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!