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Sunday, May 25th Well exams are finally over. I thought I did pretty good. It was a long week of testing. Two exams a day with a study period in between. It was rather intense. Exams started on Wednesday and ended the following week on Monday. I had geography, English, 2 maths tests, ancient history, and physics. The maths ones were by far the hardest exams I took.
The Thursday after exams we had a soccer gala day. My team, the girls team, and the junior boys and girls all hopped on a bus and went to the field. We were almost there when the bus rounded a corner and I watched as a window on the bus got closer and closer to a pole. Finally the pole hit the window and it shattered all over the bus. It was pretty extreme. We played 4 games. Won the first 2-0 and lost the rest. 1-0 1-0 4-0. We were all so dead by the end. In the first game one of our key players who controls the midfield got tapped in the nose and had to go off. He had broke his nose in our last game on Monday after getting a header in
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This is where chapel takes place. the face, and was going to get it set after the tournament. Surfed on Tuesday super fun waves at Avalon. Richie and I went out and surfed until after dark with the full moon. It was so nice to finally get some swell. I had never surfed under the moonlight. It was really awesome except I couldn't see the waves. Wednesday was blown out and Thursday I had the tournament so no surf. Thursday we also celebrated Elise's birthday and went out to dinner at a pizza place. She turned 19. I got a veggie pizza that had pumpkin on it. It was really good. I was surprised. We got home and I crashed. It was a long day and I was so tired. Woke up early on Friday and went off to school again.
That weekend I hung out and surfed. I worked on my physics assessment a bunch. It wasn't much fun. Went out at North Avalon. Richards says he shredded but I don't seem to remember that. It was so awesome while we were out there were two dolphins cruzing around in the lineup. It was so cool. They swam right below me several times. Everyone kept
jumping off their boards and swimming underwater with their eyes open to get a better look. On one wave I started to jump in but a dolphin jumped out of the face of the wave right in front of me. It surprised me so much that my hands slipped and I face planted into my board. They were so sweet to see. I cant even describe it. One of the coolest things ever.
The next week it was just school. Nothing special. Had a game on Monday that we tied 2-2. It was a bad game. We played horribly and let two really lame goals in. Very disappointing. Had to wake up early the next two days because of early class and soccer practice. I was bummed. Surfed Tuesday and Wednesday after school. It's hard to get in a good surf after school because I get home around 4:30ish and its dark by six so you have to go straight away to get in a good hour. The surf was really good Tuesday and decent Wednesday. Thursday and Friday it sucked.
I'm starting to get really sick of school. Since I started in August I feel like it should be
winding down soon. Plus it doesn't help that I only have three weeks left until Daddy and Maddog get here. Everyone else though started at the end of January. This is mid year for them. They don't end until December. So I feel it should be near the end and be pretty easy but my teachers think otherwise. Man I'm so ready for summertime. School is just getting so tedious. My brain is full give me a break.
Saturday was totally flat and so we hung around the house and watched really good surf movie called. "One California Day" I strongly recommend it. Sunday had ok surf. Took out a long board. Today (Monday) I had school and we were supposed to have a soccer game but it was canceled due to rain. They said the field was too saturated. Wednesday we had training inside since it was still pouring. The training was cut short though since the band had to practice. It was really rather lame. The band shouldnt have priority over us. We werent even practicing in the same area as them. They were on the stage and we were on the basketball court. Oh well. We all
went outside and played soccer foursquare until class time. Not much happened school wise this week. A lot of kids were sick and a lot of teaches were out too. Had an intense triple maths lesson on Wednesday. 3 hours of maths is really intense. I was so brain dead by the end. All in all this week was pretty lame. Except Obama won the primaries! Been following the election here. Its funny how much the Australian news covers the US election. They're constantly talking about it on the news. I dont remember hearing anything about the Australian election. The surf this week was blown out with the storm. So no surf. Theres been swell but too much wind. Today (Friday) it cleared up a bit but the surf was still no good. There was an intense current and I watched for about twenty minutes as 4 guys tried to make it out. One of them finally did and and after all that caught a crap wave. The other three were still trying when I left. Hopefully it will get better this weekend.
6/14/08
It was a three day weekend last weekend. Monday was the queens birthday so it
was a public holiday. Got some surf. Nothing special. Started on my big history paper on Roman trade. It is the last thing I really have to do for school. This week was same ol school stuff. Everyone knows my time is almost up here and people keep telling me they dont want me to leave. Im bummed that I have to leave as well. I am just starting to really get to know some of the kids at school. I had soccer practice on Wednesday. It was a good one. We worked hard. Have 2 games coming up on monday and tuesday. After that we might go on to the semi finals. Today (Saturday) we went surfing at palmy. It was super windy but there was a good south swell in the water. I had the gnarliest brain freeze from the wind chill factor but I caught a couple fun ones. Tonight Im going out to see a movie with some friends from school. I think we're going to see the Hulk. It'll be fun. Afterwards Im going to Jakes to spend the night and in the morning we're going out on his boat. Man only ten days till
my dad and sis get here!!!! I'm so excited. I'll write more soon.
6/16/08
The weather was crap this weekend so we didnt go out on Jakes boat. Just hung out and played poker for a bit. It was a good time. Today (Monday) had school. Our soccer game was canceled though. I was called into Mrs. Doek's office (The head of senior school) to talk. She wanted me to have an interview in front of the whole school on friday about my experience in Australia. Luckily that didnt work out. I really didnt want to stand and talk in front of several hundred students. So now Im going to have tea with her and Mr. Crots on Thursday. Not really thrilled about that either. They aren't exactly my favorite teachers at this school. It will be an awkward time but I'll live. Tomorrow we're supposed to have another soccer game but if this weather keeps up then it will most likely be canceled as well.
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