Beginning of the End

So while everyone in the Northern Hemisphere is having their first day of school, Australians are right in the middle of the school year, and concerning students who are in their last year of school, things run a hell of a lot differently.

For most students, school ends in about 17 weeks (not including the holidays), but for year 12's, we finish in 7 weeks.

It's a really scary thought.

We've started getting our TISC forms and graduation information.  Groups have started organising Leavers (more on that later) and the Leavers Book committee and the Leavers Video committee have already started doing their work.

The most scary part about all this is deciding what to do when I graduate, and if my exam results give me the outcome I want.  We have to take a set of exams and then we get an ATAR, which is a mark that gets you into university.

So... at the end of October, I graduate, and then the day after (on a Saturday, grrrrr) I have my first exam.  And then it finally all ends just before my birthday!  All is well!

Graduation is the best and worst thing to happen in your school career.

During the last week of school, the year 12's do different things on different days.  At my school, we have gender swap day, so we swap our uniforms around.  On the second last day, we have muck up day.  This used to be a day where we would pull pranks and dress up, but the pranks were banned after someone a few years ago hand put all the lunch benches on top the school buildings.  That was what I heard at least.

We still pull pranks, and we still dress up.  I plan on going as a Hogwarts student.

My group of friends have sort of chosen our costumes.  It's just a joke, it's not really going to happen.  I'm going to be the slutty Slytherin, one will be horny Hufflepuff, grinding Gryffindor and racy Ravenclaw.

Haha, it's going to be good :)

Then on the final day, we have the Valedictory Assembly.  This is where the school says good bye to us, and there's speeches and such.  After that we have morning tea with our parents and family, and then as tradition goes, the year 12's spend the rest of the day at the beach partying.

And then exams...

I'm effing screwed...