Again it has been a little while since I updated my journal.
Firstly I finally got my high school results about 2 weeks ago. I did fairly well. I got an IB score of 36, which is equivalent to a 95.45 ENTER score. So it is pretty good, and will get me into any of the university courses I’m interested in. Here’s my results
English A HL – 6
Chinese B SL – 5
Economics HL – 7
Maths SL – 4
Biology SL – 6
Visual Arts – 6
Visual Arts Extended Essay – B
TOK – B
Bonus Points – 2
Total 36
The results were generally good, and had a few nice surprises, such as English and TOK, the only bad surprise was the 6 in Visual Arts, I was expected to get a 7, the highest mark, but didn’t, I didn’t like that because of how much work and effort, personal emotion I out into my work. Maybe it was the examiner as nobody was given a 7. But with a 6 it sort of makes me feel that my art wasn’t that good, especially when I see other people that got a 6, which I feel my work was above theirs… I know that sounds really full of myself… Otherwise besides that I’m very happy with the results, though with the 2 extra points I think I should have got I could have got 38 which would have given me an ENTER of 97.60 and a higher chance for a scholarship. Just a few things to know if you don’t know about the IB diploma, 45 is the highest mark, and 7 is the highest mark for a subject.
University offers come out next Tuesday, so I will have to wait and see what I get offered. I’m still not 100% sure what I want to do at uni, but I have narrowed it down to 2 options, Business/Visual Arts or Commerce/Economics. The first option is my 1st preference, by doing this the main aim is to be a teacher, I would like to teach economics and art. I think I would be happy as a teacher, and most people I have talked to said I would make a good teacher, and I would get to go to art school. However some people say they couldn’t see me as a teacher at all, and/or should do something better with my high marks. Some said I would do good in business, I did a bit of research into courses and think Commerce/Economics would suit me best if I were going to try myself as a business man, though sometimes I have doubts about me being a business man, I think I’m too nice and sometimes not serious enough, even though economics has always made sense to me… so decisions to make soon…

Besides school/university stuff…
Tuesday me and my mate Peter went to the city to visit our friends Ariel and Sandy. It was an ok time. This time me and Pete cooked dinner, as the girls cooked last time we were over. So that was good fun to cook, and it came out quite nicely. However we spent a long time cooking, then the girls decided to make desert by time this was all finished it was about 11, and the girls were tired and went to bed. So we didn’t really get any time to play games, or just chat like we did last time, which was a lot of fun. So it was just me and Pete. We stayed up as usual. We watched the Little Mermaid. Then just talked as usual to the early hours of the morning around 5am. In the morning we woke up and had breakfast cooked by Sandy who left early to go to work. Ariel was fairly busy in her room, so just me and Pete again. After a while me and Pete played some Uno by ourselves, Ariel finally came and joined us after a while. Then Pete left at 12, so it was just me and Ariel, we played a bit more Uno, then she decided she had to make me lunch, so soon after eating I left.
The visit wasn’t as good as the last one. I think the main reason was Ariel seemed very preoccupied with other things in her life. She is moving to Canberra next week to apply for university, so it looked like that she was thinking about that more, and wasn’t that much fun and didn’t say much. This was exemplified by her being in her room a lot while we cooked, and on the phone to the bank right before I was going to leave, so didn’t really get much of a conversation/nice goodbye to her, which I didn’t like. Also as me and Pete were busy cooking most of the evening and her being busy with her own things I didn’t get a chance to have her pose for my independent women drawing I wanted to do of her. Guess that’s the other side of the independent women… which I didn’t like as much… so I’m a little disappointed about that. Also didn’t give her the Ariel drawing I did for her, for several reasons, one I felt it looked bad the face wrecked a good drawing, and secondly it didn’t feel right with her being busy.

Ok ok… lastly about my art, lately I haven’t been posting too much, mainly because I have been doing more realistic/larger drawings that take a bit more time than usual, but also I’m not drawing great at the moment, its ok but not great. I mean this by drawing pretty well, but then making one mistake that ruins the rest of the good work, this has been happening recently, such as the face in the Ariel the Little Mermaid drawing, and Ariel portrait. This really is starting to annoy me. Though I have been doing some random sketches in black pens, I might post them in scraps, because they aren’t polished, just quick 5-10 min drawings, but they look ok….


Also I watched The Little Mermaid the on Monday, I love that film! It's so inspirational, to the point I stayed upto 4am writting a poem about it. Since then i have watched it 3 times in the last 4 days. Theres something so sweet and inspirational about it!