Chemistry - TEE Exam 1

I thought that after I did my Chemistry exam I would be happy, but I wasn't. I felt like I had done really bad in it, seeing as I couldn't do three out of five of the calculations. The multiple choice and short-answer were good, but I think they could have chosen a better extended answer. Once I had finished the exam, I felt so sick like I wanted to throw up.

It felt good to be home, eating my favourite soup, minestrone and playing GTA: San Andreas. I finally got the relationship between Carl and Helena up to 100% which unlocked the hideous rural outfit. I now have to start another relationship to unlock more clothes and other goodies.

I asked Dad to get me some small cheesecakes for me for my graduation gift. Dad went and bought one for each of the family, except for me, because I was allowed two. I got a passionfruit and a triple choc one. I ate the passionfruit one today and wasn't able to finish it as it was so filling.

Dad and I went to the shops. I went to go get some chocolate, which they didn't have any that I wanted and Dad went out and got The Day After Tomorrow for me from my free movie rental pass. Then we went to the supermarket and got some groceries. We went to school to pick Stephen, who took ages to get out, because he had been watching his teaching play in his band Fools Rush In for a one time exclusive show. After we picked him up, we went around to Emily's place to give her back her graphics calculator. I went back home and watched the the movie, forgetting all about the exam, until I started talking to Alyce about it.

Signing off.

Graduation

Yesterday was my year 12 graduation. The chapel was packed with people and there were a lot of people standing. We had to walk in and stand up near the alter. In our rehearsal, we were told not to talk as we walked in, but when we did, everyone in the chapel was talking. It was quite rude, in my eyes actually. I was standing right at the front of the altar, so I could really notice it.

The mass was quite boring, as usual. I was happy to get that out of the way, because afterwards was when we would be getting our certificates. Dr Curry made a speech, that I kept falling in and out of sleep of. Then Lauren and Dominic made a speech, which was actually interesting to listen to because it was funny. We then got our certificates and a pen.

Afterwards, we watched the movie that Joseph made while the band played our graduation song. The bass was put up WAY too high, so when Luke started playing, it scared and shook everyone. Then Adam and Matt's microphone wasn't working so we couldn't hear what they were signing.

I was so happy to walk out of the chapel. Everyone was there hugging each other. A few of my friends then walked back to the PA to drop off our gowns. Dad found me and walked me back to the chapel, where I met up with Babcia, Dziadzio, Nanna, Uncle Tim and the rest of my family and we took photos.

Today I have been studying for Chemistry. I went outside and studied today on a blanket on the lawn in the sun. It was nice. Missy was rolling on the 'blankie' next to me. Other than that, a pretty boring day.

Signing off.

Results

Results from Semester 2 Exams & Overall Marks

English

Exam - 62.2%

Overall - 70.1%

Chemistry

Exam - 63.3%

Overall - 68%

Human Biology

Exam - 67%

Overall - 70%

Applicable Mathematics

Exam - 51%

Overall - 55%

I was feeling so anxious for my Applicable mark. I felt so nervous because I had a feeling I was going to fail it. To see the 51% on my paper made me feel so happy. I had passed the course. Even though it is not the greatest grade in the world (C), it is the best that I can do because maths is my weakest area. I just hope that I will be able to pass my TEE and with great study, I should.

I had my Aunty and my Nanna come over today so that they could see the photos from their Esperance/Kalgoorlie holiday. Some of the pictures were so beautiful and they were taken with our camera!

After they left, my uncle, cousin, his girlfriend and their baby Joshua came over, so that they could do their tax returns on the internet and Dad could help them. Joshua had a keen interest in Missy and loved looking at her.

I just finished watching the James Bond film The World is Not Enough. It is one of my favourites next to GoldenEye. I love it how women are becoming more involved in the movie; not for their sex appeal but for their intelligence.

Signing off.

Seminar

So I had my Chemistry seminar today. It was during period three and four, but I had to go to school at nine because Stephen had to go to Princess Margaret Hospital to get his allergy patch test done. I went in the library and did an Applicable Mathematics exam, which I got half of it done in a distracted two hours. Nathan also showed up and he worked on Physical Science.

At the seminar, Mr C went through and asked if anyone had any problems. He also gave us all the solutions which was really good. We finished quite early. We took Kristina home, then we got Chooks.

I played a bit of SA:MP which was quite cool. For some reason, guys have this idea in their heads they can kill girls quite easily. I did the opposite. I pwned him. This guy then killed me and I was given a few opinions to punish him for an unfair murder. I decided to take his money. All $29000 of it.

First Exam

Today was my first exam - Chemistry. Everyone was makingme nervous because they kept on going on about how nervous they were. I felt very pressed for time because I didn't get to finish all of the paper. At pens down, I was shaking so much that I had to use two hands to take a drink from my water bottle. I got home and have been playing SA:MP for quite awhile, a mod to GTA San Andreas.

Salad Mix

I had my last Chemistry test today. I used a lot of my calculator notes to help me with the test, but overall, I think I did quite good.

In Art, we came up with designs to create our silver clay pendant. I used some paper clay and some designs from my folio to create an idea. If it looked any good, I drew it on my design sheet.

Emily asked me to help her put up the advertisements for our face painting stall for Mercy Day all around the school. I think I got a bit carried away with the sticky tape as i used quite a bit. We walked around the MLC and SLC area, to the gym and to the JLC area. When we finished, we walked back to religion, where we watched The Lion King.

In English, I had my last in-class essay (I won't be missing them!) and it wasn't very easy. I only wrote two pages and two lines of the third which is least amount I have written all year. It was so hard! I felt that I ran out of time because I still had so much to say.

I really felt like helping making dinner tonight for some reason, so I made a salad. I used a lettuce mix, tomatoes, carrots, cucumber, mushrooms, cheese and Italian dressing. It was nice and colourful, plus it tasted great too.

Signing off.

Spectacular

Without any tests to worry about, she had the best day that she had had all week. Her dad decided to have a day off work, so she was driven to school, instead of the normal bus ride she has to take.

Her first lesson was a Chemistry laboratory. For the first time all year, she worked with Diem instead of working with her normal partner, Lauren, which was a nice change. The experiment involved mixing different substances together and watching them turn amazing colours, from a colourless solution to one that was bright blue, yellow to deep red or heating some of them to see them turn a bright pastel green. She tried to put some iron (III) chloride solid into a test tube but it all felt on the gauze mat that they had set on the bench. She tried again and the same thing happened. In the end, they noticed the test tube had a big hole in the bottom of it and they had a large pile of iron chloride to clean up.

After Human Biology, her year group had to walk down to the chapel to go to a mass. The mass was celebrating Catholic Education in Western Australia. Today, the mass was started off differently to how it usual does. A bowl of water was blessed, a candle was lit and salt was added to the water. The priest then went around the congregation and using a piece of branch, put it into the water and flicked it on them. When the priest came around to her side, a large water droplet hit her right in the middle of the forehead. She didn't wipe it off, but as she concentrated on the water droplet, she felt like the skin underneath it began to pulsate. As it began to evaporate, the feeling disappeared until she thought nothing of it.

Her two free periods actually involved work today. She had left the essay she had to write for English until these periods because she really couldn't be bothered after she had gone out to hand in her phone yesterday to get it fixed. She spent an hour on it and at the same time she listened to her iPod which helped to block out the people who talking around her. Afterwards, she played a few games of Jim Rummy with Diem, Chantelle joining in a short time later. She was impressed at how well Diem was playing, seeing as she got a very high score of 175 points. In the last fifteen minutes, they played 13 just before going off to lunch.

The highlight of her day came from her English lesson. The class received their essays they had done on Ten Canoes back and Ms perks told her class that she and Mina had received the highest marks in the class. From this comment, she had though that she would have got a level 6, but when the teacher handed it back to her, she was in shock. She had received a level 7F, which equates to 83%, a very hard mark mark to get and very few people have received a mark like it. Mina had received a level 7M, which is around 86%. She hadn't cared that Mina had got a better mark than her, she cared more that she had beaten her personal best...

I Love Jonathan Togo

I got to Chemistry this morning, panicking. Mr C had forgotten to put up the answers to the Chemistry assignment up on the web page and I was only hoping that it would get moved to tomorrow. When I walked in the door, everyone was huddled around the answers and Mr C apologised for not replying to the email I sent him as he only looked at them this morning. A few copies of the answers were handed out and people grouped around writing and trying to remember the answers for the validation. The class then asked if we could have the test tomorrow, seeing as we have finished the whole Chemistry course and we would be revising anyway. He agreed. To add onto my stress levels, the Organic Chemistry test is on Thursday, Friday being the only day with nothing on.

In art, I began to make the beaded necklace I designed. I have completed half of it, but it is going to be a little bit short. It took quite a while to do one section; put on a bead, crimp it, put on another but I should be done by tomorrow.

In my free period, we got our hands on some whiteboard markers and we started doing people's love compatibilities. This idea of fun was a big thing in primary school, and Diem and I were going back to the "good" old days. John and I got a low score of 20 something percent (which I recalculated to be 97% (blame Diem)) and we did all these funny ones. I told Diem about my obsession with left-handed guys and guns, so I did the test with Jonathan Togo from CSI: Miami and I got such a good score of 93%

Jonathan Togo - My left-handed love

(And don't ask me about the vest...it's horrible)

I had my English essay and even though the question was so easy I was lost for words! I ran out of time so I had to write really quickly, so I don't know if I made any sense.

Signing off

Busy Bee

Today was not a relaxing day at all. I have been so busy from the time I woke up until right about now and I feel so exhausted.

Firstly, I went to Crystal Reflections at Hillary's Boat Harbour. I had to do a homework task where I had to go and find some jewellery, sketch it and answers questions about it. Mum and I asked the lady at the counter if I could do the task and she had a look on her face that gave off a "that's a strange request" expression. I don't know how long I was in the shop for, because I had to draw three pieces of jewellery. For the whole time I was there, the other customers that walked in gave me strange looks, especially the time when I was sitting on the floor drawing a piece of jewellery that was on the bottom shelf. I sketched two bracelets and a necklace (the necklace gave me quite a lot of ideas of how I could make my necklace I am going to make) which was made out of beautiful amber beads. I still haven't answered the questions, but I will be doing them tomorrow.

Afterwards, we went to The Bead Company in Osbourne Park. I have never seen so my beads and beading accessories in my life. There was such a big range, with many different colours and types (glass, crystal, plastic, wooden, diamante and pearl). Dad and Stephen were getting so bored (they were bored when we walked in because Dad said make it quick) but there was so much to look at and lots of decisions to be made. I chose my colour design from Gustav Klimt's painting "The Kiss", with colours of yellow, orange, white and black. I will be creating a design similar to the necklace in I saw at Crystal Reflections, but I will use aspects from the painting.

When I got home, I had to watch the rest of Schindler's List and start watching The Shawshank Redemption for my Religion essay. I finished both of them, which took up a good four hours of my time. I hadn't watched the end of Schindler's List at school because I was sick, so watching it at home wasn't so boring, but when I went to watch The Shawshank Redemption again, I was getting really bored with it, because we had watched it one and half times in class.

After dinner, I went to go finish my Chemistry assignment with no luck. I was searching on the Internet for some of the things I needed (some of which was very useful!), but most of the time I couldn't find it.

*sigh*

Signing off.

Just Another Day...

Listening to Everywhen by Massive Attack

Not much happened today. In art, I drew designs of what I wanted my pendant to be and I also curled wire, which was quite fun.

My free Chemistry period involved us playing 13 for an hour instead of doing any work.

I got my in-class essay results back and I got a 6M (equivalent to 75%). That is the first level 6 I have received for an in-class essay and the first A grade I received all year in English. I was so suprised that I got such a high mark seeing as I thought I would have only got a level 5H at the most.

See? Not very interesting was it? Probably the most interesting part of the day was watching two more episodes of CSI: Miami and eatting cupcakes.

Signing off.