Hi there, am currently writing this in Bed, and thanks to the miracle of Wi-Fi I can now sleep, play games AND surf the Web without ever having to leave the comfort of my trusty mattress! This Week was a bit all over the place, what with unfinished Tests, injurys in Sport (someone in my Class actually went to hospital!), and really boring days (I'm looking at you Maths). After six back-to-back Weeks its starting to get a bit tiring now, luckily the Febuary holidays are just in sight. If I were to describe this Week in one word, it would be: grueling.
Monday started off with German, and my god is that Teacher strict! If you so much as BREATHE in Class she'll write a word to your Parents! Forget your German book? WORD. Forget to sign your word? ANOTHER WORD. Drop your pencil-case on the floor? A WORD! You have to be PERFECT in her Class, its like her 'mystery' illness made her into some sort of Battle-Axe! She loves to give us RIDICULOUS mountains of Homework as well, and the next Test has me almost weeping over the colossal amount of stuff to revise for! I'm finding it very hard to like this Teacher now, I really am, but she's such a B*TCH! Science was next, and this was the lesson where my brain started to hurt. Molecules can be a pain in the ass to get your head around them, I can tell you! Art was probably the best lesson of the day, as we started filming on our 'film shorts'. We didn't actually get to film our short (we ran out of time, so it'll be us next week) but it was funny watching everyone else film. The premise for one of the shorts was three students that were fighting in the playground and (of course) the Head comes out and gives them a right telling off. What made it so funny is that THEY ACTUALLY BEAT THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF A POOR KID WHILE THE TEACHER WAS FILMING THE SCENE! They went full on brutality here folks, two guys from my Class just pounded the living crap out of this one kid and I mean POUNDED. They dragged him onto the floor, kicked him several times in the side, and punched him until his glasses came off! Not to mention taking his shoe off and lobbing it at him...all while the Teacher was praising their 'great acting'. THAT WAS NO ACTING! THEY'RE ACTUALLY BEATING THE POOR GUY TO DEATH! It made things even more sinister when you add to the fact that the two kids beating up the guy on the ground actually HATE that kid, so it was sort of a way to get their own back on the poor guy (And this kid was in crutches mere Weeks ago due to an arm injury, so beating him up on the School playground isn't such a good idea...). Even the Teacher afterwards admitted that it was a bit TOO much, even for the sake of the film. Can't say it wasn't realistic though. Superb acting, I really felt it when the guy started screaming for help! Thats gotta go down in the 'I can't believe they got away with it Book!' Maths was the final lesson in the morning, and even for math's 'standard' this lesson was boring. The afternoon kicked off with French (the Teacher decided to switch the order of the two subjects for some reason) and it basically amounted to us doing endless exercises on those bloody adjectifs. Geography was better, mainly because we've just started on 'The United Kingdom' or 'Le Royaume-Uni' as the french like to call it. As you can guess, I'm already guaranteed a 20/20 in this Test! I laughed when we looked at your climat, which was pretty much just constant raining with little sunshine! Ahhh, so true...
Tuesday wasn't anything remarkable, Maths was just so.....ZZZZZZZ. French was two Tests back-to-back. Test one was a dictation, which at the time I thought went actually quite well (I counted three mistakes) but I must have been wearing beer goggles at the time because it turns out I only garnered a 4,5/10. EPIC FAIL! It annoyed me even more because the thickest person in the Class (well I wouldnt say thick, more 'unwilling') managed to get a 10/10. NO FRIKKIN WAY! At least the 'Write a portrait' Test went okay, it just depends on how good I am at writing French. Shame, if I was doing this Test in English I bet I would knock it out of the park! Geography was better, a bit surprised on how little the French knew about England. They didn't even know we had a Queen! English was fun, and is easily the best lesson: the Teacher joked that he should have a pay rise after teaching our Class, and then began to sit on the floor and exlame: 'I'm finding my inner Zen.... hummmm, hummm!' Funny how nobody apart from the English know what he's saying, I doubt any of them know what 'Zen' is! Of course, when German started everything just went to a complete stop. This Teacher just holds the Class over an iron grip, no funny talk aloud (so basically the exact opposite of the English Teacher). She CLEARLY is not getting any brownie points with us. After German came a neat surprise: in the place of Extra Maths we were to have Technology instead (for some reason, though I ain't complaining)! Tehnology is of course INFINITELY better than Extra Maths so it was a happy surprise. We started doing research on Infrared (or Infrarouge as the French say), you know that cool laser thing that sends signals from your remote control to your telly?
Wednesday went well, and by well I mean nothing went wrong. Sport was quite enjoyable this time, although some of the kids were a bit rough when trying out Judo tackling moves (strangling the kid isn't exactly the best option, dude). The mini-exercises included: thirty seconds to get out of a headlock, and the first one to hit the ground (in a fight) loses...so in other words it could be fun and both brutal at times. I couldn't help but think 'OOOH PENALTY' everytime someone hit the floor! To be honest I'm just happy that I didn't suck at anything! Technology was next, and we continued to do research on Infrared. Turns out that if you set it to a high enough frequency it can sizzle flesh like you've never seen. Now thats just COOL! Who knew a remote control can be so deadly? A.T.P was the Teacher asking us to look at different jobs and research them, so I went for electrician. Buggers get paid up to 1700 euros (for beginners) a Month apparently. Permanence was me trying to tackle that mountain of German Homework (again).
Thursday was THE day of the Week, in short: alot of crazy sh*t happened. It kicked off with a Maths Test. I went into this one thinking it would be easy, seen as I'd more than prepared for it, but good god was it a tough one! I know I got my definitions right, its just that I'm afraid that I might have effed up a bit on the calculations. We'll see, but AB 2 + BC 2 = AC 2 can't be that hard to do can it? I hope I did well, at least I'm happy knowing that I couldn't have done any better, which is the main thing right? And then there was Sport, which was a COMPLETE AND UTTER DISASTER OF A LESSON! You know how we're doing human pyramids and shapes now? Well one girl wanted to do a handstand and then break into a forward roll and she accidentally landed on her neck....ouch. The lesson before that was fine, although I think I've ripped a stomach muscle after attempting several pushups (we had to do many MUSCLE-TEARING exercises) because whenever I sit down or get out of bed I can feel something tearing. God I'm unfit...anyway so apart from a few strenous exercise routines (and several people standing on my back, probably breaking it forever) everything was okay until that girl fell on her neck. It hurt so bad I don't think she could even cry! She couldn't move her head, had trouble breathing and was just screaming all over the place so the Teacher called an Ambulance...half an hour later (so much for emergency service, if you've got minutes to live and are in desparate need of an ambulance then you're F*CKED! They were probably finishing off their lunch at the time!) the Ambulance arrived, luckily by that time she had stopped screaming and was acting a little bit more normal. They took her, stretcher and all to the Hospital. And if you're a Sports Teacher that isn't good news at all. To add to it, one kid came in on Friday with a neckbrace because she too had hurt her neck in Sport! So while Sport was cancelled for the rest of the day (more like in COMPLETE SHUTDOWN), that didn't stop the other lessons from continuing on as normal. We were supposed to be having a surprise S.V.T Test, but luckily Sport put an end to that so it was postponed until a few Weeks later (thank God, because I hadn't revised at all). So instead we looked at Tortoises mating, which I'm sorry but it just cracks me up so hard, they're like ramming into each other for five minutes and then just make the silliest of noises (I compare the sound to an old man farting)! After Lunch was German. Or it was supposed to have been German! The German Teacher....surprise surprise....WAS ABSENT! AGAIN?! WELL AT LEAST THIS SHE CANT GIVE US MORE GOD DAMNED HOMEWORK! ILL AGAIN? AWWW THATS TOO BAD! We basically just sat reading books in the library for half an hour. Extra Extra Maths was....you know how boring it is at this point! Why do I even bother to mention it now! Music was us watching this weird video that started about a famous french painter and then morphed into this weird acid trip with fake English accents....year I don't understand it too, nor do I know what it has to do AT ALL with Music! Something about Big Ben and a Cathedrale painting I think? Search me...these lessons can be pretty nutty you know!
Friday was ok, much calmer than Thursday. We still had Technolgy in the place of extra Maths which is still SUCH an improvement. I wish its always this way cos' Extra Maths is just greuling. French was us revising and preparing for the French Test later on that day, which was really nice of the Teacher to dedicate an entire lesson to it...although the less said about the actual Test the better....but in Geography I found out that I had scored a 18/20 in my last Test. I knew it went well so no surprises there. S.V.T was just as wacky as the day before, only this time it was frogs! Little suckers can pump out 7000 eggs per pond! Now thats a feat, shame that 99% of them fail to reach frog-hood. BAD PARENTING, FOLKS! The French Test after the break didn't go well. For starters, it was too bloody damn long! Nobody in my Class was able to finish it by the end of the hour! NOBODY! And that just isn't fair, is it? And the stuff I did do was rushed because I was trying to complete all of it before the hour ran out! I CALL BULLSH*T! THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED, THE TEST WAS SIMPLY FAR TOO LONG AND UNCOMPLETABLE IN THIS TIME PERIOD! Hopefully the Teacher will let us either continue the Test or just scrap it completely, and give us a new one. That just isn't fair though, we needed more time! Science after that train wreck was fine, we didn't really cover alot of ground though, hopefully the Test next Week won't be so hard (its on the day after my Birthday, so I'll try not to be too distracted, Revision does come first I suppose). The Week capped off with English, which was us writing a rough draft of an email that we're going to send to a few New Zealand correspondants (the English Teacher has got connections to a School in New Zealand so we'll be exchanging a few emails). English Teacher on fine form, as usual. The guy should be a stand up comedian!
So that was this Week, and no, I don't know what happened to that poor girl that was sent away in the Ambulance. Hopefully she's fine...or she has some spinal problem that will stop her from walking ever again... I really doubt that though. Gosh, Sport really is DANGEROUS now! BAN SPORT, I SAY!
Yep, thats one weird turtle....
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