Pinch and a punch...

Yep, a new month again. I haven't really had much time to blog of late... how sad.
But now it's a lovely Friday night, and what better to do than to blog?
So I've started riding a bit more, and competed twice last week. I did the MHPC official dressage day, and the secondary schools dressage and hacking comp. At the dressage day, I placed 7th overall, and was beaten by my little sister by 2% and two places in both tests. How humbling... lol
But she's been riding more than I've been, so she deserved it.
At the schools comp, Bonza looked gorgeous, but was an absolute brat. In my dressage, we halted at C, in front of the judges. When it was time to walk on again, Bonza blatantly refused to move. Talk about frustrating! And I couldn't even verbally encourage him to move without risk of disqualification... So I encouraged him with my whip...lol I don't like using the whip though. I usually just carry it to scare him into behaving. He was probably tired though.
In that test, we placed 9th, with a really terrible percentage around the 49 mark... I don't think we've done that terribly since we first started doing some novice!

In the hacking, we were rejected in every class, which was what I expected, but it was nonetheless disappointing. I've decided that I'm gonna start my own competition, with a class for those people who try really hard and put in heaps of effort, and STILL aren't getting anywhere...

I was also rostered on for work at 4pm the same arvo as schools comp. But I had this maths assignment to complete. So I was temporarily sick... *cough*

Made it to school in time to submit said assignment, only to find that the teacher was absent. Yay. I could've made an extra $40 had I known she wouldn't be present to collect my assignment...

I also got my mark back from my 'Death byPoetry' oral. I got a B. Better than the C+ from the Shakespeare monologue fromm last term, but not quite up to my B+ standard in Engligh.

Whilst we're on the subject of marks, I got my semester one report card over the holidays.

In Religion, I got a 'Good' for behaviour, and a 'Good' for application, in English, I got a 'Very Good', and a 'Very Good', Maths I got a 'Very Good' and a 'Good', Biology I got a 'Good' and a 'Good', ICT I got a 'Very Good' and a 'Very Good', Music I got a 'Very Good' and a 'Very Good', and in History, I got a 'Very Good' and a 'Good'.

Overall, I was pleased. I was exceptionally surprised at the 'Good's in Biology. As far as I was concerned, I was getting 'Satisfactory's for that. Or at least, that's what I would've given myself...

Today I handed in this massive Biology assignment. It was 14 pages long. And painful. But the school has a colour printer now, which makes it oh so much better. =P

Also today, we got our lufferly Senior Jerseys. Yay for year 12 ish-ness. =]
If it wasn't so late, I would've taken a picture. It's way biger than I expected, so I'm now refering to it as my 'senior dress'. But I like it. It smells new. =]

Musical tickets went on sale on Monday, and it's all starting to come together now. We just need to block the rest of act two, and then polish it right up. I have a stack of posters I'm supposed to put up, but haven't gotten around to doing so yet. I'll scan one. =]

Anyways, must catch up on all the sleep I lost thanks to Biology last night,
E.Jxx