Three weeks left :)

I have been posting a lot of links lately...but nothing of my own. Well, my excuse it that I've been rather busy...this week I have 4 evaluations. I just finished two of them: Mechanics and Spanish (yippee, last Spanish test of the year!! Hopefully I'll be able to improve it a little during the hols, when I have no other subjects to bother me...)

Tomorrow I will have my Physics practical evaluation, we have 6 different lab sessions to revise. But the good thing is that we can bring our notes (that we were supposed to do during our lab sessions) to help us. But we never have enough time to finish... Each lab session lasts 4 hours and for the evaluation we have 2 hours to do about the same things! (actually it's a little less, but at least two-thirds, I'd say...)

Friday I have a radio programme to hand up :P We have a project which is to make a radio programme, with interviews in it (we have to go out and interview someone outside INSA) It's done in groups of three, so after the lab evaluation we're going to concentrate on that...for the moment it's only half done.

Next week will be my so-called revision week, but it will be peppered with classes, a presentation of a computer game (another project, in groups of four this time), and a final test. (I did say it was a so-called revision week...) And the week after we'll have 5 tests, one a day. After that, I shall wait for my flight back to Malaysia on Wednesday :D (who's gonna come meet me at the airport? :P)

I've made several online purchases lately, but I haven't got them yet...
1) 2 cushions for my chairs
I've been wanting to buy them for some time now, but they're pretty expensive...and I didn't really need them. (I just felt that my chairs were a bit hard, wanted a bit of luxury :P) Then the other day they were on offer, so I decided to go ahead and buy them.
2) 7 DVDs
This is the first time I'm buying DVDs (unless if you count a magazine I bought for its free DVD) I hope they work! Same reason here, I bought them because they were cheap...some of them cost only 1€! My two prize catches are: Anthony Zimmer (I watched this movie when I was in Angoulême, it was great!) and Arsène Lupin (I didn't catch this film when it came out...'cos I went to Barcelona with the girls when the guys went to watch it!) Unfortunately both are in French only, without subtitles... I wanted to buy Les Choristes (the first French film I saw in France, rivalling Anthony Zimmer in greatness :P) when I saw that it was on offer as well, but it was more expensive...and I decided it wasn't worth it. I would have bought it if it were English-subtitled. So I guess I will be able to watch movies in the next two weeks...that'll be a good break from revision :)
3) a handphone
I saw an offer for a handphone online, a Nokia 6085 at 9€. Of course there's a catch, I have to sign up for that company's line for a year. But all in all, I think it's worth it... I will still keep my prepaid number to receive calls, and call out using that new number. That avoids the hassle of changing my phone number with everyone I know... Good thing my prepaid number's "safe" for 8 months after a recharge ;)

I took the TOEFL two weeks ago...and the results are out! I got 677 :D I think the results came out yesterday...I didn't know until I reached ping pong practice (in fact it wasn't really a practice...'cos it was the last session and we decided to transform it into a dinner) Some of the guys there had seen my results and they actually announced it to everyone. The thing is, it turned out that I got the maximum score (whoopee! :D) I didn't even know how much the maximum score was. I really don't understand the scoring system...I found this on Wikipedia:
The final [...] score ranges between 310 and 677 and is based on three subscores: Listening (31–68), Structure (31–68), and Reading (31–67).
So I got maximum for each section (the marks for each section were given as well), but how do they get those marks? Those aren't the number of questions in the paper. If anyone knows, please enlighten me...

In fact we have to get 550 in INSA, otherwise we have to take the test again next year...since I was sure I would get the required result, I just aimed for the best score I could get, and oh yeah, it worked :D So I'm happy!

Now I'm waiting for the TCF(French test)'s results...in this case we have to get 495 out of 699 (why on earth can't they use round numbers for these tests?) for the objective part and 14 out of 20 for the written part. Well, we'll see...