Keeping Up With Juliette

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  Here is a blog post I wrote a couple of weeks ago. I intended on posting it sooner but then I got a bit busy with exams. I hope you enjoy it now anyway! 😊💜 If you saw my Instagram story on Friday, you'll know that I invited my good friends Teresa, Maia, Celina, and Audrey over for a barbeque. My dad had just finished welding together an old oil drum which he had transformed into a barbeque and he thought that this day was the perfect time to baptise it so we did. I got everyone together that day after school and my sister Alice also invited her boyfriend Tom over too so it was a big celebration. Me and my friends did some normal things and then we also did some rather strange things too. 😂 One normal thing we did was take group photos in the garden as it was nice and sunny and the flowers on the cherry and apple trees made for the perfect background to our photos. We all stood in front of Teresa's phone with the flowers...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, The International Baccalaureate has been quite the experience and I believe experiences can encompass both positive and negative things. On the positive side of the IB, I have been forced to be confident in my work. Although before I went to sixth form, I was quite confident in my writing style, it wasn't until I did the IB when I realised that I had to really believe in my ideas and sell my ideas to my teachers. This really manifested itself in the English oral exam, where I had to give a 10 minute long academic speech about two bodies of work (a literary and a non-literary). Here I had to pick my own bodies of work and construct my own line of inquiry. Believe it or not, I found this to be a real challenge but it made me a better person in the end because I had to believe in what I said in order to create a strong argument and get a good grade for it. I also had to believe in my work when it came to all the essays that I had ...