Quick Update

The only reason I get so much is because I work so much :(... Like slave labour... I probably shouldn't joke about that XD

Well the car looks pretty cool (to me), but yeah, it's cheap, it'll get me from A to B, that's all I really need :D

Also, I'll keep this blog, and occasionally post some stuff up on AFC... WHICH I FINALLY HAVE A JOURNAL ON!!! Geeze, only took a year XD

My day was boring, all in all. How was yours?

invalid worries XD

Yes, so apparently stressing over my school results was unwarranted XD. I got an A- on my IPT essay, and an A+ and an A (the test was broken up into 2 parts) on my Ancient History exam. Which also happened to be the top result in my year =D.. However, I failed Maths with a D+, but I was expecting that and can easily bring my overall mark for Maths up to a B/B+.

Ok I'm sorry, I'll stop talking about school XD.

I officially have $1000 saved towards a car, with the car that I am buying costing $2500. So that is not too bad. I am hoping to get the rest of the money for the car within the next 2 months, then I'll finally get the car!! Unfortunately though, it will probably cost me about $1000 dollars to do the car up (paint, tires, CD player, fixing parts of the engine etc), but all in all, I think I can get it ready for my birthday in September XD.

The car I am getting is the Mitsubishi FTO - 1994 model. So the car is the same age as me XD. Here's a link to the Google images page:

http://www.google.com.au/images?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1257&bih=937&q=mitsubishi+fto+1994&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=

I'll probably paint the car black because I'm doing it myself, so metallic and like rainbow colours are out of the question.

Hey multi, when I get up to 150 posts and can start a journal on AFC, should I keep this blog going? Or just copy and paste over to the journal?... I think I will keep this blog (it might come in handy in the future), but I'm not sure if I'll use it.... )=

Anyway, I'm getting a lot of shifts at my clothes store job, but work for my IT job is kinda dying. At the moment I get about 5 hours/week at protogear.com, whereas at Hit n Run I get like 15 hours/week on average. So all in all, like $250/week, of which I save like $150 and spend the rest on books, clothes, school stuff blablabla. To be honest, I don't know where most of my money goes /:

I actually bought Alex Rider: Scorpia Rising yesterday :)... I have all the books in the series, so when I saw the latest book had come out, I had to buy it. The first 2 chapters are dead boring (which is unusual for Anthony Horowitz), but that was easily forgiven as I was soon left on the edge of my seat! The book is really good so far, I'm deliberately going slow in order to savour the story, so I'm only half way through the book..

Oh, I replied to that debate about homosexuality on AFC. Unfortunately, I was in a bad mood so you will see a few low blows aimed at Cezen. But I think for the most part I put up a good arguement. However, I regret that the rebutal took me an hour to write XD, but it was fun so I don't mind too much.. I just wasn't lying when I said I don't have time to write him an essay (school load, work etc.).

I talked to my deputy principle today, he did nothing about my IPT teacher and pretty much said that I'll just have to take my education into my own hands... Great, thanks school system, I see the taxes I pay are well worth your continued survival :(

Actually, in addition to this, I made an appointment with the careers councillor at my school, for Thursday at 12:30pm. I think I'll ditch the whole idea of doing a hairdressing apprenticeship, honestly the more I think about it, the more I am convinced that it is just a waste of time. I think I will defer university for 2 years, during that time just work a full time job, then go back to uni after that. The reason I made the appointment, was to find out more about studying interstate or abroad, perhaps in VIC, TAS, New Zealand or Germany.

As a final point, I am now addicted to energy drinks :(... They have kept me alive for the last 2 weeks while I have been surviving on 4 hours of sleep per night. But unfortunately, I cannot go more than a day without one or else I will fall asleep, lose my concentration blablabla.. I'll have to sort out my sleeping patterns in 3 weeks when we go on holidays.

Alright, I'll stop now XD... Sorry about my meagre rants, I wish I could inform you that I was in a bank robbery today or something... I really do :)

So this week...

This week just passed was pretty stressful to be honest :(.

I had a piece of assessment due for English, which was a simple dot point draft that I enjoyed planning (I'm desperate to get it back so I can start writing the feature article XD) and also my IPT essay was due (but because I handed it in like 1-2 weeks ago I was fine).

No, the real reason my week was not too enjoyable was because I was incredibly worried about whether or not I failed my exam for English. You see, after we all took the exam and the teacher had finished marking them, Miss sat us all down (OK well we were already seated, but you get what I mean) and point blankly told us that a third of us had failed. She looked directly at me then proceeded to say "Some of the people who failed I was really surprised at, because you did exceptionally well in English last year and I expected better". I had the 2nd best result in English last year across the grade so my reaction was something along the lines of, "OMG I'm having a heart attack D=". Also, because she told me that if it didn't fix my draft, it would fail :( so I was really worried. The exam required us to memorise a movie script that we wrote, then write it out in the exam - that's why I had a draft for it.

Anyway I ended up getting a B- for it, which was the 2nd highest mark in the class, and the 6th highest mark in the year (about 100 students), so I am pleased with that, especially since it was really hard.

On Tuesday, I have an appointment with my Deputy Principal about my IPT teacher. Basically, Mr St John is possibly the worst teacher you could ever come across. I'll put his (massive) flaws in dot points, because it's fun:

☻He hasn't taught us anything this year (I'm not exaggerating, he literally walks into the classroom, sits at his desk, and stays there for the entire lesson, not speaking to us once)
☻He is constantly changing assignments on us - he gave us a task at the start of term to design a game, then changed it to the writing task I just handed in, now he is telling us there will be a test in 2 weeks and we will be going back to the game after that. If there is a curriculum, he is not following it
☻about that test, last lesson he gave us a revision sheet to do - I went into my documents from last year and pulled up the exact same revision sheet with all the answers filled in. He isn't teaching us anything new
☻Grrrrr... He is frustrating, in that you ask him a question, and he steps around the answer. So pretty much he just wastes your time

So I'm going to the Deputy to see if we can get a different teacher, or if worst comes to worst, if I can just do the subject via distance education.

Sorry for the massive complaint blog post about my schooling... I'm letting off steam.. In reality the worst is over, and from here on out everything else I can handle.

Thanks, Multiverse for following =D

First Post

So yeah, I am writing my first post before I even set up my profile, blog etc.. XD

Not really quite sure what to say, to be honest. I am not even sure anyone will read this. But here it is.

I probably am not going to have very many blog entries, so sorry in advance for that :)

I am 16, in grade 12 and honestly bored of living in Australia. I would like to go back to Germany and live there for a bit.

Oh yeah, to explain that statement, I am Australian; I was born and mostly raised here, but when I was 10, my father was offered a promotion; to help on a massive engineering feat in Germany. Hanover to be exact, which is where I proceeded to live for the next 3 years. I learnt German very fast (I couldn't believe how similar it was to English at first) and so I now speak fluent German and English (I am also proficient in Japanese but that is another story, for another entry XD).

Until quite recently, I was stressing out over what I would do when I finished school. Initially I wanted to do a bachelor in Information Technology but then I started having second thoughts. Just for the record, I am quite good at IT as I;

☻published my first website in grade 6 (it was about dolphins, for extra credit on a school assignment - I am quite competitive and wanted to get the best grade in the class =D)
☻designed my first game in grade 9 (I used the program Game Maker, so I wasn't exactly using coding)
☻then proceeded to actually code my first game in Grade 10 (using Visual Basic - ugh, I know, but my IT teacher insists on teaching us only this language, if you can even call it teaching - again I'll explain in more depth later)
☻taught myself C++ last year (with the help of my father and forums)
☻and I am head of the IT department for an online Australian business, despite my age =D
☻I've also done a certificate I, II and IV in IT

Back on subject, I started doubting this course because I want to have fun in life. Simple and exact, I don't want to lead a boring life, where I am just another statistic that finished high school, went to uni, got a degree and proceeded to get a 100-150K job with a husband and kids. That is not my style. I also cringe from the idea of having one qualification/occupation for an entire lifetime.

My solution? I'm going to do a hair dressing apprenticeship, then go back over to Germany and live there for a year, then go over to England and live there for a year (while working as a hair dresser). Perhaps after that, I will go to university in either Melbourne, Hobart or New Zealand and do my degree in IT.

OK I think I've bored you enough, I'll stop here =D. I will try to post again as soon as I can be bothered, promise!