Why Today Sucked
Our school has been given the title of 'Business and Enterprise Academy' which is basically a jumped up way of saying we get an extra half a million a year from the government to improve facilities in ICT and Business classes. Most of the schools in town are specialized in one subject or another but I would end up stuck at the one that focuses on BS wouldn't I? *sigh* At least it's not Mandeville, they're a sports college *shudder*
Well the school's been getting ready for the big day for a while now (Painting the corridors, hiding broken walls etc.) and this morning instead of a useful session of double math I got to stand out in the cold for twenty minutes and then go into the freezing sports hall for a long assembly. Fun! =D
Mr. Murray (The headteacher and one of my psych teachers) spoke first about how he knew the woman who plays Christina in Ugly Betty when he was at school (I think he may have dated her as well but I wasn't paying too much attention and I was at the back so I couldn't hear too well). The whole point was about how she was just a normal girl but she achieved a lot *yawn* It got old real fast.
The next guy to speak was (and I quote) an entrepeneur at the age of 14, an investor at 16, an author at 17 and a TV producer at 18 and he still wants to do more. Can you tell why I thought he was an arrogant twat? I had to sit with my head in my hands for a while as Jamie and Gabriel ran a monologue of violent thoughts. His final point was about how anyone can achieve greatness, but as Hanna stated later 'If anyone could, everyone would' I'm sure everyone has the potential; but not the creativity, skill or luck.
The last guy was from a street dance performance thingy that's supposed to be really famous of some-such. It's all urban bodypopping and stuff I classify as 'Not dancing', I did two years of freestyle and I think anything where everyone follows set patterns that make them look like they're having seizures insulting to the very medium of dance. But the point is, the guy was fucking irritating. He summarized his final points at the end (Get your ass out of bed, be nice, be confident, be respectful, try really hard etc. etc.) but he needn't have bothered as he kept repeating them, adding a new one, repeating them all again, over and over throughout his very long ass speech. Half way through he asked for the lights to be turned out and about four teachers fumbled around for a few moments before Mr. Murray went over and figured it out; that was quite funny. Also he redeamed himself slightly by making everyone give Prince (The IT technician) a round of applause when he fixed the laptop, as Hanna said Prince gets very little credit from the teachers (Especially Mrs. McGarvie- my form tutor -who teaches IT and would be fucked over if he didn't keep fixing the computers for her.)
I had no lessons the rest of the day (Read: No lessons at all due to missing Math) and normally on Week 2 Thursdays I'll go home early; but not today. They were organising a school photo where we stand on the playground and spell out the phrase WE CAN! (Sixth form got stuck being the exclamation mark and we had plans to turn it into a question mark/start a moshpit right as the photo is taken) Since the photo wasn't until the afternoon Ash, Hanna and I went to Tesco to get food; we then sat in the art room and talked about random stuff.
Me: (Trying to get Hanna to reveal a secret) Please.
Hanna: Puppy-dog eyes don't work on me.
Me: But I'm your puppy.
Hanna: That's why the eyes don't work.
Me: Oh. Please tell me, or I'll pester you for the next five minutes, then get distracted and forget until a few weeks from now and bring it up in random conversation but you still won't tell me even then.
Hanna: Wow, I'm still not telling.
Later Hanna agreed to tell me her secret if I told one too, but I really didn't want to.
Hanna: Come on, we won't think any less of you... coincidentally we won't think any more of you either, but the point still stands.
The photo kinda sucked in the end. My fear of crowds kicked in halfway through and I was ducked on the floor clutching my knees for a while, then I shared some cookies with the people around. Also: 2 of the 3 photos include me giving a double rock finger salute and sticking out my tongue KISS style. Also on one of them Hanna sneezed. We were joking saying it's like Where's Wally (Can you find the girl sneezing? Can you find the boy hailing Satan? Can you find the boy drinking Dandelion and Burdock.)
I waited with Hanna after school for Alex to come pick her up and he gave me a lift back to my house, so I avoided the rain which was pretty good.
Gonna go now, need sleep.