A day in the life of you

[Elentari the Second]

You could actually go closer to our time by a few centuries or something and say you're related to Noah.

I think I failed my history exam. Wait - I know I failed it. BUT!!! I know exactly what I did wrong and since these are mocks and the marks won't count at all unless I can't attend the end-of-year exams (that means something serious has to happen) - it doesn't matter. Because next time I'll organise my time better. Or is it organize? Or is one US and the other UK? Probably. NZ does either.....anyway, like I said I know what I did wrong. Apart from time, about the only thing that really needs work IMHO is? are? conclusions. Okay, this is all pretty bad grammar but who cares. I'm tired. Very tired. No more exams. Three days of school and then two weeks of holidays. I'm not sure whether I'm looking forward to them. Seriously. I'm really not sure.

I hate math, but my parents say I'm very good at it. The thing is, when I don't understand things, or they're not explained properly, I get very frustrated, and that makes it hard for me to concentrate, which means I get even more things wrong...

That sounds a lot like me. Oh, and that reminds me - has anyone read "11 o'clock Chocolate Cake"? It's good light reading. Kind of weird, but interesting. Anyway, back to maths - I don't like it like it, but I don't mind it too much now. I'm supposed to be very good at it according to everyone (my parents - and my mother is a qualified high-school maths teacher but due to circumstances is going to work as a check-out operator - and my teacher), but whenever a new concept came up that I didn't understand between May 2001 - May 2004....I went haywire. I had these massive tantrums because I felt so frustrated at not being able to understand whatever the thing was. My mother suffered a lot from me....but at any rate I understand the stuff now. Any new concept that I can't understand now gets screamed at at home if I still can't figure it out.

You know what? I have no idea how subjects get selected. Ok, I take that back, I have some vague idea, mainly to do with the timetable and what you want to do and what you can do but I was a special case. Some form of Science, Maths and English respectively are all required, though I hope Science isn't required for seventh form. I also hope that I pass this year's physics. Very important. Even if I have to do some branch of science in seventh form I really don't want to do physics for longer than I have to, and I'll have to repeat it if I don't pass. My mother will make me whatever the rules.

Oh, and you have to talk with your dean about the subjects.

Thank you. I haven't got the results back, but I know for sure and for certain that I did not prear end the rerear endessment.

I have no idea why I wrote that. I meant that I did not pass my physics practical reassessment.

Hmm...that's about all for now I think.

Cheers,

~ Elentari II

[Dragoneyes]

Perhaps you were just really tired and glad to be out of the exam?

[lordoffools]

Hell, I know I would be. I have a major Japanese test tomorrow. Because I was sick for a week, I couldn't study, I asked my teacher if I could have a little more time. Thank goodness my teacher said yes! Bless you Mrs Buncle! But I have to do it. In fact, I should be studying. It's on counters, you know, like one fish, two fish. Only in Japanese it's a heluva lot harder! And I have a french outcome as well on past reflexive. Whoo, I don't know if I'll be able to HANDLE them both next year! No, no I will. I'll just get flu innoculations so I don't fall ill. Jeez, I sound like a pom! (No offence)
P.S. Organise is better. Organize is just silly.

[Elentari the Second]

Why is 'organize' silly? You pronounce it that way, don't you?

Okay, results. Drama and History I won't get back till next term.

Maths (Yr 12) - four papers, I got achieved for three of them and merit for one. That is, I got Achieved (Graphs), Achieved (Algebra), Achieved (Calculus) and Merit (Co-Ordinate Geometry). And I was about one in three people in the class whose marks pleased my teacher. He he.

Spanish (Yr 11) - three papers, achieved achieved merit. Achieved (Listening), Achieved (Writing) and Merit (Reading).

Physics (Yr 12) - three papers, not-achieved not-achieved merit. NA (Waves), NA (Electro-magnetism etc.) and Merit (Atoms & Radioactivity). Not too bad compared to the class. Some got all failed papers, some go two NAs and one A, Ben - who's relatively intelligent (okay, quite intelligent and good at science) got NA, A and A. I'm using him as an example because he usually gets good marks.

English (Yr 12) - two essays, Merit and Not-achieved. One of them was too short.

Last day of term today. Lots of work over the holidays. Eight reading reports. Lines learnt for drama. Spanish vocab memorized. Physics notes. Latin learnt to the extent of taking a mock exam from my mother; that includes latin verse scansion. Urgh. Let's see, that's Physics, English, Latin, Maths - maths I'm okay on, maybe a bit of revision but I should be fine...Spanish, History - note-taking, essay writing, esp. working on conclusions; I'm terrible at conclusions no matter whether it's history or English. Ack! They'll be my downfall. After History comes Drama. All accounted for.

I have to get ready for school now.

Love,

~ Rebekah

[Dragoneyes]

What length are these holidays?

[Elentari the Second]

Two weeks. Then about four weeks of school, then exams.

Did I tell you guys that the exams I just took mean nothing? If I attend the end-of-year exams they're going to be thrown away and they count for nothing.

Ah well.

Cheers,

~ Elentari II

P.S. But if I don't attend them (like I'm in hospital undergoing surgery at the time or something stupid like that) these will count. Whether or not I get the certificates relevant to the subjects will depend on those marks.

[lordoffools]

You're in year 11? Or year 12? I'll be in year 11 next year. much congrats! It's FANTASTIC to be on holiday again! ;D

[Wren]

lordoffools said:

Hello Wren. Poor you . Ancestry means a lot to me... I dont know why it's so important. Possibly because I was too young when my dad died to have asked any of the important questions, and now I have to find out myself. I hope you can find out someday!

Exactly! and it important to me too, but its a lost cause. *waves at Opehlia*

About today. I'm getting over being sick. (just a cold) I'm finally starting to feel human again. Yay!!

;D

Congrats, Elentari on the good grades!

[Elentari the Second]

Thank you Wren.

Officially I'm in Yr 11. I'm in a Yr 11 form class and do two Yr 11 subjects. I also, however, do five Yr 12 subjects. My mother and I had a yelling match this morning. She wants me to do German next year. I don't, mainly because that'll mean I'll be doing classes over three year groups: Yr 11 German, Yr 12 Spanish and Drama, Yr 13 Maths (Calculus), Maths (Trig.), English (Lit.), Latin (on my own). And it means I can't do history. I'll probably do that sched though. I'll tell my history teacher - she's a nice teacher. I'll probably do History (England) in 2006.

Still annoying. But another language will help. I guess. I have no idea what I want as a career but I have to find out. I don't want to, I can't be bothered. Bah. Humbug. Millenium hand and shrimp.

~ Elentari II

[Wren]

Just curious, but why does your mom want you to take German?

My mom wanted me to take chemistry, for which I refused. And I always regretted it. The moral I guess is listen to your mom.

[Elentari the Second]

He he. I hate science. Dropping it. Yay!!

Maybe I'll regret it, but...

She doesn't particularly want me to take German. She wants me to take another lanuage. If I'm doing that I'll take German or French.

So German it is.

Knowing other languages will help, especially if I want to learn Old English. Which you can do. If you're over 16 and really good at languages. OE is also the Rohirrim speech. Uni course.

So I know English well. And I've been doing Latin for a couple of years. And I'm doing pretty well at Spanish. Plus German. Being tri-lingual will also help whatever career I choose.

So there we are.

~ Elentari II

[lordoffools]

I agree about languages. Living in Australia (and probably New Zealand) means you don't have as much pressure to learn other languages, because we're so isolated (though sometimes it does seem the New Zealanders- or Kiwis do speak another language ) Our school offered three- Italian, French and Japanese. I dropped Italian after year seven because it was way to easy compared to the others. I'm still doing french and Japanese, and plan to continue them both for as long as I can.
Career-wise, I'd like to do an International Relations/ Politics course at RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) and work for a non-religious aid organisation or the UN, or go into politics... though it's not likely i'd become PM in the next century, because Australia's run by the conservative Liberals and I'd want to join the greens or someone like them. I don't see a Green Woman PM any time soon. Pity that.
What's year 13? In Australia our system starts with kindergarten, then primary school from grade prep, one, two, three, four, five, six and then high school which is seven to twelve. Never heard of year 13. Is that because what we call prep is grade one in your school system?

[Dragoneyes]

You dropped a language because it was too easy?

There is no logic in that.

[lordoffools]

I mean as compared to french and Japanese. It bored me. And I couldn't keep all three languages any way, so I had to drop one, and I'm keeping Japanese into uni. French... I enjoy it, but my teacher's methods are so dry and dusty I'm surprised I'm not getting hay-fever. Oh well. I guess I'll live.

[Dragoneyes]

But you dropped an laguage because it was too easy! There is no excuse! I don't care if you were bored to tears! YOU DO NOT DROP A LANGUAGE BECAUSE IT'S TOO EASY!

Ok, perhaps a tiny bit bitter that someone found a foreign language easy.