Hang in there baby. Quitters never win and winners never quit. This was pretty much the slogan to my weekend, hence the reason I’ve only gotten round to blogging now! Anyone else think of the Simpsons when they saw the cat in the tree? In a very Marge-like fashion, I’ve taken the photo and pinned it above my desk! Hope it cheers at least one of you up! It certainly has helped me 
Time to rewind back to Friday afternoon… sun out, positive thinking, assignments finished.. it was going to be a beautiful weekend, and I, in my naivety, thought that perhaps this once I might be able to relax a bit. Work hard play hard? I was convinced it was going to be such a lovely little break and I was full of the TGI joys til I went into last class. I’m currently in the throes of Stair na Gaeilge in Irish, which is actually easy going as there isn’t much language skills involved, its simple fact. Kinda interesting too.. just alotta sheets. Seriously – no joke- 40 pages to be exact. Not all necessary, but handed out to “cover all eventualities”. Anyway, I’d been accepting sheet after sheet almost mechanically until right before the end of class, the teacher told us (calm as you like) that we were getting a test on Monday on all the sheets we’d done so far. I’m one for the repetition, so I’m gonna stress again – 40 sheets. Pure Irish. Last class on a Friday. One weekend.
So that was literally all my plans out the window! Not that I had too many, but.. it would’ve been nice to have a lie-in on Saturday.. that’s all. Remember a few posts ago I mentioned how Irish is a good subject as long as you learn off the notes? Well I meant over a well spread out period of time. This was just far too much for me, I was completely swamped! I allowed myself Friday evening to get all the practical homework out of the way, and then hit the books big time Saturday and Sunday. I literally studied nothing but Irish til my head hurt and the page went blurry. Oh which reminds me, I got glasses this week. Serious stuff! Did the test yesterday, got the results today – 84%. DELIGHTED! Still, I’d trade it any day for a decent weekend. Bring on the mid term break 
In other news, predicted grades are flying round the school this week! All in prep for UCAS (which Im sure you’re all sick of). I’ve only applied to Belfast, I plan to do Law and Politics next year and I don’t know too much about colleges across the sea. All the big ones seem to need this LNAT business, from what I can gather its the law appitude test, and involves 40 questions and an essay. Don’t quote me on that – as soon as I heard essay, I decided it was a no go. Oxford my dear, you can be my road not travelled.
Spose I’d better mention a bit about the predicted grades too! Well so far I’ve just heard back from French, Irish, Business and Home Ec. All As thankfully! But the one I’m really curious about is Maths. She’ll probably give me a B, (although arguably I deserve a C) so I’m gonna talk it out with her and see if she thinks dropping might be a good idea or should I……..much like our little feline friend in the tree……… (pause for cheesy quip)……………….. hang on in there baby.
Sorcha x
Well this leaving cert business will be the death of me. All those days i spent dossing back in TY ‘08 and i never appreciated them 
. Now I’m up to my eyeballs in Die Imperfekt, King Lear and differentiation *shudder*
