11 of December - Friday

Inter-house games for the U6 were going to take place. They were posponed until the first week after the Chirstmas break because:

• The weather was terrible. If it rained we would only have volleyball and no basketball or futsal.
• The L6 were not there.
• There were very few U6 there. There would only be 2 people in the Stuart team!

9 of October - Friday

I think it's pretty interesting that the last post before the Half-Term also happens to be the 40th post on this blog. It's pretty weird to think I've actually been managing to write one post per day!

Oh, right: why do Sodexho insist on giving us FISH and YOGHURT on the last day before a holiday?! Do they want us to leave with a bad impression? I don't look forward to my last lunch at the school...

Anyway...

It finally happened! The Athletics Day! Due to the dull weather today and for the past couple of days there was only a 40% chance of it happening, but that 40% pulled through, causing only minimal problems with the events.

Now, being a Windor, I didn't spend too much time (read: at all) in the areas of the different houses. But I do know that even the younger kids got into the whole thing: wearing blue wigs, waving blue pom-poms. The F5, L6 and U6 limited ourselves to blue facepaint: either a blue spot or blue lines on our cheeks.

Slipping in the races didn't bother people much and at least three people slipping and falling straight on the floor at the end of the race just added to the comedy of the whole thing!

The results were as follows:

3rd - Tudor

2nd - Windsor

1st - Stuart

Now the whole school's got an entire week off! Happy holidays to everyone and take your well-earned rest!

2 of October - Friday

Having missed school today I am writing accounts of what my fellow U6 have told me.

First off, (and I didn't need to be at school to know this) but it was very, very hot today! São Paulo weather is so random isn't it? It's pouring one day, then it's the hottest and dryest day the next!

The U6 were entertained by Giovanna today when she sang a song she composed herself to both the L6 and the U6 in assembly today.

Oh, and did I mention that today was the deadline for the first draft of our TOK essays? No? Well it was. The rush was the same as when a draft of our Extended Essays was due a few weeks ago (you guys remember, right?). A lot of people did it at the last minute. That's us, eh? Always doing things at the last minute.

Lunch was "Beef Stew" apparently.

25 of September - Friday

Our weekly Friday assembly was hosted by none other than Mr. Cooper Blanks!

2012; the end of the world? The presentation was about that. No conclusions were truly reached about what would happen in December 2012. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

18 of September - Friday

We were told in assembly this morning that, as of Monday, every student in the 6th form centre was going to receive an identification card that will be used to get in and out of the school grounds during lunchtimes. I'm not sure exactly how this will work, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see on Monday.

11 of September - Friday

The end of the week arriving and most of the school already turning on their "relax" gears.

Today was a pretty normal day with nothing out of the ordinary happening, though I must say that Vicky's stretching exercises during P.E. though were spectacular and extremely envigorating. I don't know exactly how to word this because describing pain as "good" without sounding like a masochist is extremely hard. Hmm...despite it seeming like every cell in my body was screaming in agony when I was done, it was a "good" pain because it was one that left me (and I'm sure the others as well) with the feeling that we had improved our fitness.

It certainly was a healthy and good alternative to dodgeball, an activity that I've been wanting all week but never seem to find enough people willing and able to play when P.E. lesson finally arrives.

4 of September - Friday

Three main events happened today. First off, Alberto told us, in assembly, a little extract of the speech he had given the McCann Society the day before. It was about Economics and credit. I think we will all agree with the fact that this was a very good speech and we hope to hear similar extracts from the other speakers in the McCann Society ECA.

Film today was quite unique experience: no teacher came to the class to teach us. Robbie, Zhao and myself stayed in the classroom and worked on our Film Courseworks. At 9:15 (15 minutes before the end of class), Mr. Burnside, our film teacher, walks in and asjs us what we are doing. We were then asked what lesson we are supposed to be having. The answer? "Film, sir...with you..."
All 3 of us were given Bene's by Mr. Burnside; I think it's my first Bene in about 3 years...

Extended Essay's were due in today and many people were in a drastic hurry to finish them off and hand them in. 4000 is a lot more than it seems, for some people.

With the large amount of rain we had, P.E. was a very limited class. We had the option of Table Tennis, Dodgeball, Futsal or work in the 6th form centre. Dodgeball and Table Tennis were abandoned as nobody showed up for them.

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? ;)

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.