15th October was the annual St Joey's fete - grateful for a nice evening, watching the class entertainment, eating fudge, cent sale and all that sort of thing. Spent my time, mostly, eating all the fantastic things from the cake stall and helping Mum with the craft stall. Not sure which I enjoyed more :P
Tastes of the Tablelands on the 16th October, where I was grateful and privileged to have been asked to model for Blue Lagoon in Mareeba. By happy coincidence, I adored one of the dresses so very much that it will become the dress I wear to formal. Grateful and excited :)
17th October was a student free day and I was grateful for a most glorious day in Cairns; people watching, art gallery, the Lion King, op shopping, gelato on the Esplanade and a variety of other things. A great day to chill out after the stress of school was starting to set back in and put people on edge.
On Thursday night, 20th October, Atherton State High School had its first Leadership Soiree at Tinaroo Lakes Resort to hand over our roles to the newly elected 2012 leaders, as well as launch the Community Connect program, which links the school leaders and the school itself with community organisations like the QCWA, Lions, Masonic Lodge, etc and has been in the pipeline all year. I was grateful to be chosen as one of the Prefects to make a speech and it was a really lovely night for everyone involved, one of the many things I'll remember from my senior year.
The next afternoon, Friday 21st October, I finally took the plunge and got my hair cut short. Grateful to Debbie for the fantastic job she did for me and for the bizarre feeling of liberation it gave me. Folk Festival started that night, and so had a great evening wandering around, talking to hippies about fossicking, eating kofta and walking around and having some good chats with fellow wristband-less people Jarrah and Jake when the others went into the paid venues to listen to the music.
The next morning was spent cheerfully eating mangoes from the markets, then putting jam on scones and serving tea and washing dishes with the ladies from the CWA. Had some lovely conversations about all sorts of things. Spent that afternoon wandering through the Folk Festival, went home and had a lovely cat nap for a few hours :P then back down to the festival til around one in the morning, I believe.
Grateful for Sunday morning brunch at the Whistle Stop, brownies and a wonderful snooze in the sun at Frawleys to round out the weekend :)
Thursday the 27th was presentation night. Grateful for so very much fun with Annie and our silly rambling the whole way through, and to be awarded the prizes for Senior English and History. Congratulations to Gracie on being Middle School Dux for 2011 :)
Grateful last night for a family gathering for Liam's 5th birthday, Pikachu cake and Just Dance battles, Gnomeo and Juliet and chatting :)
Grateful today for a sleep-in, a day to study and, hopefully, a walk up Mt Baldy this afternoon :)
I hope you all have a beautiful day :)
Lise xx
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