My professional photography from Herm

Hi!

As I wrote yesterday, I went to Herm yesterday with a friend.
She and another friend have great blogs. Go check them out:
georgiabrouard.blogspot.com
eleanorshaw.blogspot.com
Here are some examples of my professional photography. It's such a shame that IB at my next school doesn't offer photography......
Lol

Herm

Hi!

My friend Gdog and I went to a tiny island called Herm today, to celebrate the end of exams and beginning of summer. Herm is tiny! It's got about fifty residents. I'll upload some photos if it will work.
What I really wanted to say is that you should check out these two new blogs;
georgiabrouard.blogspot.com
eleanorshaw.blogspot.com
They are both really funny and would appreciate more people checking out their blogs. Georgia also has a YouTube channel which she's posting vlogs on. They should be funny. We filmed some stuff today and she's gonna edit it and upload it. I think her YouTube channel is called Georgia Brouard but you should check out her blog to be sure.

Bye Banan!

Time off

Hi!

So I don't have any more school in this country apart from a few things like prize giving. I'm waiting for my friend to finish her last exam and then a group of us are going into town to celebrate. I told my grandma on the phone yesterday that I have study leave and she thought it was a very strange thing that when you've finished your exams you don't have to go into school anymore. Sweden in a month. Awesome!

Bye banan!

EXAMS ARE OVER

Hi!

Two to go

Hi!

So I've got two exams left. I don't know how they're going to go but I'm happy that they're almost done. In just six days my exams will be finished and I'll be celebrating by doing nothing and not feeling guilty about not revising, for the first time since year six it feels like.
I've been thinking. I know, massive shock.
My school is very exam orientated. To the extent that it drives me up the wall. In years seven, eight, nine and ten we have two sets of internal exams. One exam week in January and one around May time. We have exams in all our subjects (with the exception of drama, music and art) in the space of three days. In year nine we did a massive amount of subjects which meant that we had five exams in one day, methinks. This is all to prepare us for GCSEs. What are GCSEs useful for? They don't prepare you for real life because in real life you are not spoon fed information and then told to regurgitate(sp) it in an exam. Because we have internet. Oh well, rant over.
Anyway, the internal exams are that good as preparation for GCSEs because;
- GCSEs our spread out over a period of several weeks
- It is unusual to have more than two exams per day
- With GCSEs you don't finish learning the material a matter of days before the exam.

I'm making a list of stuff to do after exams. It goes along the lines of: sleep, eat, sleep, relax, have fun, sleep, sleep. You get the idea.

I should probably revise physics for tomorrow's exam, oh well I've got tomorrow morning to panic. I'll revise history instead, after all I only have until next monday to revise it. This is the wonderful logic of my exam riddled brain.

Bye Banan!

Almost over

Hi!

So my exams are done in 8 days time. Yay!
We've had lovely weather this week when I was meant to be revising. I'm trying to remember as much as possible for history tomorrow and hoping that I make it through geography alive on Tuesday.
Yesterday I was painting some boats with scouts. My hands got covered in blue paint and I was called a smurf. I still have some blue on my hands but most of it's gone. Next Monday, I'm starting my countdown to when I start at my new school. I'm really excited!

Bye banan!

And it's had enough

Hi,

I am now staring at the black screen of my laptop. 20 minutes. That's how long it lasted. This is why I dislike PCs.

Bye banan!

Don't you just love technology?

Hi,

I am writing this on my laptop which I have only just gotten to work for the first time since march. It's a good thing I haven't needed it a lot for school lately. I've tried a bunch of times to turn it on but it just goes black. Sometimes it makes it to the windows logo or the logo of the make and then goes black. It took me three tries to get it to turn on today. So I should probably salvage my stuff whilst I have a chance but no I'm writing a blog post, because I'm mental. I have strange priorities.
Well I should probably get some sleep now.........

Bye banan!

When will summer come?

*making sure keyboard is in correct language*

Hi,

I don't know about you but I am ready for summer. Seriously it's May, I shouldn't be cold when I'm inside. I should be outside having fun (ignoring the fact that I have exams when I say that) instead of being sat inside miserably trying to memorise case studies when the only thing I want is sleep. I don't think that sentence makes any grammatical sense which just proves that I need more sleep.
*looks at title*
Summer will have to last until around January next year to make up for its failure so far this year. Oh well, I'm sure the weather will get even worse when my exams finish (conveniently). I told my mum that my exams are done in less than two weeks. In her typical encouraging mum way she said that it's IB next which is even harder. I think that IB will be better though because you're not learning for exams. I'm probably going to get back to revision now.

Bye Banan!
(English autocorrect changed banan to Banan)

The curse of the keyboard

Hi!

So courtesy of living half of my life in a foreign country I am obviously bilingual. I'm fluent in Swedish and English. Of course I could call myself trilingual by saying that I am also fluent in Swenglish but that hasn't been recognised as a language....... yet. I'm working on it.
You know when you're typing on an iPad or similar you have the keyboard set to a specific language and that you can easily switch language. I've got Swedish, English and French (although I don't use that one now because I don't have French until August) on mine. I've always got it on the wrong language, so autocorrect keeps 'correcting' my text messages and I get really annoyed until I realise for the millionth time that I've got it on the wrong language. When I talked about this with my mum she just commented that it was a real first world issue.
My geography teacher would have my head if she knew that I used that term. It's not correct according to what we learnt last year and I guess I agree....... I don't know
Being bilingual can be pretty funny at times. When I first came here I didn't speak any English. My sister had done a year of English in Sweden so she knew a bit. The first thing she taught her friends here
was how to swear in Swedish.
I mentioned Swenglish before. If I'm speaking Swedish and I don't know a word in Swedish I just say it in English instead. I also use English verb endings on Swedish verbs. When I say stuff wrong my parents are always asking me what language I'm speaking. It's pretty funny. I do correct my mum's English so I guess that they can correct my Swedish.
I like being able to speak Swedish here because I'm the only Swedish person at my school. There are very few Swedes on the island in total. I think there's one other family, there used to be more but they all left..... Anyway if I get annoyed at someone I can tell them in Swedish. I also randomly speak Swedish sometimes becuase it's funny.
I don't think most of that made any sense but I blame the fact that I'm really tired.

Bye banan!

A week off!

Hi!

The week of hell is over!
I only have four exams left and two of them are in my favourite subject, history. I also have a geography paper and a physics multiple choice paper. But before that is half term. I haven't had this half term since year six because my school is weird like that but this year I have no exams that week. I'm only in school for a bunch of revision sessions for history next week. I don't mind that because as I said it is my favourite subject.
Multiple choice papers are interesting in my opinion. Ours have forty questions and we have forty five minutes. Most of my friends are done in about fifteen minutes. We have an answer sheet on which we fill in our amswers with a pencil in the right boxes. My strategy for multiple choice exams is this;

1. Be first to walk into exam hall. Don't bring phone in (cough)
2. Sit down at desk which is too low etc.
3. Start exam
4. Put answer sheet to one side 
5. Go through question paper, circling 'correct' answers
6. Go through question paper, checking answers and crossing out 'wrong' answers
7. Check time. If only little time left, fill in answer sheet as fast as possible
8. If plenty of time is left, go through question paper and 'perfect' the circles around the answers
9. Go through question paper, make sure crossing out lines are completely straight and look neat
10. Go through question paper, checking answers
11. Check answers
12. Check answers
13. Fill in answer sheet as slowly as possible
14. Make sure lines on answer sheet are inside boxes
15. If time is left, check answers
16. Check answers
17. Shade in periodic table if there is one or any other pictures in question paper

This is pretty much what I did in biology. I had way too much time! 

Today, I did not have a lot of time left. There were some very tricky questions. And some which weren't difficult necessarily but it took me a while to understand the question because it was badly worded.

Bye banan!

Just a few left

Hi!

I only have five exams left now. I'm saying that without any sarcasm whatsoever.
Let us see if this photo that I took yesterday will agree to be posted on my blog. I'm going to post some photos on Facebook now as promised. Go like my page!

Photos

Hi!

Just a quick post.
My older sister and my mum went out driving today so I went with them to take some photos.
The photos are going to be uploaded on Facebook by moi. Please go and like my page which is called thoughtsofaswedemovinghome!

Bye banan!

Testing testing

Hi!

I'm just checking to see if this works. Apparently I can send my posts as emails straight to my blog and they'll be published.
Ok so if you're reading this, it has worked!
Yay!
Also, some people told me that they couldn't post comments. I think I fixed the problem so please help me by leaving a comment so that I can see if it works.

Bye banan!

My hand hurts

Hi!

I just had an English literature exam and my hand hurts now. A lot. I'm going to bake a cake now.
..........
My sockerkaka is now in the oven. It's actually rising this time. I think it's becuase I used the right recipe but I'm really pleased. Almost pleased enough to cancel out the woe from my maths exam. Almost.
Oh well, it's over now. I have now completed biology, maths, English language, English literature and French. By the end of this week I'll have finished chemistry and drama too. I have drama tomorrow and I'm sure it will go well (cough) but I'm kinda scared of chemistry. It's the big red monster and it's out to get anyone who doesn't understand polymers...... Biology wasn't very hard but physics was so hard that genius struggled. So we'll see. I'm hoping that chemistry next year will be repeating what I've already done but with a decent teacher. Then I might have a chance of understanding.
I like writing this blog becuase I don't have to worry about the grammar.
Now for some wise quotes;

"Life is too short to worry about (insert chemistry or physics topic here)"
E.g. "Life is too short to worry about specific heat capacity" or "life is too short to worry about chromatography"
"If you do not mention the (insert obscure detail from Of Mice and Men here) then frankly you deserve a D"
"A D grade candidate will not mention pugnacious in their essay"
Sorry those are kinda jokes to do with my school, I don't consider the last two to be wise. I just find them funny.

What I learned at school today;

• Lower school exams = crazy little people being very loud
• We are not allowed mobile phones or other illegal electrical equipment in an exam, turned off or otherwise
•  Removes are crazy
• We have nowhere to eat when the canteen is shut for exams
• Our teachers don't like it when the take the chain on the stairs down to get down the big staircase which is blocked off for an exam we just did
• Savage likes to revise
• English teachers think that exam papers can be nice
• I can write really fast when I need to
• My hand hurts after writing nine pages worth in an hour and a bit.
• I hate exams

Do you like the nicknames I have for my friends? There's savage, Etta, the boss, genius.....

Bye banan!

Only (!) eight left

Hi!

So I got two more exams out of the way today. English language and biology multiple choice.
My right hand was hurting so much after English so I told my maths teacher that I'm glad we get so much time for maths tomorrow becuase my hand is officially dead.
I'm tired as you can probably tell from my mental rambling.
Does anyone know the point of GCSEs?
I looked it up on the magic google a while back and it just came up with articles about the English baccalaureate (I hope that I spelt that right in my English exam). I have therefore come to the conclusion that it's all part of the government's evil plan to take over the world. The point of the exams is for them to find the most cleverest (I know that isn't grammatically correct) people so that they can abduct them and use them in the grand scheme of things.
Seriously though I would go back in time to like the Romans just so that I could shoot the twats who came up with exams.
I'm gonna get back to revision now before my mum tasers me.
Goodbye!
Au revoir!
Auf Wiedersehn!
Hejdå!
Do svidaniya!

Bye banan!

Argh!

Hi!

I have a two hour English language exam tomorrow! Argh!
Strangely I'm not nervous. Should I be?
My hand will be dead. Luckily my afternoon exam consists of shading boxes for biology multiple choice. I have a two hour maths exam on Tuesday followed by English literature. Argh! My hand will be dead. This is when I wish I was non domimant handed so that I could easily switch to writing with my left hand when my right hand hurts. Oh I can dream.
Anyway wish me luck with the upcoming week of hell which also includes a chemistry theory paper and a drama exam.......

Bye banan!

Eurovision!

Hi!

I know this is kinda late but I meant to post it yesterday after Eurovision but my Internet went bonkers.
I would obviously have liked to see Sweden win but I have to admit that Emmelie de Forest was wonderful. The British commentator was so funny becuase he was saying that maybe Denmark could win but it wouldn't be a landslide and then it was. They announced their victory before three of the countries had even voted. That's what I would call a landslide. He was saying how Denmark wouldn't win even when it was clear that they would and it was hilarious. He was very unprofessional though in my opinion. He called the choreography woeful in one of the acts. He made lots of other comments  that were also pretty rude. But then again so did my sister. She kept interrupting and I wanted to hear what was going on. She is so annoying.
What was I going to say? I don't know. I'll have to make something up.
Oh yeh, I know that Eurovision isn't a very bid deal in the UK compared to Sweden but then again it is a massive deal in Sweden. I'm a bit curious about how the Brits select their contestant. In Sweden we have a massive contest called Melodifestivalen but I don't think that's how the Brits do it. Anyone who know please leave a comment (if it works).
Also I'm pretty sure Guernsey can't take part. Guernsey is not part of the UK so who would a Guern compete for?
Anyway head over to my Facebook page for some awesome photos of Guernsey which I will be uploading on there from now on.

Bye banan!

Hello again!

Hi!

So I haven't posted since Tuesday. Shame on me. In my defence I've been revising rather a lot for the upcoming week of hell. I'm actually terrified for my chemistry theory paper. The biology one was ok but the class genius thought that the physics one was hard and it was. The only good thing about these exams is that they're external. We won't have our chemistry teacher going over it with us and telling us that we should know this really obscure bit of information that we learnt in year 7.
So yeah, next week I have six exams. The week after that is nothing and then I have exams on the third, fourth and fifth. And my last exam is on the tenth of June. I can't wait until the eleventh. Then prom is on the twentieth, so excited! I don't know why I'm excited for prom but still...
So today I am focusing mainly on chemistry. I need to find some papers that I haven't done yet. This is proving to be pretty difficult becuase there are none on the portal (more on that in a future post) and the exam board website only has the most recent ones. Tis very annoying. I'll just revise the difficult stuff (ie the whole syllabus). Then I will do a maths paper. Then I will go over the heart and some other stuff. Then I'll go over the play for drama and revise some stage layouts (yes I do GCSE drama don't judge me).
Sound like an exciting day?
No!
I thought I would share some interesting information about my school. The year groups have different names so it goes like this;
Reception is lower prep
Year one is middle prep
Year two is upper prep
Year three is junior remove
Year four is form one
Year five is form two
Year six is form three
Year seven is remove
Year eight is lower four
Year nine is upper four
Year ten is lower five
Year eleven is upper five
Year twelve is lower six
Year thirteen is upper six

Reception to year six is technically a different school.
I joined the school in remove.
I am now in upper five

Does/ did your school have a strange naming system?
Leave a comment!

Bye banan!

P.S. you know I've been struggling to post my photos on here becuase I use an iPad due to my laptop not working. I was thinking of uploading the pictures on to my Facebook page instead which is called  thoughts of a swede moving home. Go like it and you'll see all my awesome photos that I'm going take!

P.P.S. thanks for reading my blog!

Another one down

Hi!

I've done another exam today. It wasn't as bad as I expected. I'm pretty certain that I passed so that is good.
I've got the day off tomorrow and them it's physics on Thursday and a day off on Friday before all hell breaks loose next week. I'm going to revise for my English language paper tomorrow mainly and I'll also do a physics theory paper and maybe go over my notes. But today I'm not doing anything becuase I don't feel too good.
I would like to share a code for graze.com with all my lovely readers: YZH4L3ZC 
Unfortunately I think it only works in the UK but they do deliver do Guernsey. 
Plenty of awesome people in Guernsey who read my blog. This code is kind of sayin thank you to you for reading my blog. So go and check out the website www.graze.com and get your first box for free. 

Bye Banan!