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Friday, 15 May 2009

I examine this to be shockingly short.

I'd like, if I may, to pay brief attention to my exams of the past week. I first took mathematics and RE. Of course the RE was simple and relatively easy, but then again it was always to be that way. Whereas maths couldn't have been much worse. Sadly, there goes my A forever.

On a far brighter note, I think that I did rather well in my English Literature exam. I answered lengthy and well all questions and interpreted the poem at the end correctly. In other words, I think that it's definitely something of a career dans la futur.


Here is that poem, cannot talk more, maths to do!:



Winter Swans

The clouds had given their all -
two days of rain and then a break
in which we walked,

the waterlogged earth
gulping for breath at our feet
as we skirted the lake, silent and apart,

until the swans came and stopped us
with a show of tipping in unison.
As if rolling weights down their bodies to their heads

they halved themselves in the dark water,
icebergs of white feather, paused before returning again
like boats righting in rough weather.

'They mate for life' you said as they left,
porcelain over the stilling water. I didn't reply
but as we moved on through the afternoon light,

slow-stepping in the lake's shingle and sand,
I noticed our hands, that had, somehow,
swum the distance between us

and folded, one over the other,
like a pair of wings settling after flight

Owen Sheers

In other news, I went to the dentist this week. God I hate those horrible, mask-wearing parasites of pain. She got some form of wooden stick with a rusting hook on the end and scraped some enamel from my tooth, placcy as it may've been. I won't go into the graphics, but GRRRR I really cannot take that squeamish thing.

Well, I'll go and take a wee nap now... oh the youth of today!

Farewell and good night...

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Saturday, 9 May 2009

The countdown is almost over...

Well this week we have the final of Holy Cross life, orals, another go at an old favourite and of course PNE in the play-offs.

School has, at the time of publication, one more day left for myself and I cannot wait to leave. The lessons Mr Brown forces upon me are now 2. I am not fearful of the exams, I have never been better prepared for maths and RE is making sense.

Ms Hardy took me into the inclusion room and made me do my french oral this week-no pun intended-and I think it did go rather well. More importantly though, what were the UMS??? I must find out, maybe I'll schedule a Ms Taylor break-in.

I had another go at dragonfable this week.
I didn't think it would be more than a sentimental, short stroll back down the memory but fortunately I'm a fan once more and, although less evangelical, I would assume to be quite addicted... yeah!

Radio 1 has its big weekend presently
and I cannot wait for the highlights. I was far too lazy to attempt to get tickets, beside no time what with revision as the only constant in my life.

Fine, this was short, but I just cannot be bothered. EXAMS ARE MY LIFE EN CE MOMENT. We had the english chief-examiner, or as Mrs Rothwell called him: God, to discuss technique. Basically he contradicted the hot potato for A4 and said use 'suggests' & 'says' alongside Boylan's 'implies' & 'because'

Bon soir...

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Saturday, 2 May 2009

Weekend Warmup- Oh dear

It's not like I'm some shrinking violet. No, no. I enjoy music and dancing as much as the next, yet last night at WW I was paralyzed. I seemed isolated. All friends gone, ignoring me and I was stood in the dead centre of the room watching the bands-transfixed. I couldn't even start brief replies with old pals. Why? I have no idea. Perhaps it was a confidence thing, the place was so surreal, the moshpit was just ghastly and pathetically immature, the people were cold and just blatantly ignored me. Maybe, however, I was just tired.

That day I had argued ceaselessly with mother and had to walk to school, getting in just at 10:05 for RE. I had gone to bed at 1 am and sleep past 2 am, awaking at 7 am. I had worked my fingers to the bone in lessons and transcended through all groups at lunch. In short, I was wrecked. I couldn't move at all at the WW.

So perhaps this is a lesson, either this isn't my thing-I certainly wasn't a big fan of the people or the music-or perhaps it needs to become my thing. Maybe I should work harder with friends old? Perhaps not...

Ah well, must go. Orals on Tuesday and exams aplenty on the way. No time for tears!

Evening...

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