User blog:Dawnfeather/New School!

About 2 months ago I applied to go to the ASMS - the Australian Science and Mathematics School, which is in Adelaide (my city, which most Aussies count as a backwater because it is relatively small and apparently doesn't have many oppertunities. Ha! People from all over the country and even overseas go to the ASMS, although it is mostly Adelaidians). As I said, people from everywhere come there and it only has about 300 students, over the three final year levels of school before you can go to University. (10, 11, and 12). They approcach school from a entire different angle - they combine maths and science, with a bit of english and s&e, as well as whatever other subjects you could really dream of into three. It is mostly maths and science based, but they are my best subjects and I love them. Also, on Thursdays, they have two hours up at the University (next door) doing their elective activity which isn't marked, and is meant to be enjoyable and educational at once. (Source is my friend - she helped to find a cure for cancer for about a semester and loved it. I think she is doing some dance thing at the moment)

As I am in year 10 this year (the next school year starts in the last week of January) I missed the first year, and wouldn't be joining with the majority of students. Also, they had very limited places for new year 11s for next year. However, I got IN! YAY! And I was one of 6 future year 11s to get in that round, while there had been only one round of selecting before, and might be another very minor round later. I don't know.

So YAY! I got out of my school (which to be perfectly honest, is full of ferals) to NERD SCHOOL! (I is N3rd :D)

Now I just have to put up with 7 more weeks of torture at my school....

-- Dawnfeather talk! 05:56, October 17, 2009 (UTC)