Eyes of the Cosmic Whale
“…leaving the heavens naked, glistening blue-black, like the belly of some cosmic whale…”Archive for November, 2007
My IGCSE’s in a nutshell
Now the IGCSE examinations are finally over, I feel relieved and relaxed and a lot freer than before. The whole moving thing dawns on me more too, and makes it all the more hard. The intention of this post is to record what the IGCSE experience has been like. (For IGCSE resources, click here)
The IGCSE’s began on Oct 15, with the Spanish first language exam. The exam went ok, though I left with big doubts that made me truly uneasy, like having called someone a cretin in a letter and having given an introduction and a conclusion to my summary. It was a very boring exam, too.
Tuesday was the Spanish literature exam. I had prepared pretty well for it, but the questions can be hard sometimes, so I was panicking a bit. I suddenly felt I no longer had clear what had happened in Doña Barbara. As I was going in, though, I reminded myself something that Mr Andrews told us during his History revision sessions: don’t go in scared to the exam, take it as an intellectual challenge. You have no idea how much that worked. I instantly felt relieved of a lot of pressure, and knowing that I knew the books quite well helped too. When I went in, it was hard to choose what asterisk question to do, because I thought all the essay ones were easy. I chose an asterisk one for Doña Barbara, one on dramatic irony in El Sí de las Niñas and one on Impía, a poem I had done a project on. I was amazed and happy with myself that I could do well the question on Los Heraldos Negros, since Vallejo and his suicidal tendencies can be my weakness. It went well. Read the rest of this entry »
1,000 visits to the blog…and what it really means!
On November 07 I reached my 1,000 visits mark!
It’s actually quite exciting to see the number there… “Total views: 1,000″ … perhaps because I wasn’t really aiming for anything when this blog began it’s even better and more…exciting, I suppose!
But I think there’s somehting that makes this all the better. My Aidgle posts were the ones that brought me the most traffic- until today, my three posts on Aidgle have been visited no less and no more than 449 times. That’s quite a lot!
Now, I’ll do a flashback. It was the eve of one of my history mock exams and because of Facebook I stumbled across Aidgle. The idea was just so good I decided to sacrifice a few minutes (well, maybe more) of sleep, even if not that many people ever came to my blog. Still, it was my grain of sand. My contribution to a worthy cause.
Almost 500 views later, I’m amazed at what taking that time did. My grain of sand did make a difference, even if it was a relatively small one. The moral of the story? (No, not to keep writing about Aidgle XD!) Never think “oh, I won’t make a difference”. Never think that just because you don’t have a popular blog, or because your single signature in a votation or a petition is just one it won’t change the status quo. It takes so little to make a big change, and we lose nothing in the process.
It’s always, always worth a try. So try!
Thank you to all who did check Aidgle, thank you to those who keep coming, thank you just for being here now. Every little view in my blog means a lot and is truly appreciated!
Now let’s go for the 5,000 landmark!
<3 CW
