Two Days Left..
Blogged on May 22nd, 2007 at 5:01pmThis morning I almost forecast today as a wake-up call to start revising - fast. Unfortunately a wake-up call was not needed, since today’s English Literature exam contained some pretty easy questions that I think I managed to work around quite nicely indeed, especially for someone like me who hasn’t even read the book we’ve been studying for the past year or so.
Why is the fact that the novel is set in Maycomb County important? (27 marks)
Excellent.. what a gift? I answered the question by talking about the civil war and the oppression of the blacks, forming a solid foundation on which to base the story’s main plot. I think that’s got me a pass.. score!
The second half wasn’t so bad either, thanks to Mrs Branson’s crash course lesson on “how-to-answer-a-literature-question-and-not-fail-miserably” paying off. And just to think, I went into the exam telling her in a sarcastic tone “I’ll do you proud, miss.”
Anywho, the rest of today has been a bit of a doss. My music teacher for the last time forgot to bring in her violin which she owes a solo played to my music class on. The usual antics happened in my music class - people sung along to acoustic songs that I’ve never heard of and 9 Crimes by Damien Rice was covered at least twice. We then had PE which was also quite doss like due to the fact that we weren’t allowed to play football.
The rest was pretty boring I guess.
Tonight I’m supposed to be going out to town with some people in my form group, but I’ve decided not to. I guess going to Nandos with a bunch of people who you have regarded over a period of five years as the most uncouth and simple people you have ever met just doesn’t cut it anymore. It was going to be a flop anyway - all the people on “my side” of the form aren’t going, leaving me with the potentially cringe-ridden task of pulling fake smiles and making subtle insults against those simple and uncouth people. I can’t do this on my own, and quite frankly I have better things to spend my money on, like getting my hair re-dyed and some new clothes.
Talking of money, my head of year is leaving to Australia to get married after managing Year 11 this year. Somebody, probably her, has requested a fund whereby people are asked to donate money to her. Hell knows what for, but I sincerely hope she didn’t have plans for myself and my peers to pay for her flight ticket or for her wedding dress. For all the times she broke up the fights I was in and excluded me, for all the stupid policies she enforced onto my year, I’m not bloody well paying for her visa card.
Tonight is going to be relatively uneventful and stress-free since I’m going to get my mouth sorted out tomorrow at the orthodontist, hopefully for the penultimate time, and rest assured I have no intention of coming into school after that.
A stampede has been planned for Thursday. I will be participating in it, hopefully ramsacking the school’s “pill bins” (image coming soon) and causing minor criminal damage to the school grounds. Personally, after going to Hinchley Wood School ever since I was eleven somewhat reminds me of a Communist five year plan, with a hint of Nazi in there somewhere too.
Well, that’s all for now. I’m going to get changed from these sweat ridden clothes and into something a little more respiratory friendly.