We're doing a very exciting project in English. Rofl, exciting. Well, I guess it's not that bad, I'm actually sort of enjoying it, but it's not that exciting. We're writing a newspaper in a group of 5. We've got like, 35 articles between us. It's pretty cool. We called ours Touché! I'm not sure why. It's going to be pretty awesome though, I think. I made an ad.

The middle one says "Decapitation. My anti-drug." if the font is too small. You'll prolly only get these if you know about the French Revolution.

I reallllly don't want to babysit tomorrow. The children are nightmares. It's awful! The 4 year old has been getting on my nerves lately with his violence issues. Whenever I turn my back he'll hit either the 6 year old or the 1 year old. He'll refuse to apologize. Awful child. The 1 year old has a violence problem, too. She scraped off some of the 4 year old's skin! Ah, sweet revenge.

They're about to be joined by yet another sibling. More work for me. *panic*. The baby was almost born last night. It's due in the Christmas break, so only another couple of weeks. That's 5 more times I have to babysit. Aack!

I hope you, my readers, have fun.

Not really.

The four day weekend was good. I wish it were longer. I haven't finished my homework, mainly because very annoying unnamed group member hasn't emailed me ANY information I need to present, so it looks like I'll have to go and look it up myself. I'm very mad at her right now.

My journalism teacher is attempting to corrupt the freshman in my journalism class, Cameron and I. It's kind of funny really, she's making me do the website, and she's making Cameron learn to use adobe programs so he can help her lay out the website. I have four articles to write, rather than the usual two, which everyone else in the class has. Joy. I don't want to write this freaking sports story. She made me do the cheerleading article, already.

Ah dear. I could use another day or 5 to finish my homework. Procrastinating was a bad idea. I'm going to go finish my homework right now. End of post.

I'm back! Cower!

The flight was awful. I hadn't eaten anything for 24 hours. I was hungry. And I had a stomach ache the whole time on the plane. And I got 2 hours of sleep. I am very tired.

I decided I'd post some photos from New Zealand, because I can.

Those dolphins were soooo cool, they swam around our boat for like, half and hour, like they were racing us.

A ride in the dingy.

And we gather arouund my granma. She turns 47 this December. Don't worry, not a blood relative

I was just in a kayak, we did a lot of rowing. Went up the river to some camping ground and back again. The current was annoying.

I finished the 1000 peice puzzle in two days... I was somewhat obsessed.

Last night at dinner my granpa gave me some lessons of life. It was very odd. He told me we were going to have dinner the next night with my granma's nephews, who are my step uncles, and he said maybe I might like one of the boys, who're 6 months younger than me. I start laughing. Ellie says "No, she's taken." My granpa says, "no, she's not married." Then Ellie said "But she has a boyfriend."    "Yah, you can have more than one boyfriend ven you are not married. Holding hands, zis is nussing." lol!!! I started laughing so hard. Ellie went and kept arguing and stuff. My granpa has a German accent, incase you were wondering. Yeah.. he expects me to have a crush on my step uncle who I've never met before and from what I've heard of him is a midget. I don't think so granpa, sorry.

But it was very funny.

Tomorrow we drive wayyy south on the North island. We're right at the top of the north island. So... it'll be a few hours. We're going for lunch with my granma's brother, whom I've never met before. Well, I guess pretty soon I'm going to be meeting a whole lot of relatives who I never knew I had and am not reeeally related to because my granma is actually my STEP granma, she's turning 47 in December.

I like New Zealand.

So it wasn't the last time I could post. Turns out we've got several hours of nothing to do... for a while anyway.

Yesterday we went out on the boat. The boat is cool on the outside, but the inside still hasn't been painted and such. My grandparents only just got the lights to work. It's a new boat.

Today we went to this beach thing... I don't remember the name, something like Mariba beach. New Zealand has the most odd names... Kaukapakapa... Whangaparaoa... Anyway. The beach had black sand. The sand has iron in it, so it's attracted to magnets. God it was so cold... the wind was freezing!

Tomorrow... I don't know what'll happen. I think we're going shopping or something.

On Sunday I'm going to meet a penpal at some go-kart place thing. That will be fun. I've known her several months...   I'm surprised my grandparents were the ones who suggested it. I thought they might've gone paranoid after hearing the news and stuff how they're like "Oh, this person met some online person and got kidnapped and killed" or whatever.

And sometime next week when the weather out at sea is better, we'll go for several nights on the boat! It would've been more fun in Summer though, we could've gone swimming.

Not much more interesting to say, I think I'll go work on our puzzle...

Post later.

Yes. It did.

I left Stanthorpe.

Tom skipped school that day to be with me for the last time for 11 months. I liked that. But we've got 11 months until we see each other again, and it sucks. Blahhhhhhhh.

My grandparents are SO BORING!!! My granma had me sit down and listen to her ranting about "When I was young" for at least an hour. Her voice is really quiet, too, extremely easy to not notice. A few times I just completely forgot she was talking to me.

So I'm looking at another two days of boredom, similar to this morning. Yuck. I don't want to.

Anyway, I may not post again for another two weeks or so. That's when I'll be back home. In Washington. I miss my room! My OWN room which I don't have to share! I'm unkind that way...

There were a few people in Stanthorpe I didn't get to say goodbye to.

Tom, how was the Pirates of Penzance play? Any better than the rehearsals?

That's all I suppose. It's over. This is the end.

Am back on sugar.

I almost didn't eat sugar for a whole week. I'm pretty proud of myself. But now that I'm going to eat sugar again, I don't really think I need it anymore. Yay! I'm not addicted!

Today was pretty boring... until I went to the school in the afternoon. I was pretty hyper for like, 15 minutes. I couldn't shut up... yeah. Sad. But I got over it. Later we saw Dom and Ty. Ty gets sick connotations out of EVERYTHING I SAY! I swear it. Blahhhh. I'm NOT sick minded. And Dom... still hasn't forgiven me for kicking him. Actually, he went and attacked Tom today, so I went and kicked him, and kicked again, and again, sort of grabbed his arm and kept kicking his shins. He swears I'm a man... GENDER BIAS!

Yeah, so I guess the Squash courts aren't as boring as I say they are. Not like I can think of anything else to do, really.

Tomorrow I go to Warwick (6th time) and... I don't know what time I'll be back. But I'll be back in time for guitar lessons. Yay!

Oh, and it was fun talking to Jess and Reid and Kirsty in the morning while everyone was at school. Thankyou for entertaining me.

Alaska can come too.

THE END.

(Don't worry about it)

This morning was kind of fun.

But let's start this post with last night. I was watching Taken on TV. Ellie and Oma went to bed around ten and I fell asleep on the couch (accidentally by the way) and slept there all night. Sad. So when I woke up one leg hurt. Anywho.

I went to St. Joeys this morning again, like every other school day, and it was fun.

See, most of Tom's friends never had brains. So they come over and they dared Tom to kiss me, and we pecked just to amuse his friends. Should've seen their reactions. Anywho... they'll be paying Tom out or something for that.

And they kept going on about how Cameron likes me. I don't think he does, I think they're only pranking him. Anywho. It's weird. He's very annoying... another one of the brainless group. He french kissed a window. Scary, reallly...

I hope tennis camp is fun for Carly, I hope Jess has fun with her various camps, I hope Emily has more fun in NC than she usually does, and I hope Allie has fun with her.

Oh, and.... some lady at the school, Mrs. Linch? Not sure. She said I should come to the school another day. I think they liked me. What'dya think?

Yeah... it was scary. Fun, but scary.

Now, nice place and all, but honestly, too many people need BRAINS! Yes, Tom and I are going out, grow up. They go on and on, paying us out. Whatever. It does get old. Sometimes it's funny when they come up with something new...

Gosh, small classes. There are TWO ninth grade classes, and they have about 15 kids in each.

I feel so sorry for you. Your teachers seem to be the REALLY annoying kind of "Let's do bookwork because I'm not capable of teaching anything else" kind of teachers. Except the SOSE teacher wasn't too bad. I think he was making things up to explain things and stuff though. But really, the English teacher... I don't like her.

And there was this scary old lady that elbowed me when I tried to walk out a door. She kept blocking my way saying "Get to class" when I was following someone, like I was supposed to. I don't like her.

And then after school Tom and one of his friends (I think it was Dean) went and climbed rocks. Or rather, Tom and I climbed rocks and hung around at the top because Dean COULDN'T climb them. He acted all weird... like he was high or something, I don't know.

Tomorrow I go to the State School in the morning to talk to the principal about coming to THEIR school for a day. Fun! And then that night I have guitar lessons. I'm learning to play a new song my dad showed me. I'm slowly getting it.

Post later. Buh-bye.

Evil weekend. I didn't like it. Milly and I were really good friends when we were 11. Now she's just really annoying. Blahh. All she ever talks about is either Glenn or bragging about her ex-boyfriends. It's so pathetic, we never had a more smart conversation....

Her house smells of cigarette smoke (I can't stand the smell, gross.) and cat poop. She had 6 cats, 3 dogs (plus one they were taking care of), a bird, a rat, a rooster, two pidgeons.... I think I'm forgettnig something. The cats were cute and all, but really, tiny house plus a million animals just doesn't work. I had to watch not to trip over one of the 4 kittens.

And Milly smokes. <

We went to the house of relatives of theirs. We were only there for like, an hour. But I didn't like it. Strangers kept trying to hug me, almost everyone but Ellie and I smoked, and there was this girl who commented on how tall I was and should be a model. She circled me several times, like "very tall, long legs, nice hair, small boobs" I'm like HELLO! I don't know you! You can leave me alone now! But really, the old men trying to hug me scared me very much. I was VERY happy to leave.

But then when I got back everything was better. I took a shower to attempt to get the smell of smoke off me, but I'm not sure how well that worked. Ugh... worst smell in the world, cigarette smoke.

And then Tom came over and we went rock climbing, and it was very cold. I didn't feel the cold for a while... So we were sort of shivering and finding places that'd block out the icy wind. Fun, but cold. Then his mom came over.  Yay. I call her mommy, because she's cool. Cooler than most moms anyway.

Tomorrow I'm going to the school for a day. That'll be fun. I hope there are good subjects... I only remember there is no religious education on Monday so it's a good day to go!

Anywho, I think that's all.

P.S. My granma wants me to go to church on Sunday. I don't want to go! PITY ME CARLY!