I think it’s time I gave an update.

Firstly, german Oral. I had the mock of it today which, I thought would be bloody awful. I was really dreading it. It was during period one, but luckily I was not first to go. I spent a few hours last night attempting to memorise the presentation. Here comes the semi-rant.

Why should we have to learn all that we wish to say. This is an exam that examines our pronunciation more than anything else. We should be just allowed to read it out. Afterall, it’s all our own work anyway. Rant over, back to business.

So, Joe went before we and Lewis. He was first in the registar so went straight away at 0830. He was in there for about 20 minutes in total. He must have done quite well, even though his denies that.

Next up was Lewis who, I’m sure did very well. Or did you? Next was me. I had t read my presentation out, then answer questions for about 8 minutes on my chosen subject area: Auschwitz: Ein deutsches conzentrationslager und vernichtungslager. That’s a mouthful.

I started the presentation as I meant to go on: badly. I was awful. I got about half way through and forgot everything I had prepared for. Bugger I thought. Luckily Frau Launisch cut the presentation short, and started the questions. They were OK I suppose. I answered them all to the best of my ability at the time, which wasn’t a lot.

To sum up, I went to pieces. I will be happy with a C for the Mock, a B for the real which incidentally is on May 17th.

My next topic is the Conclave and the new Pope. As a Catholic, I’m quite pleased to see they have chosen a new Pontiff, and a German at that: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger now known as Pope Benedict XVI. I’m looking forward to his Pontificate. It’s very exciting also because the conclave was so short. Less than 24 hours after they started, and he was elected. Brilliant!

This time next will I will hopefully have returned safely from our wonderful trip to the historic city of Oxford to be lectured about life at the University. It should be fun.

Well, today as always on Tuesdays I had the bitch. It was really fun – Stats. I would hate it if I got her again next year. Grrr. Mr. Nagra came into our class today to talk about Maths next year. He said two things:

i) If you get a U at AS you have to drop it. Paul’s got a lot of work to do then!

ii) You can do Further AS at A2 level. This would leave a timetable of 21 lessons. Rather full I think you’ll agree. I’m still debating as to whether to do it. During Nagra’s talk, the bitch kept staring at me as if to say “You WILL do further Maths next year!” Perhaps I can say “up yours” by just not doing it.

I think that’ll be it for now.

tata

Weather: Blueish shy
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