Exams and Updates

About time I posted something...

I am in the middle of a 12 day break between my third exam and my last! I have been full on studying, shopping, working, sitting exams, and touring.

I have sat three of my four exams now and I think I have done pretty well in biology, not sure about english or classics.  I have social studies on Tuesday 3rd Dec, so as of 12.30pm at the latest I will have officially finished my high school exams and as of Friday 6th Dec I will have officially signed out of school and completed a whole 13 years and 6 weeks at school!!! Its pretty exciting when I type it out and think about it!

I also have the last two PORSE booklets to complete to get my New Zealand's Level 3 Nanny Certificate- I am aiming to have these completed and signed off by Friday!

Next year I will hopefully be moving forward and onto tertiary education, studying a three year degree to get a Bachelor of Nursing- I will be finding this out in just under two weeks if I have officially gotten a place a Massey!!

I have been doing a few shifts caregiving as I am trying to work around my exams, studying and also other things I have to do and want to do.  Also, getting the only shifts that are really available as there is quite a lot of staff at the moment.

Last Thursday I went and toured one of the accommodation villages for Massey University, and then went late night shopping with a friend and came back to my house and wrote and card and wrapped a gift for one of our teachers- last year Taylor (friend) and I were in her class, it was her first year at Orewa and we were known as the ones that were constantly talking, laughing, giggling and so on- I also managed to continue that particular trend on this year with Danielle as I was this particular teachers class again this year! .... we decided on getting her a mug that had "little miss giggles" written on it from the "little miss" series by Roger Hargreaves.  Our teacher laughed and said, yeah, I will think of you two every time I drink from it- our aim! :)

18th Birthday!!

Well, yesterday, November 5th was my 18th birthday and also my last day of high school ever!!!!!!!!!

Pretty good day to end on too!
I had Lisa be the first person to sing/ say happy birthday to me, I had my last day of school, with no school work being done, playing cards in study, pranking the school/ teachers, had ALOT of fun, and got to go out to dinner.  Highlight would be my brother Daniel remembering and calling me during interval at school!!!
Here are some photos from my birthday dinner last night, in Mission Bay in the city with Mum, Wendy, Danielle and I.  I will add more picture when I have got them from Mum's phone.

I also have my graduation tonight, so I will post on that soon too, with more photos :)

More arm wrestling in Bio, for the last time ever!!

Taylor and I at lunchtime at school!

 This is where we went in Mission Bay, Auckland

Danielle and I

Mum and Wendy

Danielle and I afterwards... It was dark and freezing cold!!

One more day left!

Down to one more day of high school ever!

I had a shared lunch for my last lesson of classics, I had to say good luck and good bye to a good friend as it was my last class lesson with her forever! I mean, I will see her and all, but I don't know when.  After this lesson- English, I have to say good bye to another two.  Then I have four more lesson of high school ever! Biology, Study, Study, and Maths.  Then a practice graduation assembly for what happens, where we sit and finalizing all the details.

No more Maths or Internals ever!

Today I finished my last internal forever! And my last ever anything to do with maths forever!! So freeking exciting!  I now only have to focus for another two weeks for Biology and English, another three for Classics and another four for Social Studies..... And then never again.... Until February when university starts, but that's different to being at school as it will be working towards something that I want to do, to have a purpose to doing the work and and learning the stuff :)

TV Habits.. Told you I would

Yeah, my tv habits are not the best.

I spend maybe two hours infront of the TV some days, none other days.  I record a lot of programs on the TV box to watch later as often I am not home to watch them.  It doesn't help that when i go away for two weeks all the programs set to record get deleted though... Parents that don't know how to work the telle...  That instance I was able to catch up online though, so it wasn't too bad.

Every night I record/ watch Home and Away which is an Australian program that aires over here mon-fri at 5.30pm, and then Shortland Street which is a New Zealand program airing also mon-fri at 7pm.

Then I also watch a couple mindless comedies or just random programs where you don't really have to follow whats going on which means you don't have to think to hard!! Ha.

The one hour weekly shows I watch are Grey's Anatomy (finally caught up on during the last school holidays!!!), Private practice (I haven't yet started watching this season thats been on for a couple months... they are waiting for me...) and when we did have Sky TV I would constantly have Air Crash Investigation on as I have a love for planes and just the mechanics and stories behind it all.  Doesn't scare me off flying either!!

I have a love for documentaries too but we don't exactly get that many any more because we only have freeview and not sky which means that we have the basic TV programs you can get here.

On December 1st the whole country will be digital and that means that you must have a box which you get the TV channels through, for most people (everywhere but Auckland/Northland) are digital already.  Its been in process of happening for the last 2 years or so.

I miss the sky, but I managed to get Mum to buy the freeview box that recorded 2 channels at once while you can watch another.  If we didn't have it, we would be paying a ton in internet usage as I would be streaming it through tvnzondemand or the TV3 one...

How do you write so much about TV your wondering? I have no idea what the answer is to that apart from the fact I like waffling and thats how I managed to pass a Bio test I just did a couple days ago... add in the right term in the right context and waffle your life away... and then pass, more than the pass rate threshold too!! LOL.

Back to school for my last 17 days ever...

Tomorrow will mark the beginning of my last term of high school ever! I have 17 days left, Monday to Friday for the next two weeks, then Tuesday to Friday the third week as that Monday is a public holiday and then I have Monday 4th Nov, Tuesday (my 18th), then Wednesday which is going to be my last day ever! I am not even sure if it is a full or just a half day as we have graduation/ prize giving that evening.  I will then be on study leave from the 6th November where I have four exams over the course of the following month.

Biology on the 12th, English on the 14th, then a weeks gap with classics on the 22th, and Social Studies on the 3rd December.  Then school will really be over and I will have the next three months off where I will be working before starting university at the end of February.

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.

Arm Wrestling (video)

Blogger finally decided to like me! I managed to upload a video :)

Last Friday (21st June) we had a reliever teacher in biology and we had been given the worksheet to do the lesson before on the Thursday and so I had done it in study on the Thursday thinking we would have extra work to do on Friday with the reliever... oh how wrong I was... 

So it started with both Jade.R and Jade.V "battling for supremacy" (every lesson we have a debate between which Jade is #1 and #2 that particular day, and other days we have had different names) for who is who, as when someone says Jade both turn and look, or both will answer the teacher.

Our bio reliever was rather happy about us doing this and actually gave pointers and helped them.

This is a video of Jade.R and I having a arm wrestle with Jade.V being annoying and stupid through it as you will see.

Oh, and just for interests sake- there are 2 Courtney's, 2 Danielle's, 2 Jade's, and also 2 Rebecca's in my biology class alone.

Sweet Treats

Here are some of the cakes that I have made with my friends over the last six months.

I really enjoy baking, especially when it is for someone else, I just don't like the dishes and cleaning up afterwards.

I have a love of sweet, sweet, and more sweet :).

This is the cake Taylor and I made for mums 51st birthday.

I made this cake for my Uncle for helping me with the construction for my biology experiment.

It must have been the beginning of April for my friend Danielle's 17th birthday we decided to bake a cake together, it wasn't exactly an ordinary cake that you may bake... It was quite different, well to the normal chocolate, vanilla, or banana cakes normally made around my house for birthdays.  This was a PIGGY cake of sorts.

 A couple weeks after we had made that cake, a really good friend, Judy, that I had made at school from Germany was leaving to go back, and so for her last night in New Zealand we had a sleepover at  Taylor's house and made her a "Goodbye Cake", it was the best Vanilla cake I have ever had!!

 Then recently during a study period at school as when we have them period 5 after lunch we are allowed to leave school at lunch time, Taylor and I went over to her house and we made cupcakes which got shared with her family, and her neighbors little girl.

I hope to be making more soon :)

My Saturday

You know it's been a good day when you have been to work in the morning and come home to sit in front of the telle glued to it for three hours watching recorded programs from the week or so before that i had not gotten to watch yet, before being productive and going on to do my biology internal.

Putting in number after number on a spreadsheet for six weeks worth of measuring 25 snow pea plants every three days.  It is time consuming, and hard on the eyes with black and white fuzzing all over the page after setting the tables up to put the numbers into.

Super super excited for tomorrow! Mother's Day AND the skywalk!!