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Mood: Giddy.
Music: Arithmetic - Brooke Fraser.
I know you lovely stalkers of mine want to know how the heck I've been these last 2 weeks. Well, after the Half Yearlies were over rover, I'm pretty sure it's safe to say that no one in my grade was bothered to focus at school. Camp was 2 days away so what was the point, right? So that Monday and Tuesday was a total bludge, don't even remember what I done. I do recall buying last minute camp essentials on the Tuesday.
I was going to detail every single aspect of camp but figured that y'all can just head over to Chrissy's or Rowena's blogs and read their entries. In a nutshell, Crossroads camp was tiring, exciting, fun, full of hot instructors but overall it was a fantastic experience. There was much to take from Crossroads, and it wasn't just a whole luggage bag of muddy clothes. Camp sets the perfect environment to create new bonds and strengthen old ones (I think I took that line from some other camp motto). At camp I was able to talk to my girlfriends about things I've been holding back on and I also found out things I never knew about others. I should also mention the awesome Karaoke + Disco night, that went off! I believe that my year group is just awesome, everyone had a go at singing and everyone had a go on the dance floor! Despite the disgusting camp food, I was in high spirits each and everyday in preparation of the daily activities. Okay, I said I wouldn't ramble about camp but I think I already have. All in all, those 3 days were an experience to remember and I thoroughly enjoyed them all.
Post-camp mood is always groggy and yuck, and believe it or not I took quite some time to re-adjust to civilisation. Of course I jumped on my computer straight away but everything else was left alone. Not to say that I haven't taken anything from camp. I now have a greater appreciation towards my clean bathroom, my mother's delicious home cooked meals and the abundant source of energy I have access to. (Oh yes, on one of the camp nights there were black outs cos all the girls were using their hair straighteners/ blow dryers and I was in the shower when the energy failed. I stood in the freezing cold, naked with shampoo in my hair for an eternity before the lights turned back on.)
I wasn't really active the following long weekend. I'm pretty sure I caught up on all the sleep I missed out on camp due to midnight cabin conversations. That felt mighty fine! As Public Holiday Monday came to an end, I dreaded the thought of school. But Tuesday turned out to be a really good day. Fantastic day, I must say. It started off with Modern History, which was a bit of a bore since we have this student teacher teaching us about Cuba. She's a bit inexperienced judging by her teaching methods but the topic is really interesting. Raise your hands if you've heard of Che Guevara? Yeah, thats right, ALL OF YOU! Well, I haven't got up to the part where he comes in yet but the history of Cuba alone is v. interesting.
I received my half yearly mark for Modern back today, and I'm a bit disappointed. But I realise I shouldn't have had high expectations if I didn't give it my best shot i.e. studying properly. I've really got to start pulling up my socks! (Deja vu.) I keep finding myself waiting for something to motivate me when in the end, I should be motivating myself. It's all within me, I've just got to realise my true potential. Yeah, I'm really good at saying positive stuff but I find it hard to practice what I preach. It's something I've been keeping at the back of mind: to not be a hypocrite, be mindful of what I'm saying and to be aware. All this stuff isn't just coming from my Modern History result, it's been an issue for quite some time now. I'm always saying things before I really think about the consequences and it always lands me into messy piles of doo-doo. So hopefully, by articulating my thoughts and releasing them into the world wide web, I'm hoping I could tackle this blabbermouth issue of mine :)
Enough of bad habits, a quality I'd like to adopt is directly linked to the Art of Complimenting. My Tuesday was fantastic because I felt really great all day. At Recess, after that 'Cuban' Modern Hist. lesson, Chrissy pulled me aside to compliment me on my personality. I was taken aback by how thoughtful an act it was to just compliment someone out of nowhere. All this time she was mindful of how I've been treating her and she decided to verbalise her appreciation. It really really made my day Chrissy, thank you once again! It's so lame, but I'm always 'forgetting' to compliment people. I'm often thinking of how great someone looks or how amazing they are but I never really tell them. I think it's time I stop being the blabbermouth and start being the genuine complimenter :) (Because fake compliments are as bad as bad comments!) Chrissy also set a task to all her blog readers to compliment the next person they see. I'm going to take that task up a notch and try to compliment everyone I see.
There's so much more I have to say, but I think there were enough lessons in today's blog entry:
1. Make the most of any camp you go on and open up your heart there.
2. The home you live in now is 100000000000x better than the conditions I had at camp. So app-re-ci-ate.
3. Motivation comes from within.
4. A simple compliment can really make someone smile all day!
I've been meaning to watch Wicker Park and Pulp Fiction for some time now, so I'm off to watch those 2 movies!
You know you missed me,
xoxo
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