We had two parts to do. Paper 1 - non calculator and paper 2 - calculator.
Paper 1 was only 45 minutes, i finished it in enough time but some of the questions were pretty difficult, for me anyway.
After it, at the break, i congregated with a group of friends and discussed it, loads of them said it was ok but i didn't think so.
And the calculator paper....
Well, the first page was ok, answered the first 2 or 3 questions, got some marks under my belt. Then i turned the page and just wanted to cry.
What awaited me was a double page full of the most pressing and complicated....stuff i have ever seen. There were still two other pages after that as well, but i didn't look at them, i had enough to contend with.
Paper 2 lasts an hour and half, and for good reason, i needed all of it.
Which is funny coz i do recall agreeing with Louis that 90 minutes was too much (shut up Rowan)
Anyway, i slogged through the next dozen or so questions and only just got the paper finished.
Now remember, this is after all the extra classes i went to. I don't want to imagine what might have happened if i didn't go.
The extremely warm and stuffy room didn't help matters, it's been very humid lately.
Here i go complaining about humidity lol but i'm sure it affected most pupils sitting an exam today, and also, like most curious pupils who sit exams, i made a rough guess at what my score might have been. Few marks above a pass is what i predicted but who knows?
Will find out on the dreaded August 4th.
But if this is how difficult i found maths, biology on Thursday is going to be hell.
I held some hope with maths and i might have passed but with biology, i do not hold much hope.
This is where things are going to get quite stressing now, 3 exams in 3 days next week and the maths today just upped the game.
Maybe it's balancing out now coz of how easy and care-free french was on Tuesday.
I knew it would be in all honesty, was never really worried.
Kicked off at 9am and i was in the same seat in the same class as i was for the english exam as the list is in alphabetical order, so it looks like i will be there for most of my exams (so will the cute guy a desk away from me)
:D
But anyway, the reading paper was the first thing that we had to do, and it was pretty much the easiest paper i have ever sat. I must say, i think i will be disappointed if i don't get full marks!
Honestly, extremely easy.
The listening, after a 15 minute break, was a little more challenging witha few tough questions but on the whole it went good too.
Lastly, the writing, just gotta write an 120-150 word essay for a "job application" (a script we have been learning for several months now) so again, very easy, probably the easiest and most relaxed exam i will ever sit....
Out invigilator was a cow tho! Everyone in our classroom finished the papers early and she could clearly see we had but didn't let us leave early when all other classes in the corridor were allowed to do so.
Almost made me late for the train back home, but i made it in time and a group of friends including Louis and Alex were waiting for me.
I didn't even head straight back home after the train tho, weather was good so we just kinda walked around a bit talking and having a laugh. Good stuff.
When i did eventually get home, mum told me she finally got me some blank cd's!
I have a lot of stuff i need to clear off my computer and i have been waiting ages to get it onto a cd.
(No, not *that* stuff, i know what you're thinking :P)
So overall, a good day, didn't expect anything less but now i have maths to look forward to on Friday (joy!) and that is something i will be stressing about.
Let's just hope it goes smoothly enough.
Cheers guys,
Rowan
Very cheesy new Muse song and i'm still undecided over it, it is far from their best work. From 1:11 it is very Queen inspired, i can't place a name on which song although i was thinking like a faster version of Radio Ga Ga or I Want to Break Free, any other suggestions?
It wasn't intentionally so, but i found it rather strange.
Before i talk about the "homophobic" part of the test, i'll let you know that it went fine.
There were some tough parts, easier parts, but overall a fair exam.
I didn't feel nervous up until around the hour before it started but once i sat at my desk (single file, in one line) i was ok.
Waiting is the worst.
So, i should talk about what i discovered in the paper.
In one part of the paper, there was a section where we had to tick 3 columns, labelled A-G.
(See where this is going? :P)
My answers, in alphabetical order were A-F-G
But the order i wrote them in was F-A-G
I only realised after i ticked it and i had to do a double-take lol.
To be honest, i found it rather humourous and who knows, they might not even be the correct answers, i doubt the examiners are anti-gay.
Wasn't the only homophobic thing that passed me today.
Yep, Steven....
I'm getting quite fed up with him.
Not just his homophobic nature but his attitude to racism and other general things too. If he keeps it up, he wont get far in life.
At this moment in time, i am actually quite looking forward to seeing him leave after Christmas.
Harsh?
I dunno.
But today he was on Alan's back (behind his back too) and i stood up for Alan.
Alan owed me some money from something a few days ago and he gave me 10p extra by mistake, to which i commented on to Steven.
I said "Oh there you go, Alan gave me ten extra pence...."
Steve "Coz he's gay"
"Excuse me?"
"Yeh, he is have you not seen the way he sits and talks"
(Which by the way is no different to anyone else)
"No, i haven't....how can you just assume he is?"
"Just....how he is, he's a big bummer and you're standing up for him"
"Listen, im just saying that you can't go around assuming someone might be gay when you have no idea if they are or not. Just coz he doesn't talk about girls doesn't mean anything"
"Look at you standing up for the gays"
By this point i got the feeling that things were heading into deep and dark territories so i left it there.
He called me a poof and i told him to fuck off.
I was extremely pissed off with Steven but happy with myself that i was able to stand up for Alan. It would seem now, that i am not the only one who has suspicions that he might be gay. However, as i said, he acts no differently to anyone else, doesn't sit differently or anything. I just have a feeling about him, but also, i, unlike Steven, don't take the assumption that he is gay.
After all, assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups....
But at least after this coming together between me and Steven i received some good news in the form of my other maths result.
It wasn't as impressive as my previous 86% but still respectable, for my standards anyway.
It was a non-calculator paper and i got 18/30, which is 60%
On the two calculator papers my combined score was 43/50, which is 86%
So overall that works out as 61/80 and 76%
Category - A
One word.
Chuffed.
In the past 8 weeks i have gone from 40% to 76%.
These extra classes have had their comeuppence without a doubt, if only my maths teacher could see me now, sitting on an A a few weeks before the final exam.
She would hit the roof.
I hope i see her again before the exam comes around, apparently she's ill at the moment.
Who knows, she might have got wind of my mark and tht made her violently sick lol.
Aah, it's been yet another long and strenuous day and i just wanna retire to my bed now, fairly happy, might i add.
Cheers guys,
Rowan
In a good mood so tht means a Queen song is getting posted.
I know i say this a lot, but this is one of my favourite Queen songs. It isn't that well known i don't think but it has to at least be in my top 3.
Right, i am lying a little, Mondays are never "Fundays" but yesterday was probably one of the best Mondays i've ever had, definetely the best of the year so far.
As usual, i was hit with Sunday Sleep Syndrome but it didn't really affect me an awful lot when i got up.
So, what made it so good?
Well, the answer to that is down to various test results i received.
I didn't have any to receive in music but we went over a listening paper and i scored quite high marks.
But now the test results.
*drum roll*
I got a pretty good mark in a media test, it was analysing the film "The Untouchables" and i got 31/40 so i was pretty happy with that.
Next, English.
Last week we did two essays and i had a feeling a performed better in my first essay than my second one. Boy, was i wrong.
My first essay, Jekyll and Hyde, got a fairly repectable 18/25.
That's still in the "A" category. Anything 18 and above on an essay and i'll settle quite happily for it.
But i was blown away with my second essay....
23/25
My highest mark ever on an essay and one of the highest in the class (exception of Alan who scored the first ever 25/25 :P)
I was so chuffed, i couldn't quite believe it.
But it only added to the awesome maths score i received earlier in the day.
We still don't have our normal teacher back but when the other teacher handed the paper belonging to the guy behind me (who is also no whizz at maths) i heard a "whoop"
He got 90%
It increased my nerves but i still felt confident that i passed and yes i did.
86%
One of my highest marks ever in maths.
Now, this is for the two calculator papers combined, its not my final mark but it is 43/50 so far. The full thing is out of 80.
My non-calculator result still hasn't been returned although ive been told i have passed.
I'm desperate for that mark tho and ive been chasing various teachers for it to no avail. I might get it tomorrow, i can speak to my head of year about it.
My bliss didn't continue into today however, it was cut short by my biology mark - 36%
Very poor indeed, i know.
But, i think, (and i hope) that if i can turn maths around, i can do so with biology. I have 4 weeks to save it and i will try my best to.
I still don't know how certain i am with maths, these extra classes have been helping tho without a doubt. I am glad to see they are paying off.
For now, my attention is turned to my music exam tomorrow. I feel quietly confident about it, i have been answering questions well in class and i am familiar with a good amount of the concepts.
I am better with practical music but i am definetely not going to fail the subject. I did really good in the practical a few weeks back and the theory and listening exam tomorrow will hopefully just boost my mark.
An "A" would be wonderful, i would be content with a 'B" however.
It's at 2pm British time btw, in case you were wondering and only lasts 45 minutes.
Anyhoo, im going to leave it there for now.
This whole post has been about school and tests so im sorry if it was a little dry, just like to keep updated ;)
And, of course, i will post about the music exam tomorrow.
Need to get some sleep now, to be in the right frame of mind for my first ever written exam....
Or so it seems today was, it has completely flown by, i dunno where it's gone!
Loads of things happened. (So settle in for a long post :D)
I'm only getting on my computer properly as i type this out at quarter to midnight, i certainly was kept busy and i didn't quite plan to be actually.
The morning wasn't particularly crazy, i had to go back to Saturday morning maths, not very exciting and because of it i never got to wish my mum happy birthday before i went out the door.
As for the class itself, it was pretty ok. I sat next to the same guy i did last time but didn't talk nearly as much coz the teacher was going over some of the stuff i was really stuck on so i had to pay attention, and i did. Learnt some stuff and i definetely think it benefitted me today. Also, i didn't get my test result back, as i was expecting, but i was told that i passed the test (which i sat before Easter holidays) so that was really good news. I at least know i've made some sort of improvement in the past few months.
After the class i went home and mum opened all of her cards and other presents and she liked all of them to be honest so that was good. Then my dad decided we give my mum some time to herself so he took me and my brother up to play some golf at the driving range while my mum stayed at home with my sister. The thing with golf is that i'm actually ok (i don't play enough to be great) but what i lack is consistency. Just like today, i was hitting some wonderful shots and then some extremely awful ones, its quite a frustrating game at times but it was good stuff anyway (especially as there was this extremely hot boy a few bays away from me, couldnt concentrate on golf properly :P)
So we got back home and i asked my brother if he wanted to play Rock Band with me, and he wasnt doing anything else. He did, i played drums (on expert) and he played guitar (on medium :P)
But it was good anyway, we had a great laugh and we completed some songs that i cant do on single player as i would have failed out.
Anyway, it was good teamwork at the end of the day and i was happy that we worked as a team and had fun too.
We were then summoned away as we went out for a meal for my mum's birthday. Now. My mum and dad are very good at cooking (my dad used to be a chef) so wherever we go, they are always so critical of the restaraunts lol. It's quite awkward sometimes. Today's biggest problems were the prawns, the staff's attitude and the general feel of the place.
I didn't think it was bad but my dad used to work in a big kitchen in a restaraunt in London so i suppose he has the right to be critical, but, however it does get a little annoying. Even the slightest thing and my dad could complain. I don't recall a time in the past few meals we have went out for when he hasn't complained to the manager lmao. He would probably have a field day at MacDonalds!
In the end, it was decided that we wouldn't be returning again, ho hum, but mum enjoyed her meal anyway which is whats important.
She wasn't her usual quiet birthday self, she was quite cheery today.
So when i got home....again, out of nowhere, one of my mum and dad's best friends showed up. I didn't know he was coming although i think they did. He's a great guy, he's my sister's godfather and he is very entertaining. He came round about 8pm after we got home from our meal and we all played games and stuff, he even tried his hand on the Wii which was quite funny. He then remembered Borat was on tv and so everyone ended up watching that. Yep, i watched Borat with my parents lol. Awkward much?
It's a very rude but funny movie.
It finished not long ago and now here i am. Didn't quite have my evening go the way i thought and the day has just whizzed by. Thought i might have been on my computer a good few hours ago but then my mum and dad's friend arrived, which was cool coz he's a great guy but i think i might have prefered he didn't....this evening anyway.
And tomorrow i will get my long overdue lie-in. I have not had one for about two weeks and i am in desperate need now :P
I was thinking i might have some things come for me in the post but no post on Sundays :(
I ordered a Muse and Kasabian poster last night coz i dont actually own any (gasp!) as well as two Muse albums, "Absolution" and "Origin of Symmetry". I have every single Muse song on my iTunes but i do not posses all their albums (blasphemy!) so hopefully they will arrive next week at some point. That's right, paying for music i can already listen to....it is my duty as a hardcore fan to own all albums! :P
Well, that about wraps up this post, its been quite a long one.
I've talked about a load of stuff so don't worry about trying to comment on all of it, but feel free if you have the time.
Really tired now, so off i got to bed :)
Cheers guys,
Rowan
Instead of posting a music video this time, i'm gonna post something a little different.
There is a comedy program on Britain's Channel 4 right now called Facejacker and it's pretty funny, my brother and i watch it, It's about one guy who plays every single character in the show, "hijacking" faces and personalities and going around in public doing all sorts of strange things.
Anyhoo, this sketch is an "art critic" going to view art, unbeknowest to the owner that he is not an art critic and is just a guy in disguise who has no clue about art at all. He has a speech impediment where everything he says ends up starting with the letter 'B' . It's hilarious and me and my brother can't stop quoting all the things he says.
I hope you all find this funny, although i anticipate it won't be to everybody's taste. Sorry if you dont like it, but i don't know how you can't kill youself laughing at this....
(You might want to turn the volume up a little, its' a bit quiet)
I woke up this morning (somehow) and the first thing i knew was that i had Easter School to go to today.
Not helped by the fact that the rain was extremely heavy and i didn't get to sleep until at least 2am, so i only got about 5 hours sleep. (I swear msn will be the death of me :P)
I quickly jumped in the shower, got out, dried my hair, had some cereal then went out the door. Luckily my dad was on hand to give me a lift but regardless, i was still in a very zombie-like state.
So when i got to school i eventually livened up a bit, there were more people who i get on with who i didn't expect to be there. Alex was there, Louis was there, Steven wasn't haha, actually i have a funny story about him but i'll tell it later on.
My first class was english, and these aren't normal 50-minute lessons, one class lasts the whole morning (9-12) and the other lasts the whole afternoon (12:30-15:30)
Good thing i got to sit beside Alex, but it was also quite a handy lesson.
The teacher went over the best ways to answer questions from an unseen passage and, admittedly, i did find it quite useful.
One point we were talking about a journalist describing George Bush as a political dinosaur (as you do), then she put me on the spot and asked me another way to describe a dinosaur and i just blurted out "Prehistoric animal" without even thinking....
Got a well done from her and a few nods of approval from other people lol, i was quite chuffed with that :)
Not much else to mention about english tho, was rather uneventful apart from that.
At lunch, i just made a quick trip to cafe as there wasn't enough time to go to the shops on the main road and i returned for 3 hours of maths, what fun....
Sat beside Alex again this time, as well as Louis.
It was quite a good lesson too, the more maths i do, the more i will learn obviously, and therefore increase my mark in the final exam here's hoping.
Overall, Easter School was quite a good thing i think. I'll be back in tomorrow for modern studies in the morning and biology i think next monday afternoon.
But with today's lessons all done with, the only thing left to do was return home so Alex, Alan (the cutie :D) and i got the train home.
Alan had to get off early :(
Me and Alex got off the next stop which is actually one stop before mine but i wasn't gonna let Alex walk home in the rain by himself of course.
So i got drenched. But it was worth it, we stopped caring about the weather and just started laughing about what's been happening with Steven and a three-legged dog we seen being walked in the street lol, which then moved onto a conversation about a no-legged dog being transported around on a skateboard lmao, ahhh good times.
We parted ways tho, still laughing about Steven.
So here's the story :
For the past few days, Steven has been in Brighton. Brighton is also renowned for being the "gay capital" of Britain.
Steven goes down there with his dad maybe once or twice a year as his grandparents live there.
So anyway, he has been sending me a few texts one saying that the weather was sunny, 27 degrees celcius and another said "English girls are hot and think i'm hot too"
Lol, you wish Steven.
So i thought i would share some of these texts around with a few friends coz i just knew the reception they would get.
And i was right, everybody just laughed lol.
So i sent a text back saying that 27 degrees celcius doesn't exist in Britain, let alone in April.
And he's all "Well my granda's barometer is really accurate"
"What? More accurate than the Met Office?"
So everyone was laughing at the crap he was spouting there.
But of course, the main point is Steven and his dad actually being in the so-called "gay capital" of Britain.
Two of the most unlikely people you would think of going there.
And then, before he goes there, being all talk as usual, he's giving it large about how he's gonna go to Brighton and turn everyone straight "the way they should be"
Aye, just get walking.
Pretty glad to see the back of him last week to be honest :P
Wish i had grandparents in Brighton lol, that would be cool.
Funnily enough, one of my cousins goes to university in Brighton....wait a minute....naah, she's got a boyfriend from what i know :P
And speaking of cousins, in a few posts time i have something very cool to mention about when i will be seeing them next, it's gonna be cool!
Love you guys,
Rowan
Hehe :P
Just gotta love that guitar solo, no?
One of Queen's longest from what i know.....
So on Tuesday, i didn't go into school in the morning even though i said i would....
Oops.
But i did go in.....in the afternoon.
I woke and still felt like crap, slightly better but crap overall. Then i had a realisation. All my tests were in the afternoon, so i suggested to my mum if i could just go in for the afternoon so i didn't miss the tests. She didn't like it for some reason but my dad did and so it eventually ended up that way.
I went in and did the 1st part of the maths paper. I thought i would be sitting the one i missed on Monday but i just slotted into doing the same (calculator) test with the rest of the class, which was an annoyance coz i was more prepared for the non-calculator.
But i needn't have worried. The paper was pretty easy, and for me, thats saying something. I answered all the questions and i felt quite good about it, was only the first half but at least i did my best.
Music theory test came after this and it was bareable. Difficult enough but not to the point of impossible.
I don't need to say anything about biology apart from it was crap.
And so, today.
2 tests.
Maths part 2 was the 2nd half of the calculator paper and it was a lot harder than the 1st half. Loads of angles and volumes and triangles and circles.
Ugh.
Think i did ok but i wont get my hopes up yet.
And the media exam which counted for 20% of my final exam result was after lunch. I found out we had to leave english 15 minutes early, that was good, we got an hour to do the paper.
45 minutes just isn't enough and the extra 15 were really helpful.
Still had to write quick but i got to fill in some of the gaps after i finished. Didn't really stop writing at all so i have quite a good feeling about it although analysing the front page of The Sun isn't really anything exciting.
I was so relived when i plonked myself down on the bus after that test. Still got a sore head and i feel quite tired but the only thing i have to worry about now is the other maths paper tomorrow.
So, when got home i thought, due to the majority of my tests out of the way i would play my bass for a bit, some Muse, always cheers me up....
EXCEPT WHEN THE FUCKING NEIGHBOURS COMPLAIN ABOUT THE NOISE!!!
Which btw, they've done before.
I hate our neighbous on both sides. We live in a terraced house. 4 houses joined to each other. Pretty small, we're one of the middle houses which sucks coz we're surrounded on all sides.
If we had one of the houses on the end then i could make more noise but as only one wall divides our houses, it alters my bass playing.
That pisses me off greatly.
I'm in the middle of having pretty much the only fun i'll get today then my mum tells me i have to stop.
All coz of our moany neighbours, who, i shall say, i have never got on with and i never will. And the thing is, i've played it louder than i was playing it just there and they haven't said anything....
But getting interrupted like that really puts you on a downer. I'm actually quite angry right now.
I'm quite surprised they can hear anything being that fuckin old but there ya are....
To be honest, the title of this post doesn't really make much sense. Should be more like "Gotta Take the Bad With the Bad" coz this week has been nothing short of awful really.
I've missed tests, missed important school work, been feeling ill and now i can't even....reward myself.
And now i'm probably making everybody else feel bad coz they've got to read about me feeling bad.
Sorry, wasn't quite what i had intended. This post was going to look a lot different up until half an hour ago.
Thank my neighbours.
Cheers,
Rowan
Times like this calls for some loud, angry Rage.
I know i've posted this song before but turn that shit up!
Pretty uneventful to say the least so i've tried to let things build up to make a bigger post so here we are.
I did go to the maths supported study on Tuesday and i thought it was pretty useful. Just sat down and did a past paper (old exam paper) and whatever question i got stuck on there was always a teacher on hand to help.
Gonna keep going as much as i can, kinda regret that that was my first one tho and there can't be many left....
Complete contrast the next day tho in Biology.
The teacher was useless, she hardly taught us anything just kinda rushed through stuff, too fast for me to get a grasp of. Alex was there too and he thought the same.
I thought we would be getting the same teacher as the week before, who actually explained stuff, but we didn't.
I'll keep going tho, i need to.
Got in test in biology on Monday too, as well as a few other tests.
It will be crap on Monday. 3 tests.
Maths is the first. It's the "2nd" Prelim.
And it will last three periods of that week.
After that is biology.
Then after biology i will have a media studies exam. Yes, exam. Analysing the front page of a news paper which will count toward 20% of my final grade so i won't even get the mark back until August.
But i will get maths and biology back.....dunno if i want them tho :P
So yeh, i seem to be talking about next week instead of this week, simply coz there isn't a lot worth mentioning.
Well stuff i dont know is worth mentioning but i suppose i will anyway :
I was sitting on my computer last night and my mum came in and said my hair has been looking nice recently :P
(Random, but nice)
Then she said she is going to the hairdressers soon and i should go just to get the ends trimmed and then one day she said she would straighten my hair coz it would look better and be way longer lol.
I just said ok and shrugged.
Then this morning i went and took my shower as usual and my mum did another strange thing.
She told me she got me a packet of razors and some shaving cream :P
It's never something we've talked about much before. I normally just took one out of my dad's packet, used it for me and he never used it.
He must have noticed one was missing and decided to buy me my own.
That was cool.
Just in case you're confused....i never used the same razor as my dad. I took one and kept it in my little "case" in the bathroom. I know not to share a razor coz you can get infections but now there really isn't a chance of that happening.
Also, another...."grown up" thing happened today.
I got my National Insurance card in the post. Now i can legally work :P
They usually don't give them out until you are 16 but i think they're starting to give them out a little earlier now, still 2 and a bit months till my birthday in June.
So yeh, i'm becoming a man now lol
Probably a good amount of time until that fully happens tho. I can have some fun for another few years at least!
(I heard it goes downhill when you become an adult :P)
Oh and while on the subject of birthdays....it happens to be a very special day for a very special someone.
That someone is JJ. XD
Happy birthday JJ!!!
Go say happy birthday if you haven't already :P (link is in the blog roll)
Cheers,
Rowan
Apparently they're singing happy birthday to a BBC show called "Saturday Club" for an anniversary i would assume but let's just pretend it says "to JJ" instead of "to Saturday Club" :P
6:30am is no time for a 15 year old boy to be awake on a Saturday morning, let me just say that.
But i was this morning, due to this maths class at school.
I just lay in bed after my alarm went off thinking "What did i do to deserve this?" The answer : I failed my prelim.
But to wake myself up i listened to Rage Against the Machine really loudly, then had a shower then a bottle of Lucozade just before i went out the door and i was actually feeling ok.
That's what i was not looking forward to - being tired. Class is just an absolute no when you're feeling tired so, feeling alive enough made it better than i had anticipated.
I was expecting there to be nobody i knew there but there was a good few people, Freddie was there too but i didn't really get the chance to talk to him as he was at the other side of the room for the 3 hour duration but i at least got to sit next to someone i was friendly with and could work together with too.
That's what probably made the class better, not feeling tired and sitting with someone i get on with.
And the teacher made things better too, i prefer his teaching methods to that of my normal teacher and the way he does stuff just got through to me better.
It wasn't a complete waste of time, far from it.
So i'll be looking forward to it a bit more next time (as much as somebody can look forward to maths on a Saturday morning)
Just going to the class tho isn't enough, i need to do other studying and i will.
The fact that i will have to re-do maths next year if i fail the exam has made me determined to pass it.
This week is split into two halves for me. One busy and one quiet.
This is the quiet side.
Tomorrow afternoon starts the busy side.
Yesterday and today haven't seen much happening apart from one thing really....I managed to speak to Freddie.
I caught him at the end of maths as we were packing our stuff back into our bags.
Don't get carried away tho, i hardly know him so there was no big conversation but the best way to start things was to just smile and say "Hi" which i did.
He said "Hi" back and then i asked him how he was doing and he simply said "it's ok"
Then the bell rang and off he went.
It's obvious that he really doesn't want to speak about anything but maybe just by saying hi and being friendly i might earn his trust a little and maybe there may be more to speak of in the future.
At least there's no fresh bullying news against him at the moment.....
Elsewhere, this week, one blogger who i hold in quite high regard has returned, if you like.
James on "The Everday Life and Thoughts of a Fabulous Teen" had seemingly disappeared for about 4 months, so i was really pleased to see two new posts by him, it seems like he has been playing his xbox a lot recently....
The reason i hold him in high regard is for the fact that his blog is the first one i ever read, it gripped me and made me want to do something like it, henceforth, i started my blog.
So, if you get the time, have a little nosey, i'm sure he won't mind :P
http://foreverfabulousjames.blogspot.com/
As i said, that's all that has been happening this side of the week, tomorrow is where it kicks off.
In biology today, my teacher recommended i attend supported study tomorrow after school, which basically means, you will be attending supported study tomorrow.
What fun.
So i have that tomorrow. then my guitar exam on Thursday, like the prelim, i dont not feel as confident as i do on the bass but oh well.
On Friday i have two tests, one in media and one in french.....great.
And Saturday sees my first weekend maths class.
Getting up at 7am on a Saturday just wont be right and i wont even be able to stay up late on friday due to that.
I also found it annoying today that our head of year got angry about the attendance of maths supported study.
He asked me why i didn't go and i told him that if i am going to a 3 hour class on saturday morning then i shouldnt have to go to supported study.
Of course, he disagreed but i'm sorry, no matter what he says i'm not going after school, especially as i'm giving up my saturday for him (he will be one of the teachers there on Saturday.)
Unfortunately, there isn't much to look forward to this week, just gonna have to grin and BEAR.....(?) it.
Love you guys,
Rowan
P.S I was sorta half-singing a Muse song today at the end of english and the guy that sits next to me (who is also a muse fan) was surprised at how high i can sing.
I asked him if he could go tht high and he said no and i told him that i can get higher, which i honestly can.
But the song i was singing is called Falling Down, it's a nice relaxing song and it's pretty awesome in my opinion.
Pay attention to the high notes, i honestly can reach them. Ok, it doesn't sound as good but i can hit them :P
There is a song which has higher parts and i can reach them too but i'll post them another time, anything more than this at the moment might freak you out :P
Today was ok, but of course, as you may (or may not) have identified, maths wasn't.
Today's period of maths was the normal, do the starter, start a page in the textbook etc.
But halfway through, the head of maths comes in and asks to speak to the following people, me being one of them.
I had an idea what is was about so i reluctantly got out of my seat with the rest of the damned and went with him.
He told us what i was expecting. Remedial classes.
*sigh*
And to make things worse....on a Saturday morning from 9am until......noon.
My heart sank as he gave us the letter and told the six of us tht he was expecting us to be there for those two extra classes plus the Easter School that they will be running.
I didn't want to go home and give the letter to my mum, but i did.
She would have found out eventually, so why prolong it?
She just basically said that she expects me to go as well.
What bullcrap.
Gotta give up my morning of doing nothing to sit in a classroom doing maths for 3 hours....twice.
The only saving grace is that we don't have to wear uniform but that's no consolation in my book.
First class is next Saturday and the other is about a month after that, only coz easter school takes place between them both.
So that's another two classes.
So 4 classes altogether.
Each consisting of 3 hours.
12 hours of my time to do just maths....
If i don't get a result in the final exam, i'm gonna go nuts!
Moody part is over now, you'll be glad to know, but there isn't honestly much else to speak of.
RE was back to it's good old-fashioned ways of the teacher talking about things completely unrelated to the subject matter.
RE is pretty good coz of tht, Steven sits behind me as well so it can be quite good fun sometimes.
Oh, talking about Steven.
Today (even though my birthday is in June) i walked into school with my birthday present in my top pocket.
A cheque for 196 pounds to pay for my travelling, accomodation and going to see Muse at Wembley with Steven and his dad.
I never even told him i was going to bring it in so he was quite surprised but he took it anyway.
However, when i got home he called me and said it can't be used coz we didn't spell his dad's name right or something.
So my mum will have to write another cheque :P
Anyhoo, on the whole, it wasn't a super, fantastic day thanks to my arch enemy maths but never mind.
I don't fear my maths, it is my enemy, not my opponent
*shifty look*
Cheers guys,
Rowan
Good song and i thought the title was appropriate :P
What a day it has been!
Well the morning more so than the afternoon but still....
Reason being, i missed my bus, properly this time.
I wasn't in any particular rush this morning, got up, showered, had breakfast as normal, checked emails and went out the door.
It's only when i stepped outside did i realise the time after having checked my phone.
Quarter past 8.
I know if i leave the house after that time, there's a liklihood that i will miss the bus.
And i did.
I sprinted from my house to the stop, a few streets away, and got there in time to see it pulling round the corner.
Lucky i have a back up plan for if this ever happens.
The train station is about ten minutes walk.
I think the train normally arrives at 25 past so to make sure, i sprinted there as well.
I got there just in time to see it pulling up at the platform.
I was thinking, "Oh no, i'm not having this shit, not missing two chances to get to school in one morning" So (with my bag on) i ran like never before and just made it and i met two friends as i was getting on. They were obviosuly looking to skip school whereas i was looking to get there.
They got on the train anyway but the conductor was right there (i had money so i didn't care) but they got off the train and ran to the top carriage lol.
But one of them didn't make it on!
The conductor let him on tho, without paying and we went to the top of the train.
Quite hilarious stuff.
I was done in from all the running so i just slumped down while they hid from any other conductor who may come along.
I was extremely relieved.
Spanish was first and the teacher is so strict about latecoming so i was just really glad.
I did make it into school on time, walked into the class as soon as the bell rang.
Victory.
No hassle from the teacher and no call home asking where i was.
Phew.
So that's before school even started!
Now....
Lol. KO
Nothing major happened aside from that.
I chose my subjects i would be studying for next year and that was about it.
I picked :
English (Mandatory)
French
Music
Media Studies
and....
The toss-up between Modern Studies and Spanish wasn't yet decided....
So i tracked down the other guy in my class who said maybe and i asked him if he was definetely doing it next year and he said he was, along with someone else who changed their mind.
So there'll be 3 of us guys now, and about 15 girls lol.
Complete pie fest!
But yeh, i chose Spanish as my 5th subject.
5 subjects is less than what i'm doing now but it means double periods.....
And that was my day, just about.
Few minor things to mention :
Finally presented in English and it went well.
Although we have just done a test in maths another has been arranged.
It will take place the week before Easter and is the equivalent of a second Prelim apparently.
How lovely.
Maths is shit.
Also on that week, the media test which counts for 20% of my final grade has been given a date.
.....Friday 26th March.
That will be a very important day :P
As well as tomorrow.....my bass guitar exam. Need to get some good sleep tonight.
So yeh, that really is all of today's tripe.
Cheers everyone,
Rowan
P.S Dunno if you were wondering what i got with Rhyn and JJ's iTunes card but i'll say anyway.
Two Queen albums.
A Night at the Opera using Rhyn's and News of the World with JJ's, they're both great albums.
My favs so far off each album are "You're My Best Friend" and "Sheer Heart Attack" respectively.
It was too obvious too say Bohemian Rhapsody for News of the World lol
Today was just a pretty average day at school i suppose, nothing extremely eventful but a few things worth of note.
The maths test never went ahead today, it has been re-scheduled for tomorrow. Good times.
Biology was quite fun as usual.
Still no pass mark back yet, hopefully soon, but today we were watching a video about the lungs and it was strange.
They were cutting down a sheep's (removed) throat and when they did it made a really crunchy noise :P
Apparently, we're gonna be doing tht tomorrow, should be interesting :P
PE, we got to play badminton XD
I love badminton and i even got put in a group with Steven and i bet him haha.
When we weren't playing he decided to discuss Scissor Sisters with me again, it's getting a bit old to be honest.
I just told him it's only one song i like (and it is only one) but then he's calling me a big fag and stuff like that and talking about how i aspire to "mince" around on stage like they apparently do.
*facepalm*
So i asked him about Queen and Freddie Mercury and he said, "Oh but he's alright, he was a legend, he's allowed to be gay, i can handle that, but anymore than that....*shakes head* "
I left it at that.
It seems that no matter what i say to Steven he just isn't going to accept gay people.
This time next year he won't be at school and in some ways i'll be glad to see the back of him.
He's just so intolerant, not just of gay people but anyone who isn't British, white and Christian.
He's just full of hate for people although i can tell he takes the rip quite a bit, not really meaning everything he says.
But at the same time, i'll be sad to see him leave. He is a good friend to me, he's kind, funny and (although it may not sound like it) easy to get along with.
I think i'll be able to move on a bit more tho, be more who i really am at school but i really dunno how i'll feel when the time comes for him to leave.....
Anyway, returning to school, just for a spot of english.
We're doing group presentations to the class about a book we're reading called Sailmaker.
We were due to present today but didn't have enough time so we have to do it tomorrow.
Then the teacher announces he won't be in tomorrow and the head of english will be. So we're up first presenting to him, lovely.
Spanish was good today. (Don't say that an awful lot)
Our normal teacher wasn't in so we were pleasantly surprised.
We could actually talk a little for once!
So i took the opportunity to ask the four other boys in my class if they were doing spanish next year.
Only one said maybe, the others said no.
Which brings me back to what my mum said last night about spanish.
I perhaps didn't say it very well.
This could get a bit bogged down but try and bare with me.
I was giving the main reasons to my mum about why i didn't want to do spanish (two languages at one time, same teacher etc.)
We discussed those reasons then after that, i added that i might be the only boy in the class, this is when she asked (in a non-serious tone) "Why? Do you get lonely without boys around?"
So it really wasn't out of context but i apologise anyway for my bad writing of that bit.
Another thing in the last post that was written badly by me.
At dinner when my brother said, "Oh, the gay one?" (Stephen Fry)
When he said that, my mum was eating so couldn't speak right after he said that.
So while my mum was eating i rolled my eyes and said, "Yes the gay one"
THEN mum finishes what she was eating and says, "I don't care, i'll look out for some books"
So yeh, sorry wrote it badly in the last post, i hope i've cleared things up now.
What my mum said wasn't really out of context.
Also, a few of you were saying how mums always know and how my mum must be really nice.
She is, but, like everyone, she has her faults.
Such as, last night, i was finishing off on the computer then she asks me if i was almsot done and i said "Yes, almost"
Then, a few minutes later i lose internet connection completely....
I asked my mum if she touched it and she said she didn't but she obviously did as the wirless router is plugged into a socket in my sister's room and as my sister was sleeping, she never touched it.
My mum was the only other person awake in the house, the only person that could have possibly turned the plug off.
It was a really shitty thing to do and even worse of her to lie to me about it which i know she did. :/
But then today, i come home and what has she got me?
A mini-fridge!
WTF.
Last night she was all bitchy and now she's bought me a mini-fridge :S
I don't get it!
Women are confusing lol (hence why i stay away from them :P KO)
But that's quite a coincidence as i'm sure someone mentioned that i should get a mini-fridge a few posts back :P
Well whaddya know?
I've got one now. Haha.
Only thing i need is USB extensions and i pretty much am sorted.
Don't want a wireless keyboard, they're too much hassle in my opinion.
But back to my mum, don't get me wrong, she is nice, really nice, she does strange things sometimes though and is quite confusing and difficult to read.
Nobody is perfect though.
If i was to tell anyone in my immediate family i was gay it would be my mum.
I'm not ready to yet tho, i still need to figure her out and try and find the best way to tell her.
To be honest, the whole topic of coming out to my parents still scares me quite a bit so i'm not really sure about it yet.
I don't really feel ready and i would prefer to leave it for a while, it's not like i'm desperate to tell them.
It's a secret i would like to keep a little longer.
But, as Stephen Fry once said, "A secret is something you tell just one person at a time".
Thanks to r.jimlad for that one, it is very true :)
I only just realised tomorrow marked the start of March and it surprised me, i seem to be losing track of my days.
But February really went quick.
A lot has happened, on the blogs here and in general.
School has been freakishly busy for one. But on here, things have just flown.
I've found a lot of new people this month, such as JJ, Rhyn, Raron, Matty to name a few and that's been great.
Meeting more people is always nice.
Recieved quite a bunch of new followers too, so i suppose this month has been pretty good on the whole.
Wonder if that will keep up?
Next month, i expect, will just be just as busy, if not even more so.
School work will intensify, as this month sees the beginning of exams.
Music and Media
They are the final exam, but not really the final exam if you get me.
It's like, they count toward the final grade, so they are vitally important but the exam timetable starts properly in April.
But the busyness start this week in fact.
With the month beginning on a Monday i think it feels a lot more fresh, dunno how, just the way i think of it.
So yeh, this week is already set up to be quite busy.
Particularly Thursday as i have my final Bass Guitar exam and then a Careers Evening after school. So i'll tell you all how that goes, as always of course.
But school is always busy, in fact, i've just remembered that i have to sit the 2nd part of my maths test coz i missed school on Thursday last week and i don't have math on Friday.
So there's another thing to add to the schedule.
Along with just general school stuff that is inevitably busy.
A few birthdays coming up this month too, a few family members and a certain someone else :P
Need to decide what to do for them.
I also wanted to mention what happened at dinner tonight.
We all sat down and i asked my mum that if any Stephen Fry books came into the shop she works at, if she could pick them up for me. She said ok and then my brother went, "Oh, the gay one?
I said, "Yes, the gay one" *rolls eyes*
The my mum said, "I don't care"
So i took the opportunity to agree with her, that made me smile.
A hint, perhaps, that my mum isn't bothered about people's sexual preference :)
I always had a feeling that she wasn't and now i'm getting an even stronger feeling.
Oh, another thing i just remembered. (Remembering a lot at the moment :P)
Today me and mum were talking about possible subject choices for next year and i said i'd rather not do Spanish next year coz i'll have the same teacher, be studying french as well and i could possibly be the only boy in the class next year.
She wants me to do spanish but after i mentioned that she said, "Get lonely in class with no boys around?"
Wow.
A complete WTF moment indeed.
She hinting at something?
I don't think she has any idea but maybe i'm wrong.....
So, anyway i hope you all have a good March and an enjoyable one :D
It turns out i was wrong about the whole situation with D and his brother.
Nothing happened.
So i was right in a way.
It was all just macho bullcrap.
D and his brother both get on the same bus as me but they never said anything on the way to school so i had a feeling nothing was going to happen.
It actually turns out that Steven got a hold of D's number and sent him a text saying he was sorry.
There you go then, situation resolved.
What else happened today?
No biology pass mark received yet, although i still doubt it will be as low as 48%.
Still, i live in hope.
I got my times and dates for my final music perfoming exam.
Bass guitar is first. It is at 11:50am next Thursday.
Guitar is second. It is two weeks after that. 18th March 10:15am.
I was quite surprised that they were this soon.
I thought they would be in along with the rest of the exams in about April/May.
It's not that it's a problem.
I know my bass pieces fairly well. Same ones as i did for the prelim back in October.
Changed the guitar ones about a little tho, but at least for the exam i can use an electric, which i think might have been a downfall in the prelim as i didnt get to use one.
So hammer-ons and pull-offs etc didn't sound right.
I can also use one of my stomp boxes for the final exam if i really want to show off, so i'm pretty sure the exam will go quite well.
I'm confident about it even though its about a month away!
No room for complacency tho!
Got a Media exam coming up next month as well.
It's worth 20% of our final grade and it's on analysing the front page of a tablopid newspaper which i dont find too difficult.
But imagine!
I get full marks in this, then get a similar score to what i got in my prelim and thats an A!!!
Thats seriosuly cool.
And seriously important i do well in it.
The math tests i was talking about last week are Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
I'm not too worried about it tho.
It's only one unit, not all three of them put together like the prelim.
We've been over what may come up in the tests and i'm fairly happy with it.
I didn't think i would have a lot to tell you guys about today but i do.
There's a guy in my Enlgish class who i barely talk to and we were put into the same group today for a task.
At some point i mentioned Muse (as i quite frequently do) and then we end up having this long discussion about Muse!
He's a pretty hardcore fan, not quite my level, lol, but he surprised me big time. He seen Muse way before i did, even way before i had heard of Muse he had heard of them. Back in 2006 he was at a concert!
I sure Hope we're doing the same task again tomorrow.
But it isn't Muse that is occupying my musical mind today.
I'll tell you who is :
Scissor Sisters
Really! They are what i'm listening to at the moment.
Specifically the song Take Your Mama.
Steven and Alex freaked when they seen that on my iPod.
"What the hell Rowan!?"
"Are you serious Rowan!?"
"Yes, deadly serious"
and they laughed at me.
"You know they're gay, right?"
"Yeh, so? That isn't going to stop me listening to a band"
They just gave me a whatever kind of look.
And then on the bus back home Alex jokes, "That can be our next concert, eh? Scissor Sisters!"
"I like them but i dont think i'd be going to one of their concerts" i told him.
He says "Yeh just loads of gay people there looking for some bum"
Suuuuuure.
Every single person at a Scissor Sisters concert just wants to hook up for sex like ALLLLL gay people do, dont they?
Pah.
How i would have loved to say that right to his face, with added sarcasm.
(Then tell him i am gay, punch him in the face and run off :P KO)
I just stared out the window and chose not to answer his remark.
What i usually do nowadays when someone brings up a gay comment, i just don't repsond to it.
Does it raise suspicion?
I don't know.
Nobody has said anything to me about it, so until somebody does i will keep on not responding to such comments.
Wow.
I never thought i would have wrote that much when i started. Things just kept coming.
School does seem to occupy me a lot,
I was definetely occupied today in school.
Not just by subjects and tests but i was thinking of JJ and Mike all day long.
About 2pm (British time) was when they would have got to school, and they'll still be there as i write this.
I hope things went ok....
I hope JJ sorted things out.
Won't know for a few hours yet i suppose, so i wait with anxiety and i leave you with Scissor Sisters.
Cheers,
Rowan
This song is just so awesome in my opinion.
Apparently it's about the lead singer coming out to his mum.
Some lyrics suggest this and some don't.
The lyrics about the wedding does.
And pretty much the whole second verse does.
It's the way i interprete the song anyway and i love it so much.
Here's the lyrics for you to make up your own mind :
When you grow up
Livin' like a good boy oughta
And your mama
Takes a shine to her best son
Something different
All the girls they seem to like you
Cause you're handsome
Like to talk and a whole lot of fun
But now your girl's gone a missin'
And your house has got an empty bed
The folks'll wonder 'bout the wedding
They won't listen to a word you said
[Chorus]
Gonna take your mama out all night
Yeah we'll show her what it's all about
We'll get her jacked up on some cheap champagne
We'll let the good times all roll out
And if the music ain't good, well it's just too bad
We're gonna sing along no matter what
Because the dancers don't mind at the New Orleans
If you tip 'em and they make a cut
Do it
Take your mama out all night
So she'll have no doubt
That we're doing oh the best we can
We're gonna do it
Take your mama out all night
You can stay up late
'cause baby you're a full grown man
It's a struggle
Livin' like a good boy oughta
In the summer
Watchin' all the girls pass by
When your mama
Heard the way that you'd been talking
I tried to tell you
That all she'd wanna do is cry
Now we end up takin' the long way home
Lookin' overdressed wearin' buckets of stale cologne
It's so hard to see streets on a country road
When your glasses in the garbage
And your Continental's just been towed
With my brother gone and my dad gone it's been a lot more quiet around the house and i've really enjoyed that.
Although they are due back within the hour and things will be back to their slightly busier and normal selfs.
But it has been good.
For example, me, my mum and sister have treated ourselves over the past 7 days to take aways and days out and lots of other stuff.
Like, a random outing to a cafe down the road, making hot chocolate together, making pancakes together.
Doing a lot of stuff that my dad wouldn't have done if it were he, instead of my mum here.
But as i've said, i have enjoyed the more quiet nature of the house in the past week.
It has been a lot more relaxed and a lot less busy.
My dad sorta has this "busy" presence about him like he's always doing something important and my brother hasn't been screaming down his Xbox headset so it has been nice to get a rest from that.
Also, one thing i only realised the other day - i've been the man of the house for the past week.
Not that i've done much to fulfill that role, but it's a nice title :P
My "manly" duties consisted of spending copious amounts of time watching movies, sitting on the computer, playing football with friends.
Just like normal.
But it felt like there was a bit more freedom to it and that was savoured however, it is just about at it's end now.
Anyhoo, i also wanted to address some issues from comments on the last post.
Dru - Hearing someone say Muse sound like Radiohead is a Muse fan's worst nightmare! Particularly after listening to a song as strange and unique as Megalomania.
The first album by Muse "Showbiz" had elements of Radiohead but since then....no
Megalomania is the closing track off the second album "Origin of Symmetry". Listen to that full album and try to tell me Muse sound like Radiohead. In fact, listen to any album except Showbiz and try to tell me that.
Sorry for the rant but Muse are nothing like Radiohead.
Plus, they're much better.
Southern, R.Jimlad - Ash Wednedsay, as far as i remember, is the marking of ash on the forehead to celebrate the "holy spirit" (a sort of fire thing) coming down from heaven and descending upon the heads of the twelve apostles of jesus.
I think only Catholics celebrate it.
I know it sounds crazy doesn't it?
Just like a lot of things in the Bible. You read it, and only then do people says that its not supposed to be taken literally.....
Well why didn't you tell me that before i read it?
And also, i didn't "give in" to religion.
I chose to get the Ash to save questions i couldn't be bothered answering so i simply wiped it off when i was out of sight.
And lastly, just as general news - My biology prelim got a 48%.
To be honest, i wasn't quite expecting that, i thought it would be a lot lower but now that it's only 2% away from half marks, i'm feel rather let down.
The pass mark varies from year to year but my teacher doesn't expect it to be as low as 48% so it looks like i've faled biology too.
Oh and we went over the second maths paper today and i stand by my "on a different day i could have passed" statement.
Like the first paper there was a load of careless mistakes and not knowing what to do. I took a tally of my careless mistakes which was about a dozen in total. In the right frame of mind i don't think i would have made them and i would have passed but you win some and you lose some.
So, i'll get back to everyone with my final round up of Prelim results after biology is confirmed but now i must welcome back my dad and brother and get back to normal life inside this normally busy and noisy house.
Got my Maths Prelim back and i can tell i did awful in my Biology.
Maths was rather disappointing as i did actually have a sneaky feeling i would do well.
I was wrong.
I got 40%
10% off a C.
Only person in my class to fail as far as i know.
And this news came at me about 20 minutes before i sat down for my Biology so my confidence was pretty low going into it.
I looked at the paper and could just tell from the off that it wasn't to be my day.
I finished it but if i pass it i'll be shocked.
Things weren't made better in PE coz i forgot my kit so the teacher had a right go at me and i had to write for the whole period while everybody else enjoyed basketball.
*sigh*
Just one of those days i suppose.
I'm at fault tho, i didn't put enough into maths and biology as i could and should have done.
It's not the be all and end all but it's a right kick in the arse to get me moving.
But it's strange, i get 4 A's then a fail just pops out of nowhere.
Maybe that's why i'm as annoyed as i am....
I'm just waiting on Media, English and Biology now.
I predict a B or C for English and Media and a fail in Biology.
Hate to be pessimistic but that's just the way it is.
I would love to say i don't care about Maths and Biology but i do, i wanna pass them. I just don't have the willpower to.
Mum was disappointed by my failings. She asked what we should do next and i just said i didn't care.
I shouldn't have said that but i dunno what to do.
Mum thinks moving down a level is the best step for me tho. I dunno.
Anyway, thanks for all your support guys but things just didn't quite work out today.
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
Cheers,
Rowan
P.S I like your Spanish idea r.jimlad but Spanish language is very similar to Italian, maybe i could meet up with an Italian boy and still do the same thing :)
Lol at your "split" theory as well.
Okay so i'm afraid i'm going to be a little pessimistic about the next few days.
My last Prelim (Biology) is tomorrow.
And i'll probably be getting my Math results back as well this week.
I'm not expecting it to go swimmingly.
I'm awful at Biology as i've already said and i don't hold much hope in my Math test.
Hell if i pass them both i will be extremely happy.
I might even kiss both my teachers!
Ok, i won't do that but i will be relieved if i pass them. :P
At least i have some holidays to look forward to.
Wednesday is my last day in.
Thursday, Friday, the weekend, Monday and Tuesday i have no school.
Some sort of holiday, i dunno what for but i won't complain.
Although something rather extraordinary is happening.
On Wednesday evening my little brother and my Dad will be jetting off to Lanzarote by themselves for about 10 days.
How nice of them.
Sounds strange, yes, but let me explain.
My dad works at the airport and he won this sort of equivalent of Employee of the Month.
So they gave him two tickets for him to travel anywhere he likes in Europe.
Last year he won it as well, and he went to Lanzarote with my mum but she didn't want to go anywhere this year.
But, why did he choose my brother?
Strange one again.
The harsh reality is that my brother and my dad have always had this closer connection that i never had.
I feel closer to my mum than my dad.
But the way he said it was like. "Well, you probably have too much studies to contend with so i don't wanna take you out of school coz you'll lose some precious time."
Sorta true. But i couldn't really see me and my dad getting along on a holiday by ourselves and i dont think he could either.
But it makes up for itself.
Mum said that me, her and my sister can go somewhere at some point.
She asked me where and i quite like the idea of Italy.
Never been before and it seems real nice.
But really, thats how my family has been divided.
My little brother and my dad.
Then me, my mum and my little sister.
If they were ever to get a divorce then i could see that being the living arrangements.
Don't worry tho, i don't think one is on the horizon but i used to think one was.
They always used to argue, at least a couple of times a week.
This was about a year ago.
Things were bad back then.
So, i think they thought a holiday abroad would sort things out. It didn't really but at least they stopped arguing as much. They don't really talk much tho and they complain about each other to us.
That's annoying, i'd rather not hear it.
I heard things when they used to argue too. More things i didn't want to hear. The reasons why they were arguing but i'd rather not go into them.
Anyway, i went seriously away from what i was talking about.
The holidays.
LOL, how'd that happen?
Suppose we all can be yacky boxes sometimes :P
Oh, something else thats happening soon - Arsenal vs Liverpool on Wednesday.
I'm dreading that. I can see Liverpool getting embarrased. And then Steven will be on my case.
It's starting already!
All the build-up, me and Steven having a go at each other about the game lol.
It will be interesting this week in school.
But luckily i won't need to face him on Wednesday coz of the holidays but i'm sure i'll see him at some point during....
....I must go, i want to do as well on this Biology crap as i can tomorrow :D
And as for Prelim stuff, i'll keep you updated as always.
Cheers,
Rowan
P.S I wrote this at the same time i've been talking to you JJ. I can do it lol
I've been getting some results back from Prelims this week and thought i would let you all know how i'm getting on.
I still have two to sit tho, Media tomorrow and Biology on Monday.
Both will be tough but especially Biology as it's pretty much my weakest subject along with maths....not a sciency person me.
Anyway the results i have got back so far have all been A's.
Good times.
But i don't see them all remaining that way unfortunately.
We can't all be perfect.
Music : Listening - 31/40
Performance - 43/60 (the music playing back in October)
So it gives me 74 out of 100 - 74% (Just an A)
Modern Studies i only got back today and they handed it out each section at a time, i did pretty bad on the first section and i was dreading the next two papers but i made up for it and got 79% overall!
British Parliament - 16/26 Boo!
Crime and Law - 23/24 Yay!
America - 16/20 Meh!
So that's 55 out of 70 - 79%
Gor French back as well but not all of it. I've done well so far tho.
Writing - 20/20
Speaking - 30/30
Listening was awful. I made two dreadful mistakes. I mistook the word "trois" as the number 2 when in fact it is 3....
Gah.
Would have given me two extra marks to my abysmal 13/20.
15/20 is what i really should have got at least.
But that just leaves me to wait for my reading results which i'm sure won't be too bad.
So far i have 63/100 but that means i only need about 10 marks out of 30 in the reading to secure an A. Something i am quite confident of. :)
Something i am not confident of tho is maths.
God awful.
I sat it a few days ago and i really didn't get much sleep so i was tired and im not even good at maths when im not tired!
To be honest, i think i might have failed it.
The papers were difficult and the teacher said today that she was happy overall but there are concerns over a few individuals. Surely me.
I was definetely not expecting an A in all subjects.
I have 3, probably 4 A's already so i can't be too displeased, i'm doing ok.
So i have to wait for the last bit of French. Then English and Maths and then Biology and Media which i haven't sat yet.
So final results may not be for a couple of weeks.
Anyway, i divert attention away from my tests and onto something else.
A new blogger.
A special new blogger.
JJ.
I talked about him a few days ago and told you i was talking with him a lot on MSN, and i still am.
He's got his own blog now after many of us were going way off-topic on RB's discussion pages. (Sorry Tristan)
Please go and visit him, say hi, link to him, follow him etc.
He's so sweet and awesome and he deserves it.
So go ahead....make his day.....punk.
:P
Cheers,
Rowan
P.S I've recieved a few more followers in recent days so i just want to thank everyone, old and new, for reading my blog!
And also thanks for all your comments, especially over the past couple of days, they've all been real supportive and it means alot to me. Love you all!
I'm 19 years old and am a raging homosexual... yes I'm gay :P
This blog is simply where i can throw down thoughts, musings, frustrations... comical genius... (?) But through this blog I also hope to help anyone who is scared, confused, unsure or in need of some place to feel better about themselves :)
