Tired

This past week has been interesting and exhausting. To be perfectly honest, I don't remember much of this week, I've been so out of it, but here's a synopsis. First, I had to get through all the first semester finals - man, was I tired by the end of those. The first day was french and honors English, which weren't too bad. It seems like every day, there was a test that I studied more than the other, and out of Tuesday's exams, it was definitely French. It doesn't help that  I  wasn't really sure what to study for Honors, but whatever. Then, on Wednesday was my worst day - at least from the point of studying - AP Biology and AP Chem. The night before, I seriously spent five hours working on my biology reference sheet, only to use it less than five times during the test. By the time that I got around to studying for AP Chemistry, it was pretty late. And even though I did study my notes for an hour, it didn't really sink in. All in all, though, all my tests, even Thursdays (math and civics) weren't as bad as I expected. I already know that I did well in my French and Civics test, and what I got on my chemistry test - though it hasn't been curved- but I'm not too worried about the rest.
Even after getting home on Thursday and anticipating a day off on Friday, I didn't get to rest. That's because yesterday (Saturday) was our first Science Olympiad invitational, which meant that I had to make up the anatomy cheat sheet and practice all day Friday. Let's just say it wasn't my best day off of school. The invitational itself was okay. The main problem was that they weren't really prepared, and neither were we. For one of my events, Optics, the test proctor didn't get there until the time it was supposed to get started, and then passed out the test to people in the front and told the rest of us to go down and get it (we were taking the test in the auditorium), which wasted a ton of time that we could have been working on our test. When the time was up, we still had 20 questions or so left. Then, for the second part of that event, the laser shoot, the way we practiced couldn't work, so we had to improvise, which didn't exactly work out very well. Luckily, though I'm not sure why, that event was not counted toward our team score. Another event of mine, Water quality, was also not counted because the people who were supposed to do the test never showed up, so someone provided a test - but not until the first testing hour was over, and so was 20 minutes of ours. Unfortunately, that was the event I actually got second place, and I didn't even get an award for it! Then in the event Sounds of Music, where we had to build and play our own instruments, we pretty much failed at the playing together part. Basically, everything was a train wreck. Somehow, though, we managed to place 5th out of 39 overall - not thanks to me, though. The way they scored events was really weird; they only ranked teams up to 15th place, and then after that, everyone got 16th place. Why they chose 15, I don't know, seeing as that's not even halfway through the teams. I would rather know where I placed, and see how I need to improve, then have my feelings spared. But that's just me. I bid you adieu until next week's spirit week (whose days are really stupid).