Its been a long time since I've had a real saturday. by 'real' I mean not getting out of bed till 10, not getting dressed till 12, not venturing outside at all.
I had a real saturady yesterday :-)
I was reading Howl's Moving Castle, which is a book about a castle belonging to Howl that moves, rather than Howl moving out of his castle into a new castle - which is what I first thought.Anyway, Jacqui said it was good so I read it.
I woke up at about half seven, read till half ten, by which time I was so hungry I had to get up and find food and then I returned to bed until I finished that book at about half eleven. I got up, got dressed, had lunch, anoyed Rachel and Jordy 4 a bit and then returned to bed with another book!
This time it was the third one of John Marsden's Tomorrow Series (the Tomorrow when the War Began ones). I read all afternoon and had it finished before tea. It was really good - I didn't even get up for food! :-0
So yeah, a real saturday, finaly. No getting up early or fishing or running or phisical activitie. The kind of day which is really good very occasionally, but any more often than that and it gets incredibly boring. :-)
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Life
What a boring title for a post. Life. but thats what its about, so I guess I should warn you of the boring-ness of this post by giving it a boring title.
Band's started again. Which is good, except that senior stage is way too hard and I'm the only one on my part so I need to be able to play...scary.
On Saturday morning Dad and I went fishing at Dunnally. It was tons of fun, but I wasn't even supposed to be there! The plan had been for Dad to take Rachel and Jordy and Mum! But Jordy couldn't go, so then Rachel decided that she didn't want to go. Then Mum decided that she really couldn't leave us kids at home for the morning...the twins didn't want to go, so I got to go again yay!
Oh yeah, I went with Dad to Dunally the weekend before. We caught 55 flathead, a squid and 3 sharks. the sharks were awesome, but unfortunately its a shark safe place thingy. So we couldn't keep any of them :-( the biggest one was 1.5m long-ish and it was mine!!!
Anyway, on Saturday we only got 44 flathead. Still a lot, but not quiet as good as before. We were out till 1:30, cause we didn't know the time cause my fone went flat :-) It really good, though, cause it was sunny the whole time! (the time with the sharks it started raining on us while we were cleaning) It takes a long long time to clean that many fish! Over an hour!
On Saturday afternoon we went to Clifton beach (our local surf beach). I took my friend Lucinda with me and I knew Loren was gonna be there cause we were texting. And then Louisa and Caroline were both htere too! So we had an apsolutely awesome time in the waves, body surfing and boogie boarding and everything else! It was really hot but the sun of the morning had dissapeared. :-(
Sunday we had a church bbq, which was cool. We played soccer with tunnel vision. Like you know how when your a kid you make binoculars out of toilet rolls? Well, we were playing soccer with these things on! Its fun to play and even more fun to watch!!!
Monday was boring, just a normal day. Mr Hird was trying to explain factorising and expanding and all that. He took half an hour and still no one got it! So then I had to explain it to everyone again. And, strangly, it only took me 5 minutes and everyone at my table understood! He must be a really hopeless teacher, even Jacqui had npo clue what he was on about!
Today was an activeties day and grade nine (my grade) went to glenorcy pool. It was awesome! Glenorcy has the most awesome slide and we could go on it again and again and again. We also got to play on the foam floaty mats and just muck around with our friends all day! It was so good! And did you know that bogans stop being bogans at the pool??? Its seriously amazing! They were, like, NORMAL PEOPLE! Who would have guessed? It was even possible to have conversations with them and some of them are actually really nice! I reackon we should go to the pool more often! :-)
I hope you aren't all asleep. But thats my life at the mo.
Band's started again. Which is good, except that senior stage is way too hard and I'm the only one on my part so I need to be able to play...scary.
On Saturday morning Dad and I went fishing at Dunnally. It was tons of fun, but I wasn't even supposed to be there! The plan had been for Dad to take Rachel and Jordy and Mum! But Jordy couldn't go, so then Rachel decided that she didn't want to go. Then Mum decided that she really couldn't leave us kids at home for the morning...the twins didn't want to go, so I got to go again yay!
Oh yeah, I went with Dad to Dunally the weekend before. We caught 55 flathead, a squid and 3 sharks. the sharks were awesome, but unfortunately its a shark safe place thingy. So we couldn't keep any of them :-( the biggest one was 1.5m long-ish and it was mine!!!
Anyway, on Saturday we only got 44 flathead. Still a lot, but not quiet as good as before. We were out till 1:30, cause we didn't know the time cause my fone went flat :-) It really good, though, cause it was sunny the whole time! (the time with the sharks it started raining on us while we were cleaning) It takes a long long time to clean that many fish! Over an hour!
On Saturday afternoon we went to Clifton beach (our local surf beach). I took my friend Lucinda with me and I knew Loren was gonna be there cause we were texting. And then Louisa and Caroline were both htere too! So we had an apsolutely awesome time in the waves, body surfing and boogie boarding and everything else! It was really hot but the sun of the morning had dissapeared. :-(
Sunday we had a church bbq, which was cool. We played soccer with tunnel vision. Like you know how when your a kid you make binoculars out of toilet rolls? Well, we were playing soccer with these things on! Its fun to play and even more fun to watch!!!
Monday was boring, just a normal day. Mr Hird was trying to explain factorising and expanding and all that. He took half an hour and still no one got it! So then I had to explain it to everyone again. And, strangly, it only took me 5 minutes and everyone at my table understood! He must be a really hopeless teacher, even Jacqui had npo clue what he was on about!
Today was an activeties day and grade nine (my grade) went to glenorcy pool. It was awesome! Glenorcy has the most awesome slide and we could go on it again and again and again. We also got to play on the foam floaty mats and just muck around with our friends all day! It was so good! And did you know that bogans stop being bogans at the pool??? Its seriously amazing! They were, like, NORMAL PEOPLE! Who would have guessed? It was even possible to have conversations with them and some of them are actually really nice! I reackon we should go to the pool more often! :-)
I hope you aren't all asleep. But thats my life at the mo.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Bored
Its five days since my last post and I'm utterly bored right now so I'll tell you some utterly unimportant details of my utterly uninteresting life.
Mr Hird is getting worse - I actually tryed my hardest to understand what he was saying yesterday and only just managed to make sence of it. Not cause its particularly hard or confusing - just cause he's a bad teacher. Then I had to explain it to my friend Jacqui who is also one of the smartest kidsin my year and my friend Allicia who is really going to struggle with maths this year if Mr Hird doesn't pick up his game. We were the only ones who bothered to work. Mr Hird didn't even seem to notice that the rest of the class did nothing all lesson.
Um, what else can I say? I was dissapointed with Sunday night's Dr Who. I thought they could have done a lot better. It just wasn't freaky enough. I hope part two is an improvement.
Band starts on Thursday, which will be good cause then I'll at least have something to do.
Mr Hird is getting worse - I actually tryed my hardest to understand what he was saying yesterday and only just managed to make sence of it. Not cause its particularly hard or confusing - just cause he's a bad teacher. Then I had to explain it to my friend Jacqui who is also one of the smartest kidsin my year and my friend Allicia who is really going to struggle with maths this year if Mr Hird doesn't pick up his game. We were the only ones who bothered to work. Mr Hird didn't even seem to notice that the rest of the class did nothing all lesson.
Um, what else can I say? I was dissapointed with Sunday night's Dr Who. I thought they could have done a lot better. It just wasn't freaky enough. I hope part two is an improvement.
Band starts on Thursday, which will be good cause then I'll at least have something to do.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
The Wall of Shame
This is an invention of my English teacher, Mrs K. This is where people who make really stupid spelling mistakes end up - so I'm guessing I'll be up there several times before the end of the year!
Anyway, I though you could all do with a laugh. Here are some of the word's from Mrs K's 2009 Wall of Shame. And I wasn't in her class then, so none of these are me.
Brootaly = brutally
Asalted = assaulted
Gentitle = genital
Labara = labourer
In packs = impacts (lol)
Balled = bald (double lol)
Conshence = conscience
Susity = society
Faitle = fatal
Parashoot = parachute
Custardy = custody
Suzerian = cesarean
Conker = conquer
Hospittle = hospital
A poorling = appalling
Butifle = beautiful
Seperia = superior
Colder sack = cul de sac
Floor less = flawless
Parence = parents
I hope you've all had a good laugh at that! I know I did! :-)
Anyway, I though you could all do with a laugh. Here are some of the word's from Mrs K's 2009 Wall of Shame. And I wasn't in her class then, so none of these are me.
Brootaly = brutally
Asalted = assaulted
Gentitle = genital
Labara = labourer
In packs = impacts (lol)
Balled = bald (double lol)
Conshence = conscience
Susity = society
Faitle = fatal
Parashoot = parachute
Custardy = custody
Suzerian = cesarean
Conker = conquer
Hospittle = hospital
A poorling = appalling
Butifle = beautiful
Seperia = superior
Colder sack = cul de sac
Floor less = flawless
Parence = parents
I hope you've all had a good laugh at that! I know I did! :-)
School :-(
Well, the holidays enevitably had to come to an end. And they have. We are now all back in that pointless hole they lock us up in for 95% of the year.Rachel's started at Clarence this year. The twins are in grade 5 and I am in grade 9. I don't much like grade nine so far. It's, like, in the middle. No-one really cares about us cause we're not babies, but neither are we grown-up enough to be useful grade 10s.
I also don't like garde nine cause its so confusing! With all the different subjects and for every different subject you have different kids in your class and argh! it's so frustraring!
I actually like the subjects I've got -
- Top maths
- Top science
- English
- Sose
- Design Enterprises (where we get to make cool stuff and then sell it at salamanca and keep the money!)
- Movie Making
- Sport
My teachers are mostly good too. The only bad teacher i've got is Mr Hird and he's hopeless. I've got him for maths so I'm gaurenteed not to learn anything in maths all year. Get this - he was a computer techy before he became a teacher. He was a dud at that too - my Mum was his boss! And she was, like, only just out of uni! Lol! And he isn't any better at teaching than he was at computing. So maths is offisially my grade nine bludge subject :-)
Holiday: Grand Finale
OK. It feels really wierd writing this after I've been back at school for 2 days, but oh well. This is the first time I've actually been in the mood for blogging and there's no point doing it if you don't feel like it!
Well, last weekend - regatta weekend - we went bushwlking. We climbed Cradle Mountain, Barn Bluff and Little Horn (the pointy bit of Cradle). We were out there for two nights, we spent one night at Waterfall Valley (the first hut on the overland track) and one night at Scott Kilvert, another hut around Cradle.
These are the people we walked with -
Look familiar? Its the croud from the overland track + Rachel. In the back row is Dad, Jacqui, Me and Rachel. The others are Rick (Jacqui's Dad) in the grey top, Cathy (Jacqui's Mum) in the red top and Bernard (Jacqui's bro) in the blue top.
In that photo we are on top of Cradle. We summited it on our first day, after coming over Marions lookout in much nicer weather than we did last time (the overland track :-)
On the second day we started by touring the waterfalls in waterfall valley. This was the best waterfall cause we got right in behind it!
I so wanted to jump into this waterfall! It was so inviting and so hard to resist! But it was cold. And Dad decided that I wouldn't dry fast enough and so he didn't let me get in. :-(
That day we also climbed Barn Bluff. its out behind Cradle and I wouldn't be surprised if none of you have heard of it cause you can't see it until ur almost on top of Cradle.
The third abd final day was very hot. And we were walking in the sun all day. We did go swiming though! But first most of us climbed Little Horn.
Me and Dad on Little Horn. Rachel didn't get to the top of that one. It was one of her two tantrums she through over the trip. She was scared of how exposed the track was and she was tired and sick of walking. We got to a hard-ish bit and she wouldn't keep going. Dad made her stay where she was while we all went right to the top.
Well, last weekend - regatta weekend - we went bushwlking. We climbed Cradle Mountain, Barn Bluff and Little Horn (the pointy bit of Cradle). We were out there for two nights, we spent one night at Waterfall Valley (the first hut on the overland track) and one night at Scott Kilvert, another hut around Cradle.
These are the people we walked with -
Look familiar? Its the croud from the overland track + Rachel. In the back row is Dad, Jacqui, Me and Rachel. The others are Rick (Jacqui's Dad) in the grey top, Cathy (Jacqui's Mum) in the red top and Bernard (Jacqui's bro) in the blue top.In that photo we are on top of Cradle. We summited it on our first day, after coming over Marions lookout in much nicer weather than we did last time (the overland track :-)
On the second day we started by touring the waterfalls in waterfall valley. This was the best waterfall cause we got right in behind it!
I so wanted to jump into this waterfall! It was so inviting and so hard to resist! But it was cold. And Dad decided that I wouldn't dry fast enough and so he didn't let me get in. :-(
That day we also climbed Barn Bluff. its out behind Cradle and I wouldn't be surprised if none of you have heard of it cause you can't see it until ur almost on top of Cradle.
The third abd final day was very hot. And we were walking in the sun all day. We did go swiming though! But first most of us climbed Little Horn.
Me and Dad on Little Horn. Rachel didn't get to the top of that one. It was one of her two tantrums she through over the trip. She was scared of how exposed the track was and she was tired and sick of walking. We got to a hard-ish bit and she wouldn't keep going. Dad made her stay where she was while we all went right to the top.The other hissy fit she through was on the way down from Barn Bluff. It was almost three o'clock and we hadn't eaten lunch and we were all hungry and Rachel isn't good at sleeping on thermerests, so she was tired. She fell over. Then she didn't get as much simpathy as she wanted, so she through a tanty and refused to eat. We were all eating lunch and she sat by heraelf sulking and refusing food. I don't know what she was trying to prove, but when we were all packing up to leave she decided she would eat and then we had to wait for her. *sigh*
On the last day we went swimming. Twice. We had lunch at the Twisted Lakes and swam there and then we swam again when we got to Dove Lake. In this photo me and Jacqui are in Dove Lake, and Cradle Mountain is there to remind any of you who have forgotten what it looks like how spectacular it is. 
Elliot met some friends on Marion's lookout.
Elliot couldn't believe how big and scary Cradle Mountain looked from Marion's lookout!
But Elliot concoured Cradle Mountain that after noon! He was very happy. He was the happiest little elephant in the world!
Elliot had a good night sleep at Waterfall Valley and woke up ready to explore the numerous waterfalls.
Elliot was really looking forward to climbing Barn Bluff, too. He thought that it looked almost as fantastic as Cradle!
And it was! Elliot decided that the view from the top of Barn Bluff was the best view he'd ever seen!
Elliot was really glad to get to the next hut, though, because all this walking was making him really tired.
But the next morning he continued! He reached the top of yet another mountain! It was really hot and sunny on top of Little Horn, so Elliot was glad that he got a lift back down in Cathy's pocket.
On the last day we went swimming. Twice. We had lunch at the Twisted Lakes and swam there and then we swam again when we got to Dove Lake. In this photo me and Jacqui are in Dove Lake, and Cradle Mountain is there to remind any of you who have forgotten what it looks like how spectacular it is.Rachel took her little toy Elephant that her boyfriend gave her for Xmas with her. He had an awesome trip! His name is Elliot.
Elliot's Photo Gallery
Elliot met some friends on Marion's lookout.
Elliot couldn't believe how big and scary Cradle Mountain looked from Marion's lookout!
But Elliot concoured Cradle Mountain that after noon! He was very happy. He was the happiest little elephant in the world!
Elliot had a good night sleep at Waterfall Valley and woke up ready to explore the numerous waterfalls.
Elliot was really looking forward to climbing Barn Bluff, too. He thought that it looked almost as fantastic as Cradle!
And it was! Elliot decided that the view from the top of Barn Bluff was the best view he'd ever seen!
Elliot was really glad to get to the next hut, though, because all this walking was making him really tired. But the next morning he continued! He reached the top of yet another mountain! It was really hot and sunny on top of Little Horn, so Elliot was glad that he got a lift back down in Cathy's pocket.Eliot had a great holiday and he really wants to go walking with us agin next time!
I love little Elliot - I hope you do too! :-)
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