I’m going to make this easy for you so you don’t have to read it all:

White writing: the really unimportant stuff

Black writing: trivial – normal stuff

Colourful: interesting stuff

Colourful + affected writing: to stand out

[there are no paragraphs, any gaps means white writing]

In the middle of assignments and exams I have the busiest lllooonnnggg weekend all year! This blog is me reliving those memorable moments to never forget them … and [as I learnt from Jusy] improving my English.

Let’s start with Friday morning. I was at school at 8:15 where it was practically deserted. We had the day off but I had to come to school for TOM practice. We set up a classroom just for our group to practice and muck around in.

The teachers were meant to be switching staffrooms but all I saw them doing was talking, eating, chatting, walking their dog around the school, snacking, conversing with each other and occasionally moving something. :L well that’s what I saw.

Anyway there was heaps of food; Steark brought us pizza and these scone, cream and jam things. Also my group had heaps of food. We did heaps of run throughs and shortened the script heaps of times. My only worry by the end of the day was to remember my lines for the next day. After 10 hours I left a darkened school at 6:00pm.

So let’s move on. The next day I was expected to be back at school for the bus at 7:00, so the next day at 7:25am my body decided to wake up. I rushed around the house like a mad cow getting ready and my mum got me to school in record time without speeding. I felt like a celebrity as my team all cheered as we drove in. On the bus we had to sit on the floor [my body’s fault for waking up late] and we practiced our lines, which I forgot [not a good start].

We only had an hour to practice before we were on. It went soo smoothly! There were only 2 stuff ups, which we covered up soo well and I was remembered all my lines!

An hour later we had our spontaneous. Here’s the challenge, what would you say?:

You are walking along the street and you come across a pentagonal shaped business card with the acronym BLEND. What does the acronym stand for? What is the business and why is it pentagonal?

Our answer: Building a Loving Environment for Nurturing Dogs

At 12:00 I had to leave.

At 3:00 my parents and I left the house and set out to … Canberra! We got there and we stayed at my grandparents house, which I haven’t seem for almost a year. Also caught up with my cousins, which I hadn’t seen for even longer! They got into watching the Rugby and I actually watching longer than 30seconds and began to understand the game. :L Then people left and I watched HP #6, the Phoenix one. Got to bed at about 10:00.

The next day I woke up about 6:00 and showered and breakfasted and then we left about 6:45. It took us about 3hours to get to Jindabyne were we hired the gear … the ski gear! Then it took us another hour and a half to get to the ski tube. We caught the ski tube up to Blue Cow and I saw the snow!! I Saw The SNOW! It is pretty much how you image it but where we were it was windy and snowing so it wasn’t as clear as you would hope.

So I put on the skis, which took about 7 mins :L then my gloves got all tangled up and that took literally about 20 fix up and then I had to fix up my goggles and hat. I was finally ready so my dad attempting to teach me the very basics; how to move and get up this tiny hill, [which I could only go as far as halfway] and most importantly how to brake.

So then I attempted going down my first slope and here is how it went: I pushed off and went down slowing myself down. I got to where I wanted to stop and remembered how to but it wasn’t working! Up ahead a group of teenagers were approaching so I had to stop before I reached them. It still wasn’t working. I had to think of a plan B right there on the spot and I all I could think of doing was falling-over, so I was sliding down on my back [down this tiny hill] and I still wasn’t stopping. Eventually my heavy weight got the better of gravity and stopped but that was after I slid right through the group and pretty close to the edge of another hill. The teenagers were very nice though, they returned my stakes, which I dropped somewhere behind and then I had to get up, which took awhile :L One thing I think I did learn was that I needed heaps of patience.

We then went in for lunch and at 12:30 I got a lesson. There are 5 stages and I was in the ‘never skied before’ part. Unfortunately or fortunately you might say, I was the only one. I pretty much had a 2-hour private lesson and it took me that long to get down a slightly bigger hill. I learnt plenty off things, especially how to get up after falling about 15 times.

Then I was on the chairlift and I still fell getting off. You have to remember to bend your knees, slightly lean forward but not in a sitting positing AND TO MOVE to turn, and when moving keep ski’s straight. LOL many things.

That finished and we had to head of practically straight away. We got back to Canberra at about 7:00 after a road trip and returning my stuff. We ate at my cousins and then we headed off again. We got back about 10:30 but I slept most of the way.

Overall I enjoyed this trip and even though I fell heaps and crashed and everything but I think I am looking forward to going back. Even Jindabyne was beautiful and I saw Snowy River! [you know the poem]

Well the next day, today I go tup 6:30 and mum was like do you want to stay home? I lay in bed for about 10 mins deciding if I should go to school or not. Would you have? Anyway my dad was home too cause when I had my lesson he went off to enjoy the slopes and apparently got what is called ‘Skiers Thumb’, which really hurts. So I stayed home and it was soo boring! I worked on my maths assignment and pretty much finished it and also worked on eng and then went to the shops to develop the photos for maths.