Noora

I’m on study ‘holiday’ right now until 2nd of May. With every single internal assesment done and 40 predicted points (39 plus 1 extra, wasn’t I a bit lazy on my EE…?), I’m not worrying much. I hope to get my math up from a five to a six and chemistry up from a six to seven but that’s all. Of course I’m revising all my ‘stronger’ subjects too, because I fear the evil IBO examiners are stricter than my own teachers (who, of course, are experienced and all, but y’know, know me and might read between the lines when reading my essays or something).

So far, I’ve studied chemistry core syllabus and browsed through the options I’m going to study, done German vocab & grammar, studied Weimar, Hitler, Stalin & the World Wars for history, rea d a couple of Finnish & English novels again and done a lot of old math papers. I still have some history, math & economics left… But it’s ok and I’m confident. And happy. With all the sitting in the school -stuff, written work and orals done, I don’t stress about the finals much at all.

I’m sad too though. I still go to school once or twice a week for an hour or two to attend math & history revision sessions and see some of my friends, but the community we had is already breaking apart. It isn’t the same, though I’m not sure when the ‘same’ that I am referring to was. The best times were perhaps in the IB1 year, although I have great memories from this year as well. I know I will see some people, including a few close girl friends and the boys I roleplay with, but some people I will not. People that I love having around and joking with, but people who are not close enough to me so that I could naturally suggest meeting them alone for coffee or something. I hope there will be a lot of reunions, although I know our class sucks at organising things. Hmmm.

I did four mornings the first week and two the second (goal five). Now of course my second week was cut short by Easter and the first week the weather was really horrid on the day I didn’t go. I haven’t gone today, but I swear I’ll go on the rest of the weekday mornings this week. Hopefully.

I bought “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare” as a paperback for a ridiculous price of about 9 € last summer and have been meaning to read ever since but as of yet no chance. Summer I was busy working and trying to write my extended essay and world literature essay and study for my national matriculation exams (and, well, I was in the country for 3 weekdays when I wasn’t working) and this school-year has been just as crazy, as I am in my final IB year (and also trying to maintain a social life). I have 23 school-days left until the ‘reading holiday’, some two months until finals and some three months three weeks till university entrance exams. After that, I swear, I’ll finally finish reading this. Because I want to. Because I like Shakespeare, although my experience is limited to Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear and some sonnets so far. Hmmm.