31 of August - Monday

Economics is usually a good way to start the week; except when we have a test at 8:15 in the morning...well, that's what we get from convincing Mr. Cooper Blanks to put the test forward from Wednesday to the next Monday...

We had a college talk today, we had nuggest for lunch.

Other than that, nothing went on today? What news? No news. Boring...boring day; boring beginning of the week.

Oh...by the way; today's word of the day is Quizzical.

28 of August - Friday

Okay. Today a felony beyond imagination happened. Megan Fox was kidnapped. Yes, that's right. She was stolen from our U6 Wall and the thief left a note in her place.

It only said "Return Michel and I'll put back Megan".

Now I'm not sure which of the two happened but either someone printed another identical Megan Fox picture and put it back up or the thief just put it back. In any case, Michel still hasn't been put back up.

OH YEAH! And our library door was opened again today! Okay, lemme explain this to whoever doesn't know: there is a passage from the 6th form centre straight into the school building through the library. This, however, had been locked for just about a year since the librarians complained about the excessive noise cause by us...

After a whole year of whining, moaning and general complaint they finally listened to us and opened the door to see if we can control ourselves. If all goes well, the door will stay opened and we won't have to hike outside just to get back into the building through another door!!

Starting the week with economics is great; but it's also great to end said week with P.E.! Some of use decided to try out a new sort of game: Dodgeball. I claimed that the only real way to play dodgeball was to use a ball that hurts on impact! I mean, what else could encourage people to avoid getting hit?! Well, suffice to say that whilst we didn't get a steel-hard ball like I'd have enjoyed we also didn't get the soft, spong-like balls that dodgeball is usually played with at school. Despite the ball not being so hard though, the other team still mentioned that I played somewhat like a maniac, making the game personal and throwing the ball very hard. HAHAHAHA! I mean, what's the fun in any sport if you don't play to win? ;)

27 of August - Thursday

Probably the most interesting thing that happened today was the confusion over lunch. We had grilled chicken today, but many people thught it was strogonoff. Others thought it was Chicken Nuggets.

Let me clear up the confusion:

• We'll have strogonoff tomorrow,
• and chicken nuggets on Monday.

Other than that, not much happened; so I'll just stick a random photo down here...

26 of August - Wednesday

At many points last year, when we were in the Lower 6, we had periods when we were locked out of our centre. These periods lasted from a couple of hours to a couple of days. These depended on both Mr. Thomas's mood and what exactly we did to deserve the punishment.

Well, suffice to say that our messing around started today when we decided to play some Dodgeball indoors. The game didn't seem to last very long after I was hit in the face by Steiner soon after the start of it. Anyway, Lucas put the ball away soon after, and that was that.

We pretty much had a normal day today with the exception of another UBC visit. Few people attended as it was pretty much dedicated to people actually wanting to apply there. A lot of questions were answered and the guest speaker was brilliant and charismatic.

Oh and by the way....battered fish is just another fancy name for "Fish a la Milanesa". It's getting rather annoying Sodexho trying to trick us into thinking there's new food when all there is are new names for old food...

25 of August - Tuesday

I believe that with most things in life, long-term planning is key even if, when the thing you planned for finally happens, the plan goes to hell and things happen completely differently.

That's exactly the process we started this morning at break time. Most of the U6's gathered in Room 301 to discuss some important future matters.

We divided the year into 4 teams, each one in charge of a specific section.

• Yearbook - the preparations for our own, private U6 yearbook. A tradition started last year.
• The U6 trip - where we will plan the U6 trip during the second term. Things like where we will go, what we will do, etc...
• Fund-raising - for the aforementioned trip we'll need all the money we can get. This team is in charge of doing everything they possibly can to make the amount that we have to pay for the trip as reduced as it possibly can.
• The U6 Party - traditionally, every year there is the U6 party where we host a party for (usually) F4 and up. Preparations needed include finding a suitable location, reserving the place, choosing dates and selling the tickets, and other stuff like that.

It's weird isn't it? It seems only a few weeks ago when I was looking at the other U6's and cowering under their immense size, longing to be able to go to their parties and hearing tales of their glorious U6 trips. It's hard to imagine that we were once the size of the current F1's, who now cower before us and want to go to our parties...

Tomorrow we'll be having UBC over to talk about applications. That'll be something to look forward to!

The bad news about tomorrow though: we have "battered fish" for lunch; whatever the hell that is anyway.

To Readers / Short Posts

First off I'd like to say that I really appreciate all my readers. I'd especially like constructive criticism, comments, guest posts, etc... Feel free to send me photos or anything else you want to put up really.

Second of all, I'd like to apologize if my daily posts are a bit short. I'm sure that many of you will understand all the work I'm having to put up with in this crazy, crazy year called the U6.

Other than that; enjoy and, to the present U6: may you enjoy this blog and (hopefully) look at it again in years to come and remember the great times we all had together!

24 of August - Monday

I sort of like starting the week with Economics. I mean, it's sort of a pleasant start to the week and not something like starting straight up with Maths or Chemistry...at least with Econ there is the option to go slowly, slide by slide or even just working listening to some music!

Today we had some college visitors! Yale, Princeton and Columbia Universities all came by with one speaker each to talk to us. This was their first visit in their College Talk tour so, as they said themselves, they were completely ready to give us information on the colleges and hand out pamphlets and fliers with more info. I don't think that missing one period of Chemistry had much of an influence here. I think it was a fair trade for the info we got.

HEY! I forgot to mention that a good friend of many of us came by! Aryssa! She visited last week but now she's returned, participated with us in the Yale/Princeton/Columbia talk and had lunch with some of us.

It's great having old friends come and visit again, isn't it? Some friends just aren't forgotten and are always missed, no matter how far they go or how long they stay away.

"Pasta in Various Sauces" was halted by and a double period of Portuguese was followed by a talk by Mr. Thomas on writing UCAS College Applicatations.

21 of August - Friday

Last year the assemblies for the 6th form were on Thursdays in the Chapel. This year it's been changed to Fridays in the Theatre.
The assembly team (made up of Veronica, Celine and Marina) told us that they the plan for the day was to have 2 new teachers and 2 new 6th form tutors tell us a little bit about themselves.
It started with Mr. Case, followed by Mr. Loveland. Mr. de Luca and Mrs. Machado have already been teaching here for more than a year. They talked a bit about themselves because they were new tutors.
Lessons followed normally during the day. The free period that many U6th people had before lunch was used to take advantage of what was rightfully ours. At the entrance of the 6th form there is a cork board. That particular board belongs to the U6 but it's been empty for all of the week for now. We decided that the best way to use it was to give every member of the U6th the right to put up one picture on there. After a while, the board was filled with pictures of female models and/or actresses put up by the boys and pictures of male models and/or actors put up by the girls.
Not much else happened except for the short, 10 minute talk we had before P.E. lesson. The new head of P.E. was introduced and the different style of P.E. was explained. Since the U6 knew all this after an entire year of it, we were pretty much just scenery in the 6th form centre.

10th August / 17th - 20th August

For starters, I didn't really know how I was going to write this blog. Was it gonna be about me? About life in general? About the lessons and the knowledge trying to squeeze itself into the minds of young people?

I ended up doing a mixture of these. Just read and find out really.

I had told my good friend SteVe that I had an idea to write this blog. I ended up forgetting about it for most of the holiday but have now remembered it! Forgive the lateness here, as each day is supposed to be a separate post. I'll write the first 4 days in the same post. Don't worry dear readers, as I'll correct my error as of tomorrow!

August 10th was when the term was supposed to start. It didn't due to the overreaction over this disease unoficially called "swine flu".

We had 7 more days of frolick and fun but when August 17th finally came along, we had to go.

So...what can I say about the first day of term? Well, the 17th of August was a memorable day, to say the least. 11 new members of staff, even more new students, new faces in the 6th form centre. The only new student in the 6th form (Lower 6 and Upper 6 for those who don't know) is a foreign girl from Portugal in the L6th.

A regular tutorial was followed by a talk in the 6th form centre for the U6 and, as usual, we have the assembly. You know, the event where the headmaster has the long speech discussing the holidays, events of the year, swine flu, etc...? As of after break time, students had normal lessons. Ending the first day with maths! Here we go...

Oh, and the new spiralled fancy diaries were a nice touch in my opinion...

The 18th of August was not very eventful. Other than the bucketload of homework we got, not much really happened. TOK was pretty depressing though when our first lesson informed us of our final oral presentations and essays already.

Oh, and of course! The U6 organized a meeting next Tuesday to decide where and when our U6 trip will be!

The 19th of August was pretty fun as my friends finally taught me how to play that card game they play. At least I'll be able to join them instead of just watching! It's not hard to see why they get a kick out of the game.

We did get some news though. It's great news for her but bad news for us. One of our Upper's, Stephanie Nascimento, was accepted into Mackenzie college! It's great that she got in, unfortunately she'll be leaving the U6 at the end of the week.

20th of August; today. I finally remembered about this blog I was supposed to write! Seriously, guys. Other than that, not much was interesting other than the cool Yakisoba we had for lunch!! Bruxinha for desert rocks too!!