Walking Around

Today was an interesting day. We got to do reflux with actual chemicals today, watching condensation happen!! I was working with Daak and we didn't hear Mr Breckall (chemistry teacher) give us instructions and so we set up the equipment slightly wrong and Mr Breckall came over to us and then asked:
"Are any of you going to become a doctor?"

We both said no, and he replied
"Just as well...don't think I'd trust you guys with a knife! But then again I have a friend who's a *** surgeon (can't remember which type he said) who I went to high school with and he's one of the clumsiest people I know so its all good!"

I spent my free period catching up with Julie which was cool. I had just been looking through my Rangeview school magazines from back in 2000 and 2001 and man was everyone so small like little kids! If only I had taken a lot more photos back then! For those of you wondering why I've been taking so many photos this year, that's my reason. I should probably bring the video camera in once in a while so I can film some interesting stuff, like Jacqueline trying to talk with her lost voice, or Shiu Tai viciously stapling a ball of play dough!

I also came across Phoebe and her friend (I forgot her name...) at lunch who were putting up International Languages Week posters around the place, and so I just helped out with them. We still didn't get it finished by form period though so we went through form period and then...6th period came...so (feeling a little guilty here but I suppose it isn't too bad!) I skipped physics while Phoebe was allowed to skip Chinese class and we wandered around school putting up posters. She was a lot braver than me, managing to ask Mr Watson (tough maths teacher) if she could put up a poster in his classroom, and even climbed on top of a rubbish bin to put a poster on the wall while a teacher walked past! Fortunately he was just a PE teacher and they usually don't care about anything.

We finished by the end of school and walked to where her dad was parked outside the gate (scary!) and as I was walking along the road there an ambulance with flashing lights zoomed by! A few minutes later I saw another ambulance go by, with the driver looking very confused as he did a U-turn. Once my mum picked me up and we were going along the main road, I saw one of those little ambulance cars with flashing lights and sirens go in the direction towards our school! Hopefully something serious didn't go down there!

Leavers hoodies are being sold and apparently you can put a nickname of your choice on the back of it. While everyone else has nicknames, I've been struggling to think of anything that I've been called! I suppose there's been Cal and Calumino even though people don't call me that that often, but someone suggested C-MAN to me which sounds kinda cool (if you ignore the other word it sounds like!)

Needs

I got a lesson in applying for financial assistance scholarships today: EXAGGERATE EVERYTHING. I would share my sad soppy story but...I might do that later...

I made it to physics class on time today big YAY especially since it was first period as well. We got to play with some very expensive chemistry equipment today in chemistry, even though we only spent the whole period learning how to set it up. Favourite line from Mr Breckall (chemistry teacher):

"This looks like something from a P lab aye?"

The principal came to our Junior Council meeting today. Unfortunately the more talkative members didn't show up, but we still got a bit out of him. Looks like our school won't be getting a sports academy YET due to the lack of sports teams in the top grade, but who knows what might happen in ten years time...

The Chinese speech competition is coming up soon and I told the Chinese teacher I'd write my speech by Tuesday. Tuesday came and went, and then Wednesday has come and gone, and I still haven't written it! I can't think of anything to write! I've got unfinished business with this Korean girl from Lynfield College who has beaten me for the past two years, and would like to finish high school on a high by winning again! But...I shouldn't say that because whenever you say you want something to happen...the opposite happens. Just as an experiment I want a lunchtime free of any meetings tomorrow (Thursday). So far I think its free, but surely either something will pop up or I'll regain my lost memory and remember that I'm supposed to be doing something somewhere. Anyway let's see!

RANDOMS

Now here's an interesting thing I found on the Rate My Teachers website (off the top of my head, can't remember word to word):

Teacher's name: Callum Gay

Comment: Tries to crack jokes saying Callum IS gay, very weird teacher"

Sex Drugs and Rock n' Roll

We had this speaker as part of Amped4Life come to speak to us today during last period of school on making right choices in life. The speaker was some ex-druggie who had tried all sorts of drugs but had been clean for the past 12 years and turned his life around, with five kids. The really sad thing though is that he has Hepatitis and so he is dying. It's a real shame because he is a really great speaker and he is doing a service to the community. Just when he has everything right he'll have it all taken away from him...

Anyway he talked to us about thinking before we do DRUGS or ALCOHOL (hear that guys?) or HAVE SEX. After the talk I had this conversation with this guy which wasn't some of my finest work:

"Hey Calum, you keeping it in your pants?"
"Yip! You been keeping yours in your pants?"
"I will now!" [he points to this large mark on his neck]
"Oh did you get that from not keeping it in your pants?"
"Yeah"
"How'd you get that?"
"Not keeping it in my pants"
"Ooooooh.....(at this moment I was thinking it was some permanent disease or skin thing he got) You dumped your girlfriend for that?"
"Nooo!"
"Oh wait that's a bruise aye? So....what gave you that mark?"
"A vacuum cleaner"
"Your girlfriend whacked you with a vacuum cleaner?"
"No!"
"Oh did you...not keep it in your pants...with the vacuum cleaner?"
"No I was joking about the vacuum cleaner!"
"Oh so your girlfriend gave that to you?"
"YES!"
"You still with her?"
"YES!"
"WAIT! THAT'S A HICKEY!"
"YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!"

It's a shame to see some of your friends do a complete about turn and end up on the booze and the wackabacka but...what can you do? I suppose just hope that they one day click and realise it ain't good for them.

I've been trying to write a 500 word blurb on why I want to be a lawyer for this scholarship application form but it's turning out to be tricker than I first thought it would be!

"I want to make heaps and heaps of money"

One Line

Happy Chinese Valentine's Day!!
It's nearly over anyway...yet another day to celebrate love... Apparently the story behind Chinese Valentine's Day being on the 7th day of the 7th month of the Chinese Lunar year is that there was some girl and some guy forbi...cut a long story short they were only allowed to meet each other on the 7th day of the month of each Chinese Lunar year and so this has become Chinese Valentine's Day (I think?) and if it rains (which it did today!) then it means its the girl's tears (I think? I've most likely got the story wrong), probably tears of joy from getting to see her lover...yeah...

Anyway bad weather today just rainrainrain I originally thought I was going to get my Chinese speech assessment mark back but we ended up talking about that story above. String quartet wasn't so bad the teacher was nice again this week! I think it must be due to the absence of pressure...

Heaps of Yay

This weekend hasn't been too flash, just the ordinary teach music learn music watch the rugby go to church. I was meant to have a new student yesterday morning but she never showed up for the second weekend in a row! Last weekend they slept in but were adament they'd turn up this weekend. Oh well that made my teaching easier.

On Friday lunch the new principal got lunch for all of us prefects which was cool of him. He's not really bad and can be cool. It'll probably be a while after he asserts his authority on the school and so on and so on.

It was also mufti day on Friday. I was thinking about dressing up in a costume or something like that but maybe next time? I wasn't prepared! I just wore the same clothes I had been wearing all week, couldn't be bothered looking good (because I never do anyway).

We got our camera back from Dick Smith after it got repaired!!! Yay!! Watch out I can take photos again! (No don't! I need people to take photos of!) People have been teasing me all week about whether I'm going to take photos or not and I've had to tell them that the camera is being repaired!

I caught up with Zippo for the first time in a while. Even though she lives right next to me I hardly see her. Yay she got a job! Speaking of neighbours, we just got new neighbours (we have six neighbouring houses!). Today when we got home and came back up the driveway, we saw two girls sitting on the driveway - they're white and they're about...12 years old? So nope not for me.

Congratulations to:

- these two! (I haven't said anything!) Unlike a certain person this is true!
- Diane and Tim on their 6 month anniversary! Go them!
- me (shouldn't really be congratulating myself but anyway) for finding my wallet with my soon-to-be expired and hardly used AA card (tomorrow actually), soon-to-be-outdated coins worth $2.50 and yeah thats about it