Archive for the 'Friends' Category

26
Oct

Class of 2007

By inlimelight 0 Comments
Categories: Friends and Haileybury

Today is going to be one of the most memorable days in my life. Today was my final day of school at Haileybury. I arrived at school early, around 7:30 am and took a good look around, and to hand out some of the gifts that I bought for the teachers. Today however was the first day where I didn’t go strait to the hall. I went to my locker, then to the common room, then I went for a wander around other areas of the school.

I was talking with Hanna Gordon about the significance of the day and she said that she even still looks back on her last day of school with all her friends.

After this i headed off to the Year 12 breakfast to get my shirt signed by the class. there wasn’t really that much eating going on, it was more shirt signing.

The final house assembly was defiantly an emotional moment for allot of the people and I will admit I did shed a tear, but Mav’ was probably finding it the hardest to keep it together which i really think says something for our class, and for almost any class. You would think that a teacher that has been at Haileybury as long as he has, a graduation would mean noting to them, but it obviously still does and it shows that a year level such as ours can make an impact on someone life and after the time and effort that they have put in to building up a students skills, to prepare them for later life there is going to be emotional to see it come to the end.

The final assembly was also a first for me. It was the first assembly in just under three years that I have sat in the audience with the rest of my year group and it was also the first assembly that I didn’t do anything to set up. The moment cam where the class of 07 was to hand back the “colour” so we made our way down from the balcony to pass the flag around the hall. I remember when I was in year 10, i thought this whole thing was “kinda cheesy” but when your in year 12 you do appreciate all this kind of stuff.

After the assembly it was off to the final chapel where we sang Jerusalem for the last time as Haileybury students. The next time we would sing it would be when we were Old Haileyburians. The Rev told his awesome jokes and then it was off to a rehearsal for the Graduation ceremony. I hadn’t even graduated yet and my replacements were already dropping stuff from the roof very close to my head! But the hall once again proved that “the hall doesn’t ever kill anyone”. It just putts them in danger.

The actual graduation ceremony was rather surreal. It was hard to believe that 14 years of schooling was coming to an end. The time came for the students who have “know no other school but Haileybury”, My name was called out and i was presented with my bible, my certificate, a tie and a 2007 badge and it was over.

I never would have thought that it was possible to end today with a feeling of satisfaction but tonight’s Valedictory Dinner proved me wrong. It was one of the best nights I’ve had, it’s up there with Matt Kennedy’s birthday party! The evening was fantastic and the staff band was brilliant. I was able to grab photos with almost everyone who was a part of my schooling life, however a few went home early. I was also able to get a photo with those who were in Kindergarten with me. I would not have changed a thing about tonight.

It is a strange thing to be at the one school for so long and for it to come to an end. Back in Junior school I found it easier to picture the sun exploding than me finishing school. There aren’t many people who can say that they have been a student at Haileybury for 14 or 15 years and I fell lucky to be one of them. I have seen so many people start at Haileybury and then seen them leave a few years later. I’ve only ever had one first day at a new school and I am glad I finished at that same one. I still remember my first day, being shown around the classroom, seeing where all the toys were and being shown which one was my locker. I had the one with the picture of the grapes on it. Chances are that if you were in Kindergarten at Haileybury you will remember which locker was yours. I know the guys who were in kinda with me can remember theirs.

I’ve done allot at Haileybury and I would never do anything differently. The next step it the exams. I don’t really want to think about them but there isn’t much chance of that happening. They start in a weeks time with english and they are all over for me by the 7th of november.

13
Sep

English Practice

By inlimelight 2 Comments
Categories: Friends, Haileybury and Work

Today I had my practice exam for english and I think I did really well, except for the part 2 question. I wrote on Inheritance and Citizen Kane. My essay on Kane was pretty good, however my Inheritance essay was pretty crap. I blabbed on about something and i don’t think i actually answered the question properly. From the sound of what people were saying afterwards there were others who didn’t do well over all because they couldn’t remember any of the characters names in any of the books they studied and the person sitting next to me finished in less than an hour with half a page for each section.

Earlier today was good, sort of. I had two classes and then triple spare after recess. There was also morning tea supplied by the school for those involved in Fame. It was nice to see Dwyer there and he also gave a thank-you speech to those involved in Dr. Pargetter’s memorial service.

I didn’t feel like doing much after recess today so I helped Jimmy pack the morning tea up then spent the rest of the time wandering around aimlessly. Matt said I was being too grumpy, but i just didn’t feel like throwing a water bottle around and listening to another Freudian style conversation.

Tonight I had another show to do for the school. Tonight’s one was the VCE dance trial performances. As usual i was on sound, with James L on lights and Liam filming it. I have yet another show this weekend doing sound for a dance performance an I have my sociology trial exam tomorrow. Wish me luck!

12
Sep

‘It’ Is On It’s Way

By inlimelight 0 Comments
Categories: Friends, Haileybury, Rant and Work

If your wondering what’s on its way then wonder no more… It’s Graduation. Today was the last properly structured school day for me and the rest of year 12 for ever. There are still other days of classes but not in the same way as todays ones. Todays ones followed the time table that I have had for the whole year, term 4’s classes and tomorrow’s time table are different to maximize revision time before the final exams. Graduation is just over a month away and i don’t know yet if I’m looking forward to it. I can’t wait till i graduate and never have to go to class’s for a long time but i don’t really want to leave school. It’s a difficult conundrum.

Speaking of exams, tomorrow afternoon I have my English practice exam. I’m hoping that i will do well, I don’t want to get in there and read the question and have no clue what they are talking about, especially with the part 2 essays. I hate those things. I also have practice exams in my other subjects over the next week. Sociology is going surprisingly well. I just got a SAC back on globalisation and got a 46/50 which was a surprise, i thought i was doing badly in that subject. Although that is only one section of the curriculum. Maths is a grey area… I am sick of the subject but the stuff in it is easy and there is no real reason why i couldn’t do well. Although i have noticed in my past few tests that, when I actually try and think about every answer i do worse than the tests where i would select the answer that looked closest to what was on my calculator. Theatre studies should be OK. In class today we went through the sample exam from VCAA and found that the section on stagecraft and the section on the two plays the we studied should be good. However there is still the first section, the one on acting. I can bluff my way through that section but it’s going to take allot of thought about what to actually write. Today i also had to hand in my final Theatre SAC. The quality of the work was terrible. I lost the criteria sheet ages ago and i didn’t actually understand what type of documentation i was supposed to put in the folio. As long as i get my ‘S’ for the subject then i have had some sort of success. Also yesterday was my practice solo. The Monologue is a really good one from ‘A journal of the Plague Year’. The performance was good from my point of view but Belly want “more”. So there is allot of work to do for my monologue.

While on a similar topic to exams. It was a busy day for me at school today with two events needing to be set up at once. In the hall was Haileybury’s version of “Thank God Your Here” and in Gym 1 & 2 there needed to be 900 or more exam tables set up. To make life easier for me ‘DJ OhNo’ (or what ever) set up the sound for TGYH while I was free to help Jimmy with the tables in the Gym. Now on the topic of TGYH i need to have a bitch about the organisation of school events run by students. They always manage to leave it till the last minute to tell us that they need 4 radio mics. They never give enough warning about what they need and they don’t understand the word “no”. The school doesn’t even have 4 radio mics. There is one that they can have at a moments notice and there are two that aren’t aloud to be used as they belong to the principles unit. They eventual ended up with all 3 somehow but i would have thought they would have learned their lesson the last time they asked for more than 1 radio mic.

Anyway enough of that. The exam tables was a massive job to get all of it done but thankfully there was the rest of the maintenance crew and Laura and James L to help. It took about 2 hours to get both gyms done and as usual Jimmy was thankful for the help and gave us our pay of food and drink. Once they were all setup i went to the music studio to grab the microphone and speaker, and when i got back i found that we had to turn every single desk in Gym 1 around 90 degrease because of a lack of communication. So i wasn’t in a particularly good mood this afternoon. After lunch i headed off to my last 2 classes which were uneventful. Matt and I had a conversation about who we reckoned would be the Valedictorians. We came to the conclusion that we didn’t have any clue who it would end up being.

While making my way home I made my traditional stop via the Hall, just to see what was happening and as usual there was nothing however i was annoyed to see the mess that was left at the sound desk. There was more food wrappers then what I am happy to see there and heaps of cables and equipment sitting there that should have been removed after TGYH. So i spent about 30 minuets cleaning it up before i went home and re-patching the desk after the mess that was made of it. For those people wonder why I don’t trust anyone using the equipment, its because they always leave it in a mess that I have to clean up.

Anyway, I’m off to watch ‘Summer Highest High’, Its probably the funniest show on ‘Free’ TV at the moment.
See you, Bye

18
Aug

Fame

By inlimelight 4 Comments
Categories: Friends, Haileybury and Work

Last night was the final night for this years school musical, fame. I have had allot of fun working on this production and many interesting things have happened. On opening night my car broke down on springvale road and when I got out of my car to see what had happened i got locked out. So i had the entire crew come running out with coat hangers to break me in. I was very surprised to see how easy it was and because i couldn’t drive forward i had to reverse back into the school. Also at the end of Act 1 I closed the curtain early. But it wasn’t as bed as people make it put to be! So other than that it was a good performance.

Night 2 was not particularly eventful. It was probably the best night overall but there is nothing really interesting to say about it. So onto the 3rd and final night. Its sad to think that last night was the last time I would be working and a school production as a student. I’ll have to come back next year as an ‘old boy’ so i wanted to make this one interesting. The show started and there wasn’t much happening. So Pant was telling me about the time he threw confetti from he roof and how Belly cracked the sad’s at him for it. So as i had a bag of confetti as a prop I decided to throw it during the final song with the help of James and Dale. So at then end I ran up to the roof with my confetti and during the last verse of the song we started throwing it down. The actors or audience or both went insane. They seemed to love it. So once the curtain had closed i ran down to find that belly actually liked it. I was really disappointed. I wanted to see him crack it.

Anyway we also gave out the presents at the end and the crew and I got all the staff who were involved with the tech’ side vests with ‘tech crew’ on it. Belly got one with ‘Director’ and Pant got ‘Venue Manager’.

The after party wasn’t very exciting. By about 1:00 the police had arrived because everyone was too loud and once I saw the second person burst into tears because someone was hooking up with someone else i decided to go home. However i did make off with the thing on the cake which said “congratulations Fame 2007″

17
Jun

“Don’t Worry, I’m Sure House Keeping Will Get It”

By inlimelight 0 Comments
Categories: Friends

I had an absolutely fantastic night. Last night I was at Matt’s birthday celebration. I arrived at the city at about 5:00 and went to the hotel room that Matt had organized. We were staying at the Crown Promenade. The room was nice but the mini bar was incredibly over priced. $5.00 for a bottle of water!

Anyway we headed down to the waterfront restaurant at about 6:30. The food there was really good. Although my $32.00 fish and chips wasn’t the best I’ve had. Now here is where it gets interesting. Neither, Matt, Pat or I had to pay the bill so this lead to us ordering as many drinks as we wanted. I spent the night with Jim Beam and Coke and Matt & Pat were both having beer. After about 5 drinks in, Matt was ordering more while he was still drinking the one he had just been given. This went on for at least 4 more rounds of drinks. Now he is very drunk. He is struggling to get around the table to get to the bathroom. And you should have seen him trying to get up the stairs, it was classic. So he gets back from the bathroom and his brother has ordered him a long island ice-tea. He only had 2 sips of that so Pat and I finished it off. They are a really good drink!

So Matt is now off his face and we had to at least try and get him to act sober before we try and get into the casino. So we take him for a walk and give him heaps of water and after about an hour of walking he somehow convinced security that he was sober. Although if he had even opened his mouth to say anything while they were checking ID he would have been gone. There would have been no way he would have gotten in.

Anyway while in the casino Matt had no idea where he was. To him it was all bright lights. He eventually he ends up at a Poker machine, and he eventually wins around $50 but because he was so drunk he kept putting it back in the machine so he only made $7. Now here’s where the night comes to an end. At around 2:30 am he runs out the casino, and throws up all over the floor! This wasn’t outside, Matt thought it was but it wasn’t. It was in the foyer section with all the restaurants around. I ask him if he’s ok and he says to me. “Don’t worry, I’m sure house keeping will get it”

Once he was done I had to take him back to the hotel room. when we got back he pretty much passed out on the bed. All in all it was a fantastic evening and matt was incredibly funny.

“your only 18 once”