i'm lazy

READ: (email to grandma)

Hello!
i wonder if the weather in perth is still fantastic? last week it's been freeeeezing here in melbourne. although, this week has been sunnier, but still cold.
Centra sounds very interesting, reminds me of home schooling.
i am very proud of my grandma who teaches, travels and uses mobile phones and computers. but, maybe i should point out that 'online' is one word? ^___^
today we had a senior school end of semester assembly. i never knew how good our school bands are. the senior groups are at the moment touring adelaide, last year they went to tasmania, so they played a powerpoint with the music playing and photos flashing. it made me regret not going to all the performances that i've missed this year as well as not joining the band early on. i used to play trumpet, i liked it, but i didn't see it as something i'd follow for a career and back then i thought high school was all about career stuff. i never thought of learning music as a hobby. i think it'd be cool to play the double bass. cos it's so big, yet so elegant at the same time, but mostly it's just the big-ness that catches my eye!
anyway, i was thinking about the assembly because our school had some people volunteer to donate blood just recently and that was mentioned at assembly. did you know that i am very scared of sharp things. i think it started with bees/wasps. i have nightmares of wasps stinging me, lots and lots of them.
exams are over, they were all last week, but i didn't have any mid years anyway. it was the week before that was stressful as it was when alot of sacs where happening and i was quite sick at the same time, but i got through. i don't think i failed miserably in any of them but i didn't do as good as i could have.
on the other hand i have been doing quite well with other previous sacs so i think it balances out!
swine flu has become very real to everyone here at school. we have a few people quarantined but no confirmed cases. and everybody seems to be getting sick.
i haven't been well lately. it started with the usual sinus problems and some coughs then the day of my japanese oral, i was standing on the side of a main road for 1/2 an hour in cold windy [almost raining] conditions and i think that triggered the big stuff. that week i got a the whole lot: fever, sinus stuff, coughs, hot cold, headaches and dizzyness. i didn't got to school that week, just dropped for the sacs, as it was the week before report writing day the sacs could not be delayed to later dates.
during the next week, exam week, i got better and caught up with class work. the GAT was on thursday; we had to write essays on bees and our views on materialism. my writing got quite corny in the essay on materialism, it was the last hour of the three and i cringed as i wrote and reread the line about 'the champion in us all that pushes us to try again and again' ...or something like that ><
this week i've been well except for some dizzyness. i've been focusing on japanese and food technology. from monday night i haven't been able to sleep very well because i just can't stop thinking! at first i thought alot about how soon the japanese exams are [as the speaking exam starts a month before all other exams] and i couldn't stop thinking about how badly i'm going to do so i would sit up, turn on the light, take out my japanese work book and dictionary and sit there working through grammar points. then after a while i'd try and sleep again but then i'd start thinking about it again and i'd toss and turn and then end up sitting back up again with my japanese books. in the end i'd have to plug my ipod in and play this one song over and over again. it's a song from the movie version of the phantom of the opera only i can't remember what it's called. have you seen the phantom of the opera? if you have, it's from the scene on the roof between christine and raoul. oh oh oh, i remember: 'all i ask of you'. this song always gets me to sleep.
so since then i've been doing a little bit of grammar or vocab work in bed before i turn of the lights and i think it's helping.
i'm planning on going to japan in february next year for about a month with a friend of mine. i'm not totally sure if it's going to happen, tomorrow i'm going to ask her. i must make sure that she has her parent's permission and enough $$$. i don't want to start planning if in the end we're not going; it will be dissappointing.
since mum has gone to japan she's a bit more open to the idea but she wants to make sure that we're not totally alone throughout the whole thing. she wants us to go on tours and meet with people that we know and all that which i think is good, i couldn't go through a whole month without those, being the only one of the pair that knows SOME japanese and not having enough money to be ripped off. so mum just wants us to make our plans and to show them to her and if there is enough...tours and connections. then she's ok with it.
the only problem, that i can see now, is that we don't have any connections in japan. jonny has a pretty good friend who is from japan but i think he's here in australia now. i have asked jonny to ask around for information about where to go and where to stay and any possible help but he seems too busy and hasn't gotten any information.
i have a friend who has japanese relations in japan, but we're not very close and i don't know what to ask her. i've got my japanese tutor too...
anyway, tomorrow i'm meeting up with my friend to talk about the trip. hopefully things will be cleared up.
ahh it's so hard to save money. i don't know if i told you, but i saw billy elliot the musical sometime in may. it was good, but because i love the movie so much, the expectations for the musical were quite unreal. i went with the family to see dralion [cirque du solei] a little after that and it was quite good, but i wasn't able to catch any story line so it was entertaining but a bit confusing when looking for a story. annnd i've got tickets to see wicked on the 27th of this month and chicago; end of august. really looking forward but...there goes all my money...
money is also one of my many reasons for not going to this years formal. it's not just because it's expensive [$70 for ticket, $40 limo, and a dress and shoes] but it's because i don't really want to go and it's expensive. i went to last years, and it was boring. soooo boring.
mum and dad have until august, i think, free with no weddings so they're organising plans on the new house everyday. usually very exciting, every now and then stressful: mum and dad gave the external plans of the house to the two neighbours on either side for approval [for the council] and the young couple on the left have been unfriendly and unhelpfull. they're haven't signed yet [it's been almost a week while the ladies of the left side house signed and returned the sheet by the next day] and are asking for sketches of how the house will affect how much sun will be blocked by our house. dad stresses out about it while mum tries to reassure him that they can't do anything that will make any major changes to our plans.
it's almost the end of this first school semester and my first visual communication design folio has been completed and handed in. i designed a stationery brand identity [so a name and logo] and a promotional poster for that design. i would send pictures of the last few products but they're saved onto the school computers and not in jpeg format. in the second folio for the year i plan to design a logo for a bakery and a cake package design. should be fun.
for the food technology folio my design brief is to create a lunch menu consisting of 5-8 dishes featuring avocados for a cafe. i had so many recipes to choose from it was too hard to cut it down to just 8!
have you noticed how much i have written?
it's because i'm a lazy person.
i have realised that because of this i probably won't be able to write another email for a while. so i've tried to cram in as much as possible in.
also because i'm not very comfortable with writing small notes. i start to obsess about every single word and the tone; this way there's just too much to obsess about!
very sleepy now. i don't think i'll be able to do any japanese revision before i sleep. but who knows, i might start obsessing again.
oh and mum advises you not to come to melbourne now because of all the sickness going around.
good night!
Jess.

goodnight all.