It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Monday.
Friday’s at school are pretty good. It starts with health, goes to supervised study, then double English.
I really have nothing to say here, so I am just going to end it and have a bigger post when I think of something interesting to say.
Photo I took today.
Thursdays are the days that I run out of steam.
Today started with Psych and we didn’t have our teacher. I didn’t do the set work I started summarising my way through Chapters 2+3 to get ready for my SAC next week.
SAC’s are just starting to come out, over the next few weeks I have a Legal and Psych one, with Health not too far beyond that.
In health were were learning how to answer exam questions, that is the thing I like about the way that Trager teaches, she doesn’t teach you for anything but the exam. She is teaching you to pass. Good effort Miss.
In double History we continued on with our work, but I prefer to do the History myself.
After school I had to go back to school because we have a VCE information night, not many people came, which was not really a surprise. Glenn, Ashley and Mandy all spoke, year 12’s from last year which was good, it gave us some insight into how they went.
One of the major things that they spoke about was choosing what to give up. When you look at your year 12 in broad sense their are 3 elements.
STUDY - SOCIAL - SLEEP
Glenn described it as a triangle, he said you could really only have two of the three.
Ashley gave up social, Mandy gave up sleep.
For me I don’t think I will give up any of them. It’s about time.
I’m a social person, don’t get me wrong, but unlike some kids from my school in this town being social for me doesn’t mean hanging out for 6 hours after school at the Chicken Shop. The person I hang out with the most, is my girlfriend, she lives two doors down and it is not an issue to go and hang, it doesn’t take up all my time.
The major thing that they talk about it not going to parties, but I don’t really get it. I mean who studies between 7.30 and 1am? I don’t really drink so I’m not going to end up with a hangover the next morning so it doesn’t really affect me.
Social also includes sport, which to me is not a problem. I have taken up footy this year, which is supposed to be my most important year at school. But it only fits in well with my timetable, it helps me to be affective becuase I know what I need to do before I go to training.
I don’t see that I will need to give up Social for school. Glenn’s triangle is good but I feel it needs more sides.
STUDY - SLEEP - SOCIAL - WORK - TV/GAMES - SPORT - SOCIAL NETWORKING
It is not as pretty but this is what I see as essentially the major points of your year 12.
I am going to drop TV/GAMES and SOCIAL NETWORKING, I think they are the two worst.
I don’t watch much TV, I play a lot of Xbox, but I don’t watch TV. I have one friend who goes home and just watches probably 4-5 hours of TV a night. TV is the one thing that gives you no benefits.
We were talking about Social, Physical and Mental health the other day in HHD, TV/GAMES are the main thing that has no helpful affect on those healths.
I want to cut down on FB, keep up my SPORT, still go to WORK but drop it around exams, keep SOCIAL how it is, STUDY more and SLEEP well. TV/GAMES are practically gone.
Except for one episode of Dr. Who with my brothers every other night and The Voice cause my buddy Jesse is on it, soon.
Anyway I am confused now as to where this went so that is all.
Bede.
What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
This blog post is way cooler than my other ones cause it starts with a quote and not an unfunny sentence.
It is also in a weird font because I was too lazy to re-write that quote and instead I just copy and pasted it.
This post started with a quote from a John Green book because today has been a day of my ‘crushes on things that I cannot marry’.
First is John Green, and his books. Although the newest book that I am reading of his, The Fault In Our Stars, is not his best work it is still enthralling and it reminds me of his other stuff.
Second is the Modest Mouse album, “Good News for People who like Bad News”.
Regardless Tuesday the 21st was a good day.
History is barely a recognisable time of today, feels like so many hours ago.
Anyway, today we got our year 12 bomber jackets which although there is a lot of discussion and fence sitting, I personally like them.
I had English where we were given a lecture about our antics on Friday, sub for last two sessions on a Friday - really what did they expect.
Then I had double Psych which I really did not like, but I found out when my first SAC for that class is and now I can do just the “needed” work.
When I got home it was just me and my youngest brother (10) for the night, Parents out, Sister at work, Brother on camp. So I went up the street and got some “yum” food and then we watched Doctor Who, chatted, ate dinner and dessert and kicked back.
I read for about an hour after dinner, something that I haven’t done as much as I liked then I got into my Legal and smashed it. Ready for a (his words not mine) pop-quiz tomorrow morning. - I’d like to get 95+% on this, which I do not think is unrealistic. Legal I’d like to end up with a 40+.
Anyway this post has been a little different to the usual ones which were becoming laborious to write and therefore must have not been a joy to read. This post has been more interesting I think, and it will be what I prefer to read when I re-read this which is really what I am doing it for. You guys ( more than I thought would follow) are an side-effect I am grateful for.
Bede.
I have not updated in several days, & I am sorry.
So today was Monday, and on this Monday there was no school.
Today was the day of Mr. Feltoe’s funeral. It was an odd day, for one I was ready for school an hour before I needed to be - Mum got me up at the crack of dawn to ensure that her taking up of my pants had been a success.
The funeral was in Melbourne and we took the bus down. I sat in there and I thought about Mr. Feltoe, I thought about death and I thought about Catholicism.
I am not going to talk about his funeral, family or death - I think that would be rude.
The other thing about this post is that I need to get back into this blog.
Bede.
Wednesday is such a hog, it doesn’t need nine letters.
Today started with Legal, I really love legal at the moment. Mr. Lim is such a good teacher and he is really getting us through all the work. I need to just continue to do what I was doing by summarising the chapters into notes so I can look back on them. Our new thing to do in Legal Studies is to have a folio, this means we have to keep adding to it throughout the year with news articles, that are to do with the process of making bills. Also, road trippin’ baby.
Health was next and health is good, I think Health and Legal will be my two best classes for this year, seeing as the two teachers who are the most committed to me doing well. All the summarising that I plan to do in legal is already done for me in Health so I just need to ensure that I am working hard on it.
After that I had double spare in the common room, which was easy, as you would assume. I chatted to Kim and the others there about what we needed to buy for the common room this year, we will be having a meeting about that on Friday with the rest of the year 12’s.
Talking about meetings I have a Student Council meeting tomorrow at lunchtime this is when I will bring up my ideas about ‘YouthMentalYetToBeNamedWeek’ and the 7-8 soccer comp. Which should be good to get some stuff working.
After school I did a good hour of homework and then had footy training 6-8.
On another note John Green’s latest book just came in the mail, which I am looking forward to reading.
Bede.
I am updating from my phone so don’t judge any grammatical errors.
I had History first today, in history I am sort of an ‘at home’ learner, the stuff is so interesting that I have already read all the work she puts on the board. Still I think revolutions are such a great topic, the triumph of man.
Then it was english, we are working on writing contexts for stories so that we can more easily complete writing tasks on the book. I didn’t fully get this in class so I am going to try and find the teacher tomorrow and discuss it.
Then I had double psych, I don’t know what it is but something really makes me dis-like this psych class, I’m just going to have to burn through the text book and read and summarise it all.
After school I went home and did some health, then I took my girlfriend out for Valentines day. We went to an Indian resturant, where my sister works, and we had a great meal and a great night.
In the eternal words of Paul, “…and I love her”
Bede.
It’s Monday the 13th, is that less or more scary than a Friday?
I just (an hour and a half ago) got home from footy training. Massive cramp just then.
So the start of the second week of year 12.
Today started with a double spare. I was sitting around at the start of my ‘unsupervised study’ session in the library when we were asked if anyone had not much to do. Lachi and I said we were easy so we were sent on a task to help out with the year eights who were having their school photos done. This was alright it cut through that first session pretty well.
At recess Ms Caramarco spoke to us about Mr. Feltoe’s funeral arrangements. She gave us the option to go, or stay at school. I will be going, I’d like to pay my respects to a man who I knew, and respected.
I’m not going to say Mr. Feltoe was my favorite teacher at the school, he just wasn’t. It wasn’t that going to his class was a joy for me, it was just another class, but I respected the man. He put in 110% every day for the students. If you went and talked to him, he would drop everything (mind my second cliche` in two lines) to help you out.
For me being able to say that about a person who has died, is a sign of accepting maturity I feel. If I was to act now like he was the greatest man who ever walked the planet, or the greatest teacher I ever had that would be an immature way of life.
The last two classes of the day were Legal, we are going to Canberra for Legal at the end of the term so that should be great.
Legal studies is a pretty dry class, but that does not bother me. I am not looking for “fun” classes for year 12, I am looking for classes where I can get my head around the knowledge, apply it to all my SAC’s and remember it for the exam and just do well.
I have had two people just find my blog so far, people from real life, that’s kinda cool.
Bede.
I didn’t update last night, because it was a Saturday and I had been at work all day and had nothing interesting to say. This is me updating to say I’m not updating.
I forgot to update last night, now that’s a calamity.
Friday’s are not the greatest day in the world for me, like they are for everyone else. Mainly because I know I’ll be getting up early and heading to work the next day, so I don’t get that “friday feeling”.
I started with Health and Human and we continued to work through the coursework. I hadn’t got all my homework done, but she didn’t care cause I caught up pretty fast and I know everything anyways when we have the class discussions.
The next class we had was p-care, it is a group and supervised study session. Steph, Jayden and I mainly just read 442 and talked but what do you expect?
Double English was how we finished off the day and we were talking about different methods of writing, ect. I think this was really good and I have to write a short piece and give it to her on Tuesday.
At lunch me and Katelyn had to write an into into a book which the school will be giving to Mr. Feltoe’s family. It’s quite surreal to realise he is dead.
After school Steph and me are doing a Friday/Revision/Homework/Hangout, which is fun - she made me tea which was nice. We went through History and then we watched the end of the Soccer. Harry Kewell, I love you!
That’s all for today - sorry it was late.
Bede.
