New Thing #25: It's official - I'm Old

  I may still be in my mid-teens but I sure feel old. Today I started year 11 (the Australian version of junior year) and since I am now in the "senior" group at school I am feeling not only special but slightly (only just, but still) ancient. This wasn't helped by the fact that my little sister started year 8 at my high school today and she's three years younger than me!

  Because our year 11 and 12 are about preparing you for your final exams (used for university entrance), my school day was a blur of course outlines, marks, assessment weighting/scaling and Curriculum Council stuff (the CC is the Australian board that sets the entire curriculum for years 11 and 12). It got to the point where I felt everything is going in one ear and out the other....

  And not only is today the first day, but:

1. I'm back to my usual perfectionist, over-achieving self who crams as much as possible into each day. it all starts tomorrow, with early morning library session before school, school, saxophone quartet rehearsal, year assembly and then work. So much for me taking a step away from that sort of schedule this year...
2. I already have homework.

  I have to go as last night I had five hours sleep (I had to back up my school laptop and everything along those lines so I got to bed at 1-30am and had choir so I woke up at 6-15).

  kwaheri*



  *goodbye in Swahili, mainly on the basis that I like saying the word "Swahili" (yes, I know I have no life and am slightly sad)