This Week In School: ITS BIRTHDAY WEEK!

YAY, ITS MY BIRTHDAY! I'M FITHTEEN! And as far as 'Weeks In School' go, this wasn't all that bad. Sucks that I'd had a big Test the day after my Birthday though. At least all my hard work was rewarded by a (quite simply) stunning 42inch HDTV! Got to thank all your kind generosity, my loving family. Much appreciated. Anyway, lets delve into this Week, although by now it seems like I've been reliving the same Week of School over and over again. Thank god the Holidays are soon!

Monday, a good day by my standards. First lesson was the German Test. I honestly thought I was going to fail this BAD. Mainly because German Tests often include words we haven't even skimmed on in Class, like the word 'tissue' in German. TISSUE? You might want to use a word that we know like 'mobile phone' or something? The Test was lukewarm, and quite frankly I am relived that it went as well as it did! The rest of the Class bombed though, featuring results like 3/30 or 1,5/30! At least I had scraped a 20,75/30 (14,5/20)! The Teacher was far to mean in the correction though. One person next to me got -1 point for FORGETTING TO WRITE HIS NAME! IS THAT EVEN CONSIDERED PART OF THE TEST? And in another part of the Test, where you had to translate a phrase from French to German, surely if you get EVERY WORD right apart from ONE word in said phrase then shouldn't you at LEAST give me half the marks for getting most of the sentence right? German quarries aside, Technology after that was pretty good. My group was just putting the finishing touches on our Diaporama about Infrared. Its coming together quite nicely as well, shame that the French have absolutely no taste whatsoever in colour. They just want to put poop brown on anything. Art was the last lesson on us filming our different film shorts. It could have been better, our filming was pasted onto five minutes at the end in which we just had to rush everything...with a crappy camera. We just tried to make it as funny as possible, even though it was a bit rushed. Maths finished the morning, and it was just BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH! Oh, and I got my Test Result from last Thursday, a crap 9,5/20. Although my average for this Trimestre should be around 13,5/20 in total which is still MILES better than my Result in the first one (we should be getting the report in the coming two Weeks)! 
The afternoon started off with Geography, which was us studying how super-vast London is (we even looked at Leicester, Grand Parents and Auntie). Funny how the Teacher had said that England was more wealthier than France, which definately isn't the case now (our Books are 7 years old). French was us starting a new chapter on 'Fantastical' literature: you know Vampires, Werewolves, Ghosts ect... should be interesting. The Class was (of course) in outrage about the Test last Friday (or the Friday before last Friday now), IN WHICH WE RAN OUT OF TIME TO FINISH THAT BULLSH*T TEST. M. Carre did let us continue the Test, so all is now well I suppose.

Tuesday kicked off with Maths, BORING. Everyone knows Maths is boring: even the Teacher knows it (she basically said to the Class: LIVE WITH IT)! Unfortunately, its something thats apparently VITAL for our future so we're stuck with it. Great. Geography was a bit different from Monday: we're basically studying the pro's and con's of living in England. Heres my pick:

PRO'S  

- People speak English.
- Nice food (Fish & Chips, Pork pies, Teacakes, Hot crustbuns..). 
- I can actually go to a Cinema and not endure a horribly dubbed film.
- Tesco exists...
- Stuff is cheap.

CONS

- Bitch to pay for University fees.
- FULL of muderers and drug addicts (or so the news tells us).
- Failing economy.
- Goverment = FAIL.
 
The draining TWO HOURS of French that followed Geography started off with a Dictation (because the previous one was so well recieved...). It was easy this time, only seven lines to learn! A really bonafide way to earn a 9/10 that really boosts this Trimestre's scores. The other French Test (where I had to write a portrait on Reaver from Fable III/anyone that you chose) didn't go as well though. A 10/20. The Teacher was nice, she gave us a second chance to re-do the Test and get a better score! I was actually surprised my how many spelling mistakes I did on my first try, but then again I am English so it is sorta excusable. Hopefully my second attempt was better. 
The afternoon started with...ENGLISH! Good ol' lovable, easy-as-pie English! We wrote a letter to the Class in New Zealand, and started to type it into the Computer. Everyone loves the English Teacher now, he's like sooo on our level, you know? Maybe he's that one guy that inexperienced Teenagers can actually understand? I don't know, he's just the best Teacher ever. German was alot of people complaining about their Test Results and the Teacher writing out alot of words because of it. I suppose she doesn't take criticism well. She's like the Teacher equivalent of THE DARK SIDE. And Extra Maths was AGAIN replaced by Technology, which is such a MASSIVE improvement. I don't know why Technology has replaced Extra Maths, but I hope its permanent. Like REALLY permanent. We printed out our diaporama on Infrared and made it look all flashy by adding drawings and stuff. Next Week is the Presentation of our Diaporama to the Class, and I'm pretty sure we'll get a 20/20 now. Shame most of it is coloured brown. 

Wednesday was another good day, mostly because a) It was my Birthday on Thursday and b) Sport was actually fun! No one got hurt, or sent to Hospital and I didn't suck in everything! YAY! The 30 seconds to grab the ball was easy because I just curled up into a ball for 30 seconds, (a tactic which no one had yet tried) and it worked out well enough. Everyone copied it afterwards though, so that sucked. Copying little &%$@£'s! Technology (yes, three days of Technology in a row) was us perfecting our Speech that is to be recited to the Class in a Weeks time and we finally got our Test Results from the last Test: I got a 11,5/15, which was STILL the highest score in the Class...somehow. Everyone else had got poor Results apparently. Bit unhappy, because that means my score for this Trimestre will be brought down by it...oh well. 11,5/15, is hardly a 19,75/20 is it? In French we were tasked with a project: Create a horror movie poster, write a story around it and then implement sounds to make it extra creepy. Apparently we'll be working on this til' June, so its sounds like a big project. By the end of the hour, we had already cracked an idea and started drawing the poster. Want to know what our monster is? Living Statues, like the Weeping Angels in Doctor Who. I showed the poor Doctor-Who-less French a video on YouTube and they just creeped the F*CK out. So, finally a way I can show/introduce the French to Doctor Who. I am like the Messiah of Doctor Who now, spreading its teachings to the poor, bewieldered and savage Frenchies. THOU SHALT WATCHETH DOCTOR WHO! THOU SHALT LOVETH ITH! Permanence was just me doing endless amounts of Homework, so nothing much to comment on there...GOOD GOD ARE THESE MATHS EXERCISES GETTING REPETITIVE!

Last Thursday can't be called a 'Normal' day in School...BECAUSE IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY-DAY! Man, it sucks going into School on your Birthday, at least there was no Tests. I suppose it was a good Birthday sans-School: 350 euros, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World on Blu-Ray AND a chocolate creator (make your own Chocolates, YUMMY)! Then I had to go to School. Such a damper on things. Meh, could have been a worse day. 4eme A (my Class) and 4eme B (the other Class) merged together on this day because the other half of the School opted to do Artisan stuff with these Artisan people who came to the School: the event was called CAPEB, and seen as I didn't sign up for it, I beared the Results. And the Results were the Schedule being a bit messed up: Sport was the first lesson (an hour in advance), and seen as the Classes were cut in half we couldn't really continue with Acro-Gym (Thank-F*ING-God) so we all voted for Football. I came out of those two hours the best, because I didn't sustain ANY injuries (the girls don't kick the Football, they miss and kick your LEGS instead! OUCH! Many people were on the floor, cradling their poor knees) and also because I didn't suck at it, which in Sport, is a real GODSEND for me. That was then followed by English, in which the Teacher was a bit late because of the changed schedule. Good thing he arrived, because we would be stuck doing Maths exercises if it wasn't for him. Then that was followed by Maths, which was us Reviewing anything that we didn't understand and wanted to look back on. Yep you guessed: BORING. By now its practically routine for me to say it. The afternoon was a rehash of German (just us doing exercises) and S.V.T, in which we watched a Doumentary on Whales mating (lovely). And it all finished with music, where we basically had to create a sound bite (about 1min long) of city life (i.e Police sirens, Roadworks ect...). So all in all, not a bad day....shame that it was on my BIRTHDAY though. And not one person in School knew it was my Birthday either. What followed after School was parties, watching Scott Pilgrim on Blu-Ray (wonderful film) and....Revision. Anyway, on to Friday:

Friday wasn't anything spectacular, there was a Science Test and...well...that was it! It started off with Technology (AGAIN?) which was me waiting around and doing nothing while the rest of the Class were finishing their diaporama's. It got a bit boring actually. At least I know OUR diaporama is THE BEST. Geography was more of the same, with a Test slated for next Tuesday...YIPPY! And Maths was (in a word) confusing: all it said was x - y = 3,2? Huh? And we had to judge whether x was bigger than y or vice versa. I am just completely LOST on that. How the heck can you know if x is bigger than y? 
The Afternoon was me heading into the much anticipated Science Test (on Molecules) and as expected it went really well (apart from a few dodgy questions at the end which left me a bit confused). Science after that (I know, two hours of Science in a row, at least Science is partially interesting) was us starting a new chapter on how the eye works. Hopefully there won't be as much to learn for the Test on this! We have just started experimenting with different lenses and stuff. Pretty cool I guess. And the Week capped off with English, where the Teacher (M. Greg) showed us a map of New Zealand...and thats it. We didn't actually accomplish much in this lesson, it was just the Teacher making jokes. Funny lesson. Make a Secretary weep though.            

And thats it for this Week! Who knows what the next (and final)  Week before the Holidays will bring? Hopefully not MORE Homework. And MORE Tests? Well according to my Homework Book, YES! Come on, can you AT LEAST give us a Week off? *GRUMBLES*


And another thing....DO. NOT. BLINK!