05/24/2012

I just realized that I forgot to do this journal yesterday. I was flooded with piles of homework and things to study for. In this week, we have had three tests in total, although I haven't taken one because I was absent. On Monday, there was a grammar test; on Tuesday, there was supposed to have a Geometry test but I wasn't there that day; on Wednesday, I was free from tests, though on Thursday, which is today, we had a really hard test about The Odyssey. It's probably one of the hardest reading material that I've read since a long time. Well actually, the play of Romeo and Juliet got me quite frustrated too. It's just that the language in poetry and the medieval or renaissance times are too different from the language that we're using nowadays. It takes around 5 or more times of time to understand it compared to the time you spend to read just a normal novel nowadays. Sometimes, you might not even understand it unless you go and read the translation or have someone translate it for you. I was really happy that I got every question right today for this English test, and now, the real thing that I'm worried about is the Biology final. It will include 9 chapters and we aren't allowed to bring in any notes or any assisting materials, and in class, no one really was listening to the teacher and the homework don't require us to fully understand what the chapter is talking about. I'm really worried about it and yet I still hope to do good on it!