06/05/2012

YAY! We're finally done with all of finals and now everything that I have to worry about is the musical. I really don't want to go to school tomorrow, because people who are involved in the musical will have to go to rehearsal for the whole day in the Science Park auditorium. What sucks is how people in school will all be relaxed for three whole days while we have to be focused and tired and all in all these three days. It's quite unfair, but I guess that's what we get for choosing these courses in the beginning. I swear, once I'm done with all the art credits, I will never choose this course ever again. It takes up so much time, and I don't think it's worth it since we ruined so many of our clothes by making them more "beautiful". I really think that it's not quite worth it even if we get A+ in this course. It won't cover the sacrificing of our clothes and time and I guess the after parties would be pretty amazing and of course, I hope that there will be one. And of course, after the performance, summer will officially begin for me! I'm going to Palau and the States this year, and I'm really looking forward to going there and having fun!

06/04/2012

Finally, I have only one more final. Yesterday, I wasn't sure about whether we had an expository writing one, but obviously, today, we found out that we did. It wasn't hard but it was VERY annoying. The hardest part was probably the poem part. We had to use 3 poetic elements in one poem. It doesn't sound hard, but it really is, when you have a limited amount of time. This could be the worst poem ever written in human history and I would never want to talk about it again. And the other part that was quite hard was the essay part. I had trouble thinking of three supporting details to use as topic sentences. And after I finished the whole essay and was working on the conclusion, I found out that one of my body paragraphs didn't really support my thesis. I panicked a bit but then added a sentence in the end of the paragraph and the whole paragraph made perfect sense! I felt proud of myself for a bit and still, I hope that the teacher wouldn't think that it was too obvious. I'm really glad that it's almost the end of the year and that after the test tomorrow, I can basically screw around in school! 

06/03/2012

Finally, I have almost no more finals left. One, or possibly two. Of course, I hope that there is only one, which would be the Geometry one. We possibly will have the Expository Writing one tomorrow, and of course, I hope that we won't be tested. My grade in this subject is pretty okay now, and I don't want to risk having my grade pulled down by this test. And also, I don't want to hand write a five-paragraph essay in a limited amount of time. And of course, the test wouldn't only include that one essay. And oh my god. I really don't want to study for for anything else anymore. Also, of course, I don't want to take the Geometry test. I really don't like geometry. Really. And to be honest, I prefer Algebra more than Geometry. But anyways, I still have to deal with the final test of Geometry. I'm really glad, yet really sad about it. I'm glad because I'm finally over Geometry because of how much I dislike it and how hard it is for me to study it. Algebra, which I'll be taking next year, would be a lot easier, hopefully. And, I'm sad because this year, I didn't need to really study much nor concentrate a lot in these Geometry classes. I hope that everything will be better next year too!

05/31/2012

I really am giving up on the Biology finals tomorrow. We have 10 chapters to study for, and according to my friend, there are more than 200 pages to study. It is just impossible to have all those pages read through and have the important parts memorized in one night. It's not about procrastination. It's about how there are also other classes, not only Biology, and I think that the teacher should be aware of that. We have a life. Other than studying, we still have other things to worry about and other things to be doing, especially how we have all the other subject's final exams to be prepared for. And seriously, 10 chapters? I really think that this amount of work load isn't reasonable. It is nearly impossible to study for this much of information and the teachers just keep telling us to sleep early, yet they still give out this much of work and such a big amount of things to study for. They blame us for procrastinating, but have they ever thought about how much other things we need to do? The school wants us to be a well-rounded individual, yet all we have time to do, is to study, study, and study. It's already 11 PM and really doubt that I can sleep tonight. 

05/30/2012

I finally got my camera! I've been wanting to buy a new camera for a long time. And the kind I wanted wasn't those normal digital ones. I wanted the more professional ones. I still don't really know how to use it, but I'm going to get better at it by practicing more and being brave and not afraid to change modes to see the effects. Also, since there are so many people in our school who are really into and really know information about photography, I might as well just ask them how they take some of their pictures. I'm really excited about it, and today when I got it, I tried taking pictures with it. But it's so much harder than I thought and very different from the digital cameras. I had issues with the focusing already and after around 10 shots, I think I've found the way to focus the camera on the object that I want to take a picture of. If it weren't finals week this week, I might just go outside and take more pictures and try out more things about it. Speaking of finals week, I'm pretty sure I'm pretty much dead for the Biology part. We're going to be tested on 10 chapters and I haven't started preparing for it yet and the test is on Friday. 

05/29/2012

It really doesn't feel like finals week. Yes, people have been using the "busy icon" on Skype, but still. The way people are acting at school is just hard to relate to the thought of "it's finals week". There isn't much change. People still stay after school to fool around in the hallways or hang out in the cafeteria or sofa area. It does feel a bit different because the seniors don't need to come to school anymore, so there has been fewer people in school. It doesn't do much change to me since I only have one class that has only 3 seniors included if you don't count "Stage Art" as one. And normally, I don't listen to music when I'm studying for exams, but today, I've been enjoying way too much music than I'm supposed to. It's really weird and funny how I'm actually really awake now and it's already 11 PM. I guess it's because I slept at 9 PM last night. It's been years since I've slept at 9 PM in a regular school day. When I woke up this morning, I felt so accomplished and even though I was still a bit tired from staying up till 2 or 3 for the weekends, I had an energetic day and I think that after my finals, I'll be sleeping at 9 everyday. 

05/27/2012

Even though it's almost finals, I don't feel the feeling of being in that stage of time. Normally, before these big mid-terms or finals, people start to change their Skype statuses into the "busy sign", but today, only a few people did. Also, I really don't see people online till really late these days. I've been staying up till 2 or 3 these two days and people have been going to sleep pretty early. And today, since I really couldn't feel the feeling of being in the state of "near finals", I woke up at around 12 o'clock and spent almost all of my afternoon and night outside. And now I really don't want to talk about finals since I'm 100% not prepared for them. A happy thing that happened to me is that I've done 120 sit ups yesterday and hoola hooped for around 20 minutes while memorizing my lines for Romeo and Juliet. I want to lose some more weight as soon as possible since there are many events coming up for me. I have a concert to go to, which I'm really looking forward to, since the singer is just absolutely hot and cute and all of those positive adjectives that you can use to describe a man, and also about going to America this summer. I want to look good and enjoy myself more when I'm there!