h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

40 mins? Ah, I see, you checked it meticulously

At least you had the bricks... one of our exam rooms has breezeblocks, meaning far less counting opportunities, while the other is painted!

That must be awful! Otherwise if you have a calculator on you you can use the random button to make your birthday come up. I got as far as 29, 4 but didn't get 87

That's a shame, 87's the best year in history

Yesterday I wrote my French CV for work experience in september. I don't really know what they're going to do with it, it's only shop work so my science as-levels aren't going to be particularly relevant, but never mind...

Why do you have to do work experience? is it part of school?

Yeah. everyone has to do it at our sixth form, which is actually quite rare I think. But there's about 7 of us going to France to do it (some people are going to Germany instead).
It should be good. It's in the south west, near...near... Perpignan I think

7's not a huge number by the way- it's supposed to be near compulsory for anyone carrying on next year, and yet only 7 out of a bout 20 are actually going. Mind you, some do German too.

That is pretty rare, still the south west is nice, make sure you visit Bordeaux, lovely place

There are 20 in your french class? we have 5, me and someone else don't go to the lessons as we speak fluently

Now, that's what i call rare you should move to our school..you could make a nice little earner just, you know, helping peopl out with the more difficult bits or the course from time to time...

No, there are about er... I'd say 17 in each class,with two classes, so 7 is pretty small

17 people in each class. Two classes. Of French? I didn't know it was that popular.

As for the little earner thingy, I accept cheques but not credit cards

I think most of my class would be happy to give you cash!

Well, generally it isn't, but we're a pretty big sixth form, attached to a grammar school (for which I failed the test), so it's quite good really. but like I said, most are dropping it anyway.

We've just started on an introduction to literature..i.e. watching a film, lol. It's "Au revoir, les enfants" Have you heard of/seen it? and in our other class we're slowly reading short stories from Guy de Maupassant (sp?), starting with "Deux amis" Only, I think I missed the end of that one by going to my maths exam today...

That's the right spelling for GdM, haven't heard of the film, I had to do coursework on a film called Jules and Jim, which was tedious.

How did your exam go? Tomorrow is the start of a manic 6 exams in 8 days, 5.5 hours of exams tomorrow, though luckily one of them is French

nasty Well, good luck with that! that's really inconsiderate timetabling, but the French should be a nice... break for you

Never heard of Jules and Jim either I've definately missed the end of that story

It was ok actually, could've been a lot worse. I was expecting either a complicated binomial expansion or a tricky geometric question, but both of those were as starightforward as they could've been. It's just a waiting game now...*starts to chew finger nails* no, I just don't think about it really.

well there's not much you CAN do anymore except wait. Still, if it all goes horribly wrong (which it shouldn't) you can always resit.

General studies today wrote a little bit then left. French was easy (as expected), and philosophy and ethics wasn't too bad. Three left before I join you in the waiting game

1...2...3...bricks...oh hello

-Still waiting

Which 3 are they then?

Physics unit 5 (hardest physics paper, I actually need to work pretty hard for it), pure 5 (hardest maths paper, ditto) and synoptic paper in philosophy and ethics.

Joy.

Yr.12 further maths finished today , so my mate is much less stressed now and one guy in the class is having a party

yay! party!

FINALLY finished all my exams, handed stuff back in today. Might go out tomorrow, but definitely on Saturday with my physics group.

I don't think anyone in year 12 is doing further maths, so I was the only one in my school

Oh and the exams went all right, except maths, but I finished off with a really nice paper so I'm happy. Its starting to sink in that I now have nothing left to do

I'm very happy for you

"nothing left to do" v.jammy. It's all go here. this time last weeks I was on theIsle of Mann, thursday I returned from an amazing trip to Oxford, y'day I did a little music festival thing and today my evil twin sis has gone off to the Alps. Next week I'm off to Cambridge, and between all this I have to tidy up my revision stuff and do my bio practice crswrk!

Phew *wipes brow, exhausted* It's been fun though

that must've been tough, being the only one. did France put you ahead in maths? My russian mate is ahead in some parts

i was not invited to the party

Not invited? Simple answer is gatecrash, just wait a coulpe of hours, then everyone will be too drunk to notice anyway

So you considering applying to Oxbridge? Or just having a look round for a laugh

My technique of clearing up revision stuff is finding a suitably large bin. That got me in trouble this year when I needed to revision AS philosophy and ethics, but it felt good so I'm okay with it

I have never been to the Isle of Man, what's it like? Glad you enjoyed yourself anyway

no, I was going away the next day, otherwise I would obviously have taken that course of action, lol

er... how shall I put it? Applying for a laugh. I'm going to try for French tho I don't what with, because I've only done one language @ AS. Know anything about linguistics?

Yes, a bin will definately be involved, lol, but twill have to wait until tomorrow, as have been lazy and Live 8-captivated all afternoon!

Mann was beautiful, no doubt about that on the sunny days, with clear Irish sea water and lots of life(like giant jellyfish), but a tad quiet We were kept v. busy

Yeah, I applied "for a laugh" as well, actually got as far as the interview

Sorry, don't know much about linguistics, maths and physics is my area, however if I'd been rubbish at those I'd probably be doing languages, I really enjoyed them. Hopefully I'll be able to find some groups at uni next year

I watched a bit of live8, though I went out in the evening and missed Pink Floyd & Paul McCartney. Might get the DVD (if there is one) just for that.