Well I going to be talking a bit about my personal life, I don't do this much but I'm kind of frustrated and I want to vent some of it off. So enjoy my misery.

You see I'm in the advanced English class for my school. Generally this is a great class that has good kids in it that actually do their work and make it an enjoyable class. But not this time...

Right now we are reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. We have split the book into five sections and groups of three must present their assigned section to the class in a two day presentation, this accounts to a 1 hour and 40 minute presentation. So this is a lot to do and it's a lot to read and analyse.

My group had to do the third section of the book last Thursday and Friday. We made a plan to get the section read and analysed by Monday so we can work on the presentation. I did exactly this and was ready on Monday, my partners were not. They had not even finished reading the section let alone analyse and understand it. So I tell them they need to get it done that night and we can begin tomorrow. The next day comes and they still aren't done...

So the day before the presentation begins they finally finish reading the section. Too bad they don't know anything about the section. They only read a superfluous reading of it and didn't analyse the text at all. So I'm stuck making the first day of the presentation, which is basically just telling the class all I can about the section(this is the important part), all by myself.

Obviously I was fairly made at this and I was worked to the bone to get this done in time without any help. So the first day of presentation goes by with me and only me talking the entire time. This went fairly well but I didn't have anything for the next day and I needed them to help and actually do something.

So after school that day I told them what I want them to do for the next day of the presentation. Part of the presentation was to get vocab words for the section so I told them to do that since you don't have to understand the text to find vocab. And I told them to find an outside example of Satire(this is a requirement for the presentation). And last but not least I told them to think of discussion questions they could ask the class about the book(also a requirement of presentation). I thought this would be fairly easy to do and wouldn't be something they could mess up, I was wrong, very, very wrong...

So the next day comes around and we start the second day of the presentation. We started with discussion questions. I came prepared with as many as I could think of, my partners came with none. So I was once again doing all the talking. So then we presented the vocab words, this they actually did okay. They had vocab words, but they didn't write down where the vocab was located in the text. This was a requirement of the vocab, so they couldn't even do the vocab right!

So after that we were suppose to show our example of Satire and have a discussion with the class about it. The example of Satire was suppose to be related to the book. So what did they get for Satire? Something good and related to the book? Nope, they got some story from the New York Times. Not only did it not relate to the book, it wasn't even Satire! At this point I was ready to explode and strangle those two idiots. I can't imagine the look on my face when I saw their example of 'Satire.'

So yeah, 'our' presentation was pretty much me talking the entire time and doing all the work and the couple of times I think they could handle some simple things they mess it up spectacularly. I can't even begin to imagine the thought processes that lead them to spill out the pile of crap that they did. It was just horrible and embarrassing.

But thankfully I think there is a silver lining in this story. The way the presentation went down pretty much showed my partners to be absolute fools and that they didn't understand the text. And that I was the only one that actually did the assignment. So this leads me to believe that I'll still get a good grade because I did most of the work that three people should have been doing. And after the presentation my teacher make a comment that said pretty much that, so I have fair hopes that I won't be punished for the ineptitude of my partners.

All I can say is I hope those two get zeros because that is what they deserve. Last week was living hell for me trying to get the presentation done without any help. Even though I will get a good grade it would have been nice if I didn't have to walk through all the muck I had too. All I can say to my two partners is this, **** you.