MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG! Christmas is tomorrow! I'm getting a 64GB iPod touch (I chose between it and my bike license) and my birthday is 5 days later on the 30th! I. Am. So. EXCITED!!!!

My favourite perfumes. ALL by Mariah Carey. They smell soooooo good! :)

Ok, so I just read a comment further down. Something about writing what goes on in my head, as long as it's the truth. So here goes: Why do Alison and Jonty act like a couple? They text constantly, go to parties together, and at said parties go off alone behind trucks. WTF? She has a boyfriend. A boyfriend who used to be nice but now is a complete jerk as a result of how much she manipulates him. She cries at school, and he comforts her. But he doesn't know that she doesn't cry when he's not around because NO ONE CARES. Stop crying (no pun intended) for attention the stupid way, Alison. If you need help, go see a shrink.

Enter this contest for Across the Universe!

http://bethrevis.blogspot.com/2010/12/epic-contest-of-epic.html

Lol, just read my post on October the 12th. "Just joined Twitter... Don't know if I'll ever use the account though..." Lol, I tweet ALL THE TIME. I tweet off my phone as well as my computer. I'm fully obsessed...

Last Sacrifice, by Richelle Mead, the sixth and final book in the Vampire Academy series, comes out on Tuesday! I'm super duper excited. I haven't blogged for a while. Am just re-reading the series in order to re-familiarize myself with the story. I love these books...

Am enjoying the freedom of the summer holidays. Last night I went out sober d'ing with my friend. We didn't get to bed until 3:30am. I didn't get to sleep until at least 5am. Then I had to get up at 9:50am because she had to go to horse riding and was dropping me off. Am soooooooooooo tired, I actually felt dizzy when I got up because of it. I actually fell asleep in the car last night on the way into town at 2:30am.

OMG CASEY WON!!! I AM SOOOO HAPPY!!! AND I WAS RIGHT THERE WATCHING IT!!!! BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!!! :)

Just joined Twitter... I don't know if I'll ever use the account though...

Crap...

I'm feeling so bad right now. I was trying to get out of the driveway (we have a circular driveway) without hitting my cousin's fiancé's car, and I had about an inch between me and the car, when I hit the side of the house. There's white paint all down the side of of the door, and the bumper's moved by about an inch. I owned up and told Mum as soon as we got back from the supermarket. Unfortunately it was her birthday yesterday, and her friends are all here because it's her 50th. Her party's tomorrow. Great... Anyway, I suppose I'll find out how much I owe her for it soon... I'm going to go to bed now...

Just watching an episode of Cougar Town that I recorded right now... It was funny. Am getting my digital photo frame up and running now after a long period spent under my bed... Anyways... Cya!

Just went to the Italian food show in the stadium in Wellington. It was pretty lame. The last food show was way better. I'm converting season 2 of The Big Bang Theory to put on my iPod. I put season 1 on this morning, and I already have season 1 of The Vampire Diaries. Which reminds me, I have to finish reading the series... I just kind of, well, stopped reading it. Anyway... Imma go now, so cya! :)

I'm sick

Apparently there's an outbreak of swine flu going around wairarapa schools... yay... *heavy sarcasm applied* according to the source, I've done the right thing in going home and "containing the outbreak." Here's the link below:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/3988142/Schools-swine-flu-clear-out

Yeah! Go Wallabies! 30-13 against South Africa!

Haha, today I was talking to Olivia on the train, and somehow Matt came up. Then she told me about a conversation about him that she had with Meka. Meka just casually says: "Olivia, if he's so perfect, why would he be going out with you?" Olivia said she cracked up. It's pretty funny, I have to say.

I was just reading over my old posts, and would like to clarify that the time and date are now correct because I did eventually find my time zone.

OMG (from what we can tell) Olivia and Matt go out! She's been in luuurrrve with him forever! She's been pestering me to put this up.

Ok, Olivia was quoting Glee (kind of) and *attempting* to quote Lady Is A Tramp. The lyrics are "that's why the lady is a tramp." She instead said: "The problem is, the lady is a whore." ... =/ Jesus Olivia, you give me some good quotes...!

Watching the rugby (South Africa VS New Zealand) right now. Am at Alan and Pam's place now. Just had a lovely dinner: a bit of salad with an omelette that had a mixed herb filling, with kumara and a couple of kumara rostis. Went to the movies and watched Knight and Day today, which was good. Then came back and started subscribing to channels on Youtube, and continued re-writing my book out as I edit it. Quite frankly, I'm getting nowhere; it's still amateur and rough around the edges. I still need to work on plot and the finer aspects of wording. Oh well, I'm hardly world-class author material, so it doesn't matter anyway. Alan made a great apricot dessert thingy, but I think I ate too much at dinner so I couldn't finish all of it. Why has Dan Carter missed 4/5 kicks?! WTF?! Anyway, will go now and watch the game. Cya! :)

Went out for dinner last night (I'm in D'Auckland for the holidays, and stayed with my Aunt last night.) to the Howick Club. It was good, I has vego penne pasta with spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms and a garlic sauce. It was a $25 deal for dinner and dessert, so we all got dessert aswell. It was funny, we were all very "adventurous." Shaun. Meenal and Joc all had lamb shanks, while James and Wendy had pork ribeye. Then James and Shaun had deep-fried bananas, Wendy had a cappuccino cheesecake, Joc had pavlova and Meenal and I had mudcake for dessert. All coming with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream seated on a slice of orange of course. Then we returned home and watched cougar town before toddling off to bed. This morning I got up, watched the end of Get Smart, had a shower and ate peanut butter toast with a glass of water before coming to check out the eReader. Cruisy life, eh?

Lol, my Aunt just got a new eReader and we're trying to work out the websites that sell the eBooks. (FYI websites, you need to make it easier to navigate your sites for those who are new to eBooks) :) Finally worked it out. I guess every story really does have a happy ending... :)

Haha, just read some of my old posts. I eventually decided on Global Warming as my speech topic, but my teacher still hasn't told me if I passed. Am watching a v-peat (repeat of the TV program V). Have spent the day unwisely according to some, but it's been damn fun. Have watched TV and done washing, gone on youtube and updated my music collection. Thinking about music, if we're supposed to buy music off iTunes (which, sadly, I do), then shouldn't all music be on iTunes? I mean, for those more inclined to illegally download wouldn't it make more sense to download music if you can get it for free and actually get it? Because I can't get some music that I'm looking for on the NZ iTunes, and it is irritating me.

On another note, I'm looking forward to going to the MotoGP in Phillip Island, Australia, in October. Hope Casey wins! Have just rediscovered Katharine McPhee, the runner-up of the fifth season of American Idol. She is awesome! Over it, Love Story and Home are amazing songs, you should listen to them.

In Classics we have moved on to Roman social life, which I'm really excited about. When I was about ten I had this mega obsession with the ancient world and endeavoured to find out everything I could. This mostly involved Rome, Greece and Egypt, but I know a bit about other civilizations like China and the South American ones. But I'm really excited about the new topic, and I really enjoyed the last ones of Gods and Goddesses and The Odyssey, plus I'm looking forward to the last topic of Art and Architecture; Pompeii and Herculaneum. That reminds me of what I'm hoping to do next year for school; history, art history, english, classics and biology.

Anyway, I really have nothing to say and am just typing for the sake of it, so Imma go now. Cya! xoxo :)

K, sorry this is depressing for me and I know that no one wants to know but I need somewhere to vent, and since that's why I created this blog, I'm going to use it for just that purpose.

Ok, so my mum has this Omega watch that my dad gave her like, twenty years ago. He died nine years ago, and I'm still clinging to everything that is left of him. (Yeah, I know, probably stupid and childish). Anyway, the face-plate (just a tiny ring of enamel around the edge of the glass, nothing important to the function of the watch) fell off, and now her boyfriend's buying her a replacement, which is really sweet. The catch? They're six thousand dollars, and insurance is paying some for the breakage of the last watch. Sound all g? Not quite. In order for them to pay up, they want the old watch back, which is where I start to break down. I can't handle losing it. I have been holding out for that watch for years. Every time she got a new watch, I'd ask for the old one. I always saw that watch as mine. I'm an only child, and I will inherit everything one day. That watch was one of the things I was looking forward to having and treasuring the most, right next to my parents' engagement and wedding rings. I know that I need to let go, but the last memory I have of my dad (the only real memory that I have, since my parents split when I was two, and I can't really remember the time that I watched Beethoven [the dog movie] with him as I was four) was of him being bloated from the chemo with a massive scar on his head from his shunt operation. I need everything that I can hold on to because I'm not over this. I still think about my dad every day. I know that you don't care, but this is important to me, and I need this outlet. And I hope that if anyone else has a similar situation to me that they can leave a comment for me to make this easier for me.

Phone/Bluetooth/Mum's Legend BF

Lol, mum's legend bf gave me a phone because I was complaining that mum's second phone was flasher than my first phone (mum's first phone is a blackberry, see my point? It's not fair!) So he said: "I have a phone that you can have!" And promptly jumped up and got it. It's an Okta (virtually unknown brand) and is a pretty goddamn decent phone. At first I thought the bluetooth was crap, but I've worked it out now; you have to set it up for every transfer, otherwise the "services can't be discovered." Pretty handy if you don't want sickos like Caitlin sending you queer pictures... :)

Lol, Eillish taking munted photos of me... Damn...

LOL

ME: "OMG! Mariah might be pregnant!" (I was on entertainment fix)
Rose: "I might be pregnant."

Gabriella Cilmi - On A Mission

VIDEO: Gabriella Cilmi - On A Mission

FML

I just got talked into giving up my room for this weekend. I felt guilty about saying no. FML

OMD (oh my Dimitri). Trying to do research for my speech, but failing epically. I'm torn between a few topics (ok, more than a few): animal cruelty, the evolution of the Ducati Desmosedici GP10, global warming and its effect on the future of the earth and its inhabitants, the Russian Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, the rise and fall of Nazism and its after-effects, political correctness, the life and times of (Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky or Hitler), 1066 and all that, subliminal messages and persuasion, gender differences in communication, and political parties. So yeah, having serious difficulty choosing between them all. Am currently sitting in the hallway using the "speech properties" on my laptop to make it talk. It's kinda funny. Will leave now, after I clarify the "OMD." Dimitri is one of the main characters in the Vampire Academy series.

OMG, that dog shooting incident makes me sick. How could people (and only two of them too) massacre 33 dogs? It's disgusting and I personally believe that cruelty to animals is much worse than cruelty to people. I mean, animals can't tell you that you're a f*****g bastard. They can't tell you that they're innocent, or that they're dying a slow and painful death. They can't tell you how much the murder of their friends at their hands hurts them, or the death of their children, parents, or siblings. I believe that animal cruelty is one of the worst crimes that you can commit, right up their with destroying the planet and stealing my technological devices. With human murder, at least they can fight back, plead. But with animals yelps and shrieks of pain can be interpreted in many different ways, like enjoyment if you're insane (like these two f*****g c**ts must be). A message to you two: I hate you with every particle of my being. You're disgusting pigs and I hope that you get locked up for life or longer, and shame on you and your family. I hope you spend the rest of your lives in misery, haunted by their yelps and cries for help.

Hi! I'm back. am watching American Idol now, and watched Two and a Half Men and the Big Bang Theory...

Lol, just had netball practice. On that note, I feel that I must mention the score of our game on Saturday: 47-8. We won. Yesterday I went to the gym. It was pretty funny. There was this little kid running at speed 6 on the treadmill; I was walking at speed 8. 7.6 was comfortable... Speed six was a rest... Oh well, at least I got off my butt and did something for once. Netball practice today was cool. Eillish's mum is our coach, and she's really cool, but today she was in Palmy, so Shannon took us. It was cool, quite focused on drills at the start, then moving on to half court and eventually playing the junior A's. It's kinda sad that we played year 7's, but we won anyway... Yeah, that's all I have to say right now... Imma go now...

Lol, my kitten, Bella. Also known as Schmelly Belly, Bubby, Bella Boo, Bub Bub, Furball, Furry McPurry... you get the point... When we first got her she had an eye infection, which has since cleared up. That was in September last year, when she was about 4 or 5 months old.

Lol, Clarkey quote today (for those not in the know, Clarkey is like, sixty five or something): "And when I say peace, I mean real peace, not 'peace bro hippy-like stuff'" Lol. Priceless. Also, Lucy's phone went off in chapel with that weird nokia ringtone. I don't think I've ever seen someone move that fast to shut a phone up. Lol

Lol, this is random, but these are my mirror ("starburst," from mirrorcles), and my lamp

Am currently top of language perfect for our Japanese class... Having said that, I only have 550 points, the french class are going hard out: their lowest is higher than me, their highest is on 2217. Wtf.

This was me when I got my braces off. The mouth-stretcher thingy hurts like hell, but it's damn funny to look at. On the day that I got my braces on there was construction going on outside the window; they were putting up a new sign for the building. Anyway, the guys doing the work took one look at me with the ridiculous device in my mouth and just about fell off the roof laughing. It was pretty humiliating... However, it was epic and I made my mum take this pic on the day I got the braces off - 14 and a half months after I got them on.

There are two sides to every story...

There are two sides to every story...

This is a link to the countdown widget of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, by Stephenie Meyer

And yes, I do have another blog. That one hasn't been updated in AGES, and it's crap anyway...

Rose, Alison and Jonty have this three-day business thing this week, which leaves me and Anna with Nicole and Mr Lane in Japanese. Damn... I guess I'll need to do work instead of hiding while his attention is elsewhere occupied... Bummer. Lol, just asked for gossip from *******, and she told me that ****** didn't sign out from the B-house when she went to the hockey. She also didn't get permission to go to the aforementioned hockey. She's dead; Mrs Jones will skin her, eat her entrails and put her head on a stake as a warning to others. History internal is completed, classics homework is yet to be done... This is a picture of my "business card," which I am handing out to draw attention to this blog.

More ducati-inspired memory devices pictures on the way...

I gotta go back to school tonight... Bugger...

The coolest flash drive ever...

This is a Ducati-inspired flash drive by Sandisk. I. Want. One.

This was at lunchtime awhile ago, and it was funny because I was just casually singing along to a song that we were playing on Paddy's phone. Maddi decided to film it, and she was talking and I couldn't really hear her at first. Then I realized that she was filming, not taking a photo, and I thought: "s**t." Then the rest is in the video. It's pretty short...

Also, shout out to couples: Alison and Ben, Anna and Jake and Zoe and Jesse. Good luck!!! :) (8(l)

Lol, Mum just bought I Am...Sasha Fierce. Shout out to Jesse's smiley, the Homer: (8(l)
do you see it? School's cool right now, have an internal due tomorrow, which I suppose is on its way. My cousin is engaged! It happened awhile ago, but the engagement party is soon, so I thought I'd share. Shout out to Heather and Caleb: Congrats!!! :) Unfortunately I can't make it up to Jafaland for it, but my thoughts will be there! <3 MotoGP in Motegi postponed until October 3rd because of unpronounceable Icelandic volcano. Oh well, just one more week until Jerez anyway. I painted Grandad's fence over school holidays and am subsequently rich. Lol. Shout out to Maddi and others who have had birthdays recently: Happy Birthday!!!

Check out this game, it's totally addictive! It went through a phase at school in 2006, and I just rediscovered it. http://www.helicoptergame.net/

Will sign out now...

Hey! Am fast becoming obsessed with blogging, but am trying to regulate myself before I spend all of my time on blogger!

I can't believe I just admitted that...

Ok, this is kinda embarrassing, but I was just listening to Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus, and am now listening to When I Look At You by Miley Cyrus...

Lol, watching the final episode of the first season of Glee for the second time today right now, I watched it twice yesterday too. Also have watched The Big Bang Theory and Two and A Half Men today. Have been doing my History internal, but need a break. Getting excited as the first race of the season draws near! Free practice starts on Friday! The race itself is on Sunday, and I'm staying at Nanna and Grandad's to use their my sky. Fully getting pumped, have been excitedly watching the 2009 season review and the race at Phillip Island. :) Lol, while talking to Rose on skype I made up my new smiley, the monobrow smiley= >), also have the monobrow clown= >O). Lol

Haha, I took this pic of Maddi when we had a break between the double periods of English. I said "smile!" Unfortunately that meant Maddi looking into the sun. This is her attempting to see me through the sun's bright rays. :) (Sorry Maddi, it was just too good to pass up) lol.

Shoutout: Rose, for you: LSMMTFOIMC (Translation for those who do not understand: Laughing so much my turban fell off into my curry.)

Listening to Hero by Enrique Iglesias right now... I'm supposed to tidy my room...

These are the pictures of my dvd, the front, back, discs, and back of the disc holder. Also, pictures of my iPods, which I love to bits.

On Thursday we had double English - yay... *sarcasm dripping off every syllable* It wasn't as bad as it seems, and I found out that I got a merit on my internal!!! Yay! Of course I would have preferred an excellence, but we take what we get. Unfortunately there's no resit opportunity, as I would have been tempted to try again for an E. Oh well. Mum came back from Australia and brought me some Lindt bunny ears, a new handbag, a new wallet, the MotoGP 2009 SEASON REVIEW and some Lindt chocolates. The MotoGP dvd is sooo exciting!!! I am so excited that the 2010 season is about to start!!! April is a big month for me, with the first and second MotoGP races, my braces coming off, the 9th anniversary of my Dad's death, and three birthdays all in April!!!

Yesterday I went to the Carter Observatory with Grandad. We saw the planetarium presentation, which although awesome was also super headache-inducing because of the movement if the pictures on the dome. Then we browsed the displays, watching videos, reading boards and playing with the black hole thing. (It consisted of an oval shaped bowl that you dropped bouncy balls into, which then spun around and fell into one of the two holes in the centre. So that was cool. Then my Aunt and Uncle came over for dinner, because they're down from Auckland and we wanted to see them. (We also saw them the night before, as we went up to Nanna and Grandad's for dinner.) Mum's friend Leonie also came over, and we fired off jokes and talked about Alan and Pam's (my aunt and uncle) trip to Europe awhile ago and Mum and Leonie's upcoming trip to France and Italy. It was a fun night, and by the end of it I was tired yet still hyped up.

This is what my room looked like this morning after much work... I had to pack pretty fast! We're not allowed to leave any stuff at school, it sucks...

Am bored... Finding out my results for my english internal tomorrow! Am so excited to finally find out what I got! Also going to be a good day because it's the last day of term 1! YAY!!! School's out for two weeks! :) In jap, (we had a double) we played a version of "snap" which involved him reading out a word and us raising our hands and earning points for the correct answer. Anna and I won, with me knowing some of the answers through language perfect. Huh. I guess the site does have merits after all. We also did a crossword on the whiteboard, which the sensei drew up. It was quite fun, and we completed it without difficulty. Lunch was alright, with me eating an egg sandwich to get some protein. Micaela wasn't back from food tech @ st matts yet, so we just headed over to the field... Yeah...

Have found out my netball team... Have quite a few friends and Eillish's mum is our coach! Yay! :)

Wow... uneventful, (though still good) day today... Gabi and Bevan sat next to each other... Had final assembly... History was sooo funny. Had Mr Barr. We played hangman and exchanged movies on our computers the WHOLE lesson. It was awesome. I got four new movies from Georgia, but only one was iPod formatted. Am converting the other three now. Chilling with Meka now...
Pictures of Japanese work, the date written in whiteboard marker on plastic, Rose and Anna, and the Japanese tally system that records mine and Anna's vocabulary victory (on the right in red) are included. Aswell as those, there is a picture that I took last night when I was feeling particularly peaceful and snap-happy. Am currently heading on to language perfect to kick butt. Have completed all the lists... Now I have to do different formats, like spoken to written, spoken and written english to japanese text, and spoken japanese to japanese text.

Playing around in paint and inverting colours looks kinda cool...

It's a damn shame...

Kate just informed me that we're having a dorm party tomorrow night. It's a shame that I have neither money nor food to contribute to it...

Double jap tomorrow... yay... :( Double english the next day... yay...

Just thought of my favourite teacher quote of all time, Mrs Barton: "When you go to Nice, because of course you'll go to Nice, why wouldn't you go to Nice? Nice is Nice."
Note italicizing if nice at the end. This one is pronounced nice, like the word that it is, and all the others are pronounced as neece, for those who weren't aware of this. It was sooo funny at the time, but I guess it was a "you had to be there" moment... It happened in History last year.

Now I'm in a s****y mood because of those random thoughts... I'm bored...

I'm actually quite surprised at the way people act, and how hypocritical they are. I decided this during maths today. I genuinely didn't understand how to do the question, and O was a total b***h about it. R was quite s****y too. O was like: "Shut up, Paige" in a real b****y tone. Well f**k you too. But seriously, she complained that **** was laughing at "dumb" people, eg someone who is trying to understand but can't, but she does the same thing, except minus the laughing and plus the b****iness and attitude. Then she gives the closest person the "OMG, I can't believe he/she's so dumb" look. Just get over it, not everyone thinks like you (fortunately). People's brains are all wired differently, O, and they don't all compute the same things at the same level. Jesus Christ. Still listening to ice box by Omarion...

Just had dinner, vegetable crepes. Not my favourite thang. But I suppose when you go to a boarding school you expect crap food. I did. School food sucks. ALL THE TIME. I have prep in 20 minutes... I don't need to do anythang urgently. History internal is due in like, four weeks. I've made a good head start on it too. I have two weeks of class time for it and two weeks of holiday time. Ages. I'm reading Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead now. Recommend it; they're my favourite books EVER. A picture of the series (five books, four have been released so far and the fifth is coming out in May, with the sixth not having a cover yet) is in the post below. I'm excited for Spirit Bound's release... I'm listening to Ice Box by Omarion right now...

I can't wait until it comes out! Bring on May! :)

Those are some of my favourite websites...

www.richellemead.com
www.caseystoner.com.au
www.stepheniemeyer.com
www.motogp.com

Today I had: Classics, Bio, DOUBLE MATHS, History and Japanese. Classics was sooo funny . We had a class discussion on racism, and we decided that Rathole is reaaallly racist. We also decided that I lead the class of on random topics by using my gifts of distraction. Bio was cool, and we talked about what we'd do if we were stranded at sea. Apparently to survive for awhile we'd have to drink the bodily fluids of fish and stuff. Ew. But not sharks, which is just as well as I wouldn't go near one anyway. Maths sucked because I had no clue how to do the trig stuff, and Olivia and Rose got sh*tty with me, even though Mrs Du Cann was being reaaallly patient, for once. History was cool, with Jonty grilling Olivia, and me doing some more work. We had Mr Barr, who is the COOLEST reliever EVER. Japanese was funny because we played kanji snap, with my team losing by a few points. The rest of Jap passed pretty weirdly, because none of us really listened... Hmmm... Maybe should work on that. I don't have maths until next term! Yay! :)

OMG!!!

OMG Gabi and Bevan got together today! :) Eillish and I spent all of lunchtime trying to get them alone so that he could ask her, but people were always there. But at the end of lunch we ditched them and he asked her!!! OMG!!! So excited! It's adorable! OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!! Have been speaking in a high pitched voice for about half an hour... OMG!!!

Haha, Olivia yesterday: "Why do the seedy guys always like me?" :( Priceless, you should have seen her face! (That's her on the left)

The bus ride back to school was fairly uneventful, with me listening to my iPod. Victoria came to sit by me when someone was carsick and needed her seat. Finally convinced people that I do listen to normal music, not emo s**t. Passed a happy few minutes listening to glee and lady gaga. Then when we got back to school we had to unpack the entire back of the bus to get the girls' bags out, because we didn't do as we were told and put them in last. To be fair, we had already put them on before they told us that. Mine was at the VERY back, of course. Once back at school I had a joyful reunion with my laptop, which I took over to hampton and spent some blissful time on language perfect, perfecting my japanese *cough*. In reality, I learnt next to nothing and will need many more years of practice. I had dinner, which was nice as Liz prepared something for me in case I came, seeing as I hadn't booked a meal. Desert was ice cream and chocolate mousse. Yum. I then returned to my room for a short period of time before deciding that I stunk and needed a shower. That was one goddamn amazing shower. Then I headed over to hampton, before nicking a bottle of milk and returning to my room. I then put banana nesquik in said bottle of milk and sat down to write a blog. For lack of inspiration, this blog became Banana Milkshakes, and the rest is history! :)

In addition to blog at "2:58"

Carabina, that's the word for the clippy-things...

I crashed straight after duties, with my cabin-mates Stevie and Alex already doing so. Danielle and Emma came in and made one hell of a racket, which called for the (probably anticipated) "shut up!" Like the night before, it didn't take long for sleep to find me.
The next day started in much the same fashion, with the addition of Mrs Vundy coming into our cabins and blowing a whistle as our wake up call. Her cackle of glee could be heard from miles away. Gee, thanks. Breakfast was the same as Saturday. White bread. Ugh. Peanut butter. Yay! It was too wet for us to waste heat and energy with an outside activity, so we huddled in the meeting room and played a game to help us understand the stock market. It wasn't as bad as it may sound. Sparing all the details, our team came second on $1600, when we started with $300. Jonty's group kicked everyone's arse, with them ending on $6900. He does take level 3 eco though, so we weren't too bummed. Next we had "The Amazing Race." This was essentially a Camp Kaitoke version of the real thing, with clues, "money," "planes, buses" and detours. The detour was a riddle and the planes and buses were teachers and Harry (the Rathkeale tutor) taking us to the place that we needed to go. The downside of the "transport"? We had to sing the whole way, otherwise they stopped. We stuck to the alphabet and twinkle twinkle little star. Our team came fourth, with Olivia getting us out of the final task, archery, early, with a hit earning us 30 points when we had to get 100 as a team to leave. Nice work :). After this we returned to our cabins for showers and to get our stuff to take to the bus. We said thank you to the instructors and left, sore muscles and high spirits, to return to home and school.

Time and Date On This Blog

The time and date on this blog are completely off the mark. For example, right now it's 7:52pm on Monday the 29th of March

After an AMAZING shower, we got going, prepared to find symbols on little blocks of wood. Taylor had the map, and while we were skeptical of his skills, he did lead us in the right direction once we figured out which symbols we were looking for. We walked through the horse paddock, and Natalie FREAKED. She's terrified of horses. It was actually pretty funny. After we completet this, we returned to the dining room for afternoon tea, and my duty group was on, well, er, duty. So I took care of the cups and stuff, which wasn't that bad. We worked out how to use the sterilizer, which admittedly wasn't hard. Later we had downtime and dinner. Downtime consisted of watching Avatar on my iPod, and talking to people who talked to me. Dinner wasn't great, but I did eat it. After this we had a "talent quest" where we competed in out duty groups. Mine included Victoria, Becca, Matt, Matt, Eillish, Me, Lucy V, and Jane. We couldn't agree on what to do until like, two minutes before we actually performed. Not even two minutes before we went inside and watched and waited, but before we actually performed. I did the music, Victoria, Matt (x2), Lucy, Eillish and Jane did the hand thing where you have someone at the back putting their hands through the arms of the other person, and Becca did a dance. Unfortunately they wanted me to play the worst song ever made: Tik Tok. I did, grudgingly. It went quite well I have to say, with Becca being the highlight of the group by miles. We did disappoint Victoria a lot, as she had been looking forward to it all day. We should have worked her singing into it somehow, as she is REALLY good. But what is done is done. Sorry, Vic. We came second to last, then it was supper time. Our duty group was on again. Victoria, Eillish and I did most of the work, and we were excused from the next day's duties. Hell-to-the-yes! :)

Then Harvey and Jane paddled up to me. Each grabbing a side or the kayak, they proceeded to press down one after the other, so that my kayak was rocking quite severely. Luckily I was kneeling at the time, and by simply swaying in the opposite direction of the person pushing down, I stayed upright. Unluckily, Harvey wasn't having any of this, and he simply jumped out of his kayak onto mine and capsized me. I, being the tourettes wannabe that I am, promptly started screaming obscenities. Flipping the kayak back up the way that it's supposed to be, I clambered back in and attempted revenge, which only saw me being flipped again. I gave up at this point, and continued with the kayaking. At the end our instructor announced that we were going to play a game called "first to capsize Harvey." Someone promptly did so, and we cheered with great enthusiasm. On the way back in, Harvey once again capsized me, and, being the equal opportunity gal that I am, simply grabbed his kayak from in the water and returned the favour. He, in return pushed my kayak away from me, and was rewarded with a fresh bout of potty mouth. I retrieved my kayak and attempted to return to shore, where he pushed me out again. Luckily I held onto the "wharf" and managed to get in without too much trouble. Next we had orienteering.

We then built a fire (supervised, of course), which our resident pyro (Matt) thoroughly enjoyed. Next we had art. This didn't go so well, with our reconstructions of a painting not looking so flash. (Every person on camp painted one hundredth of a painting, so that the pieces could be put together and create a huge paining. However, our team canvas with our team name in it was amazing. We used stencils to create a brick effect with smoke covering it, then our resident tagger (again, Matt) wrote WTF! in vivid. It doesn't sound that cool when explained, but if I had a photo (which, unfortunately, I don't) you would understand why we were so proud of it. The teachers agreed that it was the best, and we left rotation 4 pleases with ourselves. Next, kayaking, which I had been looking forward to since the tramp, which was when I heard about it. We made our way to the lake (where the previous day we had "built" our pontoon) and stumbled into our sea kayaks. The water was freezing, but we soon discovered that that wasn't our biggest problem. BLOODY HARVEY MASON kept capsizing people! Jane (Spade) went in about 15 times! I went in three times, but I'll tell more soon. We had to paddle across the lake with no paddles, then either kneel or stand to get there and back. Sitting= 0 points, kneeling= 1 point and standing= 2 points. (Team points for the team competition) I managed to stand for a bit, but decided that falling out wasn't particularly desirable.

On Saturday, it was a bright and early start with us getting up at about 7:00. (This is actually earlier than I usually rise by about a half hour, but I don't do a three-hour tramp every day do I?) Anyway, I digress. We were up, dressed and ready to eat at eight. I ravenously wolfed down two slices of peanut buttered toast. White bread. Ew. After this my group had survival. The other groups who had done this the day before delightedly informed our aching muscles that this rotation involved another tramp. Awesome news, guys! NOT! However, Paddy had rolled his ankle, and our instructor took pity on us as it was early in the morning and because we were in pain. Oh, and the fact that Paddy was limping. So we walked into the bush and after about two minutes she stopped. We were then told that we had a scenario to work with, and that we had to treat it as though it was real: we were tramping through the bush. We'd just spoken to the ranger, who had headed up in the opposite direction of that in which we were heading. We planned to walk twenty kilometres today, which all up should take about eight hours. She also told Taylor that he was "guide number two," due to us voting him the loudest. With this in mind, we walked for a further five minutes, whereupon our instructor stopped and informed us that she had been struck by severe food poisoning and was violently ill. She was running a fever and was floating in and out of consciousness. Taylor ("guide number two") had climbed a tree to get cellphone reception but had fallen out, landing face-first on a log and losing consciousness. Outstanding. We now have to work as a team and decide what to do. We struggled just a tad. We covered Taylor with a survival blanket, bandaged his head and popped on a beanie. We raided her pack found the first aid kit. I'll spare you all the boring details, but we erected a shelter and found firewood too. Unfortunately we should have been grilling our semi-unconscious guide number one for information. We should have sent off our two fittest for help (cellphone reception was just five kilometres away). However, we did score a semi-respectable 13 out of 20.

I forgot to mention earlier that Taylor went straight into gorse when he came up the end of the rope bridge. (The "bridge" really involved a single rope and us attached to it by those clippy-things that I can't recall the name of right now.)

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The title of this blog is because I am currently drinking a banana milkshake for lack of another flavour. I prefer chocolate and caramel.

We then proceeded to play a game called "capture the flag" outside. This involved hiding our flags and trying to find the other teams' while trying to tag other teams and protect our flag. I was fine in the first round, but Charlotte got me in the second round. Then, when I was freed, I attempted to hunt her down. Upon finding that she was hunting in a pack, I continued in my quest for vengeance and promptly found myself tagged by Jock. Damn. On the plus side, we didn't lose our flag but managed to get another team's flag, coincidentally Charlotte's team's. Haha. Then it was straight to bed for me; I was out like a light at 9:15.

Year 12 Camp 2010

OMG camp was awesome! However, they told us that we would start with a two and a half hour tramp that was mostly downhill from the summit of the Rimutaka ranges down to Camp Kaitoke. Haha. Two hours after we started we were still walking uphill. Very funny, guys. The tramp was really three hours long, but that didn't matter. Near the end they put Jacob Warren at the front as leader, and he led us astray by taking us too far down one hill. So the chant of "Jacob's a homo *clap clap, clap clap clap*" started and lasted for awhile. The real fun started once we reached the camp. Straight into activities. First we found our duty and activity groups. My activity group was: Me, Olivia, Stevie, Jordan, Natalie, Jane, Matt, Harvey, Paddy, Jesse, and Taylor. Man was that a funny group. We started with tyrolean, which is making a rope bridge across a ditch between two trees. So we tied the ropes and most of us safely crossed the bridge, with the exception of Jordan, Stevie and Natalie?, who chose not to cross. Next we had pontoon, which involved building a BRIDGE, not BOAT across a small stretch of water using two kayaks, rope, planks of woof and a bucket. We failed epically, and every singloe person (except Taylor because he has a broken arm and can't get his cast wet) fell in an got drenched. It was amazing. Olivia slipped down a section of the bank leading into the water about ten times, therefore earning her the name "unco." Later we ate and had a short period of downtime, before heading to the meeting room for an, umm, meeting. During this meeting we chose our team name, made a flag, and created a chant. Our team name was WTF: Way Too Fast. Our flag failed, and our chant was pathetic, to say the least. It went like this: "It's blue in here, there must be some WTF in the hood. Say what? Hoo!