Today was finally our last day of school until August...crap, I forgot the exact date we come back. Whoops. Anyways, my last final was today (math) seriously I don't want to even go there, and my last period of the day was Volleyball so it was fun taking my "finals-frustration" out on a volleyball. Finals was pretty hectic, actually these last two months have. I haven't had the time..besides now to sit down and update you guys with some interesting things. Can you believe it? When I go back to school in August, I'll be a Senior!!! I'll be done with High School around this same time of the month next year...whoa.
Here is a quick updates throw at you guys: I've decided to go to the Coldplay concert in July and hopefully attend the No Doubt with Paramore concert in August (which I will most likely attend since Jacquie and her sister are going). I'm visiting my good friend Brie for one week before she leaves the country to live in Nepal. Saying Goodbye to her one more time is just going to be so difficult again. I'm definitely going back to El Dorado Hills (Sacramento) to be with my family for the rest of July (basically until the end of July and make it back just in time for the No Doubt with Paramore concert).
It actually depends on my family's say. Schedules change like crazy with us so let's see :] Then the rest of the summer is going to be spent going to Disneyland with Jacquie (and Katy), and working on my AP Literature summer work (writing a 3 page paper on both Frankenstein and Tale of Two Cities). It doesn't sound like a lot, but it actually is. School is back in session for me, mid-August so it really doesn't give me enough time to be lazy. Though I wish I could just lounge around for weeks on end, but I'm just the type of person that gains extra weight I don't need by doing so, being busy is what's good for me :]. I do promise however, a LOT of sleep. I'm also doing hours of workouts during the "daytime" at the closest gym whenever I'm here in town. I definitely need to get up to shape and loose all that post AP/SAT/Finals exam weight-stress!!!
Now here's the whole story about something that saved my academic heart:
One last thing about finals (besides me venting about how super stressful it was and how I hated the last two months) I need to tell you guys about something that could've broken my academic heart to pieces if I didn't do some demanding.
To keep it short, our school gives out 10% boosts on our finals (only second semester) and you basically get those boosts by what your STAR (state testing) scores were. If you score passing or higher (advanced) you get the boost in each subject you got passing grades for. A counselor several months back came into our AP English class and gave out slips that informed us where we'd be receiving those boosts for the finals we'd be taking at the end of the year. I didn't get one at the time. I just shrug my shoulders and thought "Well, maybe I'm wrong and I did horrible on all my subject tests for the STAR". Today I was proven wrong. I requested a "re check" from the VP in the office because I was just too desperate for the extra 10% and my good friend had went to the VP also because she just knew that she got advanced on her English portion, and she did but she wasn't on the list. It gave me confidence to rush over there and request that "re-check" and by golly, I got 10% boosts on ALL of my finals, which means I passed or passed with Advance on all of the subjects that I was tested on for STAR. Phew, my AP English project (our final) became a 104.5% !!!!
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