Your History teacher is suck. So are the Tudors. I mean, all they did was eat lots and lop peoples heads off...
German is more win, and I can teach you the parts of the RR I learn in college. If I get into college :P

It's his job to make sure you pass.

But.... Tudors.... D:
I actually picked my colleges based on the content of their History courses. I can't stand the old system of like, monarchs and lords and stuff, and the IR is a bit boring.

My grades is not awesome. Srsly.

Oh. Ours try. But he sounds CRAP.

They suck. I wouldn't take it. Seriously, it's bad.

Meh.

But ... TUDORS!!!!!!

But...

IT'S THE FUCKING AWFUL TUDORS!

History, because it's really respected by unis and will help you massively.

Yeah but unless you're planning to use German in your degree, it's not so well-respected, and many unis do German as a beginner class for degrees. History, on the other hand, is well-known as being hard and is therefore respected by every uni :P

Yeah I have tried speaking another language actually, I do Spanish and have been trying to learn a bit of German and Greek.

Meh, it's your choice. You asked, I'm merely giving you my opinion and recommendation; don't have a go at me if I give you an answer you have evidently already discounted.

Ich habe für Deutsch gestimmt ;)
(Aus offensichtlichen Gründen. Außerdem werde ich nie wieder jemandem zu Geschichte raten, weil ich es selbst sehr hasse, seit ich es als Hauptfach habe.)

Ich habe Geschichte freiwillig gewählt, aber meine Lehrerin ist furchtbar und sie verlangt sehr viel von uns, sodass ich keine besonders guten Noten schreibe.
Allerdings wüsste ich auch nicht, was ich sonst hätte wählen sollen. Da meine anderen Hauptfächer Englisch und Deutsch sind, hätte ich entweder eine andere Gemeinschaftskunde (Sozialkunde oder Erdkunde) oder eine Naturwissenschaft (Biologie, Phyik oder Chemie) wählen können. Darin bin ich allerdings noch schlechter als in Geschichte :D

Da Geschichte eines meiner Hauptfächer (wir nennen es "Leistungskurse") ist, werde ich darin eine meiner Abiturprüfungen machen müssen. Zum Glück gibt es ein kompliziertes System, was ermöglicht, dass man in einem der Prüfungsfächer weniger Aufgaben im Abitur gestellt bekommt. Es ist ein bisschen schwierig, das zu erklären.

Ich beneide und bewundere dich dafür, dass du Physik und Chemie verstehst. Chemie habe nicht (zum Glück!) nicht mehr, aber als ich es noch hatte war es mein schlechtestes Fach. In Physik verstehe ich meistens nichts :D
Allerdings habe ich in Mathe zum Glück seinen sehr guten Lehrer, der alles geduldig erklärt, sodass ich eine der besten Schülerinnen in meinem Kurs bin :)

Right - for history you'd be doing the new course that current y12 are doing y/y? If not then don't bother with the rest of this, just eeniemeenie it lol

Their entire AS is Henry VIII and the Holocaust (no not as in the effect of the former on the latter, although that could be interesting... *must stop going off on historical tangents*).
Dull much? Yes they have in fact taken the two worst bits of the course and scrapped the rest, so you get loads of depth but no breadth. The staff are quite annoyed about it as well, as it was essentially sprung on them, and it bears no resemblance to uni history. SRSLY they're not even doing the Berlin trip anymore after ours because there's no point! At least there won't be all those people who only took it for the trip coughnotmeatallevercough.

The languages courses however have also been made less fun, imho, what with the scrapping of coursework (which would have been your major chance to get the history in there) and putting listening, reading and writing all in one paper. But Sarah's probably the one to discuss this part with.

I really do think you'd be better off with German from a future-ish p.o.v what with years abroad etc (though I think you'll be ok from GCSE on that score, they'll just give you more language tuition). Having said that, one of my friends did what you're planning but with history (try and find him in your 6th form prospectus if you have one lol) and loved it, having been dubious before.

Anyway, I know you'll just do which you like so this was all of course pointless :P

You can tell i'm avoiding revision can't you?

Précisement. And you get to do what you like for it, so I'm using it as essentially a history project but in French.
Oh forgot before, in history you get to do a Personal Study on whatever you like (srsly at all ever), so you could do your Bismarck there, but I have a sneaking suspiscion you'd have to do it about Britain in your course :(

Yes he is, maths and physics - you should definitely speak to him, you WOULD learn a lot (he's like rob, only less clever-by-accident if you get me). Although you'd never agree politically.
Or you could just do AS further maths, either way...
But yes, we applied to the same college too :(
No, not him, someone else. Andrew (imaginary numbers) is reasonably similar, but a bit less clever and more stereotypical geek.

Would you like to hear an amusing story about me and Josh? (Aforementioned mathematician, not bassoonist)
No, not like that *rolls eyes*
I texted you btw

When I said Bismarck I just meant general Unification/pre-Wilhelmine stuff.
Sarah and Hannah (Jevons) vote German, too btw

*Thinks of occasion you would actually meet* Damn your y11-and-hence-lack-of-free-periods-ness!
Well, he was brought up Tory and doesn't seem to have rescinded the view, however he has no issues with Pete and afaik Laura&Kathryn, Edward's ideas put him in the shade, and he's thankfully not religious; so you know...

Oh, re: further maths, check in your prospectus thing/ with Mrs Brook(e?) as to what modules you'd be doing - our year did Decision 1 and 2 in y12, neither of which are accepted by Cambridge, among other unis, so you may need to go down the Josh route of teaching yourself extra modules to replace them :/

Or go down the Emma route and hold off F.M until y13 when you can pick your modules :)

No, Pete is the gay one (as referenced above). I should do a chart of all my male friends so my friends in other years know who they are lol

I can't remember what the anecdote was, so I'll tell you the (slightly embarrassing(for him)) story of Josh's love life:
Josh spends much of his spare time on facebook;
here he looks up girls who generally live in the ne area, but not close by;
after a while, he will start to refer to her as his girlfriend
sometimes he will arranged to meet the girl (this leads to much speculation among the other boys as to whether she is actually a 40yr old man),
however this will rarely go ahead due to: impracticalities re: distance; her being involved w/ someone else closer to home (ie whom she's actually seen) etc etc.

Srsly, I once spent an afternoon on the net for him looking up trains to conisbrough (where he never actually ended up going).
I is Good Friend!

Oh, i remembered the anecdote - it was about a box of cointreau chocolates, and you really had to be there

If you don't like the Tudors and will have to study them, don't bother taking History, because you will find yourself spending fucking hours of your life thinking about them. Like you'll go to bed and dream about the reasons that Henry VII closed down the monasteries. If you're going to do it properly it's a massively time consuming subject. And no matter how able you are it's still hard if you want a good grade in it. I got full marks in my GCSE coursework without even trying and worked my absolute arse off to get my A at A level.

Languages, however, are a bit of a doss. And I study them at university so this isn't just a random disparaging comment (NB, they're hard AS at Cambridge :P) (if you think hard enough and paid any attention to nagty people then you might be able to work out who I am, lol). At A level, they are absolute piss - the lightest workload of them all. Conversation's a bitch, I agree, but it's all practice. And you get a useful skill for much less effort than History, which really does eat your life up.

On a side note - a classist historian? Interesting. I personally enjoy studying viewpoints that I completely disagree with, but maybe that's my perverse academically masochistic side coming out :P

I do think German is the best option. I mean, I did get a little excessive with my History work - I spent literally half the year working on my personal study because it was made of awesome, but even so, you can't exactly glide to an A. I still would've had to work pretty hard even if I wasn't majorly keen and willing to do it anyway. Especially if you're doing 5AS levels, History is best not to be one of them unless it's one of your main ones, and it seems like you're doing sciency ones anyway. Plus, it's much harder to do well at A level if you don't actually care about your subjects. Well, I think so.

And yeah, that is me. Go me :) And it was Spanish and Russian, for some godforsaken reason.

And I suppose I can see your point. Although I still loved studying the roots of the Tories and all that, despite being desperately un-Conservative. And I did a whole personal study on religion in politics, despite being agnostic. But maybe I'm just strange - I enjoy studying the other side mostly so I can rip it apart :P