Tuesday this week was my last day of high school. It was only a half day, but no worked happened, at least not for me anyway. Just before lunch started, someone had set off a fire alarm and the fire department came. Anyway, in the afternoon we had prizegiving practice which was alright. I knew I was getting a prize at that stage, I just didn’t know what for. After that we got to go home. We would have to return later that night for the real thing.

I went out to dinner with my parents before prizegiving. We went to a small steakhouse. I had Beef Teriyaki which was really good. I would be willing to go back there for a meal. After that we made our way to school for the prizegiving. When I got there, I had a look at the booklet they give to the parents to see what I was getting a prize for. My certificate was for Excellence with Diligence in Statistics and Modelling, Merit with Diligence in Electronics and Diligence in ICT. That wasn’t bad I guess. Another part of the prizegiving was the farewell of the year 13’s. For this, the dean read out our names and what we planned on doing next year and we walked across the stage to get our leavers t-shirts. This was this years school t shirt with all the names of the leavers on the back. That was pretty much the night.

The next day, we returned to school for the leavers mass. This was a mass for the year 13’s as well as the year 12’s. On this day, all the year 13’s wore their leavers tshirts to the mass. As well as the mass, there were also pictures and later on some videos of us year 13’s. That was really interesting to see and watch. That would be the last time we all meet together like that. The next time would be when we return our gear and sign out, which will be the last time most of us will see each other.

So now I am done with school. All I have left to do is the 3 exams I have in a weeks time. After that, it’s off to University next year. Goodbye Kavanagh College, it was nice having you for the past 7 years.

Today is the start of the mid year holidays. I won’t be doing anything these holidays. I won’t be travelling or doing anything special. I wouldn’t mind going to Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch to wait in line for the iPhone but I can barely afford the iPhone, let alone a trip there to get it at 12:01am on July 11th. So I will probably be on my computer for the next 2 weeks and surfing the net and watching some TV shows.

Being the middle of the year, I got my mid-year school report on Friday and it was pretty good. There were a few errors in it though, such as an incorrect grade and 2 of the same report, both with a slight error in the comment. You would think that someone would check through and make sure they are alright before giving them out. Oh well.

While still on the subject of school, just as I was about to relax on Saturday afternoon, a red letter from school arrived. A red letter is a naughty note, in simple terms. The reason the note was sent was for not submitting my Geography Report (and don’t say anything Stephanie!) I’m surprised I got one without knowing. I’m not too worried about it because I don’t really need the credits for UE. Also it’s my first red letter in 6 and a half years I’ve been there, so I like to think I’ve done well.

So basically I am going to waste away my holidays again. When I return next term, I’m going to have a fair bit to do, including submitting a Reading Log, doing difficult Electronic component physics assessments, as well as many other things. Not long to go before I’m done for good. It’s going to be 2009 before I know it.

From now, I will have no more school for 2 weeks. This has been a long term consisting of 11 weeks, although there was Easter break in the middle somewhere so it was probably more like 10 and a half weeks. Still, the term has been pretty long and has been pretty busy, as you would know if you have read the post from last week.

As far as schools concerned, we haven’t done that much at all this term. Have had 2 assessments in Statistics, which I managed to get an Excellence in, and the other one hasn’t been marked, 1 assessment in Geography, which hasn’t been marked either, 2 assessments in ICT, one passed, other not marked (but will be a pass),  1 assessment in Electronics which I passed and 1 in Physics which hasn’t been marked, but I know I haven’t passed it, yet.

Last day pretty much was mucking around. In ICT, I had finished the test in 2 and a half of the 4 periods given, so I ended up browsing the Internet and playing Minesweeper. In Electronics, I helped a friend try and troubleshoot a computer but it was well and truly fucked, then I started installing Windows XP on another machine and later on helped, which turned out to be actually doing it, installing RAM into another machine. Then last period of the day was the Physics test which was hard. Got to leave early which was a upside, I guess.

I don’t have anything planned for the holidays but it will more than likely consist of my being on the computer and internet doing basically nothing. Two weeks after doing that, school will start again. Not really looking forward to that but it will be nice to get test results back. Hopefully I can think of things to blog about during my holidays to make up for the lack of posts during the school time. HOLIDAYS ARE GO!!!

On Monday, school started again for me. I am now in Year 13, which is my final year. Pretty much this year is for getting University Entrance requirements. My first day subjects were my two favourite ones, Electronics, followed by ICT. All the class consisted of was admin stuff and course outline and such, not a lot of learning. In ICT, there were new computer which were really small, but powerful enough for what they are supposed to be used for, office crap!

The other subjects I do are Statistics, which is a small class and should be pretty smooth except with all the homework given. Geography should be easy. There is one problem, they have stuffed in 26 or so students into a small classroom ideal for 20 students. It is really squashed and you hardly have room to move. I hope they can get us a proper classroom. Then there is Religion Studies, which is compulsory, and I have nothing much to say about this subject. My final subject this year, which I finally had last period of this week is Physics. This is going to be slightly difficult, but the teacher is pretty good and has some new toys and technology for us to try/play with soon.

My week at school has been pretty cruisy, except for the annoying homework. Next week everything shold be normal. I still have a little trouble keeping up with my TV shows and podcasts, but that could be because I have been doing other things. Hopefully I can fit school, homework, internet and media all into my day and have it all done and watched before the weekend so I can have them free for other things, erm… I mean more internet.

Today, I officially finished school for the year. Classes stopped 3 weeks ago for study leave and exams. You are no officially on holiday until you get signed out of school, which they do on a specified date and time. I had to go back to school for 30 minutes just to return text books and get signatures from teachers so I can leave for my well deserved break.

It is stupid that they make me travel to school just to do that. Its a waste of time. I don’t see why they can’t do that during exams. That would save me from having to return when my exams are all over. At least they are not taking our textbooks back before the exams because they are a useful tool to use when studying, if you choose to study like everyone else, except me.

I personally would have rather slept in this morning instead of making the journey back to the place I would like to leave behind after the difficult year. Oh well, I have to do what I have to do. Now I have 2 months and a little bit more where I will have no school or work. I will be on the computer for most of that time. i with I had something as well as the computer/internet to keep me entertained during this long break. Money would be nice right now, a lot of it, then I could buy video games and other cool gadgets and gizmos to keep me busy until next year when I return for the final time.

Today was the last day of term 3. Now I have 2 weeks holiday to waste on the computer and internet. I can use this time to watch some video that I have put aside because of my busy schedule. It will be good to check more shows off my list, but at the same time, more are going to be added because of the fall shows coming out. Eventually, when school is back, the videos will be coming out faster than I can watch them, which is going to be troublesome.

Next term will be finishing off the school year and revising on everything covered this year as we prepare for NCEA external exams in November. Time I should probably studying will probably used watching TV shows since I will struggle to fit them into my schedule otherwise. At least after all the hard work (if I do it) will pay off and them I will get a well deserved 2 months off.