Unexpected Drop-by

Yep that's Shen and me in front of the clothesline that we broke while playing basketball

Food, Soccer No Study

This weekend hasn't been too bad. On Saturday I taught my recorder classes in the morning. I was talking to them all about how I was looking for another part-time job, when one of them said

"How old are you?"

I told them I was 16 and the girl replied

"You look old! "

I asked how old and she said

"umm...about eighteen!"

That made me feel old! Anyway after that I had accordion lessons and then it was off to my aunty's surprise 50th birthday party! It wasn't much of a surprise because she noticed that food was missing from the fridge in the morning so she suspected something was up. There was heaps of food there, and I ended up eating too much. My cousins once again got hold of our phone and texted some random friends, but we did the same to them!

Today church was shorter because instead of Sunday school there was just an Annual General Meeting which we didn't stay around for. We got home and later on Shen came over and hung around to play a bit of basketball and talk a little! Thank goodness he let me know my fly was down before anyone else noticed! I'm sure I didn't go through church like that though... Before he went off he gave me a little drive down the road and back. He looks a lot more mature and grown up behind the wheel!

At the party last night our cousins invited us to come with them to play indoor soccer with them today too so they came over and picked us up. The team we played for consisted of all of our cousins so it was pretty much an Anderson/Brens team. Unfortunately we lost 0-6, and because my shorts were held up with a safety pin which came off halfway during the game, I had to run around holding my shorts up!

When we got home we found our mum sick because she had eaten unproperly cooked chicken that was leftover from the party the night before, so we thought we would try cook dinner ourselves! Unfortunately us guys in the household didn't know how to use a rice-cooker or the stove, so thankfully Zippo came to the rescue and helped cook the dinner for us (we helped around too!). I'm pleased to say I'm still alive and on the record the food did taste good! (baked beans, egg, mixed veges and rice)

I really should've been studying though...

The Wait is Nearly Over

Another week is over, with 18 days to go before externals! Today I was told though that we will find out who will become head/deputy head boy/girl for 2006 this Monday, so that will be nerve wracking!

Today we did an electrolysis experiment for chemistry which involved CuSO4. I spent a lot of time cleaning the metals and ended up getting the smell all over my hand which I couldn't get rid of for a loong time! The blue CuSO4 got on my hands too which made my fingernails blue and I spent a lot of interval trying to scrub my fingers but the blue colour wouldn't come off! An interesting thing happened in chemistry today too...Sarena fell for on Hyun (or was it Joon?) hmm.......;)

I applied at a couple of places for another part-time job and so far have received one response from McDonalds:

"Thank you we will contact you when we have a suitable position available"

So I'll be waiting! (It probably was an automated reply!)

Labour Weekend Labour

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSICA (for Monday)

 

Sorry I didn't get round to posting earlier! I don't want to embarrass Jessica but she's probably one of my main rivals at the accordion (and often she comes out on top!) and is definitely a future accordion champ!

 

Labour weekend was full of hard labour...in terms of studying. I was originally going to use the weekend to get a few English essays planned but I didn't get round to doing them because I couldn't think of anything, so at least I managed to memorise colour changes of Oxidation-Reduction reactions. I have an exciting life! :D

 

The recorder classes I taught on Saturday morning were probably the most exhausting they've been in a while, even though maybe less than half of my students turned up because of Labour weekend! I had one student who brought along her friends and kept talking (funnily enough her birthday is on the same day as Sarena's!) and was impatient for class to finish probably so she could go off with her friends to play.

I'm also starting to feel the pressure to get the students to put on a good show for the end of year music school performance where all the classes of different musical instruments perform a few pieces. I want my students to look good so it doesn't reflect badly on them or myself and so parents will know their kids learnt something this year! I've also got to decide which students to give certain awards to, which will be difficult because I don't like choosing a few over the other!

 

Anyway the Monday off school was a deserving break from school no matter how short it was. Today I brought a watch to school which was good because I didn't have to keep asking Hyun for the time during calculus and I could determine it myself during physics! Now I've just got to work out a way to determine the date!

Englishache

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARENA!!

 

Today was another one of those days. I got caught out in biology class because I wasn't able to answer a question - I had done the wrong thing for homework and so I tried making up the answer on the spot but it didn't work out! Fortunately I have an understanding biology teacher!

 

We got our marks back for our English monologue assessment today) the one I dressed up as a roadworker for). I only got merit :S Prior to the performance I had asked the English teacher if it was OK that I didn't move around too much in my monologue since I was a roadworker who had to control traffic, and so obviously I'd have to stand beside my imaginary road and keep an eye on traffic. Despite missing a few lines in my monologue, it wasn't the reason I got merit - it was because I didn't move around enough and make more of my voice or something like that! Say one thing and change your mind later...They encourage us not to go over-the-top and I agree as when you're acting you're trying to act as if what is going on is real, but these English teachers most probably wanted us to exaggerate everything in order to get excellence which I don't quite understand. . Thank goodness I won't have to be subject to this subjectedness next year! If the Calum Curse has come back to haunt me it's a pretty bad time to!