Since we started back at school, it seems all of the language teachers have been focusing on preparing us for our oral exams. I’m sure they see this as a nice, easy little bit of work to get us settled back in to school but seriously – it is just traumatic for us. Tomorrow, I …
It’s like they’re trying to be nice, but failing. Read More »
So then eight weeks and its all over, eight weeks? Thats it.A nice round two months and you’ll never have to say pardon madame, je ne comprends pas la question. Seems like yesterday I was walking the crowded hallways for the first time. I’ll be honest I’ve never been much of a worker and I’ve …
Je ne comprends pas : The Leaving Cert Orals 2010 Read More »
I’ve been a very bold blogger. I told myself to write about my last three exams before jetting off to France, but unfortunately holiday preparations pushed blogging into the Bac (see what I did there? Ooh La La!) seat. My final three exams, Chemistry, German and Music were thankfully straightforward and uneventful. Chemistry was a …
I felt completey ready for French, there was nothing that could be thrown my way that I couldn’t speak about. I strode confidently into the exam, document clutched between my hands. I laid the envelope of photos on the desk when go tobann, I realised that what I had so happily carried with me was …
Few things in this planet are as tedious as washing contact lenses after coming home from school. Having to learn 5 Bildergeschichten is one. Following a particularly slow learner driver when you’re already a week late for school, is another. And so, in order to distract myself from all that German, and also to adhere …