AnnaKin's journal

As of today, I no longer wear glasses. I have decided. I'm wearing contacts right now, and they're wonderful. ^___^

In other news, me, Ellen and Lily are now in charge of getting creative writing for the school magazine. It was supposed to be me, Lily and another girl, but she now says she wants no part in it.
Basically, we have to go and badger the English teachers. At present, we have a load of poems on climate change (which we can't use many of), year ten creative writing coursework (which is consists of very long stories that we can't take out of the English office in case we lose it), year eight mini-sagas (which would be great if half the ones we wanted to use weren't signed 'anon' - I suspect the girls who wrote them want to be credited really), stuff from the sixth form (in theory - Ellen is supposed to be bringing in her copies of the poems written for the poetry elective she took earlier in the year, but has yet to get round to it, and there's a girl in the year above who's a published poet, but has yet to send us anything) and... Christmas stories.
For a magazine that goes out in July.

And me and Lily have very different tastes... agreeing on just a few longer pieces to put in may be very hard...

Also, my Latin teacher is going to Uzbekistan. He talked to us about it for about half an hour yesterday (about half the lesson). That and his trips to Cambodia and Orkney. Also the possibility of him going to Antarctica some time next year.
No, really. There's boat trips you can do...

THE EXAM IS IN A LITTLE OVER A MONTH AND HE'S SPENDING HALF THE LESSON TALKING ABOUT HIS HOLIDAYS.
AND I DON'T KNOW ALL THE GRAMMAR YET.
*EXPLODES*

Y'know, I really wouldn't expect my Latin teacher to like Buffy. My eldery-ish, male Latin teacher. Who I thought was awesome anyway - he talks for about twenty minutes each lesson about nothing whatsover to do with Latin. Today it started at Torchwood (hence Buffy-talk - James Marsters was on it) and ended up at Eragon. I expressed my feelings on the matter to anyone who would listen, which wasn't many people.

He also likes Firefly. And he compared Odysseus to Captain Kirk, and Aeneas to Captain Picard...

ILU, Latin teacher.

Oh, and I discovered that having written my submission for the Sixth form newspaper already isn't as good as it could be. I spent most of the session today reading Wraith Squadron (<3<3<3) under the table. But everyone seemed to like my story. Maybe I post it later.

You just kind of have to share this.

Orientis reges tres
Procul dona portantes
Per campos et montes imus
Stellam illam sequentes.
O stella potens et mira,
Stella regalis pulcra,
Semper movens ad occasum
Duc nos ad claram lucem.

We Three Kings... in Latin. It fits the tune, actually.

My fisrt sort-of-block of exams is over. Tis of the good.
Unfortunately, all but one of the exams I am/was really, really scared about is in the next block (ie maths, food (&nutrition), history, biology, physics, english language 1 and my other two latin papers).

...I'M SCARED.

Other than that, though, not having to go to school for two weeks if of the good. Though one week is half term, so no-one'll be in school... bah.

So, yesterday, I had English Literature and my Latin Virgil paper. The English was fine, and the Virgil would have been a lot better if the second passage we got hadn't been the only one I felt I really didn't know properly, probably because I made an attempt to colour code my notes which failed miserably and left me pretty much unable to revise from them (fortunately, the other's were okay).
I'm now halfway through my Latin, which is of the good, and I've got no more language work to do until next year - I'm not sure what that is of the.

Anyway, I think my mum wants the computer again pretty soon. *Stops typing*

<Damn exams I hate them I hate them they're so incredibly dull and yet also stressful....>