Having one of them late night bouts of realisation, IT’S 37 DAYS (it’s after 12am) and counting. I often have these feelings of intense urgency to do something, then quickly become overwhelmed with the ridiculousness of the workload. THERE IS SO MUCH TO DO. After mentally breathing in a paper bag and gathering my thoughts I try to sit down and do something productive. Often the best motivator to work and do something is to envisage the end product e.g. if I work now, I won’t be forlorn to a life of monotonous work, shitty Irish weather and that one week away every year in Lanzagrotty. #deep Basically we now have the power to dictate where our future goes, the wind to power our sales, the compass to navigate our… (give me a bucket) You get the point. PS this is so hard for repeats, doing the Leaving Cert again is like the acting in Fair City BLEEDIN’ AWFUL!

I. Am. So. Tired.

Simple solution, go to sleep. Problem is I can’t!! It is scary how close the exams are, I mean REALLY scary. Last year did not go as fast at all. Any who I knew there would come a point where my calmness POOF vanish but this soon?!

So here I am watching House re-runs thinking about all the weird concoctions of an ABQ can come up. Yes. That is what my sad life has come to. That was a reference to Business for those who don’t do it. Also I keep hearing noises outside my window so that is not the most comforting thing in the world.

Apologies for the boring-ness and lack of real direction in this blog. I guess it’s an update of what has been happening since my last one. Things have been major hectic. What with Ag projects being due and Geography field works to be handed up. Not to mention all the orals, everyone has been in a total frenzy of chaos.

Oh, speaking of Ag project. I mentioned in one of my previous blogs that it should probably not be left until the last minute. Cough cough. I might have a been slightly hypocritical in that aspect. I underestimated how much has to go into it. Every time I had one topic checked off my list another one was added to it. I have no idea how it happened, but it did! Let me tell you, I gave up two nights sleep before and gained one whole study of sleep after it. Well it’s done now. There is only the teeny tiny issue of the examiner for the oral which is next week. Needless to say I am most definitely not looking forward to it. I have terrible luck when it comes to random number picking things like this. Cram cram cram tomorrow. Ugh.

French oral went well. What I will say is that every day after it I’ve kind of doubted myself in just how well it went. I was so happy with how my oral went last year that this year I had a lot to do to maintain it. I suppose every examiner is different but the one we had this year was nice, but too nice. If that makes sense? I mean, you know those more difficult topics like the recession, alcohol, the environment and the likes? She asked no one any of those type of questions. Only the very basics which kind of worried me. It might be nothing, it might be something. Either way, it’s done and I most certainly will not be repeating again

Okay typing has seriously turned my brain off for tonight. Also the quality of late night television is absolutely shocking now that House is over. So bad. Off topic but does any one watch Dexter on FX ? If you don’t then you should! In my opinion, I mean you can if you want. You maybe shouldn’t if you don’t like witty serial killer kind of programmes. The Walking Dead was pretty amazing, I can’t wait for season three in autumn. Oooh American Horror Story was unbelievable too, but they have a completely new cast for season two which I was not pleased to hear. Wow. I have seriously taken ranting to a new level this time. Oopsie

Night night!

Mocks

Finally they’re finished. I have to say some went much better than I thought and others went waaaaay worse. All in all I’m not too bothered because by the time we get the results no one is going to care any way. Not that I care now!

Any way I have a week off. Even with seven days of slight freedom I have a list of things to get done.

• Ag Science project –  I will admit that I really should have started this back in September when my teacher said to but I’m putting it down to me not knowing any better! 5th years get yours done NOW!!
• French oral revision –  NB! We have five weeks yesterday people. I won’t tell you how important they are because you probably have heard it from your teachers. What I will say is that there is something about the feeling of walking out of your french oral and knowing you’ve done your best, knowing you have a quarter of the exam done. The oral is vital for getting a good grade because it doesn’t matter how much work you put in after Easter, if you did nothing for your oral you’re already at a disadvantage. I can’t stress it enough!!
• French document – Any one doing french I would seriously recommend doing a document. If you don’t know what that consists of it’s very simple. You can bring in a photo or a collage of photos on a sheet of cardboard(like I did last year), a FRENCH novel or postcard, a FRENCH brochure or souvenir. Whatever it is there must be no English writing what so ever. If you bring a French novel obviously you talk about it, what you thought about it because you clearly read it! Most people bring in a photo. It can be of anything. Lots of people think it has to be on something French related but that is definitely not the case. If you went on safari in Africa last year then that is absolutely perfect! Examiners like innovation! Remember, they are going to be asking a lot of basic repetitive questions and hearing pretty much the same thing for a whole week. Your document is giving you the opportunity to stand out. You have it prepared to perfection, and I mean perfection before you go in so you can anticipate any linked topics. It is an excellent tool that if done really well with a lot of effort put into it can seriously push up your grade. Do a document!!

I did not mean to write that much but hey what can you do Hopefully some one got some tiny bit of information out of it!! I know I’m no expert but if any one has any questions about anything leaving cert-ish I’ll try my best to help you out

Hi to Eoghan and Anna, hope you guys are good and kept busy I presume Time to start planning the summer!

Bye

Hi all!!

Now, the title suggests that I’m a big tea drinker, I’m not. But it fills the awkward silence that follows the many of the bombshells that have been dropped today. So, the leaving cert is all of 13 weeks from wednesday. The Orals are a months and a half, and practicals follow swiftly. Hence my need for a calming cup of tea that I don’t even like.

Now, mocks are well over, and having done nothing but doodle on papers (got pulled up on that by a teacher correcting) I dont think I did as well as I wanted. However, having only gotten back two so far, I dont know for sure yet! But yes, doing nothing and expecting excellent results is obviously a stupid mistake I’ve made. Work is needed, and I shall probably start as soon as the old report is in my parents grasp!!

Anyway, I’m going to make that tea, and I may even get myself a chocolate biscuit
Hi to Mr Eoghan and Stacy, hope all goes well with anyone in the good ship “leaving cert”

Till next time,
Anna

Well hi there!!
just thought I’d be like my fellow bloggers, Hi Mr Eoghan, Stacy , and get a word in before my mocks, which start the day I get back. Now, its not exactly great having them straight after mid-term, the pressure to study is huge, but I am just doing a bit (and no I’m not lying, really just a bit) and catching up on sleep. I woke up this morning at 10am, and my first thought? Study. Wonderful, right? In any case, I’m a bit wary of the mocks, but I’m not gonna kill myself over them ^^;
Since it all seems to be going a hell of a lot faster lately, I reckon the mocks will fly, and next thing you know, I’ll be blogging about Orals, which will be the bane of my existance, I’m awful at them .
Anyhoo, I shall be back when I’m finished, or who knows, maybe in the midddle of the mocks, to let you know how the whole experience was!
And Eoghan, Stacy, hope all goes well for you guys!! Good luck!!

Mocksmocksmocksmocksmocks ;D

Bye for now!
Anna

It’s February. Oh God. Bit of a panic alright, seeing as the pres or the mocks as some of you might know them as are the last “practice run” shall we say. I would be lying if I said that didn’t frighten me. Even though my pres are probably much later than a lot of other schools, four weeks away, there is still an enormous amount of work to get done before then. AND REVISION!!! That’s the difficult thing about the pres. You are literally thrown straight into the deep end with weights tied tightly around your ankles. Meh, I suppose I could be slightly pessimistic.

So while you are trying to learn all the new material that your teachers are telling you is “NB”, you are also trying to revise the stuff you have not looked at properly since September. Or is that just me? I thought so!

Once they are finally over you breathe a sigh of relief and take a well deserved break. Of one weekend. Then it’s full steam ahead when you will be bombarded with orals, construction projects, ag projects, art practicals, music and the rest. Now that is stress. On top of all that you’re tired. All the time. You won’t believe me now but trust me, you will.

I suppose what I’m trying to get is that once the pres are over, it doesn’t matter when yours are, that is it. It is one short stretch to the finish line and it will fly. Every hour counts and every hour you miss counts even more. Wow I really am a pessimist. I prefer the term realist! Doesn’t sound as harsh

My geography teacher told us last week that these next few weeks coming up to the mock exams are the most important. It’s a scary thought but in a way it scared me into being motivated. If that even makes sense. I’m tired okay! This ag science project isn’t typing itself either you know!

I feel bad now so I better get back to it. Which also means closing tabs on bookface (yes, bookface) , youtube, itunes and the likes. Sigh..

Also, hi to Anna and Eoghan and good luck in your pres

Bye bye!

Heya everybody, long time no see…hear…read…thing. >_>
Apologies for my scattered appearence on this nice little corner of the internet, but with the looming mocks and the previous pre-mocks…creativity gets sapped :/

I had my first exam last friday, Art. Which involved me creating a linoprint under the theme of “Plague of insects”. I managed to finish about an hour before most people, partially because of my general awesomeness…and partially because of my minor panic attack halfway through the exam when I accidently cut away about half of my locust’s face…turns out that can really speed up your progress ><

I have another art exam tomorrow, doing a still life and the ol’ imaginative composition…then I’m off until Thursday for a history exam, then Friday for English paper one.  I’m starting to accept the fact that this won’t be the fun, action-packed few weeks that I had in mind. But I digress….

Hello to Miss Anna, who is still keeping this wonderful project alive, and Miss Stacy, a fellow late person, and now I guess it’s up to four…wooo

Not a very long post today… But there is talk of getting a pizza in the other room so I find myself utterly distrac….mmmm pizza…
Must go, run, dance, eat and study(lol) I’ll see ya’ll later

So there was one thing I swore to myself I wouldn’t do this year that I most certainly did last year. One tiny detail that may have encouraged my “there’s plenty of time left, sure the course is practically finished” approach. Hamlet would be proud. Procrastination. Oh the joys.

I think that was one of my biggest problems. That and laziness of course. Don’t judge me! So in August when it was decided that I would be repeating that was it. No more delaying. No more putting off essays until 4am the morning before. The funny thing is I’ve been pretty good with it.. until now.

French oral tomorrow. 25% of my Christmas exam which are in the process of being returned to us as of today. Now bearing in mind french is one of my better subjects, my highest grade from last year and what I want to do at third level you would imagine I would be somewhat prepared. WRONG. It seems I have misplaced my document. Yes, I have left it to the night before to look for it. Not the brightest idea.

I sit here at the kitchen table , back to my procrastinating ways of LC2k11. I thought I’d drop a bebo stunnah joke in. Kind of regretting it now. Any way yeah, I should be finding a decent picture from French Exchange (what an experience btw) but I’m typing this up instead. If anyone reads this, you shall be receiving the blame.

Also, I’m loving being back to the exciting 12hour days. Thoroughly enjoying the constant reminder that the Pre’s are only seven weeks away. Ah how I missed the leaving cert life. Now stop distracting me!

K Bye.. or night. That too.

Hello there ^^;

I feel quite guilty and have been nagging myself constantly to do another blog and to study. Neither have worked, sadly.

But I shall fill you in on what has been happening!! Well, 2011’s christmas term ended with me practically dying from sleep deprivation, it took some amount of will power to get myself up, NEVER a problem for me before! But I did it, and I admit, I haven’t gotten rid of that feeling yet!! I have a sense of foreboding that this will last until the 14th of june of this year, but who knows?! Its an intense timetable, that strikes some fear into my heart, but whatever, right? In saying all that, today, I finally started to pull myself together. I made myself open my bag, and told myself “Right, I’m not going to dive into work now, all I’m gonna do today is, make a plan for the questions set out.” And having done that, I feel soooo much better about starting, because knowing what I’m doing helps right?

I’ve also made a New Years resolution to use my studies FOR study, not doing homework. I’ll let you know how that works out hehehehe ;D. I haven’t made any to lose weight, or quit smoking (i don’t smoke anyway), just that. I cant ask myself TOO much this year

So, as for CAO, its in the same state I left it in in November, with 8 spaces filled in, and two to go. As for Level 6/7, i have no desire to fill them in, even though i know I should. But within the next two to three days I want to have the final spaces filled in.

Now, next year, or whenever any one who reads this is doing their leaving cert, I want you to remember, as I have been reminding myself and my friends, this isnt the end of the world. Just a neccessary step to where I want to be. We’re doing yearbooks in my school, and while it made things a lot more final in my mind, it also made me realize that instead of going nuts with all this stress and study, I’m going to try take it in my stride and enjoy my friends and school. I sound sentimental, but I believe this hits every sixth year at some point so don’t judge me xD hehehe
Now to bring it back to light-hearted wholesomeness, “soft kitty warm kitty little ball of fur…” no, I shan’t finish, but is it weird that I have developed a crush on Sheldon in “The Big Bang Theory”??

I shall leave now, as I am rambling and a sentimental old fool since turning 18 a couple of months ago. Hope you’re all enjoying your holidays ^^;.

I shall be back with more of the “exciting and invigorating” events that 6th year brings, Bye xD

Anna

I know, I know. I’m slightly late on the whole blogging thing, but I’m here now! That must count for something right??

Well I’m Stacy, I’m 18 and repeating the fabulous experience that we know as the Leaving Cert. Madness. Utter madness but here I am yet again. I will get it this time!!!

So I’m only doing six subjects this year:

French (H)

Geography (H)

Home Ec (H)

English (H)

Business (H) – taking up for the first time

Ag Science (H) – taking up for the first time

Yeah, that’s me now! So I’m hoping to do languages next year. I’m not exactly sure where I’ll go with languages but at the moment I’m thinking of law. Law with french in UCC is looking probable for CAO number one but we’ll see

I don’t mind school to be honest. Last year was a totally different story. Talk about a DISASTOR! I spent waaaay too much time in the bathroom with my best friends and not enough time in Art and Maths. We won’t get into those two just yet!

First blog completed, I really hope I didn’t bore you all too much, just yet any way.. You’ll be sick of me by the time we get to June. Which we will!

Stacy