Today school started at 9:50 with Latin. Mrs. Buwalda told about the subject for the final exam (Ovid and a
little bit Vergil), which is supposedly a pretty easy topic. I think it’s going to be interesting. We still will have quite a lot of tests for Latin this year - two normal tests and four translation tests, of which two will count
for one’s school exam average (which will in turn be averaged with the final exam grade). Hmmm, a lot of work but pretty interesting.
Next, I had a free hour and went to the multimedia centre to write. Then, I had German. Hmm, I was told that Mrs.
H. (my teacher) was very nice but pretty chaotic, so I should “educate” her quite a bit. Well, I have not noticed it so far; we had to do an assignment which was put on paper and she had it on a floppy for me, and says she’ll put the letter assignment which we’ll get tomorrow on a floppy, too. I’ve had a lot worse experiences with paperwork, especially in first lessons of a new school year or period. And so far her instruction seems pretty clear also. No “Look at the blackboard” type of teacher so far. Dad says she indeed appears somewhat chaotic, but I must say that
the most chaotic folks I’ve encountered don’t appear so. Well, hope things’ll keep on going well. And by the way the
class was pretty interesting. Only her German seems so weird to me. Well huh, there are so many accents.
English was also pretty cool. We’re doing twentieth century literature this year, and also have to read a twentieth century book for our oral exam. Initially, I thought: blegh, I always read classics. But actually all books I’ve read for my oral exams for English so far are twentieth century. We’re going to do a writing test this period as well. Cool. By the way the way the folks calculate our grades for writing has changed positively. Conventions aren’t so important anymore. Yeah!!! I always forget those! And language is much more important now, which I love for I’m fairly good at it. Unfortunately, the same method will be used for the French writing assignments - I’m not so great at French. I’m by the way sooo happy that we’re not going to do so much reading for English again. That’s sooo boring!!
French was boring. I really feel that’s such a difficult subject! This year, we’re going to do literature, one more unit French2 (at least one, I mean, maybe more), writing, listening of course (oh, forgot to mention that with English, but we have a standardised listening test) and I don’t know about speaking except for one’s oral exam. This hour, we had to read texts, which was pretty easy but I didn’t like it.
Sigh, I’m already soo tired! I need a holiday!!!!! But yeah, everyone needs to adjust the first week, huh?
Astrid
Ps - boy, are the sausage rolls in our caffeteria ever expensive this year!
