My Schedule For the Next 2 Weeks

I probably won’t have much time for blogging for a little while. My next 2 weeks are planned right down to the minute. So I though I’d share with you my busy schedule of events.

Monday 9th
8.45 – 10.30
Maths Exam
Last ever K & P exam. Thank the Lord. Maths is definitely not my favourite.

11.00 – 3.00
Presentation Night Practise
Personally, I don’t see the need for 4 fours of practising how to line up and walk across a stage… but apparently its necessary.

3.00 – 6.00
Study for Legal Exam
I’m a little sad about this. I’ve really enjoyed legal this year. I’m a little sad that I’ll never get to have heated debates about politics with my class ever again.

7.00 – 10.00
Going to the movies.
My cert III lovelies and I are going to see the Michael Jackson documentary ‘This is It’. I’m a wee bit excited.

Tuesday 10th
8.45 – 10.30
Last ever Legal Exam
Easy stimulus test. Tear…

10.30 – 12.40
English Preparation
Not looking forward to this. One of my group members love everything to be perfect… so it may take awhile.

12.40 – 1.30
Choir Practise
Yay! Choir is going to kick some serious butt at Presentation Night this year!

1.30 – 3.00
More English Preparation
Same sentiments as earlier this day.

Wednesday 11th
8.45 – 10.30
Last ever Drama Assessment
It’s not really going to go for nearly 2 hours. I’m doing a monologue of about 7 mins… but I plan on being an audience member for others assessments.

10.30 – 6.30
Last ever Drama Excursion
Yippee! A trip to Brisbane’s QPAC to see The Crucible. I’m very very very excited!!

6.30 – 8.30
Jordan’s OP Music Performance
I come from a talented family… but for some reason Jordan thinks this concert may not be very good. I don’t doubt that he will do a great job, I think he has reservations about others in his class. Ha. Should be fun then.

Thursday 12th
A DAY OFF!
Sigh of relief…

Friday 13th
8.45 – 11.00
Final English Preparation
Getting all set up and doing final organising stuff.

11.00 – 12.10
Last ever English Assessment
A sound collage (difficult to explain what this actually means). Hopefully all those preps pay off.

12.20 – 1.30
Maths Revision
Not at all worried.

1.30 – 3.00
Last ever Maths Exam
M & P. Should be a breeze. I actually know what I’m doing for once in my life.

Monday 16th
A bit of a bludge day really.
I can go to school if I feel the need. Probably will for some cert III rehearsal.

Tuesday 17th
Another bludge day.
But I’ll go to school to spend some times with my friends.

Wednesday 18th
9.00 – 3.00
Presentation Night Practise.
Interspersed with talking, hanging out and mucking around. Nice.

6.30 – 10.00
Presentation Night
I GRADUATE!!!!!

Thursday 19th
Year 12 Chapel
A final presentation from the graduating year 12’s to the rest of the senior school. I believe the morning will feature: an entrance song (think Remember the Titans), an interpretative dance by ‘Da Boys’ highlighting events of the year, and final farewells.

Beach Day
The last chance for the cohort to hang out. We go to the beach, chill out and have a bbq. Hopefully I won’t cry.

Friday 20th
Police Talk
Basically telling us not to drink at schoolies (won’t be a problem for me.. wouldn’t happen anyway), not to drink and drive and not to do anything dangerous. Will probably feature gruesome stories and pictures.

Final Roll Call
Tear…

Dance Practise
Always a laugh. Our final practise before the formal.

Saturday 21st
10.00
Hairdressers
The beautifying process begins my friends!

1.30
Make up
My lovely friend from church, Amelia (who coincidently is a make up artist) is coming around to make be beautiful. Oh boy!

3.30
Photos
With my friends at the Coolum Board Walk. Can’t wait to see everyone. Followed by my parents driving my lovely friend Danielle and I to the formal.

5.00 – 11.00
The Formal
A whole post will be dedicated to this very topic later on so I won’t say much now…

Sunday 22nd
9.00 – 11.00
Church
My last one before I fly away.

12.30 – whenever the crying stops
Lunch with my lovelies
Our final chance to say goodbye before we all go away fro schoolies. I won’t see them for 6 weeks, so a lot of tears will probably be shed.

Monday 23rd
Final day for packing and getting organised.

Tuesday 24th
Goodbye QLD and hello WA.

Ladies and Gentlemen… they’re off!

Friday morning I awoke early, slightly nervous yet very excited. I’d slept poorly Thursday night, due to a combination of too much lactose and an intense desire for Friday to arrive. It was. after all, the day I had been waiting for.

Let me take you back 2 years, 1 month and 28 days. The last ever day I was braces free with crooked teeth. I looked a little something like this:

On the crooked teeth scale, 7 is the level used to signify ‘severe over crowding’. I placed level 14 on that scale. I received 4 extractions and I discovered I was the proud owner of 7 wisdom teeth. I did not miss-type just then.. I literally have 7 wisdom teeth.

The next morning, September 3rd 2007 I set off to the Orthodontist, where a man named David Vautin proceeded to glue brackets onto my remaining teeth and then fit a wire and a plate. The result looked a little something like this:

The above photo was taken the day I got my braces on. After seeing this photo I decided there was no way I was smiling with my mouth open and so for the next 4 weeks remained quite firmly tight lipped and covered my mouth with my hand while talking. This got a little old, and by the end of the month I was smiling open mouthed:

This is me on the family holiday to Sydney. Still very crowded looking in there but boy were things straightening out. Looking back now, I realise the initial movement was very fast and obvious. Exactly one year later those teeth were starting to look good:

If you look closely, you can see my bands, which were my constant companions for about a year. When David finally told me I wouldn’t have to wear them anymore I nearly cried with relief. Not even kidding. They are a pain in the bum and you should pity anyone who has to wear them. Although I am glad I didn’t have to wear headgear. By the end of 2008 my mouth looked like this:

I was very comfortable now and had the strong belief that I suited braces. In fact I liked them. Well, I didn't like the pain and the cut up lips or pokey bits of wire but I liked the look of them. And so 2009 came bringing with it great expectations. This would be the year that the braces would be removed. I held great hopes for the month of March, as I was originally quoted 18 months. However, March came and went and by June the braces were still on. This distressed me a little as in June I played Dorothy in the school Musical ‘The Wiz’ and would have loved to have them off for this. It didn't happen:

Looking at this photo I realise my teeth were not straight. The frustrated rants (about how there was nothing wrong with my teeth anymore and the braces should be off) given to my friends during this month were.. lets face it, immature and not warranted. By late July I looked a little like this:

And finally, FINALLY, in early September David announced that the braces were coming off! Friday the 30th of October 2009, at 9am my braces were removed at a lovely, albeit slightly painful, appointment. This my friends, is the result we’ve all been waiting for:

Please excuse the hideous make up job – it was fluro bowling night at Youth and these are the only pictures I have at the moment… expect more. I’m a little proud of my new smile.

One last picture… my new cheesy grin!

driving miss daisy

I’m a learner driver. Have been for oh about 14 months now. Unfortunately I’m not too fussed on the whole being in control of a car thing. I don’t really know what my problem is. I mean, I know that the ability to drive is ultimately for my benefit. But for some reason I have no motivation to get my P’s. I realise that next year when I need to get myself around I will totally regret my slackness but for now, I am quite content to sit back and let someone else do the driving.

To make matters worse, 3 people I know have died in car accidents this year. One of them was a guy I went to school with – it only happened this weekend. It’s really not helping me or giving me the desire to drive. At all.

I should probably get over it, suck it up and get on with it. And I will. I swear I will. Just in my own time.

mayana banana

Happy 9 months Mayana! You’re the best niece in the world and I love you lots and lots!

*Mayana dressed a bunny. She refused to look at the camera and instead looked away with a face that said ‘I can’t believe you’re making me wear this!’

I've been to heaven

I have a new favourite place. It’s a beautiful cafe, new to the Noosa Civic, called Chocolat. For weeks my mum and I have walked past the shop, waiting for it to open so we can try it out. Well it finally opened and try it we did. Zoey, Bethanie, Mayana, Mum and myself toddled off on Saturday morning to indulge in a ‘chocolate high tea’. This ‘high tea’ was only $30 and served 2, although 2 of us struggled to finish it.

Basically, each of us got a silver platter with about 6 little chocolate desserts on it. Our eyes grew wide, our mouths began to drool and our stomachs grumbled. But this was not all that was brought out to us.

A white chocolate Panacotta with a strawberry coulis was then brought out. We sat, wondering how on earth we were meant to eat all of this delectable food when suddenly, our waitress appeared once more carrying this:

A chocolate crème brûlée. I can’t even begin to explain how heavenly these desserts were. One word that pops into mind is AMAZING!!

So we begin. Eating, talking, eating, talking, laughing, eating, laughing hysterically,  getting full now, giggling uncontrollably. Then, the pièce de résistance arrives. A hot chocolate shot.

This is basically liquid chocolate. I kid you not. And if we weren’t on a sugar high prior to this, we certainly were after.

An hour and a half later we rolled out of the shop, more full than I have ever been in my entire life. Like I said, I have a new favourite place. I plan on going here a lot. I’ll probably get fat, but it will totally be worth it.

Festival Times

Friday night was my last ever school festival and boy was it busy. The action kicked off at 4.30pm with the first annual ‘original song writers competition’.  After being pressured by a lot of my friends and family, I decided to enter just for laughs. There were some great prizes up for grabs including music shop vouchers up to $200 and first prize – a free recording of your song, so I thought to myself ‘Why not?’. I pondered over what song to enter and finally decided upon the song I wrote for my cert III class ‘Say it Again’. I was up first, which was a little nerve racking, but I had some of my wonderfully talented friends (Melanda and Danielle) singing with me and my little Bro playing the guitar.  There are some amazingly gifted kids at my school so I really didn’t expect anything. But I ended up winning!! So I’ll be recording sometime soon!! I’ll keep you up to date with all of that and let you know how it goes.

Next up on my schedule of events was my last ever cert III performance. My band Four |on |One performed 4 songs: ‘Steal my Kisses’, ‘In the Jungle’ transitioned into ‘I Can See Clearly Now’, ‘Naive’ and ‘Man in the Mirror’.

I’ll upload a video of ‘Man in the Mirror’ a bit later for your viewing pleasure because I’ve been told that it was our best song.

I didn’t get to do much more after that, apart from some very silly photos taken with my friends which will be appearing on my blog at a later date.

Hope everyone’s Friday night was as fun as mine!

Love Alexie.

some band photos

Let me know which ones you like...



The photos are a part of one of my cert III music assessments. It's all to do with 'develop and promote image'. I'm not sure which photos I like, so any help with which ones to use would be greatly appreciated! We're performing at my school's festival on Friday... should be interesting.

why hello there

I write to you from the airconditioned comfort of...my school. That's right my friends - the internet blocker (which currently bans all access to facebook, myspace, mylifeisaverage.com, other interesting sites that may lead to procrastination during class, and so called 'social networks') allows blogger!! Armed with this new information I sit here and apologise once again for my extreme slackness in regularly updating my blog. I think my main problem is that I always think my life is too boring for anyone to actually want to read about it. However, I realise that this is my blog and if my life is boring than so be it! Please expect more posts... I may write from school more often!

Lovely Luggage

In November I am heading over to Perth for 40 days!! 3 weeks by myself for schoolies. Well not exactly by myself. I am heading over to a very large extended family most of whom I haven't seen in a few years. I’m pretty excited. Then after my schoolies break, the rest of my family are coming over for another 3 weeks – our first big family holiday in quite some time.

So I’m starting to get ready for my upcoming trip. First on my list of priorities, some carry on luggage. I wanted something really nice, not black, not ugly – but really pretty. At the moment I’m in Toowoomba, visiting Zoey, Pete & Mayana. Most of you probably don’t know this, but Toowoomba has a pretty decent shopping scene. Every time I come here I manage to find awesome bargains. Anyway, we were just casually shopping on Tuesday afternoon when we stumbled into Strandbags. As always I go and have a casual glance at the carry on luggage and low and behold I find the luggage for me! It’s purple, it has a beautiful pattern and it looks like a handbag!! Oh yes, this luggage was obviously made just for me. I quickly text my mother and some minutes later I am the proud owner of this baby:

 

I can’t wait for November! Lookout Perth – Alexie is coming.

and the 'slackest blogger of all time' award goes to...

Me!

I am well aware its been weeks since my last post. But I have an excuse I promise. The life of the busy grade 12 student totally takes over and can I just say... when people told me that term 3 was going to be busy they weren't joking. For example, week 8 I had seven pieces of assessment. That's seven big year 12 assessments in 5 days. Joy of joys. But hey I've made it through and I'm back to blogging. It's holidays now so hopefully I'll have lots of time to post things.

So I thought I'd share with you a list of things I have to do on my lovely 2 week holiday:
1. Finish updating my resume - I'm applying for a full time traineeship at the hospital next year so this one is kinda important.
2. Fill out my QTAC preferences - aka apply for uni. Still debating which uni to put as preference number one. I'll let you know which one I end up picking.
3. Hang out with my friends - most of them are going away but there are a few that I desperately need to catch up with, the ones who are not in year 12 and have been constantly ditched in order for me to do school work. Having no social life sucks.
4. Celebrate my parents 25th wedding anniversary
5. Visit a different youth while my youth takes a break over the holidays
6. Sleep in - seriously need to catch up on some zzz's
7. Spend some time with my lovely big sister, her husband and my gorgeous niece - I'm really looking forward to going to Toowoomba by myself for once. I wont have to share Mayana with anyone!
8. Do a massive clean and chuckout of my cupboard - my theory is if I get rid of all the clothes I dont actually wear that are taking up space in my wardrobe, my parents will see the lack of actually wearable clothing in there and be required to buy me some more.
9. Finish writing a song that I started weeks ago - need some lyrical inspiration.
10. Finish reading my english novel - The Power of One. I'm liking it a whole lot better than the Lord of the Flies (which was last terms english novel).

So thats my plan...

Have a good day!