Quote of the day:
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ..." - Louis Hector Berlioz
Saw this an had a bit of a gigle. So today i had my first mock interview for Cambridge. I actually was surprised by how well it went. First of all i was nervous before the interview - i guess all people are before things like this, even though i know both of the teachers. I got the poem, by Hopkins, and had half hour prep. I don't really know what I was expecting but it definetely wasn't that. It was a poem about a group of trees being cut down at least on the surface, but underneath it was more about the destruction of nature by man during the Industrial revolution - it was really lyrical, and quite interesting.
Once my half hour prep was up i went into the office and they started to ask me questions. It was a lot more informal that i expected, there was just a small table inbetween me and the two teachers. The questions were on the poem to start with, understandably, and i was pretty happy with how that came out, because i managed to make some vaguely intellegent comments (i think??) and there was a lot of head nodding. We then went on to talk about my literature interests, the gothic and Austen.
Afterwards they told me how i did. Aparently i was very eloquent and gave good reasoning for my arguments (i got asked whether Vampire literature has any real merit - which it does!!!!) but i have to be careful not to get led along a path which i have no clue about!
So Mock interview number one went well - i can only hope that the next few go as well.
I am contemplating whether to start posting my original fiction on this blog. I'm definetly going to start posting my fanfiction on here, in the next few days.
Overall my day was actually pretty darn good. History we watched a video from the History Channel on Alexander II of Russia which was pretty overdramatic and generally funny. English we watched a presentation on the BNP (Not Pro BNP obviously) and talked about Romantic Literature. It was all good!
Now i am going to return to watching Notting Hill, and will leave you with this rather happy song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmbUNF1Q4R8
Paolo Nutini - New Shoes
xxxx Bex xxxx
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