We have started reading Jane Eyre! Which is a fabulous book that I love! It's not hard to read either, especially for a book written in the 1800's. But apparently somewhere between the 1500's and the 1800's people learned how to talk because Shakespeare is pretty much impossible to understand unless you analyze every single sentence. (We are going to be reading A Mid Summer Night's Dream later in the year - that should be interesting! XD) In Jane Eyre we've been learning words like opprobrium, effluvia, antipathetic, imbibe, and physiognomy. Doozys huh??! If you happen to know their definitions (yes - knowing the definition means not using Google or a dictionary - only your brain!) you can post them in a comment(which means 'how much' in French. Funny huh?) and I'll tell you if your right or not.
I've also improved somewhat at flute. The concert is speeding at me like a bullet though and I'm afraid it's going to hit hard. But hopefully even if I completely fail there will be many others flutes to fill in where I'm not playing. Nahh - I'm just being hard on my self. I have improved considerably. I can almost completely play all of the pieces. Although the director handed out like 11 different songs so I'm not 100% sure on which ones we are playing.... but the ones I think we are playing I can pretty much play.
Another big accomplishment - drum roll please - I served the ball over the net TWICE on Friday! I was so happy I almost did a dance! Right there in front of everyone! It was quite exciting.
My French is getting better too. Today we learned 'je voudrais sept tickets' (I would like seven tickets). I have a French test Friday... I think. (*EDIT* Tomorrow. Studying would be a good thing to do tonight) It's on um, whatever is on pages 5,7 and 8. Hmm, that's all I wrote down. LOL. I do know page 8 was learning the French words for things in your living room i.e. clock, telephone, chair, sofa etc... Hopefully that goes well.
Math has been progressing - although all this review is making me feel like I got held back (The review starts with pre-algebra - what I did in 7th grade - and then will move into algebra 1 - 8th grade for me - and then 2 -9th grade.) But I'm thinking this review is a good thing after my 4 month long summer I'd sort of forgotten how to add...jk! Today we 'learned' (the quotes are there because I already knew this) about the commutative, associative, and distributive properties. (P.S. I spelled 2 out of 3 of those right - take that spell check! Someday I won't need you anymore!)
So that's my life right now. Notice I didn't say school life because they are no longer spearate. It's like getting married. School do you take life to be yours? I do. Life do you take school to be yours? I do. I now pronounce you one! That's it. The End. Au revoir!
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