1800's literature = not cool. Get with the times!

Hmm...I think this is kind of getting to be a bit more of a diary than a blog. I'm actually really really surprised at the amount of free time I have on my hands. All those scare stories about year 11? Not true. Unless they are slowly (and very slowly indeed) easing us into it. I'm so thankful I get to say bye to parabolas, newton's laws and coastal processes forever. Top 3 things I hated about year 10. I'm loving not having to do science and geography and hard maths, ick. I actually look forward to modern history. It's so cool. Our assignment is like our own historical investigation on anything, even ancient history or people. I'm not completely sure what to do. I wanted to do Baroque music but it'll probably be a huge bore for the teacher that marks it. So I think I'll end up choosing between communist rule in China or the Japanese invasion of China in WWII. Most likely the latter. I can have first hand primary source accounts from all my relatives which will be cool. So yeah, I'm really excited for that. Does that sound sad? I know it sounds sad. My modern history teacher was giving me my homework back and she was fussing about my source analysis and the people sitting near me all thought I was some kind of history geek which was embarrassing. At least I'm not doing Ancient as well. Otherwise I'd be a total history geek. Oh, who am I kidding, I probably will be one in year 12. I want to do history extension.

Since I don't have much homework from all the study periods, I'm doing my piano general knowledge and god it is a HUGE pain in the ass. I feel like I'm doing a history assignment for God's sake. I'm looking through all my music books, sticking notes on all the relevant pages and looking online too. The next thing I know I'll be doing a freaking bibliography. It's driving me mad. I even ordered a few biographies online. I hope they're not too boring. But I need to get good in general knowledge. I heard that if your performance was a bit under a pass, the examiners will let you pass if your general knowledge is really good. Whereas if the performance was a comfortable pass, getting good in general knowledge could result in a Distinction. Lol, who am I kidding? About 30% of all applicants pass on the first go, and out of that 30%, only 10% get a distinction. I think if you get a distinction they actually let you perform at the annual awards ceremony at the UNSW. A cool thing about passing the exam is that you get a graduation robe at the ceremony (because it's like an undergraduate uni diploma or something?) and you get to add AMusA after your name. So I could be Joanna (Dip. AMusA). It has a nice ring to it. And it would look totally cool on a resume, if anyone knew what it meant.

I'm reading 'Heart of Darkness' by Joseph Conrad at the moment and my god, it's worse than Huckleberry. Yuckkk. I can never concentrate when I read that book. Luckily it's only 72 pages long and I've read about 35 (and still don't know what's going on). Something about a random guy on a boat telling a story about going to Africa and having his ship break down and then going to the woods. And that's half the book gone. What I don't understand is why English teachers are so obsessed with literature from the 1800s. It's so annoying.

It's like 10:17, which means I am definitely going to sleep. I'm waking up early tomorrow because well this sounds really lame, but you know those Asian photo booths? I'm going to try one of those with the girl I walk to the train station with because we just discovered a Morning Glory right near the school. Which is cool. Oh, and another thing, it's right near 'Hello Happy'. Sharna's favourite Korean cafe. We pass it every single day on the way to and from train station. So I'm definitely trying something from there.