Expo Excitement!

Today I only had two periods of class so I didn't have to bring a schoolbag! :D OK that wasn't the highlight of the day. The hightlight of theday was the Coke Careers Expo at the ASB Showgrounds. We went there for periods 2,3, and 4, which meant no stats and chem!! Period 5 was my free so that was even better! Everyone was really looking forward to it because they wanted free stuff! Well there was a lot of it, and a lot of display stands everywhere. Before I went in, Alex and I made a bet on who could collect the most pens, with $1 at stake!

I walked around and talked to all these people about all sorts of stuff. The most interesting must have been the film and animation schools + Natcoll (computer design etc) The whole 3D animation and video post-production thing sounds really interesting! I wish I was as artistic as some OTHER people I know! I think Aonghas would be interested in something to do with that, so I collected a bit of information for him.

There were a lot of competitions. I think I entered at least three draws for an Ipod, so fingers crossed I'm successful in at least one of those (unlikely!) There was this obstacle course competition thing the Institute of Sport was running, and when I walked past the guys were heckling me, calling the Rutherford College headboy to try beat the time! All I had to do was do 10 pushups, run along this ladder thing along the ground and then putt a golfball into the hole about two metres away. So I took on the challenge. It was really weird doing the push-ups, because while I was doing it, all these people started gathering around watching me, which felt really embarrassing! What was worse was when I got to the golf part. I hardly play golf, and I probably took at least 10 putts before I finally got it in the hole! The guys told me in the end that I didn't get the best time. Fair enough!

One of the exciting things to happen was this fight that nearly broke out! I was hovering around the Otago University stand, before I finally decided to grab one of their bags they had lying on a chair and sneak off with it. Without looking I walked into this big crowd. At first I thought some sort of show or competition was going on, like break-dancing or something, but instead there were these guys stepping each other and taking on each other. So the first thing I could think of...get the camera out hold it high up and TAKE PHOTOS!!! :D (they're in the photo album on my MSN space) OK not the smartest thing to do, but after a few photos I felt a little scared they might turn on me if they saw me taking photos of them so I started walking the opposite direction, and once I was away from that area I just watched from a distance as this policeman took one of the guys outside. They couldn't have picked the best possible place to start a fight - down the same aisle as the Police Recruitment stand!

In the end I lost the bet to Alex 5 pens to his 12. I did manage to get a free ruler, keyring torch, two necklace things and heaps of rubbish for the fireplace!

Tonight was really busy on MSN. My computer restarted for some reason and when I got back online after a few minutes a few people had gone, so I'm sorry to those people I wasn't ignoring you or blocking you!

Oh and by the way, check out The Western Leader, Thursday 10 August edition pg 17. Look who is in the picture ..its Kat!!!

Procrastinating

I've been procrastinating too much this week. Each day I tell myself to write that page on why I want to be a lawyer for that scholarship application form, and to get that Chinese speech done, but after two weeks I still haven't done it! Yesterday after school I was just sitting there on the computer with the speech open, staring at it and then thinking...hmm I'll just chat to a few friends to ask for their opinions. Five hours later, I've added nothing to the speech!

The Chinese speech competition is coming up next Saturday, and I still haven't really decided what to talk about. I can talk about anything in Chinese for 3 minutes. I've been tossing up between two topics: how to find a Chinese girlfriend, and being a Eurasian. I know nothing about finding a Chinese girlfriend (not much experience), and so I tried asking my female Asian friends. They told me you've got to be tall, rich, be able to drive, be ugly (so that the girl can feel good about herself, don't have to worry about competition, and can be the centre of attention) and remember every single anniversary. I might just write two speeches and then get the teacher to decide which is better.

I finally got to go back to Middlemore Hospital on Tuesday to get my braces fixed, as one of the brackets on my teeth had come out last week. It was early in the morning and there were all these South Aucklanders lining up to be treated. I thought that was where I was supposed to line up, so I just stood in the line. It turns out it was the pain relief clinic! I was supposed to be in the appointments line, which was non-existent! So I went in and got my braces fixed. They told me I needed to get my two teeth pulled out before my next check-up at Middlemore. After school I went to see Anthony Wong, my dentist, and told him I needed my wisdom teeth pulled out, but he told me that mine hadn't fully grown and that I'd need an operation to get them taken out. If Middlemore couldn't do it, then he'd have to refer me to a private hospital which could cost $3000 upwards!!! My dad didn't know about this, and we didn't tell him that night because we wanted him to sleep peacefully. Fortunately my mum told him the next day while I was at school. He rang up the hospital, and they told him I needed two other teeth pulled out, not my wisdom teeth, as they would do it as part of my operation next year. Anthony Wong said he could pull those two teeth out himself for about $200. At least that's a lot less than 3000!

After visiting Anthony Wong, I quickly rushed to the netball game to support Rutherford up against Long Bay. It was great to see so many students and teachers supporting our team! All the principals were there, a few deans and the PE teachers. Unfortunately we lost by about 7 goals, but I can't wait to support our school somewhere else now! (Yes now I'm getting TOO attached!)

This girl still thinks I like this girl even though I'm waaaay over her so yeah to that girl I'm over that other girl!

Tomorrow is Coke Careers Expo. That should be good. No stats, no chemistry, come back just in time for free period!

Weekend...Stuff

My new student finally showed up to recorder lessons yesterday. The class she was to join already had another student who was slightly ahead of her, and so it was a bit difficult juggling these two students who were at different levels. The girl's father sat with her during class and he was the sort of blokey bloke sort of guy. He kept telling his daughter

"LISTEN TO CALUM!"

I asked the girl to try blow into the recorder to make a sound, so she went
TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
I asked her to blow a little softer...
toooo.,...
A little more?
TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
A little less?
tooooo......

Her dad got a bit frustrated with her, grabbed the recorder off her and started trying himself. It looks like I'll be teaching both of them!

Today I went to an Auckland Symphony Orchestra concert. They were playing Mediterranean music, which included Turkish March, Zorba the Greek, Espani Cani and the Can Can. This 17-year-old girl Amalia Hall, an ex-Rangitoto College student performed a solo with the orchestra, playing La Campanella by Paganini. She's the same girl I went up against for a music scholarship back at intermediate school. She got the larger scholarship while I got the smaller one (yeah didn't play too great!) Funnily enough La Campanella is the tune I'm just about to learn for the NZ accordion champs next year!

I've had so much to do this weekend: a history essay, a paragraph on why I want to be a lawyer for this scholarship, a Chinese speech, study for a statistics test, and I had hoped to do it all on Saturday but I ended up wasting the day doing nothing so I've been rushing it all tonight. I was thinking about sitting history scholarship, which would require me to get an excellence in this essay. However I don't think that's likely though...so I think I might give scholarship history a pass...The teacher said you'd need to quit your job and take on a whole lot of extra reading for it as well, which I don't think I have enough time for.

One of my friends has found herself in a bit of a tricky situation regarding relationships, you know the whole is he or isn't he cheating on me thing and what to do about it, and it has actually made me realise how lucky I am to be single! WHATEVER!!! you may say, but you've got to look on the bright side!

Sweet Revenge

If you remember, Joon tricked me into believing he had a girlfriend a couple weeks ago, and then last weekend he tricked me again into believing he liked someone. I wasn't going to let him get away with this! So I thought... REVENGE!

 

I asked people around school to go up to Joon and pretend as if they knew who he liked, with the aim of eventually making him paranoid or something close to that. At first it didn't look as if it was going to work as I don't think anyone remembered, until this morning when Joon told me that he noticed a change in the atmosphere :D He told me that Jacqueline and Shen knew, and after physics he said Patrick and Sarena knew (I don't know what he thought they knew exactly). Anyway I was starting to get the desired effect! Joon accused me of spreading rumours and I denied having spread anything or telling anyone anything!

 

Eventually I decided to come clean, IF he agreed to let me take a photo of him with a sad face (just as evidence this happened ;) ). He agreed and I told him it was all an act and that I didn't tell anyone anything. Just what was it did he think I had told him??????

 

Anyway just to clear things up:

JOON DOESN'T LIKE ANYONE RIGHT NOW (so if you like him then you may have a chance!) 

 

I know it was a little mean, but hey all in good fun and I'd say we're about even now right Joon? ;)

 

Apart from that, during Chinese class we had to take Chinese teachers around our school on a tour. They were especially interested in our cooking room and took heaps of photos of the cooking class.

 

At interval I managed to take a few photos of people having a bit of a feed in the transition room just to remember that we used to eat in the transition room 30 years down the track, but for some funny reason Joon objected to me taking photos and chased me out hte room and down the school driveway! I was going to hide in the toilet but he gave up.

 

During my free period I had to help Noah (sports co-ord) and Mr Breckall (chemistry teacher) set up the projector and sound and everything for the presentation they were doing at Junior assembly on surfing, which was amusing as they mucked around with really tall ladders, freaking out over whether it was going to collapse or not.

 

Anyway tonight we had a surprise party for our aunty who turned 50 today. She managed to figure it out before she even stepped inside! The food was great but it was a shame because one of the things from my braces that's supposed to be glued to my tooth came off while I was in bed this morning so it has started hurting a bit, and I'm afraid of wrecking my braces even more!

Clarification

It's my aunty's birthday today so I'll explain more a little later on but just to clear things up JOON DOESN'T LIKE ANYONE. It was all just an act so that I could have revenge on him after he tricked me twice. I didn't spread any rumours either ;)