Ma semaine

It's finally the weekend! I've just had a long and tiring week of school, going through some of the most stressful days of my life so far (mind you, there's still next week to reckon with, and the many years of exams coming up...)

On Monday I had my Grade 5 clarinet exam, which I turned up for 20 minutes early and came out 20 minutes late... Apparently, the examiner had been caught in traffic leaving me sitting alone in the waiting room for a good half-hour getting more and more nervous and tense every minute. When the time finally came, I was given barely a minute in the warm-up room before I was whisked off into the exam room to perform. It didn't go too badly but still, I could've done without the apprehension beforehand.

Of course, me being the lucky person I am, I arrived back at school 20 minutes into the French Listening exam I was supposed to be doing. It's pretty awkward trying to slip in to a silent French exam without causing distraction, particularly if the whole class is facing the door...
"You can do it tomorrow lunchtime" my French teacher mouths silently. At least, that's what I thought she said...
As it turned out, when I went looking for her the following lunchtime, she wasn't actually there... After standing around for half an hour or so, wasting valuable lunch-break time, she finally appeared looking at me at first with confusion, and then sudden realisation. Apparently I was going to have to do the listening exam the next day instead. Hmmm...

There are days in your school life that will make you stand out in your class for a few days, almost like you're famous. It might be because you've smashed another person's beloved magnets (this actually happened) or you've finally returned to school exhausted after a prolonged disappearance which nobody knew anything about (this also happened...) It's usually the bad things that cause you to stand out like this and I'd say that Wednesday was probably my 'standing-out' day (though it thankfully didn't last long).

Wednesday was the day when I was due to have my listening exam at lunch. However, it was also the day we had a chemistry test, a russian listening exam and the dreaded french orals. These were the French orals that we'd only had a few weeks to prepare for and I wasn't feeling as confident as I usually feel about these exams. I'd managed to come up with a bunch of complicated answers to the incredibly annoying questions (tu aimes faire les courses? non.) in my head but was having trouble formulating them in my mouth (and in my memory). However, come period three, I'd forgotten all about the oral and was concentrating on my Russian listening exam. Lunchtime came, but I had to spend the whole time doing the fudging French listening which left me feeling hungry but with no time to have lunch. So, I skipped lunch that day.

This is getting way too long and I have to go for dinner. I'll finish this some other time. It's nothing the majority of you haven't heard anyway. Congrats if you actually read it. Looking at it now, I realise it's something most people will never read. Ah well...to be continued...

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A few things have happened over the last few days...
Yesterday we went on a geography trip which was OK, although it was mainly made up of 'coach trip'. I didn't learn that much about geography but I did find out what happens when the whole contents of a bottle of ice tea leak out into your bag (result: several saturated geography books)
I also managed to find out how embarrassing your friends can be if they get bored enough.

As for today, usual stuff... nothing happened. My Russian teacher has given me the responsibility of making a poster advertising 'Rooski cloob' i.e. Russian Club. The problem is, there isn't much to advertise about it except 'Play Monopoly in Russian!!!!'
The only reason I'm going is because I need to get more clubs on my report what with ARCO finished (hooray!) I'm starting to regret my volunteering. The way the teacher's face lit up at the prospect of restarting Russian club means she's probably going to burst into tears if I back out now... you know what I mean...

At least db has said he'll try it out. Thankyou!! I'm very grateful, especially seeing as he doesn't even do Russian! Now it won't just be me, Kit and Keir (not that there's anything wrong with them, of course.......) Just shows what good, true friends will do for each other. Does that need repeating, ray? (You don't have to come if you don't want to dan...)

Speaking of ray, he was seen fraternising with 'that crew' this lunchtime! Playing football! In his jersey (new word from gibbon)! Before we know it, he'll be using keelerisms and throwing cutlery at the ceiling!!!

Back to school

We went back to school today! Woo! What fun...
For lunch, I ASKED for chilli but they gave me chicken instead. Graah! When will those silly people learn? I didn't eat most of it.
By the way, if anyone's wondering, I'm not actually a fat pie really. The lunch-thing is just a theme that I'm continuing in this blog because that's all I really have to write about.
Early lunch finish now so I've got to go... rushed blog...