Bonjour!

Currently in one of those sentimental moods, acknowledging the great events of the past. The 2006 first year Jason used to love listening to green day (hence the title), remembering when bebo was cool and facebook was for old people (how times have changed) Some of my best memories are from secondary school, from 3rd year when our maths teacher came in with a shredder and each of us wondering what he was going to do with this contraption, decided to make everyone shred their own maths theorem’s because that’s what they deserved (mine was spared of course). Me and my friends never laughed so hard when we left that class. My favourite football team Manchester United, I got to see twice due to secondary school. The first being the f.a. cup match between man u and portsmouth (not such a great match to begin with) but second year round I got to see the champions league match between Man U and Inter Milan … one of the experiences I will cherish for the rest of my life. It’s strange to think my secondary school experience is over ..

August 17 … the day I had envisioned for so long came and went. I got the points I wanted and that’s all I can really say about it. It was perhaps the strangest forms of happiness I’ve ever had. It was like receiving a botox injection … all your wrinkles had just disappeared by a single needle. All that worry and stress was worth it in the end. I now had a new face. Of course I’m not going to tell you my results, I think these results I want to keep personal. I’ve told my family and friends and I that’s all I want to say on the matter.

Medicine which perhaps was my first ever love, has taken a firm step backwards and we are now probably further now then ever, but I can’t predict the future. I’m going to keep to option of doing graduate medicine open, but I can assure you now I will never repeat that leaving cert. Fair play to anyone who decides to repeat, but I couldn’t do another year.

I wonder which candidate I will be next year,

Who knew 11 months later I would be a pharmacy student in the college I adore ??? Quiet chuffed with myself for achieving the points, I want to advise everyone doing the exam next year to sit down each evening and study, It really does pay off in the end. For the future bloggers, I wish you all the luck in the world of the leaving cert … it is certainly eventful.

To Patrick Barry, I cannot thank you enough. Like Ciara, once I discovered this site I loved it. I dreamed of writing for this website, and this year that dream became a reality. I have never regretted becoming a blogger and I had a great sense of accomplishment for getting my work published. You allowed me to record my experience, present myself to the world and that was invaluable in my opinion.

To my fellow bloggers, you both gave me motivation and inspiration. Your blogs pushed me to work harder but also allowed me to relax, realizing not everyone out there is doing a million hours study. (perhaps that was only me at times ?)

Since accepting my course on Monday, I have been sprung at full velocity into college life, with letters coming in each day with social events, the hear scheme orientation program and registration. Atleast this year, I’ll be doing something different on my birthday and yes I do expect you all to wish me one on facebook

Thank you everyone who has shared this experience with me …

I certainly had the time of my life

Six years ago, I embarked on a journey. Back then, the biggest worry for me was making new friends. Now 6 years later, I would easily dismiss this idea, telling myself I had nothing to worry about. Now I feel myself worrying about exams I no longer have control over, CAO course choices that will decide my future. In six years, I have been exasperated far beyond my limits, felt emotions I didn’t think existed … and these were caused by my friends alone. Exams on the other hand, groomed, beaten and stripped me. They were both a terror and a joy, they would decide the mood for the following days. Goals were set and dreams were envisioned.

I sat my final two exams Physics and Chemistry on the 20th and 21st of June respectively. Achieving an A grade in both for my pre, I told myself I had nothing to worry about. However this never settled my nerves with physics. I’m certainly not weak at the science. My classmates like to refer to me as the physics king, but I was never confident with the subject. A certain fragility which was never mirrored in other subjects. One too many B’s, I suppose have added to this uncertainty. Despite my fears beforehand and also the need to literally regurgitate everything, the exam was a soaring success. I doubt it was the A1 but hey, I predicted a B3 in my pre and how wrong was I with that one ? Chemistry which was undoubtedly my best subject in the last few months. Unrealistic expectations comes to mind now. After the exam, I felt terrible. I know I’m tethering on the very edge of the A grade, so I’m not very happy. For me the questions were far different to previous years and on a scale from 1 to Gary Glitter how much did it rape me.. I’d have to say the full shabang.

Whenever anyone blogs about the HPAT, I always reminisce about the blog made by Jennie on the other leaving cert blog website (for anyone who hasn’t read it I’ll post a link below) Jennie for me was a true inspiration, she certainly had a way with words, and this blog always shows me even though things look bleak at this moment in time, things have a way of working out in the right ways. After repeating her leaving cert she went on to study Medicine in Trinity College Dublin. In terms of my own experience, the results were released last Monday. It seems the “tested” results on the CAO website posted months ago were infact the actual results… surprise…. surprise. I scored 155 in the HPAT, hot a great score and beforehand I wanted to score 170 to obtain my place in medical school. So you’d expect me to be abit more upset. But hey I wouldn’t be an evil villain if I didn’t have a few tricks up my sleeve. The day after my exams I was deemed eligible for the HEAR scheme. So that daunting 3000 list of med -seeking students can be slashed down by a dramatic amount, so hey I still might have a chance and there’s always next year. Interestingly I read on boards.ie someone received 154 in the HPAT and 560 in the leaving cert and got into Trinity.

Since finishing my exams, my desk (or shrine as I like to call it) has been cleaned up. I’ve still kept a few copybooks and several folders to use as souvenirs for the years to come. A testament to the fact that hard work pays off in the end. In our school we have a rental book scheme in which we return our old books after the exams. Abit fearful of being forgotten I decided to leave a message at the back of my biology book, so that next year hopefully the receiver will cherish the subject (and teacher) as much as I did.

So what is planned for the future for Jason Hayes ? Well first of all I must get a job. The idea of sponging off my parents for the summer doesn’t agree well with the theme of freedom I have expressed lately.  I also want to start driving soon, my friends have been telling me for the last year to get the theory test done, but I always used the leaving cert as an excuse, but I no longer have that asset. After that, I have my Debs which is going to be the final time the class of 2011 will be in the same building together before we finally disperse. Finally, I plan to keep on learning French. I know despite it being one of my B subjects. I just can’t get enough of it, hey maybe it’s due to the girls aloud song. But it’s more likely due to a french exchange student that came to our school in fifth year. We still remain great friends and she was a life saviour writing out certain essays for the leaving. Since her arrival, I saw the language in a new perspective. I plan to go to France in the next few years and I’ve set the goal of being fluent in the language before I’m 25 (I also want a gold gaisce for that matter)

Finally I know alot of people complain about the leaving certificate. It has become a topic of much debate but for me, I loved it (perhaps the A-levels would have suited me more) but in terms of what I have gained, it was incomparable. From the great works of Shakespeare to vast mathematical equations. The leaving cert is mainly just an exam where you have to make goals, organise yourself, prepare, knock down obstacles and take down exams step by step, all under a huge amount of pressure. All things you have to do in life under a constant basis. Without doubt, I haven’t received a perfect leaving cert but I still tried my best. All I can do is pray that will be enough. Every exam brought with it new challenges and everyday brought a new work load of study. When things became hard and stress became overwhelming , I often heard an alarm in my head going off, ringing our school motto.

Educate that you may be free

and I feel now that I have achieved this freedom I sought long and hard for.

Thank you everyone who has been apart of this year. You have all served in helping and supporting me in ways that you probably do not even realize. Thank you Allhonours for giving me the opportunity of a lifetime and finally good luck to the class of 2012, you will seriously need it!

Jennie’s blog – http://students.theleavingcert.com/hpat/

My Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=743241854

This week I was pleasantly served out a 4 course meal. The first meal began with Maths paper 2 and Irish paper one on the side. After alot of controversy gracing the front pages of the newspapers after the first maths paper, one would expect catching something like ecoli from it, but thankfully … after alot of praying (and perhaps tears) paper 2 was a real treat. Not perfect by any means though, the probability got stuck between my teeth  ( a pity I didn’t have a tooth pick) and the line came with a sharp brackish taste, but divinity met a new rival with a perfect vectors, trigonometry and a further calculus question. On the side, Irish was flavoured with an essay one minute with a sleeping bag and the other it was one of the usual scoop of timpiste.

My second meal, at first looked rancid, but after careful observation and then a quick taste, it was succulent. I couldn’t get enough …. my spoon couldn’t get enough. Clare sa Speir, Lig sinn i gcathu, Bimse Buan .. simply mouthwatering.

I think by the third meal, the chef was getting abit worried. I don’t think he has ever seen someone literally die and go to heaven from eating. Abit hot under the collar, I was served the most splendid French quiche lorraine and more importantly, it was WITH WINE! yum yum… I ate, with all my groaning, chewing and I swallowed noisely. Other customers looked at me like a savage, declared names against me with their clenched fists in the air, but frankly I didn’t care…. I was having the time of my life, but who wouldn’t with sprinkles of facebook, twitter, and criminal activity,,, the wine of course was quick to get me drunk … abit reminiscent of too much drink is bad for you eh ???

My final meal…. I must admit… I was dreading…. I once had it before … in February, I think. Last time I had it, it failed me, pierced my stomach to an oblivion. Clearly I wasn’t ready, this time however things was very different. Lip smacking, sugared and sweetened, this meal came to an end in a soft centred climax. My taste’s would never be the same again. Biology had been the surprise best meal of all, although it failed to show the female reproductive system, It did succeed in bringing me other things like respiration, the dixon joly method and most importantly a lovely question on genetics.

… With my belt buckle popped and my newly formed belly.. I could safely say I would recommend this restaurant to a friend …

Let’s start on the good news shall we ???

English Paper 1 you rocked, I was delighted with this paper overall. Nothing drastic happened it went all to plan really, I decided to do the third comprehension, the article on where I would like to go but haven’t, in which I chose Paris and on the essays I chose the short story where a mystery is solved

English Paper 2 … you rocked even more It was the best paper 2 in years after the shaky one last year and the catastrophe two years ago. I decided to do the claudius question, I chose the theme and issue (even though I had both well prepared) Next was my favourite unseen ever it was called Poetry, this poem definitely played to my strengths and for my seen poetry I chose Frost. I’m a bit weary though after I know tons of people that chose him including half my english class, but I shouldn’t be really afterall I’ve only gotten a’s with him.

Maths Paper 1 …. yeah! I don’t really want to talk about it, it was just horrible all around. I wanted to score an A1 in maths overall and now after that there is no way I’m going to make up the marks in paper 2. The questions I chose were 1,2,3,4,6,7,8. Yes all of them bar q5, which I’m kicking myself now for not doing. Q2 was a complete disaster and I still have no idea how to do q1b( ii). Question 3 was grand bar part b (ii) again. And ironically I found the differenciation extremely easy even the graph I found possible to answer. Question 8 was grand bar the part c which I found extremely unfair. In all my 4 maths books I have never seen that proof before, so when I was doing it I assumed it was like the sphere… yeah it wasn’t I get as far as the square root of r squared and x squared and couldn’t go any further oh well… I’m sure there’s alot of people out there with alot more problems so I’ll stop now

Fingers crossed for a better paper 2

I know I’ve been very bad lately in not updating enough but I’ve got a good excuse, I’ve been being a good student Currently it’s coming with a big cost though with early mornings beginniing at 9a.m. and working late till 10 p.m. but hey thats the leaving certificate.

So instead of boring you with some long, rehearsed story of the end of my days in school, I’ve decided to keep it short and snappy ( that could also be due to my own laziness, so bad infact this is my first time writing this out )

I’ve been thinking lately of changing my relationship status on facebook to in a relationship with the leaving cert but I think that’s a bit too daring ?

Anyway with my desperate schedule it has left very little time for anything else, but during my occasional break I do like to look at those facebook like’s at the moment like “Underlining every single “A” you write on your English paper in hope that you’ll get an A by Subliminal Messaging.” and “Rewriting “The Philosopher’s Stone” in your English Paper one in the hope that the examiner has never heard about Harry Potter.” There’s also several on the fact that everyone’s favourite poet Eaven Boland has to appear this year

Which Ironically I think I’d roll into a ball if she did, it’s not that I don’t like Eavan … it’s just that I don’t want her to appear, or Yeats because I haven’t bothered studying him either. I also noticed paddy power hasn’t bothered placing bets this year on the poets, that’s probably due to the fiasco last year, in which case I’ve decided to make a list of who I think will appear this year, of course I wouldn’t bet on it.

1. Wordsworth

2 Hopkins

3 Boland

4. Dickinson

5 Frost

6 Kavanagh

7 Yeats

8 Rich

The main reason for me Wordsworth got the number 1 spot was because I actually can’t find him anywhere in the papers,  I’m not sure if this could be due to him not being on the course till now (if so can you please tell me now sooner than later) Hopkins received the number 2 slot due to his last arrival on the paper being in 2004, which is an extra year on Boland. Boland is third up, due to the public outcry of last year as well as the fact a female poet always appears on the paper. The reason she got 3 though is due to this fact also, Dickinson has a high chance of appearing and the exam commision don’t tend to put two female poets up at once. Frost my favourite is number 5 due to his last appearance in 2007 and also the fact he arrived on the pre exams. The last three poets which you may recognised last year are also the last three on my list, however it has happened that the previous year’s poet appeared twice, could this be another example of this ?

Anyway to cap off this expected short (but not) blog, I’d like to wish you all luck in your exams, in which case you should wish me look two, afterall I need it

See you soon… or not ?

Jason

Firstly, I’d like to say, I wouldn’t consider myself a dramatic person, but saying that it would be up for some intense debate. But however “undrematic” I am, I can’t help but feel sometimes like too much of an individual … and not in a good way. Take for example, the french oral … yeah everyone I know is reasonably happy with their performance, me on the other hand is gutted.

I should have known that me and the french oral were never going to be the best of pals. Sadly french is one of my B subjects. No  matter how much gruelling time and effort I put into the language I can’t seem to shift that B up a notch. In fact, even when I don’t bother studying, I still retain that B. So after months of yo-yoing my effort after 6 years, I decided I can only try my best and see where it all goes from there

Our examiner seemed like a little tyrant. Before the exam, she didn’t reveal any information about the exam and spoke french to us beforehand … there wasn’t even a smile on the woman. Unfortunetaly, I was second in, so I only got litteraly 2 seconds to ask the person before me what she asked, although it ended up being a complete waste.. As soon as I enterred, I started with the usual “Bonjour madame” and blah, blah, blah … we started. She began of course with “describe yourself” in which I was able to spiel off my well rehearsed speach of my personality, physical appearance, my motivations in life etc, she even laughed when I said I was 60 kg and I badly needed to lose weight (yes however bad my humour was, it somehow set the woman in good form) she then continued interrogating me with the question on my family and apres ca, she asked *because your father is an architecte, do you have a lovely house*, in which I replied “sans doute*, and then I started with describing my “lovely” house. She then began her little attampt of catching me out with “Do I have a computer?” I knew where this was going to lead me …. problems associated with the internet. So I replied (with a smile I might add) NO … I’m sure the woman was gobsmacked, she didn’t believe me either so she reasked the question, but I stuck with my previous answer. She then tried again on the topic with “is there a computer room in the school, and I replied with saying yes, but then I also started commenting on the other facilites. The final thing I mentioned (tactifully) was the sports hall, in which she asked “was I sporty?” This question I was so overjoyed in hearing. In which I answered of course I’m not and then I discussed all the problems I see fit in the world of sport XD, I think by this point she had no choice but to try and catch me out… pessimistic ??

She asked If I have any pastimes that I actually enjoy, and I replied with I like reading newspapers …. oui, comme on dit en francais, c’est un cocktail dangereux. She asked me what did I read in the newspapers, I went on about unempoyment, the bankers etc. It wasn’t too bad  …. I suppose, but the questions at this point were the hardest I’ve ever got. She then lead me onto emigration, and instead of me leading she really had taken control. Randomly she asked did I want to go to Africa, but I replied a defiant “no”, but I dreamed of going to Paris, and see the arc de triomphe, the eiffel tower and the champs elysees. The document followed (image below) The questions I must say went splendid, they were very predictable for example who would I like to have voted for, why I don’t like Brian Cowen and the IMF etc.

Now if we could have kept the oral so far, I would have been happy but no … she started talking about my least favourite topic of all HOLIDAYS … and not only did she ask me it in one tense, she tought all three were sufficient, as if my present tense wasn’t bad enough she really wanted to hammer me in with the other two replies. So yeah … le francais Oral pretty much anded on a low note, So I can’t really be expecting an A. So I suppose I’ll be back to that dreaded B. Of course after the Oral, I declared that she was a witch, but now after cooling down, I think she was just a woman who was just … misunderstood.

RANT OVER

Jason

p.s. I should probably write about the Irish oral, but compared to the French, it was so … whatever !

9 a.m. Monday morning. School bell rings (sound familiar) I think the saying goes “out of the frying pan and into the fire”, us students were finally back to the very missed, long, and tedius school days packed with study. On Mondays we begin our day with a Biology class, normally I am overjoyed to enter and especially so after an exam. This time however that smile would be wiped off my face. I think the teacher said something like this to us

Its a disgrace” x 15
“Only place for it is a fire”
“If you think you’re going to get an A,
You’re not going to get an A,
If you think you’re going to get a B,
You’re not going to get a B,
If you think you’re going to get a C,
You’re not going to get a C…”

yeah …. nothing like dashed dreams huh ? I didn’t know it at the time, but this moment seemed to set a tone for the following two weeks. My results were as followed

Subject        Level          Grade

Irish                 O                       B2

English             H                       B1

Maths               H                       B3

French              H                       B3

Biology              H                      B1

Chemistry         H                     A1

Physics             H                      A2

Total Points – 510

- So yes I know I should be happy especially because I was only aiming for 500, and I smashed it , but the fact that I didn’t get an A1 in biology has dampened my spirits. It seems my own big headedness and over confidence has led to my own self-destruction for the subject. Perhaps this B ( oh god, it pains me to say it) will be beneficial in the long run, but for now, I feel like lieing in my own self-loathing

-I’m still shocked at my physics result, an A2. I can’t help but pinch myself every time I think about it, but looking through the paper, I actually some how managed it ? I even unknowingly did an extra question at the time, leaving the question 12 I dreaded out of the equation. Also, looking over my marks, I was shockingly close to an A1, if it wasn’t for that lenses question.

- I’m also kind of disappointed with Maths, not so much of the grade, but looking back over the paper there really shouldn’t be any reason why I can’t manage the A in the leaving cert. I know it’s dubbed “the toughest subject” but for me, that makes me want to achieve it so much more.

Anyway enough about pree’s let’s now discuss the “hot topic” l’orals. This week, I begin with Irish (oh a thiarcais) I’ve got all the basics learned but the notes on nuclear energy is proving hard to learn, it would be so much easier if it was french.

In terms of my french oral, I am a lot more confident. During the extra classes after school, I’ve been the only one turning up So I’ve been having plenty of practice. I do have a tendency to speak to fast though, and as a result I lose pronounciation .. so I must work on that, but on a whole, I’m still flying it. The worst part for me is the serious lack of time to impress the examiner.

On Monday, we have our first proper mock french oral and our vice – principle told us it’s one of our old infamous french teachers examining us. Let’s just say , she will never be forgotten, especially for her unusual teaching methods of teaching the alphabet in fifth year and playing alot of bingo. Of course, if asked what my past times are I’m only going to answer with “J’adore bingo, je le fais tous les temps”

Bye for now

Jason

Bonjour …. well, I suppose I’ll talk about the pree exams in this post ?

• English Paper 1 – The main problem between me and english paper 1 was my serious lack of practice and let me tell you … it showed. The comprehension was grand but the letter and the essay was a tragedy. My letter was to David Beckham and in the risk of sounding cliched it was an “epic failure” . The essay also seemed to turn that way, I don’t feel like my central character dominated the other minor characters and the plot was loose at times, atleast I did make full use of description and use of techinique’s.
• English Paper 2 – In contrast with paper 1, it was a dream. Robert Frost, theme’s and issues and a simple question involving Hamlet. I made full use of my notes and it was definitely my better paper.
• Maths Paper 1 – Horrible, is how I’ll put it. It was easily one of the toughest paper’s, but saying that it could’ve went a whole lot worse. The Algebra was tough, but that being my strongest topic, I breezed through it. Intergration and complex numbers were also ok, but the problem lied with differenciation. I definitely failed those two questions earning nil points.
• Biology – It wasn’t the paper I was hoping for, the long questions were grand. But the short questions were awful, I had no idea about the question involving a plant cell and why the hell would there be gaps in the nucleus ? I also seemed to make a few silly mistakes with the alcohol experiment calling the fermentation lock and an anaerobic container.
• Irish Paper 1 – I actually can’t remember much about it .. not a subject I particularly enjoy. I got the essay down and that is really all I cared about.
• Physics – uhhhh …. horrible, easily this and maths paper 1 were the worst. I was heading for an A1 until lenses appeared and an awful q12 will certainly place a dent on my marks. oh well…. I suppose I’ll just have to work harder to get the A in the leaving.
• French – I’m rather confused about this …. like, it was the exam I was most worried about, but it wasn’t the worst. It was infact the complete opposite. The comprehension was grand and the essays were the youth (easy), racism and kids that play video games are smarter than those that don’t ? I suppose the marks really depend on how many spelling errors I made.
• Maths Paper 2 – After the disastrous paper 1, I was really hoping to pull marks up on paper 2. It was alot better then paper 1. There was a few tricks but overall I am happy
• Irish Paper 2 – Emmmmm ….. I don’t think I need to say anything really …. let’s just say the reason why I liked Clare sa Speir was because she likes Coronation Street. Yeah you guess complete BS
• Chemistry – I think the phrase goes “save the best till last”, and seeing the paper it really was the best .. a dream infact. After finishing the paper, I toted up my marks and I couldn’t find a single mistake (of course there is going to be one) but it was the best paper overall

Jesus that was way too much writing for me to handle on sunday night. oh well ..

Bonne chance !

Jason

Currently writing this in physics, I should probably be studying right now …. but I’m not. So far I’ve done my french and Irish listening and they went really well, of course our french teacher had to drench our spirits saying it was too easy, oh well! My written exams start tomorrow with English paper 1 . I’m definitely not worried about this exam. Simply because there is only one comprehension, some functional writing and an essay. What a joy !

Talking about joy, as you know, I had my HPAT exam last Saturday. I sat the exam in the Aula Maxima in UCC and upon arriving, the place was pact. Once I finally got to sit down, I had an immediate surge of adrenaline, I looked down at the paper and then up and thought “Oh Jesus, this is the real thing”. The next few moments were a blur until we were told to begin. I quickly opened the booklet and looked up on the left-hand corner and saw my worst enemy in Maths. Yes that’s right MR. PROBABILITY himself had arrived. The question was about the chance of having an ace and the chance of not having an ace (or something like that). I really am not a fan of these kind of questions so I was forrced to read again and then take a quick guess. Fortunetaly for me the next few questions I remember were pretty simple. They included bar charts of people’s emotions as regards objects that were still and moving for example robots flesh etc, two people driving 2 different cars each and their total deliveries and from the biology course tropism and the neuron

Section 2 as predicted went very well in my opinion, the vocabulary was very rich, but nothing too difficult. The only bit I was abit “iffy” about was the man on the wheelchair mentioning a ritual. I know I put down the licensing of a wheelchair but I wasn’t too sure on that one.

Section 3 = horrible. I think I pretty much guessed a third of the answer (even seeing what letter ABCD or E, I hadn’t ticked in ages) The middle of the sequence was in the wrong place (why it was in the middle of the section is abit ironic) but saying that, the middle of the sequence wasn’t the worst question, especially the one including “and + around”. I think the hardest question for me was the one with letters in a square box of 9, I remember ing being in one of them and me being completely stumped

On a whole the paper wasn’t too bad. The practice questions were an essential and especially when I sat down and attempted to replicate the conditions with the first sample paper (in the real thing I actually got section 1 bang on time, unlike my practise), If it was a normal test I’d assume 65% – 75% (and this is only due to me getting 70% in the replica), but due to the results being a comparison, I have no idea what to expect

Oh well, I best be back to studying physics. I have a whole 15 minutes to learn chapter 17 on vibration and sound.

C’est tout pour ce soir,

Jason

Hummmm …… where to start ? I suppose I shall start with my favourite topic of discussion, the HPAT exam. Unfortunately, the exam is tomorrow and emmm … how do I say it ? … I’m certainly not looking forward to it. I tend to get these images of me being in the centre of the hall, my teeth chattering and alot of people surrounding me, making notes, scribbling down answers on answer sheets, others flicking through questions and me … well, I am just looking around and afraid to get an answer wrong, so I decide not to answer a question at all. Of course, it’s probably not going to be anything like that (I hope) , I’m sure I’ll do fine, but I desperately want to get a high mark, I can’t help but feel distressed. Oh well .. atleast, they say people preform better under a little bit of pressure. I just can’t wait to get out of this pressure cooker tomorrow evening. Strangely enough, the most calming thing anybody has said to me was from the guidance councillor who said “We’ll if your going to be a doctor, you have to accept alot of pressure”

Other then the HPAT, I have my pre exams next week. Yes, I must be in one of the only schools in the country to have it so late, but hey atleast I have more time to study, but does that mean I have to get higher marks ? I suppose I can only try my best, but I would like to get A’s in Biology and Chemistry, I’m also sure french is going to be an infamous exam for me. It’s not the comprehension I’m worried about, It’s the production ecrit. Naturally, I should have prepared between 20-40 essays, I however have only got 5. These include the economy, war, terrorism, violence on t.v and pollution. I might be lucky, or it could end up to be a complete disaster.

Oh well, I best be off now and write a letter to my icelandic pen pal.

C’est tout pour ce soir

Jason

p.s. did anyone see that junior doctor show on BBC3, i saw it yesterday, and I was like medicine is so for me.