School: a teenager's ball and chain

Here I am, typing away on my sister's laptop because the family computer died, reminiscing about how I've down about only half the things that I wanted to do over these summer holidays. First of all, I wanted to go out more with my friends both from school and other places of interest, but the problems were either that none of us were bothered to organize more outtings or I was just too unpopular to get invited out with everyone else *sob*. I also wanted to go to my favourite city haunts more often: Max Brenner's for their sinfully good chocolates, Sushi Rio for their awesome tempura and eel sushi and Kinokuniya (I'm not stalking you, Jana) so I could browse their collection of manga and slowly but surely buy my way through the Tsubasa series (currently at vol.4). But alas, time has slipped away from me while I lazed about at home, watching Avatar, clips of Family Guy from huluDotCom on youtube and Dead Fantasy I & II.

Though I'm sure that I wanted to do more during these holidays, I guess that going back to school this time around won't be so bad. Our grade is now past the halfway mark in the hierarchy of our school, where seniors rule all and new students and year 7-ers are tricked into where which room is. I have also found that these holidays, though it seemed quick, were fairly long for me: I haven't done that much in retrospect. Other than a few outings with my family to celebrate Christmas and New Year's, and more recently Australia Day, along with going out to a friend's house, 2009 summer was a tad lacklustre.

A plus for me at school this year, though, would be the teachers. Of course, I'm not happy that our iconic teachers Manyweathers, McCord, Sinclaire, Beek, Marsh and all the others have decided to all leave at the same time, but I AM happy with my 2009 teacher line up. As I recall, I do NOT have Kearney for Geo, thank God! We have Milner instead (yes!!). Baxter for science, Wilson Snr. for PE, Young for English, houweling for ag and Gee for maths. I forget who O have for history but anyways, to me that's a pretty good line up.

The only thing that I will probably dislike is IST ("Internet" Software Technology), because apparently, Mr. Hundt is a #^@$*, whatever that is. The other thing would have to be the Year 7 kids. I wouldn't mind being with them, I might even become friends with some of them. The only problem I have is my prejudist side saying they will mostly be outspoken, snot-nosed, foul mouthed little sh!ts and I have to deal with them. Of course, that can't be the case since that's my prejudist talking. I'm sure that most of the kids will be nice little children *cough cough* but I can't get over the feeling that me wanting to Create Connections with these kids will lead me to an early grave (exaggeration ends here).

Very long rant, I must say. Just quickly recounting, my family and I went to the Botanic Gardens yesterday for Australia Day, where we ate wraps for lunch that Dite and mum had made. Though most were "experiments" they turned out quite nice. The little family joined us a at around 2pm, and we all just sat under the shade of a large tree, eating, chatting and napping. The Streets ice cream vendor was a rip-off: 2.5o for an icy twist, 4.00 for a golden gaytime, 4.50 for cornettos and 5.00 for a magnum. DAMN! If it weren't so hot, we wouldn't have gotten them. Ee-gad. It was a nice day, though, we got to also see the 21 gunshot salute made by the cannons in the day and the flying planed in the afternoon. At around 5pm, we all left and made a detour through the Botanic Gardens' middle garden, where we saw hundreds of sleeping bats hanging from many trees. Yes, I have to say it was a good Australia day for us.

That's all for now!