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Hello

Not much has been going on over here. Same old, same old. Except of course that in Japan same old, same old is a lot more interesting than it is in Australia. )

So. Weve just come off the school holidays. They’re majorly short, only 6 days. Which sounds especially bad when you compare it to the two weeks my (Aussie) schools just had. Which admittedly I wasnt able to partake in, but whatever.

I have now officially seen my first movie in a Japanese cinema. It was ‘The Lake House’ and thankfully in English, with Japanese subtitles. Hallelujah. LOL.

The cinema was really different than the ones in Australia .

The screen was heaps smaller and there weren’t nearly as many chairs in the cinema. And the drinks were actually pretty cheap.

I had a melon softdrink, which is the single greatest soft drink on the face of the planet. Except perhaps Sarsaparilla, but only when its made with the syrup.

And we did those really cool little Japanese photo thingys, pikura maybe? That was really scary the first time, cause the coloured backdrop came down and hit me on the noggin and it was all really fast. They look really cool though.

Except for one, where I’m pulling the most awful face out and looking like a total spaz, even though I really didnt mean to. But of course they HAD to print that one. But whatever.

Okay, should be going now.

Sayonara!

Laura

Hello

School’s back, finally. I was getting so bored on the holidays. Anyway. I’ve got the best term: English, Maths, Science, SOSE, Home Economics and Japanese. Yayness!

We’re doing healthy cooking for Home Economics, which is actually sounding really yummy. Next week I’m making Vegetable Parcels with Yoghurt Sauce. Yum… Science sounds like it’s going to be really hard. I haven’t done chemisty since term one last year so you can imagine how much I can (or can’t) remember. LOL. Plus my teacher had to give us this big long speech on how difficult this unit is and how we can’t expect to just sit there and bludge all term. I’m scared. Very scared.

Ooh. Yesturday an American study group came to our school and I was one girl’s buddy. They were all from California. We had an “Aussie Lingo” lesson with them, where they were taught such terms as ‘dunny’, ‘bun in the oven’, ‘ankle biters’ and, my personal favourite, ‘nick off’. I didn’t realise nick off was a particularly Australian term. But there you go. There’s another group coming on Monday, which I’m looking forward to.

On the holidays I saw ‘Cars’. I know this is really sad, cause it’s a little person movie, but… it was sooo good. I loved it, it was hilarious!! I think I’d have to put it into the Toy Story category for goodness. Which is only a short distance below the ‘Shrek 1 & 2’ category. But nothing else will EVER make it into that category. Even though I can’t sit through Shrek 1 anymore. I think I ovedosed on it a couple of years ago (so what if I can practically recite the entire thing??) so now it’s like with pumpkin. Apparently that was virtually all mum used to feed me when I was little and now I can’t stand the stuff. Except that with ‘Shrek’, deep down inside, I still love it.

Sad huh?

Running out of things to say…

Bye.

I haven’t posted anything for a bit, so I’ve decided to make random lists about nothing in particular. Here goes:

Things that bug me

1. When old people call me Lauren. Or young people too for that matter.

2. When people call me Blondie. Hello, I have a NAME.

3. When the great storm the news people have been predicting turns out to be wussy.

4. When I’m at the end of a really good mystery (Go Nancy Drew) and JUST BEFORE we find out who dunnit the book ENDS, because the last chapter had fallen out.

Things I suck at

1. Diving. I’ve been trying to learn, but it hurts!!!

2. Catching stuff. This is only really a problem in PE, because other than that, my friends know I’ll just drop it, so they don’t throw things to me. But PE you sort of have to catch it.

3. Anything Manual Art-sy. I swear the sander thingy is out to get me.

4. Drawing. Scratch that, anything artistic. In all my almost 15 years on this earth, I have only produced one piece of art work I am not in the least ashamed of. I’m the girl, who, when she’s in art class trying to make a teapot out of clay, the teacher (admittedly very nicely, but still) suggests I might like to make an abstract, half collapsed looking teapot on purpose, because the whole nicely modeled thing wasn’t really working out for me.

I’ve seen loads of movies lately, so I figured I may as well talk about them

Movies I’ve seen lately and whether I thought they were good or bad:

1. Pride and Prejudice The recent one that is, with Kiera Knightly. Really good. Now I want to see that five hour BBC one. 7/10

2. A Cinderella Story I’ve seen it before but I just got the DVD. Love it. The ultimate fairy tale. What more can you say. 9/10

3. Chicken Little Surprisingly funny. Worth the movie ticket, though it’d be better on DVD, so you don’t get running commentary from the little kids surrounding you. It’s kinda sad though, at the start with the whole ‘My dad is totally embarrassed to have a kid like me because of the whole the sky is falling incident.’ But still totally cute. 7 ¾ /10

4. Ice Princess I only saw this yesterday, but it was pretty good. It’s worth seeing if only for the skating. 7/10
5. Pirates of the Caribbean Okay, granted, I’ve only seen a little bit, but it looks really cool. 4/10 (to be revised after I’ve seen more than just the first ten minutes)

6. Fun with Dick and Jane Pretty average. It reminded me a bit of The Italian Job with the whole your supposed to go for the baddies except there was no awesome car chase. Just to reinforce something to someone, the seating was entirely coincidental. So get over it. 6/10

7. The Lion King In an attempt to stop my friends going on about my deprived upbringing, because I hadn’t seen this film, I rented it and it was SO GOOD. I love the opening bit. So amazing. Also it helped me to understand a friends play I saw while in Japan. Like I know that it was Mofassa or something that got killed with a light saber. In the play, not the film. 9 ¾ /10

8. The Perfect Man I got this out because it looked good, but it wasn’t really all that great. It reminded me of New York Minute with the Olsen twins because it was just so totally unrealistic. Still it had it’s moments. 6/10
9. Harry Potter 4 Cool. Really cool. But it sucked that they had to cut so much out. They should do a long version, with all the good bits from the book in there, like P&P. 9 ½ /10

Books I’ve read lately and whether I thought they were good or bad

1. Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews. Really sick. That’s one woman with a twisted mind. The basis for this book (and it’s sequels) is incest (brother and sister for the most part) and locking children in an attic for four years to get an inheritance. Add some rat poison, freakishly religious grandparents, betrayal, revenge, a few fatal house fires and a restored mansion, and you have some traumatized kids and a scarily fixating book.

2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin. Really good. I loved it. As far as chick flicks go, well sorry A Cinderella Story.

3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I’ve only read a few chapters, but it’s not really that exciting. Shame I’ve gotta read it for school next term. Here’s to hoping it picks up.

4. Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown. Why anyone even bothered to make this into a movie I’ll never know. I loved the movie and Elle and even Bruiser, but honestly, in this book, Elle is a major cow who seems to think she’s superior to every one else. The only reason she does well is because of class notes her secret admirer (why does he like her? She once went out of her way to totally mortify him) leaves her. Crap book, fantabulous movie. Go figure.

5. Blue by Sue Mayfield. It’s a really sad book about a girl (Anna) who tries to kill herself because of the popular girl (Hayley) bullying her. It’s interesting though, because you jump between Anna’s mum at the hospital reading her journal and Mel, Anna’s friend who’s torn between Hayley and Anna, telling the story from her perspective. So Anna’s getting her stomach pumped at the hospital and next chapter she’s playing tennis with Hayley. Anyway, it’s really good.

I can’t think of any other books I’ve read lately, so I might go now.

Bye bye.