I dont even want to go into detail into anything bcs i know it'll just make me drag out this blog post and never post it (see: ball blog post -- oh wait, u cant because i NEVER FINISHED IT AND IT'S JUST IN MY DRAFTS)
Okay so off the top of my head:
1. DRAGON BOATING TODAY!!!
WE WON (IN OUR HEARTS)!!!!!!!!!! technically we came third in the grand final but we came third to the two EGGS teams and they're crazy intense and train all year round and have trials and go to nationals and have won gold 15 years in a row so... alg. Came bronze last year as well. Today was so tiring wow!!! Got a ride with becca but was meant to be at her house at 6:25... except i slept fully through my alarm and woke up to my phone ringing at 6:45 with becca's mum wondering where i was and saying that she could pick me up from my house (she is such a gb omg she bought me two pain au chocolats i JUST????????)
once again the ZM guy said to us during the chant competition "this is the most attractive school" just like last year, and he was like "wouldn't mind coming across you guys on tinder" lmfao. pretty sure his prejudice led him to announce us as the "loudest school" at the end of the day and so we won a box of CDs hahahaha shweet (I managed to scramble up the eminem cd... which is better than the kim dotcom cd haha)
2. HOUSE FLOWERS ON FRIDAY!!!
omg this has been stressing me out (but nowhere near as much as it's been stressing anna out) we ended up doing a leprechaun and we fuCKING WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT?????????? I KNOW RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!! we actually were so efficient with building the structure and only stayed 2 hours after school wednesday and were finished by thursday lunchtime.
On the day Anna and I got there 6:15 and went down to the bus stop to take some of the totara (maybe?) in the frickin dark and thus commenced our very long day of patient flower/leaf weaving and placing into chicken wire. about two hours in we decided it looked really messy and a little shit so we restarted most of it (the 4 leaf clover base, the jacket of the leprechaun, the hat) making it so that it was singular leaves weaved in rather than branches of leaves.
we had a pot of gold (with 'gold' inside the pot that glowed due to the fairy lights placed inside) a leprechaun with a hat, beard, bowtie, jacket, pants, vest, and striped socks, standing on a four leaf clover.
the other houses did amazing sculptures as well, it was honestly one of the best house flowers in years.
dunblane: lucky cat (with chocolate coins dangling in bg and on floor)
lindisfarne: day of the dead skull
melrose: anzac poppy commemorating 100th anniversary of ww1 (unabashedly sucking up lol)
durham: japanese fan with paper cranes and a really cute/heartbreaking story about a japanese girl
iona: indian elephant (with bark from junior school playground)
kelso: russian dolls
anna and i were so shocked when we found out we won
it was awesome
THIS WAS SO AWESOME I'M SO GLAD I WENT OMFG IM SO PUMPED TO PROMOTE 40 HOUR FAMINE THIS YEAR OMFG I SWEAR I CRIED AT THIS CONFERENCE AT LEAST 5 SEPARATE TIMES AND FELT SO OVERWHELMED THROUGH THE MAJORITY OF IT OMG???? the presenters were so fucking funny and everything was so moving and touching and perfect. they got us to play this game with origami where we were placed into a country (i was ukraine woohoo) and they told us our goal was to survive by sustaining our land with enough farms (origami cows) and cities (origami houses) but we could also choose to expand our empire by building army trucks and buses. We expanded quite a lot and got to 30 different towns/cities/ports and invaded a lot of land (but not land with people!). It was funny when Russia was taken over by another country and there were russian refugees and we (ukraine) were like COME TO US!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahaha the presenters at the end were like "russian refugees were readily accepted by the ukraine team -- HAVE YOU BEEN WATCHING THE NEWS AT ALL LATELY???" but yeah we wanted more people in our team because it meant we could make the origami faster. in the end they were like; "what was the point of that exercise?" and after a few answers it was discovered that it was "to survive" except instead of that and being happy with our equal, resourceful pieces of land, we expanded and as a consequence, 10% of the population became refugees due to war. WE CREATED OUR OWN INEQUALITY, OUT OF PURE GREED AND BOREDOM JUST LIKE IN REAL LIFE. i sat there in shock while he revealed this omfg.
we were thinking this year of makign 40 hour famine a house event ^_^ more competition, more interest, more checkups.
4. MUFTI DAY
year13 dressed up as grannies and grandpas
6. this reenactment of the creation of adam with cerys using chicken feet in bio
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