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Hi Sawyer, haha you absolutely hit the nail on the head! I know I probably shouldn't complain since my workload is a lot lower than most but it does feel so ANNOYING and underwhelming when I turn up after hours of PTV... to find I've got my only class cancelled. I definitely try to capitalise on it too, because I can afford to spend a lot more time on each subject. My teachers are super relaxed; sometimes I do find it difficult to invent study activities for myself, which is a bit torturous honestly. Is it weird to say that sometimes I'd almost rather receive a lot more homework just so I don't need to figure out what to do? Oh well, I guess everyone's bound to experience it at some point
I'm so hyped for camp, it's really unbelievable that it's only two weeks away now when it felt like eons at the start of term. What's your favourite camp activity, if you have one? Everyone is just waiting to get SAC week over and done with so we can escape to the best week of the year. Good luck for any upcoming assessments you've got btw : D and thanks so much for your reply!
I inhaled and it was March. This is illegal.
Anyways, long time no update! It hasn't started to feel like it yet but I am realising that we are now well into the thick of term 1. A chain of week 7 Chemistry and Eng Lang SACs is looming before me already, which is a little intimidating, but I sure am glad I'm not participating in the Philo-Global-Lit-Mainstream sequence.
Last Friday, we had our last swimming carnival; surprisingly very fun. I dressed up enough to garner several shooting looks of disapproval/confusion, cheered for nearly all the relays, and most importantly, showed my support for fundraising by eating several kgs too many brownies. My year 7 self would probably never believe I'd be saying this but I will definitely miss school events like these.
In piano, I've really started to get into Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody no. 12. My teacher gave this to me as a
preparatory exercise for La Campanella, which honestly makes both pieces sound a lot scarier (not that the sight of double trills isn't enough to make me faint already). She told me some stories about the Romanian gypsies she lived across the road from as a child; how they lived in wagons and sung and danced every night around a fire, how no one seemed to know very much about them. I like to imagine scenes like this in music; there are these sudden octaves with accelerando in the Rhapsody that are like their constant switching between celebration and fearing persecution. Sometimes it's almost like a fantasy to conjure images like this in my head and it really does seem to help with performance. I really recommend trying this if you guys ever struggle with letting a piece come together.
Eng LangI sat and got back the diagnostic task in preparation for our first SAC! Unfortunately, my teacher didn't give us a mark/25 as we will on the actual assessment. I know it's the feedback that really matters but having some kind of numerical indication would really help, just to see approximately how well I'll do on the SAC. Maybe they left it out just so that we can't make guesses. Other than that, I think Eng Lang is moving along solidly for me. A bit of a problem for me now is not using enough metalanguage, which is odd as in previous years I'd always be called out by teachers for being trying to be overly technical. :/
MethodsHonestly, Methods has definitely been really uneventful. Because of numerous assemblies, swimming carnival, and my teacher being away, I've barely had any classes in the week or so. We've wrapped up transformations and are moving into calculus, which is strange because polynomials comes before for every other class. I probably wouldn't say that calculus is hard to me, but I am becoming quite wary of how fast being mistake-prone can take your marks from 90+ to 70+. I've started seeking out more worksheets and practice papers to try and fix this early on in the year.
ChemistryNot bad at all. It's going to be my third time going to the TSFX weekly classes on Saturday and for those who are looking I highly recommend them! It's quite intense and the teachers cover information at an extraordinary rate but I find that it's still easy to follow and understand. Plus, they record all the classes so at least I can practice spacing out and then frantically listening to the playback on x2 speed for uni. The only thing is that we're still covering fuels, which is sort of new to me as I haven't done it at school. But getting insight to answering questions will definitely be able to carry over for my SAC (fingers crossed)
My SAC is creeping a little too close for comfort. Yesterday, we did the practical component for the report which we'll be writing, which I'm rather confused about as it only covers galvanic cells and redox. A little worried because I've heard that report writing in Bio is quite different to the standards in Chem; last year, I'd just word vomit as much as possible but apparently Chem penalises you for lengthy explanations or including unnecessary (but correct) information. I just hope that obsessively reading the threads on Chem reports here will save me
Anyways, that's all for this already extensive entry xdd, study hard everyone!