POST 2 - 22/12/2023
hi, again! i have wayyyy too much time on my hands because i literally updated here 3 days ago, buuutttt i’ve been productive in saying that so here’s update numero due (i almost failed italian both semesters in year 9 but ‘numero due’ sounded more fancy than ‘number two’)
i have done a fair amount of my holiday homework this week. almost finished my psychology homework, which is just research methods and skills which is extremely repetitive but it has to get done - i just have one lot of textbook questions to go. i technically didn’t have any homework for general maths, but when i went to buy some spare exercise books for my orientation classes in early november, i bought 10mm grid books for math instead of 5mm, so i’ve been in the process of, and actually completed, transferring all the work over to the 5mm books my friend bought for me because i am too lazy to leave the house! and then there is english. i went to the textbook store to buy my textbooks yesterday and they didn’t have either of the books we are studying (for reference, they are ‘we have always lived in the castle’ by shirley jackson and ‘oedipus the king’ my sophocles). they should be in within 10 working days EXCLUDING christmas and boxing day and new year’s day.
and then there is EI. to be honest, EI is just going to get its own paragraph at this point in time because it is so interesting and i do not regret choosing it (yet). i think i mentioned in my previous post that my topic i have found a huge gap in the literature for is sleep myths, so like misconceptions about sleep and how they might influence or impact teenagers. my teachers (there’s two of them) both seem to really enjoy the idea and see good potential, but i do need to define a lot of stuff because, as my teachers have put it to me, what is a “good nights sleep” and how is that scientifically defined. might go into the state library after the new year to do some work because i get distracted too easily at home. i also signed up to go watch top talks, which is (for non EI kids) the top EI oral presentations being presented to people at the state library, which is good for me because i’ve only seen final products in terms of the written report, not the oral presentation. for my topic however, the teachers want me (as it is mentioned in some of the literature i have read) to complete a delphi method style approach to identifying sleep misconceptions. a delphi method is basically getting scientific experts who specialise in the topic on research to identify (with support of scientific evidence of course) whether it is a myth or not. THEY WANT ME TO CONTACT EXPERTS. they said students have done so successfully but i am wayyyy too introverted to ever do something like that. self esteem levels - low!!
a mini-life update. i have never watched stranger things before, but i made the choice to start watching it. i was always like “i’m never going to conform to what people have to say about television shows, I WILL BE THE JUDGE OF WHAT IS AND ISN’T GOOD.” confession… it is super good. the moment i’m done writing this, i’m going to finish off season 1 (i have 3 episodes left.) i also applied at a nando’s store for work, because i absolutely love nando’s, but i’m not expecting to land the job to be honest.
anywho, christmas is three days out, so wishing everyone a very merry christmas, and due to the lack of excitement in my life, i will definitely be posting another update before the new year. bye for now!
