ultimate high five hang

24/02/2014

So much has happened since my last update! I apologize for my negligence but I'm going to try really hard to keep this blog updated from now on. Basically last week was Athletics Day (which went pretty okay imo); a lot of practices for the Athletics Day house captain dance (I GOT HEAPS OF COMPLIMENTS AFTERWARDS FROM PPL BEING LIKE EH GURL U GOT MOVES and i was like omg u dnt knw how much that means to me consdering i cant dance for shit THX!!! also i had the luigi head on during the whole dance and couldn't see ANYTHING) and then i got a shitload of homework for the weekend.

O yeah speaking of the weekend, on saturday i went to an "alcohol awareness" conference because jo was desperate for ppl to go from service because apparently it would be helpful for our SADD project this year BUT LEMME TELL U IT WAS NOT HELPFUL AT ALL!! nevertheless i do not regret going because I got "best speaker/most enthusiastic participant/idk" and won a $30 westfield gift voucher aw yisssss!!!! Some ppl r real ignorant when it comes to drinking and the drinking culture tbh. omg we were discussing "ways to avoid the dangerous consequences of drinking" and suggestions included

• mentally training yourself to associate alcohol with your parents ie look at a bottle of alcohol and force yourself to think of your parents so that everytime you see alcohol u are guilted into thinking of your parents so that you're put off drinking AKA BRAINWASHING YOURSELF
• finding 'more responsible friends who won't drink/wont drink too much' aka giving up on the idea of having any friends at all
• avoiding situations where there is the possibility of getting drunk aka BEING AN ANTISOCIAL HERMIT

i was sitting there with faizah and both of us were DYING from how ridiculous some of the suggestions were o m f g

also, i went to geo schol and our topic for this year is urbanisation and i was like F YEAH MY BROTHER'S UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE IS PLANNING I CAN JUST ASK HIM FOR ADDITIONAL INFO 

anyway, moving on to today:

1. Athletics Day results announced in assembly. ELGIN CAME 5TH OUT OF 8 HOUSES FUCK YES NOT LAST, NOT SECOND TO LAST, NOT EVEN THIRD TO LAST!!! SO STOKED OMFG WE CAME LAST IN 2013 THIS IS SUCH AN ACHIEVEMENT!!! Also at assembly all the house captains sat at the front and we presented the newly-appointed year 6 house captains a quilted cute house banner thing and omg the house captain for elgin did like a downward-pulling-reverse-fist-pumping motion (omg i totally forgot whether or not it has a name but it's associated with the "FUCK YES" expression) and anna went to high five the girls while she gave them the banner and so i put my hand up for a high five as well AND IT HUNG FOR 2 SECONDS WITHOUT THEM SEEING IT AND IT WAS THE LONGEST 2 SECONDS OF MY LIFE BECAUSE I SUDDENLY REALISED THE HUGE POSSIBILITY OF ME BEING TOTALLY REJECTED FOR A HIGH FIVE AND HAVING THE WHOLE FREAKIGN SCHOOL WITNESSING IT but eventually they saw me and high fived but omfg lemme tell u ive never been that terrified in my whole life
2. at dragonboating we did 3 races with other stcc team and another team full of adults and we won all three fuck yeh. OH on the drive back i convinced my dad to let me drive and this is the FIRST TIME HE'S WITNESSED ME DRIVING and he let me go on the motorway and he was like SO IMPRESSED WITH HOW CAPABLE I WAS WITH DRIVING and he kept saying "u can so pass the restricted test" and im like AW YEEEEEEEEEEE (ps he is so much more chill in the car than my mum is hahaha i always thought my dad would be the freak-outer while i was driving)
3. i was so productive at home omg i only even opened my laptop at 11pm (which is when everything went downhill and i started distracting myself)

pls treat that hoe respectfully ie do not superman that hoe

18/02/2014

IT'S DIFFICULT TO BLOG WHEN U HAVE NO TIME
quickly:

1. house captain dance making it's got 2 slut-drops (yis ma forte) and i had to learn the soulja boy dance which im sure will come in useful in the near future
2. did SATs so im calling it a successful day even though im going to bed after midnight
3. stage challenge set is going to be so cool this year!!!!!!!!!!! first meeting today


last few days: lantern festival + cherry's bday dinner; costume shopping; luigi business + head;

s club 7

14/02/2014

1. First House Meeting

Motto of that first 30 minutes standing in front of 150 students is: fake it till u make it. Seriously, I started off nervous because u dont wanna fuck up and have that set the tone for you as a leader for the whole year and i caught myself saying something that made no grammatical sense and i was like wtf vicky SWITCH ON!!! Taught the house a new chant from forum and everyone seemed to like it and got quite into it and I'M REALLY HAPPY ABOUT HOW ENTHUSED EVERYONE SEEMED TO BE!!!! Overall wasn't a terrifying experience and I'm glad I got the first one over because I'll be a lot more comfortable up there from now on. I'm hoping I didn't come off as awkward because I absolutely hate seeing people standing up there being awkward because then i get secondhand embarrassment SO i've decided that next time i'm just going to be my normal excited self and not worry that they may find me embarrassingly enthusiastic because, after all, i warned them in my speech!
Speaking of House stuff, I think I've emailed Ms Evans (my dean) at least 10 times today omg. Anna and I have been made admin to the mpower page and I legit just spent my Friday night (ON VALENTINES) formatting and editing the mpower page wtf why do i have no life???

2. TOK

omg so TOK today was so intense and it went from discussing child abuse and parenting with some controversial opinions being raised and an atmosphere that nearly gave me heart palpitations to suddenly a topic which brought upon the funniest extracurricular proposal and the most i've laughed since school began!!! the TOK discussion made me think so much though and I think it shaped my moral compass a bit and god i love it when u actually feel something inside you shift and ur like hmm...
and then we began talking about the morality of selling sex (and our teacher told us not to mention this out of class since she'd get fired but considering how low key this blog is i think we're fine) and we were like psh ppl should be able to do what they want with their bodies and Mrs B was cracking up like THIS IS A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OMG GIRLS!!! SHOULD WE JUST START A SEX CLUB!??!!??! FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITIES!!!! CAS!!!!! ST CUTHBERT'S SEX CLUB!!! and i think multiple people nearly pissed themselves laughing o m f g

3. Valentines day

Prefects did an A+ job (best prefect team at stcc ever tbh) and stuck internet funny valentines memes all around the school and played love song/valentines themed music before school incl hsm and justin timberlake and much of the classics and had a little dance party going on in the atrium hahaha. Then at lunchtime they did a "kissing booth" that involved no kissing but a game where u guess which celebrity that picture of a mouth belongs to, and if u get it right, u get a lolly! oh and some of them wore AGS uniform. And they went around the quad and stuff playing music and dancing.

EXTRA 4. History Tea Party
MS FRENCH BROUGHT A TEA TRAY WITH TEA AND BISCUITS AND WE HAD A LITTLE TEA PARTY IN HISTORY BECAUSE WE'RE STARTING WORLD WAR 1!

Leading GREEN TEAM

13/02/2014

Fun fact:

In Year 7, I tried for House Captain at Mt Roskill. It was one of the only legit leadership positions available at intermediate. I wrote an amazing speech, thought I was relatively popular, and had people I barely knew come up to me afterwards saying they'd voted for me.

I really thought I would get it.

But I didn't get House Captain that year. And I... was... devastated. It was the end of the world. I thought: what's the point if I spend the whole important year of Y8, leaders of the school, as a nobody?

That, combined with me being put into the worst teacher in the world's class for year 8 was all too much for my 12 year old brain and heart to handle. I cried at morning tea and I wasn't the only one who was majorly upset about their Y8 class. It really sucked. My parents sympathized. My dad made a call to St Cuth's and they gave me an interview time.

If you think about it, it all turned out for the better.

*~*~*~every closed door opens a new window*~*~*~

I came to St Cuths, and I sat in quiet new-girl shyness as I watched as Anna and Liv R and others do their house captain speeches on green cue cards in 8WA. I remember the first day of St Cuths where Mrs Walls got us to do a writing exercise comparing the art of writing to gardening. I remember discussing this topic and reading my mini dissertation out to the class from my silver sparkly durasealed not-even-a-1B5. I remember telling my dad in the car when he picked me up that for once, I actually felt like I had learnt something at school. It had been so long (a whole year of wasting my time at roskill as I was left to do independent study on topics I had mastered already while the teacher neglected me) since I had felt like I had learnt something. It's true that any sane person wants to be challenged. Sure you enjoy breezing through everything in the beginning but after a while, you want to use your brain for something.

But I digress. I still remember Liv in her green tutu. I remember digging around my mum's wardrobe for green clothes for athletics day. I remember wearing a maxi skirt as a cape and being "leaf girl" while Sarah-Ann Hardacre wore stapled leaves to her shirt and she determined she was "tree woman" or something like that.

Superheroes became a theme for the years in the senior school in which I brought my ever-popular Hulk gloves. My brother's, really, but I use them more than he does (or ever will) at this point.

And I just spent about an hour researching costume sites trying to find an epic costume for this year because not only am I year 13 (hence, time to go all out for all school events) but---

wait for it...

I'M HOUSE CAPTAIN!

*FIREWORKS*

*explosions in the distance*

*sudden screaming*

*a baby wails*

*sirens approaching*

*screaming escalates*

See how everything just went full circle there?



So, onto our three things:

(before I start this actually I'm going to point out that I've found myself dangerously hovering along the edge of a cliff that overlooks a pit of negativity and shittiness -- and it's only 2nd week back -- so I'm glad this high has come right in time to swoop me from the precipice and back into the sunshine!)

1. the house captain thing

alrighty, so elaine gave faizah a call saying that faizah got service committee and she mentioned my name too but she didn't know what i got so izzy ran into the bio class (this was after school had just finished) and was like U GOT SERVICE LEADER and i was like omg wait what????? and obviously rather taken aback bcs i did not know where this had come from and didnt want to get my hopes up in case it was false information. I then went to library where i got a text from cherry saying a lot of things in caps lock and something along the lines of CONGRATS ON ELGIN HOUSE CAPTAIN!!! and i was like ?????????????? how do u know what is happening PLS EXPLIQUEZ SVP!!!! and apparently there was a meeting that our p6 teachers were supposed to tell us about (DIEGS!!!!!) at 3:20 in the staff room where they read out the committee/house leaders' roles. Hearing this rather reliable source of information that is when I started freaking out and celebrating and Cerys and Nadia were there and were freaking out with me and I think we freaked out some other students in the library but in a different "freak" to our freak....

I'M REALLY HAPPY THAT SO MANY OF MY FRIENDS AND SO MUCH OF IB GOT LEADERSHIP ROLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I ENJOY CELEBRATING MY OWN ACCOMPLISHMENTS SO MUCH MORE IF I CAN CELEBRATE OTHERS' ACCOMPLISHMENTS AT THE SAME TIME LET US ALL SUCCEED TOGETHER!!!!!!

2. WIT

I had my meeting with Ms Moy after school (before cherry's text and after elaine's call where i was confused) and we had our discussion and she had very little to correct from my WIT essay and it was all just grammatical things involving preopositions and I'M SO HAPPY BECAUSE I CAN BASICALLY FORGET ABOUT WIT FROM NOW ON OMG YES 20% OF ENG GRADE DONE AND DUSTED!!!! 

Also we discussed my surgery lol finally she acknowledges it. Speaking of which I ran into ms ballenden coming down the stairs and I waved and she waved and went really " :O :D " on me and was liek "IS THAT VICKY OH I THOUGHT IT WAS U " and i was like YAH but like i said hi to her yesterday so she obviosuly didnt recognize me there hahahaha and we had a chat about our holidays and my surgery as well. Raaya this segment was for u xoxo

3. Creepy Texts

I'm sure izzy wont mind me blogging about this since i have a very limited audience, but we were discussing her relationship w boyf at lunch and so we thought we'd try to creep him out and so she gave me his number and i've been sending texts a la the "u have now subscribed to cat facts" meme (if u havent seen it, GO AND CHECK IT OUT HERE: http://weknowmemes.com/2012/01/thank-you-for-signing-up-for-cat-facts/ )

But instead it's like "you have now subscribed to Daily Bigio updates" and then a sneaky-stalker-shot of Izzy from far away as she feigns doing work/being unaware of my camera. It is FAB i tell u. 

I have choir tmrw and it's nearly 1am and i'm going to DIE