A better picture eh? You want to play Thomas? Then lets Play... >>>>>So today was my first day back at school, after having a week long holiday. How much did I learn over the holiday? I learned that I don't do schoolwork in the holidays. At all. And even at the weekends it's pretty infrequent.
Unless it's set homework that will be graded, I inevitably just put it off and put it off, until I hurriedly knock something together in my free period on the first Monday back. What my school doesn't seem to understand is that, I have already achieved the academic awards that I needed from my 6 years at this establishment. They should be thankful! I am another positive number in their statistics, and surely that is worth something?
My being at the school, should be a bonus and privilege for them, by boosting their 6th year attendance figures and providing a *snigger* positive influence and example for my younger peers.
Sure they might disapprove of my disregard for normal uniform protocol, and of my flouting of the unwritten 'Thou shalt not play the Nintendo 64 loudly in the social area whilst your peers are learning' rule, but it is important to remember that I am merely preparing for student life!
One of the main purposes of 6th year is to prepare you for life in Higher Education is it not? They acknowledge this, but offer so called 'Life Skills' such as cookery and sewing, instead of beneficial training in things such as 'how long can you stay in bed before getting up for a nine am lecture?' or 'how to get extensions on essays due in last week', those classes, I would have taken.
Unfortunately I don't think I could live with myself if I took a course entitled "Sew Far Sew Good"...sigh, and so I have taken the opportunity of the free period (or the so called 'non-contact study period').
And yet, they still complain! Should I be punished for not submitting myself to the tyrannical regime that exists in the Home Economics department? If I did take up cookery as a life skill, I fear that I would be one ill-advised-washing-up-liquid-cake-prank, from possible detention or even exclusion!
Almost daily, I am lambasted by 'Principal Teachers', lamenting my 'poor time management skills' or my apparent indifference to the Prefect's authority. Well excuse Me! Sometimes the drive through in McDonald's is busy, and a shiny badge and blazer does not make you better than me at this school.
Still, just a few months and I can vent my frustrations on muck-up day before leaving this 'hallowed place of learning' to pastures new.
University, you are calling me, and very soon I will answer that call... But not quite yet. Sigh.
/Dave out
P.S. Prediction league starts tomorrow, with the Champions League knockout stages.
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