Human Biology - TEE Exam 4

Today was my last exam and I have to say that it was the easiest of the four. The paper was so short, that I could have left half an hour early, but I spend my time writing very thorough extended answers. Lots of people were leaving this exam early and I don't blame them.

Lauren drove Chantelle, Emily and I back to Emily's place to hang out. We snacked on chocolate and lollies while playing 13 and Jim Rummy and chatting about various things. Chantelle then left at about 2 or 3. I then taught Lauren and Emily how to play Euchre. After playing that, Lauren left and Emily and I sat around and chatted.

I got picked up at around 5 and Dad and I went to the shops. We ran into Kara, who works at the Bakery there.

A nice lazy day and NO MORE EXAMS AND SCHOOL!

Signing off.

Passionfruit

Listening to Neighbours while thinking about my day.

I woke up at 6:30 this morning, trying to decide whether I should get up or sleep in until my normal hour of seven. I must have fallen back asleep, because the next time I opened my eyes and looked at my clock it was 7:10. Mum walked into my room to wake me up so I turned towards the door and closed my eyes again. Missy ran into my room to come and lick me on the ear. She whistled and ran out the room.

There were more people in the Chemistry lab than usual due to the lab validation that we were going to do in ten minutes. People were doing last minute study to cram in the last bits of information. The validation itself was actually quite good and I knew how to do most of it.

The double period of Applicable today didn't feel as long as it usual does, even though I felt really tired.

The group today at lunch was split into two groups of people playing 13: the groups that don't mind egos getting into the way and the people that enjoy the Private Game.

In Art, we drew fruit that had been cut in half using charcoal. When I walked into the room, the smell of passionfruit was overwhelming and I just wanted to grab them and eat it. I drew two halves of a Pawpaw which actually turned out OK. At the end of the class, I was given half of the passionfruit and I walked with it to the library to go to my free period. We played Uno, and I tried to talk while I had the passionfruit half in my mouth as my hands were holding the cards.

Try the love tester I have put at the bottom of my blog. It is quite interesting!

Signing off.

Two Day

Listening to Tonight from West Side Story

I have just been rattling my brain with some Chemistry equations which I will need to know for my Chemistry lab validation tomorrow. I spent quite a while writing them into my calculator which I hope will be helpful. While doing the dishes afterwards, I was reflecting on my past two days, trying to remember what I did yesterday so I can writing it in today's blog. The reason I didn't write an entry yesterday was because Stephen left his S&E assignment to the last minute, even after the class was given an extension. So now I will try and remember everything...

Yesterday was not a good day for me. By the end of end of it, I felt like I wanted to explode. Chemistry was fine because we watched an interesting movie on polymers, but art was when it just started to go wrong. I had made a necklace pendant out of clay. Without thinking, I picked up my finished piece and squashed it like it was a normal piece of clay. Luckily, I didn't squash it too much and I was able to flatten it out again, but I has to get rid of all the cracks I had put into it.

At lunch, I began to feel sick. I didn't eat all of my lunch because of it. At the last period of the day, Human Biology, I felt like I was going to faint. We had to write notes from the book and I was unable to hold my pen properly and my writing was everywhere.

Today, was a better day for me, but I still didn't feel 100%. In Chemistry we when through empirical formulas. I started to do the question that was apart of my assignment while my friends who do Discrete were studying for the test around me.

In Human Biology, we continued writing the notes on the chapter and then we went through it.

In English, we were given an essay question and Ms Perks went through it. This is because we will be having an in-class viewing essay on Monday.

At recess, Emily brought out her box of broken lollipop (the giant one that she won last year at Mercy Day) to school again. I took a giant piece of it which I didn't finish til half way through my free period. Today Kelsey brought her Uno cards so we played that, while I tried to talk with the piece of lollipop in my mouth.

In Religion we continued to watch Shawshank Redemption.

At lunch, Hadassah played her first game of 13. She had learnt from watching us play. Beginners luck was on her side and she won.

In Art, we had to draw fruit. I was given an apple. I don't think I have done such a good drawing in a while now.

In Applicable, we got our EPW's back and for the first time this year I passed it! I got 67.3%!

That's about it...

Signing off.

The Private Game

Listening to Conteo by Don Omar

We did part of our Chemistry lab today. We were reacting alcohols with acidified potassium chromate. The chemicals we reacted smelt like permanate marker. We will be continuing with our experiments tomorrow where we will be reacting the alcohols with sodium .

In English, we watched the rest of Ten Canoes which didn't end properly. We were then given questions, one which we had to choose to work on with a group. The question we chose was how western values are similar to the values presented in the film.

Khue and I were the only people in Art today. We have no idea why Blair wasn't there, but Joseph said that she was sick. Anyway, we had to draw designs for our final pieces of jewellery. I didn't do much because I was talking quite a bit, but also because I was looking through beading magazines. Some of the most beautiful beaded things I have seen were in there, one of them being a beaded shoe which was made into a picture of people.

In Applicable we moved onto the next chapter. The whole time was just spent with us looking at the notes and writing down examples.

I had Careers next and I spent my time working through my Applicable homework while everyone around me were playing games or just talking and I wasn't distracted for once. I managed to get quite a bit of it done.

At lunch, it was nice and quiet. A majority of the school went to see the pastor who came from America. I wanted to have a private game of 13, where only certain people play and they play certain rules. I don't like the rules that most people play so playing with a group of people you like to play with and playing the same rules makes the games a lot better. So Lauren, Emily, Diem and I played. Diem went off to study Chemistry and English and Martin took her place.

In Human Biology we moved onto the next chapter for the first period and for the second we got our marks back for our assignment and the marks back for the multiple choice in the test. We also watched some more of Walking with Cavemen where we looked at the lives of Neanderthals.

I got my $25 voucher I won at Curtin today in the mail. I can use it to buy things at the bookshop.

Signing off.

Oxidation

Listening to She Wants to Move by N.E.R.D.

To answer your question Janusz about the Everglades

The Florida Everglades are subtropical marshland located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, specifically in parts of Monroe, Collier, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade, and Broward counties.
Though much modified by agricultural development in central and southern Florida, the Everglades is the southern half of a large watershed arising in the vicinity of Orlando known as the Kissimmee River system. The Kissimmee flows from Taylor Creek, Nubbin Slough, and Fisheating Creek, and discharges into Lake Okeechobee, a very large (730 mi² or 1,890 km²), shallow (10 ft or 3 m) fresh water lake. Water leaving Lake Okeechobee in the wet season forms the Everglades, a shallow, slow-moving flood at one time 40 miles (60 km) wide and over 100 miles (160 km) long moving southward across a nearly flat limestone shelf to Florida Bay at the southern end of the state.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everglades

So an Everglades fire is a fire in the Everglades.

The jewellery is going good. I have made it into a style of my own now and I am now making rings for people by request. I finished Diem's ring and it looks great.

I didn't have Chemistry is the morning today, because Mr C had to be elsewhere. Anyway, I played 13 in the morning and shuffled the cards for ten minutes straight waiting for people to show up, so by the time they came they were so well shuffled that it was to my advantage and I won three times in a row (and I swear I didn't sabotage the cards).

English was spent with us annotating images of Sci-Fi and Mystery genre movie posters.

In Art, we continued making our rings and we went on to make seconds. Three MLC teachers came to spend time in our class to have a meeting in which they were discussing something about subjects but I wasn't really paying much attention to them.

In Applicable we did maths work.

In careers I studied for my Human Biology In-Class Assignment and then continued to finish of the ring I was making.

At lunch, we played 13.

In the first Human Biology period we studying for the Assignment and then in the second we did the test, which wasn't too bad, but I did need the book for quite a bit of it.

When I was waiting at the bus stop to go home, I noticed that the copper rings that I have been making had oxidised and had left a green residue on my fingers and to the people I am making the rings for, don't worry. I make my rings out of a different material and they don't oxidise.

I watched two more episodes of CSI: Miami, which totals to sixteen episodes I have watched so far.

Thanks for the comments everyone and I hope you will continue to read my blogs.

Signing off.

The Escort

Listening to (Exchange) by Massive Attack

Today was a more fulfilling today compared to the rest of the week. With the last Chemistry topic long gone, we practised naming and writing out the structural formulas of certain organic compounds which was quite enjoyable.

Religion was spent with the class listening to the rest of the class and their songs about freedom.

For English, we were going to do an essay question on viewing images and I had planned my essay on the questions she had already given us, but then she changed the question to one that had words I didn't understand. Once I found out what they meant, it was quite enjoyable to write seeing as I had a lot to say, but seeing as it was only a practise essay, lots of people were talking to it was hard to concentrate.

I had a double period of Applicable Maths, which we continued to work on the Poisson Distrubution chapter and I got quite a lot done seeing as I was talking quite a bit.

At lunch, Ms Perks called for me. I was thinking, "What have I done wrong?" but all she wanted Wilson and I to do was to escort two women to the Staff Room. I came to the conclusion that they were English teachers and that they were here for a meeting, most likely for moderating. They asked us questions about the school and they also asked if we were Prefects, seeing as we were escorting them. That made me feel important.

In Art we continued to make our jewellery.

In my free period, we played cards again, but in the library in front of the Year 10's who had to do their Religion Assignment research on the computers.

When I got home I watched two more episodes of CSI: Miami. "Slow Burn" was amazing. It was the second time that I saw Alexx and Eric nearly die from being caught in an Everglade fire. A very good episode.

Signing off.