Today is the start of the mid year holidays. I won’t be doing anything these holidays. I won’t be travelling or doing anything special. I wouldn’t mind going to Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch to wait in line for the iPhone but I can barely afford the iPhone, let alone a trip there to get it at 12:01am on July 11th. So I will probably be on my computer for the next 2 weeks and surfing the net and watching some TV shows.

Being the middle of the year, I got my mid-year school report on Friday and it was pretty good. There were a few errors in it though, such as an incorrect grade and 2 of the same report, both with a slight error in the comment. You would think that someone would check through and make sure they are alright before giving them out. Oh well.

While still on the subject of school, just as I was about to relax on Saturday afternoon, a red letter from school arrived. A red letter is a naughty note, in simple terms. The reason the note was sent was for not submitting my Geography Report (and don’t say anything Stephanie!) I’m surprised I got one without knowing. I’m not too worried about it because I don’t really need the credits for UE. Also it’s my first red letter in 6 and a half years I’ve been there, so I like to think I’ve done well.

So basically I am going to waste away my holidays again. When I return next term, I’m going to have a fair bit to do, including submitting a Reading Log, doing difficult Electronic component physics assessments, as well as many other things. Not long to go before I’m done for good. It’s going to be 2009 before I know it.

Today was the start of the mid year examinations. This is from Wednesday to Friday. I however only have exams today, which are Geography and Physics, so I have the other two days off meaning a four day weekend for me.

The Geography exam was pretty straight forward. There were two parts to it, general skills and natural processes. I think I was pretty sorted with them. Although in saying that, I did have difficulty trying to work out the map resource due to it being black and white and not very detailed. Also in the knowledge exam, two of the questions seemed to ask the exact same thing, except they wanted them answered in different ways (one written and one drawn.) I was going to write and draw about the same thing but I wasn’t sure if that is acceptable so I attempted to discuss something else, which probably ended up to be a bad idea.

The Physics exam was quite difficult. It was a practical where we had to write a comprehensive method of a pre-determined experiment. That was pretty simple, but then carrying out the experiment was a challenge. We had to make a pendulum that swings on a diagonal. Its too hard for me to explain what I mean but it was very hard to set up, and even harder to run. The data was average due because of the experiment. Doing the math on the raw results was simple but then when it came to discussing the experiment, I was blank.

Staying at school until 4:30pm is really strange, mainly because it is so deserted, as well as being dark (well in winter.) I’m pretty happy that both of my exams were on the same day to allow me to have an extra long 4 day weekend. Now it is time to relax after all that hard studying, or lack there of.