Allie and Traffic Crossings

This video- again taken back in January (last summer) is of Allie crossing at the lights.  As soon as she hears the noise they make for pedestrians to cross now she is off, she knows exactly what it means and when she is allowed to cross!!  So cute!

Walks with Allie last summer

Summer is just over 3 months away!!! So exciting, more swimming and late night walks!
Oh, and the WARMTH!!

Here is a couple of videos of Allie at the beach last summer- she would have been 7 or 8 weeks pregnant (nearly due to pop) that is why she was able to have the leash let go- we were able to easily catch her if need be!!

Chocolate Lasagne!!

On Tuesday (6th) night I got tagged in a post on Facebook that had the recipe and picture of a chocolate lasagne! It just made my day, looked so so so so good!!! I commented on it asking to make it for dessert the following night as I was up at Warkworth where the person that tagged me in lives and they said I could!! So I got the eldest, Toni, to help me (she's older than me) and after school we went out to the supermarket to buy all the ingredients and got back to start making it after the dinner prep had been done and dinner (roast sheep and veges) was put into the oven.

In the making:

This is how the chocolate lasagne turned out- finished half eaten product :) !!

It tasted very very yummy!

I got a text from one of the parents two nights later saying that the kids thought it was even better those couple of days later- always the way!!

Knee Check Up

**On a side note, on Monday I had another appointment with my knee surgeon and my knee is on the way to recovery, I am back to normal running and working without problems bending up and down.  I have another appointment on Monday 4th November this year (the day before my 18th!!) for the 6 month (I think actually only 5 months) check up.  It will still take about 18 months for us to know the outcome of the operation if it had actually worked how we hope or not, as there was only a 60% chance that it would, but doing it wont have made it worse.

Editing to add photos from the trip to the city:

This is the Gillies Ave off-ramp, a lot of traffic for 3 in the afternoon!

The rainy crappy weather... the "merge-like-a-zip" lights are already on... Didn't think they went on until 4pm.  

Haha, the Chelsea Sugar truck- its got sugar mountains on it :)

Mock Exams

I have five mock exams coming up in the near future.. well in little over a week away. They are starting on Friday next week, and finish the following Friday.

This is my exam schedule for the mocks- my real end of year exams are a lot more spaced out with some being up to a week apart! These are all within the one week:

Social Studies- Monday (pm)
English- Tuesday (pm)
Biology- Wednesday (am)
Maths- Wednesday (pm)
Classics- Thursday (pm)

I am very happy that my exams are all very well placed in the week.  They are still subject to change, but by now I don't think they will change.

School Report

Well, school reports are out now, it is the last ever high school report that I am ever going to get!  I am extremely happy with it, and I think that it may be the best report that I have ever had! Especially compared to my Term 1 interim report at the beginning of this year, I have come along way over the course of this year, and I am heading to be finishing high school on a good note :)  Very very happy!

POSTCARDS!!!!

So happy to get home from school today to find a postcard from Judy sitting waiting for me on my bed, along with a DVD I ordered from TradeMe for English.

Excited!  Thank you Judy, I miss you!! :)

NorthSea July 2013 

I got another post card in May from Aunty Anna- Thank you so much!! :)

I love getting mail! Especially letters and postcards! Better than bills ;)

This one was sent from El Camino in Spain!

Orewa Beach (North End)

These are some photos that I took with the iPad (excuse bad quality) of the North end of Orewa Beach from Arrundel Reserve on Saturday 3 August on my way up to Warkworth.  I love to take pictures especially of landscapes/ scenery- just need to invest in a decent camera some day :)

Looking out the Peninsula (I love this picture!)

Again, out to the Peninsula.

Looking towards Hatfields Beach/ Waiwera way.

The Art Gallery

Yesterday afternoon I went down to the city to the Auckland Art Gallery with Carla, Lisa, and Toni.  Art may not entirely be my thing, but there was some pretty amazing works of art there!  Some being of original art of New Zealand artists mainly, there was some pretty amazing landscapes that I throughly liked!  I love architecture type things, so the 3D models of buildings on the top level where we went and saw last were totally right up my alley, they even had little paper (1cm tall?) people cut out and put on to show the size in relation to life size that we see.

I think I have been to the Art Gallery before at a trip for primary or intermediate school, but I am not entirely certain.

It was definitely an awesome experience, that I got to have with people I love :)  We would have been there for nearly two hours looking around, and going through the different exhibit areas.  It was a very nice and chilled afternoon, having dinner out in New Market (Epsom) afterwards.

Term 3 has started back...

I went back to school on Monday 29th July- back into the swing of things, and normality of school life, having to get up and ready for school by 8.15am again.  Having to make sure all my homework and assignments for the next day are complete, that I have my work in order again.

I have two regular television programs I watch daily with a few weekly ones too, which even though they are set on series link on the freeview box I like to watch them at their actual times in between doing homework, talking to people, eating, and reading.

The first few days of this term have been absolutely manic, I got a test sprung on me in English Tuesday, an ICAS English test.  Only managed half of it so I had to make up the rest of the answers- multi choice I have a 25% chance that they are correct, so thats something.

I have had a biology internal due Wednesday morning, a English part assignment due Friday and a Social Studies internal due 5th August.  Busy busy busy over here at the moment.  Once all of those are done more internals are bound to come up in a few subjects, but not as many as I have had all at the same time as mock exams are fast approaching and the external subject teachers are all preparing for them now.