--------------------

So... Looking at DAVID's blog... It seems that I've actually been lacking in my own blog posts of late. Well, in particular, the international camp.

International camp is actually a camp organised by the international committee at our school (Yes, you can tell we have a huge international student base). While all students are invited to this event, it's rather obvious that it is specifically for international students currently studying at our school. The sad thing is, while this camp would be the last for all the current Year 12s, I was really quite disappointed by the lack of participation in it by fellow Year 12s. The excuse given by most: "Chem SAC teh n3xt d4y OMFGZZ~!!11!oneone!eleven"

So, Ms. K, our overtly kind chemistry teacher, made an offer, just to international students in year 12 that they couldn't refuse. The camp officially goes from Monday to Tuesday afternoon. Our chemistry SAC was scheduled for the Wednesday. Ms. K asked: "So out of all the international students here, who are not going to the camp?" Next question: "Of those not going, how many of you aren't going because of the SAC?" Waves of unease. Murmurings within the international ranks. Half-hearted hands up.

Ultimatum: "Say I moved the Chemistry SAC to Friday, just for you guys, how many of you who aren't currently going would go?" Dead silence. Shifty eyes. Shuffling feet. Fidgeting hands. "Sigh." No more said. I half wanted to rail at them in chinese, but like, I didn't care enough. Just below the threshold. Oh well.

The camp itself was quite enjoyable, despite the clear division of the international students into their cliques. (A phenomenon that I expected would be slightly more diminished in a community such as one consisting only of students who primarily came here purely for studies, mostly without their family. Apparently not.) Still, cliques are good. Other than Emily's absence, I think that most of my friendship group turned up.

We did two trips, one to the aquarium, and one to Sovereign Hill, both of which were first times for me. Which earned me quite a shelling from David, who had been to each of the places multiple times, to say the least... But hey, what chance did I get? In my opinion, one can live in a place all their life and still not know it, or have been to any of it's attractions, or seen what it has to offer. That said, I thought the aquarium was nice... (Defensive tone). Sovereign Hill... Not to my taste, gold mines/dwarven activities hardly interest me (Nature for me please~) (Any offensive tags/guestbook posts will be severely repremanded, if not deleted). Still, it wasn't bad.

Our accomadation was none other than good old Clunes. The place of Legends, so to speak. In my three years at Wesley, I've heard no end about this mythical place, where etc. etc. (Avoiding lameness). Since it happened in year 9, I just missed it by a year. And from what I hear, I missed a lot. So, I finally got to see this "Clunes" that I had heard so much about. David kindly bothered to show me around, even pointing out precise locations where legends were kindled. I must say... It was a nice... Little... Town. Village. But the Clunes campus was quite nice, the size was just about what I had expected, not too large to be alienating, but not too small to be cramped.

David and I smuggled our laptops in (which were apparently contraband by none other than the friendly committee... (Friends)). Starcraft in the middle of the night was fun. Losing was hardly so, but still. Anime with Kylie and Greg and David was also good. We managed to get an anime we found interesting from Manifest (courtesy David), Sumomo Mo Momo Mo.

After only getting 3 hours of sleep that night, I was really quite dead for the rest of the next day, which consisted of packing up (oh, the horror), Sovereign Hill (meh) and long bus rides. I was out of all of them. I really don't think I was myself. Like, more blur than the usual me. Which is really blur.

Oh yeah, the Chem SAC/lesson the next day... Meh. Overrated.

So this past week, while I should have been studying... I have, so far, completed... Half a subject, academically of course. I think I accomplished quite a lot OUT of academics, but that is beside the point (partly explains my slack attitude towards posting lately, though). This leaves me with one week until the mock exams. Sadly, academic awards at the end of the year are BASED on the mock exam results (retarded). Perhaps I should try harder. 1 week isn't much time though. I really need to get some restrictions up for myself before I mess myself up big time.

By the way. This post was done while waiting to get into Dota with the guys, which I was late for due to going out for dinner. Sad huh.

Cya.