Sorry I haven't posted in awhile! I've been really, really, really busy.
Why? AP exams and the grad dinner dance.
I took 2 AP exams: English Lit and Human Geo. The English one was slightly horrific, thinking back on it, but I think I passed. The Human Geo one I studied REALLY hard for, harder than I've ever studied in my life (highlighting and Post-it Note flags -- something totally foreign to me), and it definitely paid off. I think I'll get a 5 for sure.
I think I'm legally allowed to discuss the exams now (the English one for sure), so I'll do it in detail.
The English Lit one was... eh. There's not really any way you can study for English, it's more skills-based. The multiple choice part is about 60 questions, you have 1 hour to answer them. There were 5 pieces this year, 3 poetry and 2 prose I believe. The hardest one and the easiest one were both poetry. I think I did alright on this section, I know I got a couple wrong after talking with friends, but definitely a pass. The written section is comprised of 3 essays, 2 hours time limit (40 minutes per essay). The first one is poetry, the second is prose, and the last one is a free response in which you're given a prompt and you write about a novel. The poetry one was... I'm not sure. I think I did the analysis alright but the structure sucked. The prose one was boss, it was a novel excerpt (I LOVE NOVEL EXCERPTS because they're narrative, and so I'm more used to reading them than say, an essay) from Belinda which is early 19th century. That's the period of novels in which they were all social commentaries. Jane Austen's era. AKA the era which I LOVE BOOKS FROM. So it was not only entertaining to read, I managed to write a decent essay on it. The free-response was... I don't know. You had to write about a person experiencing exile, so I wrote about John from Brave New World. I don't know how I did. It's either going to get a 9 or a 5. :/
Human Geo was a walk in the park mostly. The multiple choice (75 questions, 60 minutes) was mostly easy except for a couple of questions asking about agricultural concepts we NEVER LEARNT. I did alright overall, I know I got one question wrong so far. The written section (3 questions, 75 minutes) was mostly a godsend. The first question was asking about Weber's least cost theory which I had been studying a lot because I didn't quite get it, with the weight-gaining and weight-reducing and brick bunny industries. The second one was the worst, asking about centripetal and centrifugal forces. It was out of 8 and I got 7 at best, because it asked for explanation and examples for 4 things, and one was the relocation of a capital in the last 50 years. WTF, I didn't know any. Almost no one else did either, except for one guy who knew Brazil's capital had moved from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia around 1950. There were 2 Brazilians in our class; he was one of them and the other one had NO clue it had moved. The History teacher didn't even know. So there you go. The third one was laughably easy, it was asking about the Demographic Transition Model. SERIOUSLY. We learned about that LAST YEAR!!! So, yeah, we left the Human Geo exam pretty happy.
But then after that was the grad dinner dance. Literally the same day. WTF. It went well, it was fun. Here's a schedule of my day. (Yesterday.)
5:30 AM - Wake up. Stare grumpily at alarm clock. Alarm's due to go off in half an hour.
6:30 AM - Decide to get dressed after lazing around on computer.
7:00 AM - Leave for school, happy music blaring.
7:20 AM - Get to school, begin last-minute cramming.
7:45 AM - Exam starts.
8:45 AM - Break. Eat gummy bears.
9:00 AM - Exam continues. Stomach begins to rumble from not eating anything but gummy bears today.
10:15 AM - Exam ends. Hurrahs ensue.
10:30 AM - Water plants in greenhouse with Marie, then walk home.
11:00 AM - Enjoy cheese bagel at Safeway. Get picked up by mom and go for manicure/pedicure.
12:30 PM - Finally leave salon, now afraid to touch anything.
12:35 PM - Get donut at Tim Hortons.
1:00 PM - Begin to get hair done.
2:00 PM - Hair is done, holy crap it actually looks good.
2:15 PM - Go shopping at Lougheed Mall for tiara.
2:45 PM - Get home, begin to do makeup.
4:00 PM - Leave house late, pick up Kat, and go to Sarah's.
4:30 PM - Leave Sarah's house.
4:45 PM - Get pop and pizza pretzel at Macs.
5:45 PM - Get to Stanley Park, take pictures, gawp at how amazing everyone looks.
6:15 PM - Go to hotel, stand around uselessly in the foyer for awhile.
7:00 PM - Finally are allowed INTO the foyer, sit down at table, sit there uselessly for awhile.
7:30 PM - Food is served, we're one of the first tables called up, woohoo!
8:00 PM - Dessert nom nom.
8:30 PM - Walk around and take pictures/mingle.
9:30 PM - The parents arrive, and there are suddenly 3 times as many people as before. It gets very hot.
10:00 PM - They start playing music finally, slow dances with parents and then awesome retro music.
10:30 PM - Parents are dismissed, terrible music begins to play.
11:20 PM - Macarena and then Graduation by Vitamin C. Everyone links arms and sways. Many people hold back tears.
11:40 PM - Begin to file out of hotel to get on the buses.
12:00 AM - On buses heading back to school.
12:15 AM - Emergency window is open somewhere, annoying beeping, can't figure out which window it is.
12:20 AM - We figure out which window it is. Cheers.
12:30 AM - Bus driver misses the driveway up to the school. We boo.
12:31 AM - He drives up the other side of the driveway like a boss. We cheer.
12:35 AM - We go into school. Pictures holy hell.
1:00 AM - Change into t-shirt and jeans and record My Heart Will Go On.
1:30 AM - Rock Band.
1:45 AM - Racing cars.
2:00 AM -Begin to laze around, bored.
2:15 AM - Call mom to pick me up.
2:20 AM - Realize that I've picked up someone else's raffle package, teachers don't care and I just cross out her name.
2:40 AM - Go home.
2:50 AM - Take out hair. It has somehow doubled in size.
3:15 AM - Computer computer, not sleepy yet.
3:30 AM - Sleeeepy. Sleep.
So, just like that, the most stressful day of the year is over with. Now graduation seems really imminent. Scary.
I downloaded Vitamin C and started listening to it again. I loved this song in grade 6 and 7 when I was thinking about high school graduation, but now that it's actually here it seems way too real. The one line that keeps sticking out at me is "If you've got something you need to say, you better say it right now 'cause you don't have another day".
We'll see.
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