Reasons for my Neglect...

Sorry I’ve neglected this blog recently – exams and things have got in the way, making every moment I spent not revising feel snatched and guilty. I hate revision – although that seems obvious because, well, who likes it?!. But it isn’t just usual laziness that everyone has – on the whole I love doing school work as long as it’s not too pointless and repetitive – for example I love writing essays (call me crazy!) and really enjoyed doing homework like maths questions and german sentences to translate… The real problem I've discovered I have with revision is that I am not really motivated to do it because I can never be satisfied with what I’ve achieved, which I;ve noticed to be very important to me personally – I am happy when I’ve finished all the maths questions set, for example, and can then rest before moving on quite happily, but the knowledge of ‘have I ever done enough?!’ really makes me totally uninspired… Anyway, revision is over now, and I’ve got a lovely long Summer before starting at SJD 6^th form college in September :)

Quote of the Day

(In chemistry, revising solution mining)

Lottie (reading from questions): ''what can be a negative result of solution mining?''
Anna (giggling): ''urm....you get hot cross bunnies?'' :P
Lottie:'' nahhh...they'd be hot cross brinies''

....we're simply too cool, but at least we remembered then that brine (or sodium chloride) is used in solution mining :p

Good times, eh?!

Catching Up

After re-reading my last blog and noticing my comments about the chemistry test, I am surprised to say that I got 25/30 on that test, which was an A*! I think I need to have a little more faith in myself hehe!

Anyway, today was pretty normal. I was away at a funeral yesterday and Monday, so all day I kept thinking it was a Monday and going to Monday's lessons which was annoying, and slightly embarrasing when I walked into a year 10 history class 3rd lesson instead of music where I was supposed to be! I got a few funny looks :S

First lesson was english, which I always like because I get to sit next to RB :). However, this particular english lesson we were given loads of homework on top of what we already had (14 paragraph-length questions for tomorrow!). Also, I have extra to do because I missed some analysis of the book yesterday and have to complete my character pages. I should really be doing all this english homework now but it is so cold at my writing desk that I can't bear to move away from the computer and radiator! Maths was next and passed without much amusement, but I liked the volume of prisms stuff we were doing because it's a lovely repetitive formula :).

When I finally got to music (see second paragraph!), we did some past questions on AOS4 (Area of Study 4) and I got full marks on the second question we did (a several-part question). I was well happy coz Sir was pleased with me and gave me a 'Rose' from the tin in his desk :). However, Sir suddenly announced that our composition briefs have to be in by tomorrow and I was panicking because I haven't even thought about it yet. Luckily he said I could do it for next week instead seeing as I needed to record my first composition before I could do anything else....
In biology, I had to do the test I missed yesterday which went ok - I know I dropped a few marks but I don't think I've done too badly (touch wood!). Darn! - we got some biology homework for tomorrow too so I'd better do that in a minute! :S

Last lesson was chemistry and CR and I had some fun laughing at quotes, both Sir's and our own. We were doing displacement reactions which aren't too hard so it was a good lesson, really. I'm off to do homework now, but will leave you with a few quotes:

*Sir: In the name of all that is holy....do NOT mix up the pipettes and solution bottles!

*Lalu: "Is that oxidised because it won or because it lost?" - bless her! :))

*CR: "You know, I''m not sure I really know how to do ionic equations"
*Me: "Arghhhh! My shoee!"


Life is good :). Thing's obviously aren't perfect (or anywhere near!) but, right now, I'm pretty content with my life :)

My Tuesday

Marks for Today: 7/10 :]



Today was pretty good - I enjoyed all of my lessons, especially music, netball (PE) and chemistry. Music was particularly awesome because I changed my solo-performance song which had been really stressing me out! I am now singing 'Hello' by Evanenscence, and apparently have the same tone of voice as Amy Lee but "without the gothicness". Lol at that!

SO I was on a high because of that and because my favourite teacher was really nice to me about the whole singing-confidence thing and said I could practise with her whenever so that was cool :], and because I was happy the rest of the day was pretty good too..

Although, I was left alone for a bit in the evening when my Dad went to the supermarket and Mum was still at work and then the phone rang and there was no-one on the other end which creeped me out a bit, but everything's good still :).

So, yeah, I'd best be off for my shower so my hair can dry in time for bed :P
Arriverderci

Normal School Day

Marks for Today: 4/10

It's not that today was a particularly bad one, just nothing much enjoyable came out of it. It started horrendously - it was raining all the way to school, and I felt a little stupid in my strange coat going past all the cars. I bought a 'Twisted' chocolate bar at Co-op but left it in my coat pocket because I didn't really fancy it first thing....

We arrived quite early, and went to various lockers before heading to lessons when the bell went. I had physics and as we entered the class CR asked me how I did on the chemistry online homework. My answer: "We had online homework?". When she confirmed it and I checked with a couple of other people, I began to panic a bit - Mr N, my chemistry teacher was nice but very strict, and I knew he usually wrote in peoples planners and gave them extra work if they didn't do homework. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that he decided to let me off as a good student as he said we could "check the homework next time". Phew!

However, as we approached the end of physics I panicked again: I didn't have my history reply slip for resitting my QMA - crap! Miss S had said that she would phone home if we didn't bring them in on Monday so I was rightly worried. Cursing my disorganisation that was so unlike me, I rang my Dad between physics and chemistry to ask him to bring it in at break (I had history 3rd lesson). I was a bit worried he would be cross with me for making him drive to school but he seemed fine and said he'd make sure it arrived ok :).

At break I was late out after tidying away the chemistry experiment then found MF and went to the office to pick up my reply slip. Luckily, it was there and I got it before heading to the toilet and chatting a bit until the end of break. History was ok, but a bit boring as we had to make loads of notes from the textbook about Hitler's rise to power. JG annoyed Miss S by eating 'Haribos' in class so she confiscated them and ate one - it was quite funny actually :D.

Maths was unexciting - we did sine rules again and I managed to copy BS's homework (again, so unlike me!) before Mr G checked it so that was ok. We got more homework though which I have just finished! When I went to lunch I got a text from MF saying she was at home ill watching Spiderman on DVD (lol) so I went to the canteen and sat with RB and AF etc to eat the pizza I bought. Then I went to the music room to work on my composition - I did an extra part which I am quite pleased with - almost finished now :).

Last lesson was german which dragged on a bit because I had a headache (possibly from my new headband digging in...) and we were doing the dull speaking test questions. I didn't go to cross-country today because I thought it wasn't on and had therefore promised AF to walk home with her and didn't want to abandon her (and, tbh, I really didn't fancy running in that weather and when I was so tired and headachey). We ended up getting a lift with AF's Mum so hung around a bit at school waiting for her while doing online chemistry homework (which I needed to do anyway).

When I got home I chatted to Dad for a while and had a cup of tea before going upstairs and getting changed. I then checked my emails and got started on my homework. I did my chemistry graph (for the coursework on the experiment we did today) and my maths homework, which I enjoyed a bit because it was very repetitive :) (not that I'm some sort of a weirdo - I just prefer maths when it's trying out a method over and over again).

Tea was fish fingers and chips which was a rather unexpected treat and I read my book 'My Best Friend's Girl' (by Dorothy Koomson), which I found in a charity shop at the weekend after enjoying it a year or so ago from the library. I am quite far into it and enjoying it quite a bit :)

I need to have a bath and hair-wash tonight, which I will do in a minute. When I've done that I'll pack my pack and practise singing my music performance piece for a bit before going down to watch "I'm a Celebrity, get me out of here" at 9pm.

Lessons tomorrow are chemistry, physics, PE, music and biology but my PE kit is already in school (meant for cross-country after school today) so I don't have too much to carry although I am taking my iPod speakers for music.. Hopefully the weather will be ok tomorrow.

Reading this, I've realized how much my life revolves around school right now - too much! As I'm in year 11 everything is 'very important' for my future so I've gotta work my socks off :(. Also, because I am predicted all A*s, I cannot exceed expectations - I can only really disappoint...

Well I'd better go for my bath now if I want to do everything in time for bed... so until tomorrow,

Arriverderci