i'm back ! (not from outer space)

warning : long entry ahead !

music camp 2004 has to be the best one so far . and i'm not just saying that cos i'm in year 12 and it's our last year and blah blah blah . it was really the best one we've had so far and it's all thanks to amy and jill who did a wonderful job of organising such fun activities and everything . anyhooo , i feel like typing lots so i shall tell you all about music camp (unless of course you were there with me , then this entry would be sort of pointless) .

thursday:
the day seemed to pass by quite slowly at first , with lots of interruptions between classes cos of photo-taking for the yearbook (or annual, whichever you like) . really hope that my picture turns out ok ... i mean , nobody wants to be remembered for having a terrible photo in the yearbook now do they .

anyway , i left class a bit early at the end of the day so that i could get my stuff ready and everything . and of course by then i was really really excited about going to camp , because something happened in the Loo household that morning that really upset me and wrecked my entire day .

everyone had to help get bags and sleeping bags and etc on to the coaches and as usual , it started to rain very heavily . i distinctly remember this happening last year as well . soo everyone was soaking wet by the time all the bags and stuff were on the coaches , ready to go .

the bus trip felt very long , all 2 and a half hours of it ( i'm estimating here ) . listened to music , talked to grace and tina , ate , drank and slept . the sleeping was a bit of a problem after a while because 1) the first time i tried to sleep , i opened my eyes and found ALL the other year 12s staring at me laughing . why ? well apparently i had a funny frown on my face as i was sleeping . 2) the year 9s on the bus with us were singing in unison for about 45 mins ... the singing wouldn't stop ! not only were the songs annoying , their voices weren't exactly the most angelic things one would like to hear .

arrived at New Norcia and it was dinner time - apricot chicken . i remember . lol . ended the night off with the entire camp watching 'Finding Nemo' together , but i was so tired i fell asleep halfway through .

friday:
woke up at ... hmm . 7 or so ? i really can't remember . breakfast was alrite . finding it difficult to recall what we had for breakfast that morning ...

we got our programmes and concert band was up first . followed by choir and then swing band and then massed choir . so yeah . that was basically what we did friday and saturday .

friday night though , was the quiz and games night . the quiz questions were random and very entertaining and i was in one of them : "who is the shortest year 12?" after that everyone turned around and looked at me , some even pointed . so there you go .

the games in between rounds were amusing to watch , and the bonus question rounds were hilarious. lol .

after that , we spent quite a fair bit of the night sitting around talking and eating . i had the pleasure of sitting next to uber nerd ( i won't mention names here ) who was talking AND laughing at a terribly high decibel . my ears were buzzing after that . although i did feel a bit sorry for her and tonia because everytime they said something supposedly funny , hardly anyone would laugh except them . but honestly , they're not funny people .

saturday:
got woken up at 6.45am by ms. oram . why : leah put a wig in her sleeping bag and so she just had to get us back for that . how : she turned on all the lights in the room . talk about painful .

finally got to breakfast . late - as usual . lol . i think it was pancakes ! so yummy . and of course , lynda ate too much because she thought she could handle two large ones . there was a hashbrown too . mm mm .

towards the end of the day , everyone was getting a bit cranky and short-fused . ms oram sort of lost her temper , and i was getting visibly annoyed with stupid things .

anyway . it was finally dress up and talent quest night ! lol . and yes , i was Cat in the Hat . jill was charlie chaplin (she really looked like him) ; amy was a cop (she reminded me of one of The Village People) ; grace was a court jester ; tina and heidy decided to be A cow (meaning tina was the bottom half) ; and uber nerd was a cortizon (aka prostitute from Moulin Rouge apparently ...) ; and tonia .. was a camerawoman . i shall not say anything .

all in all , a good night ! lol . our last night was a very memorable one , i must say (read: 7.30am insanity) . sitting there laughing at practically anything and everything anyone said , even though it was probably even wasn't that funny ! but o well . the weirdest thing was that at 1.30am , amy , kate and sarah woke up to go brush their teeth after being asleep since like 12am or so .

sunday:
that's this morning . got woken up at 7.15am and breakfast was at 7.30 , so there wasn't enough time for a shower . yes , that's gross . i know . breakfast was alrite , all of us were kind of sitting there half asleep .

went for mass at the chapel . New Norcia belongs to a monastary btw . so yeah , mass was boring . everyone was falling asleep . the only cool thing i find is the pipe organ . i'd really like to play one of those .

the final concert went very well ! : ) but then it also meant that music camp was ending and so the year 12s were kind of sad (read: there was crying involved) .

still feeling sad that that was our last music camp together . feels kind of weird too , not being at camp . it's 11.10pm and at this time , we'd be in our room talking/eating . -sigh-

anyhooo , still have school tmr and there's still tons of work to be done . soo off i go ! : )