IB UPDATE

I AM DONE IB FOREVER.
WAHOO.
GREATEST FEELING EVER.


I will find out my IB English/History/French exam results in July. Until then, I am as free as a bird.
It's great.
I've actually had time to experiment in the kitchen. Cooking is such a pleasure!
And I'm working on my music, putting my whole heart into it.

I just love free time!

Now, to finish two units of Writing 12 in two weeks. :$ Haven't been doing this paper-based course that I picked up at the beginning of the year. Mad rushing; all that IB prep will come in handy. ;)

AND, I got accepted into YWAM. I will be travelling to New Zealand this summer....if the funds come in. The way I take it, is if God really wants me to do this and it's meant to be, the money will come in no big deal. If this isn't meant to be just yet, then I'll work for the rest of the year, save money, take a math 12 course (I didn't take math this year), and possibly a fun course like a semester of Make-up School or Photography at a local uni. :) Should be fun, whatever happens. I'm not too worried about it.

Man.


Just so grateful that I've finished the International Baccalaureate program as a Certificate. Hopefully I passed :D

Left that program quite interestingly. I've really been able to pinpoint a lot of my strengths and weaknesses. It gave me good things and bad, but overall, I wouldn't have met some of my closest buddies and been so spiritually enlightened. Not that IB was enlightening. More so, that it directed me into such a thinking pattern by which I was forced to engage more with God rather than take on everything with my own brain. I doubted a lot of what I had experienced in the past and questioned so much, analyzing what I had believed. Then, I sort of had a revelation, and I believe so much more than I ever have before, in a different kind of way. Hard to explain, but I just wanted to share that.

Up next: convocation&prom

FAISONS LA NOUBA !

Time To Blog About My Feelings.

Haven't done this in a while, but it is time to vent.

I just had an emotional breakdown: partly because my computer crashed while I was studying and taking notes; partly because I'm freaking out about my history exams. I must write 3 papers: the last two of which include 5 essays. The information I must memorize is insane: from pre-WW1 to the process of detente in the Cold War... I have to know these events inside out and be able to analyze them. It's crazy, but we've been studying these things since September 2010. I'm freaking out, though.

Anyways, the computer crashed, and I burst out into tears. I'm still red-eyed and stressed, but I need not be. This is the moment where most of my IB buddies would come in with a pep talk and yell at me (in a personal-trainer-sort-of-good-way), telling me that I've been studying this stuff for two years. I've been writing for so long. On the inside I really know what to do, and when the time comes, everything will come flying back and I'll nail this. In fact, they'd probably tell me that I could nail it right now, if I put my mind to it. Don't let obstacles get in the way, just sprint.

Wow. Kind of just gave myself a pep-talk and I feel a little better, actually.

In any case, after 5-10minutes of balling and raging I washed my face with freezing cold water, turned the computer back on, and decided to pull everything back up, and keep this picture on the side, as well as on my desktop, for motivation.

It's working. 

I'm going back to work now. I've pulled out a bunch of history text books and hopefully my computer stays alive enough for me to get a good review in. 

Not going to stress, because that will get me nowhere. 

Sprinting.