15/Love

I haven't updates in a week! Shame Shame.

Well let start off by saying TGIF!!!! It's the holidays woohoo. In the past week I had all my yearly examinations at school and I'm so glad it's over. I'm pretty happy with Science, French and Mathematics...English, Food Tech i think i went fine but I'm slightly worried about HSIE. Geography and History are the subjects I studied the least and they were the last exams I had at the en of the day today so I was less than enthusiastic, all I could keep my mind on was the holidays beginning!!! I've been pretty grumpy lately at school as well and a bit paranoid about things and so yer and two week break is much appreciated after such a not so great week, where I also had to do exams! I also had to catch the bus to and from school on exam days. Long story, which also accumulates with the grumpy-ness and exams.

Caitlin and Charlotte my two beautiful nieces are staying with us this week until Tuesday. It is sooo difficult having little kids running around the house. You need to child proof everything, they constantly eat all the time and the mess piles up so quickly!! Not to mention the early rising time. Up at like 5 in the morning talking to Dad while he gets ready for work.

Charlotte the youngest has the biggest shoe fetish. And her main vocabulary is Mum, What are you doing?, Up, please and Don't. She's definitely missing home a lot.




I've got plenty of books for the school holidays to keep me going when I need something to do. Oh and I've started watching that new show Damages with Rose Byrne and Glen Close. It's very addictive...I'm so confused though lol you have to really concentrate when you're watching because it is very trippy. Also I just love 15/Love this Canadian show about a Tennis Academy, but I have to download the episodes to watch though.


This is me signing off for now,

Happy holidays everyone

Steph xoxox

Cake Decorating!!!!

This is just a quick post about my food tech assignment I did yesterday. The assignment was to make a cake for a celebration. There was a written part of the assignment aswell where we had to design a party at our house but the main thing really was the cake decorating.

For some crazy reason, I chose to do a Kitchen Tea and was inspired to make a cake shaped like a Teapot. Now those of you who have never had cake decorating experience might not be able to appreciate this feat to the full extent of what I have managed to do, but let me tell you this was HARD. Instead of going with something simple but effective, I picked like the hardest cake in the entire world to make! But I pulled it off and I've got some pictures below to prove it.

This is what it looked like at school...(click to enlarge)

A couple of extra photos....


Here's a slide show of some other cakes from the class.

But I wouldn't of been able to do this without the help and my Mum, Eileen - The master of cake decorating..and Alison I guess who helped me make a couple of the flowers on the cake. So a HUGE thanks goes out to them. Next challenge Christmas cakes! Eileen is going to teach me how to make some really cute mini ones.

And for all you Cake Decorators out there a word of advice from Eileen - "It's not what you do right, it's how well you cover up what you did wrong!"

Until another time,

Steph

Singing In The Rain

So today was the third week (well really it's been 6 weeks since our timetables follow a two week rotation)in a row we've tried to do our PD/H/PE assignment. I wasn't really looking forward to it because you know it's pd/h/pe and presenting something to a class of my peers which makes me a bit queezy. The aim of the assignment is for each group to teach the class a sport and we get judged on our teaching skills. The first week we were supposed to do it, it rained. The next week, Carlia was at work experience, today we go through one group and get up to us and it starts raining again. It's really just getting irritating. It doesn't even rain that much! Just enough to get us to pack everything away and run inside before it stops.

Also today, we got our third Cervical Cancer vaccinations. Surprisingly, it didn't hurt as much as I was anticipating. I don't even have a sore arm after! Good Good. I psyched myself out though when I got there and I felt really nervous but it was nothing. And then Alison gave my a Picnic afterwards cause I'm cool.

This morning I was heading into roll call at my usual time of two minutes before the bell, when Mrs Dunbar came out of the library and asked me if I could represent Year 10 at the Year 12 graduation. So basically I couldn't say no, she'd already convinced Josh who has a severe hate for public speaking, much like my own to do it so I was committed. I don't think we have to even write the speech, just say it. I can't believe she picked us...the most unlikely candidates who hate public speaking with a passion! Also I only got 15/20 for my English Speech which I was quite angry about, but shows that obviously the English teachers have no faith in me, but don't get me started on that! Another time maybe...

Updated

So I've updated my blog. What do you think of the new layout? It's okay for a while but I'll change it again soon... or in a year or two or something :P

Today I've been thinking hard about how I'm going to decorate my cake for school. We have a food tech assessment where we have to make a cake for a celebration and I'm doing a kitchen tea. My cake is going to be in the shape of a teapot but I'm still not sure how im going to decorate it. I'm thinking pink with hearts and swirls. Anyway on Monday Mum and I have to go to a cake decorating shop to pick up some gum paste to make the handle and spout with. You see, making a cake shaped like a teapot is nowhere near as easy as it seems in theory. I hope it turns out good!

This week was Mia's lolly stall she had to set up for commerce. They did really well, made $170, half of it went to charity. We also got to wear mufti that day! And Mr Andrejas comes up to us at lunch and says the funniest thing ever.

*walks over to us and pulls a walkie talkie out of his pocket*
Mr A. I'd better call for back up! there's an imbalance in the playground!
Us: Why?
Mr A. All the prettiest girls in the school are all in one place!

Haha. Okay retelling this story sorta makes it sounds pedophile-ish now that I'm thinking about it lol. He also wants Carlia to marry his son who is like 6 years old LOL.

Here's a list of movies I want to see and haven't so if anyones got any comments on how much these movies suck/rock please give me a shout
Saturday Night Fever
The Graduate
Fight Club
Miss Potter
Superbad
Stardust
Decemberboys
Donnie Darko
The Simpsons Movie
Blonde
Nancy Drew
Factory Girl


and that's about all I can think of so I shall save anymore thoughts for another blogpost on another day!

Steph xoxox