To Boldly Go...

Hey all its been awhile.

Okay lets see:

I may or may not be getting a part time job at PAWS-either way I will still volunteer. On a side note to that- i deferred the the spring semester at Southern so I will start January 12th. My parents agreed and part of me really does not want to leave at the moment so I am not.

MDA was an experience, I had a lot of fun and the campers and my fellow SOH's were great, and I miss them. I would like to do it again but it probably won't be next year.

i just came back from Holiday Inn for a 4th of july weekend. It was fun, I ended up getting addicted to Deadliest Catch, omg its just great, and I will def. try to keep watching it.

PAWS, this weekend had a bunch of rescue flood dogs from Iowa, now those left if there are any will stay and/or head to 26th and be transferred back like usual. B/C of the circumstances we had all of our current dogs that could not be paired up shipped to K9 for boarding. So this weekend we had probably over 50 dogs in the rooms.

If u would like to adopt a dog or cat heat down there, many need homes.

Now I am going to Brookefield zoo sometime within the next hour.

For the first time in four years I have no actual homework due next Monday. However the downside of that is I have a week of testing for my MOCK AP and IB tests that I have yet to actually study for. Wth the exception of Spanish the rest I am somewhat confident in, I need to review history, and reread or at least sparknotes books for my paper 2 IB lit and have till the 31st to take study for Bio which I will do that weekend. Spanish I have given up on and will try my best when the test comes. 

All this does not take into account the fact that I have to reread 7 books for the Batlle of tehBooks competition that the Book club team has on the 27th, I actually have to memorize 20 titles and authors along with the plots of my 7 books on top of all my studying for exams

I did tonight,  however  do something that surprised even me. I wrote a Lorne one-shot for Stargate Atlantis...Its here if anyone wants to read it..This is the first thing I have ever wrote and well I may just keep doing it

and relaxes because I had my lit oral today and it was fine kinda fun i am just glad I got a Jane Eyre passage I was really able to make use of the 15 minutes I had for the whole thing. I was lucky I didn't even go over any of the things we had to know for it save for two of the 6 passages-the one i had was not one of them. But Kelly said I did good so I am not worried.

I have my Spanish oral tomorrow-that is at the most 10 minutes long but I am really worried about that though because its 3 minutes or slightly more of reciting your oral topic and then answering questions-I am so not remotely able to that fluently. Plus I need to remember to bring a tape cause despite the fact we had cassettes at home and I got them out so I could bring them to school today- what did I forget? yeah but my friend had extras that se is selling for a dollar so I just ok one of hers.

then when I got home today I went to Best Buy-I got THE ARK OF TRUTH and I am so happy-my dad and I went and we got the last copy I was so worried they would have been sold out. But despite my want and need for SG1 I am going to wait till Friday to watch it. I also spent like 50 bucks on 5 cds- it would have been more but I had a gift card- I was mad cause they didn't have the newest Rascal Flatts

I also got a letter from U of I in Springfield saying despite not getting into Champagne I could still apply there- I may just on principle but I think I am still going to Southern

okay so i wake up for school this morning and my throat hurts. Not the usual sore throat can't talk thing oh no-this is I can talk but it hurts to do that and swallow as in it is actually painful not sore but pain. It gets worse when I try to drink water. Still to me its nothing as my temp is 97.5 so I was ready to go to school. But I didn't

apparently knowing the exact place your throat hurts as in just one spot is a bad thing-my mom got alarmed and started talking about infections and ordered me to bed so yep I have a 3 day school week yipee. which actually may be bad since we are starting to review for all my IB and AP test that are coming up in 2 weeks I think? yeah I have 1 week with ten exams during mocks and I am only taking 8 for my exams at the end of the year so thats fine

so I had my TOK test today--it lasted for 3 hours maybe a little more. I think I bombed it cause I answered the question but not as well as I could have. Plus I was dead tired as in I was falling asleep as I was writing so I finished with like half an hour to spare and slept. The only good thing about this test was the fact that I had almost no school today which was great.

I  have to do things for book club and battle of the books and I have to finish reading 7 books and actulaly know them by march 5th I have only read 2 books and I have to read at least 3 more by next week.

oh god I am so happy right now. The only thing I really have to do for homework is my internal assessment which I hope if my memory serves me right is only 2000 words long and then all the research for sources and all that which I am relying on Questia for along with the organization and folowing the strict guidelines and all. I also have to do cram sheets for my TOK class but its only 2 of them so I am fine. I know for a fact that I should be able to finish in 5 hours but i am not staking verything on that. I also have to have atleast 8 pages in my log book for my ITGS class but thats easy and I can theortically due it monday morning in mu lit class.

I am not crazy I have done ost of a 4000 word paper in a day before- all this is a piece of cake. Thats one thing I can thank IB for--freshman year of college won't be that bad

I got accepted into SIU- I am beyond excited sinceits become my first choice

I had part 2 of my TOK test to day. It was an essay but we didn't have to write an actual one. We had to choose between 2 of the questions then we had to do 4 parts.

1)  was underline key terms, defining what in the prompt and so on~~this was easy
2) was to say what the question was asking and how we should answer it in a TOK style~~I think I might have screwed this up cause I don't think I answered it correctly.
3) was to make a detailed outline basically on how you were going to answer the question~~ this one I did but I don't think I had enough info which means I may have not gotten enough credit for it
4) was to write the introduction to the essay~~this I didn't finish at all and my teacher told us to stop writing a few minutes before the bell rang and then said something about how we didn't have time to complete a whole essay (this about gave me a heart attack cause I  thought I had missed the direction  to you know WRITE the essay) I didn't but still

so TOK was a lot easier than I thought it would be hopefully they give us a little slack on grading since that was the first time we had done something like that and I know it through me off at least.

History on the other hand was a different matter entirely. This one I totally failed. We had to write an essay on "Why did the Mexican Revolution last so long?"  sounds easy right? yeah no

I wrote like a page and a half (one paper both sides and one side of another) and I repeated myself so much all the while saying absolutely nothing all the way through. When I said saying nothing I meant it I gave the vaguest of details and absolutely no supporting evidence. I was basically writing for the sake of having something on paper.  

On the plus side ONE more day before two weeks of almost all bliss. I have to my knowledge so far one probably two things of homework over break-one some type of a  photo essay in TOK and maybe reading Jane Eyre for my lit class. hopefully that will be it. I am hoping that I won't have to do my internal assessment  for my infotech class over break cause that would like suck especially since I don't have the correct program at home to work on it.

so besides the writers strike which is screwing with my normal tv schedule- well not really since most shows are on winter break this time any way in a normal year-but still I could use some distractions.

Literally. I had to be a student helper for science fair today. pretty much means that as an IB senior I got out of classes all day to help take care of the judges. i was one of the food people and we had all this food that we were not allowed to touch right in front of us all day. We were able after a lot of begging drink the hot chocolate, coffee and water  and we were able to eat the left over bagels when lunch was served but that was it. At 3:30 we were able to eat the leftover sandwiches we had so much left over it wasn't funny and the teachers wanted all the edible stuff gone so people were able to take leftovers people were starving. 

Then to top it all off at 3:30 we had to go to a make up TOK class since we have part 1 of a test tomorrow and we were all signed out 2nd and 3rd period. Then when  went around to help clean up at like 4:15 they were done so I don't think I get extra credit in bio. DAMN since I have a bio test tomorrow to. Add the fact that I have part 2 of my TOK test and a history exam essay I hate winter break cause they are stock piling everything on us before break.    

oh and of all the history stuff I had to do there was only 18 assignments and I decided to only do 13 of them. I still have 2 more to do but I can finish them in school I will also do my lit either later today or in the morning. Oh and does anyone ever realize that when big breaks come up teachers cram a bunch of tests at us the last week of break? I have a Bio, TOK and a History test next week  and I don't have classes on Tuesday due to science fair and I am also pretty sure all  my test are on the same day (tok is two days and I have my bio on wednesday and history on thursday). Oh JoY!

Also you all here of the threats at Lane today? My sister goes there and my mom wants to keep her home friday.