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2011. It’s just gotten real. Bring it on.

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*sighs* I actually did try. I had the most beautiful time table – Christmas was going to be crammed with study, but also loaded with the nights out and the days set aside for simply doing nothing. I had it all thought out – I genuinely was going to make a huge effort!

You can predict whats coming… my time table (like they tend to do) went way off track. 6 hours a day? Try 2 or 3. Max. Not that I think I’m doing badly, I’m just not doing half as much as planned. And worse still – Ive turned nocturnal! This whole week I’ve slept in til 12pm, regardless of alarm clocks, wake-up calls, etc. To be honest, I think I’m just wrecked. Before the Christmas holidays I was under the impression that doing everything like some sorta student superhero was just a matter of “penciling it in” but alas, I’ve learned a valuable lesson. Guys, nobody beat yourself up about not doing enough study over the holidays. Theres no point. New Year’s eve I had a little bit of a panic attack, thinking that come the 1st of January it was game on. In true movie style, everything just hit the fan. This shizz just got real. Mocks are in February, and even though I know things have a way of working out, theres still that nagging voice that I haven’t done enough and that there’s no way I’ll be prepared.

Mid-crisis I realised that yeah, okay – I’m not gonna be prepared. My worst nightmare of being in over my head is inevitable. But thats okay. Mocks seem HUGE to us right now, though that’ll pass. We can only do as much as we can. Even if we have the days where we slack, and even if studying hours on end doesnt work out for some as it might do for others…. its okay. We’ll all get there in the end. Remember my “hang on in there kitty” post? Well…. I still mean it. :) I am well aware how cheesy my blog is turning out to be, but really I felt I had to write it, even just to assure myself more than anyone else that things are gonna be alright. When I’m all done and dusted with these exams in June, I fully intend to read back through my blog and I know that I’m gonna stop at this one and cringe. It’s gonna be one of those “I wish I could turn back and tell her to cop herself on, lighten up a bit – enjoy this year.” Still, had to be written. I remember somebody telling me over the summer that Leaving Cert is an experience – one not to be missed. Hah. They said that its one of those things that we’ll fight against til the last exam, but appreciate for the rest of our lives. It’s only now I can see where they’re coming from.

Roughly we’ve got about 5 weeks til the mocks. Give or day a few days. Breathe.  Besides, whats the worst that could happen?*

*Ans: You could fail. (Ain’t that blatantly obvious kiddo?) And if anybody reading this does fail any of the mocks… or even doesn’t do as well as hoped.. Embrace it. Shrug it off. Just don’t let it get to you. At the end of the day, it’ll make your actual result in the Leaving Cert so much sweeter. Look at it as a challenge… Bring it on.

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January 5th, 2011 at 9:08 pm

I simply despise ‘bunch marking’…

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aaleena-150x150Hey everyone!
I owe you an apology for vanishing for a few weeks there! I suppose the only school related topic atm is the mocks, well down this part of the country they are! I have all mine back except the most dreaded! That would be Irish and Maths, so far I’ve calculated that I have 465 points, hopefully at least a B3 in irish or A2 in maths (pass) will bring me up?(updated-465 are my total points..not exactly what i hoped for,,)Overall, apart from English,which I will get to later, (believe me), I thought I did really well.  I had my mock French oral and got 92/100.So that along with my actual mock got me an A1 in french! Delighted so I was! I keep asking myself what was my problem back when I was young, *sigh* a C in the Junior Cert was pathetic in my case, considering I LOVE french and am decent enough in it :) I know you shouldn’t really go by the mocks because who knows? I could get a horrible paper on the day and totally screw it up (hope that won’t be the case though). I thought my art exam may have been marked too easily, but I cant complain.  Actually, just thought I’d throw this in here, my friend got into NCAD!! So 140 points-yep that’s all, and a few months later she shall be walking into the NCAD college building, dressed like one of those indifferent, aesthetic, expressive art students (which in my opinion are the coolest frickin’ people on earth!!).  :)

Anyway,what was I actually bringing myself to say…? Oh yes! PLEASE if this has happened in your school too COMMENT and let me know..because to say this as politely as I can possible say, I am absolutely furious, mad, raging, fuming pure angry! Ok, so for the next minute please excuse my ‘big-headedness’ as I’m not going to be modest at all. Basically, I’m an A1 student in English, I’m hoping for an A1 in the actual thing this summer.  I think I’ve only once or twice gotton lower than a B1.  Since 5th year my average has been in the high 90s. This is honours English we’re talking about, there is about 25 people in my class. Not everyone is the same standard. So how is it even POSSIBLE to have given not only my English class, but EVERY higher level English class in the SCHOOL a C1. Yep, everyone got grades ranging from C3-C1. Ridiculous, was the examiner just not bothered or did she actually think that we were all C3 students? The proof? There is no ticks beside my work, no coding, no nothing, nada, zilch, nothing:( yet he/she just marked it in ‘general’. A few people don’t mind, a C3 was shocking to get after failing the whole year, (these students don’t exactly attend school). I hope I’m not coming out as insulting or arrogant but I’m seriously mad at the way the English mocks were corrected.  I mean we pay good money to do these exams, what’s the point if they come back not corrected right and don’t give any significant idea of where a student stands? I mean, i honestly thought I would have gotten a B or something…a C though was just, sickening, and just left me disappointed really. The teachers have filed a complaint but I doubt that will do anything.  The other schools were marked properly. Yet, we were apparently ‘bunch marked’ as they told us. How can over 100 students all get a C?

Has anyone else been getting the exam briefs with the Irish Independent? I find some of them helpful, mostly I just dwell on how well the past students have done, ha,  sad, sad Ally. The total opposite of what the papers are meant to do.  Well done *pats self on back*. This Wednesday are all the business subjects, then the following is the Junior Cert.

Hmm, what else? I’m kind of rushing this blog because I have my Irish mock oral on Wednesday, not as good in Irish as I am French. I also have chemistry revision to be doing. Right now I feel as though I should be doing something productive,I mean I think we have 3 months left? Wow, seems shorter when I type it out :o Ohh! I also finished ‘The Road’ last week, by Cormac McCarthy, a very different book might I say, well written but the style was something I’ve never experienced before. A good read, it’s a movie now too I think? On another note; isn’t the line up for Oxegen amazing? Muse AND 30 seconds to mars?? :o

Isn’t it funny? (ok not really), this year is just pure mad.  I mean we’re definitely going to remember it forever, hopefully for all the best parts but just the whole experience, the stress and everything, it’s something we’ll keep for the rest of our lives.  After all they pretty much depend on what we do this year!

Bonne Chance mes amis! :)

-Ally.

Aprés-Mocks (inhonour of that great Irish win!)

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katieSalut!

First of all, I know I’m a tad late, but WHAT A MATCH! TOMMY BOWE you legend =D It left me on a high all week. Beating the English is always so so sweet. And it’s even better when in their own back yard. I would also like to add my tupence worth to the Sexton V O’Gara debate. SEXTON ALL THE WAY =D

Well now that that out of my system, back to reality (and a bit of moaning!).

I’m sorry to say that running up to and during my mocks I had to avoid my blog like the plague in case temptation would bring me to the spoiler threads! I don’t see the point in them! Ok, fair enough, you might not have left enough time to study, and yes we all know how long it takes to revise seven courses. But there is no point in spending money sending papers off to be corrected if you knew exactly what was coming up. That’s my little “everyone-else-should-feel-bad-so-I-can-feel-good” rant!

My chemistry teacher did something that can only be described as sneaky and malicious. During our second last class before our mocks, when most students were at home taking a study day, she told us an experiment that would definitely be on our paper, having previously told us another. So, being lazy, they were the only two I learned! One came up, the other didn’t! It resulted in me making a mess of the one I did know because I was so annoyed, and getting poor marks in another that I hadn’t learned properly =( The rest of the paper went okay though, despite the fact that I managed to get considerably more marks for answering on a section that we hadn’t done, than on gases! Lol!

So, what about the HPAT? Any thoughts? I have absolutely no idea how I got on, I was just happy that I handled the exam pressure/stress pretty well! Heard a few not so nice stories about the Trinity Examination Hall centre, and that somewhere in UCD got very, very warm! I was in Goldsmith Hall, in Trinity, and apart from a little difficulty in finding the entrance the whole thing was fine =D I’m sure it went fantastically for everyone. I don’t know about you, but I for one am so relieved to just have it out of the way. Now I just have to convince myself to just sit down and study =/

In both Irish and French at the moment we’re concentrating mainly on the oral work. I like this part because, as any of you who know me will know, I never shut-up!! Last year I got into a big debate about doping in sport and the whole Cian O’ Conor and Denis Lynch fiasco at both of the previous Olympics. My French was poor and my argument was even worse!! Ah well, what can you do, at least I gave the class a laugh!!

As far as results go… I have to say that I’m pretty happy =D I managed an A2 in Irish and Maths (pass) and my only C was in Chemistry. One positive I suppose ill have to take is that if I hadn’t made 59marks worth of stupid mistakes, I would have gotten a B1! Stupid mistakes include; not using graph paper X2, mixing up words in definitions that I never get wrong X3; calculating g/mol wrongX5…… the list goes on!!! I was happy enough with English (B2) and Biology (B1) for now…. And a little disappointed with my accounting (scrapped a B3). But I have now definitely made the decision to leave out Q5 (interpretation) so that will give me time to concentrate on everything else.

French has to have been the surprise of the centaury!! No matter how hard I try, I just don’t get Bs in my written… so I was thrilled with my B1. Admittedly my tape brought me up a huge amount, and it’s generally a major downfall for most. One tip; upload those practise tapes you get with the exam papers onto your iPod and listen to them. You won’t get every word, but you’re not asked to. Just get the gist of the piece and work from there.

Anyways I had better get back to the books.

Chuala mé go bhfuil Seachtain na Gaeilge ag teacht agus bainfaidh mé trial mo chéad blog eile a scríobh as Gaeilge.

Slán

Katie xxx

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March 7th, 2010 at 7:33 pm

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Back again..

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My new glasses I apologise, its been a while, I’ve also got a lot of slagging cause of these blogs, pfft :P .. Well i have     stayed away from allhonours.ie blogging simply because there’s the temptation of mocks spoilers, so i decided it was safe to come back after mocks (: loads of students from school knew what was coming up on the exam or either had it printed off already and handed out.. i didn’t seem to bother! I only did 3 mocks, business, economics and math paper 2 ( which was an utter sham) I was in China/Hong Kong for two weeks  and i came back right in the middle of them, so meaning i had to study for a month and never practiced any math til the night before my paper.. anyways, enough bladdering on about nothing, its 98 days til the Leaving Cert i hear? At this stage i just want it over with!.. I’m confident with business and accounting to be able to go into the leaving exam now, music is progressing along with economics.. German shall always be my down fall :) better start studying for orals and practicals.. and lvcp exam again.. Hope everyone had a lovely mid term and Easters round the corner and im 18 in 8 days :D . Partt-ayyyyy!! Anyways one last thing, i said I’d mention Gera in my first blog back, Hi Gera! He’s too cool to blog anymore.. :P Good luck to those just starting mocks. Don’t worry they don’t mean anything, :D Anyways see ya soon (: x

Written by May Wong

March 4th, 2010 at 12:40 am

I’ve made the move…

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Ciara Hello there,

I haven’t blogged in quite a while but to be honest there weren’t many school-related topics to write about the past few weeks. We spent nearly all of January rehearsing and staging our school musical, which was a total hit! It also meant I didn’t have a lot of classes, which was brilliant at the time, although boy was it like a smack in the face with a raw fish when we got back to work! Then we had the mid-term and now things are getting stressful. However, I know these problems are minor in the eyes of all those dealing with Mocks at the moment. Hope everyone did/does well, even though I remember after the Junior Cert ones last year I thought to myself “these really didn’t matter at all”! They’re great practice though and people really shouldn’t be trying to find out what’s going to be asked because in the actual exams, it’s all about the element of surprise! We all complained about Thierry Henry for cheating in the Ireland-France match, so if you cheat for the mocks then you’re not much better than him!

So as my blog title suggests, I moved to pass maths yesterday. I really couldn’t stick higher level any more and since I don’t need it for any courses I want, I decided to cut the stress (or at least some of it) by moving down to ordinary level. Now I don’t dread trudging up to maths because ordinary level is very manageable for me. The thing is, they’ve actually gone past the sections we did in higher level so I’m behind at pass maths- oh the irony! You can’t blame me for thinking it was going to be easier, seeing as in Texts and Tests 3 for the differentiation equation they tell you how to pronounce it- ‘dee y, dee x’. Thank you maths book for giving me that pointless bit of information that’d only be handy if there was a Maths Oral! Imagine…

The only thing that really has me burdened at the moment is History. We’re starting work on our research topics already and after changing the topic a few times, I finally settled on my project title. By Friday we have to have roughly 20 pages of handwritten notes about our project from our sources, along with an essay. It’s Wednesday evening and I haven’t even started to read my sources.

I’m screwed.

stress

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February 24th, 2010 at 6:38 pm

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The End Of An Era

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Ian Profile PicHow often do we think of our future? Or rather, dream about our future? Probably far too often. You more than likely spend a lot of time drifting off in Double Biology imagining holding a degree in French Law, how many children you’ll have, or maybe you just contemplate what you’ll be having for lunch that day? Whatever the case, how many of you actually spend your valuable time thinking of nothing, but just enjoying the present you’re living in?

This year will be the last year most of you will spend in a secondary school. Usually we are so caught up in the stress of exams, the worry of results, and the  prospects of college that we lose sight of what is in front of our very eyes: the last time we will ever be in sixth year in a secondary school. If I could go back (and let me assure you that nothing would prevent me from going back if I could) I would tell all of those that have meant something to me over the past six years the significance of their role in my life. Where would I be now had I not known them? And more importantly, who would I be now? The majority of us become our friends, and they; us, so how would my life be different now had I not been friends with them then? Its really now that I ask this question that I realise the absolute importance to cherish the time we have with those around us. Far too often it becomes too late and we forget to remember those that are right before our eyes.

Exams will happen. College will happen. Friends such as the ones you know now may never happen again. So celebrate the friendship: laugh, cry, get ridiculously drunk, eat copius bags of chocolate, watch the latest weepie because you know only your best friends will watch it with you, laugh some more, spend a ferocious amount of money on THE DRESS (the one that only comes second to the one you will wear when you marry), spend a half an hour styling the short hair that you tell everybody you don’t straighten but know that they know you do, kiss girls, kiss boys, break girls’ hearts, break boys’ hearts, take comfort in your friends’ arms when you have your heart broken, sing even if you “cannot” sing, dance even though you know that we know you “cannot”, gossip, whisper, shout, be bold, be bad, be good, be helpful, be careful, be honest, be happy, help each other through the stress and strain of the Leaving Cert year, guide each other on the way to college, and tell them that you will never ever forget them even if you do lose touch because, above all, losing touch will happen.

Au revoir, mes amis,

Ian

P.S.: I hope you all did brilliantly (are doing brilliantly) in your mocks. I decided that I’d post a blog after most of them are over. Happy Valentine’s Day (I hate commercialism!) See you soon!

Written by Ian

February 14th, 2010 at 12:20 pm

It’s been (quite) a while..

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Hello again. I think it’s time I stopped letting this blog gather dust and returned from my cyber-wilderness. I shan’t make excuses, in truth I have no justifiable ones, but I shall resolve to update this more often.

Oh dear, there are only two or so weeks left until my mocks start. Fantastic.  I think the panic is starting to set in just a little bit. Only a little bit though, I’ve done this before so you can trust me on one thing: the mocks are not very important. Grades wise, I mean. They do have their uses: they are a wonderful eye opener for those students who have yet to “wake up and smell the coffee” as my teacher put it the other day. And He’s right.  If you have yet to get stuck into the books, don’t panic.  Much. Panic a little bit, then take that horrible sense of dread that you will probably get as you walk into your mocks and get very familiar with it. Now try not to forget it as soon as your two weeks of fake-exams are done. Hold on to it. Channel it into some…and there are those of us who may not be very familiar with this word…s-t-u-d-y.

Seriously.  I’m not even joking. I’d never felt so scared in my life when I went to do my mocks last year, but unfortunately I forgot all about that horrible feeling as soon as I handed up my last paper. Consequently, I had to experience it all over again in June. For the non-fake-exams. Which was even worse..

Let me know how you’ve been getting on with the aul’ LC, whether it’s take one or take two (or you’re Laura Brady and doing it for the 57th time).

Good luck with your mocks!

Sinéad.x

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February 4th, 2010 at 11:17 pm

* Apologies and Advice *

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aaleena-150x150Hi everyone!

I can’t believe i haven’t blogged in weeks. I personally apologise. I do, really. Sad as it sounds, nothing seems to have happened this month. I don’t even know where to start. Well the mocks have started in some counties already and to you I say bonne chance. I however, start next week on the Friday with biology and L.C.V.P not bad at all if i do say so. I have to agree with Cillian. I think the point of the mocks is for us to see where we stand. So knowing whats gonna come up on the paper is just pointless unless unless you want to lie to yourself about how well you performed in that test and fail epically in June. I know it sounds like the easy way around but believe me, testing your self will have much more rewards later on.

The subjects I’m most worried about are Chemistry and Irish. Both have GIANT courses that seem impossible to revise. Irish has to be my weakest for the simple reason that I never did the work in 5th year and regret it now, although, I am making progress.  Chemistry is just strange in the way that I have gone over the whole ‘chemistry live’ book twice, read my notes many times and still seem to have to check the book for answers when I do papers. Maybe I just don’t get chem.  Well I’ll be telling myself otherwise until it sticks :D Our teacher is making us come in tomorrow at 2pm for extra classes since she missed so many (we get a half day on Fridays @ 12.30pm). I must also say that art is another one I’ll dreading. “Yeah history of art is so easy, omg what’s so hard about it?”, you who said that or thought that, good on you. Although, the fact that my teacher lost my hardback with some of my essays in it from 5th year makes it slightly more fair for me to cry about it. My drawing is weak too, so … why choose art then!!? Well seeing as I got an A in the J.C (with a crap project) I thought, why not? I’m not doing home ec. or geography anyway! So art it was. Man do i regret it. My friend submitted her portfolio last week to NCAD (talented girl!!!). We went there for the open day and its seems like a nice place, not for me obviously,but a great school for Arts and the like.

What else..this is terrible I feel like I HAVE to blog at this stage,which I do but anyways ;)

I got an email from HPAT Ireland just more details and stuff, I really hope (like many others) that I get the Dublin centre…imagine going to Waterford in the morning:( I feel as though I should reccommened this amazing revision book…’rapid revision french’ by Cian Hogan. I bought it because he’s my teacher at the inst. on Saturdays and he is prob the best french teacher I’ve ever had or will, so I bought the book online to see what it was about. It has a study guide so you do the course in 10 weeks.  I just use it occasionally though, for grammar and oral pointers. It really is great and I’m finding it very useful. If you have it, you know what I’m talking about. :)

I also got a student card…pointless though, as after I leave secondary school it’s not valid..but I do get discounts at the cinema and topshop,BT2 and tons more places ;) sure its great! Speaking of films (we all need breaks!) am I the only teenager who ACTUALLY wants to go see Toy Story 3 in 3D?? Please prove me wrong..oh and eclipse comes out in June!!! :D

Back to school related issues. There’s a huge hype about the point system& courses etc lately. Yes some are increasing and its harder to get in…so what? Let’s take the positive message out of it and not whine like every other teenager and young adult in Ireland. Its just a reason for us to work even harder! If we sit around telling people over and over and over again about the points and such what are we gaining from it? Whoopie my anxiety levels are up, I’m going to go study now…can you contradict yourself anymore? So please, for all of us, for the people who don’t let these little impurities get in the way of their goals, ambitions and desires, lets get back to work and keep our eyes on the prize.

As for the mocks, same advice, you can only do your best at the end of the day. Its better to screw up in the mocks and learn from your mistakes than totally mess up in the actual thing. So take every subject as it comes, day by day. Don’t analyse what you did, could have done or should have done. Move on. Move forward and prepare for the next thing, don’t dwell on a topic like most of your peers will be doing; “OMG, what did you write for Q2?? I said Anaphase…OMFG it was Metaphase wasn’t it…WASN’T IT!!!!!”, “lads,that was qwer hard like!!”….don’t be like that please? And if your one of those people who thinks that cramming will work, think again my friend, oh how wrong you are,,how very, very wrong. I laugh at how wrong you are! :D get up, wake up and look at a book, even for five minutes, better than nothing. In the end its the things you put in that will be the ones that come out!

So. That was my great piece(s) of advice for maybe the next few weeks or so. We’ll see how things go. hope all goes well for everyone!!!! :D

Bonne chance ^_^

Written by Ally

February 4th, 2010 at 9:46 pm

Mocks….:(

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sophieHey peoples!
I hope everyone’s well and, ya know, not freaking out or anything! So Mocks are here again! Everyone excited?! I’m not for one.
Is it only me that thinks the mocks are more intimidating than the actual LC? I freaked out completely last year about them and then by the time June came around, I was way past caring.
Tip for this year…save the mental breakdown ’til 9 June.
The timetable for the mocks is quite nice actually, Business and French on next Friday, mid-term and then back to it on the Tuesday…plenty of time. :D
It seems everyone and their mother is applying for college this year anyway so unless the Government finally decide to do something productive for this country…I’d say they’ll be fun times ahead.
So I’ve made sure that there is no space on my CAO application and have applied for every course relevant to journalism and business so here’s hoping I get into one!
I’m kinda kicking myself I didn’t do my CAO properly last year. It turns out I could have got into quite a few courses….bummer anyways!!
I’m off now to stare at my English notes and TRY to get some of it to stick in my brain!

Chat yaz!

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February 2nd, 2010 at 9:38 pm

Mocks, Orals, Road Trips and Resolutions – a balanced lifestyle =P

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katieHello =)

I hope everyone is well, and not over stressing ;-)

The realisation hit me yesterday (I know, I know, only yesterday :O) that in 5 months time it’s all going to be over!! Every last paper finished and sent on its merry way……. scary thoughts, I know. For now though I’ve plenty of more important things to be thinking about; mocks, orals, 18th’s, and 21st’s!

We were given our oral dates last week (that was when the realisation dawned!). French is the first week after, and I will be on the Friday if it goes in alphabetical order (Weldon!!). So that’s not really too bad. Dare I say it, but I’m kind of looking forward to my Irish oral the following week!! Oh and I would like to say a huge “Thank You” to Ally for recommending Foinse =) It helps so much! I was always afraid to pick it up in case I wouldn’t be able to understand any of it, and would be totally disheartened, but I found that even if there’s a word I don’t understand, in the context of the sentence I could figure it out =D

Our mocks have been moved back a week, which is a major relief. At least now they run straight up the mid-term and we won’t be dragged back in for a week after them. The thought of sitting two three hour papers in one school day really isn’t going down all that well. It’s going to mean one very short lunch break! As for the subjects? Well the one I am dreading most is chemistry!! I just haven’t had time to revise everything! Hopefully, I will have enough done to get me through 6 questions. I’ll probably do the Q5 (periodic table and the atom), the question on rates of reaction (if we have it finished), both organic questions, environmental chemistry and hopefully something else I know will come up!!

With regard to the 18th’s and 21st’s, well that’s more of an “I wish” story =P I was at probably the best 21st ever last week, and then wasn’t let out for my friends 18th this week =/ Yes, I am sure I will be glad when I get a groggy phone call asking about our homework tomorrow evening @ 9. Maybe everyone has gone back to college and Kells would be deserted once again. And I know it would have been such an anti-climax to last week – the road trip was epic (it took us 2 and a half hours to get to Oldcastle from Trim – A forty minute journey :L. We tried to do a U-turn and got stuck in a ditch!! The guards pulled us out. And some poor-unfortunate mass goer will probably have found their car without a wing mirror on return!!! :O). Meh, I suppose once in a while it’s ok to use “I’m not allowed….” as a cover up excuse??

I was just wondering, what poets are you guys studying and how are you finding them? At the moment I’m working my way through Longley – and he is definitely my favourite!! I love the way he brings in the ancient legends and myths and makes them his own . Their stories do all the telling. What way do you write your poetry essays?? Do you start on one poem and dissect it, then lead into one of the same theme…. or do you mix around with all the different poems? I’ve already covered Boland, Kavanagh, Yeats, Keats, and am almost finished Longley. My teacher is only going to cover those five poets, but armed with Mr. Kelly’s notes, I think I’ll do Elliot too, and maybe leave Keats out in my revision. He did come up last year after all =D

Other than that exciting road trip, Trim has been graced with my presence (ha!) on a number of occasions recently as I try to put those New Year’s resolutions into action. I suppose throwing a ball around in a swimming pool is exercise right?? My goal is to be able to beat my brother (16) in a swimming race…. this could take some time!! I used to be a good swimmer, really I did. Then I discovered how boring swimming up and down racing the clock is compared to galloping across fields!! The only thing is you don’t get fit enough to compete at horse riding by horse riding – unless you do it all day!!

Just thought I’d pick your (considerably more intelligent) brains for a few minutes…… Yes, it is back to the chemistry, but what method of studying it works for you guys?? I was on the Allhonours website earlier and studying for chemistry seems to be a big topic for discussion!! Mostly it was just people who found it difficult to understand looking for help, but does just reading through your notes work for anyone?? It certainly doesn’t help me!!! Just curious that’s all =P

Oh yea, I knew there was something else I wanted to say :L I had my first day of HPAT practise last Saturday, and yes, you were right Ally, – the guy is a genius. I really put me at ease to know that I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t make sense of those puzzles!! I found the extra questions he gave out (the mock 2) much more difficult than the ACER ones though!! I did the whole section one this morning and that was tiring. It’s probably my second favourite section but I got a way lower score in it than I had form the ACER one =( I think I’ll put it down to needing practise though so I don’t get too disheartened!!
Anyways I had better go do some proper study instead of just pretending to =S

Have a good week…… oh and make sure those cao applications are in!!

Toodles

Katie xxx

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January 23rd, 2010 at 7:03 pm

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