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Post by jeezny on Apr 25, 2011 23:38:32 GMT
all these tornados that are hitting here
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Post by niwo on Apr 26, 2011 8:12:04 GMT
being greeted by an overflowing coffee machine at work (SO hard to turn it off before the easter break, so.hard.) and a desk where people seem to have dumped all their shit they didn't finish... not even in a pile, scattered all over it *facepalm* ... being able to turn on your computer is so overrated anyway. who said they wanted my job? there, take it, it's all yours!
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Post by thehazelwoodfaye on Apr 27, 2011 11:33:10 GMT
@ shannon I really appreciate it that you're worried about us I hate it to quarrel with my siblings too and I hope things work out. But I won't let him go again that quickly, I really feel we should talk about it and not go on like nothing has changed. I guess you are right, he was scared to come out with it. When I think back he was always very anxious that people didn't see him as an outsider. he must have played his part well, no one ever guessed anything, while I was at some time bullied in school and called a lesbian because I didn't care for our dumb boys at that time. Life is strange.
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Post by Sorrow By Nature on Jun 20, 2011 14:02:15 GMT
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Post by annasmt on Jun 20, 2011 23:31:40 GMT
that really is sad :/ never heard of him until now. thanks to your link just listened to a few of his songs. his music is really nice, seems like a was a great person.
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lunamorgan
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Post by lunamorgan on Jul 6, 2011 12:59:41 GMT
I'm generally down about my family fighting (no one near me, but people back home) and telling me about it like I can help the situation. I'm torn about it because I think everyone is acting foolish. My grandmother is being attention grabby after surgery (she had it done 3 weeks ago and should be healed by now but she's still asking people to come over and take care of her) and my father is acting like a petulant child because my mother is caring for her rather than staying home and doing his cleaning. I just want to tell them all to shut up and act like adults, that the youngest generation (my sister and myself) shouldn't be the ones behaving like grown ups and taking care of their drama.
Also, I've slept 8 or 9 hours over that past 3 days but worked over 30 hours in that same time. I should be tired but I never am and I know I'll eventually crash.
Um. I don't like being this negative, so I'll also say that it's a lovely day and I'm overall quite happy.
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Post by Chelsea on Nov 24, 2011 21:42:36 GMT
Stupid Romeo and Juliet assessment piece. Apparently it isnt hard, its just a 'mindset'. fuck off. I used perfectly fine quotes - the 'hot day' that Benvolio describes does foreshadow the 'hot' aggression ('mad blood stirring' Benvolio Act3 Sc1) in the scene... Apparently im not allowed to use brackets either!
Also that teacher cant even teach, i know english isn't super structured but she just stands and lectures us about what to write with no reasons why or how the character is represented. Bitch...
She's lucky I like the thing we're doing now...
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Post by catwolf on Nov 25, 2011 17:27:30 GMT
I always hated English at school - i was so happy when i didn't have to do it any more! I'm more of a maths/science person I preferred subjects where there were right or wrong answers cos i never knew what they wanted in English.
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Post by Chelsea on Nov 25, 2011 17:47:32 GMT
I'm not massive on maths, but its okay this year because its explained easier. Year 8 and 9 were just filled with crappy maths teachers.
Year 8: couldn't control the class... poor woman. First half of year 9: nobody liked him. he was narky and literally stunk and had sweat dripping down his back. We only worked from this massive book and learned nothing. When he tried to teach us by talking he shouted at us. Second half of year 9: She was too laid back and taught us nothing...
Though I really like science! you just have to know things and know some calculations...easy enough, this is were i get a D in my next exam or something.
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Post by blackberrystone on Nov 26, 2011 0:30:39 GMT
@chelsea What year are you in at school? I'm in year eleven and we have litteraly just done out controlled assesment on Romes and Jules today. Took four bloody hours though it did >.< I never got the story either.. we had to compare it to this poem though.. and the simularities in 'love'. Although nobody really got the question, (we have a very vague teacher). So nobody had a clue really. Scools great isn't it?
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Post by Chelsea on Nov 26, 2011 13:09:00 GMT
lol im in year ten! were doing english lit now and another course in year 11. I've already told her to go slower, but i dont want to move down a class (you know like set 1 is the most ability, set 2 is everyone else and set 3 in special needs in english) because set 2 is so loud and doesnt do any work and it would piss me off.
Were doing the same in Graphic Products, were doing graphics (computer drawing and selling stuff) in year 10 and resitant materials (like wood work and metal) in year 11 so we get more gcses and a 'double award'.
Our schools just got out of Ofsteds special measures to 'good' so the better our results the less the newpapers call us a crap school. We have like 400-500 pupils in our school and we are getting shut down and becoming a free school. We have to merge with another school in the area so we have the full capacity of our building though. (apparently 1000)
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Post by thehazelwoodfaye on Nov 26, 2011 13:10:43 GMT
school's over - great isn't it? well at least for me ;D I hated school...and you should be glad...you get to read stuff like Shakespeare and Dickens, Austen, Bronte etc. in school...try Goethe or Günter Grass or Thomas Mann for a change or some Kafka and you will praise english literature and math...it's always painful ha!...I had the worst and most feared teacher of our school for the last 3 years in school and I'm proud I still managed to get through those years without the worst marks
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Post by Chelsea on Nov 26, 2011 15:15:59 GMT
You make it sound fun. We're doing of mice and men now but miss said we are now doing the extended thing instead of curley's wife anaylisation and what she represents. but that means we have to read the novel, so I'm happy.
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Post by blackberrystone on Nov 26, 2011 19:37:11 GMT
Your Graphic products thing sounds good, we only got to choose one D&T course so i guess yours is better for the gcse's. And lool i was gonna say we might go to the same school until i saw the end of youre post, our school just got out of special measures too.. now its good with 'outstanding features' haa. Everyone was really shocked and confused when we got into special measures, and we seem to have got out of it by just fearing the inspectors more and putting a show on.. i don't entirely see the point of it.
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Post by Chelsea on Nov 26, 2011 20:28:54 GMT
that would of been so cool if we were in the same school! hahaha. We got out by not taking the mick by saying that the school has rats, they dont clean the toilets and the teachers dont teach ect. The school also sacked teachers that got alot of complaints (*cough* certain maths teacher that sweats alot, apparently he was sick. eh no.) I hardly noticed a change in lessons this time, our last inspection was last week and we got the results straight after. Im super proud of my school now
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Post by blackberrystone on Nov 26, 2011 20:44:31 GMT
It would ;D! I thought it would have been too much of a coincidence, plus i couldn't think of anyone i knew with your name haha.. In our school nobody actually got sacked, despite loads of people complaining that the biology teacher was useless (apparently she had to retire into the science cupboard to cry because she couldn't control the class once) but somehow some dick of an IT teacher got hired. Your maths teacher sounds like he was lovely.. we once had a History teacher that was like that, he just stank ALL the time
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Post by Chelsea on Nov 26, 2011 20:52:17 GMT
Plus what do you mean D&T course? Do you mean like catering, fashion(other schools call it textiles but we're individuals),graphics, or resistant materials, or all rolled into one?
Also i recently discovered my friends school doesn't have drama or catering as options, and because my mate couldn't chose catering, she took double health and social, are they encouraging boring academic drones (oh sorry forgot its a business and enterprise specialist*)! I find this disgraceful!
* I don't like her school its very rule abiding and their students all look the same, literally they get bitched at for wearing nail polish and the girls can only wear ballet pumps, which thank god im not in that school, my poor mum would be spending alot of money on shoes. (When i walk the feet put to much pressure on the back and side the i end up walking on the side of the shoe and getting holes on the sole and side)
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Post by thehazelwoodfaye on Nov 26, 2011 20:56:42 GMT
you brits got a strange school system our school was like final destination...we did get all those teachers who got expelled from other schools...one was supposedly a molester, another one suffered from severe depression...and the rest always thought of ways to get a post at another school. okay maybe I'm exaggerating...a bit, but there's nothing like secondary schools in the deep deep countryside we had some nice freaks though ;D
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Post by Chelsea on Nov 26, 2011 21:03:24 GMT
hahah no worries, one of my old science teachers was a paedophile! She is prison now obvs, got charged when she offered a girl in our class to 'stay behind after class', lucky the girl told the parents n stuff. < that sound to chatty to be serious but i've got to laugh or ill get the shivers...
My maths teacher now is a freak in his own right, very eccentric and individual (in a nice way). Its saying something when you have a Jay-Z quote on the walls and make everyone guess who said it... We all was guessing old prophets and inspirational people at first, which is saying that not many people i know think that Jay-Z is inspirational... except him.
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Post by catwolf on Nov 26, 2011 22:51:19 GMT
2 maths teachers from my school were sacked for having inappropriate relationships with pupils (we saw in the news one of them was sentenced the other week), and earlier this year we saw in the news that a student teacher we had one year for music had been arrested for raping 12 year old boys!!! I didn't have either of the maths teachers but the music teacher used to help out at wind band which i was in, and everyone thought he was awesome!!! And that was supposed to be a good school! Em, anyway... i didn't mind school but i'm quite glad it's over But now i'm in uni so i still have to study (and do lab reports most days ). First year wasn't too bad because a lot of it was the same as 6th year at school (we have a different school system in Scotland - it's primary 1-7 then 1st-6th year), and you could get exempt from exams if you did well in the class tests. But this year we actually have to do exams and we have labs 4 days a week (it was only once a week in first year). (I'm doing chemistry btw.) I'm a sad person who actually really likes maths But English... *shudders* I didn't mind reading books/poems but i hated having to analyse them all. Especially when it's timed (for the Higher writing paper you had an hour and a half to write 2 essays, which doesn't even give you time to think - i got through it by memorising all the analysis from essays i'd done during the year!). It was really stupid, when i started Higher English i was put in the top set because the sets were based entirely on the prelim close reading paper which i somehow got a ridiculously good mark in! And we had the most terrible teacher who just gave us a poem and told us to write an essay and i thought i had no chance of passing. But when we got our standard grade results i did much worse than i should have so i was put in the bottom set, where we were given so much help and pretty much spoon-fed everything. Everyone in my class was still struggling though, so they all thought i was an English genius and the teacher kept using my essays as examples for the class!!! I actually thought i might be able to get an A, but i ended up with a B which was good enough (I think my teacher was a bit disappointed though - she wanted someone in the class to get an A! )
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