I was totally prepared (well semi anyways) for my Chemistry exam today. And then the snow. The one track road outside my house was like a car park last night thanks to the police who sent everyone down it because of crashes on the main road it comes off.
So now I have to wait until after half term to have my exam. Not what I wanted - we're going skiing and I didn't want any exams hanging over me AND the chemistry exam will now be on the first day back and we will have gotten home about midnight the night before. Great.
I'm still waiting on the call from the farmer. I don't have their number, it was being set up by a friend of a friend but I may have to do some digging to get it because I really want to go!
Organised a time and date for my army interview!
Couldn't go to Lord Whisky last weekend because I had SOOO much work to do and I'm missing the next two weeks because of skiing... not good.
Through my school I found out about this 50 hours of volunteering award with V Inspired or something so have decided to do that, I can use my time at Lord Whisky and I spent a few hours last week helping with a Year 8 quiz. My team lost. By quite a lot.
Damn, just remembered I STILL have to write my CV to send off to Burnham House and Animal House vets. MUST do that soon!
Also over half term I think I'm gunna aim to make some kind indent on the scary thing that is my personal statement
Through Duke of Edinburgh I might get the chance to do this really exciting sounding outside kinda first aid course which would be great! Its just a matter of trying to fit it in over the summer because I am crazy busy.
Have a good half term everyone!
Well I've just done my physics mock... it went all right - I'm alive anyways. Bring on next week! I have a feeling chemistry may not go as well...
I've organised my day with J R Farm Meats abattoir! YAY! I'm weirdly really looking forward to that I think its going to be really interesting, only thing is I have to get there at 7am. wow. early.
I got a letter from my Army Careers Advisor saying I have to go and meet to discuss my 'whole range of options and discuss the way ahead.' Its scary I get to make such big choices now. I don't feel old enough!
Also booked in my work experience week at Animal House Vets in Herne Bay. They deal with horses as well as the odd small farm and the usual cats and dogs which will be great as I haven't seen large animal practice yet. Burnham House Vets wants me to send in a copy of my CV which I still haven't got round to writing - better try and fit that in between the revision this weekend. Talking of which I may have to sacrifice my Sunday morning at Lord Whisky Sanctuary for English revision :( that doesn't seem like a great trade.
I'm waiting on phone call from a farmer with 4,000 sheep to confirm I can go to the farm for a week in Easter to help with lambing.
That'll be fantastic because the other lambing placement I'd organised came at the end of that particular farms lambing season and the beginning of calving so I might not be that busy, but this way I can do lambing at Farm A for the first week then calving at Farm B for the second!
Is it sad how excited I get? (:
Yesterday at school we had this talk on 'the whole UCAS procedure' the summary of which was the next six months will either kill me or result in me being in a good position to get into vet school. Me being the worrier that I am got home and immediately started planning MORE work experience and producing an edexcel spreadsheet showing the pros and cons of universities I'm looking at- slightly OTT some may say.
I've been trying to organise work experience at Pfizer for the past few weeks but their summer work experience week clashes with the Nottingham Uni Vet-Sim course which I really wanted to go on after having such a good time on their Vet-Med Link course last December. After much deliberation I think I'm going with Pfizer... simply because its a field of veterinary that I haven't looked at before.
Liverpool Vet course has the biggest work experience requirement list (10 weeks in total!) including 4 weeks at at least 2 practices. I'm in the middle of contacting Burnham House Vets to see if I can go there for a week in summer and Lady Dane is next on my list - I've already done 2 weeks at Manor Vets which I loved and am trying to fit in the odd day for me to go back.
Abattoirs are so hard to get work experience at! Thanks to that vet student who went in and videoed one no abattoirs want any work experience people, hopefully JR Farm Meats will let me come for a day!
Turns out the vet at Port Lympne is away in Germany until next Tuesday so I'll have to wait to find out about that one.
Fund raising for my Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award is going well, I'll make my next post about that.
AND as well as all that stress we have mocks starting next week! I'm really not looking forward to them, I may have left starting my revision a bit late - cough, cough last night - but I really want them to go well as our predicted grades for A Level are partly based on them. Oh no. Needless to say I'm stressed.
