This wasn't your typical Week In School. Half of it was either Permenance (oh, the ENDLESS hours), Theatre learning or Crepe/Galette making. And even then we had bank holiday Monday off, so really it was only three days and a half (we're not in on Wednesday) of School and most of that time was just us messing around! Heck we were so relaxed and chilled that we threw an egg at the whiteboard...yeah that's what the 'KER-SPLAT' title of this Blog Post means...
Monday was a bank Holiday day, so this is pretty much the shortest paragraph of a This Week In School Blog ever then. But if you're interested I used the day to basically just sleep in and ferment for an extra day.
Tuesday was the only REAL working day, and even then it was quite laid back. Maths went at a much slower rythm, and it went from being really hard to being really easy again. Honestly its like a constant tug of war with Maths, just when you think you've got it all settled, all of sudden an even BIGGER army appears and you get knocked off your feat. Sure you get back up and eventually win the war, but then it repeats itself when an even BIGGER enemy appears over the horizion, and one that will reeeally knock you over like skittles. So if you were to put my struggle with Maths this year into context, it would probably be The Lord Of The Rings then! What followed after Maths was THREE hours of French. Why? I don't know! And it was on the subject of Theatre, yes that's right, all that weird Romeo And Juliet Shakespeare nonesense (if it really was Shakespierre that wrote those plays of course). Even worse, we have to act out an entire part of the play in front of the Class next Week, and I'm the one that has to play the blumming' girl! And there's like FIVE pages of the thing to read, in olde French, which to be quite frank is mostly composed of some of the most ridiculous sounding words EVER. Words that are quite the terror the pronounce aswell. Besides who even attempted to turn Shakespeare into French anyway? Bloody mad idea! OH WOE IS ME!!!!!!!!!!! WHY HATH SUCH A FATE BEEN BESTOWED UPON MEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
So basically it was us reciting our five pages of lines on an endless loop for three hours, yippee.
The Afternoon perked up with English, which was basically the same lesson as before but you now had to write a text about your dream house and German, in which we watched the last twenty minutes of 'Goodbye Lenin' and just sat around doing nothing for the remaining thirty. The ending to the film was quite sad, but a good kind of sad if you know what I mean. We're not talking Toy Story 3 level emotion here, but still very heavy: *SPOILERS* The mother died, the Dad had started a new family of his own and it turned out that none of these events would have happened if the mother had decided to leave the country with her husband in the beginning (you can catch the entire synopsis HERE)! After German was....OH GOOD GOD NO! The less said about Extra Maths, the better...
Wednesday was fun, and I even improved a bit on Frisbee. Don't get your hopes up though, my team still lost TERRIBLY! Part of it was because a LOT of people were absent on this day, especially alot of the boys so there was about six of us in all. And yes, they put the three bad ones (me included in-case you haven't been reading my Blogs lately) in one Team and all the good ones in another one. Which just resulted in a complete and utter victory for those cocky, french bastards who know how to throw a Frisbee correctly without it swerving away to the side or hitting you in the face...repeatedly. Technology was more house building, and I just waited around while all the French did the work this time (considering how bad a job I had done last time). To be fair though there wasn't alot I could do, all the the other Team-members had everything covered and even the little jobs took about 30 seconds to do anyway. Geography was the only real lesson of the day, we started a Chapter on Germany and Italy, and most of it was colouring maps of different countries anyway. While we were busy doing Geography the Teacher brought us all up one-by-one to discuss our Results for this Trimestre (I received the full report two days ago by the way, Blog Post should be coming up soon). Basically she said that I was the perfect student, continously getting the job done and delivering superb results for quite a fair chunk of the subjects. The only thing she deemed as a dissapointment was a lack of participation in Class and my very poor grammar in French. On the participation thing, she said that it would be 'wrong' to force me to put my hand up in Class, because thats just a part of my personality and she can't change that. I wonder if she said that to the other 75% of my Class that don't put their hands up aswell? Anyway like I said a full Blog Post on this Trimestre and possibly this Year as a whole will be up in the following Week or so. Permenance was the usual boring, until one of my Classmates decided to chuck an egg at the board when the Teacher had left the Class! First of all, what were you thinking, and second, do you think we're making Crepes on Friday now after THIS??! Its just astonishing to see how rebellious this Class has gotten in the past few months! You'd think that the ONE Week where there's no Tests, Homework or general work for that matter (heck barely a lesson goes by now when we're not watching a movie or using the Internet!) they'd at least calm down a bit? NOT CHUCK A FRIGGING EGG AT THE GOD DAMN WALL! WHAT THE HECK WENT THROUGH YOUR MIND? WE'RE PROBABLY ALL GOING TO BE PUNISHED FOR YOUR STUPID ACTIONS NOW! Oooh, the %$£@ going to go down tomorrow!
Thursday was completely pointless. Why you ask? We had two hours of Sport (which can't really be called a lesson) and THREE hours of Permenance because the Maths and S.V.T Teacher Mme Gandon was off sick. So that leaves about two lessons in the ENTIRE day that actually required to pick up a pencil and write down something, right? Well make that one because we were pretty much given a blank check to do whatever we want on the computer in German. You know what I could almost call this day 'fun' if it wasn't for THREE HOURS OF FRIGGING PERMENANCE weighing it down! Yeah so Sport was football, which was slightly underpinned by the fact that none of the girls had brought their Sport bags with them, which I thought was a bit odd. I mean, how come HALF of the entire Class (ALL of them girls) just happened to forget their bags all of a sudden? I'm surprised the Teacher didn't just see straight through them, they CLEARLY didn't want to play Footie. So the Class was divided into two, Me and the rest of the Boys were playing football while the Girls were playing table tennis indoors because...the girls wanted to play Ping-Pong? Yeah..I don't see how they couldn't play football with us just because they haven't got their sportsware on, I mean so what if they're playing in their casual clothes, its not like Ping-Pong will make any difference surely? Anyway, the boys were not permitted to play Football in the second hour because they got tired and stopped playing when the Teacher wasn't there (it was hot outside, but I was in the shade most of the time because I'm always the bloody goalie, even though I continuously continue to suck at it) and we were stuck playing Ping-Pong inside while the girls played beach volley outside. Again, why couldn't the girls have just played Football in the first place? That way the Teacher could have supervised us all without having to ferry back and forth between the two groups! I mean the moment the Teacher left to go see what the girls were doing the boys just started to act silly, and taking a break from playing until he showed up again. And now because of their blasted dumbfoolery I had to play Ping-Pong again, and although football hardly does me any favours it's still infinitely better than that piece of crap Sport. Wedged inbetween Sport was two hours of Permenence, which meant that no-one had been in our Class yet and had seen the splattered egg sprayed across the entire board. The first time a Teacher laid eyes on this rebellious act was in Spanish, which I thankfully didn't attend because I was in the Class opposite our one doing German on the computer. Well, I call it German but it was really just us doing whatever the heck we want on the computer. Basically you had to pick ANYTHING that interested you and write a short ten line essay on it in German. So easy-peasy then, I just have to pick a game or a movie that I like and write a few sentences about it in Hitler's language! Oh, wait, my Computer wouldn't work so I had to collaborate with the guy next to me who was mad on Pokemon. Great. I literally had to endure ONE solid hour of this guy from the other Class telling me who all the different Pokemon where and what they do, which seemed needlessly complicated! Pokemon is quite frankly a very technical and strategic game wrapped around a family friendly paint job so it looks a kids game. Well believe me, that stuff is NO kids game, its more like some Mathematicians wet dream. I can't take it seriously though, the graphics look like absolute shite compared to the Xbox 360's standard and the Pokemons are far too cute in some pictures for them to be at all imposing in combat. I suppose this is what happens when an Xbox nerd meets a Nintendo one? So after German was another hour of Permenance followed by music, which was pretty much the same as last Week: We watched the first 15 minutes of a Charlie Chaplin film called 'Modern Times' which was about this factory worker played by Charlie C going completely insane.
Friday morning was more pointlessness. Extra Maths was the usual horrible and the remaining three hours were us making Crepes and Gallettes in the School kitchen. Oh, and there was also the incident with that egg that a certain member of the Class threw at the board...yeah that too. I'll give cred to the guy that did it though, he owned up to it straight away when the Teacher threatned to put us all in detention for the next three hours doing grammatical exercises, which would be hell incarnate for all of us. No, and even after someone in the Class threw a bit a paper around the place (smart move) she STILL let us do Crepe cooking for three hours. As for the Crepe cooking part, we actually had to make authentic 'artisan' Crepes, and I'm talking proper stove, proper mixture and proper techniques. We had to apply pig fat to the cooking stove before we added the mixture (which had to be prepared three hours earlier due to some special fermenting technique) so the two hundred degree heat wouldn't sizzle the pancakes straight away. Like I said, it was all done very professionally and we all had to have a go at making one of the staples of French cuisine (which is, in my opinion, ridiculously overated). As you can imagine, it was harder than it looked...Most of the French are born and bred Crepe makers of course, but I hadn't made a Crepe in my life so things were slightly harder for me. Not that my Crepes were bad, its just that when you flip them over mine just sort of...fell apart. *SIGH* Add Crepe making to the LONG list of things I'm incapable of doing (i.e Frisbee, Ping-Pong, Football, French Grammer, High-Jump, creating short Blog Posts, not thinking about Dr.Who every single second of my existence...) The Afternoon was Permenence, where I went to the Library and looked at some of the news articles thats been published about the College over the Years. I was quite shocked to see how far the Technology Teacher has come since 2006, and forgot just how awesome M. Onno the English Teacher was. Amongst other things there was an article about my first Cross Country race in 2008, my how I've changed since then. Back then I actually wore something that wasn't just a plain beige sweater with some black/dark blue tracksuit bottoms! I also wasn't as tall...and didn't look like a total nerd. Science was next and it was exactly the same as the last lesson so nothing really to talk about. English was us putting our dream house on the Computer and that was it. For the Jacuzzi I chose the photo with the plasma HD TV screen built into it by the way.
So that was this Week. Everything's one long party now, what with it being our penultimate Week. Just think, only one last This Week In School Blog Post and its the Summer Holidays from then til' September! Perhaps I should become a Teacher, that way I'll enjoy some lovely long Holidays all year round? God I bet you adults just dream of Summer Holidays now...
Tim signing out, for what may be one of the last times.
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