In My Mind….

As a rule, I only blog when I have things to say, or when I have TIME to type out the things I have to say. Otherwise, I see absolutely no point in blogging everyday, telling the whole world every single sordid detail of my life. And to tell the truth, I don’t really like people knowing what I do every. single. day. of. my. life. Like seriously….people, get a life of your own.

But ok, a brief update, coz I know I have not blogged in ages. Well, to begin with….Formal Night 2006 ROCKED the house!! or rather…rocked the boat coz our venue was on a cruise boat…but not literally of course…haha..Everything went as planned…However, that was NOT the case that morning when my friends and I rocked up to help set up and everything. The irreponsible boat manager arrived 45 minutes late, and my friend Amy was really angry coz she had to leave for her hair and make-up appointment as soon as he arrived and she didn’t have time to do a check to see that her presentation worked with the boat’s technology system. But anyway, it was all good in the end. While we were setting up, Terry, the boat manager, told us some juicy gossip about some of the teachers about last year’s formal which was also held on the same boat. We could not believe it, although a certain teacher was notorious for her post-alcohol behaviour. One of the stories was that this teacher, whom all of us call the ‘dragon-lady’ or ‘the bitch’ (i’m not being mean….she really is that) POLE DANCED with one of the pillars in the dining hall of the boat after she had a leetle too much to drink. Ok, now imagine this woman of generous proportions, well beyond middle aged, pole dancing with a PILLAR!! Ugh…funny…but extremely disturbing at the same time. Of course, there were other stories, but this was the funniest, most hilarious one of all that Terry told us. As a result, we were a little later finishing our setting up than we thought we would. LOLx…

Well, on to the event itself….it began with all of us lining up our cars (most of which was pretty awesome by the way..) in the order that we were supposed to arrive so that there was no confusion about who would be arriving when and also Mr White (a teacher) who was announcing the arrivals wouldn’t get mixed up. I myself had no idea what type of car it was that I would be arriving in, but I was assured that it was one of the top most sport cars or something like that by the driver. Well, whatever….as long as I arrived there. LOLx….oh yeah, I should also mention that my date was a best friend of mine from Whyalla, a city located 4 hours from where I live. And yes, it was a girl. =) Not that I couldn’t get a date, but she really wanted to come to the formal, and she couldn’t come without a date, so I’m like…yea I’ll take you, and she was the best date I could have chosen for my formal!!…especially at the after-party…coz she was looking after me most of the night…but more on that later..haha..

When we arrived, we had to walk down the red carpet (which was really cool) and it seemed like the whole of Waikerie had turned out to watch the formal. I was really excited, but I was so nervous of falling over in my heels (coz we had to walk down the really steep ramp to get to the boat) that I was gripping Katrina’s (my date) hand all the down the red carpet. But we got there safe enough. Later, Katrina said that she almost fell over too coz she stepped on her dress. If she hadn’t been gripping my hand equally as hard as well, she would have fallen flat on her face!! LOLx…so anyway, after that we went out to the top deck of the boat to watch the other arrivals, and the other cool cars, which I may say ranged from sports cars, to a limousine, to a Rolls Royce, to Batman-looking like cars, to minis, to Volkswagon’s, to Chryslers, a converible MG…and many more…

Once we had all arrived, the parents of the Year 12s were invited on board to have a look at the exquiste decorations and take lots, and lots, and LOTS of pictures of us. Oh, and did I mention LOTS of pictures..?? My eyes were hurting from all the flashes afterwards…lolx..and then finally the evening began in earnest. It started with an opening speech from our Year 12 coordinator, Mr Valentine, and then our meal arrived. During the course of the evening, several presentations were set up. Among them were pictures of us at social events and parties, which were really funny…especially the drunk ones!! lolx…and then Amy had a game, where she had collected baby pictures of all of us before, put in on a slide show and each table had to guess who the babies were. It was so cute see some of the pictures…and really amazing to see how alike or unalike we looked. As with all good things, the evening drew to a close. I made a thank you speech thanking the staff on the boat, teachers and everyone who came. Then, our principal made the closing speech, which contained best wishes for the year and also not to get into trouble at the AFTER-PARTY!! woot..!!

Now the after-party, is a very important aspect of the whole formal process in the first place. It is when we could really let loose and do whatever. In short, it is the ‘informal’ part of the formal evening….but I guess I have to stop here for now…so lets just say…*To Be Continued*

~@[d]3L!]\[#~

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