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ahh. mein gott, what a week it's been so far. Well, last night I finished doing all the studying that I'll need to from my notes. whew. Hopefully I'll be able to write the 2 free response essays. those are what I'm really worrying about. DX Anyway, tonight I have review from 5:30 to 8:30 or 9. Then I'm not going in to school tomorrow--I'm sleeping in and being well-rested for the test. (I mean, I'll go in 6th period and catch the bus to the testing site. Or at least, I hope I'll catch the bus. I'm still not completely sure on when it'll arrive, but I'm almost positive it'll be sometime during 6th period.

So this afternoon I'm going to review some stuff in the text book, I want to go over Ch. 24 again (I did it on Monday but it's a big chapter that it's vaguely likely we'll have an essay on, and it was the last chapter I reviewed so I was slagged. and it's actually kinda interested). Then Ch. 25, maybe I'll quickly do 27 and 28 (which I just read earlier in the week and the weekend, so I can still pretty much remember them, lol.) And then I want to review 31--maybe I should do that first, cos we did that topic at the beginning of the year. Oh yeah. . . my notes for that. . . I'll have to find them (I emptied my notebook half way through.) And if I have time I'd like to skim a couple of the chapters we missed--29 and 30, and possibly 23.
And I'd also like to skim through the Princeton Review book, and read the parts about answering the questions and writing the essays.

::dies::

I can't wait til tomorrow night. I want this damn thing over with, and I want to know what the free response essays are!!!! lol. DBQ might be harder to write, but I don't have to worry about it, I don't have to study. And I think the DBQ that I just did was really good. Not sure. lessee. . . 80% of the documents, strong thesis, 3 body paragraphs, discuss point of view about 4 times. . . I'll look over my notes on that one too.

S'gonna be a busy afternoon.
btw, soz for being such a shmuck about friends entries. Just not enough time--I've been reading them but not commenting. I'll get back to my normal loudmouth self after the exam, I hope. ;)

David has his French AP today. It's not his best subject, so he was practicing my speaking French to us yesterday afternoon. Me and Katie can both understand French much, much better than we can speak it, so we'd talk to him in English and we'd talk to him in French, and we did well. :D It was tres amusant. (too lazy to get the html code for accent marks.) He was being his usual infuriating self though, and saying odd things about ponytails. O.o Ah well.

Am playing tennis in gym. My serve keeps improving, but I have a lot of trouble returning the other side's serves. (sometimes it's their fault, sometimes it's mine--even when I can reach it, I haven't gotten the knack yet.)

::yawns::
I need to find out when the bus shows up tomorrow.

to do list (but it's just for tomorrow so I'm not going to put it on my LJ to-do list thingie)

Here's what I have to do between now and 11:15 tomorrow.

work through packet. skim through bits of review book that you haven't done yet. take practice test. read through parts of review book that tell you how to answer the various questions. check notes on DBQs? Find notes on chapter 31. (and look at them.)

[packet is something she gave us tonight at review, s'got much of the 20th century after WWI on it.]

whooo hooo! Not bad!! :D I'll take the practice test tonight. . . maybe check the notes on 31 and DBQ. . . maybe read those bits of review book that are like "cracking the thematic questions" and stuff. . . and then tomorrow morning I'll do the packet, cos I'm tired. Long review session.

We did get to tell her (teacher) about the Jean-Paul Sartre sketch, which was awesome!! :D lol. She really really liked it. Which was cool. I really really really like my teacher. She's cool. And she's a really good teacher. And she's a Social Democrat. (just thought I'd throw that in to give you a better idea of what she's like.)

learning about Fascism has strengthened my belief that nationalism is bad. the only time that it serves any purpose is when it causes people to support their government to prevent a violent rebellion or whatever. But then, you should support the government because it does a good job, not just because it's your government of your country.
Had the shocking realization that America is heading toward Fascism. Fascism has never been as much as an enemy as Communism, which is ridiculous because although it was done poorly in the Soviet Union (and doesn't work very well in countries where there's not a lot to share to begin with) but ideologically, it's good. I guess if I had to be tied down to a political party it would be revisionism or social democracy.
Like, let's take. . . comic book morals. Which can be pretty black and white. Like, "good" and "evil." As opposed to "helps the middle class," or "appeals to working class," etc. So looking at things from a good and evil perspective, the ideas behind communism go under good. And the ideas behind Fascism are most decidedly evil. Particularly Hitler's Fascism, which had a lot of racism that wasn't such a part of Italian Fascism. But then, when you have something that is so much supported by nationalism--that just leads you to racism. If you think you're better, you think others are worse. And that's ridiculous because I would hate to be grouped with all of America. Countries do not have personalities, and all people in a country are not the same.

anyway. Friedman came in and was telling us that this wasn't about luck, it was about hard work. But to some extent it is luck, because there are only so many things i can write essays about, and if they aren't choices I'm in trouble. i could probably pull off the French Revolution though. . . yeah, I think I definitely could. Depending on what they ask about it. I've been looking over the 2 Industrial Revolutions, I might be able to do something on those. I can do Protestant Reformation, Renaissance, I could probably do something about causes of WWI but I don't know. . . (increased militarization, entangling alliances. . .disruption of balance of power. . . wilhelm II, the stupid brat, firing Otto von Bismarck. . . but that's not going to cut it. . . uhm. meh. I could pull it off. . .) I can do how Hitler came to power in Germany. . . I could write a good one on the Englightenment, I think. I can do post WWI society, probably, depending on what they ask. Cos I read 2 extra chapters that she said we should try if we're serious, because I care. lol. Maybe if I do a good job reviewing Chapter 31 I could do something on that.
Uhm. Whoa. Anyway. . . there are 2 groups of three, and you have to do one from each group, so if one of those is on each group I'll be ok. . . ::sigh:: I don't know. ay. uhm. well. Anyway.

you can ignore my AP-babblings on this test. I'm getting extremely repetitive, I know.