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

ZOMGWTFBBQ

Everyone i got new pants today... :)

I just finished doing my pd/h/pe assignment yay i don't really have anything much else to say so yer it's just the new pants thing....

IM COOL!!!



Smosh updated too btw. NEW VIDEO woot woot Mum took me shopping for dresses for Alison again GRRRR.. oh and today we got that new english teacher. She going to be here for 5 weeks and I forget her name but she's cool and we did that thing where you say a truth and a lie and it was heaps fun and everyone picked the wrong one for me lolbut i'm still awesome. Oh and Hayley's truth was that her and her sister were born on the same day but five years apart and I said omg thats the same as me only two years apart. but she was a bit mean and she like didn't really care. no one out of that group likes me. Except Jessica who is RAD I like her she's got a good sense of humour she does lol. so i have a bit more to say then I thought. I didn't get maths homework today which was swell.


Anyway ciao bellas


Steph xoxox

See the Beauty in Ugly

UGLY BETTY SEASON FINAL TONIGHT PEOPLE. who's gonna watch?

working on english speech! -snaps for stephie-



anyway nothing much else to say so, toodles
-Steph xoxox

Konnichiwa!

Yes, I know what you are thinking.. "OMG Stephanie updating her blog? Can't be! This is an impostor!" Well I can assure you folks, it's me.

Yesterday was like the coolest day ever. Well first of all it was Jeans for Genes Day. Also these Japanese students came to our school and our whole Food Tech class got to be guides. I was soooo nervous! Carlia and I got assigned to our buddy cause there was only ten of them and like 26 of us. She was sooo cute and really shy. She didn't say much at all, especially at first. I was so embarassed lol I introduced myself the wrong way and I put "san" at the end of my name which you do not do, because it means you're like stuck up and think highly of yourself and stuff so I'm just standing there mortified. But Carlia introduced herself and me again lol and she said both of our names super quietly. She told us her name too but I've got absolutely no idea how to spell it. Something sounding like Car-Who. And then we watched like a bunch of dancing from the dance classes at school and no offence to our school but it just sucks! The Japanese students seemed to enjoy it though. Then we had morning tea in the library and went off to an english/japanese lesson. I completely forget how to say everything lol. Lunch was just chaotic. We went up to the Food Tech rooms and they helped us prepare their own lunches. We made steak burgers with the lot, with potato wedges and fruit smoothies. We had a like an hou and a half to make the lunches but it was so busy with so many people in the room it took longer. Our buddy was really helpful and i think she had fun lol. When we ate it looked like she struggled with the burger and I do not blame her. Those things were huge! Even I had trouble. Fruit smoothies were awesome,served in milkshake glasses with topping swirled down the sides and a strawberry on the side lol. After lunch we played sport and they showed us some Japanese games that they play which was really cool. They had like these little paper balls that you blow up that were so cool. Carlia got to take one home. When they had to go home we took them to the library for photos and gave them gifts each which was a little lolly bag and one of those views of Australia in a glass thingy. Then we walked them up to the front gate and said Sayonara and she bowed! and so i bowed back. And she bowed again! so i bowed again too. AND SHE BOWED AGAIN lol it was funny she was so cute. I miss her already :( lol

Anyway I got home and I was bored. But not enough to wanna do anyway assignments or homework... so I made Eels Jelly! (As in the football team not the animal) and it's yellow and blue! And I was so excited cause I figured out what my speech topic was and so now I can get that over and done with.

Today I watched tv and bummed around. Thank god for burger king for lunch I was having withdrawal of junk food. Burger king is like...the absolute king! ...actually not really cause their chips are always crap and their cokes are always watery and yer.. but their burgers rock!


Thus concludes this blog entry.

Much Love Steph xoxox

p.s im too much of a rebel to check for spelling mistakes!