Friday fun with Beatta and Laila

Today was quite interesting: tons happened and tons didn't. I think I should make a list, because in my more private diary, which I have by my side nearly the whole time, I always make lists. So why not here?

List of things that happened today:

1) In the morning, I had to visit a skin doctor, because I've had this rash on my left arm every since before the summer holidays. Turned out of have Eczema or something like that. Its because my skin is very sensitive and allergic to products which have perfum in it, like shower gels and creams etc.
It totally sucks! Why am I so unlucky? Seriously. So the doctor gave me a few perscriptions for my 3 rashes (one on my arm, one by my shin and the other sort of also on my arm).

2) I had a fun time cleaning out my hamster's washing sand, which was full of her pee because she doesn't bother to go to the toilet. NOT. I swear, she is the naughtiest hamster ever! I wish I could train her like a dog, but she doesn't even react to her name, only when I snap my fingers. I sooo want a rat like the one in Ratatouille. hehe then I'll get 7s in cooking class :D

3) I went to Mariahilferstr. with Laila and Beatta. We met at 12 then just started randomly shopping. I found some stuff out today: A) I seem to not like places where there are old buildings. I tend to like modern designs more. B) you know those begger children who stuff things in your hand then demand for money? Well, they're quite persuasive. Seriously, you feel as if you have to give them something, which is utterly RIDICULOUS, because hello? Do we actually owe them anything? Anyway this little girl just came up to us, squashed a few nearly-dying yellow roses into our hands (god, couldn't it have been prettier?) and went "Spende!". She would have gotten full marks in marketing skills and persuasive techniques with mr. Thompson!




Things that didn't happen:

1) I didn't get to see the guy I'm so addicted to. Well, I don't actually think he has a social life, but I'm not sure. Where do boys actually go shopping?? I mean, it's weird imagining them going all "That looks good on you" in the changing rooms :P

2) I didn't do a lot of work, even though I should have, seeing that I have still tons to do, including: Checking my english essay for the fifth time, math questions, bio study for the test next week, finish my newest romance book, and also my article with Fiona for the Spotlight. Ugh, it sounds even more than there actually is!

Grrrrr Now that I've written all that I think that I might have to shut down this laptop of mine and actually get some work done... ;o

Hairspray

I'm quite happy at the moment, to tell the truth. I'm doing well with chopping off my homework assignments one by one and am currently taking a break from the one hour math revision I just made. Plus, the weather is really nice so it's already put a very content mood inside my head :).

Yesterday I watched Hairspray with a group of friends. It wasn't actually totally about hairsprays, but I guess it was just chosen as a title because nothing else fit. I mean, High School Musical copy" or "Girl with big hair wants to be a star" wouldn't exactly attract a lot of cinema viewers.

I still have my history essay to correct and change a little, because my history teacher checked my draft and pointed out a few problems. I really like writing more than ever now :D. But I guess that's not necessarily a good thing.

In english we were supposed to write this ONE PAGE, 1.5 SPACING ESSAY and I sort of wrote two pages, because I thought it was a minimum of one page. And then my english teacher told me and a few other people about how a good writer can express him or herself with as little words as possible blah blah blah. If that were true, I'd be writing a sentence for every history essay! Jeesh.

Back to basics

A week back from Murau and I'm finding this place more boring than ever. Seriously, I mean before I always knew that Vienna was a boring place and that everything was just plain and simply and utterly calm, but now its like that more than ever. If that's even possible.

Murau was such a brill trip, especially compared to Florence, Italy, which we went to last year. That sucked. But Murau was surprisingly Utterly fun! Okay, so I have this other more personal diary, and i recorded down everything that happened etc everyday. Since I'm most likely going to write something about 9A's trip to Murau for the Spotlight, people in my school will be able to read. But I'll put the basics here anyway:

ONE
The day we were going to Murau I woke up around 8:30, checked that all my things were packed then promptly headed to my computer and started playing Lemonade Stand (Which btw is the best game for those who easily die of boredom :D). At 9:05 I arrived at my school, and saw that everyone was assembled in the octagon, with their heavy bags and excited parents.

I was kind of bored while I was waiting for the bus to get ready, but when it finally did get ready I seriously nearly got squashed by everyone trying to get to the bus.

I mean, hello? Everyone's gonna get a seat, for God's sake. It's like the Beijing-episode all over again, where people push each other to get on the train, when there's definately space enough for everyone to sit. It just proves that you're immature and weird.

The bus ride was long and uneventful (in which the first half of the trip, one of the, um, teachers told us off every five mintues. "No foods or drinks!" "No pictures, its annoying!" "No loud music" blah blah blah.

Some people should get a life). Anyway, I thankfully had my iPod and my diary with, so I at least had something to do. The Idiotic thing was that I left my romance book in my suitcase, which was stuffed into the compartments, so i couldn't read it :(

We got there at about 2 or 3 pm (I'm not sure anymore) and straight after lunch, we assembled outside to meet our trainers, who would be with us for the week. My homeroom's trainers were Eva and Stefan. They were cool.

Stefan has this goatee (utterly distracting) and long hair, way past his shoulders. Eva was sort of like a Hippie with sloppy braids and this headband. Both of them were fun and cute.

We played a few games which I guess were supposed to make us each know each other better. It was fun, but I really don't know about the "getting to know one another" part :)

Then after dinner, we did our first challenge: THE ACIDE LAKE. That one was kind of boring, since all I got to do was pull on a rope, but I guess that counts as something pretty important :P. Anyway, Kirill (this new guy who is in my class but looks like he's 17 or 18) proved that he was some quality leader.

No offense, but in the beginning I actually thought he was the silent type. But during that week, he proved to be the silent and strong type. Extremely rare in today's society of teenagers, if I may say =P.

Anyway he was sort of the mastermind of the whole challenge and I have got to say that he really looked like he knew what he was doing. And then later when we had to feedback on what we thought we contributed to the group, he was all "I didn't do a lot" or something like that. haha such modesty :D

lol, there was this other guy who was the complete opposite! Ivan, who loves mushrooms (and eating them) and the nature. rofl.

I seriously appologize, but I just don't really feel like writing anymore today. I think i ate too many Skittles :S
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(A picture of our second or third challenge. The "Z")

Murau Murau Murau

Yeah!! Tomorrow I'm going to go to Murau with the rest of my grade for our challenge week. We'll have to play all these trust games and do different excercises.
What I dread the most is the overnight hike on Thursday...I so don't want to do it! My hiking bag is as heavy as a huge boulder and since we're most likely going to hike for more than five hours, I really am not looking forwards to it.

My hiking bag is about 45 litres, in which there is enough space to stuff my sleeping bag and insulation mat. I have two bottles of gatorade and tons of snacks :D.

Plus, yesterday I got a new camera! Its the canon ixus, and its just wayy better than my old one :D. This camp, like always, I shall not be attending the "party" at the end. I suck at dancing. The only dance I'm good at are these excercises you can buy as DVDs then dance to them at home :P.

Anyway, like I said before I'm very excited!!

This load

I really can't believe that all over the world, cranky teens like me are going through the same process in which I currently am: learn, forget, learn, test, forget, learn, exams, forget, learn IB etc etc. Its just so painful. And somethings aren't even going to help us in the future. Unless you want to be a historian to teach a bunch or teenagers or something like that :S

I have a new hamster! I named her Coco and she's adorable! Even though she looks the same like my old hamster, she's very different in character. She's slim and fast, with mini paws and a cute little nose. Her eyes are bright and round and she has the cutest warning sound ever - a buzz like a bee! She's very timid and scared but if you cup her in your hands she settles down, because it's so comfortable.
I got her on sunday, and the first two days I was kind of disappointed. Because she never came out of her nest. She didn't like it when we came too near. She buzzed...now she's much better.

I love my hamster. i love my friends. i love my family. i love my computer!