what's been happening
The exam days are long cold, but my life hasn't slowed down one bit. My results...could be better, as always. But I'm not too fussed. The post exam week has just been a haze and daze of packing, seeing teachers, catching up on the work I'll be missing next week and tying up loose ends.
Whatever it is, this almost-2-months summer break will not be a fantastically relaxing one for me. Top on the list is my first draft of my Extended Essay. Formulating a research question that I want to know enough about has gotta be the hardest part about writing the EE. I'm still not happy with what I have, but hopefully I'll get some inspiration over the hols. Then it's down to churning out 4000 words for it. That's like...5 English essays fused into one big headache. Then, I have to think about writing my World Lit essay, Chem holiday homework, Economics commentaries, improving my Chinese, learning Japanese, studying Physics, revising my entire Maths syllabus...*thunk*. Something tells me I'm being too ambitious. Well, we'll see where I get by 2005. ^^
I'm leaving on the 3.40pm plane tomorrow, flying home at last. It's been a year. I've still got some bits and pieces to pack, because we have to completely EVAcuate our room. Not a trace should be left, not a hint that this room was once inhabited. So my life is currently stored in a Lego cardboard box, an Arnotts' Biscuits box, a Hawken Bakehouse box, and a large blue luggage. Left to goodness knows what in the musty basement trunk room where luggages and boxes of all sizes from all over Asia (and Australia's countryside =) converge. I've always found that room rather fascinating. Looking at the suitcases stacked up, a little haphazardly, in cobwebby wooden shelves that stretch from floor to low ceiling. Picking my way across, searching for my own, and extricating it from the cluster where it's been sitting for a year.
It won't be long now.
Whatever it is, this almost-2-months summer break will not be a fantastically relaxing one for me. Top on the list is my first draft of my Extended Essay. Formulating a research question that I want to know enough about has gotta be the hardest part about writing the EE. I'm still not happy with what I have, but hopefully I'll get some inspiration over the hols. Then it's down to churning out 4000 words for it. That's like...5 English essays fused into one big headache. Then, I have to think about writing my World Lit essay, Chem holiday homework, Economics commentaries, improving my Chinese, learning Japanese, studying Physics, revising my entire Maths syllabus...*thunk*. Something tells me I'm being too ambitious. Well, we'll see where I get by 2005. ^^
I'm leaving on the 3.40pm plane tomorrow, flying home at last. It's been a year. I've still got some bits and pieces to pack, because we have to completely EVAcuate our room. Not a trace should be left, not a hint that this room was once inhabited. So my life is currently stored in a Lego cardboard box, an Arnotts' Biscuits box, a Hawken Bakehouse box, and a large blue luggage. Left to goodness knows what in the musty basement trunk room where luggages and boxes of all sizes from all over Asia (and Australia's countryside =) converge. I've always found that room rather fascinating. Looking at the suitcases stacked up, a little haphazardly, in cobwebby wooden shelves that stretch from floor to low ceiling. Picking my way across, searching for my own, and extricating it from the cluster where it's been sitting for a year.
It won't be long now.
