I hate change. I hated change (coins, not something different) so much that I would put them into little pill containers (my dad has a lot of those) until today I had a stack of 5-cent coins an inch high. I didn't know what to do with it. Vending machines don't use 5-cent coins. They make without the ickle things anyway. My sister is too old to be bribed by 5-cent coins. She would rather a 50-dollar note. So I decided to put them into the corridor, wait for the neighbours to take it, for the wind to blow it into tidy piles and whisk it away to a homeless person ( they don't like change either), or for the newspaper man's lucky day.

I'm in 315. I feel odd, but not any taller. I'm still doing 3ScL. Mum has decided that potential universities do not require physics for medicine, wants me to change to BCHL, and that would put me in 312, with michele, geeru, charisse, sydney, crystal and michelle, but no yearmates. I haven't emailed yet. I'm not even sure I want to change. I am being extremely difficult for the system, staff, and classmates. The thing is, I think not doing physics would not be challenging myself-mum's old argument. I think I could do physics if I tried- jeez who am I kidding? Myself, of course. I think I could pass properly if I tried really really really hard, but that would be one more subject to work really really really hard at, besides chem, math and chinese. I have a sneaky feeling many people will want to switch tomorrow, and I still havent decided, but I would like very much to change, considering the odds of doing well for physics. Andand anthropology at cambridge requires at least one essay-based subject-> history/lit, so if I did CBHL, I would have two! Medicine requires chemistry for most universities plus another science/math for Alevels, so chem bio would fit the description, but not exceed the requirement, and I would be compared with the tripscience people. I did my research for cambridge, oxford, bristol, edinburgh, boston, harvard, yale, johnshopkins(graduate) and found that it would be okay for me to do CBHL, but I wouldn't exceed their requirements. American universities, however, wade in the sea of vagueness by saying "we will consider on a case-by-case basis" and it seems that only the SATs and ACTs count. (english and math standardised tests- I don't even know how to take them)

For the holidays, after my trip, I read ender's game, lords and ladies (terryprachett), the mennyms-a reread, speaker of the dead, the enderverse and jacqueline wilson trash. I'm currently doing Anansi Boys, halfway through A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The 7 habits of highly effective teens is bathroom reading. I would like to review speaker, enderverse(prequel) and ender's game, and wax lyrical. Neil Gaiman is being very terry-prachetty in Anansi Boys, and not very Himself):

I take comfort in the fact that bubbles is doing 3ScL too, and gwen and jiaying will be in my class if I don't switch. ( I really shouldn't be making choices based on class arragements, or form teachers for that matter.)