Monday
This morning, I had a violin lesson with my music teacher down the road. Then I spent the rest of the morning doing percentages problems in maths, and I also started sending an email to St John’s College in Annapolis/Santa Fe! It’s a uni that I’ve always wanted to go to. If I haven’t already─which I probably have, I can’t remember!─I’ll write a post about it someday.
I also did some maths (but no physics─I forgot 😬), and wrote some more of my story, which isn’t called Nocturne anymore, but The Writer Dies (which it does, eventually. I’m yet to decide on what happens to the characters when the writer dies!).
Tuesday
On Tuesday morning, I did my maths and physics, in which I revised the GCSE topic on waves (ultraviolet and sound waves, not sea waves!). In the afternoon, I started Euripides’ Electra, which tells the same story as Sophocles’ Electra and Aeschylus’ The Libation Bearers, namely the story of how Orestes and Electra avenged their father Agamemnon’s death by killing their mother (who killed Agamemnon). So far, I’ve liked The Libation Bearers the best, and then Euripides’ version of the story, and lastly Sophocles’.
Wednesday
It’s a Wednesday today, which for me means no maths or physics! I read a bit more of Electra by Euripides, and did two Massolit courses on Greek Art (trying to do everything about Ancient Greece that there is to know while reading all these ancient plays!). In the evening, I had a Rangers session in which we did some extremely cold activities about equality and equity and the rest of it. The idea was this: the leaders strung up some ropes at various heights on the surrounding hedges, and we observed how some of us were too short to reach the higher ropes. Of course, the next step in the activity was for everyone to agree on how wonderful it would be if we gave everyone a box to stand on so they could all reach (actually, a suggestion which was met with higher popularity was to just give the shorter people boxes). I noted that even the girls who couldn’t reach the higher ropes could when they jumped, so maybe if people just jumped a little more, they would have the same chance as everyone else. But the leaders didn’t like that idea, so we started the next activity and the session ended shortly afterwards.
Thursday
I finished Electra today and wrote a quick review. I started Medea, Euripides’ more well-known play about the tragic life of an Ancient Greek woman who basically decides to kill her own children to upset her unfaithful husband. I had maths with Niall in the evening, in which we were looking at completing the square. It’s something that I and a lot of the others have already covered before, so we moved onto some A-level completing the square pretty quickly! 😊
Friday
I decided to take the day off maths and physics today, so I focused on finishing Medea and starting a quick analysis of it instead. In the afternoon, I started writing my own version of Medea, inspired by all the many Ancient Greek variations. We also watched the Digital Theatre+ production of Medea, which was really interesting to watch as it paired stunning visual effects with some marvellous acting.
Weekend
Over the weekend, I drew a portrait of one of my favourite singers, Amy Winehouse. I also played some really difficult (and frustrating!) video games with Andy, and wrote some of my story.
