So I have a break? Yeah right.
Yesterday marked the first day of the summer holidays. For quite a while I’ve been looking forward to them, while I used to enjoy school recently I’ve become highly demotivated and really wanted out (unfortunately that won’t be possible for another three years since there is really nowhere else to go other than sixth form); lessons are boring and slow, rules are enforced depending on how the teachers feel, and I’m seriously lacking any friends there - right now I just wish it could all be over and I could start working. The summer should be a break, where I can do what I like and stop worrying about homework for once; but, alas, this is not the case. Our English teacher is making us complete a piece of coursework and told us to e-mail it to her this Friday, one will also have to purchase and read To Kill a Mockingbird - also for English - and I have a tremendous amount of product design coursework to do because; via a majority decision between the product design teachers (our teacher disagreed, but the other two wanted to), the deadline was moved forward approximately five months meaning that a lot of the work will have to be done in my spare time. I never wanted to do product design anyway, I wanted to do electronics - but the system was confusing and all of the technology subjects were bundled into one “Product Design” class. Another factor is that I could probably spend all summer doing the product design, yet it will never be finished without teacher input, so another thing will be in the back of my mind.
I have plenty of other stuff to occupy myself with though, I’m working on a new computer program for password encryption and am going to Scotland and Ireland. So it’ll be fun, at least. Yesterday I and a couple of friends went up the hills near where we live and took some photographs (I’m trying to collect some photographs to use on my blog as a wallpaper), but only six were any good; I’ll need some more before being able to do it I suppose.