this week was pretty meh...nothing really sticks out as much as other weeks O__o
err, day 1 was...lawn bowls and golf :] OMG the night before, erika got a new number and texted me, then someone else texted me saying that i start at lawn bowls tomorrow...i assumed both of the new numbers were erika but NOOOO =__= i HAD to respond to one of them saying that i was "effing itchy" (censored version) =____________= i hardly swear, especially in texts...unless i really mean it...and i HAD TO SEND IT TO THE TEACHER. gahh. oh well, its pretty funny now :] anyways, lawn bowls. yesss. amanda and i won the tournament and we get some prize on presentation night :D :D the kid who was helping out at the lawn bowls place was what, 14 (he looked 10) and seemed like such a wannaberebel from what i heard :P mate, you cant be a rebel if you're a lawn bowls champ, seriously :P the weather was WAYY hot, and by the time we went to play golf, i guess we were all dead. Including the bird that ms scott hit with a golf ball. ahahah. RIP birdy <3 towards the end, only a few of us were still into it :P i was juggling golf balls and trying to live up to dads expectations. the latter one didnt work out :]
day 2 was LOTE day, we listed the countries we're from and languages we speak at home and then took off for a book store to tick of the books we could find with those nationalities in them. which took about 10 minutes. hahahaha. then we browsed some cute jap stores <3 which i love, and then the most random of all O__o we went to the food section in david jones and the grocery store on victoria st to compare prices. how is that lote related? just cause victoria st is asian =__= ahahha. then we ate lunch at a viet restaurant...which is basically eating what we eat at home =__=
day 3 was theatre day and we all got dressed up for it :P we toured the arts centre (WHICH IS BEAUTIFUL) and watched The Madwoman of Chaillot starring Magda Szubanski. most people were bored by the play, but i really liked it :] had to concentrate to understand it, but its basically about these guys who wanna dig up paris for oil, and the "madwoman" and her friends put up a fight and eventually err...shun all the bad people in a hole under her house LOL. the best part of the play was when magda was feeling sick and had to go offstage randomly (okay, so thats not the best part) and had to leave the cast improvising (THATS the best part)...they're all like "OHHH she thinks she can do whatever she wants just cause shes been on TV" and "IM SUING MY CONTRACTOR" blahblha hahahahah. thats entertainment ;] after the show some of us wanted autographs and stuck around at the stage door, but i left cause nothing was happening...and we missed 4 of the actors cause we couldnt recognise them without makeup and costume =___=
day 4 was random, all we did was listen to a guy talk about homelessness (which made me feel guilty for having a home) and do a self guided heritage walk of melbourne O__o didn't like that day much...can't really remember what happened :P
the final day of the melbourne part of urban was going to the australian electorate commission (CAUSE TODAY IS VOTIN DAY...EVERYONE SHOULD VOTE FOR JOHN HOWARD :D :D) and do the same thing as we did in year 6...then we made our way to como house and toured that place. it was AMAZING. the house looked pretty big, but you assumed it was smaller when you actually went in. then you realise theres upstairs, downstairs, around the house, balcony etcetc. the scariest part was when the phone in one room suddenly started ringing (i think i activated the sensor =__=) and the music that was playing in another room...as if the house wasnt haunted looking enough :P ooh and i had a shot at the ancient piano that was in one room...i thought i was gonna break it =__= the stuff in the house is worth millions, stuffed birds and all. after the tour, we played croquet!! ahahahha, its such a cool game..pretty hard at first too :P aand after we were dismissed, we went with sam to get her volleys :] and viv w likes to touch my ass.
thats all :D sydney on monday, WOO
xo
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Sunday, November 18, 2007
urban week 3
OH MY GOD.
camp was so. much. fun. SERIOUSLY! IT WAS EVEN WORTH MY 68 MOZZIE BITES :D
okay so we trained to benalla, bussed to yarrawonga and got into our groups. i was in the massive fob group + brooke and julia, and our leaders were neil and tracey :] aand our teacher was ms balston :D once we repacked our packs and all that, we hit the canoes and paddled 7 or 8kms to our first camping spot...took us around 2 and a half hours (we sucked that day haha) and i partnered with erika and irene (cause jae felt sick and swapped partners). we set up camp and had a pretty crap first night, cause we got there a bit late, i had a gigantuan blood nose and my arms were killing and all that. but it was good fun :D
day 2 was our tough day (blood nose again), we decided to paddle the hard yard on day 2 rather than day 4, so it was 25kms that day =___= i partnered with sam, attempted steering and nearly died, so we switched places :] we got to camp a bit earlier than the previous day (we werent cleaning til it was pitch black) and played a bit of footy in the water, and buried erika in the sand :P i was dead by night time, we played some uno and slept :]
DAY 3 WAS THE BEST!!! we decided to get up early and skip breakfast so we could beat the heat, but that plan backfired a bit. we got on the water half an hour later than we wanted (canoed with julia this time), but either way it worked out well. the flies were insane, but we got to camp at lunch time and chilled out for the rest of the day. sam and i had woman issues :P but we uhm, found our way around that (ROFL) and WENT FOR A SWIM :D :D :D we went blobbing in the water (RIML RIML), played more footy and then we had to go onto land and do some group games. one game was to silently and blindly organise the whole group into height order (we did pretty good, except jae was in the short end for some reason), one game called knights, princes and cavaliers (viv and sam won) and the last game where we had to have a skipping rope moving constantly and a person in the rope all the time :] hard to explain, but we had erika/viv (and a bit of leah and me) skipping in the rope all the time, while people ran through. we got there in about 40 minutes HAHA. and we played bang :D finally. haha, and erika won that most of the time :P then at night we did a tribal gathering and got told the story of redbeard and his eyepatch. you're meant to cover your left eye through the story, then at the end, turn into the darkness and switch eye, the switch back...but it didnt work, everything just went blurry for me :P we had 5 minutes silent time staring at the stars (there are so many satellites moving around all the time) and then we decided that it was the perfect night for sleeping out. sam, brooke, leah, erika, juls, amanda and i decided to get out our mats and the tarp and camp out, but sam and brooke moved back into the tent cause of the bugs :P aside from the bugs i slept the best that night, except i woke up in the morning with 40+ mozzie bites, mostly on my ankle =_____= it was actually worth it though :]
day 4 was pretty easy too, i paddled with viv (i thought we teamed pretty good :]) and she makes the boat rock every time she paddles cause shes short. LOL. we got to camp at a decent time AND THIS CAMPSITE HAD A DROP TOILET. so i got to do a shit :] and it was the best drop toilet ever, bugless and smelt like nothing. we played a singing game where we got into 2 teams and got given a word and had to take it in turns to sing a part of a song with that word in it. our team (SKIN PROBLEMS!) lost 5 to 4 (to TEAM SEXY TEAM lmfao) but it was heaps fun anyway :D we played a canoe game...kinda. all we had to do was cram everyone onto 1 canoe (some people didnt join in, so we got like 11 people on) then we flipped it over and tried to jump on top. juls and i (and i think brooke) went under it too, where the air bubble is on top of the water :D that was weird, ahhaa. then sam, erika, juls, brooke and i went blobbing for the final time :[ we seriously could blob to cobram, haha. then at night, we had 30 minute reflection time, where i gathered my mozzie bite count to 68 :] dropped off to sleep for the final time at camp :[
next day we had to clean EVERYTHING and hopefully beat the other groups!!!! (we were in the lead)...but as we were about to hit the water, they rafted by >=[ it was only 2 or 3 kms to go, and erika and lisa stole our canoe, so we took the one next to it, but got kicked out cause it was the teachers canoe =___= so we got kicked allllll the way to the end where all the spikey plants were. so we were pissed. but anyway, we got to cobram in like, less than half an hour, cleaned out the canoes (ROCL ROCL), unloaded the group gear and borrowed gear and ate our final lunch :[ had a group photo, goodbyed and thanked neil and tracey and boarded the 4hr bus trip back home :D which was really sad, but happy at the same time :]
as soon as we arrived, i made mum go to the pharmacy to get cream and dettol for my mozzie bites, which are currently really swollen. i think im allergic =/ my ankles feel bruised, i have like 20 on my left ankle and random rashes from sunscreen or something =___= thats the only thing i can really complain about, but like i said it was really worth it :D i personally feel sorry for min and vic who didnt come, but min obviously doenst give a shit that she missed out on so much (SUCKS TO BE HER...ROFL!!) next week is golf/lawn bowls, community service, LOTE day, arts centre and suburb day i believe :D
then
SYDNEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xo
camp was so. much. fun. SERIOUSLY! IT WAS EVEN WORTH MY 68 MOZZIE BITES :D
okay so we trained to benalla, bussed to yarrawonga and got into our groups. i was in the massive fob group + brooke and julia, and our leaders were neil and tracey :] aand our teacher was ms balston :D once we repacked our packs and all that, we hit the canoes and paddled 7 or 8kms to our first camping spot...took us around 2 and a half hours (we sucked that day haha) and i partnered with erika and irene (cause jae felt sick and swapped partners). we set up camp and had a pretty crap first night, cause we got there a bit late, i had a gigantuan blood nose and my arms were killing and all that. but it was good fun :D
day 2 was our tough day (blood nose again), we decided to paddle the hard yard on day 2 rather than day 4, so it was 25kms that day =___= i partnered with sam, attempted steering and nearly died, so we switched places :] we got to camp a bit earlier than the previous day (we werent cleaning til it was pitch black) and played a bit of footy in the water, and buried erika in the sand :P i was dead by night time, we played some uno and slept :]
DAY 3 WAS THE BEST!!! we decided to get up early and skip breakfast so we could beat the heat, but that plan backfired a bit. we got on the water half an hour later than we wanted (canoed with julia this time), but either way it worked out well. the flies were insane, but we got to camp at lunch time and chilled out for the rest of the day. sam and i had woman issues :P but we uhm, found our way around that (ROFL) and WENT FOR A SWIM :D :D :D we went blobbing in the water (RIML RIML), played more footy and then we had to go onto land and do some group games. one game was to silently and blindly organise the whole group into height order (we did pretty good, except jae was in the short end for some reason), one game called knights, princes and cavaliers (viv and sam won) and the last game where we had to have a skipping rope moving constantly and a person in the rope all the time :] hard to explain, but we had erika/viv (and a bit of leah and me) skipping in the rope all the time, while people ran through. we got there in about 40 minutes HAHA. and we played bang :D finally. haha, and erika won that most of the time :P then at night we did a tribal gathering and got told the story of redbeard and his eyepatch. you're meant to cover your left eye through the story, then at the end, turn into the darkness and switch eye, the switch back...but it didnt work, everything just went blurry for me :P we had 5 minutes silent time staring at the stars (there are so many satellites moving around all the time) and then we decided that it was the perfect night for sleeping out. sam, brooke, leah, erika, juls, amanda and i decided to get out our mats and the tarp and camp out, but sam and brooke moved back into the tent cause of the bugs :P aside from the bugs i slept the best that night, except i woke up in the morning with 40+ mozzie bites, mostly on my ankle =_____= it was actually worth it though :]
day 4 was pretty easy too, i paddled with viv (i thought we teamed pretty good :]) and she makes the boat rock every time she paddles cause shes short. LOL. we got to camp at a decent time AND THIS CAMPSITE HAD A DROP TOILET. so i got to do a shit :] and it was the best drop toilet ever, bugless and smelt like nothing. we played a singing game where we got into 2 teams and got given a word and had to take it in turns to sing a part of a song with that word in it. our team (SKIN PROBLEMS!) lost 5 to 4 (to TEAM SEXY TEAM lmfao) but it was heaps fun anyway :D we played a canoe game...kinda. all we had to do was cram everyone onto 1 canoe (some people didnt join in, so we got like 11 people on) then we flipped it over and tried to jump on top. juls and i (and i think brooke) went under it too, where the air bubble is on top of the water :D that was weird, ahhaa. then sam, erika, juls, brooke and i went blobbing for the final time :[ we seriously could blob to cobram, haha. then at night, we had 30 minute reflection time, where i gathered my mozzie bite count to 68 :] dropped off to sleep for the final time at camp :[
next day we had to clean EVERYTHING and hopefully beat the other groups!!!! (we were in the lead)...but as we were about to hit the water, they rafted by >=[ it was only 2 or 3 kms to go, and erika and lisa stole our canoe, so we took the one next to it, but got kicked out cause it was the teachers canoe =___= so we got kicked allllll the way to the end where all the spikey plants were. so we were pissed. but anyway, we got to cobram in like, less than half an hour, cleaned out the canoes (ROCL ROCL), unloaded the group gear and borrowed gear and ate our final lunch :[ had a group photo, goodbyed and thanked neil and tracey and boarded the 4hr bus trip back home :D which was really sad, but happy at the same time :]
as soon as we arrived, i made mum go to the pharmacy to get cream and dettol for my mozzie bites, which are currently really swollen. i think im allergic =/ my ankles feel bruised, i have like 20 on my left ankle and random rashes from sunscreen or something =___= thats the only thing i can really complain about, but like i said it was really worth it :D i personally feel sorry for min and vic who didnt come, but min obviously doenst give a shit that she missed out on so much (SUCKS TO BE HER...ROFL!!) next week is golf/lawn bowls, community service, LOTE day, arts centre and suburb day i believe :D
then
SYDNEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xo
Sunday, November 11, 2007
urban week 2
urban's almost half gone :[ week 2 was only 3 days long, which is completely stupid. we shouldn't get weekends and public holidays off...its unfair to the girls on trek <__< and i wanna be doing something every day anyway
its an excuse to not practice piano and go to chinese school :] stupid viv went today and i didn't know... they watched "i not stupid too" which is okay with me *youtube*
So day 5 of Urban was the City, Summit, Surf thing :D plus, it was 7/11 day...FREE SLURPEES. yeah anyway :] it was so much fun, I was in a group with Emma, Chelsea, Julia and Leah. We took a Lilydale train to Croydon first, and caught a bus up to Skyhigh Cafe on Mt Dandenong. The other group missed it by a tiny bit, we watched them running after us LOL. Felt happy and sorry for them :] mwahahaha. There was this guy in the bus who saw us with our massive Melway and thought he'd help out a bit...which was cool, and great help :] but then he just...sat next to us =/ and started to get creepy. Thank god he was gone before we arrived :P had to trek up a small mountain before we actually got to Skyhigh...AN HOUR+ EARLY...THE TEACHERS WEREN'T EVEN THERE LMAO. We called them but I think we were calling the wrong number for 15 minutes, cause when we finally got through to the number, some random picked up. All the groups finally rolled in (and the teachers :P) but the group that we beat came JUST in time. I had a smartie push pop :D yummo. glued the thing in my journal (looks like a toilet roll), plus part of the 7/11 slurpee cup :P after the first stop checkpoint, we took a bus down to Belgrave station and got on a train (lottsa video taking here :P) and waited ages for it to leave...then we spent a fricken hour and something on the train til we actually got to Fliders =__= the other group were on the same train so we got off the train and sprinted to the tram stop thinking that we had lost them....but no. ahahhah, so now, it was a matter of who could run to the teachers fastest. We were lucky, as soon as we got off the tram at St Kilda, we spotted the teachers, and the other group misread the instructions and went running for Luna Park. SO WE WON......except, i hope our points don't get marked down cause we forgot to call the teachers to check in =/ anyways, Erika (from the other group) and I walked around St Kilda (cause we were friends again :P), I got another free slurpee (the customer thought I was robbing 7/11) and we walked to the beach :] sat there for a bit til Min and Amanda (who came last ROFL) joined us...to build a sandcastle and a waterless moat (LOL). Had a whole lotta fun, and went home :D
Day 6 and 7 were both at William Angliss Institute TAFE...some TAFE that teaches hospitality, cooking, tourism and business management. Min missed the train she was meant to catch with me, then missed the one after that...she rolled up 40 minutes late cause obviously she'd get lost :P it was a bit confusing, but really, you just had to take a tram to latrobe st (i ran there instead lmao) and a tram down latrobe st just past flagstaff station. Day 6 was making pizza! Walked to Queen Victoria Market to buy fruit and vegies (we each got given $5)...we didn't know we had to buy the cheese and meat as well, so we had $3.50 left for that LOL. Turned out it was supplied anyway...but we got back to the place, got dressed in out chefness outfits and started making our dough...took forever, and it was sticky as hell but i got there :D while we waited for the dough to rise, we cut up our toppings and fruits. I can officially cut kiwis, mmhm. so then we got our very rised up dough and spread it onto a tray, BIGGEST PIZZA EVERRR. It was like...bigger than an A3 piece of paper and had SO MUCH CHEESE...i think we went through about 2kg of cheese that day :P i had hardly any time to eat the pizza, i went straight to the bread making (fun shapes, yayay) and then by the time i got that done, we had to clean up O__o burned myself on the pizza tray, cause i forgot the other hand had no teatowel and went to grab the tray cause my hand was getting hot :P yet another excuse to get outta piano
day 7 was awesome, we made chocolate!!! we watched some random video about cocoa beans, tasted cocoa liquor (BLEUAHGHAULSDJKHG) and cocoa butter (*DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLS*) and i ate a cocoa bean :] tasted like shit as well. buut onto the chocolate making. all we had to do was take the warm chocolate and pour it onto the marble and move it around til it cooled a bit.....and obviously i ate a lot in that process :] then we put the cooled chocolate back in with the warm chocolate til it reaches about 32 degrees, then pour them out into moulds. whatever chocolate was left, i ate :P the chocolateman made some hollow chickens, clowns and bears by using this funny looking magnetic machine that looks like a theme park ride for chocolate moulds. i got a chicken :D and took a lot of chocolate shreds and pieces home....yep :D had a barbeque lunch that day, watched scoobydoo! and played ping pong :] end of week.
aaand we go on camp tomorrow to the murray river :D!!!! gotta get to southern cross at fricken 7:40am, and I still need to finish packing my clothes. the rest is all done, in ziplock bags :P my toilet paper looks hilarious. pissed off that i have my period on camp again, but i stocked up on tampons for surfing and didn't need them :] so i think im all good to go xD!! see you in a week!!!!
xo
Monday, November 5, 2007
urban week 1
i'm keeping an actual journal for urban, so i havent really been updating here. so a bit of a recap...day 1 was "arcades, lanes and cafes". we got into groups of 3 (erika, min and i) and a few pages of clues for our challenge. the clues were written in a poem form, so we gotta figure it out and go places :D at first we almost took a tram to port phillip bay, but it turns out it meant port phillip arcade. figures, since the activity was called ARCADES, lanes and cafes *duh* =__= theres so many cool shops and cafes i had never known about, so after doing the challenge, im totally coming back one day :D our group were really organised and i'm pretty sure we finished first. teachers gave us bonus points for working well ;D yaay.
day 2 was going to edmund rice centre and tutoring/playing with refugees. SO much fun, i worked with a vietnamese girl called Hong, and we did a bit of reading and writing before going outside and playing ball games and duck duck goose with the rest of the kids. after the experience, we all wanted to get a real message out there...i mean, the media and stuff always make their stories on refugees sound so negative (especially african). the kids are already feeling touchy and unloved, and for anyone to go there, give them a hug and make them smile...it's priceless. when we left, a boy and a girl and their baby brother wandered in because their father had died and their mother abandoned them. if this was anyone else, it'd be all over the news begging for sympathy stories (remember pumpkin?). they put on a brave face and we all had a good time regardless. its cute how trusting they are, although they hardly know you, they realise you're a good person and just jump on you for a piggy back :P we taught them handclapping games and at the end of they day, one girl didnt want to leave haha. we all donated pencils and stationery (which they desperatly needed) and some of us just pulled things out of our pencil cases and put them in a pile. definatly gonna write a letter to the papers or the principal about the experience soon.
day 3...i was sick. haha, on the night of edmund rice centre (and after watching the SKC & our school play of romeo and juliet) i started feeling a bit sick, i thought it was from the dust or something, but no. in the middle of the night i chucked up all the sushi i ate for dinner =/ wasnt pretty at all, i felt like shit. the next morning i woke up and...slept for the rest of the day. didn't eat at all, had a bit of soup but didn't really want to. i was determind to be well for day 4.......surfing!!! (apparently day 3, which was visiting melbourne uni and a cemetary, absolutely sucked. so i didn't miss much :P)
DAY 4!! SURFING!! i was extreeemely weak, but i HAD to go. the whole point of me picking the urban adventure was cause of surfing LOL. rocked up at some surfing museum (waste of time) and then to some beach at torquay. got a lowdown on how to surf and hit the waves!! ohh so much fun, the first time i stood up i got so excited i jumped off the board :P after a lot of wave catching, Sam and I got creative and joined our boards. with my butt on my board, her butt on her board, but our legs on each others boards (you following me :P?) we were absolutely determined to surf a wave together...which we failed many times but eventually got it........and fell off. we're totally the best :D hahahah. and HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMANDA FOR FRIDAY.
so today's a long weekend and yesterday was erikas birthday. they're celebrating today but im not going =__= still actually need to recover haha. had a concert yesterday and i was so weak that i finished playing the piece and broke out in a sweat. then started crying non stop. embarrassing, but meh :P gonna stay home today and hopefully susan should be here in a while so i can at least not waste the weekend by watching a dvd. KNOCKED UP IS OUT ON DVD :D so yeah, that's week one for you :] stay tuned
xo
day 2 was going to edmund rice centre and tutoring/playing with refugees. SO much fun, i worked with a vietnamese girl called Hong, and we did a bit of reading and writing before going outside and playing ball games and duck duck goose with the rest of the kids. after the experience, we all wanted to get a real message out there...i mean, the media and stuff always make their stories on refugees sound so negative (especially african). the kids are already feeling touchy and unloved, and for anyone to go there, give them a hug and make them smile...it's priceless. when we left, a boy and a girl and their baby brother wandered in because their father had died and their mother abandoned them. if this was anyone else, it'd be all over the news begging for sympathy stories (remember pumpkin?). they put on a brave face and we all had a good time regardless. its cute how trusting they are, although they hardly know you, they realise you're a good person and just jump on you for a piggy back :P we taught them handclapping games and at the end of they day, one girl didnt want to leave haha. we all donated pencils and stationery (which they desperatly needed) and some of us just pulled things out of our pencil cases and put them in a pile. definatly gonna write a letter to the papers or the principal about the experience soon.
day 3...i was sick. haha, on the night of edmund rice centre (and after watching the SKC & our school play of romeo and juliet) i started feeling a bit sick, i thought it was from the dust or something, but no. in the middle of the night i chucked up all the sushi i ate for dinner =/ wasnt pretty at all, i felt like shit. the next morning i woke up and...slept for the rest of the day. didn't eat at all, had a bit of soup but didn't really want to. i was determind to be well for day 4.......surfing!!! (apparently day 3, which was visiting melbourne uni and a cemetary, absolutely sucked. so i didn't miss much :P)
DAY 4!! SURFING!! i was extreeemely weak, but i HAD to go. the whole point of me picking the urban adventure was cause of surfing LOL. rocked up at some surfing museum (waste of time) and then to some beach at torquay. got a lowdown on how to surf and hit the waves!! ohh so much fun, the first time i stood up i got so excited i jumped off the board :P after a lot of wave catching, Sam and I got creative and joined our boards. with my butt on my board, her butt on her board, but our legs on each others boards (you following me :P?) we were absolutely determined to surf a wave together...which we failed many times but eventually got it........and fell off. we're totally the best :D hahahah. and HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMANDA FOR FRIDAY.
so today's a long weekend and yesterday was erikas birthday. they're celebrating today but im not going =__= still actually need to recover haha. had a concert yesterday and i was so weak that i finished playing the piece and broke out in a sweat. then started crying non stop. embarrassing, but meh :P gonna stay home today and hopefully susan should be here in a while so i can at least not waste the weekend by watching a dvd. KNOCKED UP IS OUT ON DVD :D so yeah, that's week one for you :] stay tuned
xo
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