My final week before I leave is coming to an end. I now give you my day-to-day recounts of the past week (more like 6 days, but oh well). Can you tell that I have absolutely NOTHING else to blog about before I go? Ha. My adventures… (most of which also feature Belinda) :
Monday 17th
I came to school early to sell my books, and pretty much sold them all in about 15 minutes, besides from the ones that I can’t sell at all (Damn you Legal Studies, Methods and Physics!). I had my Legal Studies orientation, but Mr Short was absent because he was ill, so everyone ended up waiting about half an hour for no reason. So I met up with Belinda a fraction earlier than planned and we had our ‘tourist day’. Even though we had heaps planned, the only thing we did was go to Eureka Skydeck and take many pictures of random things. I came to the conclusion that Belinda has a weird obsession with Flinders St Station, because she kept taking pictures of it. Oh, and I found my favourite building; it has a triangle roof and it’s behind NGV (or across the road from the Recital Building). I don’t know what the building is, but I thought that a triangle building was beyond awesome. We pretty much did nothing after that and just hung out at our usual hanging out place. We call it ‘The Waves’ but it’s actually called ‘Forward Surge’. Belinda kept calling it ‘The Surges’ for a bit, but I thought it just sounded strange since I’m so used to calling it ‘The Waves’. Ha. I tried to get Belinda to go to orchestra rehearsal from about 3pm to 4pm, seeing as she hasn’t been to many rehearsals lately, but then I gave up. Strangely enough, Belinda didn’t have ice-cream like she usually does whenever we hang out; so I thought that was a pretty good effort on her behalf. Ice-cream is her LOVE. Seriously. Yeah, I ended up leaving the city round 5 o’clock. Belinda and I both got sunburnt from laying on the grass behind The Waves. Totally not cool, seeing as Belinda tans and I just peel. *sigh*
Tuesday 18th
I came to school early to buy books off people. Bon and Bel were at the tables early, so I just hung out there for a bit. They ended up leaving and Linda came with her DS, so I ended playing tetris and beating Ruyi (who somehow managed to get a negative score, ha). Everyone started to arrive at school for Speech Night rehearsals, so we all ended up crowding around the tables. I sort of latched onto Sonam for a bit (…ok, maybe longer than a bit), but I also latched onto Monique for a bit before latching onto Sonam. The rehearsals finished about 80 minutes earlier than it was supposed to, so Belinda and I just ended up hanging out at The Waves. We ALWAYS seem to feel tired and sleepy whenever we’re at The Waves, yet we ALWAYS seem to go there to hang out. It would have to be my favourite place though to just lie down and relax. Mine and Belinda’s little orange football was thrown around and held by many today, so I think that’s how we lost it. I’m a bit bummed that we lost it, because every time we hang out, we always draw something on it, and we (sort of) alternate on who gets to keep it. So now, we don’t have a footy to throw at each other.
Wednesday 19th
I came to school early once again to buy some more books. Belinda and I hung out in the AV Room whilst Sharline watched us act like idiots, and Hui and Nayomi were busy working on the Japanese video. The bean bags are so comfy when there’s a whole heap of them surrounding you; but it’s definitely not comfy when sometimes smothers you with the bean bag using their entire body weight. Ha. Everyone ended up leaving to go to lunch or the Physics orientation so Hui and I ended up talking about for a while before the Physics kids came back. I saw Jen, Son and Bec before Belinda and I left. We ended up walking through the Botanic Gardens and settling under this pretty awesome tree to have lunch. Did the random stuff we normally do, but Belinda gave me this awesome stick that didn’t even break whenever I poked her with it; so I decided to keep it. We sat there for a while just commentating on runners that went by. It was quite hilarious. Then we walked to The Waves and lay there for a bit, as we usually do, before deciding that we were going to go to South Yarra early before Jen’s dinner to go to Chapel St (after Belinda bought her ice-cream, of course). Belinda went to buy stuff at Sportsgirl and we went into the Puma store and looked at my sweet Puma shoes. Well, they’re not mine, but they will be soon…. if my brother decides to be nice and buy them for me. We also went into Borders for a bit and just sat there doing questions from an IQ book that took me a while to find. Then we just hung out on a bench across the road from La Porchetta because we were very early. Belinda punched me really hard and I almost started crying, and then she almost started crying because I almost started crying; and then we concluded that she punches hard. Oh, and we saw an insanely nasty sight. Urgh. It was so nasty that I wanted to gag. Seriously horrible. Gah, I need to stop writing about it… Anyway, Belinda and I got to the restaurant really early and just sat there waiting, and then April and Lily showed up, and then Jen, Son and Bec came. Dinner was so filling, and my pasta craving was satisfied (which I am very happy about as I had craved pasta for about two weeks). Dinner finished around 7pm and we ended up getting to Flinders around 7.20pm. I fell asleep on the train ride home and ended up getting home around 8.30pm. Oh, and at Flinders while I was waiting for my train with Bel, I looked into my bag to find my stick, but it wasn’t there. So we just assumed that it must’ve broken while it was inside my bag. When I got home, I took everything out and it was gone! I will never be able to find a stick like that one.
Thursday 20th
I came to school normal time and Jen.T and I ended up sitting and talking about random stuff by the lockers. Eventually, more people sat down with us and we did all the puzzles in The Age. Chemistry orientation was today. It was pretty boring. I was so hungry throughout the entire thing. I ended up staying at school for ages to get stuff from teachers for Specialist Maths, English and Chemistry. I said to Vania that I had never spoken to so many different teachers in the space of about 15 minutes before. Ha. It’s true. Half of them didn’t even know who I was when I went to speak to them. So after getting everything I needed to get, Belinda, Vania and I walked to Domain and it was raining. I went to Belinda’s place and ended up hanging out there for about 3 hours. I managed to fix her television, which led me to sitting and watching Oprah, Ready Steady Cook and a bit of some random afternoon movie that I kept thinking was Bold and the Beautiful because of the background music. We found a new football to chuck at each other, but I was a bit hesitant in chucking it really hard because I didn’t want to break anything in her apartment. I got a Christmas card from Vania today, it made me laugh. I also got a whole stack of packages from Belinda, which I’m not allowed to open, even though I know what is in all of them. Ha. They’re all for the plane trip. Besides from our usual antics, I spent about 10 minutes making a calendar for Belinda titled, “…Days ’til Julia comes back”; and she can cross off the days as it passes. I reckon it looks pretty awesome, even though it took me three attempts to get everything right. Ha. Belinda, Anita and I also had a little chat about Mi Goreng; and Belinda was nice enough to reminisce about the time I saw a flavouring sachet from a Mi Goreng packet and I supposedly shouted out, “OMG! MI GORENG!”. I personally do not remember myself doing that, but I can imagine myself doing it so it probably did happen. I left Bel’s place around 3.45pm which totally threw my plan of catching my normal train out the window. So I took the 4.08pm, and Bel ended up training with me all the way to Laverton.
Friday 21st
I came to school a bit too early because I was meant to meet Jen.T to give her my Physics notes, but then someone told me she was in Leadership Training; so I ended up sitting with Sonia by the lockers until more people started showing up. Methods orientation was boring, but Monique and I were annoying Sonam heaps; so that made up for the lack of fun I was having. After Methods, I went around looking for the train crew to say bye to, which took about 20 minutes, but I eventually found all of them. The group just sat around a table talking until Speech Night rehearsals were due to begin, so I said all my goodbyes and gave all my hugs to people and went home. The only good thing about going home was me watching 30 Rock! That kept me occupied for a good two or so hours… until I fell asleep. Ha. I ended up talking to Belinda all night instead of watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (which was my original plan). Totally worth it though.
Saturday 22nd
I woke up at around 10:30am, and just started repacking my suitcase. I went on MySpace/Facebook to find that my friend Laura, whose in England, met Anberlin at the gig she went to last night. They played an absolutely awesome set because three of my favourite songs were in the list. Paperthin Hymn, Feel Good Drag and The Resistance. Oh, for those that didn’t know, Stephen Christian cut his hair, but from the photos I originally saw, his hair in some of them looked the same, and different in others. Laura (and her friend, Lou) told me that he cut his hair short on one side only! AMAZING! Ha. I’m totally not obsessed. Ahem. It actually looks really cool, from the photos I saw of them and and the band together. That’s pretty much been the highlight of my day, because we’ve been excited about Anberlin’s gig (even though I didn’t attend) for about three months now. I’m so happy for her.
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With that all done. I have to finish packing my hand luggage and sorting out all my electronic stuff I’m bringing over. I wish everyone a lovely holidays, Christmas and New Year. Stay safe, take care of yourself and have lots of fun. I shall miss you all while I’m away.
Special mention to Millie; because now it won’t cost you just 100 dollars to come and see me… *sigh*
Goodbye and take care.
