scrambling to get it done nonetheless.

On a lighter note; we've had a visit from a great friend of ours today! SteVe came by to visit us in the few weeks he has left before he goes back to England to face another brutal term of school. Hell, it's great to have good friends who live abroad suddenly come to visit the school again. In case you're reading this Steve, your surprise visits are awesome! Keep 'em up! And this blog is just as much for you as an ex-student as it is for us current U6.

Basketball game against Chapel today after school. I don't know the results yet again; but here's a photo to inspire you guys.

2 of September - Wednesday

With the Brazilian Independance Day coming up, we had the usual annual Assembly about the important date. It was pretty much the same as every year; an address by the Headmaster, a video about the country, the inspiring speech by Mr. Assis and, finally, the singing of the Hino Da Independência.

We won't have classes on Monday; but we will have them on Tuesday.

It seems our U6 board is going to constantly be under changes. We've had another picture added today. Matheus together with Hugo Chavez. (Matheus is in the place of Evo Morales; well, Matheus is Evo Morales) It looks great. I'll try to put the picture up here some time! No offense meant, of course, Matheus!

Yeah; I also got the scores from yesterday:

Girls won 1x0.

Boys lost 0x3.

31 of August - Monday

Economics is usually a good way to start the week; except when we have a test at 8:15 in the morning...well, that's what we get from convincing Mr. Cooper Blanks to put the test forward from Wednesday to the next Monday...

We had a college talk today, we had nuggest for lunch.

Other than that, nothing went on today? What news? No news. Boring...boring day; boring beginning of the week.

Oh...by the way; today's word of the day is Quizzical.

28 of August - Friday

Okay. Today a felony beyond imagination happened. Megan Fox was kidnapped. Yes, that's right. She was stolen from our U6 Wall and the thief left a note in her place.

It only said "Return Michel and I'll put back Megan".

Now I'm not sure which of the two happened but either someone printed another identical Megan Fox picture and put it back up or the thief just put it back. In any case, Michel still hasn't been put back up.

OH YEAH! And our library door was opened again today! Okay, lemme explain this to whoever doesn't know: there is a passage from the 6th form centre straight into the school building through the library. This, however, had been locked for just about a year since the librarians complained about the excessive noise cause by us...

After a whole year of whining, moaning and general complaint they finally listened to us and opened the door to see if we can control ourselves. If all goes well, the door will stay opened and we won't have to hike outside just to get back into the building through another door!!

Starting the week with economics is great; but it's also great to end said week with P.E.! Some of use decided to try out a new sort of game: Dodgeball. I claimed that the only real way to play dodgeball was to use a ball that hurts on impact! I mean, what else could encourage people to avoid getting hit?! Well, suffice to say that whilst we didn't get a steel-hard ball like I'd have enjoyed we also didn't get the soft, spong-like balls that dodgeball is usually played with at school. Despite the ball not being so hard though, the other team still mentioned that I played somewhat like a maniac, making the game personal and throwing the ball very hard. HAHAHAHA! I mean, what's the fun in any sport if you don't play to win? ;)

27 of August - Thursday

Probably the most interesting thing that happened today was the confusion over lunch. We had grilled chicken today, but many people thught it was strogonoff. Others thought it was Chicken Nuggets.

Let me clear up the confusion:

• We'll have strogonoff tomorrow,
• and chicken nuggets on Monday.

Other than that, not much happened; so I'll just stick a random photo down here...

26 of August - Wednesday

At many points last year, when we were in the Lower 6, we had periods when we were locked out of our centre. These periods lasted from a couple of hours to a couple of days. These depended on both Mr. Thomas's mood and what exactly we did to deserve the punishment.

Well, suffice to say that our messing around started today when we decided to play some Dodgeball indoors. The game didn't seem to last very long after I was hit in the face by Steiner soon after the start of it. Anyway, Lucas put the ball away soon after, and that was that.

We pretty much had a normal day today with the exception of another UBC visit. Few people attended as it was pretty much dedicated to people actually wanting to apply there. A lot of questions were answered and the guest speaker was brilliant and charismatic.

Oh and by the way....battered fish is just another fancy name for "Fish a la Milanesa". It's getting rather annoying Sodexho trying to trick us into thinking there's new food when all there is are new names for old food...