Bonjour again, I've been using my time wisely meeting interesting new people and scaring them with my harsh tactics and strong opinions.
Currently I am taking my A-Levels AS courses, which are challenging, fun, difficult, fun, stressful, and fun.
I have also decided I need another word besides fun.
Who have I met?
* George M
* Rhian J
* Stephen H
* Pam U
* Miko B
That last one is scarily important. Frighteningly. He is lovely but it is a daunting task trying to keep up with his multilingual mind, though it's worth it when I can.
Continuing my travels (firguratively) I have dyed my hair purple and re-eastablished some old friendships as well as making new ties. It feels good to be free, though I get up for school at the same time each morning regardless of when i actually have to be in, just because it is nice to have more time to myself rather than having to spend it with the family. We are always at conflict, like lines that try to be parallel but fail miserably and crash into each other on a frequent basis. Hopefully our ball of string will be untangled soon.
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
July twenty-first
Hello there, as I'm sure you can see, My name is Victoria and this is my blog. I'd shake your hand, but that's difficult over cyberspace and I'd find myself hard-pressed to encounter anyone who wouldn't scream like a little girl were they to be confronted with a hand coming out of their monitor anyway.
July is the first month I get off totally because I finished my GCSEs last month. For those of you in America it's the equivalent of SATs. To put it in English terms, we're all aiming for different "estimated" grades- some of us As and A stars, and some of us may be hard pressed to get an F. Make no mistake, plenty of us are not good at everything: I'm sure you know that. For instance, I'm taking fourteen GCSEs. I'm predicted at a C or above in all of them, and I have no difficulty saying that in thirteen I will get a C or above, but in Art I have failed MISERABLY! It transpired that I never was very good at drawing things... But never mind. Under my belt I'll have two Maths GCSEs, Two English GCSEs and three Science GCSEs, as well as a plethora of other subjects, some of which I don't even enjoy studying.
I don't get my results until August 24th and I am feeling okay but for obvious reasons I'm quite nervous. If I don't get good enough grades I won't be able to take my courses next year (German, Law, Government and Politics, Critical Thinking, Sociology) and if my grades are terrible I won't be going to sixth form (or post 16) at all. Though I doubt very much that this will be the case, I conjure up the situation in my mind anyway of opening that envelope and seeing I have failed, and it brings me a great deal of angst.
The fitness training is coming along well (having two and a bit months' holiday leaves me with only four choices- TV, Sleeping all the time, Getting a job, or Exercising. I've wanted to get fit for a long time now so this is the oppoirtune time to do it, and it's not in vain. My legs are thinner and I've dropped a kilo in a month.
Many of you may think this is slow but I must stress that because of the exercise and the protein I'm puttng on muscle as I drop fat, and I'm only sixteen so throwing myself into a streuous diet would only stunt my growth. Which I would HATE!!
I currently stand at five foot six and a half inches (about 168cm) and I'm about nine stone nine pounds (135lbs or 61.5kg). I'm not particularly bulky but still I've had a period of chubbiness between my ninth and fifteenth years of age and I'm working it off slowly because the last thing I want to do is stay this height. I have large feet (size nine english, ten american, forty-two european) so I'm growing into those. Slowly. and it is PAINFULLY slow, this growing lark. I wish I could shoot right up! I'd rather be lanky than how I am now.
July is the first month I get off totally because I finished my GCSEs last month. For those of you in America it's the equivalent of SATs. To put it in English terms, we're all aiming for different "estimated" grades- some of us As and A stars, and some of us may be hard pressed to get an F. Make no mistake, plenty of us are not good at everything: I'm sure you know that. For instance, I'm taking fourteen GCSEs. I'm predicted at a C or above in all of them, and I have no difficulty saying that in thirteen I will get a C or above, but in Art I have failed MISERABLY! It transpired that I never was very good at drawing things... But never mind. Under my belt I'll have two Maths GCSEs, Two English GCSEs and three Science GCSEs, as well as a plethora of other subjects, some of which I don't even enjoy studying.
I don't get my results until August 24th and I am feeling okay but for obvious reasons I'm quite nervous. If I don't get good enough grades I won't be able to take my courses next year (German, Law, Government and Politics, Critical Thinking, Sociology) and if my grades are terrible I won't be going to sixth form (or post 16) at all. Though I doubt very much that this will be the case, I conjure up the situation in my mind anyway of opening that envelope and seeing I have failed, and it brings me a great deal of angst.
The fitness training is coming along well (having two and a bit months' holiday leaves me with only four choices- TV, Sleeping all the time, Getting a job, or Exercising. I've wanted to get fit for a long time now so this is the oppoirtune time to do it, and it's not in vain. My legs are thinner and I've dropped a kilo in a month.
Many of you may think this is slow but I must stress that because of the exercise and the protein I'm puttng on muscle as I drop fat, and I'm only sixteen so throwing myself into a streuous diet would only stunt my growth. Which I would HATE!!
I currently stand at five foot six and a half inches (about 168cm) and I'm about nine stone nine pounds (135lbs or 61.5kg). I'm not particularly bulky but still I've had a period of chubbiness between my ninth and fifteenth years of age and I'm working it off slowly because the last thing I want to do is stay this height. I have large feet (size nine english, ten american, forty-two european) so I'm growing into those. Slowly. and it is PAINFULLY slow, this growing lark. I wish I could shoot right up! I'd rather be lanky than how I am now.
Monday, 24 May 2010
Guess what, guess what!!!
You know, I'm sure, by looking at the post beneath this, that I said I was going to do something with my life this year... Well, I'm currently in the midst of my GCSE examinations (and yet still have free time to lie in the sun and read- oh the joys!) and as I said I would, I have found something to do. I know, as I always have, that it is rather the expensive habit, but I have taken up ice skating. This is because I have flexibility and I like to exercise, but there is an element of danger in there too, and it's a wonderful feeling just gliding across that ice. It feels truly fantastic.
I bought my own skates and I took some lessons and I'm getting pretty good now. They say I'll compete in the olympics soon. (that last part was a blatant lie but still, one can dream...) In truth, I do hope that I'll keep improving, as it's really something I enjoy.
I've been ice skating for years but until now have had no formal tuition so while I am quite sure on my feet there is always something new for me to learn and I love that feeling that there is something somebody else can teach me about that I won't necessarily ever NEED but rather that I want.
I am very happy.
I have chosen my A-Levels and I am to be taking Law, German, Government and Politics, Critical Thinking and Sociology. I like the idea of taking a social science, it intrigues me to see what we will learn about.
My friend ( as usual) started ranting off about how anybody would be taking the Law course because it's not all that difficult and I'm likely to end up with people who have little or no work ethic. I slapped him and told him that anybody willing to tick a box next to that word has to be prepared to work for it. Plus of course you have to get good enough GCSE grades to get on these courses- good English and Science and Religion, because it's about mixing empathy and fact.
German is the subject I'm most looking forward to, because it's the most difficult for so many. Some people just do not seem to have the gift of being able to learn a second language this late becayse of their barriers of how much they can suck up.
I say, there are over two hundred million people who can speak English, and others who cannot but can speak German, and so I would like to perhaps one day be able to tal to somebody in German OR English and have it be our choice, and that would be wonderful and fun and allow me to meet new people. I love meeting new people.
In German there are obscure phrases which we sometimes use such as Schadenfreude and less common ones (but still awesome nonetheless) like "Das ist indeskutabel." Schadenfreude is the process through which somebody takes pleasure in seeing another's discomfort (offset of Sadism I suppose) and "Das ist indeskutabel" means "that is out of the question." I use it rather a lot when arguing with people because it throws them off course.
Hopefully I will do well, though some friends and acquaintances think I'm mad.
I bought my own skates and I took some lessons and I'm getting pretty good now. They say I'll compete in the olympics soon. (that last part was a blatant lie but still, one can dream...) In truth, I do hope that I'll keep improving, as it's really something I enjoy.
I've been ice skating for years but until now have had no formal tuition so while I am quite sure on my feet there is always something new for me to learn and I love that feeling that there is something somebody else can teach me about that I won't necessarily ever NEED but rather that I want.
I am very happy.
I have chosen my A-Levels and I am to be taking Law, German, Government and Politics, Critical Thinking and Sociology. I like the idea of taking a social science, it intrigues me to see what we will learn about.
My friend ( as usual) started ranting off about how anybody would be taking the Law course because it's not all that difficult and I'm likely to end up with people who have little or no work ethic. I slapped him and told him that anybody willing to tick a box next to that word has to be prepared to work for it. Plus of course you have to get good enough GCSE grades to get on these courses- good English and Science and Religion, because it's about mixing empathy and fact.
German is the subject I'm most looking forward to, because it's the most difficult for so many. Some people just do not seem to have the gift of being able to learn a second language this late becayse of their barriers of how much they can suck up.
I say, there are over two hundred million people who can speak English, and others who cannot but can speak German, and so I would like to perhaps one day be able to tal to somebody in German OR English and have it be our choice, and that would be wonderful and fun and allow me to meet new people. I love meeting new people.
In German there are obscure phrases which we sometimes use such as Schadenfreude and less common ones (but still awesome nonetheless) like "Das ist indeskutabel." Schadenfreude is the process through which somebody takes pleasure in seeing another's discomfort (offset of Sadism I suppose) and "Das ist indeskutabel" means "that is out of the question." I use it rather a lot when arguing with people because it throws them off course.
Hopefully I will do well, though some friends and acquaintances think I'm mad.
Saturday, 9 January 2010
What I've done
It has come to my attention that I have not done much with my life, and this year I aim to change that, but I want to know what I should do to make my life more interesting. I start my A levels this coming september, so maybe that will be enough. i got the interview letter on January 9th. Today is January 10th 2010. I hope you're all having a good year.
Two awesome things I've said so far this year: "I don't do warm and fuzzy. In fact I haven't been warm and fuzzy since a witch turned me temporarily into a fire-breathing dragon."
"I was going for one of two things; either paw, which scores...something, or.......mew."
It's so cold! There's lots of snow here in Bristol, in England. Overnight it gets down to minus 7 or minus 10 which means it doesn't melt, and in the day it varies between one and minus one, so stuff begins to melt but then freezes again soon after. I don't think I remember snow this bad in my entire life here, and I've never moved.
Two awesome things I've said so far this year: "I don't do warm and fuzzy. In fact I haven't been warm and fuzzy since a witch turned me temporarily into a fire-breathing dragon."
"I was going for one of two things; either paw, which scores...something, or.......mew."
It's so cold! There's lots of snow here in Bristol, in England. Overnight it gets down to minus 7 or minus 10 which means it doesn't melt, and in the day it varies between one and minus one, so stuff begins to melt but then freezes again soon after. I don't think I remember snow this bad in my entire life here, and I've never moved.
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