The Adventures, Mishaps and Musings of Me

Tomorrow I'm off to Milan to sit the etrance exam *gulp*.  Am I feeling confident?  Kinda.  I've done some preparation after seeing the type of thing that's on it on the open day.  Mostly random multiple choice maths/grammar/logic questions and then a section on critical reading.  I should be able to spank the critical reading (speaking English as my first language should give me a big advantage) and I did a LNAT (UK law examination to get onto undergraduate courses) practice paper, which is ALL critical reading and scored really well on it.  And for the grammar and maths, I signed up to recieving a US SAT question to my mail box every day, which again I've got pretty good at over the months.  Thus, all should go smoothly...

The only slight set back is that after having to wake up at 3:00am to get on the plane, I may be resembling a brain dead zombie.  If I do, hopefully I'll resemble the aplha zombie that orders the other zombies around and not a maggot ridden corpse that twitches in the corner of the room.  

Zombie metaphors aside, wish me luck!  

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It's Good Friday tomorrow and what shall Scorpi be doing at 5:30am?  Sitting in a mini bus on the way to Wales scoffing down meat pie made of over a thousand calories! Yum!  And why shall I be on a coach to Wales?  Becuase I'm off on my Duke of Edinburgh Gold practice weekend for a four day, 76km hike and camp over the Snowdonia mountain range.

Yar, I be rough and tough. 

Although I'm apprehensive about infliicting blister filled pain on myself for four days, I'm also pretty pysched about the whole thing.  After a D of E expedition, you always have stories to tell :P  The forecast for Wales over the weekend is a nice, mild blizzard and a pleasant -10 degrees so, little to say, hypothermia is going to be the main concern not sun burn.

Gotta go pack my enormas rucksack that is suppposed to weigh a third of my body weight... toodles!

I had my last skiing lesson last night and so have completed my Bronze Duke of Edinbourgh Award!  Wohoo!  In my "assesors report" they actually put down that I had superb ski skills *blushes with pride*.  Kinda sad though, I'm gonna miss my weekly skiing hour.  But, onwards and upwards...

I just need to complete 3 months (12 hours, once a week) of physical to get my silver award, this time I'm gonna be going for horse riding.  Something I've always wanted to learn how to do and now seems like the perfect time to get started.  A friend recommended a (kinda) close stable, so I'm gonna give them a ring tonight to try and get a quote.  Also, I need to get my butt in gear to start a pysical for my Gold for six months, so, preferablly, something dead cheap.  But, you have to have some kind of instructor and they're not in the way of coming dead cheap.

On the Gold DofE front, our team has to have our 4 day route for our expedition completely finished, by Wednesday next week.  So far, we've been pretty organised about it and have got all the route cards done, it's just the labourious process of the tracings.  Little to say, it's busy, busy, busy at lunch time at school!  

Not to mention the fact that Ive got to have my application for Bocconi sent off by the 30th March - I've got a while, but the earlier I send it off the better.  I've done my online application and I've faxed the details to take the April entrance test.  I've just got to prepare the "dossier" to send off, which includes a CV, school reports (yes, my mum suggested I should alter certain words via photoshop XD), a motivation letter, references, ICT and extra curicullar certificates.  Lot's of stuff to compile in otherwords!  

I was under this strange impression that, after the exams, I would have the time to write and make videos again.  How wrong I was... I think I used to find time by not doing school work, but lately I've fallen into this bad habit of doing homework!

And the cherry on the cake is ICT coursework that will soon need to be in.

And why am I wasting time posting on LJ again? 

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