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20
May

Busy

By inlimelight 1 Comment
Categories: TAFE and Work

It’s been ages since I posted anything and thats basically because I’ve been so busy and too tired to bother. But, in the past weeks I have quit my Job at Video Ezy, thank god. I quit because I finally got a new job at Haileybury.

TAFE has also been going well, there have been a heap of daily projects which have been… Interesting. It is a pain when you have a class of twenty four students all wanting to rig the one fresnel and no one wanting to do the documentation side of the project. Over all I’d say TAFE is allot of fun, with “smoko” breaks that last for fifteen minutes, and we have them every forty minutes and the actual hands on work that we get to do makes it worth showing up to class.

I’ve also been getting allot of work through the course. Lately there has been an average of two shows per week that i have been involved in. I still have a couple coming up soon too. I have also already gone over the minimum number of work placement hours that I am required to get in order for me to pass the course. So at least that is out of the way.

Last week was also the final week of Haileybury’s school play, Metamorphosis. It was a really good play, that looked fantastic with the pool of water on stage. However… it was allot of cleaning up to do each night. Pumping out the 1000L of water at the end of each performance is rather tiring.

06
Apr

Holiday Break

By inlimelight 4 Comments
Categories: Haileybury, Holiday, TAFE and Work

On Tuesday it will be time for me to go back to TAFE after an interesting break. I’ve had two weeks off but for some reason it feels like it’s been a month.

The first week I took the opportunity to relax and catch up with everyone who I hadn’t seen in quite a while. That week I had seen more of everyone than I had in the past three months. A full time TAFE course will do that to your social life. But it has been the second week that seems to have lasted the longest time, which has been good.

I’ve spent the past week working at Haileybury, filling in for one of the Facilities staff while they take some time off. So I’ve been moving furniture around and setting up functions which is much more satisfying work than what I do at my other place of employment.

The week was made even more interesting with the hoax bomb threat on April Fools Day. A student had sent an email to the entire school, students and staff at all 3 campuses. Despite the email being said to be an “obvious joke” all three campuses were evacuated. With the police copter flying overhead, so it was taken very seriously.

In other news, if all goes to plan I’ll have a new job soon. I’ve applied and I am waiting to see what happens now. So I will hopefully be able to quit my other job soon, which I have been wanting to do for about six months now, I’ve just been waiting for something else to give me an income.

18
Oct

A Long Day

By inlimelight 2 Comments
Categories: Haileybury and Work

You are probably already aware of this but for me today was a long day however there still is never enough time to do everything. I arrived at school at 7:30 a.m. to set up speech night, which is tomorrow. I was also wanting to see Taranto’s reaction when he went into his office because some year 12’s filled it up with balloons the night before. Unfortunately he didn’t actually show up today so hopefully he is in tomorrow. After that waist of time i went to the Cafe and helped the lady who works there bring all the tables and chairs out side. I saw her struggling so it would have been mean of me to keep walking past. I did get a free coffee for my work though. Then i headed to the hall to set up chairs for speech night, 30 VIP chairs, 104 staff seats, seats for the orchestra, 1 table with the extension attached and 6 flags with bases and yesterday, with help from Sando we moved the first row of rises back onto the stage.

Once that was done, down to the lecture theatre I went, to set up an exam for 32 students, once again Sando helped out and so did Jimmy. Then came Pay time. I felt i had earned my box of Pizza Shapes and can of Solo.

By now the bell was about to go for session two so had to go to maths, which was alright, it was a rather productive session. However people were getting hungry and i had my shapes and was nice enough to share them, except with Steve, he was annoying me.

As the time-table would have us believe, recess came after maths which meant that now I had to go back to work and start doing the light for tomorrow. So with James L’s help I focussed, patched and did some of the programing for tomorrow. There wasn’t enough time for all this to happen during recess so i decided to skip english and as I have an english tutor, what ever i didn’t learn in class today i will probably learn later on this week and forget the week after.

During lunch, Pant, Belly and I planed the girls graduation in the Chapel, the biggest hurdle, but not really that big, was working out where to put the sound equipment. But thats all sorted now and there is a good chance that the judge will be heard.

After lunch i decided to skip Sociology, I don’t really like that subject anyway and we were only doing private study, which for me is looking blankly at a book for half an hour and then turning the page. In this time I hung some lights for the year 12 review which is this monday and then hung a microphone from the roof to record the orchestra. I then sat and relaxed listening to the radio in the hall for twenty minutes before heading to Theatre.

Theatre was uneventful but still useful for the exam but by now I was just too tired to care. But the work was still not done, I stayed back after school finishing the majority of the lights for the Year 12 Review and it looks pretty good, but its not finished and i don’t know when I’m going to have enough time to finish it. By 5:00 p.m. i could do no more so went to the library and talked with Matt for a while.

To recap on the days events… today I:
- Set up the stage for speech night
- Set up an exam
- Set up lights for speech night
- Planned girls graduation setup
- Fed my Maths class
- Skipped 2 classes
- Went to 2 classes
- Worked on lights for Year 12 Review
- Worked on sound for Speech night
- Set up tables and chairs in the Cafe
- and probably only 40 minutes of relaxing today.

There is still allot to do in the next few days. Tomorrows speech night, two graduations, year 9 speech night, Valedictory dinner, year 12 review, Sports Pres’ night, Back to Castlefield day and OHA lunch.

Its scary to think that with so much happening, I finish my schooling in less than one week.

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

08
Sep

So Much Cake

By inlimelight 1 Comment
Categories: Haileybury and Work

It’s been ages since I last posted anything and that is simply because so much has been happening lately. Last week I finally completed my last SAC for English, Maths and Sociology. School has been full on over the past month because of SAC’s and practice exams next week also there is approximately four school weeks until graduation and speech nights. My car is once again alive and there are no signs of it dying again anytime soon but i still don’t trust it. I Have also put in my preferences for Uni and TAFE for next year. There was allot of Drama when I was trying to do it, i don’t think my parents like the idea of me putting a TAFE as my first preference.

Also last night I was at Berwick for the middle school battle of the bands to do some sound with Ash. I hate jr. school events. There is always a demanding teacher there who doesn’t understand anything and they always run overtime. The actual show was boring how ever we did load almost everything into my car at the end of the night… You can fit quite allot in the boot of my car.

And today was Dr. Pargetter memorial service. It took about 2 weeks to get it all set up and had a massive budget. There was an audio and video feed to the chapel and an audio feed to the quad and gym. There was about 200m of cable running through the trees. There was also allot of effort made making sure every little detail was perfect. The cleaners were even washing the walls and washing the sides of the chairs in the hall. Unfortunately the school overestimated the amount of people coming and the chapel wasn’t even used and everyone was able to fit into the hall. Belly however was stressing out. He was getting Monkey to give me the lighting cues even though i had already done it. After the actual event I unloaded all the equipment from Berwick and hung around to pack up anything else that needed to be done. After packing up we went to grab any food that was left over from the official party’s lunch… there was allot of cake and drink… so much that people were taking plates home with them.

20
Aug

IT’s All Gone

By inlimelight 2 Comments
Categories: Haileybury, Uncategorized and Work

Today was another day of bumping out fame from school and its all removed from the stage now so there doesn’t seem to be any chance of there being another performance any time soon. It was all gone within half the day which is a shame but that is the life of a production. It was also cool to see everyone wearing their vest today.

In other news i got a new phone after my old one went through the wash, so i am now going around getting people’s phone numbers but i still have the same phone number. I got a Sony Ericsson K610i. I’m happy with it so far and it’s not as bulky as my old one but there is nothing outstanding about it. Also my car has shat itself again. This time it happened to my Dad while he was down at Safeway.

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″

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