Yeah, the year 8 students at my school we're right outside the hall at lunch, pissed me off. But at about 10am, there was this funny bird noise of some sort out on the other side, i couldn't help but laugh.. along with others. Stupid noise stayed in my head for the whole exam.
I thought the Hospitality was quite fair, the first two sections were fine, but the last 2 extended responses were kind of hard, i think i did them right.
Freakin_Ot_Gal, you should have picked commercial cookery... you probably won't go too well in cross-functional operations because the people that learnt it would have had to go into a great depth where as you wouldn't have because you didn't learn it like they did.
one of the related texts that i am using is 'At Seventeen' by Janis Ian, its lyrics that are actually mentioned in Looking For Alibrandi.
http://www.janisian.com/lyric-at_seventeen.html
Go to the above link and it will take you to the lyrics.