• Question: What was your least favourite experience at school

    Asked by John-Gerald to Nicholas, Natalie, Marta, Devon, Craig on 8 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Marta Varela

      Marta Varela answered on 8 Mar 2017:

      Hi John-Gerald.

      Difficult question… I could tell you about the football match during recess in which I was the goal-keeper. The goal posts were marked by a pile of rucksacks. I was daydreaming and ended up accidentally defending the area between two wrong piles of rucksacks and let a couple of easy goals in! My team was (justifiably) furious for a long time.

      On a more serious note, I felt a lot of my school teachers were not very supportive. I signed up for a few extra science activities. I was disappointed that none of my school teachers took an interest and some of the silliest ones even made fun of me and called me a geek…

      Anyway, I ended up representing Portugal in the International Physics Olympiads when I was 18 and made lots of friends from all over the world, which was great fun! (And I have always thought that being called a geek was a bit of a compliment!)

    • Photo: Nicholas Younger

      Nicholas Younger answered on 8 Mar 2017:

      PE and Maths!!

    • Photo: Craig O'Hare

      Craig O'Hare answered on 9 Mar 2017:

      My least favourite subject at school was French. I found it really hard and much preferred learning Gaelic (which is a school subject back in Ireland).

      My favourite subjects were Biology, Chemistry, English and Woodwork. I was actually really sad to give up woodwork when I moved towards the A levels.

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