Last few days in School....

                     
                           Nice pic of me hanging out with 'Fluffy' last night.


Well It can't technically be called "Last Week In School" because we came back to School after the Holidays on Thursday....

Well it couldn't have started off worse to be honest, I have been suffering from a nasty sore throat and was pushed into School jacked up on painkillers and barely awake (I did not sleep well at ALL Wednesday night, had the highest temperature known to man and that god damn sore throat that hurt every time I swallowed). I hadn't left the house for five days and STILL somehow managed to catch malaria! Of course, the day had to start off with a Maths Test (seriously, whats up with all these Maths Tests?)! It should have gone fine (I had revised hard the previous night) but fell to pieces because I, like the IDIOT that I am revised for completely the wrong thing! I somehow had managed to write down in my book that I had to revise for Chapter 1 in Maths when you actually had to revise for Chapter 2. OOYS! I fell and hit the ground hard as you can imagine, another casualty for the already limping Maths, and the irony was that if only I had learnt Chapter 2 it would have been the only Maths Test that I could have had a good shot at to finally get a respectable score! Poor, poor Maths. Tears and throbbing throats aside, I then went into Sport. Now I hate Baseball and Endurance, but at least I'm good at them, Ping Pong (aka table Tennis) is just about the only Sport that I truely SUCK at. Trying to hit that pong ball is like trying to score 20/20 in a Maths Test (I pray for the day)! And why does it have to be table Tennis? Why not regular Tennis? We've got a Tennis court, so why do we have to do this crap? Trying to catch that ball after it bounces off the table is like performing an obstical course, with it bouncing under other tables, hitting walls and going in the other direction and its path just generally being completely unpredictable! Its hell trying to catch that thing! After that travesty, I went into S.V.T. That Test that I thought went well didn't end up with the Result I was expecting (I got a meagre 12/20, could have been 13/20 but of course I had to spell a few words wrong!), but at least the lesson was interesting (for once), we were studing volcanoes and had to write a short text about the infamous Pompeii fiasco. Volcanoes are cool, mainly because they make great material for Hollywood blockbusters (you only have to see 2012 to be blown away by those great special effects). 

After lunch (having spluttered down a bowl of soup, which tasted like acid with my sore throat and getting jacked up on MORE awful fizzy painkillers), we had another MASSIVE Test in German. Graded out of 40 points, it covered six pages and contained just about every single thing we have looked at in the past few Months, which just by sheer size alone made it impossible to remember EVERYTHING. I filled in a good portion of it, its just another one of those you-either-know-it-or-you-don't  Tests. I skipped a few things, with a few examples of that time when the answer is on the VERY tip of your tongue, but it just doesn't really form in your mind (its so faustrating when that happens! But you can't just write "It begins with a W" can you?). My multi-languistic brain was in overload, as when the Test asked you to translate the German phrases into French you mentally have to translate that into THREE differant languages. MULTI-TASKING OVERLOAD! A bit overwelming, but I should at least get 20/40, which wouldn't really harm my Trimestre Results because I already have a perfect 20/20 in German. After School on Thursday it was pretty much more painkillers and sleep! 

I had developped a headache AND a cold/cough by Friday, adding to my growing list of symptoms (both quite minor, and my nose is starting to clear up a bit now). I must have had every disease known to man by then! I STILL managed to walk into School, although I was careful to stay away from people just in case I infected anyone and turned them into a Zombie! I normally avoid them all anyway, so it wasn't a major change. Friday was okay, the only thing worth noting was my Science Test, which garnered a respectable (although the teacher could have given more) 16/20. I lost four points because I spelt kg and m3 with capitals when they were supposed to have been in lower case, not bothering to draw every single molecule in a syringe (which would have taken ages, and I only had 50 minutes to do the Test) and getting -1,5 because despite writing everying neat and tidy, screwed up on ONE question and had to scribble it out (they take points off if you write scruffy) and getting a Maths question wrong (you had to calculate the mass of air in a container). Apart from the Maths question, I consider most of the mistakes a bit nitpicky and could have garnered a well deserved 18/20. SIGH, Its almost impossible to get a 20/20 in France nowadays!



In other News, I have just watched the latest Episode of Merlin (with my dog Obelix pictured above and below, who enjoyed it as you can clearly see), and quite enjoyed it, and it seems to be really campaigning against Doctor Who. I now liken it to sort of a Medieval DW now. Although the hole "trying to kill the king with seemingly no reason" plot is really a bit tiring now! A bit of variety please?


Well this ends my recap, and I swear that if I see another 'GOD DAMNED PAINKILLER, I THINK I MIGHT JUST SCREAM!!!!'       

Tonights Merlin Rocked!

I've been watching the BBC 1 drama Merlin now since it's second season, and after last week's and tonight's Episode has now become my third (maybe fourth) favourite programme on T.V right now. I rarely watch T.V nowadays, as I'm far to busy playing Video-games or trailing the Net to care, but Saturday night T.V still holds an interest for me. I caught the Season 2 premiere last Year mainly because I had heard a few people from Doctor Who were cast in it. It was a good show, not Doctor Who good (as that would be Blasphemy) but meh, it got a little bit better as the Series got on and it even tried to do something Epic towards the end but ultimately fell victim to what I thought was a good but quite a underwelming Finale (partly due to budget constraints I thought, as in one scene, when Arthur is preparing to bravely ride out of the Castle with his men to slay the big evil Dragon, he only actually rides out with half a dozen or so Knights, which is hardly a army worthy of Camelot! How are they going to slay that Dragon with only a few men? It can breathe fire for gods sake! Surely that isn't the most the Castle has to offer? THEY WILL ALL BE KILLED INSTANTLY! YOU NEED MORE! Which, almost poking fun at its clear lack of money, the show pretty much kills off all those Knights except Arthur in the first few SECONDS of the fight! Well I hate to say it, BUT I TOLD YOU SO!! Another one that slightly bugged me was the fact that The Dragon was only in the Episode for about three minutes, which I assume is because they didn't have alot of money for the CGI and just sprinkled little glimpses of him every now and then throughout the Episode). In Short: it had the Epic scale implied and the emotional strengh of a great story but didn't really show it enough.

Well I sat myself down on the sofa last Week and watched the Season 3 Premiere: The Tears Of Uther Pendragon Part One. And I was pretty much blown away. For starters the mostly Lighthearted nature of the Series was completely gone, and now had a strong darkness to it all. In the penultimate Episode of Season Two the King's ward, Lady Morgana (gives you a hint there about her destiny as a Character) was poisoned by Merlin and basically Teleported away to live with her evil Sister Morgoath for a Year to recover. In this Episode she comes back, but not as the nice, thoughtful and overall good natured Character I saw in Series 2, but instead as a bloody evil and twisted Character, stabbing a guard (which when she finds out is still alive and recovering from his vicious stab wounds, makes no delay in Poisoning him to finish the job before he can tell anyone about her true, bitch-y nature!) and driving the King insane, literary. Thats a pretty steep Character change isn't it? I suppose that's what happens when you spend a Year with your evil half-twin-Sister? Interesting to see how she became to be so Evil in future Episodes! Anyway, at the end of the Episode we find a 20,000 strong army marching towards Camelot, which isn't exactly depicted as this gigantic Lord Of The Rings type Castle capable of withstanding such numbers. Merlin is also found trapped in a creepy Forest with unbreakable chains and surrounded by gigantic poisonous Scorpions! In short: they're all F*cked! Thats the most epic thing I've ever seen out of a T.V programme, apart from the Doctor Who Episode where the universe actually does end (at least for a while, which was 2000 Years in the Episode!). The show has just completely changed in tone, Character and Story for me. The 2nd part, which aired tonight, was equally as awesome, and involved a epic battle that was actually shown and not just hinted at. Clearly someboy had a much needed rise in the Budget department!


Two gripes though: Nine animated Skeletons aren't exactly going to change the course of the Battle! Just lock them up in the Castle prison for a bit! And when the nine Skeletons were destroyed (which were doing a piss poor job of distracting Camelots Army and causing them to fight on two fronts by the way, as they only distracted two, maybe three guards as there was so few of them to start with!) all of a sudden the Enemy decided to withdraw HIS ENTIRE FREAKING ARMY, WHICH AFTER SUFFERING ONLY MINOR CASUALTIES AND STILL BEING 9000+ STRONG WAS A BIT OF A DUMB MOVE! Clearly in reality Camelot would be not only completely ravaged and utterly desecrated by the might of such a Army (20,000 MIGHT I ADD!) it could have NEVER stood a chance AT ALL! The nine animated Skeletons were really pivotal to the battle then it seems...


Still, even after all that, I found the past two Episodes of Merlin to be THE BEST ONES YET! I'm hoping next week will continue this revived feeling. Although it does look like it will go back to that Lighthearted tone again next week, with a Goblin let loose around the Castle causing mayhem!

IN SHORT: The new Merlin is very good. Also, I was bored and just decided to write another long Blog entry which was in the end only trying to convey those four words: NEW MERLIN, VERY GOOD! Which means that I spent an Hour writing this god damn thing when I could have just summed it up in four words! No wonder Twitter is so bloody popular!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjLOvOIFRRc