Its been somewhat of a slow Week, all the Teachers have been swamped with School meetings, bad weather, Brioches and Xmas trees. But I digress...
The Week was off to a heavy start with the previously delayed German Test that was supposed to have taken place last Thursday but seen as half the School didn't show up it was cancelled and was then scheduled to Monday. The Test was on the time, and was fairly easy to do (which was surprising, although I did have an extra four days of revision time). She showed you clocks and you just had to write the time correctly, after that you had to relay the corresponding times with the correct phrase: so for example if you saw 9.20AM then you drew a line from that to Neun Uhr Zwanzig (or Zwanzig nach Neun) and so on...I got a deserving 18/20, which is nothing to be sniffed at.
Technology was ok, we were still on the hunt for a mouvement/light detector sensor that would turn the lights on or off depending on if you were in a room or not and also switch's lights off if there was natural sunshine shining in the house.
Art was a cool lesson, our task was that we had to take an ordinary photograph or still of anything we wanted and just distort them in any fashion we want on the computer so that it wouldn't resemble reality (I came up with the idea to photoshop in a picture of a barren desert with a School classroom, but later scrapped that idea and just drew in a bloody big black hole that would start chucking out demons onto a field of cows...the things I come up with...)
Maths was essentially one big bore fest with the Teacher just giving us a boat load of Maths exercises to do (at least it was easy). And by the way for those of you that had spent time on my Maths conumdrum from last Week, the answer is 12 minutes.
My Brochure was coming along well in Geography, really well in fact. I hate to chuck praise up my ass, but I think its the closest thing you can get to an actual brochure with Microsoft Office!
French was okay, you had to create a story out of a picture (I didn't really have anything to work with, the picture was a painting of a woman crying).
Tuesday was fine, albeit I cocked up a bit in a Maths exercise that you had to hand in to the teacher (so she could evaluate our 'level' or something) and French was hard, the Test on Le Passe Simple didn't go well at all, and the pictures I had to create a story from got EVEN worse (this time we were presented a field of Poppys!) and there was quite a few barriers made in the whole English-French language thing that stopped me from writing 'a vivid description'.
In English, (god the English Teacher is funny, god help the kids that can actually understand what he's saying, which is pretty much a form of English but maxed up to 1000mph! He's all over the place doing weird sounds coupled with odd body language! Quite frankly he needs to calm down a bit, I would recommend him as a stand up comedian!) We had to fill in a form about what we have and what we don't have and make a survey out of it covering the whole Class! So for example, 50% of the class don't spend more than half an hour on their Homework!
German was full of weird pronounciations that would give even a tongue twister specialist a twisted tongue, which led to some awesomely hilarious results (luckily the finger of doom didn't pick me out to say a few tongue twisters, but it would get me next time).
Also the Brioches came today (the ones that we had ordered from the School to help raise a charity fund or something nice like that) and boy do they look D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S! I say they're at their best when toasted and buttered, YUM!
Wednesday, isn't really alot to comment about other than the fact that I still can't get past Level 4 on the High Jump, the Teacher just puts it up so ridiculously high, ARGGH! And the Technology Test went well, I'd be shocked if I get a low score. And I did fail in the French Test (at least the one on Tuesday anyway), a crap 7,25/15. I made up for it though, getting 9/10 in the Dictation from the previous Week and 9,5/10 in the Geography Test.
Thursday was so faustrating! Maths was fine enough, but Sport was just two solid hours of PURE FAUSTRATION!!! Now, I'm sure that everyone who reads my Blog already know of my pure hatred of Ping-F*CKING-Pong (or table tennis, but Ping-Pong sounds much funnier), but here it was just awful. Do you know what my problem with Ping-Pong is? Is not that I'm crap at it (although I admit that it would be more enjoyable if I was brilliant at it), its that I'm ALMOST good at it. Today was the perfect example of that: 1ST Match: 12-13 (I lost), 2ND Match: 14-15 (I lost), 3RD Match: 16-19 (I lost), 5TH Match: 12-14 (I lost), 5TH Match: 15-14 (I won!), 6TH Match: 16-17 and finally on the 7TH and final Match I won with 13-10. Notice a pattern there? I ALMOST won every single time by just a mere 1-3 points! I'm under 3 points away of winning EVERY single match. Isn't that just UNBELIEVEABLE?! Sure I started off crap but now I'm pretty good, but I still somehow manage to lose EVERY single Match? It's almost like the referee cheated! EVERY SINGLE TIME! But every Match has a new referee so how is that possible? They ALL cheated? Or am I really just ALMOST there? I don't believe in things like 'Bad luck' but here it seems to be exactly the case! I CAN'T %$£&* BELIEVE IT! And S.V.T hardly improved either: I had revised sooo hard on Wednesday night for the Test (on volcanoes) and out of all the things I could have forgotten I forget TWO words that were almost FATAL to the Test! What were these two words you ask? Well an effusive volcano eruption has what the French call 'Lave Fluide' (fluid Lava, much more fast than the other type of Lava) and an Explosive Volcano Eruption has whats called 'Lave Visqueuse' (much more gloopy, like porridge) and I (of course me being me) mixed them up! I put on the Test that an Explosive eruption has 'Lave Fluide' and a Effusive eruption has 'Lave Visqueuse'. OUT OF ALL THE THINGS TO FORGET, WHY THIS??? And this question was asked THREE times during the Test (If you think this volcano is a ????? volcano then it has ????? lava and so on...). *SIGHS*
So the morning was terrible, the afternoon was fine, in Music we are now currently studying an exerpt from the Hunchback of Notre Dame musical (you can catch the exact same vid here: http://youtu.be/Of1SGJesmlE). Mme Jouet our Music teacher has been in our College for years now, and while she started off acting all nice she now holds our Class under an Iron Grip of Silence. If you so much as breathe right now, she'll cut your head off! She told off a girl in my Class: 'You talked...would you say this was normal? TALKING in Class? I should think not..." *GULPS!* No wonder we never put our hands up in Class, shes so bloody scary!
Friday morning was much calmer, we spent 3 hours on the computer that composed of either doing Maths exercises (the website is Mathenpoche.com if your interested), coloring in a map of Europe (that we found online) or finishing the Diaporama about what job do we want to do when we grow up (IF that day ever comes, which I'm assured that it will). We had a French Test in the afternoon, which was (surprisingly) the 'look at picture, create a story from it' Test, which went pretty well (hardly surprising considering we have been practising all week). Science was pretty cool, dare I say interesting, we are basically preparing to do one big science experiment, which involves studying carbon dioxyde, a big heater, a cool glass bowl-type-thingymajig and alot of Test tubes full of liquid. Monday is going to be a proper mix-liquids-together-and-hope-they-don't-blow-up-in-your-face-type-of-thing! And we've got to bring our Science jackets. Now why can't we do this all the time? For once I'm hoping the snow doesn't fall...
This Week had a few ups and downs, but we've got Christmas coming up and School is a good way of passing the time...as long as theres no F*CKING Ping-Pong involved. NOTE TO GOD: PLEASE MAKE IT SNOW NEXT THURSDAY, PLEEEASE! DON'T LET ME ENDURE PING-PONG ANY LONGER!!!
P.S My Report for the first Trimestre came in the post Today, will post a Blog about it soon...
