Can you believe it? Exams are over!!! I am so so so happy and excited. What a relief when Mr Blunden told us to put our pens down! :) What did we do after? oh yes, the Sebroj meeting! We didn't do very much...but relaxed.....and wasted time. It's good to be able to waste time. (Sue spent most of her time exploring and looking for anything that's edible.)
In our phy paper, Planet Blunden was orbiting Planet Hewitt. Planet Bolton was the moon of Planet Blunden. I liked that. They couldn't control themselves adding a sense of their dry humour in our paper. So...Mrs Bolton (my chem teacher) is now one of them. Haha...
I couldn't sleep that well during the exam period. All those days were tiring too. In fact, i had tried to gain more sleep. I don't go to bed later than 10: 15. The reason for not being able to fall asleep was that i couldn't switch my brain off, like what Mr Townsend had told us to. I was forcing myself to sleep...but at the same time, i couldn't help thinking..about other things (no..not about exams at all).
I was thinking back...you know..from yr7 to now, trying to recognise all the changes. It was funny. Well, do you think things are always apparent in retrospect? or...would it be inaccurate because i simply was trying to project back from the present?
You know what! Teachers can really change your perception about life.
A yr 10 girl in our school recently received a letter. She got in, you know. Yes, James Ruse. Of course she doesn't want to leave ALL her friends behind. But, her parents, you know. What can she do? She won't be here next year.
Yep, an another one--a girl called Julia. My sis told me about them. She was an average student back in yr 7. Having worked really really hard, she first got into North Sydney...then oh yes, James Ruse. My sis told me she didn't have many friends. Oh well.
Anyway, exams are over, and i am extremely tired. Oh yes, i made some observations during these times. Funny...how Oli was sitting behind me in one of our maths exam.(u looking at this oli??) well, yep, one more wk of yr 11. What is yr 12 like? i dunno. Life as usual, i suppose.
Yr7...yep, viv was the first friend there. She told me she was leaving in April, but she didn't. She left the next yr. I met Eliz who introduced Oli as 'elephant'. Sue was wearing long sleeves and thick long pants during the yr 7 camp in summer. I remember borrowing a comic from her. I met jane too. She was the genius....
I had Fran as one of my closeset friends. She wrote me a Christmas card in Chinese. I still have it.
Yr8...well, i was in most of pong's class. Well, Jess...so hygenic.Gotta make sure her chair was perfectly clean...Harriet, the bean picker, do you remember this Pong? It's weird that i do.
Yr 9...oh yes...I was with tracy in commerce class. the Snorlax package we made. The 'books' we wrote to each other. Julia came to this school this year. Dr Pohl. Stucked with him for two yrs! :( Well, i still do associate Moon with Julia. Don't ask me why.
I visited hk that yr too. Truly realised that my hk friends were out of reach. It was a relief to come back to Aus.
Yr 10...yes, i lost eliz bracelet. Still a bit sad..The guilt comes back every now and then. But, yep, i have been trying my best to focus on the present, which has changed so much.
Yr 11...you know.....now.
Very brief outline. I will come back to this and write at least a page on each.
"One watch succeeded another through the day, though how the rabbits judged the passing of the time is something that civilised human beings have lost the power to feel. Creatures that have neither clocks or books are alive to all manner of knowledge about time and weather; and about direction too, as we know from their extraordinary migratory and homing journey. The changes in the warmth and dampness of the soil, the falling of the sunlight patches, the altering movement of the beans in the light wind, the direction and strength of the air currents along the ground - all these were perceived by the rabbit awake.," p 56 Watership Down by Richard Adams
Lastnight...oh no..i cannot believe it. Feeling a bit sad..in a way. Still we are friends..but..she is losing her only friend. In yr 12, she wants to give up school now. I could only feel a sense of despair ..and disappointment at her trial result.
Well..what do you think of the extract on the left???