History Excursion!~

12.09.08~

History Excursion today! Yay?

Yesterday was fun; at lunch, I went to pay for the excursion and Ally and I managed to stumble into the quad, where music was pumped out on this stereo, people were engaged in all sorts of activities, such as basketball games, Limbo games, and skipping games.

Carmen and Ally are so pro at Limbo! Heh. But I pwn at skipping. ^^ I managed to complete Teddy Bear, but Double Dutch is HARD. I’ve never done it before. Oh well. I love skipping. x3

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Today started off by catching the train with Suvi, Julie and Scott, and having an interesting conversation that started out with the topic of a stomach ache and somehow managed to end up with death penalty. Yeah, weirdness. We got out at North Sydney, and hurried up the stairs to catch a bus.

We ran and managed to catch a bus that was on time for once, and arrived at school. We didn’t really do much, until the bell rang and we lined up in the quad. Then our buses came at 9:15a.m. and we were told to take notes on the excursion.

Eventually we arrived at the dock and waited for the ferry. We took down notes and then clambered aboard the rocky boat. Ally and I both have motion sickness, but amazingly we didn’t get sick on this journey, coz the boat was moving at snail pace, and it was actually quite fun. This guide was praising us for being “sensible and well behaved” and then Ally, Celia and I looked out onto the deck and saw our about 5 of our classmates dancing about like lunatics. So much for sensible and well behaved. XD

After a journey that included watching out for lone seagulls, we arrived at Cockatoo Island. Which caused me to remark was very ugly, coz it was flat and there weren’t any trees or pretty nature. Our guide for the day, Lin, took us through convict barracks, the guardhouse and long dark tunnels. At the mess hall, we were locked in this big dark room for like 10 seconds. The teacher closed the door and locked it (I think she did) and I managed to scare Ally 2 times; she screamed. O.O; xD Anyway, we had to take down so many notes. I think I’ve got 6 pages. And we saw a cute baby seagull. =D

We stopped for a break and Ally and I and 4 other people lost our group. Not our fault ><; xD And we found them again with the help of another guide, and inconspicuously slipped in. It was like, “Is it me, or were those 6 people not here 1 min ago?” Haha.

We arrived at the warehouse, which was BIGGG and tried yelling “Coo-ee” which sounded very delicate and “genteel” according to Lin. But we’re girls, what do you expect, low grunting or something? Haha.

There were tents out on the flat land, and we were discussing possibilities of camping out here in summer. And also, we decided that Cockatoo Island should be transformed into:

1)      A paintballing ground. PUREPWNAGE.

2)      Ghost tour area. Awesome!~

3)      Desert Disneyland amusement park thing.

4)      Miniature Hollywood set thing; coz the prequel to X-Men was filmed partly on Cockatoo Island. It looks like a real cool set!

I was pointing out to Ally that this building looked like the Chinatown buildings in ‘Spirited Away’; you know, where Chihiro finds her parents turning into pigs. Seriously, it DID look like it, and I was saying how cool it would be if there was an actual set for ‘Spirited Away’. Then I began imagining that the black buoy things looked like “No face”. and Ally began hallucinating too. I’m such a pro awesome influence. ^^

After a few grueling hours of studious note taking, we boarded the ferry again. And were discussing Titanic. See, Ally should do the ‘Rose pose’ thing, where she spreads out her arms. xDD

The guy with the microphone thing called us “Sydney Girls”. “Thank you to the students and teachers of Sydney Girls,” and everyone went “Eh?” O_O; How dare they demote us to SG! Joking. ^^ Ruse might’ve been okay. That would’ve been hilarious. But Sydney Girls…xDD

 Yeah. And then we arrived back at Circular Quay and got on the buses.

We had 40 minutes to spare, and should’ve left early to go to GW to play air hockey. >>;; But the teacher wouldn’t let us leave. So yeah, we entertained ourselves by climbing the railings near the office, and then playing Limbo with a lacrosse stick. Aren’t we so creative/ingenius/retarded. Fun!

And then half way through our Limbo game, we decided we had enough and left. And the teacher told us to go back, and as soon as she got onto the bus, everyone pretended to walk back. After that, we walked back to the bus shelter. Heh. That’s the sad thing about going to a school where everyone’s scarily smart. =]

Yeah, we went back home. Anndddd;;

That’s all for today.

Bye~

First blog entry~

It’s been such a busy week. But I’ll wait till we get to Term 4 and then I’d probably be too busy studying to do not much else.

On the academic/school-related side;

1. PD Assignment handed in, and successfully sent to the right DET email address. It was GAY. Excuse the pun. ^^

2. IPT Prelims finished. YAY. I still remember how I tried to study the night before, on my bed, and ended up falling asleep. -shrugs- Not my fault.

And who could forget. Our wonderful IPT excursion to Sydney Convention Centre on Tuesday. Because that was the most interesting day of the week, I shall write a full recount of the many events that happened. =]

Since the excursion was one day before our damn prelims, we luckily had a morning class. Might I mention it was freaking 7.a.m in the morning? And I arrived around 7:15-7:20. Eh. At least I was earlier than normal. And I managed to cram some stuff from my notes into my head before I got out at the station.  

After 1.5 hours of more cramming, we tried to print our notes. And the printer was stuffed, so we had to go to the next computer lab. And after a few screwing-ups, the computer finally printed.

The buses came at around 8:50 or 9 or something, and we got on, awed by the coaches. Free Microsoft buses, OHEMGEE. Okay, that just might’ve been us. See, we’re easily amused. But the buses were cool, they were squishy and had bright, colourful, hallucination-making patterns on them too. =D

After a noisy bus trip, in which Sunny couldn’t hear my voice over the phone, we arrived. The excitement in the air was so…I dunno; refreshing? Anyway, we walked to the Convention Centre and were awed once again by the shiny glass doors and luxurious suites and the lighting and you get the point. You probably would’ve thought we were tourists or something. xD

Yeah. And then we got to this part of the building where they were handing out silicon wristbands. Bright green with “Tech Ed. Student Day” on them. Elaine thought there were chips in them that could track us wherever we went. Haha.

Oh. Did I mention the freebie bag thing? It was so funny. White bags with “Microsoft” printed on them, and they had some pamphlets and free bottled water and Tic-tacs inside. And Tian, `Laine and I grabbed free CD cases from a near by stall thing. First come, first served. >=]

Finally, we saw our nice Ruse friends and Jason waved to us particularly enthusiastically, in contrast to Tongus. And we also saw Komal and one by one, most of the NSGs hugged her. Then we were separated when we went into the auditorium and got crap seats wayy on the side.

Ms Megabyte. The epitome of epic burnage. “Ha-ha”. You seriously call that a LAUGH?! We saw some presentations and I swear they were trying to brainwash us. IT this, IT that, IT is so flexible! aka. Join the dark side, and become IT technicians! Bwahahahahhaha.

Okay, never mind that. Jason won a webcam. And I was two off. 2. TWO. -hyperventilates- Not really, but it should’ve been MIINEEE. I’m such a good dramatist, yesyes? =3 Then we had Pavilion Time, or something like that, which I re-dubbed “Freebie Collecting Time”. We ended up eating recess/lunch outside.

Then we went back inside and we repositioned ourselves where we could actually SEE the screen properly. And in that time I managed to finish all of my Tic-tacs. ^^

After another hour of presentations and prize givings, it was time to go back to school. Nuuuu~!I wanted free icecream!! Rawrrr. Me want. No fair.

Oh. And amazingly, Jwen actually relented into handing his blazer over.

Me: Hey, let’s swap blazers. =D
Jwen: -looks sus and hands me blazer-
Me: o.O;; You agreed? xD

And then Tian came over and decided she wanted his blazer so she stole it off me and then gave him her own blazer coz mine was a bit small for him. And then he ran up the stairs and showed the rest of cGroup. Lovely, huh?

We did look really..er. Sus. Coz we got his tie and his blazer. And I somehow managed to lose my own tie. And I liked my tie. =[

We went back to school and studied. -cough; shifty look-

Well everyone else studied and Tian and I were helping to paint a mural. Even though our prelims were the next day, but who cares. We're just random.

And...not much else happened. We went home and logged onto MSN to continue our boring pathetic little lives. XD And I should mention that the next day, everyone was carrying those bottles from our Freebie Bags.

Nothing else happened much this week.

Yeah. I'll post later...

In the meantime, bye ;; =]