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Brewing Positivi-Tea (melberry's HSC journey)
Bri MT:
Now that I have a laptop where I can write on the screen I annotate lecture slides that way with small amounts of typed text so I can use the search function to find topics.
In terms of paper use, if you can buy books made from recycled paper that's a step in the right direction :)
Enjoy your holidays!
caffinatedloz:
--- Quote from: melberry on November 11, 2019, 03:41:01 pm ---
* Take Auslan classes
* Sell/donate things that do not spark joy
* Bible study
* Learn to use watercolour without destroying the paper
* Go to the Botanical gardens
* Finish reading the stack of 30+ novels I haven't read yet (one novel per day)
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!How good does being done feel?!
Sounds very similar to my post exam plans! What interested you about Auslan? I started learning about two and a half years ago and it really is a beautiful language. ;D
I've been slowly KonMari-ing my bedroom and it is life changing!
I love watercolour; but all I paint is flowers. Do you have something in particular you like to paint? If you're destroying the paper, you could try really gentle strokes, slightly less water and only going over each area once (or possibly twice as needed). Also, I got an illustrating bible and have been sticking in my watercolours and doing calligraphy in the extra-wide margins and it has been very fun and helpful! Have you ever thought about doing something similar?
As soon as exams are done, a friend and I are spending a day in the Royal Botanic Gardens (and possibly also Flagstaff Gardens) in Melbourne.
Which books are in your stack? (I also have a TBR list longer than I could ever possibly get through.)
melberry:
--- Quote from: laura_ on November 13, 2019, 06:13:14 am ---CONGRATULATIONS!!!How good does being done feel?!
Sounds very similar to my post exam plans! What interested you about Auslan? I started learning about two and a half years ago and it really is a beautiful language. ;D
I've been slowly KonMari-ing my bedroom and it is life changing!
I love watercolour; but all I paint is flowers. Do you have something in particular you like to paint? If you're destroying the paper, you could try really gentle strokes, slightly less water and only going over each area once (or possibly twice as needed). Also, I got an illustrating bible and have been sticking in my watercolours and doing calligraphy in the extra-wide margins and it has been very fun and helpful! Have you ever thought about doing something similar?
As soon as exams are done, a friend and I are spending a day in the Royal Botanic Gardens (and possibly also Flagstaff Gardens) in Melbourne.
Which books are in your stack? (I also have a TBR list longer than I could ever possibly get through.)
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Being done feels amazing :D I do hope that I won't feel like I have "too much time" on my hands because there's always something to do.
That's cool to hear from someone who has learned Auslan! To answer your question, I learnt some American Sign Language and a bit of British sign language from my mum when I was younger. Now that we live in Australia, I figured it would be a useful skill to have, a fun experience, and a good bonding session with my mum who also wants to learn Auslan :D
Watercolour flowers are some of the prettiest things I have ever seen. I would like to learn how to use watercolour to paint landscapes, but right now I try drawing humans. As far as priorities go, I definitely have to do more anatomy studies before I get close to being satisfied with my current level of drawing. I've attempted watercolour several times before, but either I didn't have the proper paper for it, or my friends watched as I started off with too much pigment on the brush and ended up with a puddle on the page. It all comes with practice, I suppose, but I am scared to waste paint :P I have not tried using an illustrating bible, but I do experiment with calligraphy on scrap pieces of paper using my brush pen.
Sounds good! I was debating whether or not to go to the Melbourne Botanical Gardens while I am there, but my friends say that because we have one in Sydney, it's not at the top of our list of things to do :( Slight shame because hanging out in the city all the time can get tiresome.
I have more random books in my "to read" list than books I specifically set aside "to read". My school had a really cheap book sale, and I grabbed whatever looked interesting. I may end up liking some and disliking others, but I'm open to pleasant surprises :) Bolded books are the ones I specifically set aside to read.
* Howards End (E. M. Forster)
* Old Kingdom series (Garth Nix)
* Smoke and Iron (Rachel Caine)
* The Bird Artist (Howard Norman)
* The Lace Maker's Daughter (Gary Crew)
* The Picture Book (Susannah Keating)
* The Sly Company of People Who Care (Rahul Bhattacharya)
* To My Daughter in France... (Barbara & Stephanie Keating)
I actually finished two books since the end of HSC: "Between Two Seas" (Marie-Louise Jensen) and "Bereft" (Chris Womersley). I was pleasantly surprised by both of them (the latter being a bit more "WHY???").
If anyone has any book recommendations, feel free to let me know! I'm pretty open to anything with a good plot or cast of characters.
Signing off for the day,
melberry
Positivitea for the day: I had a wholesome reunion dinner with friends and our teacher today :D
melberry:
It is 6:30am in the morning and I got my HSC results 30 minutes ago.
I am surprised.
Overall I feel pretty good. I severely underestimated my HSC marks for math extension 1 and math extension 2 (thank goodness for scaling!!), and I also slightly underestimated my English marks in both advanced and extension. I fell short on my expectations for economics and got exactly what I thought I would for Japanese.
My raw HSC scores were higher than I thought they were in both English and Math subjects. Four subjects I toiled and grappled with over this past year because I enjoyed Japanese and Economics much more. I think disbelief can be a bad thing sometimes but it honestly made looking at these marks relieving. I walked out of that Math Extension 2 exam thinking I got a 50 but I got much higher than that. (THANK YOU ATARNOTES FOR YOUR NOTES AND TESTS AND LECTURES YOU GUYS ARE LIFESAVERS!!!)
I'll update this again after 1pm
Good luck to everyone
angewina_naguen:
Huge congratulations! I’ve been silently enjoying your journal over the year and just wanted to say well done for your results ;D Hoping the ATAR will be what you’d like it to be and keen for your update later! :D
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