gonna start off by saying i have my first 3/4 sac tomorrow and im.. not sure how to feel since ive been getting by with bare minimum grades since year 9 and this is the first time grades actually. count towards the atarGood luck for tomorrow!
How are you finding Descartes' and Smart? I'm assuming that's who your first SAC is on, since I have it on Wednesday too. :'( I'm most worried for the heavy theory questions and the contemporary issue application to the prescribed texts.HELLO
Hey there, Nights! Nice to see your journal around. I did a lot of the same subjects, except for Philosophy U1 - 4 and Chinese SL U3/4.!!!!!! thank you
Good luck for tomorrow!
1. What are you hoping for beyond VCE (i.e. courses after Year 12 or general goals/ ambitions)?i try not to think about these things but. i don't see myself doing much? like sure i'll take on a degree bc of expectations but beyond that i kinda just wanna live in the middle of nowhere making just enough money to keep myself alive and happy ya feel
2. What sorts of extracurricular activities do you do?apart from language learning (if that counts) i don't..... do anything sadly
btw is there a particular reason why didn't continue CSL into 3/4????Long story short: Was not enjoying it, was terrible at it, was not improving despite trying for ages. I was doing Chinese U1/2 in Year 10 while also studying other U1/2s and figured that I needed to cut down the following year. Chinese U3/4 didn't make the list. Did do VCE Japanese SL though!
apart from language learning (if that counts) i don't..... do anything sadlyLanguage learning definitely counts. It's okay if you don't do much now - some people like to keep their lives simple and that can be a great thing. Good luck with the job hunting! :)
i used to be really involved but i kinda dropped all of that after i moved schools
really want a part time job this year though
fair enough!Didn't want to get too personal on your journal, so here's a spoiler.Long story short: Was not enjoying it, was terrible at it, was not improving despite trying for ages. I was doing Chinese U1/2 in Year 10 while also studying other U1/2s and figured that I needed to cut down the following year. Chinese U3/4 didn't make the list. Did do VCE Japanese SL though!
Good luck with the job hunting! :)got a job interview at reading cinemas the other day ! got rejected (hheh) but im still hunting
fair enough!I am of background, however, my family doesn't really speak Mandarin (we speak another dialect), so that made Chinese classes rather difficult. I wanted to study Chinese as an elective at uni as well, but some minor issues meant I went back to Japanese. I don't harbour any animosity towards Chinese at all and hope to improve my Mandarin in the future.
if you don't mind me asking, are you of native speaker background? there's the whole thing on native speakers making it unfair for non native speakers and hence the competitiveness etc but im not gonna get into that since i decided to commit to the subject as a non native speaker myself (did go to a chinese instructed school most of year 1 overseas tho, thats the only reason i think i can cope/ended up continuing the language tbh)
did you find jpn a lot easier to learn?Kind of? On one hand, the writing systems are all either Chinese-based (kanji) or alphabet-based (hiragana and katakana), which makes it slightly easier. On the other hand, having to learn another language entirely was tough. In the end though, it was well worth it - I've had a lot of opportunities and met loads of friends this way. The same could also be said of Chinese, although my luck has yet to change there.
got a job interview at reading cinemas the other day ! got rejected (hheh) but im still huntingAt least you know now how to conduct yourself during a job interview and you know that your resume is up to scratch! Keep persevering and I'm sure you'll get one soon. :)
Nice work on getting the interview! Bummer you didn't get the position, but something else will come up. What kinda jobs are you looking for mostly? :)preferably in retail/customer service! pretty much anywhere that isn't fast food since ive worked there before :o