Tuesday 25 October 2011

Can I handle this year?

I'm seriously considering how well I'm going to do in Year 13 due to the amount of extra work I'm giving myself to push myself that much further to have a better chance at getting into University and onto the course I want.

The degree I'm looking at is a Joint Honours in Asia Pacific Studies and Chinese at Leeds.
However, to do this I need a grade C in a foreign language at GCSE... which I don't have. Therefore, I'm doing a GCSE in French for the duration of year 13... which is 8 months. I have quite good knowledge of French even though I haven't studied it formally since year 9, but my dad has had a house there for about 5 years so I've picked up a fair amount as we're over there a lot. But I keep being told how difficult it is to do well in it so I am starting to worry.. I just really want to be able to study Chinese.

I'm also have extra curricular Mandarin lessons at school hoping that it will put me in a more advantageous position and I'm doing an EPQ Extended Essay about Communist China in comparison to a non communist country such as South Korea or Taiwan.

As well as these I'm doing English Literature, Psychology and Music Technology A-Levels... not exactly easy subjects and I'm just so worried that I'm giving myself so much extra work to look better for University but I don't want it to affect my A2 grades... I don't know if I'm able to handle all the work because quite frankly, I am the master of procrastination.

I really need to get my head down and get off of Tumblr and Facebook and Twitter and just study study study. 

On a brighter note, the girls met up this evening to discuss our holiday plans for next year and to eat lots of pizza, play singstar and watch TV... I love my friends!



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