Panic on the streets of…*your town name here*

We have 2 weeks to go.
Now about 3 months ago that sentence would have drawn a horrified “Guh!” from my lips, but these days the thought of freedom almost overtakes my terror. Can you imagine it? A whole summer with absolutely NOTHING to do? I personally can’t remember a time when I had nothing at all to do, or no pesky “must study” thoughts niggling at the back of my mind…

But back to the task at hand: 2 weeks.
These weeks, we are told, are for consolidation of what we have already learned. I love how they make it sound so easy – just consolidate what you know kids, and you’ll be grand. If only it actually were, for unfortunately consolidating what I know happens to be 4 history books, about a bajillion Irish poems and stories, hundreds of pages of English notes and a few squeaky set works (yes, Deane, I’m talking about you.) And of course, with all this stuff to consolidate and very little time in which to do it, my classmates and I have turned to the age-old tradition of predicting what’s going to come up on the various papers.
Predictions are like chocolate to Leaving Cert students – a sugary source of comfort and relief when you’re worried, yet immediately after you partake you realise they’re only going to make you fat and lazy (OK, maybe just lazy. Predictions don’t have calories, as far as I know 🙂 )
I’m still attending school every day (it gives me focus) but I have to avoid the school library in order to escape feverish discussions of the possible paper. It amuses me no end to hear someone moan that they’ll never learn all they have to know, but yet when someone asks “When was the last time Adrienne Rich came up?” the answer comes flying faster than Concorde from their mouths: “2007!”

Hope everyone isn’t stressing too much, Lord knows I’m not…for some reason. My year is extremely laid back, so I blame them! But I think it’s mostly from the fact that, thankfully, I feel almost ready to tackle this bad boy. Almost.

Good luck in the next two weeks everyone!

Valerie