Monday
My 4 weeks of humanities subjects is over, and I’m back to the beginning of the cycle with 12 weeks of intense maths & physics (in the morning; I’m still spending the afternoons doing English, history, etc.!). So this morning, I got right to work on my GCSE maths textbook, recapping what I’d done 4 weeks ago on compound interest and decay.
In the afternoon, I had a swimming lesson which was way more tiring than usual! We did distancing today and I managed 58 lengths. My previous record was 42 lengths, which I did with Matilda when she was fundraising money for her volunteering trip to Ghana. My maths lesson with Damian wasn’t on tonight because of the bank holiday, so instead I read Atlas Shrugged for the evening. 😌
Tuesday
This morning, I did my maths and physics (revising topics I’d done before, like Electricity and Forces & Motion). Then I did 45 minutes of violin practice and some Latin with my mum – we’re so close to the end of the book now! In the afternoon, I finished Sophocles’ Electra, which was about how Orestes and Electra avenge their father Agamemnon’s murder by killing their guilty mother and her lover.
Wednesday
We spent the entirety of this morning planning, as it’s a Wednesday so no maths/physics! As the US completely scrapped all SATs recently, my Diploma that had been so perfect for me is going to have to be scrapped as well. So my mum and I came up with a new plan: to spend the next five years, until I go to uni, studying the Great Books curriculum and basically becoming a very educated young lady. I’m going to do the minimal amount of GCSEs possible because they’re boring and silly and I have more important things to do with my time, and spend the whole rest of the next five years reading and writing! I’ll probably do my A-Levels at home, not at college. At the moment, I’d like to do English Literature, Maths (that’s more of a “need A-Level” than a “want A-Level”!), and probably History (I’ll only do 3, with maybe Latin as an AS Level or something). Then I’d like to either go to an American university, like St John’s in Annapolis/Santa Fe, or a good English one like Cambridge or Oxford!
Rangers is on every two weeks, and as we had it last week, it wasn’t on this evening. I had intended to try out a Scouts session, but it was pouring with rain and they were doing outdoor activities, so I decided not to!
Thursday & Friday
On these days nothing interesting happened! I spent the morning doing maths and physics, and had my online maths lesson with Niall on Thursday evening. In the afternoon, I wrote a quick review of Electra by Sophocles (which you can view on my Goodreads page!), and spent a lot of the afternoon reading the ever-wonderful Atlas Shrugged.
Weekend
On Saturday, my mum, Nanny and I started watching (rewatching, for me; my mum and Nanny haven’t seen it before but I have twice!) The Fellowship of the Ring, the first film in the Lord of the Rings sequence. It’s such an amazing film and I could watch it a hundred times without ever getting bored!
On Sunday, Andy and I spent a good few hours playing Trine 4! We beat the boss after at least twenty minutes of trying and finished off the whole game. Next weekend we can go back to Trine 3! 😂