*ATTENTION K-MART SHOPPERS* Sorry about the long post :$

Do you ever have those sorts of days where everything just falls into place? 

I never thought they existed. Until today.

First, let me explain: lately, I’ve been really down.  Ever since I started Year 11, things have gotten so much harder and I’ve felt dumb. I went from being a straight A student, to a C grade student. My parents have massive expectations for me, because I go to a private school, and they have to go out of their way to pay for me to go there. Plus, I’m there on a scholarship, so if I don’t keep up my grades, it can get cancelled.

Since this year started, I get steady C’s and C+’s, and I feel like no matter how hard I work, I don’t get the B+/A results like I used to. It is really disheartening. :’c

Before the end of last term (I just had a 2 week Easter break) we had a TONNE of SATs (i.e important tests) and assessment tasks, all in the last week, which put a lot of pressure on me.

Yesterday (the first day back), I saw my English teacher and he told me I didn’t do well on my assessment piece - an essay - and that I only got a C. I told my dad and he was really disappointed in me.

So when I went to school today, I didn’t expect anything special in the grades department. I walked into French class, and it was a relatively normal lesson, except that we were getting our SATs back. I should let you know, I’m basically bottom of the class in French. I participate heaps and I love learning it, but when it comes to tests (i.e when it counts), I make stupid mistakes. Plus, in the SAT we did (an essay), we weren’t even allowed a freaking dictionary, so I was basically screwed from the beginning.

When she started handing us our SATs back, I did NOT want it as I already knew I’d done bad. I could tell. But when she came to me, she said “Excellente, Dallas!”, and I looked at my sheet, and I got an A! In fact, I had the top score of the class! I was ecstatic! Yet I couldn’t help but think “da fuq? How did I pull this off?”

I was so happy about it, that when we had Biology in period 2, I wasn’t even worried about getting a bad score for the project I did. I thought “I’ve done so well in French, who the hell cares if I do bad in Bio?”. The project was on proteins and amino acids, and I crapped my way through it. I said something really stupid, like  cows needing eggs for a particular protein for milk production. (Cows don’t eat eggs, derp.) When I got it back, the teacher had written “WOW! That’s really interesting about what you wrote with cows milk - I learnt something!” and it was another A! :O

Period 3 was Chemistry. Again, we got our SATs back, which consisted of a test + prac + prac writeup. Unfortunately, I didn’t do too well. I thought my lucky streak was over. Until… the teacher said it wasn’t going to count because of people cheating! Yay! :D

Then, in period 4, I had English. I felt bad about my essay mark, but I’d accepted it and put it behind me now. The highest score in the class was only a B+ anyway. But, to make matters worse, he said that due to scaling, everyone’s marks would be reduced by half a grade - making me go down to a D+. :(
At the end, the teacher called me up - “Dallas, I have your final grade for you” he said. “It’s a B.” “What!?” I said, “but you told me it was a C yesterday!” “Yes, but I told you that from memory. Now I have your real mark in front of me.” :O So I got a B in the end, making me an equal top scorer! (It has originally been a B+) :O

In period 5 and 6, I had double maths, and we were doing a test. The topic was quadratic expressions, specifically application type questions. Application type questions are not simple maths, they are word questions where you have to pick the math out of it. They are hard hard hard. Surely, my luck had ended there.
I walked into the class and got ready to take the test, then started talking to people and we all agreed we were screwed. Until the teacher walked in, and told us the test had been moved until Thursday of next week! WOOHOO! And, to make things better, I mastered the quadratic formula and I nearly understand it all now! Yayayayaya. :)))

Today was like a total allignment of the universe for me, grade wise. It was awesome.