Wednesday, June 14, 2006

   Just did Chemistry
Well, I crammed two years of chemistry into a day and a half, and I think I did alright. Not great, mind you, but alright. I'll get by. Physics on Friday and then...THAT'S IT! All my exams will have finished this Friday and then...it'll be wierd. I mean, my entire education has built up until this point...and then it'll be over. What an anti-climax. Although I'll have diplomatic immunity until August because I won't know my results - my parents can't try to disown me if they don't know what I've earned myself. Lol.

Well, I'm already halfway through my Tim Burton book. It's his (sort-of) autobiography. Y'see, I read his own "story" book, "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy" and I LOVED it. Aside from watching various movies by Tim Burton, this book is what really launched me into his world.

Read it if you can, my avid readers: you won't know what hit you.

Gotta go get lunch now.
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Monday, June 12, 2006

Hallo
Okay. Just did maths. It was fine. There was this one question, "JOhn's mortgage has gone from £916 to £919.24. What is the percentage difference?" and I couldn't for the life of me remember how to work it out. Any help here would be good, because it's annoying me. I like to know things.
There was also a question where we got marks for filling in a cheque. That was surprising, because our teacher never told us that cheques would be in it. But it was a gift anyway. ^_^

Science. Oooooh dear. I sort of know my chemistry, now that I've looked over some stuff on bitesize. It's all starting to come back to me: sure, I have to go over a few details, but it's relaxing to know that it's not as much as I thought.

Okay then. I was talking to my friend Matthew in town today. That boy rocks. Lol. He likes Tim Burton, lol. That's enough for me.

Well. I'm really tired. I was reading "King Soloman's Mines" last night, and I got a little carried away. Then I read some of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" because I felt like it. I tend to read stories which concern a large journey. I think it's because I'd like to go on one myself, and explore things. It's strange, but there it is.

I would dearly love to live back in the old times when you could go on a journey and never know what might meet you. The old superstitions made it interesting. You never know, you could see a dragon. Lol. Now, what with the satellite business, you know exactly what's what. Well, okay: we don't know much about the Pictish people, or all about the Olmec's and the Aztecs and the Incas. That's what I'd love to discover.

I'm quite old fashioned, really. I prefer to write letters to people than to send them an e-mail. I'd prefer to walk, or go on horseback, than ride in a car. It's a little odd, because it doesn't work in the technological world. It's too far behind everyone else - but I love Jane Austen's kind of world. I'd love to live as a lady there. Wow.

That's why I love Lord of the Rings, the books. The language is exquisite. The way the characters speak is so beautiful. Everything is like the old kingdoms; it's my ideal world, in a way - you know, except for the threat of Mordor and all. Lol.

If you could choose where to be born, and the time period - anything on earth - what would you choose?
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   Last week of exams
MAths in...15 minutes. Chemistry on wednesday. Physics on Friday. Oh yes - and I haven't had a chance to go over any science at all, except some physics formulas. Holy Crap.

What's a girl to do? I've brought it all on myself, of course - not studying when I had more time. However, I've been known to do well enough when I cram things all into the one day. HIstory, for example: although it is my stronger subject. Holy crap - what am I going to do??????

Thanks to everyone who's saying nice things about my exams (hugs for you).

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

My my.

WEll, I'll do good in maths, which is a boost. Science - I might just fail science. Oh well.

Crap.

CIAO CIAO!
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Friday, June 9, 2006

   Sarah's Quote of the Day
"I will not take my daily medicine!"
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   Exam
Well, the history exam went a lot better than I thought it would. They asked me about Korea, which I know pretty well.
The first half of the paper were source questions. They given you extracts from a history textbook focused on a particular period in history and various pictures from the same time. The text passages can be by world leaders at the time, or civilians living in whatever situation the source is about. Lol. You can compare them. I rock at that, so it's all good. I think I've got an A in history.

I think I've aced all the subjects I want to do next year. The only subjects left to do now are maths, and the other two sciences. I want to get a B in maths to show myself. All my life I've been crap at maths - so getting a B grade will be the biggest acheivement I've ever made. As for science, a C grade is enough.

Well. Animanga is on this week for sure. Last week I had to call it off, and the week before that - only me, Chiara and Kirsty showed up. WE watched most of Spirited Away. It means that we'll have to go back and watch that part again while everyone catched up - but no matter. It was good enough to watch agan ^_^. God it feels great to talk about Animanga. It's takes the edge off exam time!!!!

ANIMAAAAAAAAAANGA. And I'll see Chiara properly again. I swear, exams wreck you in more ways than one. Wreck you as in exhaust you phsically AND emotionally; wreck your life if you don't pass them; wreck your social life while you're actually DOING them. Oh I don't know anymore.

LOL.

My uncle fought in the Korean war, and he was there when the Chinese entered the war in 1951. How frightening would that be? You're fighting a long and bitter war, you think you've managed to FINALLY reach the end of it...when a flood of new people, who aren't tired by war, enter the fray. Think about the population of China. There were thousands of them. He survived that, people. My uncle survived that.

Lol.

My family is pretty cool. Everyone is interesting.

Lol, yesterday we were putting up a tent in the back garden for Amy and her friends (Amy is my lil sis) to camp in when school's out. My dad, whose temper is a lot worse in the heat of the summer, was ready to burn it. Fortunately yours truly sussed it all out. Lol.

CLAP FOR ME, DAMMIT!

Lol.

Well, this post is HUGE. Oh well.

Now I'm entering a habit of one lines only, so I'll break that habit RIGHT now. Lol.
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   WOO HOO
TYPE IN "NOSTRATA" ON GOOGLE, AND THIS SITE IS THE SECOND WHICH SHOWS UP!!!! TRY IT NOW!
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   Just did French
I think it was alright today. I've got History later on - the Cold War. History, I think, will help me because I want to be a journalist. For example: Gordon Brown (a member of the British Parliament for all you yanks out there, lol) has the title of Chancellor. This is the title Hitler had before he became Fuhrer. If that's not a warning...I don't know what is.

The impact history has on a person varies. The student will learn from past actions either way: either learning not to repeat them, or learning new strategies of terror from them. It all depends. Lol. Or you have the third type of student: who wasn't born when it happened then, and doesn't care that he/she's learning about it now.

:)

I like History. I like history involving Vlad III (Vlad Drakulya "the son of the dragon"). It's just like listening to a good story. Vlad III was the Wallachian King (Wallacia is a territory in Romania) who fought the ottoman Sultan Mehmed II (I think it was II. So many I's). Our good friend Mr Vlad is also the man on whom Dracula is said to be based. With good reason! The man had a fondness for impaling his enemies, or anyone he fancied needed a good impaling. He liked to eat in his forest of bodies. One servant dared to ask how Vlad could stand the smell. Vlad had him impaled on a higher stake than the others so that "the stench will not offend his nose).
That's the kind of man that history tells you about. I love history. ^_^ I'm not a maniac.

Lol.

Well, I'd better get on with finishing my Cold War revision. The exams in just over an hour.
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Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Lol
Okay. I'm over that emotional hiccup I had yesterday.

I'm feeling a little more relaxed now. So it's the cold war...who cares? So the Cochinos Bay incident was a disaster - what impact will that have on my life unless a group of nonchelent Cubans visited my house???

I was just thinking. I read an article about the families which travel to America or even (hoho) Britain in order to find a better life. And it got me thinking; what about reversing the ideal? What about going to these countries in search of a better life that wasn't in the finicial sense? I mean, in terms of spirituality or morality. It's just an idea, and probably as crap as my other ones.

Lol.

Well, the library is closing...so TOODLES!
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Tuesday, June 6, 2006

Lol
Yesterday was fun. I was talking to Morbo, Chiara and Shannon yesterday on MSN. It rocked. Lol.

Well. I've got my play on later, and I'm pretty nervous because I'm not sure what time I've to be there at. I hop it's six, because that's the time I'm going at...lol. WEll, it's twenty to five now and the library closes at five...so I've got an hour to kill.

How is everyone? I'm feeling pretty low. The weather is far too hot - the authorities are fearing the same sort of summer as the one in 1976. I heard that it was like being in Spain. There was a plague of ladybirds. LADYBIRDS! Well anyway.
The weather makes me feel sleepy, and I haven't done as much revision as I'd liked to have done. I suck, people. My exams aren't going well and I don't think I'll pass them. I tried telling my parents, but they're just telling my to do my best. My best isn't good enough for me. THey could live with me getting C's all across the board, hell - they could live with me failing all of them with E's. But *I* can't. You see: I put myself under pressure. Nobody else does. This sounds sad, but I can't tell anyone this. They'd brush it under the carpet, like they always do.

Gotta go.
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Monday, June 5, 2006

Lol
I just did my maths exam. Lol. I feel pretty calm about it, so it can't be all that bad. I knew what a reciprocal was, for once.

My answer for one of the questions was a little embarrassing, "Somewhere between 60 and 80 percent" says the genius. Well, there's a little working out, so maybe I'll get marks for THAT bit anyway.

So, devoted viewers, anyone else doing exams? Anyone else feel that they will flunk Science, because then we can band together and fail in peace. Lol.

CIAO CIAO
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