121st post since I don't know when. Ahhh school hasn't been going too well so far. :( IB stress is kicking in definitely. Grades are like whoosh down the hill. 4 for French oral, 5 for French essay, 5 for Bio test, some sucky score for Bio lab report, 6 for Maths test when some guy scores nearly 100%... okay, 7 for Chem which was good and made my day. But other than that the work load is horrible. :'(
Urgh and I have a French written exam plus a French individual oral presentation next week. I shudder. I actually feel scared speaking in front of the class, knowing that I'm gonna make silly errors in vocab and grammar unconsciously, without knowing. Well that's basically what pulled my essay grade down, too many grammar errors and weird vocab until the meaning the essay got diluted. Something of that sort. Hmph. Okay I'll hold on until October. I'm actually becoming accustomed to hearing fast French. :/
Yeahhh and Bio grade boundaries are way too high!! 90% for a 7?!! Like I got a 75% for the test then I drop down to a 5. Ewww. Means I better work harder or sth. Don't tell me to chill because my life is pretty messy now.
English Lit... HL. A rather fun and interesting class, but terribly difficult. I thought I tried my best, ends up I scraped a pass for the essay. -.- Oh my teacher is so so funny; we're reading
Death and the Maiden now and it has sexual innuendoes everywhere and the 3 boys in my class start giggling. SO she made everyone say 'cocks and panties' so that we'd get over this laughing stage and deal with the sexual connotations sanely. Well now the boys are kinda crazy over this phrase; they repeat it every day. It's rather amusing, but sometimes I just need to tell them to shut up. Haha. Oh my English lessons. :P
Hmm I've been playing quite some table soccer during my lunchtimes. :) So fun. And I choose boys to play against - the only way to improve right? I mean girls usually suck. AND IT IS SO FUN TO BEAT BOYS :) So far I haven't lost to any boy yet hehehe. Well except for one because I deliberately gave him the last point of our 2nd game so that his egoistic self wouldn't be too damaged. -.- 10-9.
This is bad; seems like table soccer is the only thing I'm doing well in in school...? :o
Gonna check out some American colleges this Sunday. Duke, Stanford, UPenn and Georgetown are going to Zurich for a presentation, so I guess I'm going there with my mum to listen to what they've got to say. Not like I can get in. :s
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Full marks for the first ToK oral presentation! Whoohoooooo. Okay it was only worth 5 marks, but it has really pumped me up. I love ToK haha. Talking about all sorts of crap spices up my life indeed. Well that's to start off on a happy note. Things get worse. 9/13 for first Maths pop quiz when people actually get full marks. Stupid mistakes as always. English poetry commentary today; I can go kill myself for taking Eng Lit HL because the poem was so hard I didn't get it at first! After staring and re-reading it a billion times, I think I got sth out of it. Hopefully my interpretation is right... And what else... French oral tomorrow DIE DIE. French essay due this Friday and I'm only 40% done, and I know it's lousy anyway. Chem test next week on crazy mole concepts which I need so much practice on but can't find time to. -.-
Right enough about the workload. Know what? I think I'm becoming a REBEL. My parents told me to quit the school play, but no, I'm staying. Well I got a role with 5 lines ahaha. Not main duh but no silent either. ;) we are acting Oklahoma, a musical with some romance and comedy. Should be pretty fun; some songs are already stuck in my head. Really bad because during the English commentary today the silly tune was playing over and over again in my head; freaking distracting.
I should stop procrastinating and get on with my Biology lab report. So mafan.
Oh yeah last night was a mid-autumn festival fair and exhibition in Basel. Never knew Basel had such stuff. Thanks to David (the abc) who told me about it. More well-informed than me hmm.
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Okay 2 more days and it is gonna be the MYP Celebration Evening!
Sigh but i don't feel particularly excited. It's like okay I graduated from the MYP already and I am in the IB - tough life. But oh well at least I get to dress up YAY. :D
School has been okay. English Lit lessons are actually really fun! My teacher cracks sick jokes all the time and it's pretty amusing. :D And ToK has been interesting so far. Knowledge = Justified true belief. Cool definition. :) Maths HL is challenging but so far so good. French... I have trouble participating in class because everyone talks so fast plus my teacher asks the weirdest questions ever.
Lala I have some homework to do. But tsp procrastinating. In Grade 11 and 12, you are entitled to using the Common Room, which is the funnest place ever. I actually get to play table soccer with boys! Since I've beaten everyone at home, it's not so fun to play at home, but school's just awesome. I cannot play soccer for nuts, but table soccer DEFINITELY. :D I beat a few boys and girls at it alr (played doubles though, not singles) but it's still amazing. :)
Hmm uploading old pictures taken over the summer although my sis was supposed to upload them but LAZY HER. Need to clear the camera because my sis is supposed to video me doing the student representative speech during the MYP Celebration Evening as my mum would most probably miss it.
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