26/09/2013
it is 2:30am and i have choir tmrw lol this should be interesting...
I missed yesterday's post due to priorities (chem test, sleep) so I really didn't want to miss today as well!
Just as a thing for yesterday: I WENT TO WATCH WICKED (which was why I had no time to blog bcs I got home at 11 and needed to CRAM FOR CHEM) AND OH MY GOD IT WAS SO AMAZING PLEASE GO WATCH IT IF U HAVE $50 LYING AROUND, SERIOUSLY IT IS SO WORTH IT, I LOVED IT I LOVED IT I LOVED IT SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH IT WAS AMAZING
1. History shared lunch and watching anna karenina. A couple of us watched all through lunchtime (I cancelled my tutoring session for it hahaha) and since it was just us, we were shouting at the screen through the movie and oh my god there is this one bit where they're communicating through this game with blocks where you spell out the words from the first letters of each word in a sentence and it's just SO LONG. We were like "YOU COULDVE USED THE SCREENTIME FOR SOMETHING ELSE" and it was so funny and just went on forever and it ended with them spelling out "ILY" through the blocks and we just LOST OUR SHIT IT WAS SO FUNNY OH MY GOD I'M PRETTY SURE TOLSTOY DIDN'T WRITE ILY IN ANNA KARENINA AND IT WASN'T AN INTENTIONAL TEXT-SPEAK THING BUT THAT JUST MADE IT FUNNIER
also, mmf aaron johnson (despite the gross moustache and hair)
2. maths test results came back and it went pretty alright! Paper One was like... below my usual standards but considering i was expecting a total fail, I'm still quite happy with it. Really satisfied with Paper 2 hehe 23/26 (and the 3 marks were off things I completely had not encountered/did not know how to do previously so I'm alg with it because learning processes and all that)
3. I MADE A REALLY GOOD PUN IN ENGLISH TODAY OMFG. Ms Moy said she didn't like Keira knightley's films just because it's keira knightley and i was like "....so do you have a PREJUDICE against keira knightley?" and then i lost my shit (cerys' laugh was so funny omg) and ms moy looked so confused and i was like "pride and prejudice" and she was like ohhhhhh and just kinda put her head in her hands and everyne was like ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and i was so pleased with myself hehehe
extra #4: I managed to get up early today (6am is really fucking early for me) so that I could study for chem and it felt good to be up at that time!!! So much less stressful in the morning... Might start doing it more often next term me thinks
Friday, September 27, 2013
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
blossom (not the powerpuff girl)
23/09/2013
1. I had an orthodontist appointment in the morning and when I got to school, I had to go past the quad to get to the iona centre and there were CHERRY BLOSSOMS IN BLOOM and I was in such an odd mood what with being super sleep deprived but strung up on caffeine that I saw them and just started giggling to myself and couldn't stop grinning because I LOVE CHERRY BLOSSOMS!!! I must have been a strange sight.... I feel like today and yesterday have really made it clear that it is officially spring and I adore it, I really do.
2. SHIT BIO IS INTERESTING THESE DAYS!!! Doing pathogens right now. It was a little difficult to follow today because I was only half concentrating on the lesson because the other half of my focus was with me trying to BREATHE PROPERLY because I had a blocked/runny nose (from sneezing lol) and I didn't want to leave the room to blow it because I didn't want to miss vital new information. In retrospect, if I just took 2 minutes to go and sort it out I probably could have concentrated better hahaha, ah well.
3. I FUCKING WROTE OUT MY BIG SING BLOG POST (FINALLY) AND THE AMOUNT OF LACHIE RELATED FANGIRLING THAT I HAD IN MY DIARY PUT ME ON THE FUCKING FLOOR OH MY GOD IT'S SO HILARIOUSLY MORTIFYING I'M SO SORRY EVERYONE
1. I had an orthodontist appointment in the morning and when I got to school, I had to go past the quad to get to the iona centre and there were CHERRY BLOSSOMS IN BLOOM and I was in such an odd mood what with being super sleep deprived but strung up on caffeine that I saw them and just started giggling to myself and couldn't stop grinning because I LOVE CHERRY BLOSSOMS!!! I must have been a strange sight.... I feel like today and yesterday have really made it clear that it is officially spring and I adore it, I really do.
2. SHIT BIO IS INTERESTING THESE DAYS!!! Doing pathogens right now. It was a little difficult to follow today because I was only half concentrating on the lesson because the other half of my focus was with me trying to BREATHE PROPERLY because I had a blocked/runny nose (from sneezing lol) and I didn't want to leave the room to blow it because I didn't want to miss vital new information. In retrospect, if I just took 2 minutes to go and sort it out I probably could have concentrated better hahaha, ah well.
3. I FUCKING WROTE OUT MY BIG SING BLOG POST (FINALLY) AND THE AMOUNT OF LACHIE RELATED FANGIRLING THAT I HAD IN MY DIARY PUT ME ON THE FUCKING FLOOR OH MY GOD IT'S SO HILARIOUSLY MORTIFYING I'M SO SORRY EVERYONE
Monday, September 23, 2013
LINK: Big Sing Blog Post
I FINALLY WROTE OUT MY BIG SING BLOG POST! It took me two and a half hours.....
I've made it so that it's been dated at a time more close to the actual event, so here's the link, if you want to read it:
chapel chenanigans
22/09/2013
1. PRODUCTIVITY FUCK YEAH MOTHERFUCKER!!!! Well, sort of. I spent most the day pretty on task and did a lot of french vocab + maths study, but both of those take a shitload of time for me to actually do in comparison to other people, I've noticed.
2. Was meant to have chapel and meet with choir at 8:30 but I have become immune to my alarm clock and woke up at 9:10am from my mum knocking on my door and being like "ARENT U SUPPOSED TO BE SOMEWHERE THIS MORNING?" and I SCREAMED "OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and right at that moment, Cherry called me and was like "hey where are you" and I was like "I AM VERY FUCKING LATE APPARENTLY!!!!!". So I got ready rapid-fast, and while I was in the bathroom Calypso called me while I was in mid-pee and I panicked and had to deliberate whether it would be gross if I answered and decided that, uh, yeah probably. I came up with some bullshit excuse about being knocked out from medicine since I was sick (cough cough) just in case Flinty was being told information.
Then when I actually got to school, it was literally 3 minutes before chapel was about to start, and all the Saints girls were waiting outside as usual, and I RAN OUT OF MY CAR BEFORE IT EVEN FULLY STOPPED AND I WAS LIKE "SORRY SORRY SORRY OH MY GOD IM SO SORRY" and Flinty was laughing and I was super surprised because I totally expected her to be raging but she actually helped me out of my blazer and put my blazer away in the chapel for me and I was predominantly feeling the emotion of "AWWWWWWWWWWWW GB" but with hints of "she seems WAY too chill about all these incidents of me arriving SUPER late to things I think she's planning something... aka my death"
OH ALSO, at the morning tea after chapel, the all-powerful lynda came up to me and sophie and she asked what our plans for today were and I was like "well I have a maths test tomorrow so I'll be studying for that" and she was like oh you need to enjoy some of this wonderful weather and I was like mmkay will do and I asked her what she was doing for the rest of the day and had a brief moment of panic where I wondered if I overstepped my boundaries but then she was very willing to share how she had shittons of work from the board and how she was also renovating her house AND ALL THROUGH THIS SHE WAS VERY VERY CLOSE TO US. I think many teachers seriously do not understand the concept of personal space hahaha...
3. THE WEATHER WAS SO NICE AND WARM AND SUNNY AND BLUE-SKIED TODAY AND IT MADE ME SO HAPPY!!!!!!! I was doing my work with my window open and sun shining on my face and I even made a berry smoothie in the afternoon and IT FELT LIKE SUMMER!!!!!!!!!! And then the sunset made my room way too bright and hot and orange and I got sleepy and accidentally fell asleep for more than an hour, so that's probably where a lot of my study time went today!!
1. PRODUCTIVITY FUCK YEAH MOTHERFUCKER!!!! Well, sort of. I spent most the day pretty on task and did a lot of french vocab + maths study, but both of those take a shitload of time for me to actually do in comparison to other people, I've noticed.
2. Was meant to have chapel and meet with choir at 8:30 but I have become immune to my alarm clock and woke up at 9:10am from my mum knocking on my door and being like "ARENT U SUPPOSED TO BE SOMEWHERE THIS MORNING?" and I SCREAMED "OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and right at that moment, Cherry called me and was like "hey where are you" and I was like "I AM VERY FUCKING LATE APPARENTLY!!!!!". So I got ready rapid-fast, and while I was in the bathroom Calypso called me while I was in mid-pee and I panicked and had to deliberate whether it would be gross if I answered and decided that, uh, yeah probably. I came up with some bullshit excuse about being knocked out from medicine since I was sick (cough cough) just in case Flinty was being told information.
Then when I actually got to school, it was literally 3 minutes before chapel was about to start, and all the Saints girls were waiting outside as usual, and I RAN OUT OF MY CAR BEFORE IT EVEN FULLY STOPPED AND I WAS LIKE "SORRY SORRY SORRY OH MY GOD IM SO SORRY" and Flinty was laughing and I was super surprised because I totally expected her to be raging but she actually helped me out of my blazer and put my blazer away in the chapel for me and I was predominantly feeling the emotion of "AWWWWWWWWWWWW GB" but with hints of "she seems WAY too chill about all these incidents of me arriving SUPER late to things I think she's planning something... aka my death"
OH ALSO, at the morning tea after chapel, the all-powerful lynda came up to me and sophie and she asked what our plans for today were and I was like "well I have a maths test tomorrow so I'll be studying for that" and she was like oh you need to enjoy some of this wonderful weather and I was like mmkay will do and I asked her what she was doing for the rest of the day and had a brief moment of panic where I wondered if I overstepped my boundaries but then she was very willing to share how she had shittons of work from the board and how she was also renovating her house AND ALL THROUGH THIS SHE WAS VERY VERY CLOSE TO US. I think many teachers seriously do not understand the concept of personal space hahaha...
3. THE WEATHER WAS SO NICE AND WARM AND SUNNY AND BLUE-SKIED TODAY AND IT MADE ME SO HAPPY!!!!!!! I was doing my work with my window open and sun shining on my face and I even made a berry smoothie in the afternoon and IT FELT LIKE SUMMER!!!!!!!!!! And then the sunset made my room way too bright and hot and orange and I got sleepy and accidentally fell asleep for more than an hour, so that's probably where a lot of my study time went today!!
Sunday, September 22, 2013
maths making me its bitch
21/09/2013
waaah it's late! I have chapel tomorrow morning SIGH
1. took forever on a maths question and then FELT THE WONDERFUL SATISFACTION OF FIGURING IT OUT FINALLY AFTER HOURS AND HOURS YESSSSSS (I realised today that I take way too long doing maths questions woah). I have a test on Monday and really need to redeem myself after my last test result :S
2. i watched an episode of suits. donna is amazing and her sass are my GOALS
3. re-established conversation with a friend I haven't talked to in a while (well, not actually that long but I had been chatting them really frequently for a longggg time and hadn't for like, a week and felt bad over it)
extra 4:
waaah it's late! I have chapel tomorrow morning SIGH
1. took forever on a maths question and then FELT THE WONDERFUL SATISFACTION OF FIGURING IT OUT FINALLY AFTER HOURS AND HOURS YESSSSSS (I realised today that I take way too long doing maths questions woah). I have a test on Monday and really need to redeem myself after my last test result :S
2. i watched an episode of suits. donna is amazing and her sass are my GOALS
3. re-established conversation with a friend I haven't talked to in a while (well, not actually that long but I had been chatting them really frequently for a longggg time and hadn't for like, a week and felt bad over it)
Saturday, September 21, 2013
lapel ice
20/09/2013
*SCREAMS FROM FRUSTRATION* I actually already wrote this post last night at around 3am on my phone when I woke up (I fell asleep at 10 reading akutgawa-- party hard) BUT THEN I FORGOT TO SAVE THE POST AND THIS MORNING IT WAS GONE so I'm pretty pissed off hahaha
Bling bling for the blazer!!!! Mum and I arrived at the cultural honours thingy and found out through the programme/cathee that I had received three cultural honours awards! YAY! That may seem a bit odd if you don't know how cultural honours works but what happens is that we don't find out how many awards/what awards we get until the night of. I actually applied for four but missed out on getting debating because apparently you also need to have done service to the school (eg coach a team/adjudicate) which is fair enough I guess! So, I ended up receiving honours for Chinese Culture (for CDG), Music (for choir), and Drama (for shakespeare soiree). Funny thing that I didn't realise was that no other Year 12s got more than 2 cultural honours except for me, and the other people who got three honours were all year 13s so I'm pretty stoked/surprised. Only four people got quadruple honours and they were Brit, Pooja, Anty, and Sabrina. I'm in awe of how Pooja got five cultural honours last year in year 12!! CRAZY!!!!
When we first got there, I felt bad about leaving mum alone so I hung with her and we both stuffed our faces lol and then I ran into Nicole and her dad, and her dad and my mum were classmates so I was like HEY LOOK MUM, HERE IS A PERSON YOU MAY CONVERSE WITH and I ditched and hung out with friends. (I did however check up on her to see if she was suffering from social awkwardness/running out of things to discuss with Nicole's dad but mum was like IM FINE so I gapped again lol)
To start off the award presentation there were four performances. Samoan group (missing half their members and their drummer!), Ling and Cerys's dance (my mum thought it was incredible and I couldn't agree more), Mel's (Y13) monologue from Hamlet (mum later complained about how she couldn't understand anything she said and I was like mum, it's shakespeare, 90% of the audience didn't understand what she was saying don't worry), and a piano piece from Sylvia (MIND BLOWING OMFG).
*SCREAMS FROM FRUSTRATION* I actually already wrote this post last night at around 3am on my phone when I woke up (I fell asleep at 10 reading akutgawa-- party hard) BUT THEN I FORGOT TO SAVE THE POST AND THIS MORNING IT WAS GONE so I'm pretty pissed off hahaha
1. Cultural Honours
Bling bling for the blazer!!!! Mum and I arrived at the cultural honours thingy and found out through the programme/cathee that I had received three cultural honours awards! YAY! That may seem a bit odd if you don't know how cultural honours works but what happens is that we don't find out how many awards/what awards we get until the night of. I actually applied for four but missed out on getting debating because apparently you also need to have done service to the school (eg coach a team/adjudicate) which is fair enough I guess! So, I ended up receiving honours for Chinese Culture (for CDG), Music (for choir), and Drama (for shakespeare soiree). Funny thing that I didn't realise was that no other Year 12s got more than 2 cultural honours except for me, and the other people who got three honours were all year 13s so I'm pretty stoked/surprised. Only four people got quadruple honours and they were Brit, Pooja, Anty, and Sabrina. I'm in awe of how Pooja got five cultural honours last year in year 12!! CRAZY!!!!
When we first got there, I felt bad about leaving mum alone so I hung with her and we both stuffed our faces lol and then I ran into Nicole and her dad, and her dad and my mum were classmates so I was like HEY LOOK MUM, HERE IS A PERSON YOU MAY CONVERSE WITH and I ditched and hung out with friends. (I did however check up on her to see if she was suffering from social awkwardness/running out of things to discuss with Nicole's dad but mum was like IM FINE so I gapped again lol)
To start off the award presentation there were four performances. Samoan group (missing half their members and their drummer!), Ling and Cerys's dance (my mum thought it was incredible and I couldn't agree more), Mel's (Y13) monologue from Hamlet (mum later complained about how she couldn't understand anything she said and I was like mum, it's shakespeare, 90% of the audience didn't understand what she was saying don't worry), and a piano piece from Sylvia (MIND BLOWING OMFG).
2. I actually read Hell Screen and Spinning Gears I'm so proud of myself for finally getting it done omfg now I actually know what is going on in english class
3. idk TOK was pretty interesting I guess. TOK is nearly always interesting lol. Ms B told us about her life in South Africa and how someone can get desensitized to violence and I felt like a lot of it was super applicable to how I've been feeling about our history classes lately what with studying Stalin and hearing about how he approved the execution of around 3000 people all in one day. I JUST REALLY ENJOY LEARNING ABOUT HUMANITYYYYYYYY
Friday, September 20, 2013
tugging on my heart strings
19/09/2013
1. 20/20 in french vocab test can i get a hallelujah?!?!?!?! let's hope it carries on to next week's test...
2. bio dissection of heart and lungs. SO interesting this time around compared to the last time I did it in Year 9/10, because Mrs O did our first incision which meant we were actually able to see certain things in the heart instead of totally butchering it. Heart strings are such fantastic little things imo. I really love the heart, it's incredible.
3. history got really intense because we finished watching the stalin documentary and it was really depressing thinking about how many people he killed, and we were all getting really into comparing stalin with mao and hitler and wondering why stalin is barely ever seen to be more "evil" than hitler, and why mao is still to this day so openly celebrated in china, despite the part he played in killing off thousands and even millions of people. I just find the number of people Stalin sent to their gravesit pretty fucking unfathomable. Looking at those statistics disconnects us from actually thinking about the extent of the horrors and the individual human lives that were all lost. I know this isn't particularly positive, but from my perspective, I really enjoyed being in an environment where everyone was just as passionate and interested in the topic and where we could have an educated discussion and make links to try to understand these historical figures -- and if you want to get cheesy -- try to understand humanity better as well.
also, i got 15/16 for my history essay which is pretty good except I had high expectations to meet after my 17 from my first essay. sometimes i do feel like ms french marks low just to mark low, you know what I mean? But whatever, it's not like I worked particularly hard on the essay either way.
1. 20/20 in french vocab test can i get a hallelujah?!?!?!?! let's hope it carries on to next week's test...
2. bio dissection of heart and lungs. SO interesting this time around compared to the last time I did it in Year 9/10, because Mrs O did our first incision which meant we were actually able to see certain things in the heart instead of totally butchering it. Heart strings are such fantastic little things imo. I really love the heart, it's incredible.
3. history got really intense because we finished watching the stalin documentary and it was really depressing thinking about how many people he killed, and we were all getting really into comparing stalin with mao and hitler and wondering why stalin is barely ever seen to be more "evil" than hitler, and why mao is still to this day so openly celebrated in china, despite the part he played in killing off thousands and even millions of people. I just find the number of people Stalin sent to their gravesit pretty fucking unfathomable. Looking at those statistics disconnects us from actually thinking about the extent of the horrors and the individual human lives that were all lost. I know this isn't particularly positive, but from my perspective, I really enjoyed being in an environment where everyone was just as passionate and interested in the topic and where we could have an educated discussion and make links to try to understand these historical figures -- and if you want to get cheesy -- try to understand humanity better as well.
also, i got 15/16 for my history essay which is pretty good except I had high expectations to meet after my 17 from my first essay. sometimes i do feel like ms french marks low just to mark low, you know what I mean? But whatever, it's not like I worked particularly hard on the essay either way.
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