The end . . .

I have finally finished high school. For ever and I honestly do not know what to do now because I don't need to study and most of the time I don't have a specific place to be.

I'm happy to be finished exams, I found that they were a lot easier this year. I found scholarship English a lot easier than level three English, which is good because I've decided to double major (Psychology and English) next year.

Anyway here are the pictures from the last day.

The Japanese room. We folded cranes for six months
 to be able to do this!

This teacher turns up to every cake day, so some girls
decided to make him a cake shop.

Also girls often say that he has a nice butt.

We turned the chemistry lab into a meth lab.

This particular teacher constantly handed out post-it
notes, so we decided to give some back.

physics

The history teacher is British and we learned 

about Irish history this year, so naturally the class

 was a mini Ireland.

We like Photoshop.

This was the only entrance to the class

These are students cars and seats out of the staff room.

I also found this picture of me in year 7, when I first started high school. I can't believe that these amazing seven years have finally come to an end, but it is probably just the beginning.

Have an amazing week :)

Butterflies and buzzy bees is officially one year old today. I can't believe that it has already been a year!
And tomorrow I will be 18 and officially an adult. It's crazy.

This year has been amazing and I really don't want it to end, but the end of the year will be fun too. I still get to 'trash' the school (We're trying to avoid making it look trashy this year), dance in an assembly with all of the other 13's of '13, get free ice cream on the last day, attend the leavers party, sit exams, graduate and go to the graduation ball. I've also got to start christmas shopping, finish enrolling for university, buy everything for next year and help organise a conjoint 18th/21st birthday party for my sister and I.

I'll post pictures of the 'trashed' school in my next post.

Have an amazing week :)

Everything . . .

Wow.

I haven't blogged in so long I'm not even sure quite where to start.

Mid year exams were about a month ago now, they were easier than I expected, but that might just be because last time I sat exams I was taking physics and chemistry. My friends and I have decided that the proper way to decide how much an individual has procrastinated during an exam is to see how much water they have drunk and how much they have drawn on the resource paper. Because of this I have realised that I procrastinate way too much.

I only have 18 school days left EVER and to be honest I don't want it to end. I get along with my entire year level really well and don't want to lose any of them but I know after this year I will probably never talk to half of them ever again. I can't wait to wear mufti all next term (A year 13 tradition) and trash (Or rather theme) each room of the school, which is another tradition.

I will be 18 in about three weeks, which is exciting. Because my sisters birthday and my birthday are only one week apart we're having a joint 18th/21st with all the family, which should be interesting. My Mum can't seem to understand why I want an adorable jellybelly dispenser for my birthday. Apparently I'm 'Not a child' and am getting jewelry instead, which I don't mind because I love jewlry.

Finally about two months ago I started applying for residential colleges for next year. Today I got an acceptance email for Aquinas College. I am super excited because Aquinas was my first choice and being accepted into a college means that I have preferable entry for the university.

Have an awesomely amazing week :)

I've decided that I am completely obsessed with Les Miserables. I've read the book twice now,  I've seen the movie at least ten times, and discuss it one of my friends (Who has also read the book) most days at lunch. A lot of people think I'm absolutely crazy when I say "I was  reading it last night then she die and I cried and he died and they died and I cried even more", but my awesome friends all know what I'm on about because they've all seen/read it now.

I've started to re-read Pride and Prejudice again and I still think that Mr Darcy is a complete jerk and will probably never like him as a character.

I have decided to sit the English scholarship exam, but at the moment my focus is entirely on the mid-year exams which are coming up in two weeks. It's absolutely crazy how fast the year is going, we are already applying for halls to live in next year and ordering leavers gear. I suppose I should just make the most of this year while I still can, and stop worrying about how fast it's going.

Have an amazing week :)

It's finally the school holidays, which means sleeping in, extra hours at work (Extra money!!), more study time and being so bored that you learn fifteen new songs on the guitar in about seven hours.

Listening to classical music is really helping with study at the moment. I really should be studying more than I am because mid-years are in six weeks but I can't be bothered. I was supposed write an essay for English. So far  I have "Shakespeare exposes our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improving our lives." (Yes that is just the question statement). We are meant to watch two movies with political issues in them for English, so I have an excuse to watch Les Miserables again. I was also supposed to plant mung beans a week ago for bio, but that hasn't happened yet either.

I still have an entire week to sort it all out and I will get everything done, eventually.

Have an amazing week:)

This year my friends and I decided that we would all learn how to play a new instrument. I picked the violin, it is not entirely new to me because I took lessons for a little while when I was 11/12, but it will still be a challenge because I mainly learned theory (the stuff the internet can't teach you very easily).

So last week I took my old dusty violin off it's shelf for the first time in years. I played a simple scale, and although it was really badly out of tune, I absolutely loved playing it.I re-learned to read sheet music and  I am now trying to learn how to play Brahms lullaby, and I have the fingers down but I still need to work on my bow skills a lot.

Wish me luck and have an amazing week :)

The ball.

So the ball was last night and it was absolutely amazing. The theme was James Bond, and although it is way over done, it turned out to be an amazing night.

Rather than paying for hair and make-up I had my sisters and aunties do it for me. All up I only spent
$375 for the entire night, which is less than the price a lot of girls dresses. I got my jewelry and clutch from pagani, which was really cheap but not tacky at all. I will definitely be shopping there again. I got the dress on etsy.com for $120 (NZD). I borrowed some hair pins that match my jewelry, but They haven't been put in in this picture.

We had poker chips  to vote for best dressed, but i just couldn't decide who to vote for because all everyone looked stunning the guys were dressed similarly (And half of them were wearing their school shirts). In the end I didn't vote at all.

I just wish that I went to more than one ball dancing lesson, so that I could have danced. I'm not much of
a dancer anyway.

All in all it was a perfect night full of elegance, with no drama at all. It was definitely worth all of the stress.

Rather than going to the after ball, my friends and I went to McDonald's because I really couldn't be bothered with all the extra effort.

Have an amazing week :)