Loving Yr 11

I have to type this on my lame iPod touch because my mum's hogging my iPad playing mahjong.

Anyway, isn't everyone loving the freedom you get in year 11? I love being a senior, it's awesome. Its cool that i get to go home early at 2 or 3 on thursdays. Out of 10 school days on my timetable, i get at least 1 free period on 7 of those days so I get most of my homework done then. It's cool because I get so many even when I do 14 units that I'm guessing it'll be a total breeze next year with 12 units. I'm even really liking all my subjects. French is quite difficult at the moment because everyone's really advanced, but I have a good teacher. He's actually legit French and came to Australia on exchange in high school or something. Music is also challenging. I don't like the fact that we're doing minimalistic
Music instead of classical. But all my other subjects are cool. I'm liking legal studies, especially. I don't know if it's the teacher, but it's nowhere near as boring as I thought it'd be. Im even joining the mock trial team.
Not as a speaker obviously. I want to be one of those advisors to the judge or something. My school has a pretty good team though so if i suck too bad im definitely quitting. Homework has been really light so far, too.

So yeah, school is really cool. I'm pretty much comfortably settled in now and can find all my classes which is a relief. About every 3 days I come down a random staircase I never realized existed, but then again, they say the school's like Hogwarts. The grounds and old buildings are gorgeous but the classrooms are ugly. Next Monday is the swimming carnival and I have to dress up as a policewoman. They have the randomest themes for each house. At least I'm not dressing up as a lover, ballerina or choir girl. So far I've joined 2 co-curriculars, mock trial and choir (um I accompany singers on the piano, I don't sing). I'm glad about the choir thing because I get to practice performing more. Even though technically there should be more pressure in this school, I feel completely non-pressured. No one came up to me and pestered me about piano, unlike a certain someone at old school. in fact I was the one who had to ask about it. So the lack of pressure is good, I was expecting them to literally make me join stuff. I reckon I may do social justice and that's it. 3 co curriculars Is enough for me. Especially as other scholarship girl isn't doing any at the moment (sorry but I would really panic if she did a lot).

I think I'm actually getting less homework than in year 10 which is awesome. I like my Marths teacher even though she sucks at teaching (year 10 math teacher would have a fit if she saw the amount of equal signs she writes across the board in her working out) but she's really hilarious and nice. She's this little old Serbian woman with a cute accent who constantly proclaims she's allergic to mobile phones and her son goes to my year 7 school which is weird.