SO LONG!

I haven’t posted in literally FOREVER, and I know I have no one to blame but myself. It has been somewhat hectic, this new year. Just a few days after the New Year Post, I had a MUN to attend. I was

Just a few days after the New Year Post, I had a MUN to attend. I was the delegate of Norway in FAO, and we had so much fun! The delegate of Luxembourg is in my school, and we’re pretty good, however eccentric, friends. We have various similarities, hence, we always get on well in normal conversations. I tended to stick with him for a large part of the conference because most of my friends were in committees far away from my own, and well, yeah.

This lead to our chairs shipping us together. xD

That was hilarious. I kept arguing that it was a ridiculous idea because he’s like two years younger to me, and I have a boyfriend (LONG STORY). It got even funnier when only the day before I had gone to said boyfriend’s place (YAY). ALSO, our chairs were pretty HUGE Potterheads, and that made our fucking day. They were also pretty cool, and we had a lot of dirty jokes. xD

A day after the MUN, I got a sore throat, followed by high fever. Fever remained for over a week, and I ended up getting hospitalized. (I HATE THAT.) Hospital involved SO MUCH PAIN. So, I guess everybody knows that they usually hook you up to the IV bottles, right? YES, for that, they need to insert the IV needle in your vein in your arm. Yes? So, the thing is, they couldn’t really get it in my vein, and THEY FUCKING PRICKED ME 7 TIMES! 7 TIMES OF PRICKING ME, 7 TIMES INSERTING THE NEEDLE TO GET NO BLOOD FLOW, 7b TIMES REMOVING THE NEEDLE!

Torture. Absolute torture.

Anyway, they didn’t get the needle in, so I was told to drink glucose and ORS and stuff. Still, I was in there for 5 days, and it sucked. I missed school for a total of two weeks. Which is also why a ton of my time was spent completing stuff after I got out of the hosp.

Um, my practicals went okay, I guess. Physics was pretty good, I messed up in Chemistry’s viva, and in Biology, I didn’t get the result. I also identified one thing in identification wrong, so. It was fine, overall.

My exams start tomorrow, and I’ve been hit with a terrible bout of nausea from MTX today. (Saturday and Sunday are MTX days.) I spent more than half the day sleeping, and I still feel shitty, so I haven’t actually started studying yet. It makes me feel sucky, so sucky. It might be English tomorrow, but I still want to do well, you know? 😦

Well, remember I mentioned I got a boyfriend? I’ll put up another post on that pretty soon. With a whole detailed thing.

Yay! I’m so excited to get back into blogging; I literally can’t wait. I’ve had a ton of shit going on, but I promise I’m gonna get back into this!

Love love LOVE,
Sky! ❤

 

 

Biology Practical Exam!

We have 9 experiments in biology. Out of the nine, I had studied seven. Turns out, the only experiments I had to learn were the first, fourth, eighth and ninth. But since the teacher hadn’t made it clear enough, I studied everything.

Apart from that, classification is redundant. As in, the classification of an organism according to the kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species is unnecessary, as I only have to write the name of the organism, and the phylum it belongs to. Not even the scientific name of the organism.

Guess who’s mad?

Apart from that? Only three minutes to identify the animal specimen, draw the labelled diagram of the organism, write two features of the phylum to which it belongs, along with the characteristics of the organism.

Leech, and prawn.

You tell me – who can draw that prawn in 1.5 minutes? (Assuming I get the other stuff down in the other 1.5…)

Well, okay. I also found out that she does two vivas – one about the experiment we’re doing (which is the dissection of a dicot stem/root, or monocot stem/root) – another from what she has taught. Seriously? I need to study 8 chapters for a viva meant to be related to practical stuff done in the lab?

My biology teacher also said how she expects VS and I to score full in the practicals.

Thanks for adding to the nervousness and pressure, ma’am.

I’m gonna go study now. Laterz!

Love,
Sky xoxo.

P.S.: I’m going to refer to real life people by their initials; so much easier than anything else.

This Song I like Right Now.

I am supposed to be studying for my Speaking Skills tomorrow, but oh well.

Young James Dean, some say he looks just like his father
But he could never love somebody’s daughter
Football team, loves more than just the game
So he vowed to be his husband at the altar

–New Americana, Halsey.

I really like this song right now, and I really like this bit from the song. If you haven’t already heard it, I suggest you do it RIGHT NOW.

Um, okay. Let’s move on!

Today at school. It was a weird-ish day. We were told we will have a physics test today, but we didn’t have a physics period today. The teacher had told us she’d take the math period, but when she didn’t come during the second period (math), everyone positively celebrated. Well, we received a nasty shock after recess.

Recess is after the fourth period. Today, we had chemistry after recess, but one thing everyone forgot to take into account was that today was the twelfth grade’s chemistry practical exam. The teacher had told us she would require four periods for the exam, but that had conveniently slipped everyone’s mind.

So, surprise, surprise: PHYSICS TEST. Now, I had been absent for the duration of the chapter while it had been taught in class, and I hadn’t studied it at home, either. So, I was screwed.

The test was for 20 marks, and had 9 questions.

I made answers up. I shit you not, I MADE answers up. I’m 43795% sure the teacher will faint after reading my answers and wonder why the fuck I took Science. [Sometimes I do too, then I think of how I need to win a Nobel Prize one day. {I’m ambitious beyond relief. (More like too dumb for my own good.)}]

So so so. Listening Skills. Went great. I just missed a teeny-tiny thing BOTH times the passage was repeated, so I’m pretty sure I lose a mark. Or who knows, she might think it was an acceptable answer? (Still getting 19/20 so ehh).

Speaking of practical exams, I have had the ones for Physics and Chem done and over with. Biology is on Friday, and I’m pretty scared for it. The teacher asks questions in the viva from all that she has taught (stuff taught in class apart from the laboratory stuff), and that’s kinda scary.

My physics practical wasn’t as good as I wanted. I got the experiment where you had to find weight of a body of unknown weight using the Parallelogram Law of Vectors. It is not one of my favorite ones, and it showed. My readings were incorrect, even though I double (triple, actually) checked everything I was doing to see where I had gone wrong. Finding nothing and having resigned to my fate, I handed in whatever readings I got. My viva didn’t go that great either. It was okay. It wasn’t extraordinary – just okay.

Chemistry, on the other hand, was a great success.

I got Lead Nitrate for salt analysis, which is one of the best salts anyone could get (apart from Copper Sulphate, haha) (maybe even Ammonium Carbonate?) (darn, even Aluminum Sulphate isn’t that hard). The reason for this is that in the dry heating test (you take some of the salt in a test tube and heat it), the salt decrepitates, which is basically the salt making a crackling sound. I could explain the theory behind decrepitation, but I think you don’t wanna hear (?) Eh, okay. Salts without any water of crystallisation crackle in the dry heating test.

Viva was kick-ass. I got five out of five marks, yay! I only messed up in one reaction, but the rest of it was pretty great. I think I accidentally dropped some conc. sulphuric acid on my hand while doing the ring test [(aqueous solution of salt + freshly prepared ferrous sulphate solution + conc. sulphuric acid added gently along sides of test tube) formed is a dark brown ring at the junction of acid and solution]. And some girl accidentally dropped some hot water on me while I was washing a test tube. It wasn’t intentional; she was using the same wash basin as myself to wash her test tube, and was probably washing her ring test out – it’s exothermic, test tube gets really hot.

So so so, I did great! I’m shit scared for biology on Friday though; hope I survive.

I also cut my leg on the edge of the bench. Ugh.

That’s it for now, gotta practice speaking! *poker face x 100*

Love,
Sky xoxo.

P.S.: This guy I’m really attracted to basically looked at me for like a long while in the recess, and I DIED. then came back to life, and then died all over again. His eyes and gah! (I feel like one of those giggly schoolgirls…)

P.P.S.: Here’s the lyric video to the song! ❤