Sick People, Grades, Fire Drills...Winter

People beginning to show the tell tale signs of getting sick, and some are already sick. I myself am included in the first group. My body is definitely fighting something off, which is why I'm going to bed so early, drinking lots of tea, and washing my hands as if I were a doctor! I don't have the time or ability to become sick this year, it would be brutal to try and catch up in my work, and it would throw a fork in the learning of my Dutch. So, if you're sick wash your hands and cough into your elbow! Not for me, but for everyone's benefit!

In math we reached a unit that I was struggling with last year. But because I struggled with it before, this was a piece of cake! I'm am really glad about that because it means that I am on the right track of achieving my goal to reinforce my math skills. I also received three more grades back today. One being Chemistry where I unfortunately scored a 4.2 which is not passing, but was in my ball park for the language barrier. What I was glad about though was all the questions I made, I made either correctly of partially correct. The second grade was Physics where I knew I had made dumb mistakes, and my grade of a 4. Something (can't remember at the moment) was expected. The last grade was in Computer sciences and there I knew I was in for a low score due to the surprising amount of history and text we are doing for a computer course. That grade was a 3.9. All and all I didn't fare very well if I were a normal student, I could have done better I know that, and my excuse of not knowing dutch very well is only valid to a point. For the next test week these grades will all be above a 5.5 (passing)!

Biology, Gym, and English are tomorrow, followed by what I think will be two hours of homework at school in order to make my thirty-three hours per week quota. Tomorrow also is the announcement of who is playing at A State Of Trance 550! I can barely wait for March!

One thing I didn't mention in yesterday's post was that there was a fire drill during my first hour. Now for me and most kids back in the states this is nothing very interesting but here, it was the first in FOUR YEARS! It was quite funny to see how absolutely nonchalant everyone was a d the teachers just did their best to keep their class in one relative location. This is made possible by students being more responsible than in the states, and going to their teacher first before friends. On the way back in there was a firework or more noise bomb on the side of the path. When it when off (and it was loud) you could see everyone jump a few inches.