Assessments, Tricks and Adventures

Hey guys! I still have 2 exams (legal studies and english extension) but I decided I really want to blog haha cos it's been quite a whilee :)

Here's a cute picture of Biscuit to make up for it

On the mention of Biscuit, whilst procrastinating studying for the 3unit maths test my sis and I decided to take some cool photos of Biscuit doing tricks hehe

Putting her paw up to shake hands

Jumping through a hoop. Lol just a blur

Front view of jumping through a hoop

So yeah the odd stuff I do when I procrastinate...

Although Exam Weeks are stressful, it actually leads to exciting (well I think they're exciting lol) adventures because without the constraints of a school day, it allows for experimental visits to places. (All in the name of procrastinating studying for your next exam of course haha)

The other day AM and I (after 2unit maths I think) saw these chalk signs on the ground that said something about art and to follow the signs so we did and it led us to a very, very creative looking store that sold old books, vintage clothing and a lot of shirt pins.

Today after modern and maths we went to Vinnies and I bought this necklace, she bought a cool tweed skirt that she's going to wear for her drama performance! Exciting :) And really cool earrings and a locket :)

That's all for now, except I'm seriously excited for camp!! It's only in 2 days! Woo except I seriously haven't even thought about packing or anything cos if EXAMS haha so I shall get start that process later :) I am so excited, I'm going to bring my Polaroid ! :) And LTEC at camp, hehe shoutout to AM :)

Assesments + Trivia

Wow. I have been away from the blogosphere for ages. I will make a silent pledge to try and write more often for my own sake haha since I want to be able to look back on this blog :)
I guess this term has been the crazy assessments term!

This is the cake my sister baked for me as a goodluck cake. Tasted like Ferrero Rocher!!

Just got back from Trivia Night 2012, the first and only Trivia Night I've ever competed in (all the other years I had to help run etc so it was super exciting stuff this year!!)

My team went as hippies and it was so fun dressing up! Thank you to BT who basically lent out all her hippyish clothing to all of us hahaha. Everyone dressed up so nicely! I really liked the Cold War Russian team whose name was Full Marx which I thought was so clever haha. Overall we came 6th out of maybe 18 or more teams? Not bad LOL the sport section...but we totally made up for it with the PICTIONARY OMGSH the most crazy game of pictionary ever played, we got 43-FORTY THREE- points from Pictionary alone HAHA. My voice was hoarse after that intense game and shouting out words.

Pics to come, too lazy and sleepy at the moment haha but have an awesome LONG WEEKEND everyone!!

Love: Michelle

Long Overdue Post!

Hey guys! It's been a while since my last post ^^

Lots of things have happened...hmm
Well firstly last Saturday I went to an engagement party! Quiz time: Do you guys recognise the location this party was at?

Lol such bad lighting..I'm here with my sis and my cousin's girlfriend

Seems like just a staircase...or is it?

Lol I'm the shadowy figure in the background..such a lurker.

Haha me again...

Well if you haven't guessed it, we were at the Beauty and the Geek Mansion! LOL you may have gotten it right if you were a fan of the show :)

Yeah this place :) SOO beautiful in person...they had a massive indoor heated swimming pool, outdoor hot tub etc etc

Just me and my car...

Haha kidding :P I'm a total noob when it comes to cars but even I could tell it was a fancy one lol. And turns out this car (it belongs to the owner of the house)-a jaguar I've heard- is their worst, cheapest one LOL that they don't care about haha.

Also turns out the owner of the house built his way up from practically nothing-he dropped out of high school in Year 10, went into railroad work for a built then went into shares. So impressive :O Reminds me of that story about Miss K's sister's friend who dropped out of high school in Year 10, worked at McDonalds and is not a rich manager of some McDonalds somewhere after the Maccas company paid her to go to uni and study business. So it's true as they say, high school really is not the be-all and end-all.

Also I found this cool website to edit pictures (I find it a relaxing hobby haha and after Picnik shut down I was sad cos I couldn't edit picture of Biscuit anymore :( even though she doesn't need editing cos she's so cute but yeah) Haha here is a before and after on a pic I took last Saturday...Lol yeah you can call me a luvo-taker just this once :P

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Le Biscotti

Moving on to Sunday, which was Mother's Day!!

Part of the breakfast I made for my mummy <3 Haha there was also soup and coffee and a pink rose in a vase I had snipped from our bush outside on the table but I only took a photo fo this cos it looked nice by itself :) Some people have asked where the rest of the toast went after I cut out the little heart shape...Lol I ate it...

My sis and I made dinner too :) Marinated steak with potato mash and pumpkin and carrot soup :) We bought green beans too but we forgot to make them lol....My mum ended up making them the night after

Hmm and as for the rest of the week it was just school, the usual :P

Ooh here are some cool pictures from chemistry ! I love experiment time in chem, feels like a witch making potions haha. I'm the self-proclaimed haggard witch whilst EM (who has actually dropped chem recently :( ) is the princess who I will posionnnn :) Haha, I should probably stop thinking about fairy tales...

Okay you guys might think bubbling water is boring...HAHA I have SO many photos/bideos of chem pracs on my phone and when people look at my pics they think they're all really boring but IT'S NOT!

Our ester!! Smells like banana :)

Separating..

Chemistry adventures!

Yesterday we had an excursion. On a Sunday. Haha it was an English Extension excursion to Stanmore, and to be honest it was pretty much a waste of time and money ($42! and my dad had to drive me there too lol)

:( Wish I went to Salvation Army Doorknock Appeal instead. Oh well. Since it was such a disappointment, afterwards RH, BT and I went out to eat at a sushi train place that was soooo nice, I am dreaming of the chilli grilled salmon sushi yummm

That's about all I have to say, better get back to my good pal Hamlet and write that essay! Athletics Carnival tomorrow everyone! :)

Love: Michelle

P.S. Something very exciting happened at lunch today! At short notice (somehow someone forgot to tell us) a reporter came to our school to interview all the captains and take our photo for the Hills News!

Haha wish I knew in advance so I had worn my blazer, which looks better and more polished, than my jersey. They asked us all these questions on the spot, like "What makes your school unique?" and "What would you do/change if you were principal for a day?" and "Why is it important to be a leader?" LOL also since MP didn't want to answer first I was the first to answer so I tried my best to find articulate ways to express myself lol. I'm going to think of it as training for future job interviews/to get into particular courses etc.

James Ruse Cluster!

Thank you to my newly-made friend EL for the term 'cluster' haha. Today afternoon was my very first experience of the Prefect Afternoon Tea!! It was AMAZING haha I made soo many new friends, met so many lovely people...My mouth was SOO dry despite drinking a lot because of all the smiling and talking I did hehe :)

A photo taken by FK, the theme of the cluster was 'The Hunger Games'

When we got there, (me, CZ, AM, JJ and RC)-we had caught the 772 bus and walked-we were the second earliest school. We got a strip of paint (red, yellow, blue or green) on our faces, then an envelope with important papers inside haha then we ate food and mingled until all the schools got there.

We played three games-Blob, Dodgeball and Noodle Fights. After we had a sausage sizzle then put marshmallows in the campfire they had made near their farm :) What a feast!

Then I came home and found lots of notifications on my fb HAHA you know what they say...'it ain't official til it's on facebook'.

Love: Michelle

Starlight!

Today me, my sister and RQ helped out for STARLIGHT DAY woo by selling merchandise at Winston Hills Shopping Centre :) We got through about one little purple box of merchandise :)

                                  Volunteer shirt and boxes of merchandise behind me :)

If any of you readers want to buy any Starlight Merchandise- of which all proceeds go to the Starlight Foundation which helps sick children in hospitals- please leave a comment below of which iten you would like and bring the exact amount of money to school tomorrow for that item and I will give it to you tomorrow :)

Here is a page of all the stuff we are selling-there are 2 types of pens, a stress ball in purple or yellow, keychains in blue, red, yellow, green, orange and purple, a silver badge/pin, a gold pin, a wand that lights up (the purple stick with the star on top) and purple shopping bags(the fabric type).Unfortunately the silly straws (pictured bottom middle) are not for sale (because Starlight didn't send any to us in the mail)

Personal recommendations/experience: boths pens are good quality, one is blue and one is black, in fact I use them in my math exams haha. My mum says the shopping bag is sturdy and the stress balls are helpful. We got a wand last year and it still lights up :) Every item is $5 except for the gold star pin, which is $20.

Haha just then my dad was like "You did a good job today, here's a present" and handed me a cookie. :3

Love: Michelle

P.S. Yesterday me and RH were at Castle Towers Food court and at McDonalds I was buying a small fries and RH wanted water so I asked for a free water and when they gave us our food they gave us a BOTTLE of water. Mount Franklin. Haha I was so excited I came home and told my whole family and they were...suffice to say not as excited as I was. Haha.

Jerseys and Study Groups

I feel like this week ahs gone a lot more slowly than week 1 which is a nice thing :3

Today JP came over to my house for a study sesh! We actually got a lot done and even had time left over (well we made time...) for a chit chat sesh haha :)

Yesterday when I went to Math tutor I realised basically every other school had gotten their jerseys and I started feeling excited about getting mine soon. At first I didn't really care for the idea of jerseys, I liked my blazer better anyway and though it matched our school skirts better but seeing everyone excited over jerseys made me more excited :D

Here's mine :)

It was also lots of fun giving jerseys to our teachers. I hope they wear them :)

Love: Michelle

First week back!

Hi everyone! :) It's been a while since my last blog post. It's cos the lull and relaxation of holidays is OVER :O School is a pretty time-consuming activity.

On Monday we had our study skills day at school. It was actually super helpful, and I feel energised to study more consistently this term (a concept foreign to a study crammer/procrastinator like me).
The funny thing was that after the study skills bbq thing, the prefects had scheduled a meeting for the Anzac Day Ceremony on the Tuesday and we were in our meeting room, discussing, when our Year Advisor Mr S comes in and says "Hey guys..I actually booked another speaker for everyone in the afternoon but I forgot to tell you guys so most of the people outside have gone home..."
So we ended up having a secluded/private session with the speaker (who was teaching us about pencil grips or something).

On Tuesday in the afternoon we had our Anzac Day Ceremony! Ran smoothly, although all of us were pretty stiff after standing at ease/attention on the stage for about half and hour lol. TJ says he nearly fainted which is pretty scary stuff! :(
On Wednesday we had our public holiday cos it was Anzac Day and all the Prefects, which is kind of a traditional thing, went to Arthur Whitling Park in Castle Hill to attend the Dawn Service. Lol AM had slept over at my house on the Tuesday night so my dad could drive us both to the Service and when our alarms rang at 5am, it was still pitch black outside, and AM was like "It's not Dawn Service..it's midnight service." Lol. Regardless we got there on time and wactehd the sun rise as we paid our respects to those brave soldiers :)

JJ's photography. So many people turned up at the park that next year they actually have to move the venue to somewhere bigger

Then we got free breakfast at Castle Hill RSL :) After the breakfast it was still only 8something in the morning but since we had got up so early, it felt odd, like it was already 3 in the afternoon.

Wednesday night was JP'S birthday! I had to get there from maths tutor at Castle Hill and I was trying to research how to walk to the restaurant from Parramatta Station by using googlemaps and HAHA I'm so silly cos I had supposedly reached the restaurant address (as googlemaps had indicated) but the picture was a bunch of work buildings and I was so confused, trying to zoom into the buildings to see if the restaurant to see if it was hiding behind there and going all the way up and down the street again to see if I'd missed it (because by now I was convinced that googlemaps was utterly untrustworthy) when about an hour later I realised it was right across the street from the work buildings. Lol I'm a genius

A polaroid of me and JP at her party

On Thursday my sister made a cake for her friend's birthday! I ehlped a little (by being the professional taste tester)

Drizzling chocolate over the berries on top of the cake :) Inside, the cake is two layers with rasberry cream in the middle

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Strawberries!



Long post today! Anyway, better crawl back to bed and recuperate as unfortunately I got sick from the Dawn Service (it was suepr cold in the morning and our school blazers are pretty thin)

Love: Michelle

P.S. We gave Biscuit a new toy this week-FISH :) SO cute! Haha when Biscuit has her fish in her mouth we call her a fisherdog, cos it looks like she was down at the lake and is bringing back her winnings...