The last week and a bit of my holidays was spent away at a short camp for the current STIVE leaders (the christian group at Fort Street) and ANCON (the annual conference of the EU ( Read more... )

I liked today, because it had DYNAMICS ( Read more... )

Today was quite fulfilling in a few aspects. I only attended one and a half classes, because we held a cake stall to raise money for the families affected by the Russian hostage thing, and I weasled my way into helping out. Arranging cakes is much better than maths and pricing cakes is better than English, and eating cake is certainly better than ( Read more... )

I love Finding Nemo. Mr Strauss was showing to a year 8 class next door to our Geography class and we could hear it through the walls as Ms Ireland was trying to dictate. My notes don't make any sense because I wasn't listening to half of it. She let us out early and we snuck into the other class and watched about 40 seconds of it before the bell ( Read more... )

For anyone not yet there, go join the hscstudents community ( Read more... )

If you read my last entry, you would have seen the hole in my ceiling. This is because some of our lights don't work. We have taken to eating dinner my the light of our oil lamp and remaining lightbulbs. Tonight our lamp went insane. I lit it and only half the wick caught alight. And then the flame went blue (not supposed to happen), and hovered 2 ( Read more... )

Well Michael led his first stive-related thing today. He jumped into the deep end, with a discussion focused on suffering. And he pretty well pulled it off. So that is fantastic ( Read more... )

It was a fantastic day today! Fridays generally are ( Read more... )

Hold me...
Light a candle in the window pane tonight
Stop me...
Running from the things that could save my lifeWell this morning was our second See You At The Pole (SYATP is an opportunity for Christian high school groups to all gather in their schools - at the flagpole - and pray together). It was brilliant! There were 14 people (twice as many as ( Read more... )

Today was Georgia's first day of high school. But I can't tell you anything about how that went. This is because she got angry at me for telling her how proud I was many many times, and to punish me, she has barely said anything to me all afternoon.

Today was also the day of PP@AD!!! Also known as Pool and Pool at Andrew and Dan's. It was the ( Read more... )