Saturday 3 December 2011

Under the Weather

GOOD DAY ALL.

Long time no updates aye. I have just been that busy with essays, portfolios, presentations and stuff. It has been a long 3 weeks.

So, what has happened? Damn. Seems like nothing’s happened and same time like so much has happened. The only good points I seem to remember were rugby practice and… yeap that’s it. Kamau and I combined epically yet again to set up tries between us each week.

We’ve basically had 2 weeks of thunderstorms. I think of the past 14 days, we’ve had at least 8 lightning storms. Kyle, Raymos and I sprinted from the cafeteria to our hostel (no short distance- about 400 metres at least I think) in the middle of a thunder/lightning storm. It was epic, funny and scary. It felt like a lord of the rings sequence or something. It was also probably a little dangerous. But we had work to do. Our lives are not as important as our homework obviously. Hahaha. But honestly, do you think teachers will accept ‘stuck because of the lightning’ as an excuse?


Leavers party

Sometimes it feels like our life is based on school work and examinations doesn’t it? Are exams that good a way of evaluating us anyways? Is it really possible to reflect 2 years (730 days and nights or 731 on a leap year) in just 3 hours or less? I think this is really stupid. At least, I think unlimited time should be given for papers. Think about this. The point of exams is to find out how much we know. Not how much we know in 3 hours and under immense pressure. We should be able to show how much we know altogether. Unlimited time. Agree? Also, I think exams are not a great reflection on how much we know, it is a reflection on how well we can cram/how well we can study. Just saying.

Just to give a good reflection of lightning storms here: I was standing at the window of my room in the middle of one, and decided to count the number of strikes a minute. (If you don’t know me well you should know I do things like this). I counted the number of strikes in 5 different minutes. The number of each minute was 17, 21, 16, 25, 22. That’s more than 20 a minute on average. Or one every three seconds. And remember, most of these were forked lighting, down to the ground (not always on campus though). Ok, obviously the one we sprinted through was not this intense. We’re not THAT crazy! When its not a thunder storm at night its depressing fog.

Who agrees with me? There is NOTHING wrong with going to sleep at 4:30pm and being woken up at 10:30pm to check into boys hostel, then going back to sleep again. It’s a free world right? J If Emily decides to bang on my door and I don’t hear it, how can you blame me?
Tiredness... happens


The last two weeks has been maths portfolio week. We had an interesting maths project, with which we basically have to prove stuff, make up formulas and come up with mathematical conjectures and stuff on a topic. The feeling of getting rid of it handing it is so liberating it is hard to describe. Wow. We were like French snails- continually stressed!

Our second years have left the hostel. They are done with their IB. We will miss them (or will we? Sometimes I think the unpleasant truth no one admits is that we will simply forget them). Hostel is unnervingly quiet now.

Mats Portfolio... isn't it beautiful?
Guess what? I am finally a First Aider! The test was the most informal thing ever. Especially since the supervisor gave us some answers! But yeah. Cool aye? Now we can try out even more life-threatening stuff at home!  This DOESN’T mean you can start having near death experiences around me now ok? (Though near death experiences make cool stories afterward)

Eish, this Swazi economy is kallas. No paisa left. The government can’t even pay its own civil servants. Someone told me they were about to print more money. If that is true this place might turn into a new Zimbabwe! (and I am taking my money out of this country!) Even our school is too scared to keep its money in Swaziland. I guess this is what happens in monarchies. But I heard a very interesting quote about democracy the other day. Not that I agree with it (and don’t let it spread around Fiji- we already seem to have enough trouble grasping democracy) “Democracy can be two wolves and a sheep deciding on dinner” Hmmm. Food for thought much?

Table tango. Yeap. It exists. Dancing on a small a space as possible (on a table). Tests your turning skills and balance. It’s quite fun. Speaking on tango, we re-did the performance in front of cameras, so now we should shortly be getting a pretty cool (and edited!) video!

(yay)
All right. Time to go. Sevens season starts this week. Come on Fiji! Thanks for the last title. You really, REALLY made my week. Particularly beating the ABs in the final.

Not everything we do has a point. Sometimes it’s just fun. :)

DKN