Noor's Year 11 GYG Here We Gooo! 💯

Okay so slight setback these past few days, but it's never too late to come back stronger than ever. I'm just in the middle of a relapse (a couple actually, domino effect 😅) which was really taking away all my focus and energy. I feel like this isn't talked about enough. People try to advocate for mental health awareness, but it's these nuances and intersections that are always neglected. Sometimes you just have no energy but you feel as if it's impossible for you to slow down even if you really need it, even if tour teachers are saying "take it easy". You can't. I might have not explained it very well as it's past midnight and I'm sleepy, but I hope you know what I mean. 😴

Okay so slight setback these past few days, but it's never too late to come back stronger than ever. I'm just in the middle of a relapse (a couple actually, domino effect 😅) which was really taking away all my focus and energy. I feel like this isn't talked about enough. People try to advocate for mental health awareness, but it's these nuances and intersections that are always neglected. Sometimes you just have no energy but you feel as if it's impossible for you to slow down even if you really need it, even if tour teachers are saying "take it easy". You can't. I might have not explained it very well as it's past midnight and I'm sleepy, but I hope you know what I mean. 😴

hope your feeling a bit better today And I totally agree it's not as straightforward as take it easy or talk to someone and ect. Everybody likes to give solutions instead of actually making us acknowledge the fact that it is okay to just have a bad day or week🤦🏾*♀️

its fine to take a break at times

Since everyone's doing it, I figured I might as well.
* Feel free to also post about and track your progress throughout this year so we can all hold each other accountable!🌹
Hey everyone 👋🏻 I'm Noor and I'm starting Year 11 in a few days. Ouch! I had to change schools halfway through Year 10, and so had to learn a LOT of the content for my GCSEs from scratch on my own (like Macbeth and A Christmas Carol, I'd read them before just not in a GCSE way), while also trying to keep up with new things we were learning. 😅
Anyway, these are my GCSEs and I'm really hoping for all 9s and 8s:
- AQA English Language
- AQA English Literature (Macbeth, A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls, Love and Relationships)
- EdExcel Maths (Higher)
- AQA Triple Chemistry, Physics and Biology
- AQA RE A (Christianity, Sikhism, Themes A, B, D, E)
- AQA French (Higher)
- AQA Spanish (Higher)
- Might do Italian, Arabic, and Biblical Hebrew if I have the time 😊🌸
I'll start posting when school starts (3rd Sep for me), and I'll try to be as consistent as possible. As I said, you can post your progress, tips, questions, and anything that comes to mind here if you'd like.
I'm using the Oasis concerts next year as motivation to study hard so I can go. 🥲
Good luck everyone! We can do this! 🌼

Arabic and Biblical Hebrow ... that's maddest combo 😳😳🤯

Yeah I know 😭 I'm stressing so much

where are you from? x

British-Iraqi 😊 so I can speak Arabic fluently, and used to be quite good at Hebrew (mainly for religious reasons) but haven't used it so much for quite some time so it's a bit rusty now 🙃😅

oh so are you Jewish or Christian 😳 that is so cool I am amazed

Thanks 😊 no I'm Muslim but we live in a community with lots of Jews and Christians (they speak Arabic obviously (the Iraqi ones I mean)) but Hebrew mostly helps with the Torah and other writings which we do believe in and need to learn from sometimes so yeah ☺️
I also used to go to Catholic school and studied Aramaic and Syriac (also similar to Arabic and Hebrew) to a certain extent so it's just quite helpful to know them.
Do you also speak any languages along with English? 😊

I speak Mandarin
But I am so in love with how diverse you are ❤️*🩹
I am using this website to study you should too 🤭 (www.smart-le.co.uk)

30/9:
- Physics: Space revision + questions
- English Literature: ACC themes revision
- Maths: some homework (not a lot 😅)
- Planning for some extracurriculars and extension projects I'm doing
- Contemplating about sixth forms 🫠🥲
So yeah, not too bad if I do say so myself. The migraines are really starting to become a bit too much, so I might have to go get them checked. Otherwise, I'll just have to bear with it and get through October at least half-sane 🤪 (cue "Step by Step" in Jordan Knight's voice 😂)
Hope everyone's day was nice and a bit more productive, and hello October! 🎃

🎉your🎉doing 🎉great🎉