Chemistry - so fun!
I did chemistry for A level and had alot of fun. alot of the course was practcal and being a total non-experimental kinda girl, really did fuck up most of them. i'm not a nerd but really enjoyed the whole course, probably cos my class was awesome and my teacher was cool and i had alot of fun.
1. my friend sian, was told to TURN OFF THE BUNSEN BURNER as soon as the ethanol starts to boil, and i mean as soon as. sian's happily pretending to be oh im the brightest person in the class when someone calls her, she turns round the second her ethanol starts to boil. cue teaacher "sian! turn your flame off"
sian: "whaaaaat?"
teacher: "now! quickly!"
sian: "oh, umm, oops umm"
bang. glass shattered, sian red faced. stupid slag girl screaming, teacher shouting. fire alarm goes off and class is evacuated, he wouldn't even let us take our bloody gloves off so we had to go line up with the rest of the school with bloody safety gloves on....we looked like right nerds!
2. rhiannon, what a complete and utter idiot.
tecaher: "don't forget to put the top back on the conc. ammonia bottle"
rhiannon "forgets"
me: sir, what's that smell? smells like wee.
rhiannon got shouted at haha.
3 omg, this is the best i promise. me and a "friend" were conducting an experiment which involved a bunsen burner. ours was seriously dodgy. poured substance into pipette blah blah etc etc. anyway, i noticed some clear liquid on the desk, thought it was water. it was bloody ethanol. friend lights bunsen burner, bunsen burner shoots off the tap and flame falls onto the desk, desk goes up on flames. me and friend stupidly tried to blow the desk out, then i realised my hair was loose.
me: oh my god! my fucking hair is on fire!" and what went through my mind? stop, drop and roll. so i did....infront of a WHOLE class of staring yr 11ers.
teacher: catherine, what are you doing on the floor?"
the fire had gone out when my freind had turned off the gas.
silly me.
(CathT, Fri 5 May 2006, 13:18, Reply)