School Athletics Carnival

After being postponed twice, our school athletics carnival finally happened today. It was a good day, most people got dressed up to support their houses and people like me who wanted to have fun did.

I went in the javelon, discus, 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m. I'm also in the 1500m, which is happening either tomorrow or Monday.

I didn't do very well in javelon or Discus, cause I'm just not good at field events. Track events, though, are a different story.

I came 5th in the best heat for the 100. I lost to my friend Loren by 0.07 seconds. Which is really dissapointing because they only take 4 people from 100m to the interschools.

In 200m I came 3rd to Jacqui and this girl called Georgia. In 400 I came second - just to Jacqui. But Emma and Paris, who were in the other heat, both beat me aswell.

In 800m I came equal 4th. Yes, that is possible. Jacqui won, Loren got 2nd and Emma got third. Louisa and I both came fourth, and it wasn't even deliberate! I was behind her coming around the last corner, but then I started sprinting and overtook her. Then she started sprinting to catch up to me and we both crossed the line at the same time! How cool is that!

Mrs Burgess (that teacher who loves me and I hate her) was doing the recording (writting down our names, places, times and houses. You should have seem her face the first time I came up to her with a place card. She was shocked! Her afce was saying, 'WOW, my favourite little spock can run!'. By the end of the day she'd gotten used to me being good at something other than work.

I don't know if I'm in the interschools or not - hopefuly I am, but it all depends on how many events people like Jacqui who got into everything are alowed to do.

I also don't know how Mawson, my house, has done. They'll add up the points and anounce it either tomorrow or Monday.

Fish!

And no, that is not ferering to the fish that surposedly live in Lake Leake. Which were, btw, absent again.

It is, in fact, refering to the fish in the Swan River, which were biting as well as ever.

On Saturday morning we went to fish in this river cause we actually catch fish. It was just my family though, not the morleys'.

We caught 6 fish.

We only have photos of 5 of them, cause Mum caught the sixth. One about the size of Ray's and it wasn't worth photographing.

Rachel's fish which she caught both at the same time (we fish with two hooks on our line)

My smaller fish, which was impressive when I caught it.

My bigger fish, which is actually a really good size and was also impressive when i caught it.

And Rebekah's fish which had to go and be better than both of mine. Isn't it HUGE???

Injuries

I was at Lake Leake again this weekend. (It was show weekend, so we had 4 days off). Considering that last time I went to Lake leake I managed to fall out of the boat...anyone want to gues how I utterly embarrased myself this time?

No? No one? plz guess! (post your guess as a comment before reading on)

The answer is threefold (nice big word, don't you think?)

1. I burnt my arms and legs in the sun
2. I burnt my feet in the fire
3. I face planted off my bike

Ok, so getting sun burnt is kinda understandable. Me and james were kiacking around the lake in the nice, warm sun on Friday. It was really nice and calm and peacful and we both paddle about the same speed, so it was really really nice.There's not really any other way to describe it. Nice.

But the thing about kyaching is that i was waering boardies and my rashy. My rashy comes half way down the top of my arms. So now I have a burn/tan line half way down the tops of my arms! So not cool!

Any way, sunburn hurts, but fire-burn hurts more.

OK, scroll down a bit. See that? Its our bonfire! We built it last time and we lit it on Thursday night. And no, i wasn't quiet dum enough to get me feet burnt in that.

Before I tell you how I did get my feet burnt, here are a few pics from the bonfire. It was tons of fun and even better cause we all got to stay late. Ray weant a bit photo carzy, but here are 4 pics I think capture the night.

The us:

The Bonfire:

The sparklers:

Ok, so back to the hot topic - my feet.

Have you ever had a bonfire? Do you know how the bonfire ash is all white and looks really harmless? Do you know how hot that ash really is?

I do.

James and I are pyro-maniacs. On friday mornign we started the fire up again with bits of bark and sticks and drift-wood. we kept that fire going all day on friday and for a bit on Saturday morning. This required freequently hunting out more sticks, bark and driftwood for our hungry fire. I think we basicly cleared our bit of shore-line from everything burnable.

We were trying to put a particularly big bit of wood on the fire when I stepped into the harmless-looking white ash. In thongs.

It really hurt and I wasn't very smart. I sorta stamped up and down a bit before I ran to the lake. I stood in the lake until my feet went numb and then got out - just to return as soon as the feeling came back into my feet.

I wore proper shoes around that fire after that.

Now, for number 3. Oh yeah, the face-plant. The easiest way for me to explane it would be for you to watch this video. Sorry for the bad quality - it was filmed on James' fone.

If you don't laugh, then there must be something wrong with you.

LolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLOL!!!

I havn't shown it to anyone yet who hasn't laughed. And James hasn't stopped laughing since I did it. Another thing he can add to his list if things he can never let me forget.

Dad

Dad comes home form Frace 2moz! He better have got me a pressie, cause he had really nice stuff for the french people when he left!

Plus I've talked to him on the fone lots, and none of the others have. So I think that means I get a better pressent.

I want to go walk up Mt Anne with him next weekend, cause we didn't get to before he left. But Mum'll prob complain if he takes off again so soon after coming back. Even if he is with me.

Would you rather...

There's a new pole at the side of the page (just under the 'dull and boring life' thingo) plz answer it, and leave any comments about it on this post. :)

Not all bad...

Ok. So we didn't rock at the estedfords. But neither did we fail. We just weren't as good as Clarence should be.

The Junior Stage band got a merit. The Junior Concert band didn't place. The Training Band got a merit. The Senior Stage Band came second. The Senior Concert Band won. That sound fairly normal...FOR OGALVIE!!!! Not for us. We're better than that. We should be better than that. We have to be better than that! But we weren't. :(

There's always next year.

Friday

Today was the best day ever. Well, just about. Get this! We only had to go to half of homegroup, then we went to a Senior Band withdrawal. Then a break. Then a Junior Band withdrawal. Then a break. Then sport. Then Stage Band at lunch. Then...guess what?...another withdrawal!!! How cool is that day!!!

Btw: a withdrawal is where we get to skip class to do band practise. Sometimes its with the whole band, sometimes its just your section, and sometimes its an ensemble group - like our Flute Quartet in 4th period today.

Today we missed Woodwork, SOSE and Maths. I hate SOSE and Maths, so thats makes it even better.

Did anyones Friday beat that? I bet it didn't!