Assignment finished!

Yay, done with my media studies assignment, finally! I wanted to wake up at like 4 AM but I didn't get up in the end until 6. The day was pretty short. I basically worked on the essay until like... 3 PM, where I went to uni to hand it in. After that I went over to Amanda's place, talked (or bothered more like) with her and Jia Chee and Izzati for a bit. Ehehe. Cooked a quick dinner, which was basically like nothing but carrots with a few other veggies thrown in. I had no actual meat, so I threw in chilled shaved chicken.

Chris told me to update the MCAC website more often (I'm the webmistress for it) since our potential sponsors will now be looking at the site. So I decided to start working on remaking it so that the design is more user friendly, utilizing or logo and so that others can update it with me.

Around 8 past, Amanda invited me to eat dinner/supper (for me anyway) with the group at Farrer. As Jia Chee made soup for everyone in the afternoon. So yeah, had a nice pleasant time eating with them all. Stan and Sharon ovened these sausages and shared them with everyone. I felt kind of guilty with how I came over eating everyone's food. Must make up for it... maybe I will make something on Sunday. Izzati came in a bit later also back from Roberts/Richo. We watched this retarded game show on TV called "Are you smarter then a 5th grader?". This woman was winning $75'000 for answering dumbass questions like "Name the first 4 odd numbers". WTF.

Anyway, will sleep soon. Tomorrow at 9:30 I shall be heading to the Melbourne Show with V, Tsan, Han Lin, Winston and Brian. I hope... I can win one of those huge plushies. Hahahaha.

MCAC Annual General Meeting

Not much really happened today. I have no classes on Wednesday, all I had to do was work on my presentation tomorrow for English Literature, on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was MCAC's AGM today, and most of the positions besides president was up for grabs. I ran for Secretary, with my only other opponent being Chris. And yeah, I lost. The votes were apparently close, but Chris pulled ahead in the end. I think Raine and Bernie were attempting to cheer me up by saying I might still be able to sit in on meetings as the PR rep. But then again, I think that should go to Drue? *shrugs* I don't really mind either way. I'll always still help out with the club (as the webmistress for the club's site and PR person...) and besides, I lost to my friend. It sounds reallly stupid to be bitter against losing to your own friend, lol. Yeah, congrats to Raine (Vice-Pres), Nazri (Treasurer), Chris (Secretary) and Sandreep (Librarian, and he had no opponent) for their newly elected positions.

Seems that Raine and Mitze had arranged for MCAC to hold a mini-semi-advertising event at the GFN next week. I guess I'll be helping with that since the only MCAC members I'm aware of that goes to GFN or may go is Raine, myself of course, V, Carlin, Stan and maybe Nazri if we can get him to come. And I just discovered or realised today that V is a member of MCAC. Haha.

Dinner was a mess. First I discovered that my fridge had water dripping from it for some reason, and my fresh mushrooms were absolutely disgusting. So I threw them away. My carrots weren't looking so hot either, so I cooked it along with other stuff and veal. And the veal. It was frozen veal that I baked. I thought it was chicken when I bought it. And then discovered it was veal. Thankfully it tasted okay though.

The tiredness continues day 2.

I just spent like 3 hours making my first batch of kek batik (aka batik cake). And dinner (pasta bake with corn, carrots, peas, broccolis, mushrooms and ham) I hope... it is edible. I'll find out tomorrow (me and my friends that is, who I will feed it to first). Let's get down to my day first.

Woke up at 5 AM to continue doing my 3 day take home test for EIL. I couldn't finish it and although I had an extension, I'm a nerd and I have pride. I kind of wanted to get through uni without ever using extensions. And I did manage to finish it (like 10 minutes before 5 PM, the deadline). Anyway, went for placement at around 8:15 AM as usual. It was "wacky wednesday" at the primary school but I was really disappointed. The only people who were really wacky was the other student teachers such as myself, and a few of the students (although students still had to wear their uniform, some broke the rule though). All the other teachers came as normal almost. Cept for a few. Boring!

Placement was pretty boring. I managed to get done the POINT of going to the school to begin with. The information I needed to write my 40% assignment. It was like an emergency thing though. Because we wanted to do something else but the teacher changed his mind so we panicked and just quickly whipped something up. Oh well, at least now for the remainder of my placement (1 and a half days) I can just mess around, enjoy my last time at Brandon Park Primary School. Next year I'll have to finally head to a secondary school to teach/observe. And I AM NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. Unlike Brunei I've learnt, the secondary schools are pretty scary in Australia (although it depends which school). I hope I don't end up crying and running home from the school. I've heard stories of like the students dripping their saliva all over the door knob for teachers to open and what not. And of course, the violence. I don't want a chair or table thrown at me, kthx. I'll be like a little 19 year old Asian girl next year. I hope I don't get beat up.

I wanted to get home from placement ASAP to quickly email my test in (as the deadline was 5 PM). But I couldn't hitch a ride with Jenna and I thought I wouldn't be able to make it. But luckily! Effie showed me an alternative bus to get back to Monash, and I arrived like at 4:10 PM. Yes! Thank you Effie, even though you won't read this and I won't see you again for who knows how long (since I only know her since we go to the same primary school for placement, but her lectures and tutorials in Education are different from mine).

So I made some last minute changes to my test, sent it in. And then the horror of cooking begins. I ran back and forth between my room and the kitchen (DAMMIT why must it be so far away from each other?!). Got all the ingredients I needed for the cake. And my pasta bake. I spent forever doing the cake, and I thought I screwed up cause it didn't go right at first. But it looks okay now. My neighbor, Jessica, who was also downstairs cooking dinner looked a bit skeptical at what I was doing. Actually, everyone around me (including the other people I live with) saw me and I probably looked like some freak. I mean, here I was... FRYING CHOCOLATE. Hahaha. I wasn't frying it. I was cooking it with a pan. That's how you do it. You don't bake it.

Anyway, now I have to continue work again. I skipped my lecture for English Literature on the novel, the Wheel of Time. And tomorrow is my tutorial for it. And I haven't even read past page 14 yet (it's around 200 pages). Haha, I am so dead. I need to get at least halfway through so I vaguely know what everyone will talk about tomorrow in class.

I've been messing around for the past 6 weeks. I really really hope my grades don't suffer from all of this. Although I feel a lot happier now compared to semester one.

The tiredness continues.

So I spent the entire day half dead. Pretty much the same as yesterday. Woke up at around 6 AM for placement. I was dead pretty much the whole of placement, the kids had like a performing arts class, I actually fell asleep in the class for like 30 seconds (before I think my head just drooped over and my partner poked me). Anyway I'm glad she did. I would probably get into big trouble sleeping like that. Since I'm a teacher there, not a student. The last thing I need is getting thrown out of my course because I fell asleep in a school, upsetting them.

Jill, my EIL tutor, gave me an extension for the ongoing 3 day test. I'm still gonna get it done in the next few hours hopefully since even with the extension... well I need to do other work after tomorrow. So I don't have time to do this anymore. Hopefully whatever I write will get me a decent score.

Wacky Wednesday at placement tomorrow. No idea what to wear. I'll just wear a pink bucket hat and... something else. Placement is a lot more boring this time around (and I'm doing so much less) I'm not even looking forward to going, unlike last time.

And seems I can get to Drue's BBQ afterall. With the help of dear Raine and Bernie. <3

Oh and I like made fettuccine in my room again. Haha. I love cooking things in the rice cooker. Anyway, back to the test!