Parents Updated

Allie was waiting to be picked up by me at the bus stop across the road from the Roberts Road shops. We had initially planned to be at there at 7:45am in order to get to school by 8 o’clock, but we ended up picking Allie up at around 7:55am. We weren’t too late though, because when we arrived at the front gate, Luke and Carey were just walking into school as well. The weather was cold and wet, although it wasn’t raining. Rose was waiting for us in Mr Moore’s office but it looked like we weren’t going for a walk this morning. Instead Mr Moore sat down and had a chat to us about Open Evening as well as general conversation. It was lucky that we didn’t go out for a walk this morning, because near the end of the meeting, the rain started to fall quite hard.

On the way to my first class (Chemistry), Mrs Taylor called me into her office. She had found a competition that we could enter, which was to design a robot/machine that could throw a shot put further than Valerie Vili. It was a good opportunity for our robotics team to consider, seeing as it is right up our alley. I think the winning design would be built as well as monetary awards for the winning schools.

During Chemistry class today I asked Mr Wade if he was going to the Avondale Ball, because Serenne had asked me to ask him. He told me that he probably wasn’t going to go because of his wife’s pregnancy. Mrs Russell gave us an update about John Kingi during our study period today. Apparently he is doing very well at the moment, starting a new venture into fashion design and keeping fit at the gym. If you’re reading this John, then I just want to say good on you! I’m looking forward to catching up with him when he comes in to visit us on Monday. I had some Chinese homework to finish during our study period today, but I couldn’t seem to find my Chinese exercise book. Luckily Rose was with me, so she helped me with some of the questions.

In Chinese class today we had a new student. She was a Korean girl who had just come to our school from Marist College. She told us that she has been learning Chinese for the past two years there and Ms Hsiao happened to know the Chinese teacher there too. Today at Chinese we did a few exercises from the textbook “HANYU” which means “Chinese language” in English. The period seemed to go a bit quicker than I thought, and I was excited when the bell rang (not because I don’t like Chinese!) because I thought it was the end of the day since we finished early today. Unfortunately for me, it was only the end of period four; we still had English to go! At English today, I decided that I probably shouldn’t waste another period dithering around so I got on to one of the computers at the back of the classroom to do a bit of research for my seminar.

My parents weren’t going to be at school until 2 o’clock when their first teacher interview was scheduled for, so I spent the time beforehand in our form class. Faber and Craig were watching some video on the laptop while Chelsea and I were talking on the sofa. Chelsea gave me my Chinese exercise book, which I had been looking for for the past whole day! When it was just past 2pm, I realised I should probably head down to the office pretty fast because my parents didn’t even know who they were seeing! Our first interview was with Ms Hsiao (Chinese). She told my parents that I was pretty busy with other projects at school but I was still managing to keep up with the class (phew, not too bad!). Next we had Ms Edwards (English). She told my parents that I was doing okay at the moment, although she didn’t know how well I could do in Unfamilar Texts. She suggested that if I didn’t feel confident about it then maybe I could just drop the Achievement Standard and not do it in the externals, which would give me more time to focus on my essays. It didn’t sound like such a bad idea actually, considering I passed Level 3 NCEA last year, so I could just focus on the quality of my credits rather than the quantity. Mrs Russell was after that, and she didn’t seem to have too many problems with me. As usual with my parents though, they put everything I achieve down to luck, and always claim that I’m too lazy and should study more. In some ways they are right I guess, but other times I feel like they are too hard to please. Our last interview was with Mr Wade (Chemistry). It was the first time my parents had met Mr Wade, and they seem to think that he is a nice guy.

I can’t seem to get that Popular song our of my head; the one that I listened to/watched yesterday. It’s driving me up the wall. It used to be a cool, but I think it’s making me crazy now. If I hear it being played one more time I think I’m going to scream. I went to sleep at an extremely early hour tonight – 8pm! That’s right you heard me. I don’t know why, but I felt really tired tonight. Perhaps it was the lack of sleep nights prior to tonight and it was all building up. I woke up at midnight though to type my blog, but I had a weird dream before I woke up. I had a dream that I had this crush on a cat (a cat?!) but it was a talking cat and I thought of it as a human, even though I knew it was a cat. Anyway, one day I spilt different coloured paints on the cat because I thought it was a pretty funny practical joke, but then when I saw the cat licking itself trying to get the paint off, I started to panic because it might make itself sick. Weird? I think so too.