This Week In School: French Grammar Sucks!

Yes it's this time of the Week again, the bit where I raconte all my woes of the past Week In School. This past Week wasn't as bad as the one precedenting it but I was still unhappily trudging into that miserable School playground. Having said that though, I don't think anyone finds going into School particulary enjoyable! This Week wasn't that bad I suppose, but with the new German Teacher, all those bloody Tests and French grammar I couldn't wait to get back into bed and sleep on Friday afternoon. 

This will forever be the bane of my life!

So Monday started off with German, a subject which I was a bit apprehensive about seen as our last Teacher had apparently left without any explanation (after a two month period where she was constantly off sick). The new Teacher is a man, in his 30's I'd say and so far, so good. He was a bit shocked at how little we knew (apparently he knew nothing about the Teacher before him) and we went back to the basics a bit. Of course the Class lied a bit (claiming they didn't know what the question 'What's your name?' was in German!) and took full advantage of the situation by pretending to know less than what they were letting on! But all in all it was a welcome change I suppose. I can't say that the new Teacher is better or worse than Mme. Etore because I haven't really seen alot of him yet. Then at 9.25am was Science, which was another lesson on how to mesure the tension and intensity of an electrical circuit. I'm so far liking how easy it all is, but I still can't get the hang of knowing where to put all those damn wires! Sure its easy to say that the red wire goes into the red coloured hole on the generator but when you keep adding all the switches and the lights (not forgetting the mesuring equipement) its hard to know what the hell is correctly connected to what when its all just a heaping mess of different wires! On paper it should be easy, but of course its hardly like that when put into practise. I need to get my head around it fast because the Test is on this upcoming Friday! EEEK! After Science was Art where I was still struggling to find 12 images that summed up my life in a nutshell. I just don't think that alot has happened in my life to warrant 12 images, heck I can sum up the past three years of it by a picture of a Nerd sat in his bed playing on his computer! Perhaps I should just invent stuff, its not like the Teacher would ever know? Maths was a new topic on proportionality, which was something we did in 5eme but I couldn't remember how the hell you found out if a bunch of statistics was proportional or not. It was hard to say the least. 
After lunchtime was the dreaded French Test on the voix active and passive, which I still can't get my head around. Its fair to say that the Test was a complete an utter FAILURE, furthur cementing my hatred for grammar. The world would be a better place without it if you ask me. Then there was History, where we learned that despite the fact that Napoleon became all high and mighty empereur in 1804 (the whole point of the Revolution was to NOT have a single man ruling over everything!) the French people still liked him. I guess they had had enough of fighting at this point, a 10 year long campain for justice can really wear a country out, at least for the time being anyway...

Look who's all high and mighty now, MUHAHAHAA!

Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday. Why are you so boring? Maths was a snoozefest, this time because it was so easy. The Maths Teacher's tactic is to completely run you over with endless exercise after exercise, and by the end you're either even more confused or completely bored because you've basically been doing the same thing for the past hour and you mastered it AGES ago. French started off with the dictation Test (one which I had heavily revised for), and it was mercifully easy after the preceeding day's catastrophe. I hoped that it would somehow even the playing field, perhaps help me regain some of the points I had lost in the grammer Test (which garnered me an awful 6,5/20), and it did just that: I was given a 10/10. The following two hours after that were extremely tedious, as we had to write a fake 'intimate' letter to an invented friend. Yes, seen as we're studying one of the most captivating subjects ever: The art of how to write a letter, it seemed only appropriate that we had to create a sentimental paragraph about our past tales (notice the in-joke there?). My letter was about a boy thanking his grandparents for their wonderful present that they gave him for his Birthday. I went all out, using words like 'gracious kindness', 'captivating', 'glorious', 'my up most thanks' and 'This will live in my memories forever'. I hope it passes when I hand it in to the Teacher this Monday! History was us studying the 'Sacre de Napoleon', a famous painting by Jacques-Louis-David that represented Bonaparte's emperor-hood. Apparently David hadn't created a faithful representation of the actual event because he had not only altered the decor of Notre Dame for the painting, but also drawed in people (like his mother and close family) that didn't actually attend the event. So basically it was his version of a photoshop! 
Then came the afternoon, which started with German. Here we were learning questions like 'What's your favourite subject?' and 'What are your Hobbies?'. After that was English, were I passed my 'What did you do during the Holidays?' Test. It was all very easy of course, another pristine 10/10. If it was money I'd be laughing myself to the Bank right now.       

                                                            This is exactly what I'm like at Frisbee!

Wednesday was better than last Wednesday and it still resembled a turd (but a highly polished one). Sport was...just see the video above but imagine me in that guys place. FAIL! FAIL! FAAIIIIL! Yep, I was at least a bit better at Frisbee this time around, but no-one even bothered to pass me the Frisbee after last time so I spent most of the time running around trying to block their throws. Technology was us correcting the Test that we did last time. It was a welcoming 13/15, but I was a bit disappointed nonetheless (ME WANT FULL MARKS!). That makes my Results for Technology so far in this Trimestre an 8/10 and a 13/15. French was....*SNORE* We worked on our intimate letter a bit more and that was it really. 

                                                                            Laugh your ass off.

Thursday took the punch as being one of the worst days of the Week. Maths hadn't changed, and I was struggling to keep my head together without falling asleep! Sport wasn't that bad really....oh of course it was! Basically whenever they put me in goal I probably failed more than the worst goalie in the world and when they put me in defensive position I was kinda alright. I think the thing that fails me are my reflex's, I just don't react quickly enough when the ball is straight in front of me. I mean the ball is at a snails pace and I STILL fail to hit the bloody thing! S.V.T was the Test on Sex-Ed which I can safely (and happily) say that it didn't go well. Now don't get me wrong but I am not learning a womans naughty bits just so I can get a 16/20! This is probably the only Test where I want to FAIL! The afternoon went a bit slow. German was a Test where the Teacher would ask us questions and evaluate us on our answers. Unfortunately I didn't pass because we ran out of time at the end of the lesson, so I will now be evaluated this Monday. In Music we had to write a biography on either Charlie Chaplin or Johannes Brahms and then present it to the Class, which I thought was a bit weird because what has Charlie Chaplin got to do with Music? Anyway I got a 4/5, with the only negative being that it was a little short. A LITTLE SHORT? The 16 people before me all quoted EXACTLY the same text before me (we'd all inherently nicked the same text off Wikipedia)! 

I wage war against Napoleon in the History Test! FIGHT!!!!

 

Friday wasn't bad, it was really quite alright actually. Okay apart from Extra Maths, which was TERRIBLE. Vie de Class had us researching what the meaning of 'liberty' is, and we had to make arguements both 'for' and 'against' it. Okay....Where to start. History was us looking at the influence Napoleon had on French culture, which was pretty interesting 'I s'pose'. Maths was a step-up, somehow I wasn't bored at all! After lunch was the big Test on Napoleon, which at first I thought was a bit tricky (my mind even slipped on a few questions!) but afterwards I checked my Book and it turns out I did everything right so alls well that ends well then! *PHEW* The mere thought of a failed History Test makes the spines on the back of my neck tingle. Lets hope I get full marks! Science was more sciency-wiency stuff, and I still don't know whether I'm going to fail or 'win' the Test yet. And finally it all ended with English, in which at first we were met by a very pissed off English Teacher! He impoved over the duration of the lesson but he couldn't hide the fact that he was seriously grumpy! He was so grumpy that he even gave us a surprise Test on numbers! The French didn't grasp the fact that 1640 is spelt 'sixteen forty' instead of one thousand six hundred and forty!

So that was This Week In School. A Week with problems sure, but it was still sufferable. I can't believe I've still got five Weeks left in this god-awful Week-on-Week boring trash! COME ON SUMMER HOLIDAYS!!!!! I'm tired and bored at this point.