Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo – Bloodhound Gang

Being home from the coast has actually been not as bad as I expected. Y’know that post holiday depression, being so used to living without parents and then BAM back at home? The first few days sucked, but it’s been good.

Now that I’m 18 I’m finally able to star going out clubbing/bar hopping/whatever you want to call it. Been to a few places these past few days and it’s been really fun, surprisingly became better friends with people I was only vaguely friends with before. Meeting new people out is always interesting, too. It’s basically been a complete change from everything I’d been used to, actually acting old.

Ah well, things have been fun. Changed my hair once again, as you can see. Though HSC results come out tomorrow. And then university applications will come through. And then work has been hell. Swings and roundabouts, really.

Crew Love – Drake ft. The Weeknd

Ola amigos! I am back from my trip up the coast! I don’t have too many photos from the trip (because I was more concerned with enjoying myself than taking photos), but that’s the beach we were at. It took a 20 minute walk to the beach from our house, and we made that trip around 4 times a day, sooooo it was mental. But it was a decent trip, got to enjoy a lot of time with close friends, and new friends, meeting a few decent people and a few not too decent people. There were a lot of school leavers around the coast too (for Australians – it was kind of Schoolies but not Byron or anything officially Schoolies) so there were beach parties every odd night. It was pretty decent, in a house of 9 girls, being completely independent.

Guess that worked in my favour too, seeing as on Saturday I turned 18 – which is the legal adult age here. It was really cute, we went out to Thai to celebrate the night before and everything. Got a countdown at 12am at a kebab store too.

But yeah, it’s been a full on week, so who knows what I’ll actually do now that everything high school ever is done. We shall just see, hey.

To Build a Home – The Cinematic Orchestra

Formal. Suppose its like the Australian equivalent to Prom, but less intense. Ours was on Tuesday and it had to naturally rain. The dress is from Aqua, if anyone’s interested. But no, it was a lovely night, being the last time I’d see a lot of people from high school. I don’t know, there’s not much to say about Formal, cos we didn’t have any Prom Kings/Queens or anything, it was more like a sit down dinner where everyone could run around meeting people’s dates and gushing over how lovely people looked. But it was still nice, bonding with people over R Kelly is always great. The after party was a lot of fun, as well, even if we were all exhausted and it continued to rain.

And now, off to the coast for a week! I went to my friends formal the night after this so you guys can hear all about that when I’m back!

Peter Pan – Jinja Safari
Photo credit

This was last Friday, the girls in the last photo and I went to see Jinja Safari play, a kind of end-of-exams celebration. It was great because before we went to the concert we went to eat sushi and a few members of the band were at the same restaurant. Just a bit of fun, more or less.

Fantastic show, though. Probably one of my favourite Australian acts out, too. They played a lot from their EP which I really appreciated seeing as its the only stuff of theirs I have, and a lot of different stuff too. Even cracked out the acrobatics and the lead guy climbed around the stage with his vuvuzella (fucking vuvuzellas). The supports were iffy but y’know. It was just a brilliant night.

Dosed – Red Hot Chili Pepers

I’ve finished!! Exams, done. Highschool, done. It’s all done! Thanks to everyone who wished me luck and everything, last exam yesterday afternoon, was good. Man, it feels good. Don’t listen to anyone who plays graduation down, they just liked high school. I’m not too sure when I get results back but who cares, never have to go to high school again!

The photos above are from the weekend, too. In the first photo, the girl to the utmost right is leaving next month to move to England, so it was a bit of a farewell celebration. It was a fairly good night, break from all the exams things. Ended up seeing some people I hadn’t for a while too, which was nice.

Basically though, I am just so relieved to be done with the HSC. Things are going to be fairly busy from this point but its good busy, we have Formal (a bit like prom – and I’m going to two), a group of my friends and I are going up the coast for a week, heaps of stuff is happening. So content.

Also, there’s been a lot of this tagging thing going on, so I took a leaf out of Jayy’s book and made a page for it. You can check it out here if you feel so inclined to.