Studying .... basically all the time :/

Now that this language barrier is fading away, I'm struck trying to catch everything we've learned in the past two months. It's neither fun or easy.

Philosophy and Literature, I'm not wasting my time with... in fact I use these classes to study and read.

Biology: I just spend Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and ALL of Sunday studying for my exam I had today. (I was supposed   to take it on Friday, luckily my teacher forgot to make me a special test (ALL MULTIPLY CHOCIE!!) so I had two extra days of studying.... two extra days of much needed studying). The exam, I pretty sure I would of failed if my teacher wouldn't of underlined key words in the questions, that hinted at the answers after my first time turning it in, and even then I pretty sure that if I pass, it won't be by much (she only underlined four questions... :( )... and of course I studied the wrong things... just my luck haha
 But one thing I noticed with this exam, I understood the questions, I could READ it!! For one of the first times, I couldn't use the 'I have on idea what this says' excuse. Progress is good :)

Math and Chemistry are probably the toughest. Math we switched from stuff I learned last year, to trigonometry .... sin, cos, tan... all of which I haven't even thought about since freshman year geometry, and I'm expected to memorize at least 20 different (but obnoxiously VERY similar) formulas. Chemistry is just stupid, in all honesty I should understand wayyyy more than I do now, but I only remember about 5% of everything we learned last year... and the whole writing the formulas thing is different, you write out the formulas completely different in Spanish then you do in English. Also when they change the names it get confusing.
       For example: Nitrato argéntico. I managed to figure it was: somethingNO3... but I had no idea what element argéntico stood for, and when I asked, the teacher just didn't understand that I have no way of know argéntico  was a form of plata (silver), I'm pretty sure he thinks I'm just dumb.  Also I was told to memorize all the charges for all the elements, so I assume we're not allowed to use the periodic table on test. This is going to be a problem: nitrogen has 4 different charges, manganese has 5... etc.

My computer teacher gave us the exam today, so I have to first figure out the answer and then memorize them so I know them for the exam. (Also I learned not to get on that teacher's bad side, he kicked a kid of the class for the week for talking.... he wasn't talking loudly or anything)

And religion, Sciences of the Contemporary World, and P.E. I'm really hoping I'm able to wing it (or be able to get by with a one night cramming study session)... we'll see how that goes. :)

Until November 21 at 3:37 (the earliest) I'm not going on facebook, mostly because facebook is way too tempting when I'm studying and I waste way too much time creeping on people I don't really need to be creeping on haha.

Last Saturday I went shopping.. I got a much needed sweater and two (also needed) shirts. My closet is looking a little less sad haha.

Friday is 11/11/11!! I'm borrowing a watch so I don't miss 11:11, I have yet to be successful making a wish. :(  The problem is that the school doesn't have a single clock... anywhere!! It's annoying.

Next weekend: I think I have a volleyball game!

And then next Wednesday my class is having a field trip to the Science Museum of Valladolid

Procrastinating time is over... back to hitting the books

¡Hasta Luego!