taste of freedom

My stack of notes - such a relief to be rid of them! 

Crossing out that last one... You can see that I got a little bit excited! 

Well, well, well, guess who has freedom in the palm of their hands? That's right, it's me! 

Finished my last paper on the 15th of November, which was last Thursday, and I must say, I kinda still am denial that I have finished high school. It's weird, I wake up every day thinking, 'oh you know I should be productive today and do shit' but then I come to the realization that I don't actually have anything to do. This will be the only point in my life where the only thing I will have to worry about is whether I achieve the scores to get into the uni I want. All my next breaks will be about finding a job, paying the bills, graduating, finding an official job, etc etc and it's a scary thought but something that I will dwell on later. 

So since I've been on break, and moved my truckload of stuff out of the boarding house and now into my sister's already packed living room, I have honestly been leading the best time. Dyeing my hair green, taking Sammy out for walks, lunch in the city, Latin festival, the beach, doggy parks, boyfriend, Cho Gao, dinners, movies, lots and lots of TV. It feels like it has been more than a week since I finished, but it's only been 5 days! I've got another 2 weeks in Melbourne before flying home, for at least 2 months so hopefully I actually get off my post-exam lazy bum and roam around and take cute pictures and snapshots and have an exciting life to be able to blog about. 

Although I must say, it has been really sweet so far. Staying past 1am without feeling guilty, waking up at 12pm (horrible!). Okay I do feel a little guilty, it's 3:30am now. 

It's almost over

Exactly 7 more days of high school classes left, ever, of my life. 

fuck. 

Tea for Toorak - we have this program where a group of boarders and a group of the local girls get together and have dinner, one night at a local girl's house and one night in the boarding house as a way of integrating both cultures. Went to Jana's house and made our own pizzas and had too much appetizers (cheese and dips and crackers, yum) and had my first taste of ginger beer (which was surprisingly good) and had the best laughs. 

How lethal does this look! It's called 'Spicy fish'... Had lunch with Kim, Jojo and I in the city and well, I really miss spicy foods :( 

After dying Jojo's hair... how amazing are the colours! Red in the back, then the rest of her head is dip dyed a gradual colour of purple to pink. 

Casually a 'small' stack of practice exams for Psychology to complete, woo such fun! 

Last day of term we had a free dress day, and as the school year is almost ending for the year 12s, we decided to make it a little more special and themed it 'dress as a guy day'. Being in an all girls school sure has its perks when everyone goes crazy. Didn't manage to take any photos though I had such an insane day :(  

Flossys 18th! Went for dinner in the city, a fusion Thai restaurant and the food was absolutely brilliant. Went bar hopping a little bit after and had a few drinks, good night good night. :) 

I honestly had this page opened up for 3 days. I've got nothing to say anymore. 

Today was the last first day of term ever. Had a 2 week 'study break', which I obviously did not study much. I did bring most of my books down to my sisters though, where I stayed over my break but barely used any. Spent most of my time in the city, or at Tim's, or watching tv and pigging out to KFC with my sister. The break made me crave for life in the city so much more. Seriously, even though the thought of ending my high school life is completely and utterly mind boggling and surreal, I am so impatient for it to be over as well. I suppose everyone is going through the same thing. Disbelief. Denial. Dumbstruck. Happy. Euphoric. Impatience. Stressed. Nervous. 

yadayadayada. 

Next time I'm on I would be graduated and hopefully finished with exams already. 

37 more days guys. 

Free Dress Day

Nothing better than being able to wear your own set of clothes to school. Actually, I lie. I'd rather have a uniform so I don't have to fuss over what I should wear. Choosing an outfit is undoubtedly one of the hardest things to do these days, especially from a limited selection of clothes, hashtag-firstworldgirlproblems. 

Life has been a whirlwind of.. well just a whirlwind really. My winter break was one of the greatest. It definitely had ups and downs, but following the ultimate cliche, you can't appreciate the highs without the lows. I did a lot of driving! And went through my first bribe, hah. Silly cause I shouldn't even be driving.. But what can you do. Although it isn't one of the 'craziest' holidays, it was really such an amazing one. I have to say most of my holidays have been super memorable.

My birthday this year was super amazing as well. Still can't get over everything everyone did, and the feeling of warmth and love love love for them I have. I have a very drunken video of me emotionally proclaiming my gratitude, and was going to post it up but decided to save my dignity and leave it tucked away privately in a folder somewhere on my computer. But yes, I had a surprise 12am hide-from-bella-when-shes-looking-at-the-gate-but-get-her-to-open it surprise, a birthday video and 3-joint birthday with Kara and Gina. Stayed up to watch the sunrise and went home to crash after but it was a hell of a night. 

I feel like I could go on forever about how grateful and super and amazing life has been for me. Happy happy and constantly on cloud 9 - okay slight exaggeration with stress of exams coming up but yes usually happy and content and sated. 

Speaking of exams, I've got 36 more days left of classes! My high school life is ending right before my eyes and I'm a mix of high-low emotions. I'm ecstatic to finally be done with this chapter of my life but yet, the next chapter will be so different from anything I've ever experience and it really is a scary thought. Every one tells me that it'll be great and I know it will but the prospect that my future is so uncertain and be based on my grades at the end of the year exams frightens the living out of me. Exams are so soon and everything is coming at me so soon and I feel like I haven't had any time to slow down and take a good look at where I am, which is usually the case for everyone I'm sure. 

Okay I'm pretty sure I've provided enough of an update to last at least a week. Or more. That was fun. 

x 

Christmas in June

Every Wednesday, the boarding house has a compulsory dinner in which all boarders (juniors and seniors) have to attend in the dining room. Because compulsory dinners go on for quite a bit, and not many people seem to enjoy trekking all the way up to the boarding house in this treacherous weather, the staff try their best to make it as fun as possible. We have game nights, themes such as masquerade or student-teacher role switch nights, etc etc. 

So last night was the 2nd last compulsory dinner of this term and they decided to theme it Christmas in June. Yes, it usually is Christmas in July but we won't be here in July, with winter break and all. So Christmas in June. The staff decorated the dining hall with ornaments and fairy lights and they went full out, even coming up with a display of a mini Christmas tree. Even dinner was very Christmas like, with turkey and roast potatoes etc etc. The directing head of boarding also came as Mrs Claus! 

It was indeed a successful and fun night. I dressed up, a little with a teal skirt (not really green but it was the closest I could find) and a red shirt, with red lipstick and red flats. Had so much fun with the girls, taking heaps of photos, as you can see:  

Ann & Caroline

Jojo & I
Look how crazy thick and long my hair is! 

L-R: Me, Jojo, YiJien, Kim, Caroline, Ann

The boarding house staff and supervisors! 

Caroline & Jojo

Duck face-ing 

Mrs Claus

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