Weirdly relaxed week :S

This week has been oddly relaxed in terms of the amount of work that has been required of me at school. Since the exams anyway homework seems to have decreased and school generally seems maybe even a bit more fun at the moment. I'm sure this all changes soon seeing as I have to take my GCSEs next year but it'll be all over soon J

The only real work I've had to do this week is Chemistry studying reversible reactions, in Maths which I'll go into detail later, and my RE exam re-write which I had to do because I got a poor mark in the exam! I always thought that my RE teacher was maybe a little deluded in that he is completely obsessed with the fact that God creates miracles and he also has an obsession with this film called 'Rocky' which is probably the worst film I've ever seen. However he really sunk to new levels last week by saying how I had to meet him the next day during lunchtime, and threatened to discuss my place at the school with my Head of Year if I did not turn up! I couldn't really believe what he'd said to be honest because it seemed a little over the top. I would understand if I had misbehaved during the year or hadn't done any of the work, but I was in fact probably one of the very few who did any work and yet he thought it was justified to come up with such a threat! I'll be glad when I get to give up RE because I really do think it is an utter waste of time and that I could be learning something more useful and more interesting.

Anyway, rant over for now, because to lighten the mood at school the maths department have come up with this 'RGS Apprentice' idea where someone in the year is going to be appointed as the RGS Apprentice. Obviously I won't win because the class have to vote who the 'class apprentice' is before they can go to be the final apprentice, which means no matter how hard you may work it'll only be 'popular' people who will get through, but it'll still be fun.

Also I still don't really know what to do about my next laptop however I may eventually decide to get the Lenovo Thinkpad X60 Tablet, or one of them there are about three, because they are the cheapest, lightest tablet PCs that I can find and they seem quite good to me. I now have to save £600 and if I'm honest I have no idea how I'm going to do that but hopefully during the summer I will think of a way!

Anyway, I'd better get some sleep now J

George.

Yay for my ‘Enter’ key :-)

It may be a bit of a random title, but it has taken me a week for me to be able to get my enter key back on my keyboard, and now I've finally managed to bend the metal hooks back into place to allow the plastic to slot into the keyboard!

Yay that felt so good compared with that spacer! This is going to be a really random post but oh well. I bet the key will come off again in a minute anyway!

Well so far so good. I'm actually surprised I haven't posted since Sunday but then I suppose not a lot happened during the week other than my exams of course. Overall I think they went fine, and have already got 1½ back. For my Maths – paper 1 – I got 64%, which someone told me was the third top in the set! Whether that's true or not I don't know but if it is then great. Also it means that because I got in the sixties I'd get an A if I were to take an actual GCSE. The lowest mark I've heard is 21% from a different set but who knows. I also got 60% in geography which is a B in GCSE standards, so that's ok at this stage I guess!

Today's been great really as days go because we haven't really done any work due to the going over of exams and stuff like that, which also means no homeworkJ. So I've basically been on my keyboard (musical) and listening to music and playing on the PS3 etc. Apparently some people would use that time wisely and study, but I am yet to find someone that sad – even Harry watches TV in his free time!

I genuinely want this term to end ASAP now because whatever we learn now at school isn't going to be remembered by the time we go back to school in September. I just can't wait for the summer because there's so much to look forward to, Summer Youth Project and Kittens to name a couple!

Well I'd better get some sleep tomorrow so I don't look like a total fool when batting tomorrow during PE in softball!

George.

P.S: Microsoft Office Word 2007 (Microsoft Cooperation 2006 ©) claims that 'Yay' is incorrectly spelt.

One More Week

I have to say this weekend has had to be one of the most boring ever! Although what do you expect when you have to revise for exams. The ones we had on Friday went OK in my opinion, however I feel particularly in the English I could have done better. Nevertheless I'm feeling confident overall about the coming week and I hope to achieve good results.

It's weird because I've been doing so much revision lately (again not by choice – and whether any of it has been worthwhile I don't know) that I've kind of forgotten about all the things I'd usually do everyday such as watching telly, playing on my games consoles or listening to music. So I'm really looking forward to Friday because that's basically when I return to normal.

I have a few things to look forward to after the exams though. Hopefully this time next week I'll have visited our kittens again, which we are allowed to collect in 5 weeks time! They're so sweet the way they all hang around together. For those of you who don't know we're getting two kittens, one male and one female, and they're both British Shorthair silver spotted/tabby. They're really sweet so that's something to look forward to over the coming weeks.

Also directly after the school holidays I'm taking part in this thing at Wycombe Swam called 'Summer Youth Project' where basically people aged 10-19 act as the cast and crew for a fortnight and this year the production is 'My Fair Lady'. I entered as part of the technical team, having heard of it from the RGS SLST. I'm not totally sure how it'll turn out although from what I hear it's a fun thing to get involved with. I guess I'll have to wait and see!

Tomorrow I have English and Maths exams, so hopefully they'll go OK.

George.

Exams

Yay I'm onto my second post already! I have to admit I'm not really used to writing a blog every day but I'm sure I'll get used to it!

Anyway I've basically been revising for my end of year exams since roughly two weeks before half term (over a month now), and I'm finding all the revision is dragging on a bit now. I can understand having to revise even more next year, but just for end of year exams it kind of seems that all this time revising is a waste of time. Anyway it's nearly all over as the exams finish a week tomorrow so I'll get over it. It was really annoying though because yesterday we had our French oral exam, and I thought I'd prepared well as I'd learnt my whole speech off by heart and had also looked at the other questions we had to revise. However, I was not aware that the presentation was only worth 8 out of 28 marks, the other 20 being the questions; therefore I will have lost out on A LOT of marks for that exam. Obviously our teacher thought it would be particularly helpful to tell us this directly after the exam, but oh well at least I now know for my mocks and for my actual GCSE next year.

Today I have been revising mostly Physics, and to be honest I'm not entirely sure how well I'm going to do during tomorrow's exam because our teacher Mr Hardyman cannot control the class to save his life. It's a shame because I think he actually knows a lot about the subject and would be a really good teacher if the class gave him half a chance. However they seem to have forgotten that we're taking a serious exam next year and it may decide on our future. Being one of the better behaved students in the class Mr Hardyman seems to think I'll do well, but I'm not totally convinced seeing as we haven't really covered a full year's work.

The other exam I have tomorrow is English, and again I'm not totally sure how that's going to turn out because I don't actually know what the exam will be on. Mr Cowburn hasn't really told us about any of the exams and hasn't prepared us nearly as much for them as other teachers have done. I saw one of my friend's coursework folder today (he has a different teacher) and it literally has at least 50 pages of solid handwriting. My coursework folder has about 15-20 pages of writing and that slightly worries me about whether I'm behind or not. Also I'm not totally convinced he's prepared us properly for the exam because you're meant to understand certain texts before you enter the exam and the teacher is meant to go through these in class. This unfortunately is where Mr Cowburn fails because he isn't able to explain something without going all senile and over the top, which means you can't really take notes because you wouldn't be able to write down what he says in the exam.

Anyway I think I've bored you enough about my worries for one day. I'll post another update tomorrow so I can express my views on how the exams actually went.

George.

Welcome

Welcome to the birth of my new blog, which may or may not be updated regularly. I have another blog which I update on my Mac – http://www.kaba-inc.co.uk/george - but that doesn't get updated as much due to the lack of broadband internet speeds.

I'll start my blog off with a story about today. Basically lunchtime today was probably one of the funniest all year because we (Me, Steve, Ollie, Ed, Simon, Harvey (sort of)) were basically bored at the start, then our boredom was ceased when Harry walked into the classroom. So naturally this was a good opportunity for Steven to see who in the classroom had epilepsy. This annoyed Harry to say the least and fought Steve as to who had control over the light switch! His excuse was that we should be saving the dolphins or something but I'm not really sure what he's on about to be honest. Then due to the constant flashing of the lights, Miss Kerr opened the door to find Harry switching the lights off again. This naturally turned the blame of the flashing lights onto Harry when the real culprit was Steve, but we were all sent out anyway. Harry then sat on a window sill next to the drama studio, so then Steve annoyed him further by dropping some water on his head and throwing paper aeroplanes at him. Then, to top it all off he lured Harry near the entrance to the computer centre, then suddenly pushed him in and locked him in the door! It was really funny.

This may sound like bullying to those of you who don't know Harry, but I can assure you that this was not the case because Harry believe it or not actually enjoys the attention, and he knows that none of us are trying to give him a hard time.

Anyway, I'm going to stop writing this post now because the Apprentice is on in ten minutes and I'm kind of bored of revision and exams and French orals etc.

George.