How Was Your Day? Numero Four-o

[di marco]

didnt do much on sunday except pack some stuff to go back to uni. yesterday helped my mum with food shopping. today took most of my stuff down to my uni house and cleaned my room for when i go back

[di marco]

The weather has turned realy cold, the heating in my office, which is temperature controlled has come on this morning and has stayed on all day, it was a bit sunny around lunchtime but mostly overcast.

its so cold here too, its freezing in my bedroom!

[di marco]

I have coursework, I only handed some in today! Applied courses are crazy amounts of work but my school don't do normal Business because they do Economics as well, which universities don't like. Also had to write a tragedy minisaga for English in exactly 50 words. I had 63 but I've cut it down now. Just got to print it off in the 6th form centre tomorrow as I have no ink. We have to pay £12 for ONE book for English! We have to have like four and we have to have that certain edition so we all know where we are with it. And that £12 is with the department subsidising part of it. Also got to finish my Economics work so pretty busy today, had loads of work over the weekend too.

thats expensive! dont your school provide you with your books?

[di marco]

should really start to pack. so much to so so little time.

i always leave my packing til the last min then its a mad rush and i panic that ive forgotten something lol! when are you going back?

[Abigail]

First post from my new flat

Great flatmates, Kelly, Sophie, Craig and Jamie. I'm next door to Jamie (he's 27) and even though I've only known him for 48hrs I have to admit I really fancy him. We've just been talking in my room.

Anyway... had a mad evening. Our loans don't come through until Thursday so we've got no money to go out. All my flatmates are going home this weekend so I think I'm going to as well.

[di marco]

First post from my new flat

Great flatmates, Kelly, Sophie, Craig and Jamie. I'm next door to Jamie (he's 27) and even though I've only known him for 48hrs I have to admit I really fancy him. We've just been talking in my room.

Anyway... had a mad evening. Our loans don't come through until Thursday so we've got no money to go out. All my flatmates are going home this weekend so I think I'm going to as well.

glad youre having a good time! cant believe theyre all going home, do you not have a freshers ball?

[Kim]

I have coursework, I only handed some in today! Applied courses are crazy amounts of work but my school don't do normal Business because they do Economics as well, which universities don't like. Also had to write a tragedy minisaga for English in exactly 50 words. I had 63 but I've cut it down now. Just got to print it off in the 6th form centre tomorrow as I have no ink. We have to pay £12 for ONE book for English! We have to have like four and we have to have that certain edition so we all know where we are with it. And that £12 is with the department subsidising part of it. Also got to finish my Economics work so pretty busy today, had loads of work over the weekend too.

thats expensive! dont your school provide you with your books?

They do for text books, but they're making us pay for our books for English because we have no choice but to annotate them so that we can do the coursework and be able to answer the questions in the exam. Personally I find it ridiculous that it's £12 for a copy of Hamlet! This copy they're insisting we have is £22 to the school but that still contradicts a 6th form agreement that we have to sign. "The school will provide all equipment required for examination courses." English department aren't in my good books this year - they've already decided to teach a different syllabus to the one in the prospectus and they're changing one of the texts they said we were doing.

Today, loads more work. I was trying to do my Business coursework in my free but they've replaced about three quarters of the computers in the 6th form study room. The ones I got either didn't have word installed or wouldn't detect my USB so I couldn't have saved anything I did do so I could carry on with it tonight. I must have looked like I had ants in my pants, trying about 6 different computers.

We were given our Psychology text books so I have catching up to do with notes I haven't finished for that.

Economics - Homework that we can't do a question on until after next lesson

More trouble with the girl that bullied me non stop for a year and a half I wouldn't think people who have nothing better to do than that would bother to stay and do A Levels

Got to registration this afternoon only for my tutor to announce. "There is a flasher. Girls, stay away from the alleyway." We also heard the flasher chased a Year 10 yesterday. Kind of scared, I wish my parents could drive me to school so I wouldn't have to go near the alley in question.

[Abigail]

Nope, no freshers' ball. I spoke to mum on the phone earlier and she said she doesn't want me to waste my money coming home for the weekend. TBH, I think my mum would just drive me crazy as per usual so I might as well stay put.

[di marco]

I have coursework, I only handed some in today! Applied courses are crazy amounts of work but my school don't do normal Business because they do Economics as well, which universities don't like. Also had to write a tragedy minisaga for English in exactly 50 words. I had 63 but I've cut it down now. Just got to print it off in the 6th form centre tomorrow as I have no ink. We have to pay £12 for ONE book for English! We have to have like four and we have to have that certain edition so we all know where we are with it. And that £12 is with the department subsidising part of it. Also got to finish my Economics work so pretty busy today, had loads of work over the weekend too.

thats expensive! dont your school provide you with your books?

They do for text books, but they're making us pay for our books for English because we have no choice but to annotate them so that we can do the coursework and be able to answer the questions in the exam. Personally I find it ridiculous that it's £12 for a copy of Hamlet! This copy they're insisting we have is £22 to the school but that still contradicts a 6th form agreement that we have to sign. "The school will provide all equipment required for examination courses." English department aren't in my good books this year - they've already decided to teach a different syllabus to the one in the prospectus and they're changing one of the texts they said we were doing.

cant you tell the school about how they said stuff would be provided? i dunno what my school did for alevel english as i didnt do it, but at gcse we got given a book which might already have been annotated, we were told we had to write in pencil so that the next person could rub it out if they wanted. £22 seems really expensive just for one book, surely there are cheaper copies they could have asked you to buy?!

[di marco]

Nope, no freshers' ball. I spoke to mum on the phone earlier and she said she doesn't want me to waste my money coming home for the weekend. TBH, I think my mum would just drive me crazy as per usual so I might as well stay put.

i cant believe you dont have a freshers ball! although i didnt actually go to mine, we had our own party instead lol! its quite good being the only one in the house at times, although probably more so if you have work to do!