Keeping Up With Juliette

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Recently, I've just finished my first set of year 10 mock exams. After my mistakes on my actual GCSE RE exam,I was determined to do better on my other exams. Turns out on my themes paper for RE, I did do better which was what I expected because I'm a lot better at the philosophical side of things. In terms of my other exams, I do think that I improved. I did my maths exams and whilst I'm not good at calculator tests, I did better than I thought and I even answered questions that we had not covered yet in class in the non-calculator test. I did mix up some of my dates in my history exam, but I managed to complete all of the questions and answer them to the best of my ability. I also did really well on my French reading, listening, and writing. The listening test was supposed to be really difficult but I didn't struggle too much throughout and I felt as though I did really well. My last exam was on Friday and it was...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, On Saturday, I went to Creams with my sister Alice. We thought it would be a good idea to go again since I've just finished my first set of exams and I needed to go into town anyway to get some new trainers. We took the 11:30am bus into the centre of Cambridge. When we arrived, we took a second bus to Cambridge Leisure Centre. Last time, we walked there from centre and it was quite a long walk so this time we decided to get the bus. When we arrived at Creams, we sat down at one of the tables and decided what we were going to eat. I decided to get a red velvet hot cookie dough dessert with strawberry ice-cream with a banana berry smoothie. My sister got the peanut butter hot cookie dough with a strawberry smoothie. Yes, we did just get dessert for lunch like we did last time but it's not everyday. The food was delicious anyway. Once we finished, we walked back to centre to burn off all the sugar we ate. We then went straig...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, It is difficult to stem down the exact origins and roots of dance and where it came from because there are no physical artifacts left behind. However, we do know that dance in early times was custom during festivals and ceremonies. The 30,000 year old Bhimbetka rock shelter paintings in India and the Egyptian tomb paintings depict dancing figures from c.3300 BC. The contemporary dance style that is performed today, can be traced back down to historical, ceremonial dances of the ancient period. In the 19th century Maria Taglioni first skimmed the stage like an ethereal being during the period of Romanticism. Ballerinas that expressed their emotions like Maria, first heralded the true art of pointe-work. This era was the first time that ballerinas formed their routines upon fantasy, mystical and exotic cultures. Ballets as we know them today, evolved from this point to form the big productions with costumes and plots that we ...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, In all aspects of the history of humanity, we've learnt to act with urgency and to reply to what is deemed to be negativity. I suppose it doesn't just only continue from the creation of man, it also expands down to our late hominem ancestors that out of survival, learnt to attack the attackers. However, a couple billion years later, a more civilised society of homo sapiens sprung. The ones who sit, eat, and behave sensibly.  Yet, what hasn't changed, is the will to stop others from talking. In the past, we may have attacked other species of animal because they were physically attacking us but now, we attack because we mentally cannot accept that one owns a contrasting view to the other. When we hear the opposing view, it's like sirens in our ears that warns us to shut them down. Like the Berlin Blockade of 1948, many of us blockade the sound of the opposing view with our own jibberish that means the debater cann...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Today, I decided to talk about something that I've never really talked about on my blog before and that is bullies. I don't know really what motivated me or propelled me to make this post but I know it's something that I've definitely been through and I know that my advice can hopefully help others out there who are struggling with this. I can't really remember exactly what happened but when I started primary school, I was bullied. I don't remember the exact details but I think that they were just saying nasty things to me and as a young girl who was really desperate and excited to start school just like her big sister, it really took a toll on me. I didn't really talk about it to my parents but I think that subconsciously, I did want to let them know that something was wrong so one day, I came home after school with a packed lunch box still full of food. My mum asked me why I had not eaten anything an...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, As part of the final BTEC dance course, year 11s are required to come up with their own group routines in order to be examined on choreographic skills in the show in May. Next year, I will be in year 11 and having looked at some of the self-choreographed group routines in the shows by previous year 11s, I have a rough idea of what I want to do. I believe that the style of dance that we're going to be choreographing our routines to is contemporary. The problem with this style of dance, now that that I've seen previous shows, is that it all looks the same. I think that in order to really score high marks, I need to do something that no one has ever really seen before. Depending on what the stimulus is for our dances, I need to create an original story around that so that I can choreograph something unique and different. I'm probably going to come up with some new movements as well that no one has seen before in a contem...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, On Monday, I sat my first actual GCSE exam for RE. I have two tests for RE, beliefs and practices which is about religion and thematic studies which is more about philosophical topics such as abortion and euthanasia. This year, unlike previous years, year 10 is allowed to take RE early instead of year 11 which I think is good because it's one less GCSE to worry about and I'm really not at all religious. However, on Monday afternoon, I sat my beliefs and practices exam which in the end didn't go awful but I think, to be honest, I was expecting it to go a lot better than it actually did. There are 2 papers to complete in an hour and 45 minutes, one on Christianity and the other on Islam. Each of them contain 12 written questions (1,2,4,5,12 mark questions) so that is 24 questions as a whole and I completed 21 of those questions. One question I probably could have answered because it was on the day of Ashura and despite ...