Welcome 2009

First day of school  in 2009 is over! I was unusually uppity today. I'm usually a happy person, but I have a lot of unexplained gleeful energy today. We didn't do much in class today. Our math teacher started our Statistics Unit, but it was just a review of bar graphs and histograms. English we wrote children's poems and stories for the son of one of the teachers at our school who, at the age of only three, was diagnosed with lukemia over the break. In History we talked about a potential trip to Washington that our teacher would be organizing. In French we looked up articles  in issues of "L'Actualite" - a magazine out of Quebec that focuses on global issues - to find a topic for our ISU, which will be a practice for the Oral Exam we will be doing in May.

In other news, exams and Science Fair are looming nearby. Exams are in about twelve days and besides the usual ill-feeling toward such a time, I've also got a good friend leaving at the end of the semester. Not out of the city or anything, in fact the other school is rather close to ours, but it's still a change. We met in grade nine and were fast friends, and though we were obviously going to separate eventually, I'd rather expected it to be a year or so later. Still, with luck, I myself will be leaving at the end of this school year. I still have to send in my application for the UWCs, but the deadline is February 15th, so I've got to hurry! In any case, Science Fair is comming fast and my project is untouched. Got to start working on that... Also got to finish the website for it. I offered to do it over the break and I'm mostly done. I've just got to upload mostly, and fill in a little of it.

Nothing much else going on though. I had an optometrist's appointment today and luckily my perscription didn't change. I'm getting new frames though, but I won't let the cat out of the bag about all that quite yet. I've also got a New Year's resolution: to do my math homework on time. It's something I often put off and end up forgetting about, but I really want to get back on track.

A note about my polyphasic blog entries - I'll be moving them off to another blog. It was fun publishing them here, but it looks really cluttered now and there are about 45 posts that are barely IB-related. I'll leave up a link to them, but they've got to go.  Also, I'm surprised about the amount of support I got for my experiment. A lot of people were really excited about it and gave me much encouragement throughout. Thank you everyone!

And now time to go fulfill that resloution,

Au revoir,

Ace