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Edel is a 17 year old Filipino girl residing in Canada. She enjoys the colour orange, listening to Dir en grey, and other extremely angsty and hard rock music. Manga and reading in general is an obsession. Read more about Edel.
April 8, 2012@ 4:02 pm | Comments (5) |
Lent is finally over. :) My journey with no interent was… Not very successful but I managed to go by with minimal (emphasis on minimal) internet. I mostly dedicated myself to YouTube on the “play all” function so that was interesting. It’s weird because I had the strongest urge to blog throughout the forty days. Very odd, I thought I would just forget about it but it wasn’t the case at all. I actually started writing blog posts that I intended to post for later.
So what’s new with my life? Absolutely nothing. I’m really getting my butt kicked in everything schoool related. Not literally. But that’s not new, I’m always getting my butt kicked! I just need to pick up the pace and spring break seems like the greatest oppurtunity to catch up and get on my study horse again.
Here’s my little to-do list for the break:
1. Study for a calculus test.
2. Trig review questions.
3. Physics homework from last week.
4. Activity guide on democracy.
5. 130+ questions on Wuthering Heights.
6. Start and finish reading Heart of Darkness.
7. Start reading Kafka on the Shore.
Yeah. I think there’s more actually but the most daunting task is those questions on Wuthering Heights. I’m currently avoiding it but sooner or later I have to do it. I guess looking at that list is motivation in itself. Also, I want to get this done and over with so I have the rest of the break to do whatever I want (sitting at the computer, watching TV, playing video games, and more, haha) instead of doing everything I want first and then staying up until 3 in the morning the day before I go back to school.
On another note, today is my mother’s birthday today! She’s 53 today. It’s interesting how we (we as in teenagers, which I know doesn’t apply to all of you out there) get so caught up in our own lives and our growing up but we don’t really notice our parent(s)/guardian(s) growing older. Suddenly I notice the wrinkles, the knobby hands, the slightly bent back, and the strands of grey hair. Needless to say, I’m starting to appreciate my mom a whole lot more. Happy birthday mom!
February 21, 2012@ 11:39 pm | Comments (5) |
Tomorrow marks the beginning of Lent. Last year I gave up Tumblr for Lent. This year I’m giving up using the Internet (minus school things). So for the next 40 days I won’t be posting, commenting, reading, e-mailing, Twittering, Facebooking or anything that has to do with the Internet. My poor Neopets are going to starve to almost death (that’s the the first thought that came to my mind, how sad). I’m not sure if I can do it but hopefully I can. I enjoy testing my discipline but I always feel frustrated when I’m tempted. We’ll see how it goes!
Yesterday morning I got my diploma results back. In my province, anyone taking grade twelve courses have to take diplomas, which are basically just final exams.
So the mail came and I stared at the envelope. I opened it in a frenzy and just held the piece of paper. I was scared to open it. When I did, I let out a sigh of relief. I got 86% on my math diploma, well above the 75% I was expecting. My overall mark for math went down 1% which I’m thoroughly grateful for. Now chemistry is a whole different story. My mark dropped 6 whole percentages which kinda sucked but I did better than the 70% I thought I would get. I got a 78% which is decent considering how much I studied the lack of studying I did (16 hours including diploma prep).
Yeah. A lot my friends did amazingly well, which I’m kind of jealous about. Like in the 90s range! Guhh, I wish I studied harder, especially for chemistry. At least I still meet the requirements for engineering which is my main goal, as many of you already know.
I think that’s it for today. Goodnight!
