" Of course you know the difference between 'lose' and 'loose', 'their' and 'there' and 'too' and 'to'. However, these are typical examples of words that are often mixed up in writing because they are spelled or pronounced in more or less the same way. In order to prevent these mistakes, it can be very useful to focus your attention to these words once more. Compare answers with a partner when you have finished.

1. I advice/advise you to stop smoking.
2. Everybody excepted/accepted the new situation.
3. I don't know where/were you are going exactly, but I'd like to come too/to.
4. If you choose/chose that diet, I'm not sure whether you will really lose/loose weight.
5. I wonder/wander if he's really going to their/there wedding. "

This goes on for an entire page. And that is my homework for Monday, for English. While I am in the last form of the highest level of secundary education possible. I mean, seriously!! "I wander if he's really going to there wedding"? "The dog scratched it's back to get rid of the fleece"? Are they kidding??!

Oh, and apparently Dutch Santa Claus is on our team. This girl in my class was singing a Christmas song today, and I was like, but we still have Sinterklaas! (5th of december. something kind of the same. there's this very old guy (but he's not fat) with a beard and red clothes and all and he comes from Spain, where he lives with all these people who help him (although they aren't elves), and each year he comes to Holland by boat with all his helpers and puts things in childrens shoes when they give something for his horse (he has a horse on which he rides over the roofs to bring gifts), like a carrot or so. And they get to make lists with things they want which he brings by in a big bag on the 5th of December, which is his birthday. It's all really far-fetched, I know, but hey, so is Santa Claus, right? At least we don't have flying reindeer. xD )

And she was like, Sinterklaas is gay. And then one of my friends stood up for me (because it's really ridiculous how often she thinks something's gay. And I know I'm overreacting to people doing that, but it just bothers me and someday I will be able to say something in response to things like that). But still, it annoys me. ("annoys" is an understatement. I can't stand her. I hate her. I can't bear to be in the same room with her. Etcetera.)
My friend looked at me kind of shocked, by the way, because it'd been the first time she'd even noticed this girl saying it. Normally when I tel my friends that people say stupid stuff, I feel like they think I'm making it up. I'm not. They say stuff all the time. She was like, "what? why are you saying that?" and then she looked at me all weird, and all I could do was give her a well-there-you-have-it-expression. So welcome to my world.

Wednesday morning I skipped class because I really didn't feel like going to school. And normally I only skip PE. I never skip class. (PE isn't important and it makes me feel like someone who can't even do the most easy things in the world. I mean, I can't run for twelve minutes, which is something we have to do each year for a grade. I can't climb ropes. I can't catch a ball. I'm stupid.)

And this guy sitting next to in English me kept checking on my piece of paper for the right answers. That is even worse. That no one seemd to think the assignment was stupid. Because it is. We're seventeen, we should know this. And I know I'm not perfect, I make mistakes all the time, but if you get to choose between "he took they're advice", "he took there advice" and "he took their advice", after six years of learning English, you shouldn't be doubting.

Or maybe that's just me.

I wonder (I don't wander) how you guys manage not to be depressed. And not to wake up and think the entire day's gonna be useless. Explain to me how you do that. (A)

I'm actually a lot happier than I sound. It's mostly sarcasm, I think.
Anyway, I gotta go, I'm going to a friend's (see. that is something I do doubt about. if the apostrophe should really be there. give me an assignment about that!) place, she's living on herself, for dinner. I have no idea how we'll all fit in the like, ten square meters, the three of us. It's really small there.

see ya!