7:28 Thursday Morning   Being A Day Older Age happens gradually. But yesterday was awesome. Woke up, went to school, you know the drill. On my way to my first period class (Maths), Alyssa and a couple of other kids that go to Prayer meetings in the morning were walking out of the building. Alyssa sees me and runs up and tacklehugs me and screams a happy birthday. It's been so long since anyone has tacklehugged me. I miss my Sara. But it really really brightened my whole mood on this whole birthday thing. People treat you special like, "congratulations! you've managed to survive another year!" and sometimes that's WORTHY of congratulations and sometimes it's less so. anyway, I'll continue this later, possibly after school. Chelsea's finally out of the shower and i need to unstinkify myself. ----------------- 5:31 p.m. In maths we didn't do an assignment, we did a review lesson, with 3 teams and a competition. People working in pairs at their tables, or threepeople to a team if they're cool. Unfortunately, there was only one table cool enough to have 3 people and that wasn't my table. most of the other tables had either two or four people so the pair thing worked out nicely. Two people worked on their own. One of those two people was me. And as chance would have it, a process of randomisation picked my work 3 times out of 6 to be read to the class. out of 4 groups in the team. Despite working on my own, however, I still kicked Simon and Marko's butt. Yay. Our team won! yay the pink team. so i got a chocolate fish. Read Othello in English. I'm desdemona! Caleb is iago! i wanted to be iago but teacher wanted a guy to be iago. It's alright though. I love Othello. Hung out in the Peerswick at Interval. More hugs from Arina, Scott, and Geniesa! In Photo, I borrowed some Rammstein and Nine Inch Nails cds from Nik, and he gave me a purple peg. hehe.yay. Everything else that happened in Photo is pretty irrelevant--I'm kind of annoyed that the teacher requires four artist models for the idea we want to follow in photography. How many well-established chess photographers do you know of? So I'm looking through books for ideas that I like, taht I could just substitute with chess pieces instead of whatever is in the picture and hope she doesn't mind. It's like she doesn't want us to be creative. What did the first, like, surreal artists base their art on if they didn't have artist models? Eep! maybe we're just not creative ENOUGH. oh well. I don't really care. I can do what I want, print what I want, I'm not even getting credit at home for it. I pay for the materials and the film so it's not like I'm freeloading. In lunch I watched people play charades. In tech I worked on coasters some more. hehe. Chemistry was ...chemistry. Heh. I'm so glad Mr. Moir likes me. :D I didn't do my homework and he didn't make me stay after class. Hyun Woo bought me an ice cream and walked with me home. =| eeh..scary. I lazed around a bit and then went to dance lessons. Caleb and I went back to my house afterwards and he gave me presents. He put so much more effort into my birthday than I did his. I was touched. Pencil balloons with pump, a cute card with lots of llamas and an evil two-eyed broccoli, and a paper that has a llama that says "This llama entitles the bearer 2L of coffee ice cream courtesy of Caleb," which was sweet. :) Also He got me this random strawberry jelly drink. I drank it at lunch today...it was... uh, interesting. And the best bit: 17 birthday kisses! woohoo! I remembered that I didn't give him 17 birthday kisses on his birthday, so I fixed that. Yay! Today was pretty cool, too. I invited people over for tomorrow night, ZOMBIESSSSSS rah. yay. fun! I reckon it'll rock. In english, there was more reading of Othello. In Photo, more looking at of art books to find artist models. Interval, drinking of jelly thing, eating apples, and chips. yay. Tech, new coaster. Lunch, more drinking of jelly thing, eating noodles! and a sucker, and an orange. Chemistry, playing with chemicals. James and I decided Caleb was the chemistry Messiah when someone in class asked us why we were following him around. "Because he's cool," said James. "We're his disciples!" said I. "Yeah! Caleb is Chemistry God!" agreed James. but then we ditched him cos he kept getting the mixtures wrong. RICK was getting them perfect and so we decided maybe the messiah hadn't come yet. :D Then I went home because Directions was only for those who were doing Scholarship study. Cleaned my room, and cleared up the bathroom, blew up some balloons. Mum and dad gave me the promise of a ps2, and my favourite perfume. Peg gave me a frame for my seaglass, so i could make a mural. :D yay! Grandma gave me US$25. woohoo! Now I need to clean up this table, and then go to the Social tonight. And write out the food list for the party tomorrow night. I'm just so busy!