long post ahead so grab a glass of iced tea/a smoothie/juice/cordial/good old H2O (whatever you fancy), flop onto a comfy chair/bed along with your dog/cat/rabbit/guinea pig/stuffed toy (don’t pretend you don’t have a stuffed toy, yes especially some of you) and join me on this adventure!
Hey there everyone! After obsessively scouring people’s journals for a while now, I thought hey maybe I’ll give it a go! I have no idea what I’m doing in life here as this is my first post! I think it’ll be amazing to look back in two, five, ten, twenty years and see how far I’ve come and laugh at every stupid thing I’ve done especially when the revelation hits me that what is the pinnacle of my life now, won’t even matter in a few years. At this point, I’m using it as motivation to stop ignoring the current mound of work that has vastly accumulated which I have to finish within the next 20 days. But, I have realised that procrastinating is pointless because I will eventually have to chain myself to my desk knuckle down and do it, feeling an unreasonable amount of stress than if I’d just done it to start out with. As a Year 12, I envision myself to be walking around like a character from the Walking Dead all the time except I’ll be a living incarnation of one.
On the first day, this is the ‘pep talk’ I imagine we shall receive: “Welcome back to the worst year of your lives, I have to tell you upfront, many don’t survive. You'll soon realise the world isn’t all about you, now it revolves around SACs and marks and grades and rankings and practice papers and exams and pressure from peers and parents and teachers and yourself and constant panic and everlasting stress and sleeping at 3am and studying at a rate doctors would balk at and all these twelve years coming down to numbers that make or break you but that’s your life for the next ten months, so suck it up sweetie."
I’ll be attempting to keep afloat in this tsunami, and welcome anyone and everyone to join me in this sacrifice odyssey with your own experiences, emotions, thoughts, reflections, the bright and the dark, and emerge alive, as survivors and triumphant in December 2019, never succumbing to an inevitable fate giving up.
For the rest of these holidays, I’ll be updating every few days or maybe even everyday (so keep those eyes peeled) with what’s happening in my life, however mundane or exciting. However, once school starts, I will check in with you guys every week (can be more or less frequently depending on the monstrosity that is my to-do list).
okay onto my subjects:
lit - I used to read all the time before VCE consumed my existence and have always loved reading and writing, so this was a no brainer, however, arriving at the pinnacle of sophistication and finesse that one must possess in lit, is another story.
revs - I am a huge history nerd and have been passionate about it since the start, and I’ve already started reading about the Russian and French revolutions and have been engrossed. If you tell me: ‘History is in the past, it doesn’t matter now and isn't relevant, why bother?’ Or something along those lines, I’ll gladly show you to the door. Only joking, not really. Once again, actually reaching the standard required for essays can only be achieved by actually writing those essays and scrutinising other people’s astounding writing. Who knew?
geo - I quite enjoyed geo in Year 9 so on a whim, thought why not try it out? Kids, you should totally make decisions in VCE on a whim. Humanities subjects are the best, mainly because it’s all about what’s happening in our world and we can actually learn about things we can apply to the real world and people/events who shaped it into what it is today. Essentially, what you learn in these subjects are actually relevant as they focus on things happening all around you. Unlike some subjects….ahem...such as
methods - the only way to succeed is to have an understanding of the concepts and be able to put it into practice. Paying attention in class is challenging when you're bored out of your mind, but I will push on and see results
chem - find it to be bland and uninteresting but may need it and think it's best to have a wide range of subjects so I will invest time and see it all pay off in the end
Note: Exaggeration is all in good fun and humour. Everyone’s journey is their own, and filled with many ups and downs, but remember that at the end of the day, you are doing VCE for you only, not for anyone else.
Yesterday I saw Mary Poppins Returns! I am yet to see the original so can’t give any comparison, however, I enjoyed it for the whimsical, feel-good movie it was, as well as a chance to temporarily be transported to another world.
Don’t forget to bring your dazzling selves back for some more spicy and exciting insights into my life!
Au revoir x