Future Job Prospects: Mermaid

Post Chem and Physics I feel I can now openly write my blog without feeling the shame of the school and the guilt of myself. Thing is, my brain's spent so long on electromagnetic wave optics and trigonal bipyramidal VSEPR theory that I kinda forget errything that happened in the past week (or so). 

So dinner on Saturday was followed by BLANK. 

On Sunday morning I was supposed to tutor Paco but the thunder and rain was UNRALE so Cherry called it off. Instead I headed off to Kowloon Tong with Mia, Paula and Leila to study geo in Pacific Coffee. They didn't do chai latte (boo hiss) but they didn't really mind us studying so that was great. A few variations of the term "Because poor women have more babies" were thrown around and we felt very intellectual altogether. I shamelessly splashed out on a sketchpad (which I didn't realise was a hipster brand until an obviously jealous Jason pointed it out) and some nice markers in the most lovely bookshop ever - though it was lacking chairs/beanbags. We got back I dunno when, to find that José had lost his "flash-dick" and therefore initiated a mass e-mail war.  I studied a tiny bit for my chem test, doodled in my notebook, went to Pooey's room for a bit and doodled and went to bed.

Monday was 9am chem test. Slightly better than the last though it was hardly a happy skippy fairytale walk in the park moment for me. I studied a bit of Maths and went for a swimble. At 6 I met Áine and le Bobster at the gate and we went to Mammy's house in Sai Kung before heading out avec na páistí agus a fear to Hebe for dinner. I had me a pizza and we talked at length about Denmark. And Irish passports. Got back late enough, did a little more maths and some Chinese.

Tuesday morning I went to tutor Paco and played a substantial amount of hangman with him. The rest of the day were spent with the Kinks and my maths book in the block 1 dayroom, before tutor group (and Simba) milkshakes, burgers and wedges in Wendy's flat. The xbox Kinect was out again, but obvs we're all such hardworking souls that we neglected it in favour of further studying. I did some maths and convinced myself I had it down.

Wednesday, and geo first exam. Threw down some made up (though highly-plausible) case studies about Ireland and all seemed to go well. Gender and development? Sor'ed lawd. Maths paper one then violently assaulted me. I was a little shellshocked after it so lord knows how paper two went. Wednesday evening consisted of more chinese, another nice swim and little else. Think I watched Black Pond that night too, which was the best movie I've seen in yonks. Or maybe it's just Will Sharpe. Obsession du jour, ngl.

Thursday began with unintentionally waking up early. I did a pitiable job on physics then somehow wasted the rest of the day. I did swim though. Oh, and went to tutor Charlie. And discovered that it is Laura who has my pink skirt. I added a load of words to our 中文 class' Memrise list. Jason and Paolina came over and tried on my sequin-adorned clothing and that was about it. 

Friday I got up early, had a shower, got brekkie then headed to Sai Kung on the bus with Palomo. We set up camp in an unbelievably air-conditioned Starbucks (who do do chai lattes, buíochas le dia) and I waded through 2 chapters of physics, exam questions and all. After a quick lunch of a mega Paisano's slice, we got the bus back, I went for a swim and then I had peer support training. From 4:30-6:30 which were fine, if a little tiresome when bang shlap in the middle of study leave. Friday night I was with Jason in the art room then had a DMC with Livvie. Went for a walk with Mia to Ma On Shan. I got fro yo and on our way back along the dark promenade we had to pass through frog breeding zone. We nearly got sexually assaulted and were saved only by the fact that we weren't frogs.

Saturday morning was my meeting with Linder about me english exam. That was fine, just 30 minutes of shite. I went to learn chem with Beata and Khet but soon gave up, instead swimming again because it makes it feel like I've been productive, and then procatinating with Jason in the art room. I'm ashamed to say I watched Mean Girls too, not because of the connotations of the movie (all of which, in my eyes, are positive), but because I did absolutely nooooooooothing. We listened to lots of Crowded House, argued over whose country had the best musical exports and procatinated some more. We also perfected the One Direction "What Makes You Beautiful" parody in retaliation to my supposed friends at home having allowed their minds to become goo under the influence of those five unsavoury boys. 

On Sunday I went over to tutoring for Paco. Didn't get paid which was a little disheartening but I'm hoping she'll realise for next time and I'll be rolling in it. I actually did study all day Sunday, venturing out only for a serious sugar fix. And a swim. And had a long study break in which I skyped ma famille. Did a helluva lotta physics past papers though, wrote my english essay and went to bed. 

Monday morning was another Linda meeting. I bumped into Áine at brekky before handing in my essay so we had a nice half hour dmc. After my meeting was over I put a wash on then knuckled down, doing physics and chemistry (and having some amazing power-naps) until I wound up rolling about on the floor of the block 1 dayroom with Maya and Khet having a "productive" pillow fight - you had to yell a useful chemistry definition before you were allowed to attack. Skyped Megzers too. I was super jeally of her jumper. Before going to bed I got my stuff from the laundry room and therapeutically changed my duvet cover, put away my laundry, matched my socks and created a bag for lost socks all in order to put off the inevitable fact that chemistry and physics were on the next day. I listened to Sana's advice though, and convinced myself that I knew everything. 

This had me sleeping well until 4am when I woke up in agony. Fitfully I stayed in bed until 6:30 when I felt the need to check my facebook. I had a shower, went to breakfast then ran to the nurse's office for the strongest painkillers she had. I downed a couple but was in far too much pain to revise before chem. Chem and physics exams happened, I went to Ma On Shan for celebratory large H1 from the Hui Lau Shan place with Livvie, came back, swam (though I think I only did 4ish lengths, the rest of the time being spent pretending to be a mermaid #noshame), had a pear for dinner cause it was grosspants then returned to meine schlafviertel to write this. English tomorrow but sure that'll be nowt, I'm a native-speaking lang and lit cop out. 中文是另一个故事...

The Lions Of Baskerville

      Monday was just your average Monday purdy much. Wasn't too hard to get out of bed as far as I can remember? After lunch I went looking for a parcel in t'office, which hadn't yet materialised. Then there was an  EE (extended essay) talk on in the geo room which I went to. Thinking of doing my bundle of joy on disparities between gaeilgeoirí and the rest of us plebs. Whether language affects development. Summat to that extent. Following that, I went to the academics office to finally change from chemistry to french b. This plan failed dramatically and I spent the next half hour or so in hysterics. Sure c'est la vie I suppose (oh the irony). Then we had coral monitoring service planning for a little while, got my gear sorted out, th'absolute energy required to squidge into a wetsuit ain't even funny. Mia and I went for self-pity buns in Ma On Shan, but we barely made it that far and just got cha siu fan in le Wu Kai Sha instead. I had photography from 7.30 - 9, felt fairly bad cause I didn't upload a photo because me camera had been outta battery for the most part during CNY. As always there were some pretty impressive ones. After check in was a Chinese Cultural Evening run through, so us lion dancers had to go along from 9.

      Tuesday I had a fairly tiresome full block. Sent 6 postcards after school, and got Mickey Ds with James. Watched The Guard with James & Lee, which went down well enough. James got his fix of Don Cheadle, and I translated. I've been getting a quare bad irish accent off him all week since. Had another CCE run through and probably a lot of lion dance practice, after which I hung out in the Block 1 computer room with Rosie, Laura, Andres and assorted pizza until fairly late.

      Wednesday was IFPCOP (Initiative For Peace Change Of Pace) day. It started at 9 so naturally I chose sleep over brekkie. There were games whereby we basically just had to sabotage the other team in order to save yourself, a guest speaker on genocide, ubes interesting presentations on conflicts (I went to the Colombian one and the Yemeni one), as well as Alisher semi-accidentally continuously spraying vwang in the face with bleach. I say semi-accidentally cause he thought it was water. After school were more EE presentations which I didn't bother going to. Had roughly a million hours of lion dance. Watched the last episode of Sherlock, and read too much damn you auto correct than is necessary, and left me sniggering helplessly.

      Thursday I had another morning free so naturellement it was sleep>brekkie. Bought lion dance shoes in Ma On Shan with Dilene, finished my ep of sherlock, ate a lot of peachy chewing gum, had an aeon more lion dance, went to art for non artists and wrote positive messages for all those poor dying secondies. There was another run through for CCE and I spent ages and ages trying to extract the 2nd sherlock ep (The Hounds Of Baskerville one) from the supposedly "blank" dvd.


      Friday was graaaand, had a mid-day free in which Dilaynay somehow ended up making us listen to country music and Paolina got dodgy videos, had lion dance straight after school, followed by a nommyful lunch (for once) in the canteen. Chilled in my room with me itunes, FINALLY got the Sherlock episode off the DVD, then had lion dance from 7 - 12:30. Twas unreal. Got pretty sick and lost me voice towards the end but still had a good Friday night with James, Lee, Apopo and Rahael. 


      Saturday morning I woke up surprisingly early, and went to Arnett's UWC values day seminar discussion blue sky thing. We all split into groups and discussed how we can make UWCLPC more in line with the UWC values. I were in a group with Nawnee, Maddie, teachers Beta & Sandy, a parent and two alumni, one Korean/German and another Venezuelan/German, both teachers in HK. We were the environment group adn had a pretty productive session. After that I had a good bit of lion dance whereby we changed the whole layout of the routine the day of the show. Clever clever. When lion dance was over I chillaxed like god knows what for as long as possible. CCE dinner was at 6 so I got ready with Rahael & Celine. While most went for azzuluthely gawjuzz qipaos, we decided to buck the trend and go as accidental chinese hipsters. It was a little worrying to find that most of the inspiration came from my regular clothes. Hmm. After an 8 course dinner, served by our very own Ella Chan, I set up camp on the 1st floor of the courtyard ready for the show. Twas a grand affair and any slight mishap (dragon decapitation for example) was dealt with jolly tremendously innit. After fan dance was my moment to shine (perhaps sparkle is more appropriate) along with all 10 other first year lions. You've heard me bang on about this for long enough, tis about time y'all saw a video or at least some evidence that I actually did something. After CCE was over there were too many photos so I ran for the hills/confines of my bedroom. I played Tetris like a poorly loser ought to until Lee and Tomi came round and got me off me arse. We recruited Rahael too, and Rahael and I took advantage of the free food and drinks in the canteen party before having our own little party just the 4 of us which was fair noice too. We went back into the canteen party at 12 but I walked in, saw my 12 year old self and went back to play Tetris. Read some of my Brian Cox book and had a luffly sleep with the leccy blanky up high. 

AALLL the lion dancers!

I'm the butt of the silver one closest...

      Sunday I woke up all leisurely like, took a shower, studied geography with Mia & Leila in block 3 before heading to Mong Kok with Mia where she went off for lunch with her dad in TST and I got me mammy her birthday present. Took some photos for photography tomorrow, just missed out on an epic shot of a sheepish boy peeing into a bin. I came back, practiced me bass, ate a mars bar and did me laundry. Might be playing scrabble with the brits later and I've also got judo at 7.30. Should also really tidy my room...