The school has wound me up somehow today. We got the day off because of snow. And that's not the reason that I'm wound up. I'm so happy that we've had the day off it's unbelievable.
But then comes the issue of tomorrow. They've said on the school website that they plan to open the school for years 11, 12, and 13. I'm in year 12.
You see I wouldn't have necessarily have minded if the school was open for everyone. And I do take into account for the fact that the younger ones are not as responsible as the older ones.
But I don't think that that gives them a reason to risk the safety and health of staff and the students. Just because we're older doesn't mean we have a less chance of slipping on the ice.
Especially if it's coming from me. I'm probably the biggest klutz of the school. I fall over flat surfaces, seriously. So, does it necessarily mean that I have a less chance of falling and breaking something than other children do.
I understand that people have exams to do. I honestly do. I can see why they would want to open the school for that. But can't they like, put something up on the website, ask the teachers to provide past papers so that the students to download. Obviously they've finished that module of the course if they're sitting it. So why not do something like that. And putting up the answer sheet so they know where they're going wrong. If they cheat on it, it's not the teachers they're fooling. It's themselves. They're not going to learn anything by just copying the answers down.
But that's just my opinion. People are going to bash my opinion.
It probably just sounds like a whiny child begging for another day off school. And that's what it is really. I can't help but wanting more time off. Am I not allowed that luxury? To want what I can't have?
On a side note.
Have you ever had one of those random impulses that your hand has to be on paper writing something? I've had it a lot recently. I'm not complaining about it. I think it's great. I love the fact that I've finally got some creative juices flowing. They've sort of been on a standstill for a while now. So lets just hope that it amounts to something...
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Snow Day
I'm posting today a little earlier than usual. All day yesterday, that's all I complained about was going back to school. But guess what? I was in school for two lessons before my school shut down because of snow!!!!
I love snow days, it snowed pretty heavily for a while, and then it just kinda gave up, it's not even snowing any more. So it's basically a free day. I still have some homework to be doing though, and that's it.
I've planned to watch The Return of the King, because you need like a whole afternoon to get through that film, and this is the perfect opportunity considering my homework will literally only take me about half an hour (hopefully).
On a side note. Teachers are strange. No, not strange, just unresponsive. I sent one of my Welsh teachers an email the other week, asking her a question about the homework that has to be in on Thursday. And I haven't had a reply. I was hoping to have some at least acknowledgement that she even got the email. But there's been nothing. Which is why I give up on teachers. They ask you to email in with your ideas and promise to email back, but they never do.
I will lose all hope for humanity after this.
Just kidding. It just means I'll have to do my homework on my idea and if she says that it's wrong, boo to her, and I'll just have to move on with it. There's nothing I can really do about it.
It's just that I'd like to see some feedback, is all.
But nothing really exciting happens in my day to day life these days now anyway....
I love snow days, it snowed pretty heavily for a while, and then it just kinda gave up, it's not even snowing any more. So it's basically a free day. I still have some homework to be doing though, and that's it.
I've planned to watch The Return of the King, because you need like a whole afternoon to get through that film, and this is the perfect opportunity considering my homework will literally only take me about half an hour (hopefully).
On a side note. Teachers are strange. No, not strange, just unresponsive. I sent one of my Welsh teachers an email the other week, asking her a question about the homework that has to be in on Thursday. And I haven't had a reply. I was hoping to have some at least acknowledgement that she even got the email. But there's been nothing. Which is why I give up on teachers. They ask you to email in with your ideas and promise to email back, but they never do.
I will lose all hope for humanity after this.
Just kidding. It just means I'll have to do my homework on my idea and if she says that it's wrong, boo to her, and I'll just have to move on with it. There's nothing I can really do about it.
It's just that I'd like to see some feedback, is all.
But nothing really exciting happens in my day to day life these days now anyway....
Monday, 4 January 2010
The Lovely Bones
As I said yesterday, I'm going to post my partial review of the book 'The Lovely Bones' by Alice Sebold.
First off, there are some amazing points to say about the book. The whole idea of Heaven there is amazing. It's something new, something I haven't read before. I loved how Susie saw and did everything with her family even after death. The family was 3D and did everything you would expect of a normal family to have reacted to Susie's death. The father in particular I thought was a very rounded character.
I don't have much to say about the mother, in all honesty. I didn't like her that much, and our information on her is quite sketchy. I couldn't get a solid read on her character. Like, her affair with the police officer seemed completely unrealistic to me, and she seemed to show no ounce of remorse towards the father even when she was having the affair. She seemed really selfish to me, mainly thinking of her own needs. It never came across to me that she even thought of anyone else when she decided to leave them. She could obviously see that the father was struggling to cope, yet she did nothing? That may be my personal interpretation on it, though. Those are the only main things that came across to me about her character.
The brother and the sister, Buckley and Lindsey, I thought were well rounded characters. Very believable. They were a normal family. The sister in particular reached out to me. The way you see females in books nowadays is that they scream their emotion all the time. But she didn't, which was a nice change. She was probably one of my favourite characters of the book. You could easily define her likes, dislikes. She was an easy character to imagine. The brother too. I thought his character was cute and unpredicted.
The grandmother was also a nice character. I viewed her as the character who liked to lighten the mood, and that's exactly what she did. Though she had her serious moments too, which were also very sweet. I liked her a lot.
George Harvey. He just screamed CHILD MOLESTER. Did anyone else pick up on that? Probably. I did not like him, as was probably intended. I thought he was an interesting character though...
Some of the things I didn't get:
1) The relationship between Abigail and Len, that seemed quite left out. It was happening one moment, then not the other. It was kinda sweeped under the carpet for no reason. Nothing ever came of it, can someone explain this to me? I know it was because she missed Susie, and it was a way for her to deal with her guilt. But could the same thing be said about him? That one I did not know. And if he loved her so much, why did nothing ever come of it? As I said, it was just kinda sweeped under the carpet.
2) George Harvey. His reasoning for somethings I didn't quite get. Nothing ever came of some of the things that he did. And I was holding on to the naive thought that something might happen to him in the end, well besides death. That he was caught out. Susie's bones discovered, anything. I was holding on to a childlike naiveness about that one. But that's not exactly something I didn't like about the story, as I can see it was mainly focusing on her family, and her family coping with her death.
3) Grammar. It might just have been my eBook copy, but there were some typos and grammar mistakes there. I know I'm no goddess when it comes to grammar and spelling. You only need to look at this page to know that. But when I read a book (other than Twilight where bad grammar is a known fact) I expect the grammar and story telling to be a bit more sound. You know what I mean? I thought it fell flat here. I'm not misjudging her story telling ability. I think it's a great story idea. It was just some little things that held her back in the end.
Those were my main problems really.
Overall I would say that the book is a decent one. A great story line, it just falls flat in some places. But no book is perfect. I understand that. I would rate the book as maybe a 6/10. I'd recommend the book to people, just warn them that it might not live up to their high expectations....
First off, there are some amazing points to say about the book. The whole idea of Heaven there is amazing. It's something new, something I haven't read before. I loved how Susie saw and did everything with her family even after death. The family was 3D and did everything you would expect of a normal family to have reacted to Susie's death. The father in particular I thought was a very rounded character.
I don't have much to say about the mother, in all honesty. I didn't like her that much, and our information on her is quite sketchy. I couldn't get a solid read on her character. Like, her affair with the police officer seemed completely unrealistic to me, and she seemed to show no ounce of remorse towards the father even when she was having the affair. She seemed really selfish to me, mainly thinking of her own needs. It never came across to me that she even thought of anyone else when she decided to leave them. She could obviously see that the father was struggling to cope, yet she did nothing? That may be my personal interpretation on it, though. Those are the only main things that came across to me about her character.
The brother and the sister, Buckley and Lindsey, I thought were well rounded characters. Very believable. They were a normal family. The sister in particular reached out to me. The way you see females in books nowadays is that they scream their emotion all the time. But she didn't, which was a nice change. She was probably one of my favourite characters of the book. You could easily define her likes, dislikes. She was an easy character to imagine. The brother too. I thought his character was cute and unpredicted.
The grandmother was also a nice character. I viewed her as the character who liked to lighten the mood, and that's exactly what she did. Though she had her serious moments too, which were also very sweet. I liked her a lot.
George Harvey. He just screamed CHILD MOLESTER. Did anyone else pick up on that? Probably. I did not like him, as was probably intended. I thought he was an interesting character though...
Some of the things I didn't get:
1) The relationship between Abigail and Len, that seemed quite left out. It was happening one moment, then not the other. It was kinda sweeped under the carpet for no reason. Nothing ever came of it, can someone explain this to me? I know it was because she missed Susie, and it was a way for her to deal with her guilt. But could the same thing be said about him? That one I did not know. And if he loved her so much, why did nothing ever come of it? As I said, it was just kinda sweeped under the carpet.
2) George Harvey. His reasoning for somethings I didn't quite get. Nothing ever came of some of the things that he did. And I was holding on to the naive thought that something might happen to him in the end, well besides death. That he was caught out. Susie's bones discovered, anything. I was holding on to a childlike naiveness about that one. But that's not exactly something I didn't like about the story, as I can see it was mainly focusing on her family, and her family coping with her death.
3) Grammar. It might just have been my eBook copy, but there were some typos and grammar mistakes there. I know I'm no goddess when it comes to grammar and spelling. You only need to look at this page to know that. But when I read a book (other than Twilight where bad grammar is a known fact) I expect the grammar and story telling to be a bit more sound. You know what I mean? I thought it fell flat here. I'm not misjudging her story telling ability. I think it's a great story idea. It was just some little things that held her back in the end.
Those were my main problems really.
Overall I would say that the book is a decent one. A great story line, it just falls flat in some places. But no book is perfect. I understand that. I would rate the book as maybe a 6/10. I'd recommend the book to people, just warn them that it might not live up to their high expectations....
Sunday, 3 January 2010
Finished the lovely bones
I finished the book today, this is just a quick update as I have plenty more to say about tomorrow. I'd be breaking my resolution Igbo did not post anything today.
We've been forcasted snow too for tomorrow and Thursday, and boy do I want it to snow. I really don't want to back to school on Tuesday. I could do with some more time off, like maybe another week or so, I don't know I'm just not ready to go back this week. I've been really lazy this holiday and I guess it's showing, right??
We've been forcasted snow too for tomorrow and Thursday, and boy do I want it to snow. I really don't want to back to school on Tuesday. I could do with some more time off, like maybe another week or so, I don't know I'm just not ready to go back this week. I've been really lazy this holiday and I guess it's showing, right??
Saturday, 2 January 2010
The lovely bones
I'm reading the lovely bones at the moment, and boy is it good. The reason I started reading it was because I saw a trailer for it when I went to see avatar the other day. Just from looking at the trailer it looked amazing, though that doesn't surprise me when Its coming from Peter Jackson, he really is an amazing director.
But yeah, can't wait to find out what happens in the end and how the film comes up in comparison to it.
But yeah, can't wait to find out what happens in the end and how the film comes up in comparison to it.
Friday, 1 January 2010
New Years Resolutions
I've never actually done a new years resolution before. I never manage to stick to them, but this year, I've decided I'm going to be persistent about them and hopefully stick to them.
My resolutions for this year are:
1) Finish writing one of my stories.
2) Finish writing my fanfictions
3) Blog everyday.
They sound really easy now, but come the end of January I'll be complaining about how hard they are, I can bet you that.
I'm posting them here as some sort of reminder, a motivator that I've said I'm going to do them, and I am. Hopefully.
My resolutions for this year are:
1) Finish writing one of my stories.
2) Finish writing my fanfictions
3) Blog everyday.
They sound really easy now, but come the end of January I'll be complaining about how hard they are, I can bet you that.
I'm posting them here as some sort of reminder, a motivator that I've said I'm going to do them, and I am. Hopefully.
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