TUESDAY:
I got up at BEFORE the crack of dawn to get to school. Had to catch the bus to UWS. Originally, we were all hardcore studying on the bus (which was quite empty), but I think we began to give up, mostly just due to sheer laziness. Well, that was what I was doing.
Got to Granville station, picked up people and continued off on the journey to Campbelltown.
Victor had gotten out his portable speakers, and was playing his music, when he went to the front of the bus to go talk to Richard. Matt and Ben hijacked the speakers, with Victor still oblivious to the fact that Glee and Baby were playing at a rather loud volume…
The brain bee was held in the school of medicine on the UWS campus, and when we got there all of us really stood out – all the other schools had about three or four students, and there was this mass of about twenty people signing in and collecting free t-shirts :)
Went into the lecture theatre, and everyone did round one of the individual quiz – the questions were on a powerpoint, and it was over really quickly – about 20 minutes! Forwarded out for morning tea with random tarts and fruit and sandwiches. The bread is SOOO soft and tasty there. And the tart had some sort of clear jelly on top that tasted like jam.
Got some talks from a professor making bionic eyes and some honor/masters students about the joy of science, and then came the team challenge, where Richard, Beryl, Rachel and Vaish were in. They came third, after the winners Baulko and the runner-up Presbyterian.
Lunch! The last third of the line (including me!) got vegetarian lunch boxes, but they were really nice! The bread (and some Turkish bread too?) was really soft again…ahhh… and quiche! I love quiche! And some sort of caramel slice. :D
Activity after lunch – shocking nerves. Went into some computer lab, with massive HP touchscreen desktop computers. Claudia fiddled with the tablet for a bit. Ben volunteered to be the victim who got their nerve shocked with a current ranging from 8-20mA. The transformer was connected to the computer, and all the data was automatically entered too. Was cool.
After came the team challenge final, and the individual final. The team placings ended up the same as what they were before, and the individual one was won by a Baulko guy, with a Presbyterian girl coming second and Jim coming third (good job :D). Note the order was the same ==
However, the prizes were pretty neat. Teams who came second and third got 2gb ipod shuffles, winners nanos. Individual division third got shuffle, second nano and first a touch. They all got a brain textbook too. The poor guy who came first has to study this massive textbook for the next stage (nationals?). Ahh, the price for coming first…
Bus home…
WEDNESDAY:
Science and Engineering Day! Got to Macquarie Uni quite early, waited till the thing actually started (our school was the only one there in the beginning…wondering if we were gonna end up going against ourselves…) and off to activities!
I was in a full day activity – mission to Mars. Involved building a ‘buggy’ that would traverse an extremely bumpy surface – the highest bumps were 4cm tall O__O So that took the whole day, and we didn’t do too bad (Tree, Sandra, Steven Phan and me). OOOOH orange tree! TEEHEE SORRY.
At the end of the day, bridge tests! Just at the end, our school got usurped by Roseville College in points, so we came second and got a glass trophy and a framed award that had a picture of some students from last year ==
I think it was cool how all of us joined together in playing a game of sit-down volleyball – even the scorers joined it :D
Caught a bus to Epping with Sydo. On the way, a large group of boys in school uniform got on. And then Syd noticed Timothy O_____O He’s a former classmate, who I hadn’t talked to/seen since the end of Year Six. We shiftily watched as he boarded our bus and walked past out seat, ending up just a seat away across the aisle (but people were in standing in between because the bus was packed).
So we both loudly debated whether or not to say hi – Sydo on the affirmative, as she’d feel ‘guilty’. I thought he wouldn’t recognise/remember us. Soon, Tim says hi to Syd, who he does remember and they start a conversation.
Soon we’re at Epping, and we all disembark. Timothy begins to walk away, Syd rebukes me about how I should have said something. I say that he won’t recognise me. So Syd runs up and pushes me over, and asks Tim – “Do you know her?”. To which he goes “Errrr….”, and I helpfully supply “Hi, I’m *insert name here*.” His eyes widen and looks shocked. ==”
Syd cracks up.
So far, this fits in with my previous meeting with a primary school classmate. Beginning of the year, I said hello to Annie and she didn’t know who I was either. “You look familiar… do I know you? Charmaine?!” I introduce myself. “OHHH…!” [note: not the Charmaine from our school]
I conclude my face is much different from my Year Six days.
TODAY:
First day of school for the term! Started off with a nice 1.6km run in nippy noodle weather. Urgh. I should have known several weeks of inactivity would take some sort of toll. Did some more fitness testing. Had a sub for English and breathed a sigh of relief – I hadn’t finished the assignment. Recess was intense – had to find Julia/talk to the head of science about the speech in two periods time/write the speech/fix up commerce project/do maths enrichment. So was also very glad when we didn’t have to present our comm today, so spent the time writing a very hasty speech.
During assembly, sat at the front with Johnny and Rachel, who were talking about brain bee, and Tree, who was doing the speech about science and engineering day with me. He’s awesome. Talking in front of the whole school is a bit weird.
Today was such a horrible day stress-wise, so when I found out today is 7/11 one dollar day (Kettle chips, flavoured milk, mother, Cornettos, donuts and other baked stuff all one dollar!) I decided to take the opportunity to *reward* myself. My normal walk to the bus stop (on which 7/11 is en route) was joined by a mob of people eager to get bargains too xD
By some stroke of luck, the counter had NO QUEUE when I got my double choc Cornetto. Except for three Cumbo guys, who kept buying packets of Kettle chips == They kept taking armfuls of packets, and running back for more.
Got home happy as I ate my icecream on the way. Except it dripped on my shoe.
MAJOR NEWS
ONE MANGA IS SHUTTING DOWN AS OF NEXT WEEK. WHATTTTTTTTTTTTT. IT’S MY FAVOURITE MANGA SITE! IT’S SHUTTING DOWN!!! WHAT. O_________________________________o WHERE AM I GONNA TAKE MY MANGA READING OBSESSION? BUT THANK YOU, ONE MANGA.
