ANZAC Day

Only two days of school and we're off again. That isn't to say these past two days haven't been eventful. On Monday classes were in full swing. In classics we began an introduction to our next topic, Aristophanes. We'll be studying The Wasps staring tomorrow.
In English we've nearly completed King Lear and I handed in an extra essay on Citizen Kane. Don't call me a geek, it was one of those random things I do for no particular reason what so ever.
At lunchtime my Chamber group had our first ever full group practice for this new piece. And I must say it went incredibly well. We have one movement already under our belts and we haven't even had the piece for a week. Stunning progress and I must commend my fellow musicians, Tamaki (who is the angle right now, she's made some very quick work of the music), Tracey and Ella. I am so happy that this piece is working out.
We also practiced afterschool which raised some eyebrows but this is what must be done when you're group is composed of some many talented people who's presence is required in other areas of the school.

Also on Monday was the first half of my Stats Curved Modelling internal. On the first day, I know. We did the experiment and drew up our initial graph. The ancient pendulum oscillation one that I've done in physics countless times and yet I never seem to be able to get it right. Well, at least I got a distinct power curve and managed to write it all out in time. I'm not sure if I did it right; if I included all the points. It's hard to say how good we are at this when we haven't even gotten our marks back for the first assignment and so I think it's weird to give us another similar internal, how can we know where to improve? But yeah, we did it and now it's over so I can't really do much about it.

Tuesday I had a Committee meeting at recess and I was rather suprised at the turn out, it seems Tuesday is a good day for most. We have three events planned for this term so I really hope the school gets into them and we can have another successful term.

At formtime I completed my English essay and distracted Hayley and Allidya for a while from their Art History. After much procrastination, I got off my lazy ass and went to hand in my essay. So no, I didn't go to the tutorial but I will probably go next week.

After school we had badminton which was quite fun. We were playing other teams to see how good we are. Clearly we're not the best team *cough* we got kind of wasted by the second team we played. Omg they're so good. I was running around like some kind of mental person trying to return her shots. Not that I wasn't doing that before....*ahem*...but the other team was okay at least.
Ah no more C-Open from next week...so sad...my original badminton group are gone...*sigh* but at least I still have Tamsin and Joanna. It would have sucked so much if it was last year...when I didnt get along with my team.

Today though, on a more posititve note, I got my ball gown! From St Lukes with my mum. It was quite a good find and I like it very much ^^ So happy to have found one and not have to worry about shopping around anymore.

Skipping back a while to last Friday, my family and I went to Waiheke Island. While we were at the Sturges Rd trainstation we met with this totally random lady called Lily and her daughter Kaylynn. We started talking and found out that Lily and my mum both come from the same area of Ipoh in Malaysia and even went to the same school, though at different times. Such a small world.
Me and Kaylynn talked the whole way to Britomart, which was a long journey due to typical delays in the public transport systerm, and I've found she is quite a bright, bubbly personality. Changed schools a lot and done quite a bit of moving around, so I guess she's good at meeting new people and fitting into a different enviroment. So yeah, we're in contact now and her mother even dropped by our house yesterday as they were walking their dog! (They don't live far from us.)

My aim to play badminton on Saturday was once again thwarted and I was so disappointed. So I guess I should just stick to playing at school...
Sunday...hmm I didn't do much. Brought two books, A Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson and Whitethorn by Bryce Courtenay. Two pretty different books but they're supposed to be good and I'm trying to expand my horizons ^^"

I've been appealing to Ms Moller who says that she still isn't sure if there will be a flute part in the show band this year. It's so disheartening to think that there won't be. I've been involved in the Production since 3rd form and it's so sad that there is a possibility we won't be in our last ever production at AGGS. And this year the band are made up of all these good friends of mine. I hope things turn out better and we're needed though. It's extra work but I don't mind if it's something to do with music. Not usually anyway.

Well that's about all from me at the moment. I hope you all have a good day!