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It is Monday night and for the first time in months, I am not going to night school. It is so weird. It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that I'm done.
I kinda miss it...
Now I have no one to talk chemistry with...
It's a little sad, actually.
Well, this was my last chenistry class. I'm going to miss it. I wrote my final exam. When everyone was done and left the class, I went back in and asked Mr. Kfoury if he could mark my exam so I could see my mark (cause I had a feeling I got a good mark!)Well, I ended up getting 86% on the exam (5 wrong answers) and a final grade of 93% I am very pleased!
So my adventure in night school is over. I hope Mr. Kfoury is still here in September (he's thinking of moving to France) and he teaches Biology, cause I would love to take his class again!
I am continuing to enjoy chemistry. It's amazing how much I've learned and retained and can actually understand! We had a test on Wednesday and I got 18/21 which is somewhere in the neighborhood of 86 percent.
I can not say enough good things about my teacher, Mr. Kfoury. It is obvious he loves teaching...it is his passion. He teaches adult education during the day and night school twice a week. If he is able to teach biology in night school next year, then I'm all over it!
OK, so last night's chemistry class was brought to you by the math department.
You have NO idea how much math we did. Three hours of math.
OH. MY. G*D.
Metrics and measurements...convert kilos to pounds, grams to miligrams, litres to kilolitres etcetera, etcetera. Temperature and measurements...convert Celcious to Kelvin to Fahrenheight. Percentage Error...accepted value minus experimental value devided by accepted value times 100. Oh and the most fun part...the Scientific Notation. It's all about the decimal point. I won't bore you with the details.
I am so tired.
I REALLY hope I can get this.
Can we go back to the Periodic Table? I ROCK the table!
One cool thing...a new student who attends high school during the day (grade 12) sat beside me and was able to explain things in a way I could understand. I pick her to be my lab partner! LOL!
These 2 atoms walk into a bar. One atom bumps into another and says, "Hey, I think I lost an electron!" The other atom says, "Are you sure?" He answers, "Yeah. I'm positive."
A little chem humour.
Did I mention I'm so tired?
My first EVER chemistry class was last night. WOW! I actually learned things! a vast majority made sense to me. And I'm told by my teacher that as we get going it will make more sense to me.
I think memorizing the periodic table and what all those abbreviations stand for will be very daunting! And memorizing the electron configuration will be no easy task. BUT at least I UNDERSTAND the electron configuration! That was my most favourite part!
I am the only adult in the class of 7. The others are high school students and one 22 year old who acts like a high school student.
My teacher is very interesting and patient.
Someone asked me why I'm taking high school chem. It's because I want to go back to college and become a dental hygienist.
EDIT: I just found out I begin high school Biology next week!
I'm a little excited but also a little scared. I have registered for grade 12 Chemistry and I begin tomorrow night. Hopefully, I will also be taking grade 11 Biology.
When in high school a hundred years ago, I had no interest in the sciences so I didn't take any. BUT...now I'm thinking of a career change which requires a grade 11 Biology and a grade 12 Chemistry.
Now, I LOVE my day care! LOVE teaching kids. Been doing it 10 years. I'd love to keep doing it. But it doesn't pay very well and it doesn't have benefits and I'm tired of being poor.
So...I'm preparing myself. JUST IN CASE I decide to apply to Algonquin College for September. JUST IN CASE I decide I want to become a dental hygienist.
Wow. I said it out loud. It's right there in cyberspace.
EEK! Let's see how I do in Chemistry!
