CUATROS SEMANAS

Aloha honeybunches! :) How are we all? Golly, it has been a while. Almost 4 weeks actually. That's one entire month! Sorry about that, just wasn't feeling the blogging vibes recently. There's actually so much I have to blog about and I don't know if I'm going to be bothered writing about ALL of it. Oh well, I'll try my best and if you get bored out of your wits, feel free to press that x button on the right hand side of your screen anytime or use any other method to close ya browser. :)

Righto! First event: FRAYNEY FRAYNE SPEECH FESTIVAL :D

Frayne was heaps of fun despite the fact it took us 8 hours on the bus to get there. We shared the bus with another girls school and they were lovely, a little bit loud but very lovely. We got to our accommodation at around 6 or so in the evening and the cabins were so cute. I unfortunately didn't get people I liked in my cabin. hahah, just kidding, love you Tash, Michelle and Kimberley :) The cabin had the own little kitchen and bathroom and bunk beds and couches and tvs and everything. I don't think I'd mind living there for a while. :) We then went to meet the other schools to eat dinner and mingle and stuff and ya know ;D I met a couple of the people I saw at Seeds which was AWEEESHUM because they also remembered me! (awww) But the best part was when my so called friends locked me outside the cabin so I was left banging on the door like a very sad person while they ignored me. :( YOU FEMALE CANINES. HOW DARE YOU?! No, really, it was not a good experience. So they are no longer my friends. hmph. Just kidding, I actually found myself laughing along since Kimberley fell off her chair so ya know, THAT IS KARMA FOR YOU GURLLFREN.

 After that, we all hopped on a bus to FOOOOOODD! :D We ate our food and then went back to our cabins and chilled out for a bit, just doing silly stuff like making and taking photos and stealing freebies. (I have a organic facial bar thing which I haven't used yet, in fact I don't even know where I placed it. :S :D

After lots of mucking around (Cindy walking in with her cat onesie) (pictures below ;D), it was finally sleepy sleep time. There was a room with a double bed and so we all decided to sleep in the same bed with Tash sleeping on the mattress on the floor and had a heart to heart to heart to heart (geddit)? till about 2 or 3 am when we were supposed to get up at around 7 or so. Not such a good idea.

We woke up to Kimberley's loud ass alarm and groggily got ready and loaded all our stuff onto ze bus. "We're off to see the Wizard of Frayne!" Nope, that wasn't funny in my head and it's not funny in text. Anywho, we were on a bus with the other lovely girls school who were oh so nice though a little random so the bus trips were never boring. HAHAH  We arrived at the school where the competition was taking place and ate breakfast. I think the orange juice was a little bit weird because there were about 15 girls waiting outside the toilet after drinking it. :S (Me included)

The verse choirs were then led to the hall and the debating and public speaking competitions were held elsewhere. We met lots of really nice people because everyone in the country is so goddamn lovely. Besides a select few but the nice outweighed the mean so all was good in the 'hood/country. The school captain then began the competition with an extremely elaborate speech (I'm kidding, it was more like, "Welcome welcome. Let's begin this as quickly as possible so I can limit my time here." Though he was supposedly very good looking as evidenced by the many girls from the schools crowding around him like some sort of superstar. I personally didn't really see it. WELP.

 On to ze performance. There were a couple of really really amazing performances and you could tell that they took these things super seriously because their performances were basically perfect. Ours on the other hand, weren't so much. I think quite a lot of people stuffed up (including me) due to nerves and  intimidation I guess? But oh well, we got up there, performed our piece which was a nice tribute to J. K Rowling. I was secretly hoping that the judges would be crazy closet Harry Potter fans but I guess not since we didn't place. :( Despite the not so successful result, I think everyone had heaps of fun and that's all that matters. :) I laughed so much when one of the girls from the school that won the competition because I didn't realise anyone took it THAT seriously. We're just reciting and dramatising a couple of poems, it's fun and all, but it's not like a life or death situation where I would think anyone would actually burst into tears.
After our performance, it was lunch which I actually can't remember what we ate. HAHAHA, hey, it's been four weeks, cut me some slack here. You probably shouldn't, I deserve this. Cindy, Tash and I also went to watch the public speaking finals after that which was AWESOME because they were all soooooooo bloody good and passionate and just really really really brilliant. They all performed wonderfully and they had really professional cue cards and it was just fantastico! The girl who won the public speaking competition was absolutely fantastic; her topic was about preserving language. She delivered her speech with such ease and she didn't sound like a know-it-all which was refreshing. It was just really nice, succinct, witty and winner material (which of course she did)! :)

It was then the end of the day. :( So we all hopped on the bus for the 8 hour bus ride home. Most of us slept, read or told each other scary stories as it was getting dark which was VERY VERY FUN. :D We also stopped for pizza in which I basically inhaled about 4 slices because I was so hungry. I know, I'm a fatty, leaf me be. EHHEHEH tasted soooo good though. And the rest of the ride home was pretty quiet until we finally got back to school at around 10 - 10:30pm. The school we were on the bus with were so lovely and one of them said they couldn't have asked for better busmates. NGAWWWWWW :') So we're all friends on facebook now so weeeee yay!

Anywho, I'm tired as heck now and I did not realise blogging about Frayne would be that much. I really need to work on limiting my words. Sorry about that honeypies. I will see you tomorrow when I blog about the Winter Sleepout and hopefully the rest of these four weeks that you've missed out on my ever so important news. HAHAHAHAH NO.

Goodnight you lovely people! :D SLEEP TIGHT! AND WAKE UP ALL LOOSE AND READY FOR ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL DAY OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL LIVES. :D I'm bloody puking rainbows now. I will leave before I embarrass myself any further. Toodaloo! holy shite, I jsut realised that could be misheard as "to the loo" as in "to the toilet." well. ummm.  G'NIGHT!

MAARY.

Sveiki!

AHOY THERE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE! :D How are we all? I hope you're doing great because it's great to feel great! :D I'm in quite a happy mood since I've just finished part of the 40 hour famine but more about that later. I'd like to firstly apologise for not blogging for a while, every time I tried to blog something, my mind went completely and then I would proceed to watch Dan and Phil. ;D Even though I haven't blogged in a while, a lot of things have happened since then and I'll try to make up for lost time.

The music teacher made us these cute little frames
as a present! (Sorry I don't
know how to rotate the photo)!

Alritey, so the performance! The performance was actually a pre-open day for our school at the shopping centre and I must say it worked quite well. There were so many amazing talented people at our school that I didn't realise were so amazing! The choir sang beautifully with "The Sound of Music" and it was just so nice to see little old ladies enjoying it. :) The concert band was really cool too, they played a medley of 'Eye of the Tiger' and the Celtic Lullaby or something like that. My performance didn't go too well since I got massice stage fright and couldn't breathe properly during my performance but the support from friends and family made me realise that I really do go to a special school with so many special, beautiful, caring people. And then the performance didn't matter as much.

When we were walking around the shopping centre, a lady came up to us and said "You girls sand beautifully. Well done!" I almost started tearing up because that was such a sweet gesture and :') Also, on the same day, my friends and I helped a lost little girl return to her family. It was just the sweetest thing. Seriously, we felt like we were in some kind of reality tv show called "find my lost daughter" or something. Here's how it went down. Latasha and I were just siting on the bench eating lunch during our break and we saw a couple of kids just playing around. The little girl went with her mum somewhere but when the mum came back, her daughter had gone somewhere. The mum was frantically looking for her daughter, standing on tables and screaming her name and everything because she was only about 6 or 7 and anything could've happened to her. Latasha and I were extremely worried for this little girl but we had to go back to the stage as our break time was over. As we walked towards the escalator, we suddenly saw the little girl standing there and a security guard trying to help her. As I tried to comfort her and walked with her to where her mum was, Latasha, Natasha and a couple other friends ran to tell the mum that we found her daughter. When we got there, the little girl's mum was all "WHERE WERE YOU? I WAS SO WORRIED!" and they did the whole run up and hug thing and we were all standing there in awe of this beautiful moment. It was really a day to remember.

Subject Selection! I finally figured out what subjects I'll be studying for next year! YAYAAAYYY, FINALLY! I'll be studying Biology, Chemistry, Literature (if there's a class running due to the small number of people who want to do it, and if it doesn't run then I'll be doing Drama which isn't so bad), Methods 3&4, Vietnamese 3&4 (hopefully, need to see if I can pass this exam thing) and the compulsory English and Religion. I'm quite happy with that because I'll be doing Vietnamese out of school anyway only one day a week, so I won't have as many subjects as other people. :) I dropped Psychology for Literature because I haven't had the chance to do Literature since Methods 1&2 clashed with EVERYTHING and I know, somehow my gut feeling says I will love it. :D

More ballroom dancing! We had our second ballroom dancing class with our brother school on Thursday and every one was still just as nice and sweet. :) Some of them even remembered my name which was lovely! :) No one is taking it seriously though, we're all just mucking around and having fun which is all that matters because I really couldn't careless if we get marked on 'participation and effort' or not. I'm looking forward to the next class because it's nice properly dance and not just pull out the 'sprinkler move' and the 'Disco Stu move' any time someone mentions the word 'dance.' LOL

40 HOUR FAMINE! Woooooo, I should've done this more often, it's so fun! For the 40 Hour Famine, I decided to give up food, furniture and technology. I started giving up food at 12am Friday and was rewarded with a McDonalds lamb burger from my brother when I finished at 4pm today. I gave up technology at 3am Friday and was able to use technology about 2 hours ago! YAYYAYAYA I still have the furniture one to go though hence I'm sitting on my bedroom floor with lotsa blankets which is actually really comfortable and cosy and I might do this more often. :D I stopped using furniture at 9am Friday when I accidentally slipped up and sat in one of the chairs in homeroom and so I can use furniture again at 1am Sunday. So far, it has been a great experience, I didn't even feel all that hungry despite the fact I had to starve during doomsday. I've probably complained about doomsday enough on this blog so you probably know what I mean. It was fun sitting on the floor during classes and for some weird reason, it even helped me concentrate better as I had no one to distract me. Some of my friends were even nice enough to sit on the floor with me at tutor when we were playing cards. :') And major major props to Anna for sitting on the floor with me for every single class on Friday. If you're reading this, I love you mummy. I'm so proud of you too! And Kimmo, if you're reading this, keep going, do it for the kids! :D We believe in you even if your dad shoves chocolate cake in your face! :D

FRAYNEY FRAYNE FRAYNE! So, the Frayne Speech Festival is next Friday and our school's verse choir is no where near ready but we always pull through eventually. :) I'm very excited for it and I'll tell you more about it when I come back from it. I'm scared if I put anything up here, someone from another school might google Frayne Speech Festival and see all our school's ideas and even though they're not fantastic, we do still have pride for our ideas and it would suck so bad if anyone stole them. :( So, more about that soon! ;D

'Such a story cannot fail to move' Mail on Sunday

BOOKS! LOS LIBROS! SACH! I have to tell you about this book called "A Child Called It." I borrowed this book so I could finish it during the 40 Hour Famine but I basically finished it in one afternoon and bawled until my mother asked what was wrong and so I told her a summary of the book and watched her reactions switch from anger to sympathy to anger to sympathy to ANGER ANGER ANGER and sympathy. The book is part of Dave Pelzers autobiography and he recalls how he was abused by his mother as a young child and it is so disturbing and horrifying that anyone could do that. He was emotionally, psychologically physically abused by his mother and his father is too scared to do anything to stop it from happening. He gets abused so much as his mother says that he is the reason for all their family's problems until he is not even considered a person anymore, he was an 'it.' I won't spoil any more for you because you really need to read it to feel the despair and inspiration and the naivety of a young child. It it actually the third-worst case of child abuse ever in the state of California.There are two other books to Dave Pelzer's autobiography which I am going to borrow immediately from the library when school starts because I know these book will be ones I will remember for a very long time.

More books. This one I haven't finished yet but it's definitely a lot more happier than the one above. It's called 'The Book of (Even More) Awesome' and it just lists and explains the little things in life that make us happy like 'when your hiccups stop' or 'when you go out of your way to step on a crunchy looking leaf and feel the satisfaction of that crunch.' Little awesome things like that. The Ultimate Optimist's book. Which I like to think I am. :) I haven't finished it just yet because I only read it when I'm feeling a little down about the day and it immediately makes me grateful and chirpy again which is AWESOME! I only got the book for $5 too so it was a real bargain. :)

The cover ( I couldn't decide which was prettier)!

The inside

I thought I'd leave you with a baby photo of myself
with Harry Styles hair before it was cool. :D
Ever the trendsetter.

So that was basically everything I was going to talk about today! I hope I made up for a lot of lost time. I'll try my best to blog a little more often and with more pictures too, I'm sure you're getting sick of these lengthy uninteresting posts. So don't worry, I'll try to show you things with various mediums so woo! Anywho, I'm going to go and watch Skins now because it's a teensy bit inappropriate to watch when my parents are home! LOL

Bye! Stay warm, beautiful and AWESOME! :D

MAARY.

P.S: The title means Hello in Lithuanian! :) SUDIE!