Anyone who doesn't know me that well is going to be thrown in at the deep end with this blog, cause I suck at introductions, and I also really don't see the point of them, as in real life you get told someone's name and then you both get on with things and gradually get to know each other. However, I'll give you a few lines to get you started. :)
I'm Cate, I'm 16 years old, and I live in Ireland. I live with my parents, my younger brother Andy, who is 15 and my younger sister Debz, who is 13. I love books and my piano, whom I fondly call Jordy.
Anyyywhoo. Today was my school's 20th birthday. It was also, coincidentally, our annual Prize-Giving Ceremony. In our school, this is the single most serious day of the year. The only thing I've seen the teachers simultaneously fret over is the General Inspection that happens once every five years or so. It's pretty much all pomp and ceremony, and I am forced to attend because I sing alto for our Senior Choir (but I get excused from classes all day for rehearsals, yay!)
Normally, it's terrible (the ceremony, not the choir) but this year it was really... not bad. I mean, there were all the long speeches as usual, but they were significantly less boring. The first principal was there, and he wore the very first tie that had ever been made for our school. For a history geek like me, that was rather exciting.
Every year, there is one kid in junior school who wins all the prizes for their year, but by the time they get to middle school and senior school they're limited to how many subject prizes they can receive. In the year above me, it's a girl called Bianca. In my year, it's a girl called Sarah. This year, it was a guy called Dale, who actually won like, 11 prizes. It's quite funny after you get to the 6th or 7th prize and the audience starts saying the name along with the VP.
Three of my friends won prizes too, my best friend at school Lauren won one for an asthma project she did, and Shannen and Stéphie won one between them for Instrumental Contribution. It was good to see Shannen and Stéphie again, as they moved to Manchester in England 4 months ago, and I hadn't seen them since the end of summer.
The best bit for me, however, was the "Academic Procession". This is where all the teachers get to wear their robes (black for normal degrees, red for doctorates) with the coloured ribbons on the hoods to show what degrees they've done. You can tell it makes some teachers feel the bees knees, cause as they walk out they have this huge grin on their face and they're fiddling with the robe.
I hung about with Lauren and her siblings Rachelle and David, and Shannen and Stéphie and their brothers Nathan and Aaron, and Nathan's friend Peter afterwards. The guys all ate loooooads of sausage rolls and buns, and us girls discussed how you can arrange Winter Wonderland into a swing piece for a woodwind group. (Lauren and Shannen play flute, and Stéphie plays oboe. I play piano but just like arranging music, especially into swing or jazz pieces) It was all good fun.
When I got home, I had a package from my boyfriend Jon, who lives in England. It was a huge chocolate bar. I am a chocoholic, and I'm resisting the temptation not to scoff it all at once. I also went to help out at the local Kidz Klub. It's a blast. We sing loads of songs and play loads of games and are really tired at the end, but it's so worth it for the kids. :) So I'm just home from that, and I'm probably gonna go to sleep now, even though it's only 9pm, I'm wrecked.
Thought for the day: Nothing is impossible for the mind to acheive.
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