TOUR!

Tour. Its all over now. It was so much fun and I got so tired and its good to be home and I can't wait to do it again next year!

I won't tell you too many boring details, I'll just post a lot of photos with a few bits of writing.

We spent a lot of time on busses. A LOT. 5 hours on Sunday arvo. Almost 2 hours on Monday, about 3 hours on Tuesday, an hour and a half on Wednesday and 45 minutes-ish on Thursday. We filled in this time talking, listening to Ipods, playing Yatzee and catching up on our sleep. In this photo you have Loren and Jacqui with the Ipod and Griggssy and Hill leaning over the seat.

On Monday we went surfing! Well, we also played at St Marys Distric High; but surfing was way more fun! In this photo we're getting ready to paddle out to the beach with the waves.

Here we are surfing. The waves were huge and it was really cold and Lorens feet turned blue - but I didn't have a problem cause its the first time I've ever experienced the wonder of wetsuits!

I even stood up on my board! It was only for about 2 seconds, but still - it was something. And it was so much fun trying that no-one really cared about actually being able to surf!

This is our band playing at Dodges Ferry Primary. We played at schools all over the east coast - St Hellens, St Marys, Swansea, Triabunna, Orford, Dodges Ferry and Sorell.

Me playing in the band at Dodges. It got a bit boring playing the same pieces over and over again, but the kid's reactions were amazing! They listened so carefully and they really seemed to enjoy hearing our music!

In this picture we are playing 'A Musical Fairytale' by RT Honeyman. Its a really cool piece because we tell the story of a king and a prince and a princess and it really funny! Zac tells the story and we accompany him with tunes to help tell the story. All the primary school kids love it - but Simon won't let us play it to any high school kids. :-(

You are probably wondering why we are banging on a window. Well here's the answer - Hannah's Ipod dock was inside the room and we were stuck out side. Mrs Ross confiscated Hannah's dock because it was 'too loud'. Which is kinda hard to believe, seeing as it wasn't turned on. So we protested. We banged on the window and we yelled at her and we sung out of tune Xmas Charols with Sam accumpenying us on Cornet. Then we sang Amazing Grace and Sconnie kept yelling at us cause he didn't get how we all knew all the words. I don't get that either. Our whole band was there protesting and we just about all knew the words to Amazing Grace! Amazing!

Anyway, the teachers thought our protest was halerious. They recored it on thier cameras and they teased us with the dock and the Mrs Barrot went to the grade 10 boy's room and stold their complementary milk out of the fridge. Then she drank it in front of all of us! So we started chanting 'milk, milk, milk, milk, milk!' And banging all our pots and panns. Simon decided then that we were making too much noise and got us to try negotiating. That didn't really work. We tryed negotiating by ourselves, which didn't work cause Ms Ross and Mrs Barrot just laughed at us. Then Simon helped us. He took Griggssy into the girl teachers room and Briddy got in too. Then she yanked the door open and we all got in. We grabbed the dock and Sconnie grabbed Mrs Ross's Ipod and then we ran out. But we forgot the cord for the Ipod dock! So then we spent another half an hour trying to get the cord for the dock back. We eventually swapped Mrs Ross's Ipod for Hannah's Ipod dock cord.

On Thursday arvo we played at the Orford fair. It was so cool cause everything was free! Free ice-cream, free popcorn, free sausges, free facepainting, free EVERYTHING! I was in heaven!

Here you have Kelsey, Briddy, me and Hannah after several free sausages, a free ice cream, a free bag of popcorn and free face-painting. But then we had to go play to provide Orford with free entertainment. :-(

Anyway, tour was awesome and Simon sais that we were good so he'll take us to NZ next year!

New Moon

New Moon is so much better than Twilight! I mean, in the books New Moon is way boring and Twilight is tons better - but in the movies New Moon is so so so much better!!! I think that this is mostly because Jacob Black is mega hot.

I know a lot of people think Edward (Robert patterson) is hot, but I don't. He wears lip-stick and guy-liner and he's got all this stubble round his jaw and his chest is really hairy and I think he is ugly as. Jacob, on the other hand is brown skinned, clean shaved, with lots of muscles. Jacob is HOT.

My favourite bit of the movie is the middle bit where Jacob is one of the main characters. But then Edward comes back and rouines everything. Stupid ugly vampire. My very favourite bit is when Jacob took his top of to wipe up Bella's blood, cause half the cinema gasped and then the other half of the cinema laughed at the half of the cinema that laughed. I did both. :-)

Anyway, the very last line of the movie was Edward saying, 'Bella, will you marry me?' And then my friend Loren who hasn't read it was like gasping to see what Bella would say and then...the movie ended! So now she's gonna read the books even faster so that she can know what Bella sais without having to wait for the next movie.

I'm going on Band tour now, so I'll talk to you all l8r.

TOUR

We leave 2moz! I seriously can't wait! I'm nearly all packed and I'm going to see New Moon 2nite! Ray went with Jordy last night and she said it was really good. The guy who plays Jacob (Taylor somethin) is really hot - so much hotter than Robert Patterson (Edward Cullen)! When Ray was there he took his top off and half the girls in the theatre like screamed or sumthin!!! I won't do that. I'm not that retarded! I'm going at 6:40 with Jacqui and Loren and Sara. Just about everyone else has already seen it.

Oh yeah! Thats right! I was talking about tour! Well we leave at 12 2moz and I'm starting to get nervous! Everyone sais its really fun and I got the right people in my room (Loren, Jacqui, Hayley and me), but still, I'm nervous. I'm sitting with hayley on the bus on the way up to St Helens. 5 hours! definately the worst part of tour!

Band, Band, Band

Anual Bands Concert last night. Junior Concert Band is over for the year. Gotta learn my Junior Stage Band charts. Senior Concert Band rehersal tomorrow night. Junior Stage Band playing at Clarence Celebrates in 2 weeks. Band tour in three days.

As you can see, my life is full of band, just like always. I had my last performance as a member of the Junior Concert Band last night. We played 4 pieces at Clarences anual bands concert, including Walk Like an Egyptian. I also played in Junior Stage Band on Trombone. We played 4 pieces; Twist and Shout (which I can't really play), Stand by Me, Fast Break and Happy Together (of the Smiths Thinly Cut add 'If you like thinly cut - we do - then these will be the chips for you - the chips from who? - the chips from Smiths, the ones you love, so happy toge-ther' Its also in Shrek and The Simpsons Movie).

Senior Concert Band played three pieces, and I got to play Timpini in one of them! (timpini is the wierd tuned drum and I can't tune them so i had to get Dylan to tune them for me).

We got out of the whole day of school yesterday to practise for the concert and we get the whole of next week of for...

TOUR!!!

If any of you actually care what we're doing on Tour, tell me in comments. Not that your likely to have read this far down this increadably boring post anyway. Anyway, Tour will be absolutely awesome and I'd love to tell you but I don't want to bore you to death.

Mt Anne

A couple of weekends ago Dad and I climbed Mt Anne. It was a long 2 day walk. I don't want to make you really bored, so here's a photo gallery of the weekend!


This is me and Dad on top of Mt Eliza on the way to Mt Anne. We had lunch here at 2 o'clock on the Saturday. Mt Anne is in the background, between mine and Dad's heads.



This is me on top of Mt Anne. It was a beautiful day and the view was AWESOME! IT was a really climb up to the top - even without packs. It was steep and slippery and there were lots of narrow bits to climb across.


We found a bit of snow to camp on just past Mt Eliza. Inagine that! Its 24 degrees and we were comping on snow!


Me in the tent. on the snow, in thongs. That only happens in Tasmania.


My picture of a sunset from our campsite.

Me playing in the snow with Mt Anne in the background. On the Sunday morning. Btw this is a different bit of snow to the one we camped on.

Interschool Athletics

Its kinda a bit late to write about this cause it happened ages ago. Anyway, I got into the 400m and I did fairly well.

It was the division A carvinall (the best schools in the state) and I was runnign in division2. So that means I was running with Tasmania's best schools second best runners. Now for the non confusing bit - I came 4th. Which was nearly 5th, but then I found some extra speed right at the end.

I was running in lane 6. I like running closer to the middle, cause you feel like you start behind and then you run faster to feel like your catching up. In lane 6 I overtook the runners in lanes 7 and 8 really soon and then I lost my incentive to run faster until the stagger started to even out and the other runners started overtaking me.

After the carnical (which, btw, Clarence won) Mum took me shopping and I got a cool new dress, a white tank top, a blue scarf, a skirt, a black top and some black shoes (for band). It was a succesful shopping trip, especially cause I got my new bikini, which I really need.

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.