talking, but still pissed

40 hour famine over and i'm talking, but theres something wrong with my recording/calculating O__o

i recorded $270.70

but i have $275.20

where the HELL did those extra bucks come from?

anyway. gonna give it all to world vision though, otherwise i'd feel bad

went for a run and a bike ride as well, but still pissed at chinese teacher. chasers war on everything/dave chappelle rock. ta aidan :]

xo

SO FRICKEN PISSED

OKAY so i've been at the 40hr famine for almost 30 hours and NOT A SINGLE WORD (minus the accidental sound that came out as NOOO)...BUT NO PROPER WORDS!!!

AND THE CHINESE SCHOOL TEACHER THOUGHT I WAS STUPID!! THOSE ARE THE EXACT WORDS "sophie you're a smart person, why are you doing such a stupid thing?" THE HARD PART WAS RESISTING THE URGE TO GIVE HER THE "^%$#!" SIGN!!!

i was trying to explain that the point was to go for 40 hours without something you love/need. so obviously i picked talking :] and i was trying to explain, my point of doing it is to

1) understand how it feels to be disabled in one way or another and not have enough money for support

2) raise money for laos!!?!!!

3) CHALLENGE MYSELF
4) test my patience. and boy has my patience been tested ><

i feel like i'm 3/4 into a marathon and i've been told to go back because i'm an idiot. i don't get how some people can be so selfish like that, i was actually having a lot of fun (despite having my talkingbook stolen for a bit) until she ruined it for me. SERIOUSLY. HOW CAN SOME PEOPLE NOT UNDERSTAND, OR EVEN TRY TO UNDERSTAND.

ugh.

((and happy birthday grandma, sorry i can't talk))

40hr famine

so this year i finally get to do the 40hr famine. amanda and i are doing 40 hours without TALKING. yeah its harder than it looks

so far 8 hours down and i havent said a word. i think i accidentally went noooo to min but i meant it to just be a sound =/ it was hilarious, we were late to maths so the maths teacher locked us out. he was like WHY ARE YOU LATE and i held up my "i am doing the 40 hr famine...40hrs no talking" sign and hes just like >= get in and copy whats on the board

ahahhahah. min lasted 3 hours and gave up cause she accidentally said "it's a rock" to erika. amanda accidentally said something to hannah cause she was concentrating on felting and forgot :]

i've raised $113.70 so far, but for some reason i have $123.20 O__o i either stuffed it up, or havent given amanda change...hmm

so yeah, this is pretty fun actually. apart from the fact that i REALLY REALLY wanna talk.

i wanna raise $200 so i can get the paul frank tshirt that says STIR THE WORLD on it :] and everybody should donate, $40 will feed 8 children for a month in Laos GO SUPPORT THE 40 HOUR FAMINE

http://www.worldvision.com.au/40hourfamine

xo

house arts 01

first rehearsal for choir in house arts was pretty fantastic :D i remember last year, we got through about 1-2 lines in an entire lunchtime...this time, we got down pretty much half the song!! without the piano too :] except....whenever we next have a piano, everybody'll have to sing everything 4 notes higher =/ yeahyeah, perfectpitchgirl, shut up.

currently writing parts for the instrumental, so far we have 1 cello, 1 flute, 1 piano and 1 percussion. not a great turnout. i need a violin and more percussionists, but that shouldn't be too hard to find. I ALSO REALLY REALLY NEED A TRUMPET, SAX OR CLARINET!!! if that fails, i'll have to play flute and get someone else to conduct.

dammit, i should really learn to write music in pencil and not fineliner =/

xo

IT'S ALL OVERR

...and somewhat even worth cramming most of it into the last few hours. literally.

the test paper was the usual 4 part harmony, 2 part harmony and melody. set work (unfinished symphony by schubert) had questions on the form of the 1st movement, writing out the first 6 bars of the 1st subject, instrumentation of the 2nd movement and some stupid shit "describe the texture of the first 6 bars of the 2nd movement". the rest of the general knowledge was on the sonata, concert overture (which i had no examples for =/), the cadenza, trombone and writing out the written range of the trumpet in B flat and horn in F. i reckon i'll pass.

yeah so that was just music mumbojumbo for me to laugh at when im 20, if i'll be around til then :P took me about 2 hours and a lot of stuffing up. they didnt gimme enough room for one of them and i had to rub it all out and start again with crammed big writing hahaha. i was in a massive hall with the 2nd and 5th grade theory and musicianship people, it was crazy. there was never a second of silence, it was this constant noise combination of pencils, rubbers, crap tables and chairs. not that i was complaining really :] i like noise.

no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory no more theory

yup. whats that? no more theory? HELL YES.

and happy birthday mum, i love you. <3

xo

exams

theory tomorrow. i dont know my stuff too well. THEN WHY THE HECK AM I 1) NOT STUDYING, 2) NOT FREAKING OUT and 3) NOT FREAKING OUT ABOUT NOT STUDYING?

im fricken playing tetris O__o

xo

feeling sentimental.

sigh. well im fifteen and a weekish old :] like viv says IM OLD. oh and speaking of old, happy bday aiden, hao, lisa, randomchickatlaserwars, yao, johnson, mum and whoever else had a birthday this month :] i hope i got all that right O__o ITS IN ORDER TOO. none of you guys would ever read this BUT HEY :D like i said, feeling sentimental :P its a long word aye. i don't even know what it means?

just went for a run, even the 5 o'clock sun in the middle of winter for 15 minutes made me really brown O__o it'll fade in an hour though. hahaha. also bought witch hazel, i hope it works? it smells like SHIT but oh well :P

chinese school was pretty normal today. normal is pretty crazy really, debated (politely yelled) about buying cars and stuff, we wouldve won if castrato didnt yell whatever he yelled at the end :] i felt like a man the rest of the girls came in 15 minutes later :P

theory exam on wednesday, im freaking out but so calm at the same time. i hardly know anything but it'll sink in eventually :] it seems the same every year, but i somehow get by with a high distinction anyway. plus, i borrowed the answer book from my theory teacher so i'll just memorise everything word for word. that's the way i roll :]

house arts is pretty much starting to kick in, its so goddamn hard writing out the music parts to walk on by by ear :/ but once i got started, it was pretty fun. can't wait til the cast list goes up, and i really wanna see the dance :P and its not even all choreographed yet, haha.

i just wanna let this out, but i think most people have heard about the girl (claire oliver i think) who is dying of skin cancer. it's so brave of her to tell her story to everybody in the condition she's in, and i'm so glad that what she's done has changed at least some people's opinions on solariums. i think they're passing a law for it to be illegal if you're under 16, and even if you're 16&17, you need parental consent :] its really nice to know that even if you're about to leave the world, you've changed it in some way ^^ happy birthday claire, god bless you xx

also, i felt like reflecting on the year so far. maybe being fifteen does mean i've grown up O__o last year on my birthday i was busy losing my voice, pulling muscles and catching hats at the divas with viv, vic, sam and carly. well, i only caught one hat :] but anyway, that was back then, in our little group. then shit happens, as it does when you're a teen but no matter how crap i felt back then, 2007 eventually came around and new friendships were made, old friendships were patched up and life looked pretty fantastic :D went to the maybelline masterclass with lisa and brought back a truckload of freebies *LOVES*.

first big thing that happened at school was probably THE PAJAMA GAME :D :D :D yeah, even bandgeeks are allowed to have fun :P more new friends were made (whom i should have called last holidays but err, woops :\ sorry guys :P) and it was just a whole roll of fun in general :D

photography and enterprising multimedia were the best subjects ever back then, now i get stuck with media studies and and....net nature =__= the latter is just pointless. but oh well.

the lauriston fair/ashburton fair was also heaps fun and it was awesome to see katharine and susan again. snow cones being thrown to the ground, spotting hamish and andy (...they happened at the same time :P), going on rides, icecream, beaniekids for $1, horrible tanlines, sunburns and tattoos...ah the list shall go on forever :]

this blog is getting long. i think i shall continue it on later when i next eat a block of chocolate :] but there's tonnes to look forward to, ESPECIALLY HOUSE ARTS AND URBAN!!!!!! UNO IN THE HOTEL AT 3AM, SHITYEAHH!! 4 weeks of school to go, another 2 and all the fun stuff shall begin......................................

xo

soph turns fifteen

let's start by saying that i love my friends :] they're the best in the world and i don't care if you think your friends are better, because...because yeah :] susan got me a curling iron, but in the card she wrote "i dunno what textbooks you wanted, so i hope you like maths" AND I FUCKING FELL FOR IT!! I SERIOUSLY THOUGHT SHE GOT ME MATHS BOOKS AHAHAHHAHA. lisa got me a dress last week which im dying for summer to come around so i can wear it :] err, grandma gave me $100 and so did annette's mum. i was supposed to get a book (that i of course, don't know about xP) but amanda didn't come so yeah, i should get that tomorrow. steph's coming in a sec to give me something (i think it's a shirt that says IN CASE OF EMERGENCIES BREAK DANCE) so i'll just wait til she comes before i post this blog (i feel spoilt, she got me the shirt, chocolates, a lollipop and a metoyoubear noteholder thing, with a pic of me, sus and her pulling a retarded face stuck in it :P)

while i wait, i'd like to say:

THE TRAINS HERE SUCK!!! OUT OF ALL THE DAYS MY TRAIN LINE HAD TO BE DOWN, IT HAD TO BE ON MY BIRTHDAY!!?!!?!! juls got to burwood and her mum had to drive to ashburton cause she got confused with the whole bus thing. we got on the bus to camberwell station and crammed our way onto the train and got to flinders 20 minutes late. our HELLO's and *HUGS* kinda blocked the way of everybody who was trying to get out of the barriers though LOL. min was wearing thongs so we bullied her by standing on the back of them :] we went to laser wars first, which was fantaaastic fun :D :D :D

WHY?!

BECAUSE I WOOOOONNNNNNNN!! there was another group of 7 people that we were against and one of the girls in the group was having her birthday as well :P we sang happy birthday to her and i was like MEEE TOOO!!!! and they sang happy birthday to me, so much less enthusiastically...but oh well :] it was awkward but i liked it anyway ahaha

i thought all those videogamer looking guys would kick our little girly butts, but we lost by a tiny bit :P and i even beat MIN which is a first O__O! so for the rest of the day i'll just be stuck up about winning, dont mind me... :D

after that, we were thinking either stay and do nothing for a while, and watch the simpsons at crown, but we decided to RUN AFTER TRAMS (silly min :P) to get to photoplus and back in time. that didnt quite work out, cause we ran after the WRONG tram, min got mocked by some guy who was driving cause she was making strange noises, and we never made it back from photoplus

BUT we got to photoplus :P did our lil asian (+ juls....and me) camwhoring thing, which is hard when you cram 6 people into a little booth, ahaha. and the photos came out bonusphoto sized =__= but that's okay :D then the asians went to china town for some reason, me and juls with to MC to get tickets for the simpsons BUT WE FREAKING FOUND OUT THE 4:00 WAS DIRECTORS SUITE >: so juls had to leave, tamama and lisa had to leave and it was (yet again) just me, min and erika. we watched i now pronounce you chuck and larry which was HILARIOUS, BUT WE STILL HAVENT SEEN THE SIMPSONS!!! grrrrrr.

mins grampa was supposed to find her but we realised that he doesnt have a phone and err =/ yeah. so we decided to train home together, but her gramps found her in the last couple of minutes :P he's exactly the same as my grandma, the way he thinks O__o its annoyingly scary haha. so yeah, we talked about hair in the train :P me and min i mean. and hair *comma* in the train. not...yeah anyway O__o she was gonna buy protective spray, volumising shampoo and hairspray but never did any of that :P i love you min, you're such a strange little alien.

my teeth elastics taste like gum and popcorn. happy birthday to me.

xo

I WON LASER WAAAAAAAARSSSSS :D

well this sucks

my birthday is tomorrow and i have a massive cold -_- i feel yucky.

can't wait to find out what's planned for me :] my friends are better than yours xP

& susan's back!! ayayay!

xo

BIG DAY IN !!

TODAY WAS AWESOME :D i LOVE this week, it's such a NOTHINGG week

yesterday was periods 1-4 doing pretty much nothing except for listening to people talk about tattoos and piercings.

today we double PE (circuit training: step ups, crunches, burpees, quadricep sits, push ups, shuttle run, oval run, agility run, sprints, skipping and tricep dips) which is yeah, a work out but a bludge :P after recess we got this codething so we could get onto the school net at home...and then english, but we're pretty much done with our project so i went with people to the library (collect printing), art room (get paper) and gym (retreive missing pencil case). we ended early anyway, because.............................

BIG DAY IN :D

had a BLAST, not because the big day in was on, but cause we spent our time missing period 5 and taking photos for a reason which min should clarify on my birthday O__o but we took some really cute/photographesque photos :]

haha, i especially love the one of kiki and juls on the outside of the tube! and min & kiki look like lovers in the one above HAHA. but it was a nice concept :] and the last one...what are we looking at xP?

theres more, but they're portrait so they don't fit nicely in here cause i stuffed up the alignment...ohwell :D

and we made $5000 for bangladesh! YAY.

xo