THIS IS YOUR FRIEND ALFRED N!

So, I still don’t have any deep topic to talk about, but when I find one that hasn’t been talked about yet, i shall blog about it. FO SHO! Instead I shall talk about my day yesterday. It was pretty awesome. So yesterday was UCC MAY DAY and I was the MC for most of the day. Started up at 9 getting the whole PA system set up. BTW those circle tables from the student centre are a lot heavier than they look >.<. ANYWAYS, after we got the stuff set up I started to think of a good opening catch phrase. Then a LED fluorescent light bulb (just for you tree huggers out there) lit up in my brain. I came up with “THIS IS YOUR FRIEND ALFRED N!” and always ended off my comments with “YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE” as i had my gangsta hat on that day. I do not think my “yeee” went well with the fans tho, as well as the varsity rugby team. Just pray that i don’t get beat up tmmr >.<.

Anyways this leads me to another point. Only like 40 people showed up for the varsity rugby game, and that includes people from Trinity College. Even less for varsity lax. Now its understandable that not a lot of fans show up for games that are away from school, but these were home games, also advertised home games. We had posters up and we probably spent a solid week of filming and editing the MAY DAY video. What ever happened to school pride? Even some people on the board didn’t seem to care. We were supposed to take turns mcing and playing music the whole day, that way i would of been able to watch the varsity badminton game, but no one showed up, so it was pretty much just me for most of the day and Brendan who stayed there all day. One of the stewards was supposed to bring chips and pop to sell since ARAMARK wouldn’t let us have a BBQ, but then he forgot about it. Somthing as important as refreshments for fans and he forgot it! Even though this May Day had a much better turn out than last year, it was still pathetic. The facebook event said we were supposed to get about 280 ppl who were attending with another 113 who were sent on maybe. Instead we get like 30 ppl come up and say where’s the food? What ever happened to school pride. At least we know A-Day would be better than this. But still, over the years i’ve been noticing the attendance at A-Day has been going down. One of the guys I talked to, and you all know him, AND HE KNOWS WHO HE IS, said to give him a reason to go to A-Day. Supporting your school isn’t enough? I for one am proud to go to UCC, and always has been. UCC is probably the best thing that has ever happened to me, even if i get crappy marks, I know I’m still smarter than the average bear. UCC is what taught me how to be determined, and how to stick through the thick and thin. It was a UCC old boy who taught me how to be the best candiate for an interview. I look at all the successful old boys and what they are doing for the world and economy and i can’t help but feel a sense of pride. Why is it that people don’t care about their school anymore? Not just at UCC but everywhere. Something as important as boarding being taken away just for the creation of a middle school and what we get is just a rise out of assembly. Yet out of those 800 or so students, probably only 20 maybe even less than that, actually goes on to e-mail the admin, the board of governors, or even that task force to complain and give out their view. I listened to the task force meetings, and i noticed one thing. All of the past alumni who complain have graduated over 10 maybe 15 years ago. The only people i heard who have graduated recently and are part of the fight is Vicar, who is pretty much the leader of the fight on Fbook, and Cianflowne, who’s still fighting strong. Bené doesn’t even talk to the students about the boarding crisis, and hes the only current student representative to the boarding task force for us. From what I’ve seen, he doesn’t do jack shit. But what amazes me is the fact that people can make fun of it. The amount of day boys who don’t care, who won’t even give there name and e-mail just to get a petition signed to keep an important tradition at our school to keep going. School pride has been completely lost among these people and I do not understand why. Don’t tell me that UCC makes us work hard and because of that we should hate it. Other private schools work soo much harder than us. Its just because we have the IB which makes us do an extra 3 major projects (EE, World lit, group 4) which weren’t as bad as we thought it would be, and the portfolios for math, science, and econ which is pretty much all the projects we have to do for those courses. But that doesn’t mean we work harder. We basically don’t have to do jack shit to get a 90 average. All we need is to get a 6 in every course and boom, 90 average. 6s are not that hard to get, even though i only have one of them. So let me explain to you what a 6 is. A 6 is a minimum mark of 83, or by the end of the year an 80, however because it is the “IB” we get an automatic extra 10% added so in turns into a 93 for the Ontario diploma. The actual work we do in the IB is probably the same as the public schools except for the higher level stuff which go at a much faster pace, but even still I would think its probably just 10% harder than the AP courses, but we get the extra 10% at the end of the year and most of the higher level courses are banded so its still easier to get a good mark, needing only a 70 to get a 6 instead of the usual 83.  So don’t give me that crap because our school makes us work hard. Don’t take me wrong, I love the school, and especially the IB. I feel after the EE that i can write anything, and the extra stuff we learn from the IB makes me feel so much more prepared for university. How is it that people can not just take off a few hours from their weekend to go support their school? I’ll admit, that i never went to May Day before, but I almost always went to A-Day except for last year and grade 9 ever since the prep.  Why is it that people don’t care anymore.

But yes now that that little schpeal is over, back to the story of my day. 

After i finished MCing we played brawl for 5 and a half hours. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. gg.

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