Senior year benefits

After making sure that I'm not doing grade sport this year, I can now go home at 12pm on Thursdays. Even if I have to go swimming straight after for my physiotherapy exercise, I'm still quite happy to leave school early on one day. Actually, since it's summer and all, I don't mind going swimming once or twice a week.

My subjects so far have been okay-ish, my mathematics class (advanced and extension) is fine, the teacher is fine, the workload is quite a bit but manageable, but the one thing I don't understand is that starting this year, mathematics will also have an assignment instead of a test for the first term. None of the students know how a maths assignment will work, some are curious, I'm dreading it, honestly. One of the things I like about maths is that I don't have to spend time at home doing assignments, but now that's gone. Thinking about it, the fact that we now have an assignment for maths might mean that I won't get first this year. I've ranked at top or tied top for maths for 2 years now, because I've done a lot of maths, but also because I have a lot of experience in taking tests in it, because of tutoring, and one thing that I suck at is assignments. Who knows, maybe it'll be quite simple and easy to deal with, but since it's the senior year, that's probably not how it'll go. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

Japanese wasn't as bad as I previously stated, surprisingly, there's really only one person who signed up because they thought they'd just watch anime in every lesson. Everyone is mostly quite and willing to listen to the teacher and actually take the topic seriously rather than the expected "scream things in Japanese because you're a weeb" thing. The first lesson of Japanese was really about the teacher getting an idea of the students goals in learning Japanese and stuff. We only learned basic things in greetings, and have not even started learning the hiragana. Right now, I'm mostly focused on the writing and reading, as the listening and speaking I think I don't need to work too hard. One thing that helped is that Japanese and Chinese share a lot of the characters, so even if I don't know how to pronounce the word, I have an idea of the meaning of some of the words. One thing that's slightly different is that Japanese uses traditional Chinese instead of the simplified Chinese that I learnt.

IPT is manageable except for the fact that there is one smart-ass that constantly talks to the teacher as if he's the only one in the class and keeps shadowing the teacher and saying stuff like "yeah that's right" to what the teacher is saying, he's spewing stuff about PC parts as if he's the only one who knows it and it really slows down the class. Again, we didn't really do work in the first lesson, as it was really just used to explain the year and how its going to work. He just explained the topics and how the assignments and assessments will work for this year and next year.

The classes I haven't yet taken is English and SDD. SDD is going to be nearly the same as IPT, because they share the same teacher and nearly the same students. English however, I have no friends from my core group with me, and I'm with a teacher that I've never had before, so we'll see how it goes. Again, I need to get an A or better in the test/assignment to stop writing on this blog, so I'm going to try pretty hard to do well.