Chicken and Chem

I think I am becoming a vegetarian. Every time I go to eat meat it makes me want to puke and I have to stop eating it, if I have at all touched it. It could be another of my phases, but those phases are usually provoked by something (e.g. watching Madeline*, dissecting a chicken wing in yr 8 science and seeing all the gross tendons and joint ligaments etc) and as far as I can see, there's been nothing to provoke my sudden dislike of meat. Well I mean, today my Indonesian class went to an indo restaurant and the chicken was rank with like hairs on it and some of it was more like fried bone than chicken, and other parts looked like they had fingers etc. But it wasn't just me who thought that, my whole 6 person class thought the chicken was rank - the food in general, but we had a good laugh about it. And besides, I've been having these vegetarian tendencies for like a month now. Hmm, interesting.

In other news, chemistry is rad, as nerdy as that makes me sound (and Jess, haha). Apart from our teacher announcing today that we will be having weekly friday chemistry tests, that is. Today we heated metals. Magnesium, we discovered, creates a bright white light which you're not supposed to look at but we sorta did anyway. Was awesome - like the sun before our very eyes :) And, the iron nail we heated went red hot and we were able to hammer it into a different shape. We also have our regular accidents, which is mainly what provides our constant entertainment in chem. Today for example, we were heating a test tube with HCl acid and a metal in it and the test tube had a stopper to trap any gases produced. We were meant to take off the stopper and test if there was gas present, but as I was telling Jess to hurry up and take the stopper off, and while she was complaining that she wasn't going to put her hand in a bunsen flame to take off the stopper, the stopper popped off loudly and flew halfway across the room. Haha, so funny. In yet another hilarious incident, we were meant to be heating magnesium or something in a crucible (a little bowl thingo with a lid) and it was meant to glow bright. Ours wasn't glowing bright, and after 20 minutes of heating it (unsuccessfully), we looked around and realised that we weren't meant to have a gauze mat on the tripod beneath the crucible and the pipe-clay triangle. This led to jess clumsily using the tongs to try to remove the unneccessary piece of equipment and almost dropping several things in the process whilst trying to conceal all this from our nazi teacher. Ahh good times. Then there was the time when I compared chem to Harry's potion class - what with the nazi teacher, the times when we totally screw up an experiment and try to hide what we're doing plus our hystericalness etc. Haha, can finally experience life like it is at Hogwarts, at least to some extent.

I think that's it. I had de ja vu while writing this blog, so I apologise if I've written this all before elsewhere.


*When I was young I loved Madeline. Hence, when the Madeline movie came out I bought it and watched it for what would have seemed a trillion times at the time, but was actually only a total of about 5 before wanting new entertainment. As a little kid does when they love someone/something, I imitated Madeline. In the movie, she befriended a chicken called Freddy (or rather, whom she named Freddy) and didn't want to eat him (or other chickens) after that. She eventually ate chicken at the end again I think, I'm not entirely sure though. Well, I didn't get as far as befriending any chickens but I did go on a chicken strike. I refused to eat chicken and when my mum tried to force feed me some of Freddy I said "If I say 'Freddy' three times, I'll throw up!" and I said 'Freddy' three times and ran to the sink to spew. I was really intouch with my psychic when I was young haha.