How NOT to Animate a Sphere

Hi, as I mentioned in my previous post, I've taken up (da-da-da-da) (that was supposed to sound like a trumpet or whatever)....

COMPUTER ANIMATION!!!!!!!

Lol.

But anyways, I'll tell you a story.  On how I FAIL at animating a sphere.

"Ok," Mr. ComputerTeach said, "Everyone go to Create and make a sphere."

Meanwhile, I'm still playing around with donuts and cubes and such.

The conversation I have with myself in my mind:
"Duuuuddddeeeeeee look at what I just did what that cube!"
"Yeah I know man it looks like a box now."
"Duuuuddddeeeeeee I can totally make it move around now."
"Pfffttt I can rotate it.  That's so 20 seconds ago."
"What is this shape?"
"Don't ask me.  I'm your brain, I don't know.  Just click on it."
"Ooooooooooooooh it's a donut."
"Dude, that's awesome."
"Look at how big I'm making it!"
"Dude, you're gonna crash the program!"
*Program crashes*
"LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE!"

And so on.  Dang, I have an active mind.

But anyways, we were told to animate a sphere.  So I sat down and put a sphere on my plane (after restarting the program of course).

"Now right click on it and drag it to vertex mode," Mr. ComputerTeach instructed.

I was totally not paying attention.  I was changing perspectives and angles.  The little girl inside me was saying Whooooo! like she was on a rollercoaster.  Thanks a lot, brain.

So I finally put it in vertex mode.
"Now merge the points," he continued.

At this point, this was TOTALLY not my fault.  I was sitting in the back, so I could not see his little projector screen showing us what to do. I stared blankly at the screen, feeling like he had performed some magic that he expected the rest of the class to do, while I was a muggle that had simply dropped by.

I looked at my neighbor.  He saw the look of desperation and the lost anxiety that filled my eyes and he sympathized,  showing me the command.

Now, my shape looked like a modern piece of art.

"Now go into face mode."  I did so.  SUCCESS!!!

"Separate the two halves of the sphere."

Hold on, hold on, hold on.  THERE IS NO HALF TO THIS SPHERE.  THERE IS TOO MUCH GEOMETRY!

So I guiltily made another sphere.

And I goofed around with it.

"Now fill the hole you just made."

HOLD UP.  What hole?

I looked over to my partner.  Shoot...

I went back to my sphere and deleted a face.  I asked my partner to help me and whoola!  I made a...

fail.

There was a triangle that extended outwards.

Inside my head, I was bashing my head against the computer.  In real life, I pressed Ctrl+Z