Stupid Colds...
Well I'm back again... still sick (Damn you Jenn!), when mom says play nice and share, she doesn't mean the damn cold! Owell, I manged to survive this week; Two tests, an english presentation, and getting to school for 7:00 am. I found myself napping 4 of the 5 days. I even managed to do it once in my computer chair.
Even with this disease I did go to the university fair last friday. The whole experience seemed geared towards gathering pamphlets and university propaganda. All the information is on the internet if I really want to see it so I found myself asking questions I already knew the anwsers too. No one could even tell me a straight anwser to the difference between Engineering and Engineering Sciences. Overall my impressions on universities has remained unchanged. Mac and Queens are still my top choices... but I also think that if I were to do a co-op program that I would do it at waterloo. They seem to have everything really worked out nicely, and I didn't really pick up on the arrogance they're famed for. We'll just see what marks I have. Currently i'm pulling a 81 in philosophy. It WILL go up, if I have anything to say about it. It'll just mean I'll need people's help to really pick out grammatical errors in my essays. Of every english oriented teacher in the school I get both the latvians for english and philosophy... as i've been told latvian has about 14 different verb tenses... like past, present, future, etc. I don't even know how you remember that many things?
This Week in School: I had a math test monday... which was moved to tuesday because the teacher didn't show up. It was a test specifically desinged to not let us finish in time... so when we came wednesday she gave us a speach about not quiting and gave us 30 extra minutes. I also got some kudos points when I gave her a quote I recently commited to memory:
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to go on that counts"
I also had it in my head because for some strange reason (damn my father's english pride) we picked Winston Churchill as our platonic "Philosohper King". so we needed a quote... and that seemed like a really good one. I also had to do a chemistry test; It wasn't nearly as hard as I made myself to believe, but I didn't quite get perfect. Then I had to do my english presentation on the format and structure of a Review Essay. It was a pain in the ass, but fun. Took all my energy to do the test 2nd period and be completely eccentric and dramatic for 3rd period english... I also got to school at 7:00 AM to practice that damn thing. But being that our group was me + 3 other drama kids... we did a fashion show (a review is like dressing up)... I got to be william shakespeare and got interviewd (core reading essay in text), and we even did a skit for them and had them review it on the spot... again lots of fun =P).
Today: Well I essentially spend all of saturday at the art show. In fact, it was a really good art show... Lots of great talent there. If only I had 10,000 dollars... I did get 10 business cards though! Custom Leather (Hide and Seek), Michael Pape (www.theartofmichaelpape.com , havn'et visited yet), Zoran Designs (jewellery), woodburning, etc, etc. It was all really good stuff... i'll continue my search for jewellery, I don't know... for some reason I can't take my mind off this one ring (thats well out of my price range). Other then that It was a good day; I got to talk to a friend who I haven't seen since Grade 8 (didn't go to woodlands) and is now living in B.C. I haven't talked to her since grade 10 and she seems to be doing really well for herself. I even talked to someone who went away to university this year and haven't gotten to speak with them for a couple months. All in all I survived this week, it was no better or worse then 2 weeks ago... I guess grade 12 is just going to be a pain in my ass. Owell with that i'll leave you fellows with another quote (even though you got a winston one!):
Quote of the Day:
"An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl she used to be. A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is, and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be."
~ Rober A. Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land pg 323
Even with this disease I did go to the university fair last friday. The whole experience seemed geared towards gathering pamphlets and university propaganda. All the information is on the internet if I really want to see it so I found myself asking questions I already knew the anwsers too. No one could even tell me a straight anwser to the difference between Engineering and Engineering Sciences. Overall my impressions on universities has remained unchanged. Mac and Queens are still my top choices... but I also think that if I were to do a co-op program that I would do it at waterloo. They seem to have everything really worked out nicely, and I didn't really pick up on the arrogance they're famed for. We'll just see what marks I have. Currently i'm pulling a 81 in philosophy. It WILL go up, if I have anything to say about it. It'll just mean I'll need people's help to really pick out grammatical errors in my essays. Of every english oriented teacher in the school I get both the latvians for english and philosophy... as i've been told latvian has about 14 different verb tenses... like past, present, future, etc. I don't even know how you remember that many things?
This Week in School: I had a math test monday... which was moved to tuesday because the teacher didn't show up. It was a test specifically desinged to not let us finish in time... so when we came wednesday she gave us a speach about not quiting and gave us 30 extra minutes. I also got some kudos points when I gave her a quote I recently commited to memory:
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to go on that counts"
I also had it in my head because for some strange reason (damn my father's english pride) we picked Winston Churchill as our platonic "Philosohper King". so we needed a quote... and that seemed like a really good one. I also had to do a chemistry test; It wasn't nearly as hard as I made myself to believe, but I didn't quite get perfect. Then I had to do my english presentation on the format and structure of a Review Essay. It was a pain in the ass, but fun. Took all my energy to do the test 2nd period and be completely eccentric and dramatic for 3rd period english... I also got to school at 7:00 AM to practice that damn thing. But being that our group was me + 3 other drama kids... we did a fashion show (a review is like dressing up)... I got to be william shakespeare and got interviewd (core reading essay in text), and we even did a skit for them and had them review it on the spot... again lots of fun =P).
Today: Well I essentially spend all of saturday at the art show. In fact, it was a really good art show... Lots of great talent there. If only I had 10,000 dollars... I did get 10 business cards though! Custom Leather (Hide and Seek), Michael Pape (www.theartofmichaelpape.com , havn'et visited yet), Zoran Designs (jewellery), woodburning, etc, etc. It was all really good stuff... i'll continue my search for jewellery, I don't know... for some reason I can't take my mind off this one ring (thats well out of my price range). Other then that It was a good day; I got to talk to a friend who I haven't seen since Grade 8 (didn't go to woodlands) and is now living in B.C. I haven't talked to her since grade 10 and she seems to be doing really well for herself. I even talked to someone who went away to university this year and haven't gotten to speak with them for a couple months. All in all I survived this week, it was no better or worse then 2 weeks ago... I guess grade 12 is just going to be a pain in my ass. Owell with that i'll leave you fellows with another quote (even though you got a winston one!):
Quote of the Day:
"An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl she used to be. A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is, and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be."
~ Rober A. Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land pg 323
4 Comments:
Great quotes... I like the part about failure not being fatal. I've heard the one about the Artist... sounds like a Harshaw... but I didn't look at the name. I'm pretty sure Jubel said it.
Sorry about the cold. I'm still a bit under the weather myself. I could probably use some breakfast. Ha... at least you didn't have to do OAC.
Cheers,
Jennith
Shoot... did my comment post?
Jenn
its been a comment slow to register day.
Jennith
Great quotes... I like the part about failure not being fatal. I've heard the one about the Artist... sounds like a Harshaw... but I didn't look at the name. I'm pretty sure Jubel said it.
Sorry about the cold. I'm still a bit under the weather myself. I could probably use some breakfast. Ha... at least you didn't have to do OAC.
Cheers,
Jennith
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