The last day of primary school placement!

Oh yay, placement is complete! So I worked on the class last night I was SUPPOSED to do today. But I didn't. Turns out the teacher made a mistake and the special event today in the school ran for the whole day. So yeah, yesterday was a waste. Oh well. The teacher was pretty guilty over it, kept apologizing and thinking of solutions like making the kids stay in for lunch to do it (which I didn't like, since I doubt any kid would concentrate during lunch). Yeah, something happened at the school today called "Hollywood Magic". Where they have like 3 workshops where they animate something, do a radio show and do a short film of themselves (I thought this was excellent). I pretty much spent the entire day just staring at them. Wasn't really a good day for me to come, but who cares. Came for the sake of coming. Least it was rather entertaining.

Only photo I got. Proof that I was there? Bye Brandon Park~

Got home at around 4:30 PM, made dinner (lasagna and boiled veggies). Ate dinner with Rachel. Saw Ieja and Izzati for like 30 seconds before they started yelling and running away towards the security shuttle bus to go to the library. Did not do anything else. Anyway, now to work on the Mt. Buller part of the post!

So yeah, the trip to Mt. Buller. Like I said earlier, the bus left at 6:30 AM. And we had a nice long 3 hour trip to Mt. Buller.

I'm somewhere in the back... it was pretty noisy.

Most of the time was spent doing nothing. Just people eating (you could find all kinds of food on the bus, biscuits, cookies, chocolate, chips, peanuts, dried prunes) and sleeping. And then we had a stop somewhere and we played a game run by Han Lin. And a lot of weird things happened I don't even remember. Just some really graphic discussions about V's preference to horses. And yeah. And Winston attempted to try a game where we had to sing national anthems? But in the end it was still just him by himself singing the Malaysian one incorrectly. Anyway, made the bus ride more interesting.

So we got to Mt. Buller around 10 AM-ish and waited around.Waiting around... you can see my head on the left. XD

Then we took a group picture which I really like. So here's a smaller version of it below.

Awesome group photo!

I got separated from the main group soon after, not that it really mattered. We took another bus to get to the place where everyone actually skis (The Village, where all the food and shops are too). The area we arrived in had the tobogganing but we were gonna do that in the end, which we didn't but yeah. I took a while with Amanda pondering on whether to fork over the money for skiing. Seeing that it was only for $34 without the lifts we decided to try being there already.

I'm wearing the light and dark blue jacket with striped trousers on the left. This is the part as I spend forever attempting to at least get the skis on my feet without falling.

Oh yay! I actually got the skis on. O.O

My skiing experience was me trying to get the skiis on, move a bit and go as far as possible without falling. But since I get scared when I move anywhere at a slightly quicker pace I purposely always made myself fall. It was rather fun though to have yourself rolling in the snow. So yeah, in between all of this we took lots of pictures. During the time I was with Amanda, V, Jie Yen (sorry if I spell it wrong) and co. most of the time. Izzati came by sometimes looking really cool on her snowboard. V helped teach us how to ski. And Jie Khai and everyone else pretty much helped me and each other from sliding down the hill while attempting to just move or get the skis on. So yeah, random pictures below.

Me, Amanda and Jie Yen.

Group photo! V, me, Jonathan, Jie Khai, Yi Mei, YinYin, Jie Yen, Amanda and Lisa!

Liked this photo. Amanda, me and Izzati.


Liked this photo too. A snowboard really suits Izzati, haha. It looks really cool.

Anyway, after a few hours the group of us who were further downhill (the snowboarders were a bit higher) dragged ourselves up to them. We eventually out of boredom had a snowball fight. And stuff. Just sat around talking. Then we began to make a snowman.

Making the snowman~

After we made the snowman, we all obsessively began taking photos of it like crazy. Cause it's just so awesome and cute. It should be the GFN mascot. Heh.

Photo of us taking photos. Haha.

The snowman! With V's hat, YinYin's sunglasses and my scarf.

And yeah, we posed like numerous times with the snowman. I liked how the photos below have like increasingly more people as more and more people started dragging themselves to take a picture with the snowman.

Just cute~

Really cute photo also~

And Zaffril, Izzati, Jie Khai and even more come by~

And we manage to convince Jonathan to come. And Winston manages to drag himself up the hill still stuck to the snowboard (I thought that was funny, lol).

After that, we took our stuff back and the snowman was bare again. And out of nowhere the snowman gets an offspring like immediately. I still don't know who made the baby snowman (or the snowman isn't a man? A snowwoman!)

Snowman with new baby

Then we killed the snowman. I took a video of it. V squished the poor thing in the end. *sniffs* RIP snowman.

After that, we spent another hour or so trying to ski again and stuff. Finally around 4 AM we were tired and made our way down. Returned the equipment and ate at Subway. We were starving because we all didn't eat lunch (we got to Mt. Buller past 10 and just skied or snowboarded until 4).

Foood~

Then it was the 3 hour bus trip back again. By this time, it was night, we were tired and the back of the bus which was so loud and noisy on the way just died. Most of us slept (while the front of the bus, with non-skiers were fairly active and talking at least).

Sleepy~ I did sleep on the bus but in this picture I was faking sleep, lol.

On the way back, we stopped by Maccas for dinner. Although I still had my Subway sandwich so I just ate that rather then McDonald's. Towards the end we just talked and stuff and everyone was accusing me of being an alcohol smuggler. T__T

And this ends the Mt. Buller post. It was a great trip, I wanna go again. Or going anywhere with this group is nice. Lots of fun. I wanna try Paintball now (and probably get my ass kicked but whatever).

Mt. Buller.

The trip to Mt. Buller today. Well... a lot of things happened I wonder if I can remember it all. I'll hold what I did on the trip until Monday, I have a bunch of pictures but I want to get the rest from everyone else so I'll have to wait until Monday to do that at the GFN.

But yeah, general overview. Uhh.. woke up at like 5 AM. Got to bus at 6:30 AM with Izzati and Amanda. Rode on the bus for 3 long and boring hours to get to Mt. Buller. Had a terrible time skiing (but it's a good experience, if I knew how to ski it would be a lot of fun). Generally stuck around with Amanda, Jonathan and co. for the trip. And yeah, then another 3 hours back to Clayton. I'll probably go all detailed on Monday with pictures cause you know... I want to write everything so I can look back at it in the future. I hope I can remember by Monday (yes, my memory IS that bad).

I'm tired but yeah. Got a lot of work to do. Have a class to prepare, 2 presentations and another speech for MCAC AGM committee elections. I can't relax on that since Chris is my direct competitor. And well... next to Raine, Chris is the next person I really wouldn't like to compete against. :P

I hate Fridays.

So I.. woke up at around 6 AM-ish for placement. Second last time! When I got to Brandon Park Primary School, all the teachers were gone. Pretty much the entire school staff was made up of substitutes today. Apparently all the teachers went for some teacher training development thing. So the student teachers largely got ignored. It was a pretty uneventful day. We had this thing at the school called err.. Friday-something something, where like the older kids (year 5 and 6) each get a prep kid (like 5 years or older) to take care of. And everyone went off with a different teacher to do some sporty activity.

So I went off with the people who did footy. And I know nothing about footy. Anyway I just helped out a bit. There was this one kid there who kept getting upset and running away. And yelling at me and everyone to go away. And I remembered I saw him upset like on Wednesday also. When the teacher finally got him to come back he screwed up kicking the ball, got upset and ran off again. I was like.. T____T... then @___@... cause I didn't know what to do. I can't convince kids to not be upset over trivial matters. Cause I'm really sensitive myself. Luckily the sub teachers and the few actual teachers talked to him.

I had to leave halfway today since it's a Friday and I have Media Studies lecture and tutorial. I was a bit worried because all the buses I was taking was like... late. Luckily I made it to class right on time.

So dragged myself back home, it was like 5:20 PM. Uhh... I just made rice and microwaved some random canned food for dinner since I ate all my cooking already and I don't want to cook anything more today (since it's Friday, it's late and I'm gone all of tomorrow). While downstairs I saw Izzati, Nabila, Ieja and co. leave for some event thingy they had at campus. Ieja invited mean last night but I turned it down cause I'm tired. And I want to sleep. I have a ski trip tomorrow and I have to wake up at like 4:30.. AM or maybe 5 AM. Which isn't that different from when I always wake up anyway but I wanted to like squeeze in 7 or 8 hours of sleep today at least. Since I haven't been getting it. But looks like that isn't happening considering what time it is right now (while typing this).

Actually I would of went to sleep but I'm waiting to see if Nabila or Ieja go back to their rooms. I wanna borrow sunglasses from them. But if they don't come back then I guess I'll just go to sleep. Amanda told me that Mitze said to bring sunglasses or goggles for skiing tomorrow. Oh well. I should of bought sunglasses before. It would be shitty if I decide to buy at the mountain for some expensive price for some crappy looking glasses when I could of bought decent ones at any shop for the past 7 months for like $10. Bleh.

But yeah, I'm not gonna be cheap tomorrow and enjoy myself. Heh. I'm finally gonna eat out! I've spent the last few weeks eating nothing but my crappy food (and GFN food). Will post up lots of photos on Sunday (or tomorrow night, depends how I am).

Oh and in the end I am missing Drue's BBQ tomorrow. Since by the time I get back from the mountains it's too late already and most people would have left. And Raine isn't staying over anymore either. So yeah. My loss on that.

Tired... so very tired.

What a busy day. So I woke up at around 6 AM for placement. Went there, did the usual. Helped around and stuff. That wasn't too eventful (although for my placement, Wednesday is wacky Wednesday, so we gotta dress all wacky for that day). I thought I would have to take the bus home but one of the other girls also having their placement in my school drove me back to uni.

My laptop was dead when I came back to my room. The charger died actually, and the laptop ran out of power. So I immediately walked back to uni before the campus computers shop closed and bought a $60 charger. It works now. After that I headed to help out at the GFN. That was pretty busy. They had this salsa dancing session and even though all my friends joined in and I got asked and pushed by this guy to be his partner I still refused. I'm stubborn and shy. Haha. During the long salsa lesson I was bored since all my friends went away, so I played Uno Stack..ing.. thingy.. with Han Lin, who for some reason didn't want to dance either. Then Carolina (from my stairway) and Tom comes along and we played with them. Then started to play Scrabble but it was time to go. So yeah, I walked back in the cold at night with Jia Chi.

I'm a bit upset right now actually, see, I paid for the trip to Mt. Buller on Saturday, then I only realized that Drue's BBQ is on Saturday. Not Friday, which I originally thought. Crap. Now I can't go to the BBQ. And I even bought all the ingredients already for the cake I was gonna make for the BBQ. Noooo. Dammn. I wanna go to both. Why must it be at the same time. T.T I'll probably still make the cake to give to my friends and stuff. Maybe I'll bring it with me to Mt. Buller and give it to everyone who is going.

I'm bummed about missing the BBQ though. I was looking forward to it.

Anyway, I had a three day take home exam actually I'm supposed to do today (finish by Wednesday). It's really bad that I have placement for all three days. So now I haven't even started it, I really only have tomorrow night left. Shit.

The usual Saturday.

Went to Brandon Park Shopping Centre at around half past 9 with Izzati and Ieja. We met Nabila, Amanda and co. there. The three of us overdid on the shopping. We bought so many things we had trouble carrying it all. I spent like $60. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. I had to buy some cake ingredients for a cake I want to make later next week, so my usual spending amount shot up. But I'm really spending too much money. Besides the BBQ and sleepover next week at Drue's house (which I'm not sleeping over anymore), the day after the GFN people are going to Mt. Buller so I wanna go, that'll be another $40. Ehehehe. I hope my efforts to cook my own food is actually reducing my spending. I need to count one day when I'm more free.

Rest of the day was spent doing my English Literature assignment. I have no idea what I'm writing either. Oh well. Stir-fried fish, brocolli, carrots and peas today for dinner. With soy sauce. Ate with Rachel at the Mess Hall.