I spent the week full on practicing and annotating the hell out of my extracts for IOC (individual oral commentary) which is a compulsory assessment for IB English. I've never felt so sick for an assessment piece in my entire schooling life! When i walked in to do my 20minute annotation for my extract my stomach was tightening, hands sweating and basically... i was a wreck. I got my extract from Mrs Renyolds and had a mini internal hissy fit because i could see through the paper and ultimately see the extract i had chosen. I GOT MACBETH!! SHAKESPEARE'S MACBETH!!! aflkgja;ldkfja;lskdfja;lsdkfj;alsdkjf;dasljf i was thinking to myself... "i have the worst luck evvveerrrr"
So i did my annotations and my paper was scribbled all over but as soon as i walked into my room and saw Mr McGrath, i totally forgot what i annotated and what i had planned to say... Throughout the entire 12 minutes I was saying "umm"... pause... "this shows Lady Macbeth's mental deterioration"...pause... "ummm". T'was NOT GOOD! the straight face of unsatisfaction that he had on when i finished basically told me that i had either just passed or failed... AAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
But now it's time to move on and learn form the experience so i can muster all my determination to do well at the end of term exams but most importantly the November FINAL IB exams.
So after everyone's IOC was over yesterday, a group of friends and I went to the City after school and ate GELATO to celebrate another IB assessment done and dusted. IT FELT SO GOOD EATING THE ICE-CREAM! I bought a small cup of choc-biscuit gelato and sharred it with Julie, but the guys ended up pooling money in and bought a 600mL tub of Gelato consisting of 4 or 5 (can't really remember) flavours! If you imagine a bunch of seagulls coming in and all attacking a piece of chip at the beach AT THE ONE TIME... that was basically the image of everyone attacking the tub of ice-cream. It was funny and yummy at the same time.
After that Julie, Vincent and I went into Colette to have a look at some bags. WE SPENT AGES IN THAT SHOP!! sigh... can't wait to get my first paycheck... When we went back to the group, Daniel and Tony had gone and Jenny wanted to watch the '5 year anniversary'. Everyone had already bought there tickets so it was just Vincent, Julie and i left. We were waiting in line and i was wanting to watch the Avengers SO BAD. We got up to the counter but i went first since Vincent was paying for Julie, and bought my ticket.. Then they went up and bought theirs, not hearing what ticket i had bought. So we got away from the counter and i said "so we're watching the Avengers right?" AND THE LOOK ON THEIR FACES WAS HILARIOUS! It was a mixture of shock/worry/and WHOOPSS... AHHAHAHHA
We had an hour to wait before the movie started so we all hung around the arcade and played the games there. SO MUCH CHEAPER THAN TIMEZONE IN THE CITY!! the games are only $1-$2! After a couple rounds of games we all decided we wanted to eat and played a scissors paper rock game to determine who would go to the city and buy the food. We had an hour before the movie so we had plenty of time to wait for food. We sat at the back of the arcade and played cards while waiting for the food. we played Bullshit, which was kind of boring and Sho kept on Bsing and being called out - between him and Vincent they had 3/4 of the deck. We gave up on that game and started playing snap.. yeapp.. we so rebel.. AND IT WAS AN INTENSE GAME. we were all crowding and anticipating when the double will appear. So intense... not good for me after a whole day of anticipating my IOC extract and presenting probably the worst i have ever presented.
It was 10 minutes out from the movie and the food hadn't arrived yet so we decided to refund our tickets and eat instead. the food was DELICIOUS! THANK YOU JENNY AND KEN FOR GOING ALL THE WAY TO THE CITY TO BUY OUR FOOD =D=D! after eating we didn't know what to do, and Angel decided to go home. Vincent had the idea of bowling so we decided to do that. Got to wintergarden where strick bowling was and saw the price! $16 a game of $40 for 4 people... we had 7.. so that was crossed off the list. Jenny then offered the idea of karaoke, so we all went and sang for an hour. It was fun! i recorded Julie and Vincent singing 'My heart will go on' by celine Dion as well as Sho and Jenny singing 'best friends' in Japanese. I really like that 'best friends' song!!
I got home really late (sorry dad), and just went straight to bed. What an eventful Friday...
Here are some images/videos i took on my phone:
(Us eating at the back of the arcade. A lady came over a few times to look at what we were doing :s)