holidays

I’ve finished school for this year. Yay!!

Finally I can focus on what’s really important – sleeping in til nine and swimming near constantly in the pool.

Although after school finished, I had to work that afternoon, eight hours the next day and then go into school for the next Monday and Tuesday. But whatever. I’m on holidays NOW!!!!!!!!!

Well. I’ve done it.

I have done all my tests and stuff for this term. All I have left now is my English assignment and PE assignment, both of which I’ve almost done.

Yay!

So. Not all that much has been happening lately. I’m really looking forward to the holidays (especially now that I have my buy one, get one free movie coupon – long story, I’ll explain in a second) as always. The weather has been so shoddy lately, and demonstrating just how useless out school guttering really is.

But, the movie coupon. This term, my school has decided to splash out and give all the students who got straight – A’s (that’s me. Yeah, shut up, I know) a little prize, to say good on ya, keep doing whatever it is you happen to be doing. So they posted out to all of us a two for one movie coupon and a nice letter saying congratulations. So that’s all very nice. I’m not trying to bag it out or anything, but isn’t it interesting that in a letter congratulating students on their academic excellence, they have six spelling mistakes, a grammatical error and half of it doesn’t even make sense. They offered us their congratluatoins and (my personal favorite) misspelled the name of the school. In the letterhead.

Hello people! Spell-check is just a click away. And these are the people who are supposed to be educating us.

Interesting thing though, I showed it to my friend who then showed it to our English teacher who asked if he could borrow it, so I don’t even have it anymore. L

Well, never loose your passion for learning. (Yeah, they wrote that too – without the Well at the front.)

Okay, I’m going to go now…

Toodles.

Hi,

In honour of the last two weeks of the school year when only the year eight’s and nine’s are left at my school, and the teachers divide your grades turnout of about sixty students out of a possible hundred and fifty into two groups, stick you into a computer room and pretend to supervise you, I have complied the following list:

Things to do in class when you’re so bored you start to write letters to imaginary people.

1. Actually write letters to imaginary people.
2. Find as many internet IQ tests as you can and challenge your friends.
3. Colour a bit of paper, shred the ends, wind it around your pen, sticky tape it in place and decorate. Have a fashion parade and/or beauty pagent with your friends and their pen friends.
4. Have a Mr. Squiggle, noughts and crosses, hangman and SOS tournament with as many people as you can rope in.
5. Ask your teacher if you can write on the white/black board.
6. Write ‘a is for apple, b is for banana etc…’ with your bad hand.
7. List as many song lyrics as you can think of.
8. Arm/thumb wrestle
9. Check your email.
10. Plan all the fabulous things you’ll do once you’re on holidays, for six glorious weeks.

The only ones I actually did was the noughts and crosses, hangman, arm wrestles, check my email and plan my holidays.

But whatever. I’m on holidays now, so that’s all that matters. So far all I’ve done is get totally waterlogged and hang out at my friends place. Mind you, I have been cleaning my room, so that makes me feel a bit like I’m actually getting something done. It really needed a good clean though, because I haven’t dusted for about four months and all my junk was starting to get piled up on my desk. I really hope Mum doesn’t read this.

It’s been the nicest day on the Gold Coast. I’m actually starting to believe the saying thing: beautiful one day, perfect the next. Although yesterday was nicer than today, on account on the whole clouds pouring in in the afternoon. Dad and I drove past the beach earlier, and it looked absolutely gorgeous. So about an hour ago, we went for a swim.

I’m going to go jump in the pool, so bye.