I Don't Wanna Stay Up All Night

Note to self: Do not go to school if you have not slept AT ALL the night before!

Today I nearly fell asleep in class. We had an assignment due at 8.30am this morning for Chemistry and if it wasn't for ANZAC day yesterday I probably wouldn't have got it done. The assignment was a titrations internal, so if you don't know what that means it was a type of experiment where I had to measure the concentration of oxygen at Hunua Falls, and to be honest I'm just glad it's over. It was probably one of the most strenuous, time consuming assignments I've had to do yet and it was only worth four flippin' credits. It was an assignment that I probably spent more time complaining about than any other, and my whole class would probably say the same. When I was in Australia in the holidays, I took my laptop and chem books over with good intentions of actually getting some work done, but obviously my lack of discipline, laziness and terrible time management got the better of me. I decided that I would just enjoy my holiday and suffer the consequences later, and suffer them I did. I spent literally ALL DAY yesterday doing it. That was starting the report and finishing it all in one day. There were times throughout the day when I cried and thought- stuff this, it's only 4 credits but then I had to tell myself to shut up and just do it. I started at 1pm (after waking up at 12pm.lol) and finished the whole report at five o'clock this morning. That's like 14 hours of stupid work! It took waaaaaay longer than I had expected. Anyway, the good thing is that I got it done and was one of the first to hand it in :) not sure if that counts for anything but yeah I'm just glad it's over. The thing I learnt today is to never pull a full on all nighter and then go to school the next/or well the same day. That was the worst idea ever. In the morning I was fine but it hit me by about 11am (luckily I had a free period) and I was so tired all day. My plan was to go to senior assembly and just 'rest my eyes' but as I was heading over to it, I was told I had a Pasikifa meeting with some uni people to talk about stuff that at that moment, I really didn't wanna hear about. My eyes wanted to close on me and my brain was not processing anything properly and I must have just looked so out of it. Got home at 5pm tonight, tried to do some work and fell asleep til about 9.30pm. Now, I'm awake and I can't sleep!! Not good. Not good at all. Worst part is now I feel sick. And tired. And I don't feel like going to school tomorrow...

Tribute to Ms Anisi

Shouldn't I be on holiday? Well apparently no.

Last night I got home from the BE.LOVED event and pretty much went straight to bed. That was at like 10pm. I mean, what 17 year old girl goes to bed that early after just finishing exams and is now supposedly on holiday. Well, me and that was because I was planning on going to Steffi's end of year assembly. Seriously, when your 8 year old cousin personally asks you to come, you have to, right? And so I was all set to go at 8am until I woke up and saw a text from my dean asking to come into school for a farewell for Ms Anisi (Samoan teacher at AGGS) so I was pretty much torn between which one to go to. Cousin's assembly or teacher's farewell?

I love my cousin but I decided to go into school especially given that I've just been named a prefect for 2012 and Ms Anisi probably played a big part in that. So yeah if you don't know her, she's pretty much an awesome as teacher. She is the kind of teacher that most students fear or try to avoid unless you're in her good books (which was me) or you just get to know her. Until this year, she was just that for me. A scary teacher who yelled at us when we didn't sing the school song loud enough or if we had incorrect uniform. But this year, I got to know her better. She started up the Pasifika initiatives at AGGS and has supported Pasifika students at AGGS ever since she started teaching at the school, and from what I understand, she started teaching at AGGS as a BT(beginning teacher) and has been there ever since. Now she's joining the likes of Ms Hayes (one of my favourite teachers who left last year- also mentioned in this post.) and Ms Todd at MAGS :( So to you Ms Anisi, we say good bye but as the saying goes 'Once an AGGS girl, always an AGGS girl!' We love you miss. Thanks for everything you have done for AGGS, especially to our PI girls. You will be missed!

So yeah I guess I'm not really on holiday yet, but today was a good day, and even though I missed Steffi's assembly it was still great to hear that she got an honours award. Whoo! Go Steffi!! :) So a good day all round.

Day Two of BEDD complete. No official 'act' that I can think of that I've done today but hm maybe that'll come later in the day. Ok goodbye for now.

It's December!!!!!!!!!!

So yeah, if you can't tell I'm pretty much loving the fact that it's December. Because December means Christmas is just around the corner and also summer is (hopefully) coming. I should be cleaning my room but I got distracted. As usual.haha. I never learn do I?

Well, I saw on Laura's blog that she's doing this thing called Blog Every Day of December (BEDD) and since I'm not doing anything this month, well, I thought I'd join her. I may not be the most committed but I'll try, and now realising that I will be away on the 17th, 18th and 19th I feel this may not work, but hey, I'll figure something out, okay? Okay. Cool.

And yeah since December is a month of giving (well, really just Christmas but yeah whatever) I thought I'd also try to do one nice thing for someone in each day of December. (And because I'm cool I wanna name it- so it'll be called my actsofkindness) I love hearing about how people are so blessed by just little things people do for them, and to be honest, I love receiving stuff myself, so yeah why not, right? Well, I'm not too sure exactly how this is going to work but I'm thinking it'll be like me doing small things like baking for someone, or babysitting for free, or just doing stuff that they will benefit from. Yeah so my plan is to do things that will bless other people without spending all of my money (because I have none!) and yeah I hope this works. First of all, I am putting up our Christmas tree! but Rose wanted to put the star on the top so maybe I'll let her do that and yeah I guess helping at the women's BE.LOVED event tonight counts, right? So I wrote this earlier today then went to put up the tree- FAIL. Not all the parts were there so no tree up yet :( but I did help at the women's event so I guess that counts.lol. (Except for leaving slightly early before clean-up, yeah sorry people. Hey, I'm not perfect haha)

HAPPY DECEMBER!!!

(Please don't take offence or think I am trying to make myself look good by doing this act of kindness thing, but please rather take this as an opportunity to do something cool too. And in saying that, I want to make this kind of anonymous but that may change slightly on what exactly the 'act' is. If it's something I feel to share to encourage you to do the same, or whatever, please take it just as that- encouragement cos' it's something that I just thought would be cool to do in the month of giving, yeah sweet as. Thanks!)

When Boredom Strikes...

So I actually have no idea where this post will go but meh I haven't blogged in a while so here we go...

Ever notice that when 'holidays' swing by there is always someone who is like "Mum, what are we doing today? I'm bored." then minutes later is like "Mum, we never do anything. It's the holidays!!" Well, this was me a few years ago and is still currently Rose (my little sister) but I've come to realise over the past few holiday breaks that boredom is a-okay. I think I would much rather be bored in my holidays than have to do piles of homework and stuff for school. This is because these 'holidays' are not actually a holiday, it is more like a two week study break in which I am suppose to revise a years worth of content for all six of my subjects to prepare myself for the mind draining, boring exams in November which pretty much determine my future (since NCEA Level Two is the most important part of my education as school likes to tell me). So that is enough of my rambling on about school and stuff. Yeah.

Now what have I actually been up to..

Well, there is this girl called Uli who I've been hanging out with. She is from Germany and is doing a world trip and New Zealand was one of her places to come to. Cool huh? Yeah. So on Saturday, Aimee and I took her into town to see the Sky Tower which overlooks Auckland City.

 So this is me, my sister Aimee on the left and Uli in the middle waiting for the train. I had to take the photo which is why I look weird. Haha.

 Up in the Sky Tower. Standing on the glass. Everyone takes this photo, right?

 I think Aimee misses London a bit...

Me and Uli in the Sky Tower.

So yeah that was pretty fun. We also tried to go to the waterfront - like where 'The Cloud' is but we chose the wrong time to go. It was like 5.30pm so everyone going to watch the France vs. England game was lining up and yeah people were drinking and smoking so we left.

What else have I been up to? Well, of course I've been watching the rugby. Yeah I watched the All Blacks vs. Argentina game. It was lame. Hardly any tries so yeah not much to cheer for. Best thing about the rugby this past weekend though was watching Mum watch Australia vs. South Africa and not saying a word. She couldn't choose a team to cheer for so for the whole 80 minutes it was quiet. Hahahaha. Love you Mum. PS. Let's hope the AB's beat Aussie and get to the finals! We didn't have the RWC here for nothing, did we? (Actually I don't care but whatever it would be nice to win.)

And on a final note, I should be using my time more productively - like getting off Facebook and Blogger. Time to knuckle down and get some study done. Oh well I'll get back to you on that one...

Good bye for now :)