The holiday in the textbook is not the choice I actually have
Hannah
The Business book used a holiday again. Two weeks at the beach, or a new laptop, and you cannot have both, which is how they introduce opportunity cost. I copied…
The drawing I did tonight is worth nothing, which is not the same as worthless
Saturday night, and I was supposed to finish a Business worksheet on costs. Instead I opened the sketchbook that lives under my Maths folder, which is a bad filing system…
The graph in the homework has no labels, so it is not a graph yet
Tuesday evening, the first full week of proper IGCSE, and I spent twenty minutes staring at a line that went up and then flattened. No numbers on the side. No…
The family in the play cannot afford to keep the trees
Sunday night, and I finally opened The Cherry Orchard. It was on the World Literature list I stared at two days ago and did not close. Chekhov. A house, a…
I play the same song too many times
Tonight I was supposed to finish a page of Maths, but Clair de Lune has been playing in my room for so long that I stopped counting. I know the…
These four subjects keep interrupting each other
School starts properly next week. Or this week. It depends who you ask, and whether you count the afternoon they handed out the reading lists as “starting.” I have four…
The Nightingale and the Rose is a story about price
I read Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose on Thursday night, which was a mistake only because I then couldn’t fall asleep. It’s on the IGCSE World Literature list…
UK rates stayed at 3.75%. The next move might be up, not down.
In December the Bank of England cut Bank Rate to 3.75%, and the news sounded like a door opening. I remember the tone more than I remember any graph. It…
Luxury brands still sold handbags while holiday flights got wrecked.
There is a window in town with a bag on a pedestal, lit as if it were a small painting. I do not want the bag. I want to understand…
Food prices finally calmed down — because the big shops were scared to go first.
I have started keeping receipts, which is not a personality I planned. Not in a scrapbook. In the inside pocket of my bag, until they turn pale and I throw…