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Amortization Fun!

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So we were talking about amortization in class today and one of the examples I used was buying a house. So, in Excel(snort) I demonstrated that if you bought a $300,000 house at 8% interest with a 30 year mortgage you would end up paying almost $800,000 over the life of the loan. This led to the following discussion:

Student 1: So why don’t you just save up until you have $300,000, and then buy the house?
Me: You mean when you’re 70 years old and your 3 kids are married with kids, you’re going to buy a house then?
Student 2: Oh, well then why don’t you just wait til your parents die and then move into their house?
Me: You mean when you’re 50 or 60 years old and all your kids are grown, you’ll move into your parents old house?
Student 3: (incredulous) I’m not going to be 50 years old when my parents die!
Me: Well when do you expect them to die?
Student 3: A lot sooner than that!

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Middle School Basketball Update

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jerry_danny.JPGWe’ve had two games since my last update.

The first was last week against ICS Budapest. We played a great game, and were even leading by a small margin at half. However, with the score tied midway through the 4th quarter, ICSB broke down our defense and went on a 10-0 run to put the game out of reach. Even though we lost a tough game, we showed some improvement and my boys played well.

The last game was this past Tuesday against DIS, which we had to play with only 7 guys. Even though we short on subs, we staked an early lead and continued to build on it the entire game. Everything we’d worked on in practices finally paid off with our 2nd win over DIS.

We now sit at 2-3 on the season and have a tough matchup next Thursday against VIS.

GO EAGLES!

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Christian Computers

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My kids in 8th grade were typing quietly today, when one of my students asked

Student: Mr. Klein, is this typing program Christian?
Me: (confused) I don’t think so, why?

S: Well because there was a bad word in the last paragraph.
M: Really? Are you sure? Show me where it is.

She then pointed to a word on the screen: assess.

After a short laugh, I explained that the word assess was not the word she thought it was.

I guess you never know what you’re going to learn in Computer class.

Yo Momma so…

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My 7th graders in Study Hall are always trying to come up with new things to do instead of actually doing their work.

Today a few of the boys were leaning over the same desk and trying to stifle giggles. This, of course, caught my attention and I investigated the scene. What I found were handwritten Yo Momma jokes on small scraps of paper. I confiscated the few that I saw and am presenting them here unedited.

  • Yo momma is so fat that when she was in space some astroanauts saw her and they thought it was a new planet.
  • Yo momma is so fat that she was on the train tracks and people thought a train was there.
  • Yo momma is so fat that when she was skiing they thought a snowball was coming down.

This Week in Middle School Basketball

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hussle.JPGWe had a game the day after returning from Christmas break and well, you could tell we hadn’t practiced in a few weeks. After a shaky start, we started to get some movement on offense and some good looks at the basket even if we couldn’t get those shots to fall. In any case we were overmatched again by a very good and well coached AIS team, falling to 1-2 on the season.

We have a game coming up next week against ICSB, a Christian school in Budapest, and are hoping to show some more improvement in that game. We’ve been working on some offensive plays, that I’m hoping will produce a little fruit.

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