Date: 25th Mar. 2018 at 10:52 PM
Mood: Cool song I like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmUw1MmIYvUHello, ATARNotes! It's been almost exactly a month since we've last seen each other, and to be quite honest not much has actually happened. It just feels like time is flying by, and it's hard to slow down and take a breather once in a while. I guess writing these little memos is the only time I get to reflect on my life before it keeps on running away from me and I have to try and catch up to it. Pretty wild.
It's been busy in the sense where you aren't literally busy all the time, but it's the busy where one day it's Monday and you're wondering why life must curse you, and two minutes later the end bell rings on Friday afternoon. And nearly the end of term 1 already!
Some small updates: I (finally) got the results for my maths assignment back tonight, and I'm super happy with the 96% I got.
It's the highest I've got in maths in the last few years and I'm super happy and proud of myself that my effort paid off. I got 100% for my English essay and I was also really happy about that too, although not as proud because maths has never been my strong suit where English is. I'm thinking of using some of the resources for maths to do some extension work on the holidays because it's interesting me more and more. If anyone has any ideas of how I can do this, please let me know.
I've done some things with my friends in the last few weeks, and I always love their company. I saw Love, Simon with my friend at the cinema for an advanced screening on Friday night and loved it. It'd been worth the wait after finishing the book (and absolutely adoring it), and personally I think the movie did the book justice to the best of its ability. Another couple of friends came over to study for our Japanese tests with me. I did my Japanese speaking, writing, listening and speaking tests and was generally confident. Some things I know I got wrong afterwards though, which was pretty annoying, but it's something I can look out for next time.
I impressed my teacher in the speaking test though; even though I was nervous, I knew my stuff and I think that showed lol.
An interesting slash mortifying slash fascinating thing has happened in my Japanese class recently. Apparently 2018's year 9s are reckless because we had a girl actually walk out in the middle of class. So, we have a new teacher this year who really isn't that bad. She's a
little bit over-the-top, and prints out a gazillion things for us to the point of ridiculousness, but she's not mean at all and she's very invested in our progress. But apparently a few people can't handle this (they actually have to do work this year for a subject they chose to continue in year 9!!), so they literally walked out. My teacher asked a girl where her textbook was (she didn't even have it), the girl said "I don't know," and the teacher said "I'm going to wait until you give me an answer," not in a mean way or yelling at all, and the girl just walked straight out of there. And didn't come back. Shortly preceded by two other girls walking out two lessons later because they didn't want to stick to the seating plan assigned to them. Seriously?! I don't understand it. The subject was compulsory in year 7-8, so I understand negligence here, but for people who willingly chose it to not be up to year 9 standard and then complain about it when the teacher tries to get them up to speed... it's just confusing to me. Anyway, there's my Tales From The Class Of 2021 for the day. Hopefully I can bring you some more in the coming years.
Some other things, if you're interested in my life for some reason:
- I went to Apollo Bay for 4 days. I absolutely love it there. End of story.
- I'm getting new glasses.
Okay! Well, that's my yearly update for you. Not very interesting, but hopefully it can provide some insight into my "crazy" life. Not very VCE either, but in the coming years that's sure to change so I suppose this is a short break from that.
I'll probably update next into term 2, or whenever I feel like it. Until next time!