This Week In School: The Calm AFTER The Storm

After the big 'Test' Week, things all got back to normal this Week. Maths was difficult again, French was boring, and I sucked even harder in Sport (heck, at this point I suck even at 'sucking').

Monday, was by all accounts enjoyable. Why you ask? Well, mainly it was because there was no Tests to revise for, little Homework to do and an absence of all that stress that had been piling on top of me for the past few Weeks. The German Teacher WAS STILL absent, which of course cued another draining hour of Perm. I had my Test Result handed to me in Technology (cue the trumpets): A WHOPPING 19,75/20 (and highest in the Class, may I add)! I could scarcely believe it! I was expecting around a 14-16/20 mark but Jesus Christ was my expectations toppled! Really thrilled about that. What lost me the 0,25 you ask? I forgot to trace a line on one of the diagrammes. (basically I had drawn two points but had forgot to connect them together, OUT OF ALL THE THINGS!) Art was next, and our project from last Week was sidelined (for the time being): the new 'project' was to create a short film out of three synopsis given. The first step was to create a Storyboard of the film: the basic premise our group had chosen was the Head coming into the Classroom with a new kid (which I was later cast into that role) and being shown around the Classroom by a volonteer. Bit of a boring Storyline, it would just be a kid giving the new guy a tour of the Classroom for 5min, so I spiced it up a bit and made the new kid English, who didn't understand a word the French kid was saying and making fun of their silly names (an in-joke on my part, of course). Maths was just horrendous. The Teacher was in a bad mood and gave us a real beating (not an actual beating of course, before you start to get worked up). The learning curve went up harshly as well, miles ahead of what we were currently doing (I smell a bad Test Result over the horizon). No wonder the Teacher was in a bad mood, she had spent 8 Hours over the Weekend correcting our Tests. (really, 8 Hours?) I was quite thrilled with my Result: a 14/20. So way, way higher than anything in the first Trimestre, and another good Result in the can. The average will definitely be up this Trimestre, me thinks. 
After a nice Lunch (Mum's cooking strangely improves after a good Test Result) I walked back into School quite proud of myself. We were just finishing the chapter in Civic Education, by learning what Amnesty International is. French was sadly more planet boredom. 

Tuesday was fine, Maths becoming a mountain of numbers and calculations. (Really does your head in after a while, if I so much as see another long string of numbers I think I'll scream!) In Geography we started a new chapter on Russia (HAIL STALIN!) and I was given my Test Result for Ed-Civ and History: Overall a 29/40 (the highest Result in my Year is 30,5/40 I'm told). I am a bit dissapointed with this to be honest, mainly because I only scored a measly 14,5/20 in History (I had rushed the end a bit, not detailing a few facts enough)! But I did score high in Civic Education: 10/12 so a bit mixed overall. Nonetheless I am happy with it though. My Class was quite difficult to control in French and she of course gave us more Homework for it (bit ticked off, as I had done nothing). The Class has become a bit uncontrollable lately, for some reason...
The afternoon went well, English is still a hoot, the Teacher making  fun of both the French and the English at the same time (he found the lack of soaps in France shocking, while accusing the English of having bad music taste). I also scored 20/20 in the Test, so not too shabby! The bit that really annoyed me was the pile of work we were given in Permanence: Five pages of German exercises to do while the Teacher was still away (and they are to be marked as well)! FIVE PAGES? WTF?! COULDN'T YOU HAVE GIVEN US THIS LIKE TWO WEEKS AGO? WHY NOW! FIVE PAGES?!! THATS BULLSH*T! And its not even easy, half of the stuff is un-understandable, its gonna take four hours with a dictionary to decipher this crap! I mean sure we've been profiting from your absence with the countless hours of extra Permanence, but giving us all this at once is barbaric! YOU COULD HAVE AT LEAST GIVEN THIS TO US YESTERDAY, WHEN WE HAD NOTHING TO DO WHAT-SO-EVER! Extra Maths was just as mind numbingly boring and ardous as regular Maths, so looks like my grasp over Maths has gotten ahead of me...again. 

Wednesday was just boring Rubbish. For starters, thirteen out of our Class were absent, I only got up to Level 3 on High-Jump (it was the Test after all, so my score in Sport is WAY down), French was boring and Permanence went past WAY too quickly. (And to think I now can't have enough Permanence with all this god-damn Homework!)                  


Thursday was tiring, for starters Maths and the first Hour of Sport was cancelled because we were supposed to be visited by the Army (who were job hunting). Instead we got someone from the National Departement Of Food come in and tell us how great it was to work in the Food Industry! She showed us videos of people packing up boxes of mini-cakes and saying (unenthusiastically) how great their job is. You know, applying slow motion camera tricks and hip, current pop music to your video does NOT make packing tuna seem like a cool OR interesting job! We're not idiots you know, plus were is the army? Were we just force-fed another lie (actually it turns out there was a bit of a mix up, the Year up from us got the Army)? B-O-R-I-N-G, I like food, but I definitely don't want to be packing that disgusting fish for the rest of my life! Sport was a catastrophy, seen as it was the Test on Ping-Pong (because of the Food Industry coming, the Test will now be next Week as well as this Week). Basically, for it to be as a certified win you had to beat the opponent at least twice in a row. OK, I GOT SQUASHED BY A GIRL BARELY HALF MY SIZE, I ADMIT IT! AND I MEAN FLATTENED, 12-21? I SUCK SO BADLY THAT I MIGHT AS WELL NOT BOTHER TO PICK UP THE RACKET! AND SHE BEAT ME TWICE, THE SECOND TIME WITH 13-21!!! You know, Ping-Pong has really made me re-evaluate my life...taking a bullet has never seemed so easy.  
Also, the Music Test went incredibly well, but we'll see just HOW well I have performed next Week.

Friday started off with an awful Extra Extra Maths (we get six Hours of Maths every Week), which was just headache inducing. I did get my French Result back, and it was the best I could have hoped for: 10.6/20 (the Class average was 10.5/20 by the way). I was relieved to get such a...a...crap but not wonderfully crap score! The biggest fall was the Dictaction (a gut-wrenching 0,25/4). I mean, how am I supposed to spell words that sound NOTHING like they are pronounced? Impossible. Just Impossible. Geography was alright but Maths was barely passable (I had accumulated a serious head-ache by this point).
Permenance should have been the time where I progressed on my bucketload of German Homework but the Maths Teacher had given us a massive pile of Exercises to do ON TOP OF THAT! Brain = mush. We were evaluated on them as well, so I predict a 0/10. Science was full of win, however, I garnered a good 23,5/30 in the Test (15,5/20) and we started to study molecules and what-not. Engish was again a hoot from start to finish, and I finally finished my Trip to London diaporama. So all good there then.


This Week was fine in retrospect, Maths, Sport and the colossal amount of Homework are a thorn in my side though. Hopefully next Week will be better. I'll do another Blog Post soon showcasing all my Test Results from Les Epreuves Communes.