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Getting back to school was good. Not everyone was quite as excited as I, however nobody really begrudged it. The only panic was really the Math Task.
Wednesday night was long. Few people in my IB SL Math class got more than six hours sleep. Many got as little as four hours, and one of my classmates was up all night. Why? Our Investigative Task for the IB Math SL Portfolio (internal assessment) was due Thursday. I personally started it on the last Friday of the Break and finished up the majority on Sunday. Many of my classmates started about the same time or even later, leaving them awake late into Thursday morning. Day of, everybody was nodding off by third period, except those who had ingested caffeine earlier. After school, I actually took a nap for half an hour and would happily have slept longer, had my mom not woken me to do homework.
We also got a long talk about our French Orals, which we will be doing a "practice" of this week. I've got to talk for four minutes, in complete French about American Politics. It may sound daunting, but as our IB Coordinator (and French teacher) said, four minutes really isn't a lot.
The other History class got their Historical Investigations back on Friday, though the general results I don't know. We haven't received ours back yet, although they are marked, due to some issues. Our teacher says there is a need to speak with a few people personally first.
My weekend was interesting! Friday I was invited bowling, to find upon arrival that I would be attending the birthday party of a friend of a friend. My friend did not actually know anyone except the birthday girl, hence bringing myself and another friend, and when the birthday girl was late we skipped out to Zehrs and bought hummus and pita bread to snack on. We also got a gingerbread "Santa's Sleigh" kit, on sale for 50 cents (awesome deal right?) and actually built it in the bowling alley. We didn't feel like eating it though, so we just left it on the party table. Saturday, I went with a friend to the by-annual Psychic Expo held in town. I got a "proffesional discount" with Christena Linka because I had been in contct with her husband, Peter, about potentially starting up doing readings for money. I haven't got a job, and I ofen find myself in want of cash, so I figured doing something love, and getting payed, would be awesome. Not something I want to do for life, like the Linkas, but there's plenty of interest expressed by my classmates whenever I bring my cards to school, so I'm doing a bit of a blitz week now to give everyone who wants one a reading, and then I'm going to start advertising my "business". Also, I got a new Tarot Deck while there, Raidant Rider-Waite, because my beloved Morgan-Greer deck was destroyed by a lively puppy last year. Peter actually surprised me by buying me a pendulum as a gift and I learned about Druid sticks, which I think I'll incorporate into my readings sometime.
Yesterday I meant to post here, but I got caught up an a 6-hour instalation of Ubuntu 8.10 onto my WD MyPassport Essential External Hard Drive, which, if you don't know, are an open-source Linux-based operating system (like Windows or Mac OS) and something simmilar to a really big USB drive, respectively. Ubuntu itself is not dificult to install, indeed it's easy, but I was having issues doing it on the External Hard Drive. I did get it eventually, but now my computer won't boot Windows without the drive plugged in, it just returns a "GRUB Loader Error", but I won't get into that. I'm currently running Ubuntu, and it's going to take some getting used to and figuring out. This is the first computer tinkering I've done, so I'm still a newbie with it all.
This week our French Oral Presentations start, with me on Friday (Day 2). Monday our "creative" segment for History class is due, and we have a Math test somewhere in there. Thursday exams start and the Thursday after we're into the new semester!
I hope that filled in the blanks sufficiently, and now I'm off to learn some more about Ubuntu.
Adieu,
Ace
We also got a long talk about our French Orals, which we will be doing a "practice" of this week. I've got to talk for four minutes, in complete French about American Politics. It may sound daunting, but as our IB Coordinator (and French teacher) said, four minutes really isn't a lot.
The other History class got their Historical Investigations back on Friday, though the general results I don't know. We haven't received ours back yet, although they are marked, due to some issues. Our teacher says there is a need to speak with a few people personally first.
My weekend was interesting! Friday I was invited bowling, to find upon arrival that I would be attending the birthday party of a friend of a friend. My friend did not actually know anyone except the birthday girl, hence bringing myself and another friend, and when the birthday girl was late we skipped out to Zehrs and bought hummus and pita bread to snack on. We also got a gingerbread "Santa's Sleigh" kit, on sale for 50 cents (awesome deal right?) and actually built it in the bowling alley. We didn't feel like eating it though, so we just left it on the party table. Saturday, I went with a friend to the by-annual Psychic Expo held in town. I got a "proffesional discount" with Christena Linka because I had been in contct with her husband, Peter, about potentially starting up doing readings for money. I haven't got a job, and I ofen find myself in want of cash, so I figured doing something love, and getting payed, would be awesome. Not something I want to do for life, like the Linkas, but there's plenty of interest expressed by my classmates whenever I bring my cards to school, so I'm doing a bit of a blitz week now to give everyone who wants one a reading, and then I'm going to start advertising my "business". Also, I got a new Tarot Deck while there, Raidant Rider-Waite, because my beloved Morgan-Greer deck was destroyed by a lively puppy last year. Peter actually surprised me by buying me a pendulum as a gift and I learned about Druid sticks, which I think I'll incorporate into my readings sometime.
Yesterday I meant to post here, but I got caught up an a 6-hour instalation of Ubuntu 8.10 onto my WD MyPassport Essential External Hard Drive, which, if you don't know, are an open-source Linux-based operating system (like Windows or Mac OS) and something simmilar to a really big USB drive, respectively. Ubuntu itself is not dificult to install, indeed it's easy, but I was having issues doing it on the External Hard Drive. I did get it eventually, but now my computer won't boot Windows without the drive plugged in, it just returns a "GRUB Loader Error", but I won't get into that. I'm currently running Ubuntu, and it's going to take some getting used to and figuring out. This is the first computer tinkering I've done, so I'm still a newbie with it all.
This week our French Oral Presentations start, with me on Friday (Day 2). Monday our "creative" segment for History class is due, and we have a Math test somewhere in there. Thursday exams start and the Thursday after we're into the new semester!
I hope that filled in the blanks sufficiently, and now I'm off to learn some more about Ubuntu.
Adieu,
Ace
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