Monday 21st Dec

Whiteness is all around, but not the blank pages awaiting my input for an essay! Nope, it’s been snowing! And I reckon I’m up to date!


My UCAS personal statement has been approved by Dieca, she & Jordi have written a lovely reference and the whole kit & caboodle has been sent away to those University dons in their academic towers of ivory…I can but wait!

The Spanish essay on the various themes of “Lengua de las Mariposas” went fine: Jordi gave me a “Very Good” so I must have managed to write literately! I haven’t seen the corrected version yet so by the time I get it back, the writing will just be a distant memory! I must try and do some exs from my grammar books over the Xmas hols.

I passed the “Father & Son” assessment, which caused a lot of people problems. I’ve written an essay comparing and contrasting “Secrets” and “Dulce et Decorum est” and their treatment on war. Again I find that I’m quite happy explaining the themes, but I don’t feel comfortable discussing the literary techniques used; maybe I should try and read up on this…but I don’t want to study Literature at Uni!!

French went fine: full marks in reading 7 listening, and just a few mistakes in my writing. Cedric didn’t mention our speaking, but I think it was OK. I need to go through my notes and organise the vocab notebook..

Joe was happy with my project, and I did my wee presentation. It went OK, but I’m sure I can improve – it was strange speaking in front of my peers! I reckon I used the technology without problems, but I should have organised my notes better. I should find Joe and ask him for some comments.

I wrote the Mobile Phone essay in a bit of an altered style; more like an opinion column than a discursive essay. We’ll see what Scott has to say, but I think it was good to try and do something in a different voice.

Handed in the essay on the Liberal welfare reforms – the subject didn’t grip me as much as the other ones for History. That’s the way it’s got to be though – I can’t expect every subject to tickle my interest bones to the same extent, and there are bound to be subjects to investigate that I find dull or uninspiring.