Future Plans

I got a letter in the mail from Middlemore Hospital today. I'm going to get braces next month! Even though I really want my jaw fixed it is kinda freaky because I don't know how I'm going to look with braces on, and what food I won't be able to eat afterwards... Anyway short-term loss for long-term gain I hope!

 

Anyway I got a new recorder student today. He's this 7-year-old boy and he started off really well today, being able to play three notes already! Now I've just got to make sure he keeps progressing well.

 

I had my first accordion lesson after the championships. I've got to decide on a whole new programme for next year's championships. My teacher wants me to enter the top NZ/South Pacific class next year (not that I'll stand a chance in it!) which means I'll have to have a 20 minute programme. He also suggested the Coupe Mondiale (World Championships) in Washington DC next August, as a way of getting some experience before the world champs come to NZ in 2009. I don't think we'll have enough money to be able to go to Washington though so I may not be going.

 

I caught up with my number one rival in the accordion just before my accordion lessons today and had a little talk with her, and it was her mum who appeared on ONE News that night when they did a report on Rangitoto College!

Stupid Me

ARGH I fell asleep in Chinese class AGAIN! I've got one more chance to finish my Chinese speech on Monday or else I'm stuffed. No more sitting at the back of the classroom!

I think I'm running my parents dry of money. I had to pay $15 for the Big Sing, $24 for the history trip, $25 for the Chinese trip, and next I'll need to buy my ball ticket for $80! I promise to pay my parents back for everything they've spent on me one day when I'm bringing in the money with my cool flash job :D ...wishful dreaming...

I'm a bit of a gumbie I told someone some stuff I shouldn't have (no displays of affection or anything) which will probably make me look like a retard to her, and that's why I don't say stuff like that!...Oh well I gotta do something stupid once in a while to make life more interesting for me.

Reports yesterday-mine was kinda OK but not too great, especially for Physics. I'm not properly in the physics class as I did the whole course last year, so I only need to come to class whenever I need to or whenever I'm bored (I guess..) but this term I've missed quite a few physics classes. Anyway my physics teacher's comment in my report was that I missed too many physics classes which led to a disappointing result in my physics test. Mum wasn't too happy with that.

But yay Nick's going to the ball and yay Joon might be going to the ball if he can find some money! If you have some spare change give it to Joon it'll help him out a lot. I've still got to buy my ball ticket, and ticket sales are open to yr 11s next week so yeah I gotta move quickly. Mr Langdon has been on my case about who I'm going to ask to the ball. Let's just make this clear I will not ask Hyun! (nothing personal Hyun but you know...it just wouldn't work out...) I'm more open-minded about going without a partner as I guess it's not too important...plus who is there to ask anyway?!

Screaming and Shouting

This afternoon after school we had the Chamber Music Contest. Our really strict string quartet expected us all to be at Epsom Girls Grammar by 4.30, but Aonghas, Hyun and Joon all had to go to their Young Enterprise oral presentation thing in Kelston first. I went there by myself with my parents when we got stuck in motorway traffic at about 4.15. I then got a phone call from Aonghas on the twins' phone, telling me they were just about to leave Kelston then!

I got to EGGS by 4.35 and met up with the teacher. I started warming up in the practice room while the teacher was starting to get more and more furious at how late the others were. Eventually it was 5 to 5pm, when we were supposed to perform and she was screaming and shouting at me about how they should've been here 15 minutes ago. Then I get a phone call from Joon telling me they've just gotten off the motorway and will soon arrive. The organisers fortunately moved us from no. 3 on the programme to last.

When they finally arrived Aonghas asked me if we brought his viola, but we thought he took it with him! So now we were short on an instrument! Fortunately (again) we were able to borrow a viola from EGGS.

We performed our piece on stage. The chairs were slightly higher than the ones in the practice room so I had to adjust that metal rod thing at the bottom of my cello on stage. I didn't tighten it up enough though, so throughout our performance my cello was slowly slipping and getting lower and lower! I was thinking come on finish before I fall over! Luckily we did.

I got back to find out my mum thought the teacher told her to record every performance (instead of just recording OUR performance), which meant by the time it was our performance she ran out of tape!

Next our trio (Josefia on flute, Catherine on piano and me on cello) performed in the 7pm session. That went a lot better, even though apparently my cello wasn't tuned properly (which both my teacher and the judges pointed out). I ended up sitting beside my teacher throughout the rest of the performances watching the others while my teacher commented on the performances to me. She kinda got nicer along the way though which wasn't too bad!

Just back to what happened at Bruce McLaren Intermediate with the Kelston girls, this is what one of the girls posted on her blog:

v r bein all nice,frndly n sugarcoaty bout our skool wen callum*hwever u spell it* n co wlk up 2 our table.so me bein me introduce myself n den guess wat hppnz????

me:hi,im aneesya,katz frnd.

him:ur da gurl dat all da guyz r crazy bout???

DUDE NOT EVEN A HI!

me:umm..ahem..i guess so (confusd but hyper luk on my face whle mel n tonez laugh dere headz off)

him:hi itz nice 2 finally meet u..so is it u??

me:hi (click 2 katz blog entriez) yep itz da 1 n onli me!(putin on my smirky face)

so v end up chatin n i wlk out wif his #!! dn't ask me hw dude lol
(http://kelstonchick.blogspot.com)

I'm sure I said hi first! Anyway chemistry homework to finish off and try to get to bed earlier than ever this week...gotta get to school on time for once. I'll talk bout my school report tomorrow...:S

*Cough Cough*

Most of today was ordinary for me. I've got a Chinese speech assessment on where I have to first write up the Chinese speech in class. I was sitting right at the back of the class supposed to be working on it but kinda fell asleep a little bit...I do that a lot these days don't I? I need to get to sleep earlier!

Us head students (except Joanne) went to Bruce McLaren Intermediate School last night to promote our school alongside other West Auckland high schools. I'd have to say we were probably one of the best looking schools there, even with our makeshift blazers (me wearing my dad's, while Hyun and Patrick wearing the twin's ball jackets).

I met my cousin Graeme promoting his high school Henderson High, and we had a little joke about each other's school. I was going to get a photo of him with me but the camera battery died on me!

A staff member from each school had to give a little 5 minute speech about their school before the exploring resumed. Towards the end when all the people started leaving I thought I'd have a look at the other school stands. Green Bay...Kelston Boys...hmm Kelston Girls... Surprisingly the deputy head girl asked me if my name was Calum! I said it was and she said she had heard about me from Kat and Ayesha (who goes to and who went to Kelston Girls respectively). I started talking to Aneesha (I think that's her name) and the two other girls Melissa and Antonio (or some other name like that) about all this stuff like their ball and guys blablabla when they saw Hyun walk by, and we all know what everyone thinks about Joon and his ball partner last year don't we? So they started interrogating Hyun on why he isn't going to the ball this year. He wouldn't tell me the REAL reason (must be something really embarrassing if he doesn't want to tell!) but he was prepared to tell the girls, so I let him to it. Afterwards when he left I sneaked back to the girls to see if I could try get them to tell me. They whispered 'I think he likes..." and asked me for my number and they'd talk to me more some later as they had to go.

So yeah that was interesting...apparently Hyun didn't tell them the REAL reason, but we'll see what they got out of him...

Not Right

We were learning about cyclohexane and adding bromine to it in chemistry class yesterday. Mr Breckall our chemistry teacher was warning us about the dangers of cyclohexane being non-polar and all this. At the end of class though he nearly dropped a container or beaker of the stuff but me managed to catch it. Unfortunately it splashed on his face and got in his eyes! Man he sounded really worried! He was checking with the science technician what sort of symptoms he should look out for. He then announced to the class

"I was going to give back to you your test marks but I want to be serious when I do it and right now I'm just too de... I'll give them to you tomorrow"

But he ended up just giving the results back to us. I felt a bit bad for him. I wanted to see him after school just to check if he was OK because in class we were all joking and laughing about things. I think someone even joked he was going to turn into a cyclohexane monster!

Anyway later in that evening the group of us went back to Smales Farm for another session to listen to speakers talk about their technologically-based careers and companies. We were also told which companies we are going to learn more about by spending a day there. I'm going to go check out AJ Park, some patent and legal advisor firm I think. There's only one other Asian girl from Westlake Girls going as well so maybe I might be able to make a new friend! Hyun, Joon, Sarena and a few others are all going to some BioTech place while Shen got stuck with Healtheries, and so he was going on all evening about how he had to learn how minerals were made.

Alex owes me 50c after making a bet that Joon would fall asleep during at least one of the presentations when he didn't! Actually Hyun fell asleep (like I knew he would!) and I ...nearly...dozed off during one of them... Thank goodness for the Subway food they gave us!