A Week in Review

This week, surprisingly enough. Summed up, for the most part, by a Facebook status I saw yesterday: "Another boring week at school."

I don't know if it's because our usual Computers teacher is so lax with the actual teaching part of his job or we just don't have enough variety in Computers teachers, but whenever we have a substitute teacher they always seem really strict and uptight (see my second blog post). On Wednesday, when we had a double lesson of Computers (that's a straight 104 minutes), we had yet another annoying Computers substitute teacher, much like the one I wrote about earlier, except this one thought he was much cooler. He looked a bit weird, too.

Friday was the day of assessment tasks, starting with a HSIE in-class essay on "The Challenges and Changes Faced in both Urban and Rural Communities", in which I managed to write two and a bit pages in the 50 minutes allocated even with the precious little preparation I did. I then had to present my HSIE speech, which involved reciting the 23 lines of Romeo and Juliet I'd memorised. I think it went alright, although I'm not sure anyone was listening to the quality content because they were all so busy laughing raucously at the many hilarious puns I'd subtly added into the speech.

Yesterday, (that's Saturday) I was lamenting the loss of the internet, which was due to the terrible internet provider we're with, when Dad offered to take my sister and I down to the beach. We were getting ready when Danielle announced she needed to buy new swimmers. A relatively easy and quick job, I thought. How wrong I was. We spent over 90 minutes (only 14 minutes short of a double Computers lesson!) going through every surf and swimwear shop we could find in Merimbula and Pambula. We met one of the store owners, who seemed to be like that creepy uncle that no one really likes, who only owns a surf shop so he can convince teenage girls to wear bikinis, before we went down to spend only half an hour at the beach.

Today Luke is coming round so we can do our Health homework, which will just be lots of fun. I then have to try and remember some of the highlights from the Sydney Camp, as I have to present a thankyou/highlight speech to the teachers on Monday. Joyous days.

In better news, I'm about 80% sure on the DSLR camera I am going to buy, which is the Nikon D3000. It has almost identical specs to the Canon EOS 1000D, but is several hundred dollars cheaper, and all my Dad's and my Uncle's old lenses should attach to it, which will save me even more money. It is only $800, so I can already afford it, and I may even be able to buy it this week. Here's hoping.

Anyway, anyone who has read that should now go and blog some more, as no one else seems to be doing it at the moment.

In memory of the wondrous art of pre-emptive gluing,
Nick.