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My Journey to the QCE Journey (and beyond)

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Bri MT:
My advice?  Go for it!
Even if you struggle w/ the speech and don't get in its a new experience to learn from without much investment

Congrats on VA!

SlowandSteady:
Pretty much summed up my week above, but I've been trying to do some recreational drawing for the first time by strictly following youtube tutorials. I'm so bad at it, but hey, you need to start somewhere.

SlowandSteady:
Hey all :D How's your week been?

English: Because the persuasive is the only thing we've been working on and we've already handed the drafts in, we had no English this week so that they could be marked. The lessons were swapped out for geography.

Maths: We've been doing linear equations and for most of the time I've just been really stumped. Only today did it hit me and now I'm pretty sure I have a solid understanding. I'll know once I start doing practice Q's, I guess.

Science: Mostly just finishing up the report. Been handing in drafts for sections and getting them back. Nothing special.

Geography: We started a new unit, Coastal Processes, which introduces us to management strategies to combat the erosion of gold coast shorelines (dredging, artificial reefs, building rock walls and so on). The exam will be next week. It'll give me two stimuli containing two management strategies. I have to outline the economic, social and environmental consequences of each, including the perspectives of the different stakeholders of the beach: tourists, locals and the government. I got my exam back (the one I was confident in) and got an A+, so I'm chuffed.

Visual Arts: We've been starting on our new assessment piece: freehand drawing (eugh) insects and shading them with charcoal. I've just been smashing out tutorials online on how to draw them, so I'm hoping my efforts aren't in vain. On another note (haha) i found out that for music next term, I will be making music using software; the term is split into one half uke and one half composing. I'll be emailing the music teacher tonight (after introducing myself as to not sound like a weirdo) and asking what software we'll be using for the composition; I want to mess around with it in advance.

Spanish: After the languages comp was over, those who participated got free mexican food, which was nice. Churros were delicious, but they accidentally rolled one of mine in some kind of chili powder rather than cinnamon sugar. I've been writing up my final speech to be presented on Wednesday or Friday. Somehow it feels like there's less pressure for this speech compared to the languages comp.

After reading a great article, I've decided to apply for head prefect. They extended the application due date to Monday because a huge lack of application numbers. For the second time at assembley they had the current leaders speak about why we should apply. "If you want to work next year, having a leadership position on your resume'll set you apart". I just want to apply to get involved behind the scenes with house events and for the wicked life skillz (maybe if I'm exposed to enough public speaking, my heart won't sink into my stomach when putting up my hand in class).
Also, it's a public holiday tomorrow, which is awesome.
That's all for now. Have a good one ;D

Joseph41:
How have your last couple of weeks been, SlowandSteady? :)

SlowandSteady:

--- Quote from: Joseph41 on September 13, 2019, 04:47:20 pm ---How have your last couple of weeks been, SlowandSteady? :)

--- End quote ---
I’ve been wanting to update this, but there was no internet except for my phone data and typing this out on there would be a huge pain. Also, I’m lazy.

But so far, my week (or two :P) has been fine!
The application for Year 9 subject selection has dropped tonight and I’m kind of confused as to what to pick… We get to choose two electives; Digital Innovations is pretty much locked in, but for the second I’m thinking of either doing:
Economics & Business – Economics definitely sounds interesting. My only problem with it is that it is almost completely focused on business with an intro to economics as the last unit and assessment is linked to creating a stall and people spending monies on it; I’m worried that the sales will be based on popularity rather than the quality of the idea. Also my Dig. Inno teacher gave the course a bad rap.
Digital Technology – Quite a bit of content overlaps with Dig Inno and I really enjoy digital subjects. Also, If I go well in them (which I think I might be able to), the school might be more inclined to allow me to undertake Digital Solutions as a 1/2 subject in Year 10, which would be superb.
Music – Music sounds pretty fun, although I haven’t done it in high school yet. I’m pretty sure for assessments you’re able to pick an instrument of your choice to play and (from what I’ve messed around with on the computer) I really enjoy composing. Most units are on 70’s music: the time when music was, in my opinion, SO much better than whatever they’re playing now.
Spanish – I’m pretty good at it and my teacher really wants me (and everyone else in the AcEx program) to continue it. The thing is, I’m not too interested with it and I don’t plan on continuing with it through senior, so I don’t see a point.

As for what’s been happening in school:
English – After submitting my persuasive on one hour’s sleep, I’ve moved on to creative writing and this entire unit is really disagreeing with me :( I just really struggle to think of an idea under pressure. We’ve been doing this thing in class where we’re given a prompt and we need to just write for 6 minutes. Lately, I haven’t been writing anything for them. I just can’t think of anything good and it’s really frustrating. The assessment will be exactly the same: we’re given a prompt and we just have to write. A 500 word short story is due on Monday; I have the weekend, so I should be fine.
Maths – All of my math exams have finished and I got the results back. I got an A, but I was SUPER disappointed with a really silly mistake I made. We’ve moved onto some unit on time and something else I can’t remember (in other words, not very eventful ::)).
Geography – My exam finished and I think I might have went ok on it, but I’m not sure. I’m not confident, but I know I haven’t completely bombed it. We’ve moved on to our unit on urbanisation, titled “changing nations", currently looking at the reasons why people move from rural areas to cities.
Science – I got absolutely no sleep the night the assignment was due, but I’m glad it payed off. I ended up getting an A8 out of 10, which I was extremely surprised with. We’re now doing our biology unit, being introduced to plant and animal cells and reproductive processes and all that jazz.
Spanish – I performed my speech and I’m pretty sure I did alright in it. All of this week has been people doing their speeches. My friend got really nervous and just struggled to remember, but he redid it next lesson with more enthusiasm than most people in the class, so good on him! You could see that some people just put no effort in whatsoever, though.
Visual Arts – Ugh. My piece is due on Tuesday and I need to work over the weekend to complete two bug drawings. It’s not the end of the world, but it really sucks to be made to do something I’m just not good at :P I’ll take my time and see what the result is; that’s all I can do. I finished the background of my piece and I think it looks alright, at least.

I also created a little jingle on this music software to represent my mood now that all of my assessment (bar VA) is over for the term.

Well, that’s been my couple of weeks. I’ll try and maintain this journal better, now that I have a more stable internet connection.

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