Wow... back to school again Hello everyone! I hope you had a great first couple of days back at school. This is a really weird time for all of us and I am always here for everyone if you need! Warning, this is probably going to be a very long update so bear with me please
Ok, so... how have I been going. Honestly, not too great. I am really disliking online school. The few benefits (more time, warm food, no uniform) are heavily outweighed by the cons (not being able to see friends and teachers, sitting at the same desk for 6 hours, unmotivated). I really miss school and online school is definitely not my fav. However, I am really trying to stay on top of my work and be working in an almost identical matter to what I would be doing if I was in school.
The worst part is definitely being at home and not being able to see my friends. I am an only child and I love my friends to death. I love social interaction and that aspect of school (especially my school with the sports and house programs). This isolation is really killing me. I have been FaceTiming my friends while I go on lunchtime walks but it truly isn't the same. I bumped into one of my friends that I hadn't really talked to over the holidays and hanging out with her for an hour truly made me realise how much I miss my friends. I'm sorry for being so negative and I do believe that I am extremely fortunate in this situation. My family has not had to struggle financially or physically and I am very grateful for that. However, I'm just getting a bit lonely and I want to go back to school!
Onto subject related stuff:
Further 3/4:Holy moly I love further ♡. It just makes sense to me. I had the second part of my Data Analysis SAC on Thursday and I think it went well
My school sets really ambiguous SACs as that is how VCAA asks them too apparently, however, the rest of the SACs will be more structured like the exam due to remote learning. Yay! The teacher goes at a very slow pace which is nice in comparison to my other classes. While further is one of my 3/4s, I definitely find it the most relaxing subject. For further, we use Zoom to learn content and then stay on the zoom call while doing exercises. We just finished looking at sequences and recurrence relations and tbh its basically y7 maths. I love it hehehe.
Methods 3/4:I hate this subject I hate this subject I hate this subject I hate this subject I hate this subject. Complete opposite of further. This subject has and will most definitely cause me the most stress and anxiety throughout this year. There are some private things that are making it super difficult in this subject. I would move classes however my blocking does not allow it
. As someone who is used to doing very well in maths, this is a bit of a shock. We are about to start calculus using the 'Flip Learning' method where we basically watch a video made by my teacher explaining the content and then go into a zoom meeting with our teacher to ask questions. I KNOW this will not work for me. They tried to do a bit of this last term and it did not work for me, hence why I had to search up lots of YouTube videos trying to explain the general solution
. We had a progress test today, and it was awful. It was a NEAP diagnostic test on Circular Functions and let me tell you it was hard. Like really hard. I did a lot of exam questions relating to circular functions and these were harder than almost all of them. Anyways, I really hope that this subject will get better for me and that I do well in my SAC in two weeks. Eek!
English Language 1/2:Nothing much has gone on in this subject. My teacher who is super sweet slowly eased us into the term which was very nice. We just finished a transcriptions task where we had to read another person conversation as they said it. it was quite interesting! As we are remote learning, some of the course is being altered to ease the stress on us thank god hehe! We have finished U1AOS1 which is vital to 3/4, however, the rest of the year is not completely relevant which is nice for me. I have a SAT next week on text analysis which I hope I do ok on. I need to correct the short answer questions that I have answered and maybe do some more.
Chemistry 1/2:Is it weird to say that I love chemistry? I really love the content and find it super interesting and not too hard to understand. However, my decent memory seems to fade when trying to do questions. I know that questions are the best way to study for me, however, I need to try and learn and remember the content first. Any tips would be appreciated. Like English Language, the course is getting slightly shortened due to coronavirus which is nice
. I have my AOS1 test next week and I am a bit nervous for it... I didn't do too badly on the AOS1 test on Atoms, the PT and Metals (87%), however, I have been struggling with remembering the content to do well on the practice tests. I will do some more study on the weekend in the hopes of improving!
French 1/2:Super chill as always. We had a good zoom meeting today talking about our holidays and catching up. I LOVE my french class so much and it was so nice to see everyone in the same room (be it online)
I have some writing due in a week but other than that not much for this subject. However, I am trying to do an hour of study a week to improve my French, as it is probably my weakest subject after English Language. I was very pleased with my speaking outcome score (85%) but I feel like my French isn't at a level where I want it to be. Sadly, it looks like I am not going to be able to go on an exchange and I am devastated. My friend and I were planning on going and had made (fake) plans to see our favourite French singers in concert, Kids United! I would highly recommend their songs, especially 'On écrit sur les murs' and 'Chante'. If you walked by our French class last year, you probably would have heard my friends and I having the best time singing these songs
Accounting 1/2:I am soo glad I am moving to my school's accounting class in Unit 2. While I see the many benefits and VSV and it really is great for some people, I am not one of those people. I just finished Week 8 and Week 9 is due today. Also, my teacher emailed me and texted?! me saying that I hadn't completed Week 8, even when all VCE classes had had an extension mentioned in multiple emails. I find accounting decently easy and I enjoy having breadth in my subjects, but sometimes it is very frustrating...
Over the weekend and next week, I want to get into some good habits and a study routine. I want to be caught up and less stressed. I know this is a very hard time and I am trying to give myself as much down-time as possible.
I'm curious, how do you guys remote learn? Feel free to answer my poll
I also want to thank this AN community for being so welcome, and especially J_Rho who has been so sweet and kind to me.
I hope you have had a great week and have a good weekend (make sure to do something relaxing)
Eloise xx