i actually started writing this friday night but i had taken some pain killers that also make me sleepy a little while before so i was typing this – then for some reason i went out to watch the tv for a bit, and then proceeded to curl up on the lounge and have a nap. when i woke up it was about 10pm. i came out here – shut down the computer and went to bed – and slept pretty much till 5pm on saturday. go me! but then i couldnt access blogger till now….GRR!!!!
so ta da – its very late the one time it could have been on time. baka.

friday five ::

1. What was/is your favorite subject in school? Why? I guess English. because when we had to write book reports and choose our own books i would always pick some full on book while others would choose the shortest book they could find. I once did a book report on a Tom Clany book – i cant remember which one it was but it was DAMN LONG and there was stuff going on in Rekjavik – before i read that book i had never even HEARD of Rekjavik. Also – we always had one class a week in english called journal – we all had to write in one of our notebooks like it was a journal. i think the idea was to get up to do some creative writing or maybe somewhere to just practise writing. it was always compulsary. the teacher would mostly check your journal to see if you had written in it each week and ignore the content. i always had at least 2 journals a year – more often than not 3. i loved journal! 🙂 i would start writing stories or rant about boys i liked i write out song lyrics…all sorts of dumb crap. i still have a few of my journals too. makes for entertainig reading.

2. Who was your favorite teacher? Why? hmm. in high school i had 3. Mr Bailey who i had for english 3 times. he was just so nice. and for maths – Mrs Howard and Mr Hales. when they taught me stuff i just seemed to ‘get it’. and they seemed to be very tolerant of me and my friends lstening to our walkmans while doing our work. 🙂
in primary school it has to be Mrs Hart who came as a substitute teacher at the end of the year two years in a row. she always used to read us books. I remember she read us Danny the Champion of the World, The BFG and The Witches all by Roal Dahl and also The Silver Crown (i forget the authors name).

3. What is your favorite memory of school? Primary school. We had to do a drawing for Book Week. All the drawings were going in a competition for a prize.
I was busy drawing away and I vaguely recall part of my drawing had a podium that had a book lying open on it but thats all i remember of it. anyways – the boy sitting opposite me says something snotty like ‘thats never going to win’ and my reply was something along the lines of ‘well neither will yours’.
so whenever book week is i am in the playground with my friends and another friend comes up to me and tells me i had won in the competition. well i didnt believe them so they took me down to the library where the competition winers had been put up in the window and there was my drawing. i had won first prize for the Infants division(years Kindergarten-Year 2). Cool!

4. What was your favorite recess game? we went through phases. elastics, skipping (with big ass skipping ropes or individual ones), handball, a game i think was called British Bulldogs (which involved as runnig across the bottom oval and trying not to get tagged by someone, then as you got tagged you joined that person in trying to tag the people runnning across the oval). i liked all them.
though i feel i must tell you about the lamest game i played. when My Little Ponies came out some of my friends were really into them. i had 2 but i wasnt insane about them or anything. but anyways – we were friends with some girls in the year above us and they were NUTS about them so we had this game called My Little Ponies which basically involved us running around pretending we were horses. LOL!!!

5. What did you hate most about school? I have to say certain teachers who i will not name here. and PE. and the arseholes. and plenty of other stuff. there is so much i didnt like about high school. i like to think of the things i did like instead. my friends, some of my teachers, some of my classes, only having to be there from 8:30-3pm, school holidays, being able to sit and bludge in class if you really felt like it. ah…those were the days.