Speeches are next week. I nearly know mine off by heart. It's about fairy tales and how children don't believe them any more. I was really stuck for a topic.
We have four Chinese students and their teacher staying at our school. They're pretty interesting. They are also really good at maths. They are staying here to develop their English but I haven't heard them using it much, the girls at least. There's a boy in my class who knows a bit of Chinese so he sometimes acts like a translator for us.
In the past two lessons of music we made a commercial jingle on the iPads and composed some Blues music. For the commercial Kylie and I wrote about a ten line rap about Mr Whippy ice cream, but we only used two of those lines and the chorus because it was only allowed to be eight bars. The blues were interesting to hear and black slaves were interesting to hear about, inhuman though it is. We listened to Bille Holiday's Strange Fruits as well. When it came to writing a song, the only topic I could think of was the delicious meatballs I had the night before that I couldn't eat because there was about 100% too much chilli in it. So my song was the Meatball Blues. I should have worked with somebody. They might have had a better idea.
For French we are focusing on items of clothing. The names of the different clothes are relatively easy to remember; what's not is whether they are feminine or masculine. And that if you are going to say a colour it goes after the noun, for example, 'Je porte une jupe greis', I am wearing a skirt grey, rather than grey skirt.
