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Midterm Exams

Last week, I had the midterm exams. I had 6 tests in total. 1 on Wednesday, 2 on Thursday and 3 on Friday, Monday and Tuesday were our normal schedules. I don't know my scores yet but I hope they're good. The kinda relieving thing about the tests were that after everybody had finished the tests, they were dismissed from school for the day. When I saw this I felt more relieved and less anxious. Overall, the tests weren't so hard. Some tests were hard though, and I had some trouble doing them.  Another thing that kinda worried me was that we had to join 20 minutes before the meeting, so if the meeting started at 8:00, we had to join at 7:40, this was so the teachers could see if everybody was ready and explain the rules of the test, and so that we could start exactly at the scheduled time. For the meetings, we used Zoom, and we had to use our phones to join the meeting. Why? you might be asking, this is so that the teachers can see if any pupil tries to cheat. If we used our ...

What HBL (Home Base Learning) Feels Like.

 Hello! It's been awhile since I wrote a blog, mostly because a school and other stuff. Now I'm back and I've decided to write what it feels like to do HBL which stands for 'Home Base Learning'. If you didn't know home base learning is when you learn at home using a laptop/pc. For HBL, my school uses Google Classroom to show students the homework and google meet or zoom for the meetings. I used to use my own laptop for school, but it started lagging a lot while using google meet, so I had to switch to my mom's laptop. For me, HBL is easier than normal school because I don't have to go to the actual school. In Ireland I was usually late to class, because we could never get early to school. Here, sometimes we wake up late, I can usually get to school on time!  HBL is easier than normal school, but its a lot more boring. Sitting 6 hours at a screen gets boring when you aren't playing/watching a video. I just can't sit down for a long time. I need to...