I'm actually really really proud of myself for keeping up with my blogging. I think this is the most I've ever blogged on one site. I considered moving back to livejournal for a while before I decided that this blog site is probably the easiest to navigate, and the one with the least amount of advertisements. I never really knew how to navigate livejournal.
Some time later....
Hm, I don't really remember posting THAT much on there. Seriously. There are 62 blog posts scattered on there over the course of two years. The last one on there over a year ago. I just blogged on there to say I have a new blog. Not that anyone looks at that one.
I noticed one thing though on that blog. My dream of becoming an author has not changed. I guess potentially I was a bit more motivated to become an author back then. Full of grammatical mistakes, immature ideas. It also didn't help that it was fanfiction on there. It makes it even worse that there was a HANNAH MONTANA fanfiction on there. I don't even remember writing that one.
Its like that funny story, did I tell you about it? Where I was looking through all the stories I'd written, and there was one there that I completely forgot about writing but it was like 50 pages long? God, now that was a funny day. I honestly didn't remember writing that one. Of course, I read over it and remembered writing it in some sort of trance. I remember making loads of paper notes on it, I just can't find them anymore. I wouldn't have been stupid enough to have binned them, so its a question of who stole them?
Speaking of stealing. I'm quite ticked off at the English Department in my school at the moment. There are two main reasons for this. The first one being that the teacher my sister has has no ability for teaching GCSE English at all. Honestly, the woman doesn't have a clue. Sara isn't learning anything. It's getting so bad she coming to ME for some answers. You know you have a problem when you come to me for answers.
Sara told me that the teacher they have for English currently hasn't even done an English degree, the woman majors in Psychology, so why she's caught up in teaching English is beyond me. But yeah, the English department has seen it fitting for her to teach TOP SET English.
I always thought that Sara was over-exaggerating when she mentioned her being a crap teacher, but when she asked me to look over her coursework for help because the teacher wasn't competent enough to give a straight answer, I was shocked really. The marking on the coursework wasn't up to a standard at all. I'll admit and say Sara's essay wasn't the greatest, but I told her where she can raise her marks on that one, but the way she marked it was unbelievable. There was no explanation as to why she was marked down in some areas, why this was done wrong. I explained it all of course, I've done this course. I had always believed thought that the teacher could have done something so simple.
Then there's the fact that the teacher could not be bothered to read the WHOLE PLAY with the kids. She read one scene and told them to write an essay on it. No wonder there are such bad marks coming out of her class if she's not teaching them everything that needs to be taught.
It just astounded me that this kind of teaching is going on. Doesn't anyone agree with me?
The second problem isn't so elaborate. Its more of an annoyance. I'd spent weeks perfecting my English Language creative writing coursework. And I mean A LOT OF TIME. Then today, my English teacher turned around to the whole class and said that she would like for us to write a new piece of coursework! Jesus Christ. If she wasn't happy with it the first time round why did she get me to do so much with it? I know this one is done for a fall back, but she told me that my coursework was working towards the upper grades and not much needed to be added to it.
That annoyed me at the time. But of course, as you can tell I just can't be bothered anymore.
To be honest with you. I don't really know why I used a lot of capitals in this blog. I never know really, do I?
But I'd better be off. I've got an early morning tomorrow.
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