Going for Gold and educational stuff :)
Well, haven't ventured here for a while - I shall try and make the most of it while it remains.
Got gold membership yesterday, good investment I reckon - nearly won the gold member madness on the first attempt! Though, sadly not to be! Makes life a lot easier when quizzes you have already played are ticked and highlighted green - much more organised!
So, college - that is the British college :). Started my 5 AS Levels (Already passed one in French - was overjoyed!) and to be honest they are fine. The only problem is, HISTORY! I have 3 teachers in history.
Lecturer 1) British Foreign Policy (1815-1865)
Lecturer 2) Wales and England (1815-1832)
Lecturer 3) Nazi Germany (1933-1945)
Lecturer 1 - is a 21 year old and is COMPLETELY incompetent and I am feeling myself slipping in that topic! Everybody is complaining about her - but, apparently we MUST continue being "taught" by her until January! Nightmare!
Does anybody else have a completely useless lecturer? and I mean USELESS!
Other than that, all is going well! I did make a bit of a fool of myself today in chemistry though. Wednesday is chemistry practical day - and today we had the joy of titrating a succinic acid solution with sodium hydroxide using phenolphthalein to determine the endpoint (it goes a rather nice shade of purple). I was supposed to make 4 titres of the NaOH and Succinic solution out of a 250 mm^3 volume. That was fine - I did my rough titre and then - (in a moment of complete madness) - I threw the remainder of the solution in the sink. DOH! Now I have no results and am going to be WELL behind unless I do it again! Grrr....
Enough for now :) Don't mean to bore you or enthrall you - whichever the case may be :)
Jon
3 Comments:
By cjogo, Oct 17 07 11:17 AM
Happy birthday Jon! We've all had teachers who are complete morons. Hang in there, it builds character. One reason why I enjoy teaching special ed is because I tend to know more than they do, except about guns and rap music.
Jolie
By cjogo, Oct 17 07 11:20 AM
My geography teacher was a scruff in tracksuit and trainers (or whatever they were called in the 60s - brothel-creepers?), sat cross-legged on the desk at the front of the classroom, lit a ciggie or three, and smoked and droned till the lesson was over. At least that's what I assume he did. Most of the time I got thrown out.
He wasn't my only geography teacher, just the worst; and the last one I had before we had to choose subjects for 'O' level - and I dropped geography like a hot brick. There were probably other bad teachers, but his was the most striking display of self-satisfied incompetence.
Roll on January, jon, and (we hope) you'll get a proper teacher.
By lesley153, Oct 17 07 11:20 AM