Tick Tock

I had my first three exams today and they were pretty easy. I'm quite happy so far. We had English, H.E and French. Not to toot my own flute here, but those are three subjects I was feeling fairly confident in anyway so I had put it all down to good revision. When we finished I met up with my friend and the first thing she said was,"So what did you think of the French paper?" I didn't want to say that I had found it ridiculously easy, I hate sounding boastful. Turns out though, it wasn't just me that felt that way. That paper was beyond ridiculously easy. We had an hour to complete it and it took most of us 20 minutes to half an hour to do that. It took me 20 minutes. Every single year I rush my way through test papers only to be left with half an hour to spare, and I never learn. The waiting kills me every time. It's not really something you can get used to - waiting. The annoying thing is there's really nothing you can do. You can't walk around for obvious reasons - cheating - and you can barely even look around for that same reason. My seat is right in front of the invigilator's desk so I have to sit rooted to the spot, eyes glued to my paper. I don't think I'm gonna survive until Wednesday, I swear you'll find me at home tomorrow evening just rocking backwards and forwards on the floor clutching my revision notes. You see, when I'm in that position and I've already checked over my paper 20 times and clicked my pen open and closed 5,000 times more I need something else to keep my mind occupied. Every year it's the same; when the invigilator says there are 15 minutes to go, that's when I start counting. I count the seconds until the 15 minutes are up. That's the reason I don't think I'll make it to Wednesday. That's the reason I'll be rocking backwards and forwards on my floor by tomorrow evening.
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.

Exams

It's the same every year really; you plan to start studying early every year but end up leaving it to the last week. Well, it's that time of year again. I don't know how it may work in your school but we have two sets of exams a year - one in the first term (winter) and one in the last term (summer). It's two days to my summer exams and it still hasn't quite hit me yet. I'm quite blasé when it comes to exams, right up to the night before the first one which is usually when I start freaking out and burying my face in mountains of textbooks. I think that's the only reason I get As, because I'm quite good at speed revising just before a test. I would like to think I have good common sense when it comes to answering some questions but I'm not so sure... But this year I'm doing it right. I actually have done a fair bit of revision so I feel a little more confident. I just want to put it out there that no matter how confident you are with how much revision you can do in one night, you are usually wrong.

I think this is a fair way to sum up exam periods...

Coffee cannot fix this kind of tired

So our car did a thing. A bad thing. One day it just started chugging like it was in the wrong gear, but obviously it wasn't in the wrong gear. We had to keep starting and stopping it to get it up the road. We eventually figured out that every time water was put in the car it leaked back out. It was taken to be fixed and we found out that the radiator had blown. So basically we now have no car until it gets fixed. We live so far away from anyone we know so it's not like we can ask for a lift anywhere, we have to take a 40 minute walk at 7 every morning to get to the train station so we can get to work and school. But somehow with all that exercise I'm still not a size 0. It's not like I want to be a size 0 or anything... But doing all that walking and going on all that public transport everyday lets you see different parts of life you don't see when you're in a car. And, it's nice. And there's no traffic. But the bad thing about getting the train is that if we miss our train that's it, I'm gonna be late. There's only one train that gets me in on perfect time and it's a struggle to get to the station on time. It puts it into perspective how much people rely on cars and particularly how far away we live from ANYWHERE! So a word to the wise, when you're buying a place to live, take into account that you may need to be able to get by without a car at some point in time.