Weekend bits and pieces
Nov. 28th, 2022 09:49 amI had a phone call with my French teacher to go over some of the mistakes in my assignment, and she did say that she thought my second essay was a better essay in it's own right, but that in marking it she had to follow the mark scheme, which made me feel better about it. (Also the way that response mirrored my own response to the question was quite aesthetically pleasing, because I'm that sort of pretentious wanker.)
I spent most of the weekend working through the next module of my RS course, and doing the assignment for that. The content was largely familiar and pretty straightforward conceptually, at least compared to the ontology and epistemology that I'd been covering in my first assignment. The thing I found most difficult was completing the questions in the time available, which was quite surprising to me, because I remember in my first set of A-levels always having masses of time to kill at the end. But I guess that's in part a difference between essay and non-essay subjects - and looking at the examiner's reports, I'm far from the only person to find that a challenge. I think possibly one thing I might want to do is look into getting a better pen, as I'm just using ballpoints at the moment. If anyone who has more recent experience than me in doing much in the way of writing by hand has any pointers, I'd love to hear your advice.
On Sunday afternoon our neighbour Jesse came over to hang out, which was really nice. I baked a clementine and almond cake which I was pretty pleased with, and we played a game of Azul, which I'd originally encountered chez![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
atreic and emperor and enjoyed, but subsequently completely forgotten how to play. It was as much fun as I remembered it being, so I'm going to try and remember to play it more now.
Work is going to be pretty hectic for the next couple of weeks, as we've got a major deadline on the 12th, but then the rest of that week will hopefully be relatively gentle tying up of loose ends, and then the university closes down for a fortnight, so I'll get a proper break. (Sort of, as I'll be trying to use it to get as far ahead as possible in my A-level studies...)
I spent most of the weekend working through the next module of my RS course, and doing the assignment for that. The content was largely familiar and pretty straightforward conceptually, at least compared to the ontology and epistemology that I'd been covering in my first assignment. The thing I found most difficult was completing the questions in the time available, which was quite surprising to me, because I remember in my first set of A-levels always having masses of time to kill at the end. But I guess that's in part a difference between essay and non-essay subjects - and looking at the examiner's reports, I'm far from the only person to find that a challenge. I think possibly one thing I might want to do is look into getting a better pen, as I'm just using ballpoints at the moment. If anyone who has more recent experience than me in doing much in the way of writing by hand has any pointers, I'd love to hear your advice.
On Sunday afternoon our neighbour Jesse came over to hang out, which was really nice. I baked a clementine and almond cake which I was pretty pleased with, and we played a game of Azul, which I'd originally encountered chez
atreic and emperor and enjoyed, but subsequently completely forgotten how to play. It was as much fun as I remembered it being, so I'm going to try and remember to play it more now. Work is going to be pretty hectic for the next couple of weeks, as we've got a major deadline on the 12th, but then the rest of that week will hopefully be relatively gentle tying up of loose ends, and then the university closes down for a fortnight, so I'll get a proper break. (Sort of, as I'll be trying to use it to get as far ahead as possible in my A-level studies...)
