User:Hawkeye8

Bonjour! Je m'applle Hawkeye8, et je ne parle pas francais. J'aime le choclat and je n'aime pas les escargots. Yes, for those who could understand that, I completly contradicted myself.

The mentioning of choclate and snails? That sentence is the exact thing that everyone said the first day of French I.

Hawkeye8
I guess that people are confused from where my name came from, so I'll explain for you so that I don't have to do it a million times. There is an anime called "Fullmetal Alchemist", the original idea came from Hiromu Arakawa. It's about this boy and his brother who try to bring back there mother after she died, and...let's just say it doesn't end up well for them.

Anyways, the soldiers in the millitary are a big part of the story, and there is this one charecter who is awesome. Her full name is First Lieutenet Riza Hawkeye, and everyone calls her Hawkeye, and where I first tried to get a screen name on a website (ezboard.com, since my French teacher has a message board on there)hawkeye was already taken, so I used hawkeye8 instead.

I didn't get from the bird, the hawk, at all, but they're still cool. We have them around here, and it's cool to see them. We also have some bald eagles, and one of them flew over a rec soccer game once. All the people grabbed their dogs and toddlers and ran away. Like an eagle would eat the dogs when theres toddlers there...

Photoshopping is fun...

Anime
I love anime, and manga. Some of my favorite titles are: Fullmetal Alchemist, Naruto, InuYasha, Rurouni Kenshin, .hack//SIGN, GetBackers, Pokemon (the old ones, not the new ones), Digimon (only the first three seasons), Sailor Moon, Zoids, Neon Genisis Evangelion, Saiyuki, Yugi-oh!, FLCL, Bleach, Eureka seven, Reborn!, Black Cat, Death Note, Love Hina,Zatch Bell!, and Mar. There are tons of others, and I have yet to remember them.

If you love anime/manga, go to an anime convention. It's fun to drag along your parents. The first one I went to, my dad was all confused. He kept on asking why people had 10' swords. And of course, my friends and I just said, "Duh! It's Zabuza/Cloud!" But because of all the conventions I made my dad go to (only 3!), he's a big of a nerd as any of my friends. It's scary that he calls us down to watch Naruto with him....

Chidori!!!
Chidori has to be the coolest Jutsu in Naruto. It means "a thousand birds" in Japanese, and that is what the attack sounds like. It took me so long to color this, you wouldn't believe it even if I told you.

Of course, Kakashi beats Sasuke any day.

Dungeons and Dragons
You can't hate D&D. It's the best game in the world, since you can just sit down with your friends after school underneath the staircase or in the closet in the band room and play for literaly hours on end. What game can allow you to become a halfling druid that skins random creatures?

The best campaign that I have ever been in was played in study. It's a study that is held in the cafeteria with about 75 kids in there (it's a school of no more than 500, so that's a lot of kids) and they all talk at the same time. It's impossible to do work, or sleep, so we started a campaign instead. I was a human fighter (original), but I choose to have rogue skills, instead, including Perform (parkour). We went into a sewer to kill the rats that were terrorizing the town, and the monk used his gauntlets to scrape the obviously poisonous barnacles off the wall and eat them. He therefore threw up, and incurred penalties on all his rolls thereafter. It was so odd a campaign, that even the guy at the local gameshop was creeped out by it.

Parkour
I'm not phyiscally active, but most of my friends (who are mostly guys), are. One of them, Wally, wants to start a parkour club after I told him about it. There was an article in "Time" magazine about parkour, and that's what sparked my intrest. Have you ever seen Casino Royale? You know the fight scene in the construction sight? That's what parkour is, basicaly. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, look up parkour on YouTube. You'll be amazed.

Video Games
I love Zelda, Starfox, Animal Crossing, Pokemon, Trauma Center, Phoenix Wright, Super Smash Brothers, and the Mario games like Super Mario Sunshine, Paper Mario, and Super Mario 64, but not any game that has the name "Mario" in it. I'm a total Nintendo fangirl, and I can prove it. I have a Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, DS, 64, Gamecube, and a Wii.

I had to wait so long to find the Wii. My Mom randomly took us into Wal-Mart *shudders* to buy a DVD for herself. My sister and I wandered around the electronics section, like any true gamer should, and we found two Wiis locked up in a safe with a huge glass window. (Thats just so smart of them to do that.) Anyways, they apparenty got nine Wiis two hours before. We were in the store at 4PM! We bought one and ran up into my room and played for 6 hours. We already had Trauma Center and Avatar, so we didn't have to OD on Wii sports the first day.

And who buys the Wii games for their kids for easter, but not a Wii?

Awesome Books
Besides "Eragon", I really enjoy Kathryn Lasky's "Guardians of Ga'Hoole", Lois Lowry's "The Giver", "Gathering Blue", "Messenger", and "The Silent Boy", Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun", F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes", and one of my friend's story, "Phoenix Graveyard."

Awesome Bands
I don't really like American bands for some reason, but I'm okay with British bands, namely The Beatles, The Who, and Dragonforce. I also like L'arc~en~Ciel, Nightmare, FLOW, ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, Orange Range, Siam Shade, T.M. Revolution, and Charcoal Filter. They're all Japanese and they write songs that are used in anime openings and closings. Nena and Rammestein are both German, and both awesome.

Dragonforce
I just love Dragonforce. They have to be one of the best bands ever! I've heard their songs so much, I actually wrote down the complete lyrics to "Valley of the Damned" in biology when I was supposed to be studying for my final. To all you fantasy authors/D&D-ers, listen to them! Their lyrics are pretty tame for a metal band, but they're so fantasy-ish that they're good inspiration when you're stuck.

Random Intrests
Minesweeper. I don't know why, but I'm hooked on it for some reason. It's addicting how you play, and then you die, and then you must play again to win. The computers at my school don't have minesweeper on them, so I have to placate myself by playing it online instead. One of my friends can never beat expert mode, so the first time I did, i put my name in the high score as "OWND (Friend's name here)!", took a screen shot, and then printed it out and showed him. I have no life.

Adobe Photoshop. I can't draw, so I just mess around with pictures other people have made, instead. I have CS2, which I got for Christmas 2-3 years ago, and now they have CS3. It's really "spiffy", but the price tag for the upgrade is aprox. $900................... I'll just stick to CS2 for now. They have CS1 in the computer lab that they teach graphic arts in at school. I already took the basic course, and I want to take the advanced course, but I CAN NEVER GET INTO IT!!!! They have so many freshman (I hate freshman!) signing up for the lower level class that they won't have the upper level one. It wasn't even in the course selection book this year!

Sleeping. I sleep in my combined english/social studies class and biology, I never take notes or study for the tests, and I got A+s on the finals and classes, while many of my friends do the exact same thing and fail miserably. I know sleeping isn't really a hobby or an intrest, but we all do at some point, right?

Random Cool Words
-Glean

-Courier

-Nondescript

-Smattering

-Chocobo

-Spongy Mesophyll

-fraught

-cappuchino

-Frappachino

-Kobold!

-Belobog

-Vliop

-Geemo

Random Advice to Anyone Who'll Listen
All of this is what I've learned so far from real life.

-Don't succumb to peer pressure. Even if you're friends are pressuring you in picto-chat.

-Make sure you get your copy of Eldest back before your friend moves two timezones away.

-If you get bored, do your English test backwards. It helps clear up your mind.

-If fifteen teenagers are at a halloween party and are hyped up on sugar and they all have lightsabers, something bad will happen.

-Even if your life is like a sitcom, you won't always end up with that hot guy over there.

-Always be the girl in Pokemon Diamond and Pearl since the guy is fashionably challenged.

-Don't let the grammar nazi proofread your story. You will die by the hand of a red pen.

-Just because you have a sword in school, it doesn't automaticly mean that you'll kill someone. It just might mean that you want a good grade for your French final.

-You are allowed to meow when drawing circles on the whiteboard only if you're the teacher.

-Never ever listen to the crazy kid. The cafeteria is not serving dead baby pizza.

-Join your friends on their quests for world power. Who knows? You might actually rule Ireland one day.

-If given the choice between starting early on your final or having free computer time, always choose free computer time.

-Apparently, it takes 4 high school graduates and 3 high school freshman to light a fuse on fireworks. Just don't stand too close to them when they somehow manage to succed to do so.

-Don't dance if you can't, even if the DJ is playing "White and Nerdy."

-Don't always follow the grammar checker on Word.

-Learn to write without your native dialect, unless your charecter is supposed to be from the same region you're from.

Random Rants to Anyone Who'll Care
I don't understand the competency system. My school was built recently, it opened in 2000, and it has a "new" education system. One of those things are competencies.

Most classes have them in fair things. French has Communications, Culture, Comprehension, and Grammar and Vocabulary as competencies. Biology, though, has Plant systems, Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration, Genetics, Evolution, Scientific Method and Scientific Analysis. If you get a 65 or lower in a competency, no matter how high your overall grade is, you automaticly fail. It makes sense with French's system. Obviously, if you can't communicate well, than you aren't good at French. But if they are sorted into units like in Biology and you bomb one unit, then you're dead.

I have a friend who is a year older than me, and he decided not to do the model of a cell. Turns out, that was the only grade in the competency about cells, and the teacher doesn't accept make-up work. Since this happened the first week of second semester, we only have two semesters a year, he dropped the class. When he re-took the class, he learned that cells weren't even a part of the second semester curriculum that year!

Lesson: Competencies are evil.

Owls!
Nyra forever! She has to be one of, if not the best, villan that I have ever seen. She would have already one if it wasn't for those meddling owls of the great tree!

The only thing that saddens me about Guardians of Ga'Hoole is that they no longer have pictures on the inside covers. Kathryn Lasky said that it was too expenisve, so they stopped doing it after book six "The Burning". I miss the pictures...