There were several highlights of church today:
- It was the communion which meant the sermon was shorter
- Angie showed up
- Sunday school was shorter
- We had pies for lunch!
After the service Angie and I went into the Sunday school room and sat down when this other girl in our class came over and sat next to me. I stared at her for several minutes before I clicked and finally realised who she was! I then turned to Angie and whispered that I had forgotten the girl's name, and when Angie told me her name was Nancy, Nancy must have heard and scolded me for forgetting her name! I tried to assure her it was a memory block! I've had one of those at least three times now, having forgotten this other guy's name, my teacher's name and now Nancy's!.
After Sunday school we had to rush off to drop Aonghas off at work at West City. I decided to go top up my bus pass so that I wouldn't be in a rush the next time I need to catch the bus, so I wandered all the way to the dairy beside the bus stop. Along the way to the toilet (my detour) I saw Angie and Phoebe in the food court but didn't say hi to them as I thought I better not say anything to them, especially to Phoebe who hasn't been talking to me for some reason lately! I saw Angie with Howdle (Natasha right?) on Thursday night when I was sitting in that same seat in the food court eating my fries but I decided against calling out to them as I had splattered tomato sauce all over the table!
Anyway after going to the toilet I went to the dairy to find a sign on the window saying
"Sorry, be back in 10 minutes Thanx!"
So I waited for a while before deciding to head back to West City to catch up with my mum and my brother Hamish. After a while I decided to walk back with Hamish to see if the dairy owners were back. It was still closed, so Hamish and I just stood outside the dairy waiting when guess who comes along to the bus stop! Phoebe, Angie and a couple others I think...I don't know if they saw me or not but they didn't say anything to me and I didn't say anything to them. After half an hour Hamish and I agreed that the shop was closed on a Sunday (we should have reached that conclusion a whole lot earlier!) and headed back.
I've been watching the movie Hitch on TV tonight which has been interesting. A few things I picked up on:
- if the girl is fiddling with something it means she wants to kiss you
- when you go in for the kiss go in 90% of the way
- I can't remember the rest...I should have recorded the movie! Then again I've got to remember that it is all in TV land and may not necessarily work in the real world!
Monday, 9 July 2007
Sunday, 8 July 2007
Which is it
I was invited to the city on Friday night to hang out with a group of old school friends to farewell Heather, our Head Girl of 2006 and friend of many years who is leaving for Christchurch! We were all going to hang out at some club...or bar...(I've never been before) late at night until early in the morning. That is until my mum barred me from going! Her reasons:
- the city is dangerous at night and I might get involved or mixed up with the wrong people
- the weather was bad
- no transport home (OK fair enough, the next bus home would have been at 6am but I could've shared a taxi with someone!)
After a week of begging my mum to let me go and say goodbye to Heather one last time, she still refused to let me go, right up till Friday night! So there went my first opportunity to find out what this whole clubbing thing is all about...maybe next time...
To make up for this...slightly I guess..., the next day I went to the movies to watch Fantastic Four with Shirley, this Korean girl from Rutherford. Originally her friend Jieun was going to come and Aonghas was also going to come, but then they both had to go do other things, so it was just me and Shirley.
Once again, I was late! I was waiting for Aonghas as he was planning on coming with me, but then at the last minute he thought he better attend his friend's get-together because he felt bad for her. I was supposed to meet up with Shirley at 1.30pm but she was late as well as she was walking to West City too, so we both ended up meeting each other at 2pm.
Fantastic Four wasn't too bad, and that has nothing to do with the fact Jessica Alba is in it! It was one of those usual superhero movies full of action and everything which was good.
Once the movie was over we went over to the foodcourt to talk a little bit before we went on a search through the shops for something Shirley needed. We then went to (out of all places) Whitcoulls to sit and have a chat about...stuff! We then walked home in light rain!
By the time I got home Aonghas told me my mum had gone out to look for me (she had been working all day and my dad told her that I had gone down to West City to do some shopping...). That was a little scary as I was expecting my mum to come home in a rage, but if only she had a cellphone so I could contact her and let her know! Well it turns out she went down to West City with Hamish to buy him some shoes.
My mum was tired by the time she got home and in no mood to cook, so the onus was on me to feed the family! I had to use the very little knowledge of cooking I had to whip up a little something special - toast, rice with soya sauce and pie! I also boiled some eggs but because they took nearly half an hour to boil for some reason I never got round to eating them. The verdict...my rice tasted good but I put too much soya sauce on it! I ended up being the last person at the table still eating my dinner slowly as it tasted horrible!
- the city is dangerous at night and I might get involved or mixed up with the wrong people
- the weather was bad
- no transport home (OK fair enough, the next bus home would have been at 6am but I could've shared a taxi with someone!)
After a week of begging my mum to let me go and say goodbye to Heather one last time, she still refused to let me go, right up till Friday night! So there went my first opportunity to find out what this whole clubbing thing is all about...maybe next time...
To make up for this...slightly I guess..., the next day I went to the movies to watch Fantastic Four with Shirley, this Korean girl from Rutherford. Originally her friend Jieun was going to come and Aonghas was also going to come, but then they both had to go do other things, so it was just me and Shirley.
Once again, I was late! I was waiting for Aonghas as he was planning on coming with me, but then at the last minute he thought he better attend his friend's get-together because he felt bad for her. I was supposed to meet up with Shirley at 1.30pm but she was late as well as she was walking to West City too, so we both ended up meeting each other at 2pm.
Fantastic Four wasn't too bad, and that has nothing to do with the fact Jessica Alba is in it! It was one of those usual superhero movies full of action and everything which was good.
Once the movie was over we went over to the foodcourt to talk a little bit before we went on a search through the shops for something Shirley needed. We then went to (out of all places) Whitcoulls to sit and have a chat about...stuff! We then walked home in light rain!
By the time I got home Aonghas told me my mum had gone out to look for me (she had been working all day and my dad told her that I had gone down to West City to do some shopping...). That was a little scary as I was expecting my mum to come home in a rage, but if only she had a cellphone so I could contact her and let her know! Well it turns out she went down to West City with Hamish to buy him some shoes.
My mum was tired by the time she got home and in no mood to cook, so the onus was on me to feed the family! I had to use the very little knowledge of cooking I had to whip up a little something special - toast, rice with soya sauce and pie! I also boiled some eggs but because they took nearly half an hour to boil for some reason I never got round to eating them. The verdict...my rice tasted good but I put too much soya sauce on it! I ended up being the last person at the table still eating my dinner slowly as it tasted horrible!
Saturday, 7 July 2007
Evil Kids
No seriously they are cool kids, most of the time! The eldest boy-hating girl (who I thought we were making progress with) has a bit of evil in her though! I've been looking after her and her younger brothers on Wednesday and Friday during the holidays.
Wednesday wasn't too bad. After I asked the girl if she was an emo (the other girl I was looking after the week before told me she thought she was!), she started telling me all these embarrassing stories about the girl to get back at her which were amusing. The younger boys got restless pretty quickly though and so we tried putting on a few videos such as 'Bert and Ernie's Greatest Hits' on for them, but they quickly lost interest. The two boys seemed to fight with each other quite a lot! But as they say, boys will be boys!
Despite having thought we had made some progress with the girl at the end of last week, Wednesday and Friday showed otherwise! She seemed really...don't know how to describe it but maybe these following scenarios might help...
Upon discovering that next Friday is Friday the 13th, I asked the girl if she ever had bad luck on Friday the 13th. She initially said she didn't believe in it, but then corrected herself:
"Oh actually, next Friday will be bad luck because I'll be stuck with you guys!"
After lunch I saw her looking at her watch and jokingly asked if she was counting down the hours till it was time for her to leave, and she said
"YEAH"
On Friday she was telling me about her friend who had come over a while ago for a barbeque that I was also at, and told me that when her friend was about to leave, her friend told her
(Referring to us) "U G L Y"
I was playing her in Monopoly on Wednesday, and things seemed to be getting better, but then again I suppose that's just because she was winning for once and I was >$21,000 in debt. On Friday we had a rematch, and it looked like it was going well for me at the beginning, but once again she managed to build hotels and she took all my money.
While I was entertaining the younger boys as well as preventing them from chucking things around the place and breaking any more things around the house such as the beloved TV, I let the girl use my laptop so she could check her Bebo profile (she refuses to add Aonghas and me!) I forgot that I was automatically logged in and so she got in and changed my profile, saying that I loved some 8 year old girl! To make things worse she looked for all the people online at the time and posted comments on their profiles telling them to check out my profile! I had a few weird reactions!
She also created a quiz with some really weird questions and asked people to do it. Some questions were like
- Am I gay?
- Am I hairy?
Fortunately those who knew me (unlike her friends!!) voted NO to both of those questions!
As soon as she went home I had to clear everything up!
When she finished causing mayhem with my Bebo profile, she joined me with the boys who were playing with the Pokemon cards (I made up a game! ;) ) Aonghas and Hamish had just come home from the doctors but were still sleeping in the car, so the girl suggested we go wake them up! I thought...no harm in that! So we went outside and surprised them, but it turned out to be a bad idea as Aonghas had an operation on his toes and so he was in quite a bit of pain. The sleeping was helping him forget about it! So I took most of the blame for that!
So now it's time for my revenge! I know her weakness is that she's scared of snails and slugs....here we come Friday the 13th! :D
Wednesday wasn't too bad. After I asked the girl if she was an emo (the other girl I was looking after the week before told me she thought she was!), she started telling me all these embarrassing stories about the girl to get back at her which were amusing. The younger boys got restless pretty quickly though and so we tried putting on a few videos such as 'Bert and Ernie's Greatest Hits' on for them, but they quickly lost interest. The two boys seemed to fight with each other quite a lot! But as they say, boys will be boys!
Despite having thought we had made some progress with the girl at the end of last week, Wednesday and Friday showed otherwise! She seemed really...don't know how to describe it but maybe these following scenarios might help...
Upon discovering that next Friday is Friday the 13th, I asked the girl if she ever had bad luck on Friday the 13th. She initially said she didn't believe in it, but then corrected herself:
"Oh actually, next Friday will be bad luck because I'll be stuck with you guys!"
After lunch I saw her looking at her watch and jokingly asked if she was counting down the hours till it was time for her to leave, and she said
"YEAH"
On Friday she was telling me about her friend who had come over a while ago for a barbeque that I was also at, and told me that when her friend was about to leave, her friend told her
(Referring to us) "U G L Y"
I was playing her in Monopoly on Wednesday, and things seemed to be getting better, but then again I suppose that's just because she was winning for once and I was >$21,000 in debt. On Friday we had a rematch, and it looked like it was going well for me at the beginning, but once again she managed to build hotels and she took all my money.
While I was entertaining the younger boys as well as preventing them from chucking things around the place and breaking any more things around the house such as the beloved TV, I let the girl use my laptop so she could check her Bebo profile (she refuses to add Aonghas and me!) I forgot that I was automatically logged in and so she got in and changed my profile, saying that I loved some 8 year old girl! To make things worse she looked for all the people online at the time and posted comments on their profiles telling them to check out my profile! I had a few weird reactions!
She also created a quiz with some really weird questions and asked people to do it. Some questions were like
- Am I gay?
- Am I hairy?
Fortunately those who knew me (unlike her friends!!) voted NO to both of those questions!
As soon as she went home I had to clear everything up!
When she finished causing mayhem with my Bebo profile, she joined me with the boys who were playing with the Pokemon cards (I made up a game! ;) ) Aonghas and Hamish had just come home from the doctors but were still sleeping in the car, so the girl suggested we go wake them up! I thought...no harm in that! So we went outside and surprised them, but it turned out to be a bad idea as Aonghas had an operation on his toes and so he was in quite a bit of pain. The sleeping was helping him forget about it! So I took most of the blame for that!
So now it's time for my revenge! I know her weakness is that she's scared of snails and slugs....here we come Friday the 13th! :D
Sunday, 1 July 2007
Crazy Kids!
What is it with kids and hitting older guys in the balls? Do they enjoy watching grown people fall to the ground in pain?? For the past two days I've had this problem with one particular child who's been attacking me in that region! Fortunately the littlest boy has been defending me (I haven't been using him as a human shield though...honestly!) I also got kicked in the face while trying to help the girl do cartwheels. I was supposed to catch her legs in the air but missed and it went straight in my face!
The last few days haven't been too bad with the kids. On Friday the Eurasian girl wagged school because she didn't feel like going to school on the last day so I had to try entertain both her and the little boy for most of the day until I went to Mr Jameson's farewell assembly. That's when they packed a sad because they wanted to go visit the neighbour's dog in the garage but my mum told them they'd have to wait for me to get back.
When we got home though (two hours longer than expected!) all the kids were there, and we were talking quite a lot to the eldest girl, so I guess you could consider that mission complete!
While it's a bit sad the kids have gone, some of them are coming back for the next two Wednesdays and Fridays, so we'll get to look after them again then (that's a good thing I think...). I think they're missing me already! Just have a look at some of their comments:
hahahahaha for u i wil never be crying because i will never ever miss u hahahahahahaha so same on u cry baby hahahahahhahhahahhah
see u never calum cry baby cry baby cry baby cry 
:0:0:0:0:0
and
I am bored and I hate Calum
Awwwwww how nice!
The last few days haven't been too bad with the kids. On Friday the Eurasian girl wagged school because she didn't feel like going to school on the last day so I had to try entertain both her and the little boy for most of the day until I went to Mr Jameson's farewell assembly. That's when they packed a sad because they wanted to go visit the neighbour's dog in the garage but my mum told them they'd have to wait for me to get back.
When we got home though (two hours longer than expected!) all the kids were there, and we were talking quite a lot to the eldest girl, so I guess you could consider that mission complete!
While it's a bit sad the kids have gone, some of them are coming back for the next two Wednesdays and Fridays, so we'll get to look after them again then (that's a good thing I think...). I think they're missing me already! Just have a look at some of their comments:
hahahahaha for u i wil never be crying because i will never ever miss u hahahahahahaha so same on u cry baby hahahahahhahhahahhah
see u never calum cry baby cry baby cry baby cry :0:0:0:0:0 and
I am bored and I hate Calum
Awwwwww how nice!
Farewell Mr Jameson!!
Friday marked an end of an era - Mr Jameson, principal of Rangeview Intermediate School retired! It's amazing how he was the longest serving principal in New Zealand before he retired! The assembly was held in their big new gym. Aonghas was part of the group representing Rutherford so he sat with those guys in the corner, while Hamish and I went upstairs to watch and my dad was somewhere down below.
The farewell assembly was pretty standard Rangeview stuff, starting off with the national anthem followed by prayers in both English and Maori. The rest of the programme consisted of school singing, orchestra, choir and kapa haka. The head students were wearing the new Rangeview blazers which look flash! It was also announced that the new garden at Rangeview with a sundial would be in Mr Jameson's memory. It's amazing how things are developing at Rangeview!
The assembly ended with Mr Jameson giving a speech. I was wondering if he was going to cry, but of course him being his staunch self he didn't in the end.
As soon as the assembly was over I rushed over to the Rutherford students to take a photo before going over to the basketball courts where everyone gathered for a final goodbye to Mr Jameson who was standing above on the staffroom balcony. As soon as everyone left we rushed over to Miss Rai's (the music teacher) classroom to catch up with her. On the way I caught up with my old yr 7 teacher Mrs Beaguely who still recognised me! She had kept up-to-date with all her past students' successes!
We then met up with Miss Rai in her classroom. We had a bit of a talk. Just as we were leaving we went past one wall with photos and newspaper clippings of current and past students and was surprised she still has the newspaper clipping and photo of me when I was back at Rangeview! Before leaving she also introduced us to the new principal of Rangeview who somehow recognised us as well!
We were on our way out when we walked past the hall where a function seemed to be taking place. We wanted to say goodbye to Mr Jameson so we were looking through the door to see if we could spot him when we were invited to come inside and have something to eat.
It was just lucky we were asked to come inside too! I caught up with an old intermediate school friend Kelsey (the receptionist's daughter too!), and a few other teachers as well. There was heaps of food there, and by the end of it we were given a whole plate of scones to take home!
The farewell assembly was pretty sad but it turned out to be a good catch-up and a walk through the old Rangeview memories!
The farewell assembly was pretty standard Rangeview stuff, starting off with the national anthem followed by prayers in both English and Maori. The rest of the programme consisted of school singing, orchestra, choir and kapa haka. The head students were wearing the new Rangeview blazers which look flash! It was also announced that the new garden at Rangeview with a sundial would be in Mr Jameson's memory. It's amazing how things are developing at Rangeview!
The assembly ended with Mr Jameson giving a speech. I was wondering if he was going to cry, but of course him being his staunch self he didn't in the end.
As soon as the assembly was over I rushed over to the Rutherford students to take a photo before going over to the basketball courts where everyone gathered for a final goodbye to Mr Jameson who was standing above on the staffroom balcony. As soon as everyone left we rushed over to Miss Rai's (the music teacher) classroom to catch up with her. On the way I caught up with my old yr 7 teacher Mrs Beaguely who still recognised me! She had kept up-to-date with all her past students' successes!
We then met up with Miss Rai in her classroom. We had a bit of a talk. Just as we were leaving we went past one wall with photos and newspaper clippings of current and past students and was surprised she still has the newspaper clipping and photo of me when I was back at Rangeview! Before leaving she also introduced us to the new principal of Rangeview who somehow recognised us as well!
We were on our way out when we walked past the hall where a function seemed to be taking place. We wanted to say goodbye to Mr Jameson so we were looking through the door to see if we could spot him when we were invited to come inside and have something to eat.
It was just lucky we were asked to come inside too! I caught up with an old intermediate school friend Kelsey (the receptionist's daughter too!), and a few other teachers as well. There was heaps of food there, and by the end of it we were given a whole plate of scones to take home!
The farewell assembly was pretty sad but it turned out to be a good catch-up and a walk through the old Rangeview memories!
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