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Tuesday, Oct 3, 2006

well, i thought that it had been a while since i last made a blog post (since may, i think) so i better make a new one about my life up to date since may... because you are all so very imnterested in my life, and have nothing better to do then read about what i've done in the last 5 months.

well, first, doug- remember that time when you told us about that crazy substitute teacher you had who told you all that the matrix was real? (this is going back about a year) we had the weirdest teacher a few weeks ago... we came into english, and to our delight, our usual teacher, with a mole attached to her eyebrow was not there, however she did leave the room with an unpleasant aroma. we all thought that it was some of her flowers smelling the place up so we threw them out the window, and about a week later she ended up replacing them anyeway... back to the story- the sub teacher started feelin nauseous, and she told us that. she was reading out definitions for us to write down, and she was up to number 8, and for some reason was unable to stop saying the words: number 8... number 8... number 8 ( kinda like in the simpsons) and then, she took a step out of the classroom and our class, being the attentative, well-behaved class that we are, were all talking quite loudly at the time when she left our classroiom, with all outr work stil in her hand, then we noticed that our substitute teacher had run away from our class with our work and most probably wasn't coming back... of course we blamed her disapearance on the nauseating smell rather than our bad behaviour...

on a lighter note, i had a project on sci-fi's to do in english since the middle of last term, and we only just finished it about 6 weeks ago, so we had been working on it for about 2-3 months. we had to choose a sci fi and make a review of the book, series or movie then do a textual analysis of one of the episodes (if it was a television series), finally we had to present a creative response to our class... i chose to do my assignment on firefly (cos it was the only sci-fi i own on dvd) and i did the review of ariel, which is my fave ep from the series, and for my creative response i decided to make a model of serenity and then put in ten opbjects inside the model and explain each one of them and their relevance to the class, each object represented a character from the series, except for the tenth object (cos there are only nine characters), which was a pair ob blue gloves, to represent the ep ariel which was my fave ep. the model of serenity wasn't exactly very good... probably only vaguely recognisable as the ship, but i think that the objects were all very good choices for the characters... lol, i am telling you all this because i loved this assignment more than any other assignment that i have ever done, and because it was probably the biggest assignment that i have done this year... and also, it's about FIREFLY!!! and it took up a big chunk of my life from the past 5 months.

my electives this semester are all heaps fun- i am doing psychology (which is very, very, very cool! you all have to do it, it is so fun!), photography (which i am crap at, and is slowly declining in value on the fave-subject-scale, but it is still immensely fun) and finally, Yoga and Pilates! i love doing the salute to the sun, and next term we get to do tai-chi, how cool is that? now i want to do self defence as well... but this is my last year in high school so i probably should've done it last year...

well, i think that there might've been something else that i wanted to talk about, but i can't remember, and you're all probably bored by now and are yelling at your monitors "when the hell will kev shut the frick up!!" so i am shutting up now.... only if you promise to reply to this blog post many, many times other wise i will be back... and next time i might not shutup!

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to the substitute thing

I hate you. I have never been able to do anything really Buffy-related in school, except for drama class. Also, I have not even one elective this year
Also, I thought you were 15? You're already in your last year of high school? Are you some kind of grade-skipping genious?
Posted Oct 4, 2006 12:41 am PT
lol, i wish, i was born before the cut off date for entering school. from between july of one year to the june of the following year makes up one year/grade. i was born in march of 1991, so i was born before the cut off date of june, so i moved into school at the same time as those born after july of 1990, does that make sense?

for us high school goes from year 7/8 to year ten, then year 11 and 12 make up college, then if we want a degree we go to university, i don't quite know how it goes with you guys, but i think that your high school goes up til year 12 right? so that means that you have to do year 12... for us we are allowed to drop out of school after the age of 14-and-nine-months, and you don't have to do year 11 and 12, lol. (also, you spelt genius wrong! lol)
Posted Oct 4, 2006 10:29 pm PT
in America, we just go through the grades one at a time. If you're 5 or 6 (depending on when in the year you were born), you go to kindergarten. Then elementary school, which contains grade 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Then comes middle school, which has grades 6, 7, and 8. Then is high school, which contains grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 (though they're more commonly referred to as freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior year, respectively). That's where the confusion was. You said it was your last year of high school. In Australia, high school stops after year ten- which I'm in in America. However, there, college is like the last two years of high school here, and university there is what we would call college here. Basically, if you want to make a decent amount of money, you have to go to college and get a degree. Not sure if "college" in Australia is more like high school or college, or what on earth university is like, and how it all ties into what kind of job you could be expected to get, etc. Australia's school system is so overcomplicated compared to America's school system. I mean, if you were to listen to me explain America's school system decently, I could do it in a paragraph. Meanwhile, hearing you Aussies talk, if you were to describe half of the ins and outs of your school system, it's take a single-spaced page or two.
Posted Oct 5, 2006 12:57 am PT
lol, well, we have pre-school (which is exactly that, school before school, for those aged 4-5) then primary school (which is like your elementary school) for years 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5. we have primary school right after pre-school, and we call them years, not grades, you say that you are in grade 3, we say year 3. some primary schools also have year 6). after that there is secondary school, and depending on whether it is a private school or not, it will have year 6 as well (there is year 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10. 6, 7, 8 are called middle school, while 9 & 20 are called high school, but you have them all in the same school, so it is more commonly referred to as secondary school.) finally ther is college, which is not mandatory, from her people either do college or go into a trade, like hairdressing, plumbing etc. or they could go work in a fast-food place/ a shop (college is year 11 and 12, you need to go to college in order to get to University, which is what you call college. the point of out college is that it is the point where people choose whether they want further education- and a good job- or not. you guys don't have that, you have to do the whole of high school, we don't. basically, college is the rest of high school for us, but we have a break in between high school and college, other wise it is just like the second half of high-school for you guys. just like you guys, we can't go to university- or for you, college- unless we have done years 11 and 12, but there is a little thing where if you haven't done years 11 and 12 you can still do University after the age of 25.) finally there is University which is just like your college, wher you can do med-school or law school or whatever. i always get confused with your system cos you guys use the names freshman, sophomore, junior and senior for years 9, 10, 11 and 12.

does all that make sense to you now?
Posted Oct 7, 2006 6:37 pm PT
I was just going to comment on how cool of a school yours sounds like...I live in Canada and our schools on basically the same school system as the states- like elementry is 1-5, middle is 6-8 etc. (only we don't get the cool names for the grades in high school like freshman or sophomore etc.)Your school sounds pretty awesome with the course electives that you can choose. Also in Canada I think our colleges are like your trades schools and our Universities are the same. They should really make one universal word for all of these schools so no one gets confused. lol
Posted Oct 28, 2006 10:21 pm PT
yeah, we don't have the names either, i really would like them though... i wish that all schools all over the world were the same, causes less confusion.
Posted Nov 2, 2006 12:59 am PT
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