DEFINATELY OVERDUE POST 9147-2017-041
WOAH it’s been a while, hasn’t it?
Lots has happened in the last few weeks, I’ll try and remember most of it though…
Can’t remember that far back, so I’ll start with last Saturday. As you all know (or here), Dr. Pargetter passed away almost four weeks ago, and last Saturday was his memorial service. There was a massive amount of work put into it, with almost the entire cast of “Fame”, the choir, and many others performing tributes to his life. There were many speeches from colleagues and friends, and overall, it was a very special occaision. It did seem that we overestimated the amount of people attending (still, better be safe than sorry), with the Gym and Chapel not being used. The Hall was 95% full however, and there were a few people in the foyer and quad. The processional music was “I Vow to Thee, My Country” from “Jupiter” which I thought was really nice. The cast sung “Bring on Tomorrow” which was very fitting, since in the musical it is sung as a memorial to Carmen, and it was very nicely done as well. The senior combined choir sang “Hallelujah” also, but definately the most memorable was “Jerusalem”. Throughout the service, side-stage was silent, even during the other songs, but during “Jerusalem”, everyone was softly singing it, kind of as a personal memorial to Pargie. The song he wrote (“We are Haileybury”) was also sung by the choir, which was very nice as well.
Overall it was a very nice service, which will be remembered for a long time.
So long, Pargie.
Moving on,
This week has been a very bittersweet one. One one hand, it is fantastic that we’re finishing year 10, and the excitement of Unit 3-4’s are there; but also it’s quite saddening to see the year 12’s go. Over the last year that I (and the other year 10’s) have known them, they have been amazingly knowledgeable, and we’ve learnt a heap from them, and have always been inviting and fun to work with. It’s going to be a massive shock from next term (there’s still 3 and a bit weeks until graduation), when they are gone, and no doubt, they will be sorely missed.
Exams (well the 1-2’s and the 3-4 trial ones) started yesterday, with English and Science right off the bat. I think I did really well on the English one, with the topic I was banking everything on, actually being on the exam. It was an analysis of how George Clooney made “Good Night and Good Luck” historically authentic. If you’ve seen the film, you’ll know that there is an abundance of things to write about on the topic. The second part was an analysis question about an article on child obesity. It wasn’t too bad, and there were a heap of different language techniques I could refer to. The final part I just had to respond to his article from the point of view of a dietician, and I basically restated everythign he said by going “I agree with Dr Walker when he said <insert argument here>” a few times. Overall I was very happy with my performance, and I think I should get a pretty good mark on it.
The Science exam this morning was fairly average. I reckon I blitzed the Electronics part of the exam, and did alright on the Chemistry part; but I seriously think I screwed up badly on the Biotech part. All this stuff on Diploid/Haploid, Genotype/Phenotypes and the such got me fairly rattled, and I’d be surprised if I got anything over about 40% on it. I think that I passed the exam pretty comfortably, but I’m not holding my breath.
Monday and Wednesday are my Math exams, and towards the end of the week I’ve got Politics, History and Legal… Three subjects that are very ‘definition and word-heavy’. But I do enjoy them, so they shouldn’t be so bad.
That seems to be all for this post, I think it’s fairly up-to-date now, and I’ll update again sometime in the next week or so…
And that is that,
The End.
TRK
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