YAY! The last Week in School (not the definitive last, but I suppose god can't grant miracles)! Do you know what this means? Two Weeks of rest and relaxation, thats what it means! Now I don't have to get out of bed for another TWO WEEKS! Good thing it was the last Week too, cos' I've been quite ill lately: We'll be going to the Doctors tomorrow to get my ear checked, we think its infected. Still I'm over the worse for now. To be honest, I'm just glad I don't have to go to School tomorrow.
Monday: not really a bad day. I had LOTS of Homework to do though, which I hate doing. At least with Science Homework you might actually learn something from doing it! So German was absolutely fine, but M. Etore sure likes to write out those words. I don't think theres been ONE lesson where she hasn't wrote a word to somebody. The fact that my word count is still zero by now is amazing. If you so much as drop a pencil now, she will scream at ANYBODY for 'Disrupting the Class!' and most likely 'Head Teachers Office, NOW!' DAMN thats scrict. At least she acts nice to me, PHEW. So Science that followed was alright, it was letdown by ONE thing though. Remember that Science Test on the day after my Birthday? I recieved the Results and was quite disappointed by what I saw: a 14,5/20? I know what you're thinking: 'Tim, 14,5/20 is hardly disastrous!' Well it is for me! My Results in Science don't normally go below 15-16/20! So now I've been docked a point off my score, I'll be a point BEHIND on my report card for the 3rd Trimestre! The mistake I made was in fact very simple. The Test asked me to present a certain molecular equation in symbols. Thing is, I mistook the word 'equation' for writing out the formula in words. So I put 'One molecule of Oxygene reacts with two molecules of Carbon....' When I should have just put 'O + 2 C...'. Ouch that was fatal, and they asked me to do exactly the same thing in FOUR of the questions on the Test! And I did exactly the same thing for each of them! Apart from THOSE questions I got everything right though, but one misunderstanding cost me SIX points! *HITS HEAD AGAINST THE WALL...HARD* Ohhh its pathetic really, isn't it? Nevermind, I'll get over it....in about five years. Art wasn't Art because the Teacher was away...and we were instead treated to a hour long lecture on Vietnam. Basically there is this village in Vietnam that was flooded by a storm in November and this guy was asking for our help to rebuild it. Apparently the storm damaged the villagers rice stocks plus wiped away their School...god they have it lucky over there! Why can't a flood wipe away OUR School? The man that was presenting the country was quite good. He explained to us how hard they work over there and rice is their only means of survival. On March 18th our School will host a 'Bol de Riz' charity meal in which we will all eat rice instead of our normal lunches and then donate the money saved to the charity. Shame I hate rice, or I would be doing it....
Maths was another WTF I DON'T UNDERSTAND A THING lesson. The main problem for me being that if you replace numbers with letters it just gets very confusing! And why would we replace numbers with letters anyway? Thats like me replacing letters with 2345543! Why do I see a 0/20 coming ahead? And to think that now we don't have more extra Maths (thanks to Technology), to help us on what we don't understand! *SIGH* Geography after the lunch break was us wrapping up on our chapter on The United Kingdom. I had alot of stuff to learn for the Test on Tuesday, alot of useless stuff like where Leeds was situated geographically! NOTE: If you're reading this in Leeds then I'm so, so sorry. French was next, and we were studying a text about this guy who ordered a fancy suit from a tailor and it turned out the vest had super powers. A possesed suit anyone?
Tuesday was me sneezing alot. Overnight I had developped this really aggressive cold that made snot just POUR out of my nose. I had to practically hold a tissue under my nose the entire time. I felt like crap too, which isn't very good when you've got a big History Test that morning! I still went in though, I just HAD to do that Test. Maths was just an hour of me sneezing and looking confused (it doesn't help when you're on painkillers). It got so uncontrollable that the Teacher actually put the bin right by my desk so I could just push all the tissues into it! Apart from the horrendous nose blowing and a few coughs I was still fine though, so its not like I was close to death or anything. Good thing I brought eight packs of tissues with me though, cos' I needed every last one of them. Then after Maths we had the History Test. I feel a bit lukewarm overall, but the Teacher pulled a few questions that seemed a bit difficult to answer without doing a complete guess. I knocked the main question on ten points completely out of the park though so that should boost my score. I think I placed Leeds right, anyway. The two hours of French that followed had me feeling better, but the first hour was jolly boring. It was all study text, reply to questions, study text, reply to questions and it just went on and on and on... the latter half of the second hour was cool though, we watched a bit of Nosferatu (an old early 1900s vampire movie that has a cult status) and to be quite honest it was pretty good! The fact that it was in black and white made it all the more creepy in my opinion and good god is that vampire scary! If the oscars had existed back in the old days of film, they should have given one to Max Shrek (he plays the vampire)! NOW THATS A REAL VAMPIRE, NOT JUST A PRETTY BOY WITH FANGS! TAKE THAT TWILIGHT! Anyway...I found English after Lunch quite enjoyable. My cold had almost gone away at this point (or so I thought). The English Teacher seemed a bit down though, but their was one bit in that lesson that really made me confused. He was just his normal jokey self and then all of sudden gave this serious speech about how he has now lost his son and that 'humor' is the only thing that keeps him going in his life....what the hell was that all about? Was that supposed to be a joke? It seemed a little bit to serious to be a joke if you ask me, and no one commented on it later so has this guy just lost his son after all the disasters in New Zealand? Search me...he continued to be his normal self afterwards but really, WTF? If it WAS a joke then he sure fooled me. German afterwards was exactly the same as Monday, and the Teacher only wrote out one word this time (is this the Teacher on the her good days? The English Teacher hasn't given out ONE word yet). Technology was us rehearsing our big presentation on Infrared. The Teachers notes were to 'make it seem more fluid in presentation' and 'make sure you make it look effortless'. He made it seem as if we were about to present the Oscars or something!
I didn't go into School on Wednesday, because of my cold. I used the 'get out of School' card alright. Man, that cold really F*CKED me up in hindsight. I woke up Wednesday morning not only coughing my ass off, but I was coming down with a serious temperature, headache, a runny nose and a sore/infected ear! This wasn't just a cold, this was a SUPER COLD now! What followed was a day full of tissues, pain killers and ice packs. Heck it makes me feel sick just THINKING about last Wednesday!
Thursday had me go into School, despite a really sore ear this time and more cold tampering senses. I quite simply had to go in, because I had a Test in S.V.T. Maths was just a complete blur, I think I got pretty confused, but all I can remember was sneezing! Sport was just a disaster: I was clearly in NO condition to do twenty press-ups on the ground but do you know what I did? I perservered man, I surmounted every tissue-coated obstacle to reach the highest top on that 'Impossible' tower! And....I basically sucked at it. Didn't help that my team sucked aswell. At the end, when we had preformed our 'montage of different human shapes' to the audience (which consisted of my Class), our team recieved a total of '0' votes. Yep, we were THAT bad. Well we tried. After Sport was the S.V.T Test: even when I was ill I STILL had the willpower to do my homework and revise for this Test...and I think it went well. Just depends on how well I did on the questions about that text on fish mating! To be quite honest, I don't think what was worse: my illness or learning the word 'spermatoziode'. Should I be ashamed to know the mating methods of a Chicken off by heart? Should a 15 year-old-kid really KNOW about these things? Madness, all of it! Lets just hope it went well...
The afternoon was composed of German (boring), Extra Maths (more boring, still don't understand a thing) and Music (still boring). At least in Music we were working on the computer messing with Audacity and creating sound bites of city life! Now we're supposed to take photos of La Trinite Porhoet and insert our sounds into them....What if we don't have a camera? Like THAT could be a real problem! At least 'take photos' is better Homework than 'do hours of pointless maths exercises'!
Friday aka the final day before the Holidays! By now the skin on my nose had all but PEELED away, leaving me looking like some sort of snot blowing Zombie and it didn't help that I was limping a bit after all those boody press-ups in Sport. Well the final day was never going to be easy, was it? We changed the groups in technology, pitting me against two squabbling idiots that would rather just chat than work...leaving me to do all the work for them. Sadly I missed out on the presentation of Infrared because I was off on Thursday. We're now going back into alarm systems or as I like to put it: 'People who feel way to insecure and probably have FAR to much money on their hands to by flashy alarm gadgets for their house'. Our schedule was a bit altered as well on Friday because half of our Class was on a trip to see some ancient latin church (we didn't go because we didn't sign up for latin at the start of 5eme). Is it just me but is half my Class always absent now? So next was Maths, where we typed in a few maths equasions into the computer and it solved it for us. Yes, you heard that: THE COMPUTER SOLVED THE PROBLEMS FOR US? SO WHAT WAS EXACTLY THE POINT OF THAT?! YOU'RE TEACHING US HOW TO CHEAT NOW? Anyway after Maths we started a new chapter in Geography: Germany. Well Germany or Spain, depending on the language you chose at the start of the year. Basically they gave me this big questionnaire to fill in and we spent an hour on the Internet trying to find out 'What is the tallest mountain in Germany' or stuff like that. Naturally, my Internet searching skills were put to good use during this. And then we had S.V.T again, where we had to find an example of humans altering/disrupting reproduction in the animal kingdom. I did a little article on forests being picked clean by man. Kind of ironic I thought, seen as I was writing on a piece of destroyed rainforest! After luncheon we watched a video on crabs mating....or we should have, but the video was faulty so instead we watched on old Asterix & Obelix cartoon film ('Asterix and the Britons')! It sure was funny hearing the French impersonating that 'posh' English accent! After that we had Science: we were basically recreating the whole 'spy glass held underneath the sun' experiment. You know how things catch fire under concentrated light? Yep, pretty cool. And of course the Week finished with 'everybody loves English'! It was basically the entire Class messing around for 50 minutes. The Teacher even let us listen to music tracks on YouTube (very poor taste I must say, every single word in their songs begins with the word 'DEATH' or some bloodthirsty rant)! So just one big 'YAY, ITS THE HOLIDAYS SOON' party basically! Very nice of the Teacher to give us a break to do our Homework, too.
Now all of that is over, ITS NOW OFFICIALLY THE HOLIDAYS! YAY!!!!!! A LIFE WITHOUT HOMEWORK, WITHOUT GREULING TESTS AND THE SWEET TASTE OF F-R-E-E-D-O-M. LONG LIVE THE HOLIDAYS!!!!!!
Update: been to the Doctors, and I've a) got ALOT of earwax stuck in there and b) I definitely have an ear infection. The amount of pills I've got to take is unbelievable! But hopefully things should get better now....
This film still haunts my dreams....
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