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!!