Dani's Journal

- No more test results today. But we got a new teacher! He's an elder man (idk, late 50s? maybe even a bit older? I'm really bad at estimating age...) from England, but has lived in many places around the world, with his permanent home in France now. He's really very nice. :-)
Took us a bit by surprise when he walked in. :D Although we knew there'd be someone new, because our teacher A. left to go back to England before the holidays.

- Weird weather today. It couldn't really decide between strong wind, little rain showers or blue sky and sun... *lol* At the moment we have the latter, which is nice. :D

- Got an email that the "Stuart: A Life Backwards" DVD I ordered the other day on Ebay was dispatched today. Yay, I'm looking forward to that. :-) Maybe there's even a chance that it arrives for the weekend. *fingers crossed* Otherwise sometime next week, which would be fine too.

- Sorry I wasn't able to upload the rest of my London picspams yet... They will be here eventually... ;-)

Today was the first day back to school. I already miss the holidays. :p *gg* Too bad we won't have any again until Christmas... *sighs*

We were given our Spanish tests back. Most of them weren't too great, as I already knew...
Grammar: 75% (2-)  [I'm quite glad though, I thought it would even be a bit worse, seeing how I struggled during the test *lol*]
Reading comprehension & vocabulary: 92,5% (1)  [that's fine]
Writing: 68% (3)  [yeah, not really good... I was running out of time during the 2nd exercise, so I a) wrote a good deal less than minimum and b) hadn't any time left to check for mistakes afterwards... so especially exercise 2 was pretty much a mess]
Listening comprehension: 85% (2+)  [that's alright]
Dictation: 70% (3+)  [should have been better too :-( some really stupid mistakes as well... *doh*]

Still need our Spanish oral marks, but actually I'm not too keen on that... *lol*

Also got back the first English test today, "Business letter composition". There were so many expressions I couldn't remember during the test, and I also left out 2 or 3 things we should have put in there... But I still have 86% (2+), so yay! Really didn't expect that. :-) It was even the second best of the class. :D
Not really looking forward to the other English tests. It can only get worse now... :p
 

Another beautiful day today. :-) I even was outside without a jacket, because it's quite warm. :D Seems like spring really is here at last. *yay*

I'm so glad that exam week is almost over again. ;-) Just one more day to go, with Spanish reading comprehension/vocabulary and English grammar + writing skills tomorrow.

Today we had our Spanish orals, which actually wasn't as bad as I had feared. *g* [And way better than my English oral on Tuesday... *lol*] We were in pairs again, and had about 10 minutes to prepare. First we had to talk a bit about ourselves (name + age, where we live, hobbies,...). Then we had a selection of topics (e.g. our last holidays, plans for the next weekend, our pets) from which we had to choose 2 or 3 and ask our partner questions about. And then there was a little picture story, where we had to describe the pictures and tell the story together. Oh, and also we were given a situation ("going to the pharmacy with toothache"), and had to do a short dialogue with it (one of us as the pharmacist and the other as the customer). Well, all in all I think it went alright.
Afterwards we had our English listening comprehension test. It was ok too, although I had to guess the answers a few times... *lol*

Next week we have 4 days of computer course (MS Office). I hope it's not only the very basics, because that could get a bit boring... But we'll see and hope it'll be fun nevertheless. ;-)
And the week after that already starts the new semester (wow, that half year went so fast!) with a new time-table.

Today after school I met up with my mum in the city and we did a bit of shopping/browsing together. It was nice.
I bought series 4 of "How I Met Your Mother". <3 I know I haven't even watched series 3 yet (I intend to start this weekend!!), but the price wasn't bad, so I couldn't resist. :p
And I finally had my first proper ice cream this year! *yummy* :D


Oh, and by the way, my LJ comments counter works again. Hooray!!

Got loads of new snow today. *sighs* I must admit everything looks really pretty all in white. But I've really had enough of it by now and want it to go away, please. I was about 10 minutes late this morning because I didn't want to risk slipping and breaking my legs...

There's a bright side though: no school again tomorrow. YAY! :D
Which is very handy, because otherwise I would have needed to prepare a short news presentation in Spanish for tomorrow, but now I can just relax and watch some TV. :p

Again didn't post in a while... But there isn't really much going on at the moment...

Today it's snowing again. According to the weather forecast there is even more snow to come on the weekend. Well, I start getting a bit fed up with it, to be honest...

Bought a new jacket yesterday, which I really like a lot. :-)
Its original price was 80€. But it was reduced to 50€ and there also was a special discount, so that in the end I paid 36€, which I think is a good price. 

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We got the rest of our exam results now, at least of the English ones.
- Reading comprehension: 1 (96%)
- Vocabulary & Phonology: 1- (88%)
- Listening comprehension: 1- (89%)
- oral: 2-
I'm actually happy with all of them. :-)
Our Spanish teacher still didn't give us the promised list with our marks. Ah, well, I'm sure there'll come the day when we get it. ;-) *gg* Oh, but she mentioned that her belly isn't getting bigger because she's eating too much pizza. :D That was a bit of news. So she'll be leaving us around May.

I finally gotten around to redecorate one of my bedroom walls.
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I think I'm quite pleased with that. The pictures of Torchwood and SGA weren't there before, and the big Doctor Who poster is new (before there was one with Ten + TARDIS).
And just for completeness, here are the other posters + pics in my bedroom. ;-) They've all been there for a long while now, though.
   
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Do you all still remember me? ;-) *gg*
I must admit I have been a bit too lazy to post anything lately... *blushes* :-( Also didn't really comment, sorry, though I always read all my f-list's entries. *hugs*
But I definitely intent to be more active and post regularly again!!

Well, frankly, there hasn't been too much interesting stuff to tell anyway. *g*
School started again on January 7. Apart from English grammar + writing, we still didn't get back our exam results yet, which kinda annoys me. *hmpf* We did get a look on some of our Spanish exams last week, but our teacher still hasn't managed to mark them yet, so we don't really know where we stand. *doh* Ah well, I hope next week will bring a bit more clarity. ;-)
I got a 2+ in English writing. *yay* Which is far better than I had expected, considering the nonsense I wrote. *lol* But I only had about 4-5 grammatical mistakes which was what mattered in the end.
In English grammar I got a 2- (78%). I'm quite content with that.

In other news, I discovered some fish eggs in my aquarium yesterday! *very excited* I tried to take a picture but it turned out very blurry and you can't really see anything...
So fingers crossed that all goes well and I'll have some little ones soon. :-)