| Current mood: |  excited |
| Current music: | Alice Cooper - School's Out |
| Entry tags: | prizegiving |
It's over
I have finished school. It's over. Except exams. Tonight is leavers dinner, which sounds really cool. There are going to be a whole lot of speeches by teachers and stuff. I got a new dress for it. It's red and black and swishy. And new shoes, with little heels and no backs. They don't stay on my feet properly so I have to stick my heels to them with double sided tape in order to be able to walk.
Last night was prizegiving. It was mostly really boring.
Amir gave the most ludicrously pretentious speech I have ever heard, full of big words and earning immortality, with over a minute in maori at the beginning. He kept pausing during the Maori bit and I thought he was going to start speaking English, but then off he'd go again in Maori. I was ridiculous. He's Iranian. He has no connection with Maori culture. He was just showing off how smart he is.
Michael Ridder played a guitar piece called 'Michael Michael Michael'. Ok, he's really conceited. He's also an extremely good guitar player, though. It was incredible.
Now to prizes:
Natalie: Service to the Library
Graduation with honours
Christina: Distinction in Accounting
Graduation with honours
Michelle: Distinction in English
Graduation (she didn't take enough subjects for honours)
Me: High Distinction English
Distinction History
Service to the Library
Graduation with honours
and *drumroll* The Beatrice Fraser Memorial for Scholastic Ability, School Interests and Personality.
Haha I got a personality award. That was the shock of a lifetime. I'm not actually sure what I did to deserve it. Maybe it pays to always be polite to teachers. There were only seven people after me to get awards, so I had to wait for ages and there were all these people getting big awards. I was going "Oh my God, what am I getting, I didn't do that well this year, I hope they haven't made a mistake." But then I went on stage and collected my 5 certificates, medal, and mysterious white envelope that turned out to contain a cheque for $80. Score. It was a good night.
Kadin got Proxime Accestit (runner up to dux, and I think I spelt it wrong). Amir and Luke were joint dux. Didn't see that one coming. I thought there would be dux and joint runner up. At least Amir didn't get it on his own. But I thought, Rats, If I'd studied a little bit harder before the school exams (or at all) I would have beaten Amir in history and he wouldn't have been dux. But, can't change that now. Amir and Luke both got high distinction (top of the year) in all their subjects.
Oh and I got excellence for my seminar for English! Shocking.
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