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I had my first mock test today and I got:

• major (I think) for hesitation on a roundabout.
• observations in manoeuvres (forgot to check a blind spot🫣)
• positioning on the roundabout
• and a tiny little signal timing minor

For the positioning one, I will say it’s the local “fail hotspot” because more lanes just appear and disappear 🫠 I needed to be one lane over and fair enough, for my first time doing it under test conditions and only be in the wrong lane I’d say that’s pretty good! There’s been some REALLL horror stories on that roundabout😟 It’s such a confusing roundabout, I’m going to practice it from all entrances and exits on the wknd!

Observations and timing, tiny little things that can be sorted quickly and without any serious intervention shall we say. I think I can put those down to “first mock test nerves” as I’m usually pretty good with them

But the real kicker… HESITATION🫣

Oh god it was terrible, I knew I’d failed right there and then after the 2nd car overtook me to get on the roundabout😩 I don’t know what happened, everyone was indicating but I just wasn’t seeing gaps I think? There was one 🍆 that flew straight over with zero indicators whatsoever. It’s a busy roundabout coming straight off an even busier roundabout and I think it just freaked me out a bit.

I deffo think it’s a bit of scaredy-cat-ness of getting hit or crashing🥲 I’ve got my own little car so obviously don’t want to smash it up and my instructors just got a nice shiny brand spankin new car after his old one literally just ✨died✨ one day.

So yeah if anyone has any tips for taking those gaps on a roundabout, big or small, then lmk so I can try again on the wknd!☺️

For context, I’m 17 & learning, I have my own little car I buzz about in back & forth to school and other places with my parents.

Yesterday I parked outside the post office and when I was pulling away, this big white van coming towards me decides to speed across the road and pull up right in front of my front bumper at like 40mph (20mph road🫪) causing me to emergency stop so I give him a “WHY DID YOU DO THAT” hand signal and he starts throwing gang signs and all manner of other things🤷🏻‍♀️ Anyway I reset myself ready to go and my mam flipped him the bird as we passed and he clearly wasn’t happy about that by the sounds coming from his horn but we roll.

Today I was coming along a 40mph road and a big white van (shocker) is reversing into a side road, as I approach he is fully in the side road and going backwards, I slow down a little bit as a just in case and all of a sudden he looks at me approaching him at like 30-35 and whacks it into first and slams the pedal to the metal straight across the two lanes⁉️ I have to emergency stop to avoid totalling my little pocket rocket against this big white van because at this point I was like, idk how many metres but it was clooose. He starts reversing again and starts throwing all these 👊🏻🤛🏻🤟🏻👌🏻🤌🏻✋🏻👋🏻💪🏻 at me like it’s my fault 🤦🏻‍♀️ I beeped at him and he didn’t like that apparently🙄

So yeah those have been my experiences so far with the white van man 🧍‍♂️

Haven’t seen any Geog or History discussions for WJEC yet feeling a bit lonely here🥲

I only started seriously revising (take that with a pinch of 🧂) like three days ago and all I wanna do is cry into my pillow. I feel like I know nothing for history because it was just lesson ➡️ breakdown ➡️ lesson ➡️ breakdown because it’s hard for me. English I have 💩 teachers that don’t even acknowledge I exist and I’ve had 5 teachers for the 3 topics of English and geography is hard too. I been going through some other really tough situations too I’m not just thick I promise🤞🏻

I have no motivation to do well at all except for the fact that when I open that envelope and see my AS level grades sitting at UUU I’ll have to look at my mothers face and then deal with the wrath of my father.

GCSEs weren’t fun for me, to the point where my parents considered literal counselling because every time they tried to get me to take a break I’d cry even though I was so frustrated that I wasn’t getting anything right I would literally throw my revision materials. So don’t really want to experience that again😗

Does anyone else feel like a bit of a Blanche DuBois right now, aka for all you lucky ducks not doing WJEC EngLit, on the verge of a mental collapse😀

So basically I do EngLit🔫 at another school down the road and I hate it sm like it’s terrible teachers can’t teach and other stuff. But yeah I told my HoY I wanna drop it and only do the AS level and leave it at that I don’t wanna do uni and I’ll still leave school with 3 ALevels so it don’t really matter but she told me that after the exam, it’s in like two weeks or smth, I still have to go there even though they’ll be teaching all the y13 content and tbh the four hours a week I’m there could definitely be better spent on my other classes which I will probably struggle with so it don’t make sense

So yeah thoughts, feelings, suggestions, advice idk I just don’t want to go to that damn skl🔫

Hey so I’m a teen girl and I have beautiful long hair and I have no clue how to style it. I can put it up in a bobble/ponytail at the nape of my neck and that’s pretty much it.

I really want to learn to do my own hair nice and pretty but I just can’t seem to grasp any hairstyle concepts on myself. I can plait my friends hair but as soon as I have to apply this to my hair it just does not work. I’ve been watching some basic plait/braid tutorials but my hands are never where they’re supposed to be, I think it’s because I’m left handed😅

Anyways if you have any advice for me then yeah leave it here because I love my hair and it’s really getting me down how I can’t style it nicely☹️

TIA