Eclipse

I went and saw Eclipse with Jacqui and Loren today. It was good; about as good as teenaged vampire movies are ever going to be. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't an amazing movie. Just a chick flick :-)

The only problem with it was that there was too much kissing. Actually, rephrase that. Too much of Edward and Bella kissing. She should have kissed Jacob more. Jacob's HOT.

It stuck pretty close to the book, but in a few places it really started to drag. But oh well. I thought it was worth watching :-)

Bored...

I'm bored. I'm sitting at home, by my self, and I don't really feel like doing anything. Actually, I feel like sitting infront of the TV and watching a movie I've never seen before. But I've seen everything in the cupboard 101 times already.

I could practise my flute. I could read my book. I could go for a run. I could get rid of these hickups! I could curl up in bed and go to sleep. I'm in the mood for talking. But I'm home by my self for another hour!

*sigh* I might go see if I can get into my book.

Mt Field

We spent Thursday night up on Mt Field with my friend Jacqui and her family. Loren came with us too. We got there at about midday on Thursday. The wether wasn't good. We got an almost clear bit to walk from the car park, up the jeep trail to the ski huts. Jacqui and her family are members of the Mawson ski club, right next door to Oldina (where we were a couple of weekends ago). So we had my family (me, Rachel, Keziah, Rekekah and Mum - Dad came up for the night, but he still had to work), Jacqui's family (Jacqui, Bernard, Cathy and Rick - the people we go walking with) and Loren.

We played games all thurday afternoon, cause it just wasn't nice outside. We played Mafia, poker, Compadibility and Truth. We played a lot of Marfia and a lot of Truth (like truth or dare, but without the dares).

On friday we woke up to a beautiful morning!

The view from the Mawson veranda on Friday morning.

The Twins ready to go walking on Friday morning. We went up to the Lion's Den, a massive bolder field with lots of caves and passagewys between the rocks.

Of we go! Jacqui, Loren, Me (with the pack - Mum didn't want to carry it uphill) and Beck.

Us at the Lake Seal lookout. You should be able to work out who's who by now.

Beck relaxing in the Lion's Den while me and Jacqui and Loren and Bernard crawl through tiny gaps in the rocks.

The Twins went down to Tarn Shelf with mum before us. We were still too busy exploring. But the we had to go join them before they ate all our food!

You've got Jacqui in front, then Loren, then me, Rachel and Bernard.

Before we left the ski hut, Loren and I made a pact to go swimming, no matter how cold and miserable it was. And it was very cold and miserable. So cold and miserable that Bernard was questioning my sanity. He sould no by now that nothing gets inbetween Hannah and water! And Loren had never been swimming in a mountain tarn before, so I had to go with her, obviously!

Jumping in. The trick is not too think about it. As soon as you think about it, you start to think its not such a good idea. Loren made that mistake and took ages to get in. I didn't. Not this time! I've learnt that lesson before! Loren ended up half falling in, I did a graceful bomb with a massive splash! :-)

We then swam round to scare some old people with our freakish-ness. Bernard and jacqui followed us round the shore, demanding that we get out and put jackets on before we die of some horrible disease.

We didn't leave Mawson until it was dark. We just weren't in any hurry at all! Us kids played flags until it got too dark, and Mum and Cathy played Scrabble. Then we left - walking along the jeep trail by torchlight.

Loren, who's just started The Tomorrow Series, thought it was the coolest thing ever. She's never done any bushwalking or anything, and she kept saying how it all reminded her so much of the trips into Hell in the books. :-)

Extension Maths

I'm doing a stupid extension Maths programe at the Uni on Mondays at the moment. Well, I went for the first time today.

I really don't like the whole concept of it. You hae to give up your own time, afterschool, to do extra maths! And then they give you homework and it just seems pointless! And anyway, hows it gonna help your future? I mean, your gonna cover it all in normal classes eventually, and so doing it early in extensions just gonna make it more boring when you actually do it in class. If that makes any sense at all.

We were just doing some random problems today. Like, kinda algebra and problem solving mixed together.

Here's one of them. If your interested read it. If your not just skip it.

The average weight in a group of boys was calculated. David, who weighs 39kg, joined the group and changed the average to 51kg. Ben, who weighs 61kg, then also joined the group, putting the group average up to 52kg. What was the average weight of the boys in the group before Ben and David came along?

Can you do it? I couldn't. But then the teacher explained and now i can. Which is a good thing, I guess. But I still hate doing extra maths.

BTW; I'm only doing it cause my parents bribed me into it. Mum actually bought me the last few of the books in Jhon Marsden's The Tomorrow Series, and then said that I couldn't read them unless I tryed this maths thing. I really had no choice. *sigh*

saturday.

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. :-)