Last night, I had to go to watch a ballet with Mum, Nana and Nana's mate Andrea. I used to like ballet when I was about eight, because the costumes were cool, but I don't any more. Still, I had to go.
Nana was all hyped up because she thought Carlos Acosta would be there, and she even had a little Cuban flag in her bag to wave - which she did whenever a dance was finished, cheering like she was at a concert.
I can't remember her name, could have been Saidis or something, but she was the main dancer for that evening. I don't think she was on top form though that evening, because she nearly tripped over her partners' feet from not looking where she was going, struggled to lift her legs up and was shaky when doing some of the moves. At one point she actually fell over. To be fair to her though, she just jumped back up and carried on going.
After the ballet had finished, Nana made us stay for this Q&A session with Alicia something-or-other, the famous woman who created the Cuban Ballet School thing. We were told beforehand that since English wasn't her first language, to keep the questions simple. The first question asked was so confusing that I couldn't understand it, and she said it in English! A woman a few rows back stood up and said translated it in fluent Spanish and then told us that she'd only asked if Fidel Castro had helped the school during the Cuban Revolution. She understood fine then. Some weirdo asked if there were any black women in the company, and Alicia just said 'I don't count them. I'm only bothered if they can dance or not.' which shut him up. Then a girl at the front asked if Alicia had any advice for new dancers, and the interviewer person (who made no effort to simplify the questions for Alicia) cut her off and started going on about how it was a stupid question. This woman who was on the stage with Alicia was a bit up herself anyway, because she kept cutting everyone off when they tried to speak, and couldn't even say Fidel - she called him Feedle, with that expression that people have when they think they've just pronounced a difficult word right.
School today was alright. We did some GCSEs a while ago - they only count for 12.5% of our full science GCSE grade - and got the results back. I got an A in Biology, and a B in Chemistry and Physics. Just have to hope I don't fail the other 18 tests we have to get the full score.
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Thursday, 15 April 2010
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
First Day Back at School
It was. After two weeks of getting up in the middle of the day and grazing on chocolate like an unhealthy sheep, I am back at school.
First lesson was Physics. We were given a test, which Dr.G said she'd told us about twice before the end of last term - which is strange because NOBODY remembered it or had it in their planners, not even the bods. But she gave us the test anyway - just some simple questions on the electromagnetic spectrum. Well, apart from the 'find the frequency of a Gamma ray' type questions, which Dr.G wouldn't let us have a calculator for.
Second lesson was English, which I haven't really been enjoying this year. Unfortunately, it's the teacher that's the problem, so unless she suddenly gets fired for something, we're stuck with her at least until summer. We've been doing Animal Farm, and going over it with such agonizing pickyness (can't think of a clever word) that we might as well have looked at cross-sections of it through a microscope (AAARGH PIXIE LOTT IS ON THE RADIO!!! I HATE HER!!).
Ahem. Next was maths - and we have some kind of good news. Our set has finished the entire Year 9 syllabus (is that the word? Yes, I think it is) so the teacher told us that we could start revising early for the summer exams, to make sure everyone understands everything. Good because he said we can do projects (I've been badgering him to let us have a proper treasure hunt where we dig up the school field for trunks full of money - even if it's chocolate money) like last year's Theme Park project, in which me, Janneka and Hannah made 'Drag Queen' the theme park built by monkeys. Ooh, what was I going to say next? I remember; the bad side is, revising is still work. And nobody likes work.
Lunch was ok. Me, Chloe and Meghann were on the field. We ended up sat with Kymalee (I think that's how she spells her name) Sara and Warren. I don't really talk to Sara or Kymalee much, but Warren's alright. Then Denny and Musa came over, and when there's a gathering of more than three boys in an area, the football game (there's always a football game going on in every yeargroup at lunch time) usually heads in your direction. This is not good for several reasons, one of which being the ball landing either on your lunch or your head (and no, we're teenagers - why would we have the energy to move out of the way?). I had to flatten myself on the ground twice, which is kind of hard when you have half a chicken sandwich in your mouth.
Period 4 was P.E. which meant Badminton. I hate badminton with a passion, since I have no ability in sports that involve hitting balls - except hockey. But fortunately for me, I was in Meghann and Chloe's group, and they played Alex and Eibhilin for the whole lesson. The final score was something like 20-9 to Chloe's side.
Biology was alright too, though the teacher has been giving us homework every single lesson. Yes, I know what your crueel adult minds are thinking - "Yes, that's what's meant to happen." it's pointless doing homework when it doesn't get marked though; we haven't had our books marked since Christmas. To put things in a way that will make sense to you people, we can't improve on our work if we aren't shown where we're going wrong. Really, it's just because doing all the homework isn't fair if she won't even make the time to mark it. We did some little summary tests and I got full marks on both of them though, so that was good.
I watched House when I got in - the one from last night, since I had to go to bed before it was on (even though I couldn't get to sleep until about two in the morning). 'Twas quite good (get ready for my level 3 - worthy reasoning here) because it is funny. Even though I don't remember any of the medical stuff they say (can you blame me? They said a word today that, in normal english, would have been six different words. They said it as one long word, and the only bits I remember were 'iso' and 'hypersensitive reaction'. Don't even know what that is. Ooh, I had a temptation to give away the ending, but I won't.
Well, gotta go now. I'm going out to a restaurant for my nana's birthday and I have to put on some fancy clothes. Mum's listening to Smashing Pumpkins.
First lesson was Physics. We were given a test, which Dr.G said she'd told us about twice before the end of last term - which is strange because NOBODY remembered it or had it in their planners, not even the bods. But she gave us the test anyway - just some simple questions on the electromagnetic spectrum. Well, apart from the 'find the frequency of a Gamma ray' type questions, which Dr.G wouldn't let us have a calculator for.
Second lesson was English, which I haven't really been enjoying this year. Unfortunately, it's the teacher that's the problem, so unless she suddenly gets fired for something, we're stuck with her at least until summer. We've been doing Animal Farm, and going over it with such agonizing pickyness (can't think of a clever word) that we might as well have looked at cross-sections of it through a microscope (AAARGH PIXIE LOTT IS ON THE RADIO!!! I HATE HER!!).
Ahem. Next was maths - and we have some kind of good news. Our set has finished the entire Year 9 syllabus (is that the word? Yes, I think it is) so the teacher told us that we could start revising early for the summer exams, to make sure everyone understands everything. Good because he said we can do projects (I've been badgering him to let us have a proper treasure hunt where we dig up the school field for trunks full of money - even if it's chocolate money) like last year's Theme Park project, in which me, Janneka and Hannah made 'Drag Queen' the theme park built by monkeys. Ooh, what was I going to say next? I remember; the bad side is, revising is still work. And nobody likes work.
Lunch was ok. Me, Chloe and Meghann were on the field. We ended up sat with Kymalee (I think that's how she spells her name) Sara and Warren. I don't really talk to Sara or Kymalee much, but Warren's alright. Then Denny and Musa came over, and when there's a gathering of more than three boys in an area, the football game (there's always a football game going on in every yeargroup at lunch time) usually heads in your direction. This is not good for several reasons, one of which being the ball landing either on your lunch or your head (and no, we're teenagers - why would we have the energy to move out of the way?). I had to flatten myself on the ground twice, which is kind of hard when you have half a chicken sandwich in your mouth.
Period 4 was P.E. which meant Badminton. I hate badminton with a passion, since I have no ability in sports that involve hitting balls - except hockey. But fortunately for me, I was in Meghann and Chloe's group, and they played Alex and Eibhilin for the whole lesson. The final score was something like 20-9 to Chloe's side.
Biology was alright too, though the teacher has been giving us homework every single lesson. Yes, I know what your crueel adult minds are thinking - "Yes, that's what's meant to happen." it's pointless doing homework when it doesn't get marked though; we haven't had our books marked since Christmas. To put things in a way that will make sense to you people, we can't improve on our work if we aren't shown where we're going wrong. Really, it's just because doing all the homework isn't fair if she won't even make the time to mark it. We did some little summary tests and I got full marks on both of them though, so that was good.
I watched House when I got in - the one from last night, since I had to go to bed before it was on (even though I couldn't get to sleep until about two in the morning). 'Twas quite good (get ready for my level 3 - worthy reasoning here) because it is funny. Even though I don't remember any of the medical stuff they say (can you blame me? They said a word today that, in normal english, would have been six different words. They said it as one long word, and the only bits I remember were 'iso' and 'hypersensitive reaction'. Don't even know what that is. Ooh, I had a temptation to give away the ending, but I won't.
Well, gotta go now. I'm going out to a restaurant for my nana's birthday and I have to put on some fancy clothes. Mum's listening to Smashing Pumpkins.
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