(Good old Richard Dawkins)
Well, if you’ve ever wondered ‘What is the Qur’an?’ or ‘Church going is no longer important… discuss!’ you could have done my RE exam. Some people had trouble with the Eucharist (how many marks are available for ‘something to do with Jesus?’) but luckily I was up to date on the whole bread \ wine thing, along with [gulp] Muslim birth rituals. However, this year: no good, no evil, no Easter, no Ramadan, no Eid. There was a sprinkling of baptism though. (hahaha)
Oooh but then – World of Work! Mr X would have liked this one, especially ‘Describe the effects of a multinational on an LEDC’ (Less Economically Developed Country for those not quite up with the latest in PC terms). I was quite mild, only claiming the ‘possibility of lower health and safety standards’.
And the last question was a bit of a gem as well – racial discrimination in employment today. Does it exist? I wondered about writing “No, there is no racism in Britain today at all” but figured that wasn’t quite enough for 10 marks. 
Well, tomorrow it gets harder – English Literature. I’m re-reading ‘Of Mice and Men’ and might get round to looking at the poetry again, if I can put up with Simon ‘Monotone’ Armitage.
(Calvin Coolidge if you were wondering)
You know you’re a die-hard blogger when people at school say “How was the exam? Oh, I’ll read it on your blog…!”
Well, today was the first ‘exam’ exam, but not quite enough of an ‘exam’ to make me not say the same thing tomorrow. Spanish Listening, which I’m describing as easy\hard because it seemed to be quite an easy exam, even if I don’t think I did that well on it. Not a disaster either though – and thankfully the recordings on the tape spoke nice and s-l-o-w-l-y most of the time. I wonder where foreigners picked up that habit from?
Tomorrow is the RE and World of Work sections of Humanities. World of Work will be fun, because it’s an interesting topic in itself. RE will be a dull attempt to regurgitate half-baked lies in two flavours (Christianity & Islam) and half the struggle may be to remember which one I’m writing about.
I mean, take this quote from my Christianity text book, talking about the validity of the Bible: “It is possible that things were added and exaggerated, but not as much as people might think.”
Anything I do gets exaggerated within a few minutes, so how Jesus went 2000 years in a picture-postcard state of preservation would be a remarkable feat if it were the least bit true.
Aghh… religion.
Oh, and as I said on Rob’s blog today – “One good thing to come out of the BBC strike was that Breakfast got replaced with News 24! Yay – and not a sofa in sight.”
Here’s my bundle of Internet goodies for you all:
Anyone up for a game of Blogpoly? How much of a ‘blogosphere’ nerd are you? See how many of these things mean something to you!
But hey, puzzle games are boring and don’t allow you to Beat the Press cruising along to the Daily Show theme tune.
BBC News is reporting interesting things today. Like Glasgow City Council bribing kids with iPods – because presumably the local government is so overflowing with money they can afford to splash out on ‘worthy’ projects like this.
OK that’s it – I’m out of things to link to. Tonight’s (time-shifted) HIGNFY has been \ will be hosted by Marcus Brigstocke – yayness.
Welcome to Part 1 of my uninteresting outpouring of thoughts after a GCSE exam. Today was Spanish Speaking, one of the hardest for me, and all in all I thought it went pretty well. No major fuck ups, and I was very lucky with the topics that came up for conversation! After a presentation on ‘The Environment’ I got ‘Home Life’ and ‘Education & Work’ – and I was very relieved not to get anything on ‘Tourism’.
Our teacher is great though – which calmed the nerves. Next up: Spanish listening. Monday.
Well, technically. There’s still the small matter of revision sessions, Spanish speaking tests (on Thursday!), GCSE exams, the Prom, Results Day, Certificate Presentation Evening and a whole 2 years of Sixth Form… but aside from all that it’s the last time our year will be together. Sorry if I find it hard to get all emotional, but the girls do that well enough on their own 
The wonderful Yearbook sold out and is being re-printed, but if you can’t wait to see photos of each other, Bagman is very keen for people to visit his gallery of adorable faces. God knows why I let him get all this free advertising!
So tomorrow, on my first day of ‘freedom’, I’ll probably… head right back into school for revision. Wow, Blair was right, ‘choice’ really is better
Linda Moffitt on Colombia: “Such a sweet memory of the four of you meeting up in Colombia!” Dec 2, 07:42
