Don't forget that when you finish Trials you want to watch a few things:

1. Ballet Shoes: with Emma Watson in it.

2. Harry Potter at the movies

3. Aristocats

4. Mulan

Things I Want

Dresses. 

Nude lipstick, and use nude/sparkly lip gloss over the top.

Tree of life and new Berlei ad on tv. Need printed skirts, flowy, flowery.

xcrashgirlx:

Why is it so easy to write midnight letters to people who will never read them? I’ll fill 1000 notebooks this way…

unsentletters - oh, how i do this in my mind constantly. i just never write any of them down. and all the words linger in my conscious and unconscious.

♥ travelling ♥ flying ♥ airplanes ♥ airports ♥ maps ♥ ocean ♥ floating ♥ swimming ♥ waterfalls ♥ music ♥ food ♥ languages ♥ movies ♥ coffee ♥ post-its ♥ cocoa ♥ photos ♥ reading ♥ beach ♥ sun ♥ sand ♥ trees ♥ Travel Channel ♥ tea ♥ baklava ♥ hammocks ♥ chai latte ♥ colors ♥ gelato ♥ bags ♥ curly hair ♥ moleskines ♥ fashion magazines ♥ Animal Planet ♥ jumping in elevators ♥ fresh fruits ♥ chocolate ♥ cotton candy ♥ scarfs ♥ shoes ♥ dresses ♥ men in suits ♥ accents ♥ sleeping ♥ bikinis ♥ dreaming ♥ cheeses ♥ iced latte ♥ shoeboxes ♥

“ My stranger on a train. I make up stories about you as we click-clack across the city, pulses of blood along veins of industry and commerce. One huge beating, pumping city and you and I are single celled. Red blood going in. Blue blood coming out at 5:30pm. How was your day? Do you enjoy what you do? Do you pretend to enjoy what you do? Who do you love? Do they kiss the sweat from your forehead? Do they whisper in your ear? How do you take your coffee?

This is my stop. I’ll see you tomorrow.

— I Wrote This For You

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough

— William Saroyan

A.C. Crispin: 6 ways to increase your writing productivity

1. Write something EVERY DAY.

2. NEVER end your writing for the day by completing a scene or a chapter.

3. When you’re feeling unsure about what to do next, RE-READ and EDIT.

4. If you’re genuinely blocked, delete the last five pages of your story and then rewrite them, polishing and editing as you go.

5. Review your synopsis.

6. Go elsewhere to write (coffeeshop, library, etc.).

i hate shoes, too. i’d rather be barefoot. one summer, my cousin and i stayed up at her mom’s cabin in northern california in the woods. we ran around for three months with no shoes on. we called it having “country feet”; where you got so tough that you couldn’t even feel it when you stepped on sharp rocks. i miss her. that summer was fun. :D

12th July - 17th July

There's so much to do over the next week, before Getaway at 4pm on Friday the 17th of July. My brother isn't at home, so I have some peace and quiet. I haven't been out a lot last week, just to go to study classes, I even worked on the days I'd given myself off.

Over the next week I want to have done:

- Two essays for Ancient NK (Building programs and Impact of empire)

- Practice economics definitions (using cards) 

- Economics: Have done Topic 3 Notes

- Watched Northanger Abbey on youtube

- Modern: Done an essay for Germany 

- Modern: Leni practice questions

- Religion: Environmental ethics question for assessment

- Ext English: Analysed Anne Bronte poem

- Ext English: Planned essay nature question

- Read Wag the Dog booklet

- Modern: Read the stuff Mrs King gave you

Trials Holidays!

TRIALS START ON THE 10th of AUGUST!

• Watch all the things you taped in the last four weeks of term
• Underbelly
• Nan's for a week (go up on Tuesday after work and come back in time to do work on Saturday afternoon)
• Getaway (4 pm 17th to 4pm 19th of July)
• Eels/Bulldogs in the last week on holidays (Saturday 25th July)
• English - Hamlet quote quest 
• State of Origin and Harry Potter (15th of July)
• Wallabies Fan Day and Bruno (9th of July)
• Try walk down the Cascades once every two days
• Go to spotlight (ribbon, material - maybe get some samples if you can)
• Go to second hand book shop (one in Hornsby and one in Gordon)
• Go formal dress shopping
• Organise ice skating
• Do some artwork
• Bake more cupcakes- some for the study days? 
• Read: P.S. I Love You, Something Borrowed (the first one to Something Blue), finish Northanger Abbey, more of Mysteries of Udolpho, My Sister's Keeper, Love & Relationships (the book that Kat leant you, perhaps bring it to Getaway). 

School Work Stuff

• Have essay plans done for all subjects
• Catch up on Germany Modern work- make some posters, timelines, little bio's for important people (perhaps on palm cards)
• Complete some of these essay plans (ones you might struggle with)
• Learn Balance of Payments!
• Focus on subjects in order of importance: Economics, Modern, English, Ancient, English Extension, History Extension and Religion. 
• Have English Wag the Dog work completed (and watch it on youtube)
• Have the practice Paper 1 and Paper 2 done for English, try do them in the time period given, 40 minutes (Mrs Collins can mark them when you get back to school)
• Watch Northanger Abbey on youtube
  
• Edassist - Economics (16th of July)
• Write out some of the questions from those small Economics books
• Finish Religion assignment
• Do activities from all the religion booklets you were given. Read + highlight information and answer any questions, do a glossary.
• Do glossaries for Economics
• Do CSSA past papers

Today was the second day back at school. It's the second term of this year, but the third term of Year 12. I didn't even realise that we were half way there until someone told me a couple of days ago! It's amazing, time really does fly. 

This term I want to accomplish a few things:

1. No ipod when you turn your bedside light off. This might sound a bit weird, but I always listen to my ipod when my lights out and I'm meant to be sleeping, and it keeps me up so late. So I want to stop this in order to get as much sleep as possible.

2. Biblestudies every week. Lately I've been giving it up, and I shouldn't be doing that, these people love me and in return I should be loving them to show my support to them during this tough year for everyone. 

3. No spending. I'm currently trying to save for a trip to the south island of New Zealand and an 11 day mission to Vanuatu. I'm not sure I'm going to have enough money, so I want to completely stop spending. I'm sure I can do this, it's mostly in the holidays that I spend my money and I don't think I'll be doing that next holidays because it's just before the trials. I think I'll be indoors studying most of the time. 

4. Be on time for all extension morning classes. I'm so lazy and I always seem to be at least 15 minutes late each time and it's rather embarrassing seeing as I live so close to the school. Must make sure I GET UP at exactly 7:00.

5. Stick to the History Extension Project timetable I've given myself. This will make your life a whole lot easier. 

6. Don't leave everything until the last minute! Granted some things are going to need every bit of time until it's due but not everything has to be like this. Make sure you have a couple of days for the big assessments just to read over it with a fresh pair of eyes and make changes. 

7. Participate more in class, with more questions. Don't be afraid - it's your HSC. Do you want to get to London with better job opportunities, pay and earlier (early 2013) or for it to be harder to find a job, less pay and later (early 2014 or 2015)? 

8. Be an Open Day guide for something they can put on your reference thing. It will look a lot better than nothing. Shows your proud of school and your education. 

Writing all that has made me realise I should do a bit more homework/study tonight, so I'm off now. Will write about the HSC Timetable later. xo

Drawing to a Close

It's the last day of holidays tomorrow and I just wanted to see how much I had accomplished on my list of things I wanted to do.

Incomplete

Finished

Started, but didn't finish
1. Finish Modern essay on Nazi's: I spent a few days working on this, but in the end I don't think I even finished researching properly. I'm hoping to start the logbook tomorrow. 

2. Found and written notes on the sources for Ancient Oral

3. Read 'Mysteries of Udolpho': I read the first few pages and gave up, so I'm not even putting this as green. 

4. Write some practice essays for EEXT

5. Finish researching Rasputin: I worked on it, but didn't finish researching. Hopefully continue to research tonight and tomorrow. 

6. Write a second draft on HEXT Project: Was focused on finishing the research, and not writing in sentences. 

7. Revise Balance of Payments

8. Do some of the "revision" questions in the Economics text books to revise the two chapters you've done

9. Write out the essays and practice short answer questions from the "Model Answer Series"

10. Come up with a new creative writing story for Belonging: I'm hoping to do this tomorrow, or at least in the first week of school. Even if it's just a plan.

11. Write another essay for Belonging

12. Do all of Pompeii and Herculaneum past papers

13. Re-do essay from the Half-Yearlies on Role of the Pharaoh

14. Practice essay on the Hyksos

15. Write Egyptian notes under syllabus headings

16. Re-do essay on Treaty of Versailles from Half-Yearlies

17. Re-do World War One section, using the markers notes

18. Write EEXT speech into an essay form

19. Draw up a table for the belonging essay plan: I'm hoping to do this in the first week back at school, when there isn't a lot of homework. I've written it on my to-do list. 

20. Re-do Inequalities and Types of Development essay from Half-Yearlies

21. Do the essay on globalisation from the Half-Yearlies

22. Be up to date on logbook

23. Watch Hamlet DVD

Pretty sad, actually. If all goes well I hope to have all of these completed in the first two weeks back at school, except for a few things, which were always going to be a bit stretched.