More and more lately I’ve been feeling like my blog posts have to have a particular point. Which I know of course is wrong, because hardly anybody who minds me posting about boring details of my life reads this blog, but still.
I keep feeling like I have to write more, I have to write longer. I feel like it has to have a point.
Ironically, I have no idea where I’m going with this.
Let’s move on to the boring-details-of-my-life bit.
Today I dissected something for the first time: a sheep’s heart! In science we had to cut it open right down the middle, then poke around inside and see what bits we could identify. We got the left and right atriums and ventricles, the vena cava, various veins, arteries and capillaries, valves, and the aorta. I got to stick my finger down the aorta. Very cool.
I would love to dissect a lung. I’m not even sure if that’s possible in high school, but wouldn’t it be great to see all the alveoli? They’re the coolest-looking things.
Another boring thing is my maths is going not-so-well. I didn’t do fantastically on my exam (think 61%) and I stress out whenever the teacher picks me to answer a question. Still, I can hold my own in geometry and data, and that, to me, is an achievement.
My science project is the other thing stressing me out – I’m not too far off finishing but seeing as it’s due this week it’s far enough off finished to make me anxious. Stupid girl for not starting earlier.
On a slightly-less-boring and slightly-exciting note, I came equal first in a school competition! Better yet, an ENGLISH competition! Better yet, a WRITING competition! Better yet, I tied with the cleverest girl in the grade! I think I can safely say that over the, let’s see, 2-ish years of this blog, my writing skills have increased tenfold. It’s due to the amount of writing practice I get that I won.
Thank you, blog readers, for not letting me down and encouraging me! You shall have kisses!
xx
Za
P.S. Incidentally, my winning short-story combined my loves of photography and writing – it was about a photographer named Leo. Leo is now my true-fictional-love.
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btw. who else got full marks??? i’ve forgotten
Louise and I tied for first but Grace and a few other people also got full marks.
oh yeah! that’s right