"So, do you like anyone?"

It's 4.30pm. The school is strangely silent.

Strange because I've never known a school that emptied out before 6pm.

Stranger because I am having a first really girly girl conversation with a girl from Dandenong('And no. We do not have sex on toilets in Dandenong.' she confides) that stems from being in a co-ed school.

"Er," I say, treading into unfamiliar territory, "No?"

She is skeptical. "Really? I won't tell anyone if you tell."

"I was in a girl school for 10 years," I say defensively.

"I'm kinda..." fishing around for the right phrases to describe a total lack of social communication with boys when I realised there were none. "Out of practice."I finished lamely

Skepticism melts into a mixture of pity and amusement. "Out of practice?"

I shift uncomfortably in my seat.

"Well, dating is the Australian past time," she pauses, "Well not the Australian past time but it's fun."

Incredulous looks all round

She merely shrugs,"You'll see.There is nothing to do on weekends."

Biology Class(some weeks ago)

Random Guy beside me is Random: Did you know that the male angler fish bites into a female angler fish and fuses with it when they are ready to mate?

Rest of the Class: Wtf?

Random Guy beside me: Yeah, it releases enzymes to digest the skin of the female angler fish and fuses with it.

Me:Where the hell do you get this stuff?

I keep wanting to blog properly (with photoshop and everything) but I can't seem to find the time to work on it because of all the other things that have has been happening.

So, onwards to categorizing.

Schoolwise
Because everyone else is doing it.

Here are the subjects I'm taking: English, Math,Chinese,Biology,Media ,Economics.

I am basically been bamboozled by new things.

The campus is single storied so you move from block to block for class.

I have a yellow locker.

I have Media in a TV studio which is v.cool.

Teacherswise

Teachers are awesome.

First day of school and my Chinese teacher gave sweets if you answered correctly, the English teacher launched into a vivid description of how she would squish a student who was not listening like a bug and the Media teacher had us draw teddy bears.(she is also deaf in one ear and thus has the world perfect reason as to why only one person should talk in her presence)

Peoplewise

Suffered from severe hair envy. As such, uttered the immortal line of "Is that your natural hair colour?"

Lots of happy shiny people. I want to be happy shiny too but massive fails with tendency to end every alternate sentence with "wow".

Met a cool girl from Shang Hai who has come to Austalia to escape the China school system. Another girl who has ridiculously straight hair (WHY DOESN'T MINE DO THAT) who seems so far to be the epitome of school spirit. She also likes to play MMORPG which seems to be particularly popular because some of the most frequent questions I face after people realise I'm from Singapore is "Do you play WoW?" oh that and "Whereabouts in China?"

Boys are strange but fun in a class.

Economics(a discussion on how eating less meat would save lives in underdeveloped country)

Teacher: So would you cut down on meat intake because might save your friend's life -insert name here-

Boy at the back of the class:-considering- No, because he's just a statistic to me.

Yeah.

Settlinginwise
All the boxes are finally unpacked.

HUZZAH!

Weatherwise
If summer is raging temperatures of 45 degrees and then lows of 19 degrees I don't really want to know what Winter brings.

Otherwise

Taken from:Childhood Flames

This picture has inspired me to grow out my hair because everyone deserves effortless chic.

Onward hair!

Being away from the internet and trying to catch up is not the best idea in the world.

I'm going to try anyway because I've all this blog post scribbled in this note book. Although the thing about writing things down is that you never want to let the world to see them on hindsight.

I spent my first week in school most probably in a shell-shocked daze. Partly because I couldn't figure out where my class rooms and also because being plucked from an (almost) entirely chinese community to a place with pretty hair colours can be unnerving.

Oh and the 2:1 boygirl ratio has also completely derailed me.(I don't get half the things that boys do, I mean is it normal that you throw things on the roof to see if it will cave in?)

Doing catch up on blog reading was fun.

An open letter:

Dear Everyone,

Just how are things going on back in the JCs?

Love Beverly

Answer because I'm seriously curious at what I'm missing out. Or not.

There will be photos, to the minute scribbles and maybe a bit of nostalgia as February closes as the 'Catch-Up' month.

Edit/I'm sure most of you have heard of the Victorian Bush Fires. It is as devastating and it is still burning. I'm not sure if you would be able to understand if you weren't there but on the day on the bush fires, the wind that blew was oven hot. The horizon was ominous, red in some places and a death grey in others.

If you can (get your parent's permission) the Australian Red Cross still needs donations to help with the bushfire victims.

Well wishes to everyone who is on the cusp of starting actual lessons.

Hell knows we'll need it.

A brilliant conversation

"Hey"

"Hey"

"What's your name?"

"Robert"

"I'm Beverly"

"Hey"

"Hey"