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

THW

jesus
just...
.... ignore the two posts below haha

been reading too many ellen hopkins novels....




did first debate of the year today at mrgs! we went up against baradene. it was technically my 2nd debate i've ever done. my first was so traumatic omg.

thats what she said.

(anyway) our team won and i got 74 points out of 80 as well as best speaker (joint with chrissie).

I'M SO HAPPY CUZ THIS HAS GIVEN ME SUCH A CONFIDENCE BOOST CUZ THE FIRST TIME I DID DEBATING IT WAS SO SO SO BAD BUT NOW I GOT BEST SPEAKER SO YAY MAYBE IM NOT THAT HORRIBLE AFTER ALL :B

after debating we walked out of the classroom, right? and SUDDENLY i see mildred and lizanne from intermediate and we're like OMG HAIIII and stuff to each other and then someone calls out "VICKY" and it's kelly kim standing on the other side of the coridoor and im like OMG HAIII! and then we walk out of the building and i see ma'ata who i've known since primary and we're like OMG HAIIIIIIIIII!!!

yup thats what happens within 2 minutes when you visit your old school (kinda though bcz i never actually went to mrgs but i went to mris which has all the same pple).

a post with gifs because i can't even describe the emotions i'm feeling.

BEST DAY EVER GUISE. SRSLY. BEST DAY.

oh, why? you may ask.
mainly because... I GOT MY LEARNERS LICENSE YEAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!

basically, i woke up (at 2pm, cough) and i check my phone and i see i have two texts: one about having a voicemail, and one text message from an unknown number that started off with 'hi your new...'. and i was like OMG THIS IS THE TEXT ABOUT THE GLASSES OMGOMGOMG. so i opened the text message but my phone completely froze because its shit as, so i took out the battery, put it back in and restarted it. and it froze again when i tried to open the message and i had to take out the battery and restart it LITERALLY 4 times, but i tried to be patient about it because i had a feeling that it was about me getting my glasses, so i was in a good mood. ANYWAY, i finally open the meessage, and sure enough, it was about my glasses being ready and i seriously freaked and was like

and ran out of my room yelling out to my mum that my glasses were done. she thought i said 'my eyes are healed' because in chinese, glasses and eyes are the same word, and done and healed are the same word, so she was like WTF?! and im like, no no i mean, the glasses glasses. but she wasnt as excited as me....

ANYWAY, this meant that once i got my glasses, i could immediately go get my learners license. my glasses only took 2 working days to make and send here all the way from sydney!!! AHHHH BLESS THAT RECEPTIONIST. SHE IS SERIOUSLY THE SWEETEST 'STRANGER' I HAVE EVER MET. she marked it as 'urgent' which is why i got it so early. srsly. just ...

 she asked me to go back and show her my license after i got it, but when i got it, their store was closed already :( 

so, i bought my L's from a $2 shop and i pleaded with my mum to let my drive since i had waited so long and didnt want to wait any longer, so we went to this carpark area that was beside a park near my old house for my first time at the wheel ever!! i remembered that place cuz when i was really little and my brother would babysit me, he would take mums car down there and drive recklessly around the carpark with no hands and dragging and shit. hahaha.

my first time at the wheel. oh my friggin god. 

so, i start the engine and im just like, so fucking happy that i'm gonna drive (no one ever told me that tonnes of people learn how to drive before they get their licenses!! WTF GUYS!!!) and my mum tells me to put my foot on the brake while i change the PRNDL and im like, k whattevs, and after i do it, i let go of the brake AND THE CAR STARTS MOTHERFUCKING MOVING AND IM JUST FREAKING OUT CUZ I WASNT EVEN PRESSING THE GAS OR WHATEVER and i slammed the brakes really hard and my mum like, lurched right into the dashboard ahahahhaha. 

i kept trying out the brake but everytime i did it, no matter how softly it was done, we'd still lurch a little in our seats and i was like OMGGGGGGG I SUCK AT DRIVING I CANT EVEN BRAAAKEE, but at the same time i was laughing my fucking ass off. seriously, it was the funniest experience ever. especially cuz i wasnt even pressing the gas pedal, i was just doing circuits around the carpark and like, turning the steering wheel right to the end and my mum was doing a mixture of freaking the fuck out and laughing at me cuz i was turning so hard that my arms were crossing over and she was like WTF ARE U DOING VICKY, and i'm like MA I'M DRIVING LOOK IM DRIVING!!! and there were like, 2 cars in the carpark and i was so worried about crashing into them. AND FUCK YOU JADE i soooo could drive in a straight line!!! 

i dont think i went over 5km/h cuz everytime i wud use the gas pedal i wud freak out from how fast i was going hahahahaha.

oh yeah and my glasses make me look extremely nerdy haha. not even chic-geek, just geek, haha, nor is it like 'sexy librarian', it's more like, plain old librarian sans the sexy. i would take a photo but im using my computer in the dark right now cuz im sposed to be asleep and the webcam doesnt pick up ANYTHING. might post a pic another day though.

another reason today was the best day ever was cuz of the release of the BREAKING DAWN HONEYMOON CLIP THAT WAS AT COMIC CON OMG GUYS.

okay, if you've ever been a crazy fangirl like me, you'd understand this, even if you're fandom is harry potter or whatever. so, the days after the breaking dawn panel at comic con, other (more obsessed) fans like me were hunting down the honeymoon clip that they showed, but NO ONE COULD FIND THE BLOODY THING because NO ONE UPLOADED IT! there was only a stupid audio recording of it which was even more torturous cuz u cud hear music and stuff but u had no idea why the audience was screaming/wolf whistling/awwing. anyway, meilin tells me to go check out her link on facebook, and i put it off cuz im on the phone with sueyeon and meilin doesnt do a very good job on convincing me to see her link, but eventually i go onto her profile,click on the link AND REALISE ITS THE CLIP!!! 

and i freak. the fuck. out. 

....and sueyeons still on the phone wondering why i'm screaming and freaking out. and this continued for like, a minute, until i calmed down to explain that its the breaking dawn clip and yada yada and shes just like "oh. okay." and im like >>;; hold up for a minute, i must watch this.

and tbh it was kinda anticlimatic looool. i'd already heard and read about what happened in the clip and the clip was very bad quality, but I WAS STILL VERY VERY HAPPY!!

and then we had lobster for dinner :B

i got shit pieces BUT STILL!

and cruel intentions was on tv :D

guys seriously.

best fucking day ever.

on a shittier note, i havent actually done any holiday homework. at all. none. zero. 

i tried to start on my personal reading response and opened word and a new document and shit, but then i got distracted by, well, the internet. and then later that night i was going thru all my windows and saw that doc window open and was like 

and i was actually gonna do it tonight in bed, but i got distracted by your mum  this blog post.

ILOVEEYOUUUGUYSSS!!!!

all of you made my birthday so special.

I FELT SO LOVED :B
but yeah, thanks! you guys rock. today was awesome cuz of all of you who gave me hugs, smiles, presents and birthday wishes.

i mean, it was embarrassing but, at the same time i ttly loved it hahaha. 

so... fifteen now. it sounds so old! gah.

wait, fail, i'm posting this on 6th of july instead of 5th cuz its after midnight (AHAHAH SEE WHAT I DID THERE). so technically, thanks for yesterday?


you guys make my insides goeey like marshmallows from smiling too hard. I LOVEE YOUUUU ALLLLL!!!

I have an urge to paint my walls black and get some fairy lights.

Insert witty title here.

Finished my soft tech tshirt today :)

Ignore the face, mmkay?
ommgggg i'm so proud of it. it's a little small for me though :/

We did secret santa today. I forgot to bring mine ><". Zoe got me this big tub of candy canes!! There was 100 in it, now there's only 18. gave them all away haha.

bitches all took my rainbow coloured ones :(

We made dresses out of toilet paper today in business studies. Our group won !! 

OUR DRESS :D

And then in english, we watched simpsons episodes. We're also watching 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' in social studies. hahahaha. I dont even see the point of going to school anymore cuz we're not even learning anything. 

Adventure day tomorrow! I'm so screwed. It's mountain biking and tree adventures. I picked it cuz of tree adventures and I figured that I'd be able to learn how to ride a bike in the holidays. Yeah... It didn't happen. I'm gonna die tmrw :(

Can't wait till school ends! I'm going to china on saturday! So excited!! It's my first time overseas since I was seven. I think I should start packing. Hmm.

INTAKE ONE

Kahunui intakes got announced today! I got out of my business studies exam (which I aced) and everyone was talking about it, so I checked my email and saw that i was in INTAKE ONE!!!! I'M SO HAPPY!! I'm  with Maria, Lizzi and Ling!! You should've seen us, we were screaming and jumping up and down and all that shit.
PLUS, IT'S SUNNY AND HOT DURING INTAKE ONE!!


The people in my intake (so far) are:
Kalisha B 

Rebecca C

Cerys C

Lizzi C

Maria D

Zavara F

Olivia H

Ariana H

Alex L

Hayon L

Madison L ‎

Ali M

Natalie M

Michaela R

Nadia S

Alex W

Vicky X (duh)

Sophie V W

Ling Z

Margie Z

OMG ITS GONNA BE SO EPIC :D

Btw, for people who read this blog and don't know what kahunui is, it's our year 10 camp in the bay of plenty that our school owns (YEAH, I KNOW RIGHT.) that we go on for a month without any technology and stuff. honestly, i don't know much about it apart from the fact that everyone who's gone says its awesome. 

OH, PLUS! I'm going to Shanghai these holidays!! You don't know how happy I am, cuz i've been begging my parents for us to go to China for SO LONG, and finally, we're going!!! I'm going the day after end of school, and come back the day before new years! AND EVEN BETTER, MARIA IS GOING TO SHANGHAI AS WELL!!! She goes at around christmas, so we've decided we're going to meet up in Shanghai and go SHOPPING !!! :DDDD

AND IM SO HAPPY I GET TO SEE MY GRANDMA AND AUNTIES AND COUSINS AND STUFF AGAIN!! AND SHOPPING!!! IM GONNA DO SO MUCH SHOPPING!!!!!

IM GOING TO EXPLODE WITH HAPPINESS ZOMG.