1st of Batxillerat

Well today, as this is my last post and the course is almost finished, I'm going to talk to you about this first of Batxillerat. In my opinion, this has been a course of changes.

First of all, we finished and left apart the obligatory education and we started the voluntary education. So we're doing it because we want, and it's very different.
We had to decide either to do science, technology, humanistics or business, which was a difficult choice for some of us. Consequently, we splited away in two classes depending on the batxillerat we chose. This is one of the things I don't like 'cause my relationship with the other class' members such as Nuri or Laura has become poor. We're just in touch during the break time and not even this half an hour when some of us have an exam. On the other hand, my relationship with Claudia is stronger now after being together the whole day for nearly a year.
Nevertheless, Susi told us that we might be in the same class next year 'cause we won't be enough students to separate in two different classes. Personally, I think it would be great being all together again. It's true that maybe we would be quite a lot of people in the shared subjects, I don't mind it, though.
For the people who still thinks that Batxillerat is the same as ESO I can now assure them NO, IT ISN'T! We have noticed that Batxillerat is more serious and there is quite a lot of more homework including the blog and the portfolio. You have to waste more hours doing the homework, projects, studying... and you have to be concient of it if you want to pass.

We haven't done many excursions this year, we just went to the university on February. So I hope we go to London next year or somewhere else for at least for four days.
Well, that's all I can tell you, it's time to study hard now!
xox

Research Project.

Well, I think it's time to talk about the research project. I'm doing it about Undergraduate Math Problems, it was so difficult for me to choose the topic, though.

I had never known what to do it about, even the subject it'd be related to. I just knew I wouldn't do it about biology.
One of the ideas that first came to my mind was to do something related to architecture 'cause I do like this field. However, I wasn't so convinced 'cause I didn't know what to do exactly. Furthermore, I was scared I'm not taking technical drawing so I finally decided not to do it about architecture.
Some weeks before Easter, our tutor gave us a list with the teacher's proposals. However, any of those proposals convinced me at all. At that time, I thought on doing it in relation to Chemistry. I asked our Chemistry teacher if she had any idea out of the list ones and she told me to do it about Vitamin C. I had doubts about it, though.
It was the day before telling the tutor our finally choice when I still didn't know mine. I though " Júlia, it has to be something you really like 'cause you'll spend lots of hours doing it'. So I started to think about things I'd like to deal with. The inspiration finally came to my mind: Geometric Elements in the Contemporary Architecture.
The next day I told Montse about my idea and she said it was good. I spite of what she firstly told me, some days later she told me they didn't see it so clear. So I finally decided not to carry out this topic.
I didn't have much time left, so I revised the teacher's list again. There was one on the Mathematics part I always though that could be interesting. There said something about the Mathematical Olypics and Montse told me the my tutor would be Miquel Angel. I finally decided to choose this topic and yes, it was my last choice!hahah
One day I went to talk to him about a grant and he told me his intention was me to do the project in English. I had even thought about it but he spured me on so I agreed.
I went to talk to him some weeks ago and he told me I could search some things if I wanted although we would start after having finished the exams.

job

I'm seventen right now, so I'm a year older than the age which people is legally able to work.
This means that I was already able to work last summer, but I didn't work properly. I was the only one of my friends who was sixteen, so the only one who could work. What's more, I finally got a grant for two weeks in England in July and my parents had planned to go to Viena and Budapest for ten days in August. So looking at all these plans, it was absolutly impossible for me to work 'cause they usually just hire you for one or two months.
Even though I didn't send any CV because of this, I hung a paper in my village's shop which said 'I offer myself to work as a nanny or give extra support lessons'. I also put my phone number, but nobody called. Then one day I found out that my phone number was wrong! However, the cleaning lady told my mother if I could give school reinforcement classes to her grandson Sergi. I agreed and I taught him Spanish and Maths twice a week. When summer ended Sergi's mother asked me to continue the lessons. I didn't like it at all at the beginning 'cause I knew that I would have a lot of work because of Batxillerat, but I couldn't say no. Nevertheless, I said I just could give him a lesson per week.
Next summer is nearly here, and I haven't planned to go somewhere, so I'm searching for a job. I sent my CV to a camping and a hotel from Empuriabrava, but none of them has called me. There's also a possibility to work in the tennis club as a trainer of the younger trainees, but I still don't know. I really want to work this summer 'cause if I don't I'll be bored the whle day at home and this way I earbn some money.