Fitting Farewell

Nooo not for me but for the year 13 students at their farewell dinner last night! And while they were doing that, Aonghas and I were continuing to work on their DVD which we had been working on all night right till then. Their leavers dinner started at 7pm and we still hadn't gotten it onto DVD as we were having problems with our computer so we ended up having to just bring a hard drive along with a laptop to their dinner to play a few videos for them.

Earlier that day we rushed over to Auckland University to do some photocopying for the DVD case covers (one photocopier ended up running out of paper...after one or two copies while the other photocopy was close to running out of ink!) and as soon as we had done so no one would realise we nearly used up all the ink! Due to greater-than-expected demand we had to buy some more DVD's.

We rushed home to start printing DVD's and fixing up the DVD files but isn't it annoying when your computer is running at nearly full-speed and keeps freezing, and then the hard drive runs out of space? We're probably going to have to upgrade again sometime soon.

We were trying to hold Chen off while getting the files onto DVD until Chen told us to just get there as soon as possible. We spent a little time driving around North Shore before we spotted Chen at the end of one road waving to us. We got to the place to be greeted by Mr Sizer, the dean and Mr Moore the principal. While the others were dancing on the dance floor, Aonghas and I got started setting up the equipment, only to find the cable connecting the laptop to the projector was missing! It was looking grim until the DJ said he could try contact a friend who may have a cable. Aonghas and Chen went off to pick up the cable while I stayed behind to look after the equipment and try work out the password to get into Aonghas's laptop!

Once Aonghas got back it was full steam ahead. Soon everyone was seated and we presented to them a few of the videos we had produced. Thank goodness it was well-received! After that Aonghas and I just spent the night on the sidelines talking to a few people and watching the other people enjoy themselves while filming them (well it's THEIR night anyway!). When midnight came, everyone left the building and got into the double-decker bus waiting for them while we went back to our car. We followed the bus almost all of the way home!

When we got home I was so hungry but I was so tired after not having slept the night before (I had been falling asleep in the car on the way to uni too!) that I just fell asleep on the couch! I woke up a little while later to properly get ready for bed. I ended up oversleeping and waking up at midday the next day, but that sleep felt pretty good!

So now we've just been doing more testing of the DVD to make sure it is as perfect as it can be before we pass them on to the school to hand out to students by this Friday.