Hi...
School hasn't been too intense lately, which is good! I have finished most of my assessments for this term, except for an English speech and a bio prac. I am hoping to use the next few weeks to focus on revising content and other specific areas i.e. creative writing for English.
I thought I was making progress again with creative writing, as I had come up with a whole new story, but then, my teacher didn't think it would work. So, it's back to the start again. Funny thing is, it's not that I am that bad at creative writing. In fact, I would consider myself a very creative person (it's probably hard to believe by my subject choice, but I'm a hardcore perfectionist, so any major works would have been problematic). I think the issue for me is coming up with a good plot, and science fiction is not helping the process (even though it's my fav genre to read). So my teacher has just asked me to change genres
. I'm just hoping that the next one I write will be a) not cheesy, b) 'knock-your-socks-off' worthy, and c) the one I will be able to use for the rest of the year.
Enough about creative writing, really happy about my recent maths test. It was just a topic test for trig and exponential/logarithmic functions, but I wasn't expecting the mark I got, so it was a lovely surprise! Brings my average up to where I would like it to be heading into trials (and hopefully I can maintain this). But best of all, my maths average is finally > my english average, reflecting how confident I feel in each subject.
Bio is going well, I have found the latter half of the genetics topic really interesting! For my research assignment, I turned Watson, Crick, Franklin and Wilkins into the Fantastic Four, for some random reason. I have this weird knack for making analogies for bio, but it actually really helps me to remember things. I think I should definitely do this more often, since bio can be a bit of a content dump at times!
Food tech is, well food tech. I enjoy it, and getting to cook something each week is a nice break from the rest of my subjects. I don't spend too much time on it, as the content is pretty self-explanatory. Though, I probably do need to start doing more practice questions - and write my study notes for Food Manufacture.
Keen for monday, as our class is running 'Cultural Day' at school, where we are selling lunch orders from different cuisines, and also dressing up in traditional costumes - I'm wearing a kimono. Our class will be going on a cultural trip in the july holidays to Vanuatu, so the day will be raising money for some of the local schools we will be visiting. The trip is 5 days long, with about a day on either side including travel, but's its in the last week, right before school starts. Although it takes up a big chunk of the holidays, I'm not too worried that I won't be able to study as much. I still have the other two weeks for my four subjects, and my trials should be spaced apart. Maths and english will be first, as they are not compressed, then the other two. Anyways, it hasn't really sunk in that I am going yet, but I know it will be an awesome time! And it will be a good (but intense) week to rejuvenate before the chaos of term 3 & beyond.