Well it’s started. Hope today went well for everyone! First things first, I thought the paper was alright. Nothing overly great but nothing overly awful either. I’m wonderfully awful at picking questions for the exam. A scribbled out first paragraph is like a trademark of my work at this stage. Once that’s out of the [...]
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The two weeks since my last post naturally went by faster than lightning and now…now we have but 2 days left til showtime. It’s pretty scary, I must admit. I’m not stressing though. What it all comes down to in the end is that pink/blue piece of paper and the horrors/delights it reveals, and that [...]
I’m really sorry I haven’t posted in ages (though it was probably nice to have a break from my constant prattling on and on), mocks have sort of taken over my life. I wasn’t actually planning on that happening at all, but when I come home from a day’s thinking and remembering and writing, oh [...]
Yup, they’re just around the corner. The Mocks, Pres, Hell, whatever you call them. I don’t know about anyone else but I can safely say for myself I’m not ready. Not even in the slightest. I’m pretty sure that with the sum of my knowledge so far I could scrape a pass in most subjects. [...]
The end, my friends.
As I’m sure everyone knows- English Paper 2 has been cancelled. What a mess! Just like Elizabeth said in her post, it sounds like it would’ve been my perfect paper- Bishop, Cultural Context, the theme of Deception. I’m actually so unbelievably upset and freaked out now. What am I going to do? Should I go in tomorrow [...]
I think I expected nerves to set in at some point. For days I’ve had that weird “now or never” feeling, that how I perform over these next two and a half weeks will affect what I do with my life for the next 4 years at least. The funny thing is, I might have [...]
When I was 15 I did a 3-week circus stint in which I learned basic juggling and acrobatics. I was useless at the acrobatics; having little to no upper body strength and lots of lower body weight isn’t the ideal combination for twirling through the air. Juggling and physical theatre on the other hand, I [...]
Towards the end of 5th year our English teacher gave us a handout of sample A2/A1 Macbeth essays. Apparently these were actual essays written during the LC, under the same pressure and time constraints that we’ll all be under next week. I started using them as a study guide over the past few days and [...]
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