i got the result from my maths exam in january today. i'm very happy: 96 out of 100 marks; grade A. :)

that moment when you've been waiting for the bus for half an hour and you finally see it on the horizon - and the bus passes straight by without the driver even noticing the person waving like a lunatic.

my photography work is developing...

i was a little bit bored this afternoon so i taught myself how to make animated gifs in photoshop. my first little project: 

saturday is trip-day: winchester, salisbury and stonehenge with mr. h. (the minibus driver). i set my alarm for half past five in the morning - our journey started quite early, mr. h. picked us up around six o'clock. we headed straight off to our first destination: winchester. a town with a church (why does that not surprise me? every damn village has a totally exciting church), a starbucks (morning-coffee) and the house where jane austen died in. 

ellen, minky and me :)

our second destination was salisbury. a little river led us to the town centre. we had lunch at an italian place; i happily noticed that my italian is not totally gone and is still good enough to order food - what more could i wish for? then we visited the town cathedral. i think after my year over here i've seen churches for some years :D 

our last and by no means least destination was stonehenge! the rocks from the neolithic times are just standing in the middle of the landscape - it looks pretty weird.  

i had a great day!

i already spent six months in england! three and a half months to go... time is passing by so fast! it was a good decision to do the exchange year. i've experienced so many cool things over here; visited cool places; met nice people; learned a lot, especially outside school; ate good english food (and bad english food - i think i'm traumatised by meat pie); had a lot of rain and wind, but also sun; learned to speak proper english and learned to hate american english; experienced what it means to miss certain people/places/foods; sent letters and postcards again (and got post and parcels); learned all about skype, facetime and viber; wrote hundred or more emails in one evening; learned all about photography in an amazing course at school; learned to consider maths being interesting; learned that health and social doesn't provide 'aha-effects' but is still not boring; learned many things about england in mr. h's lessons; i figured out how to deal with problems that seemed to be huge at the first look; i found out what home means; i learned to blog; i learned to stop when it's getting senseless and awkward.

a random day at school: in mr. h's class we corrected homework for nearly two hours - which would have just been boring - but unfortunately i forgot my whole english folder with the completed homework at home, so it was even more boring. in photography, i started sticking things into my exam project sketchbook, again a not very interesting work. in maths i was working on a question about logarithms for nearly an hour until the teacher told me that there's a mistake in the book and the question can't be completed at all. lol! in health and social we're currently discussing discrimination and we have to produce display material on the topic - i'm doing a powerpoint presentation together with ellen about people who unfortunately are often victims of discrimination saying that they wouldn't discriminate because of a certain reason. one example:

now i'm at home and happy that i have only two days of school left before the weekend. on saturday mr. h. is taking us on a trip to stonehenge, salisbury and winchester - he's picking us up at ten past six in the morning.