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Old April 29th, 2008 (12:35 AM).
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lmao really?

honestlyno offence to emos but i as a mosher think the emo genre is really bad music. I enjoy metal :)
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Yeah. ._.

As for emos themselves, IMO what they do is their own business, provided they don't harm anyone else. Personally I don't see myself getting caught up in such a movement, especially with the ones that do it to gain attention. It really devalues the significance of people with real problems in the eyes of the general public.
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precisely, i couldnt have put it better myself.I do have very many emo firends though so bleh

I finish school in 9 weeks! FTW!
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I'm on holiday already. Nearly over, though; it's only a two-week break. Down here, our major holiday is December/January, which fits more nicely - the start of the school year is much closer to the start of the calendar year. :P

This year, because of the exam system I'm doing (IGCSE) I'll be finishing seven weeks early. That is really FTW. :D
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lmao wow so how long is it untiul you leave? whats the leaving date for you? i hope u dont mind me asking but what country are you from?
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I'm not sure of the precise date but it's in October sometime. But until then I have two more two-week holidays, plus the rest of this one. New Zealand's the country that I live in.
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oh welli leave in June so :P lmao

New zealand is a really beutiful country. :)
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Ohhhh, I finish in about 5 weeks with a 3 week exam block and then a 1 month break. @[email protected]

I'll be going to New Zealand with three of my friends for a week on a ski trip. C: *broke
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Thanks. :D I suppose you don't really appreciate it as someone who was born here, but my father, who travels a lot says he often receives comments from non-New Zealanders on its beauty when they see his photos.
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Thanks. :D I suppose you don't really appreciate it as someone who was born here, but my father, who travels a lot says he often receives comments from non-New Zealanders on its beauty when they see his photos.
I especially loved New Zealand in Lord Of The Rings.:)
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Thanks. :D I suppose you don't really appreciate it as someone who was born here, but my father, who travels a lot says he often receives comments from non-New Zealanders on its beauty when they see his photos.
The South Island's beautiful, but the North's... varies too much. xP
Especially Wellington on a windy, cold day. Like today for example. xD
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Yeah, I loved those films when they first came out. My friends and I were obsessed by them at that age. Ah, it's so good to reminisce.

EDIT: Ah, Wellington. I went there once. Seriously windy. :P
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Yeah it sure is, i wish i was a kid again lmao. :)
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The other thing I miss about being a kid is the complete lack of pressure. I mean, wow. You don't appreciate how easy life is until you have to start high school. :P Still I'm fortunate enough to be able to cram effectively, so I only study the night before, on the bus to school, and right before the exam. However, with exams actually counting this year and being much tougher, I doubt I can do it this time. Still, I don't forsee myself needing to study more than a week out.
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yeah i know what you mean. Until last Ictober i really didn't realise my position in life, now i really know what life is all about and it is NOT easy. Being able to go out all the time, and not care you cant do that anymore once you have responsibility.
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The other thing I miss about being a kid is the complete lack of pressure. I mean, wow. You don't appreciate how easy life is until you have to start high school. :P Still I'm fortunate enough to be able to cram effectively, so I only study the night before, on the bus to school, and right before the exam.
It's your kind of people that I hate and envy at the same time. xP I'm a serious procrastinator and cram for most of my assessments but they never turn out very well. ^^;

And don't worry about high school, just bear with it for the last two years (cause those are the toughies) and once you hit uni/college, you'll be cruising. 8D
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I bet we'll say the same thing in university: "I can't believe we didn't appreciate how easy high school was." And in our jobs. And in our jobs after promotion. And so on. :P
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Still I'm fortunate enough to be able to cram effectively, so I only study the night before, on the bus to school, and right before the exam. However, with exams actually counting this year and being much tougher, I doubt I can do it this time. Still, I don't forsee myself needing to study more than a week out.
Just reading back... you said you're doing IGCSEs?? So I'm guessing you don't have to take NCEA right? I've kinda forgotten what happens at schools that offer other educational standards seeing as mine has yet to implement anything.

End of years are still horrible though, studying only a week before the actual thing isn't actually too wise especially when you've got the whole year's worth of work to revise. Unless you can somehow super cram everything... =o
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At my school, the top 135 students in a year level (at least when I last checked) do Cambridge Qualifications, and the rest do NCEA. We've done end-of-years in the past (mock stuff, but still counting towards our class placement in the following year) and cramming has worked, so I'm assuming and hoping that it'll work again.

For you non-New Zealanders, the NCEA is the high school qualifications / examinations system, like the SATs, I believe. IGCSE is an alternative course offered over the world that some schools in New Zealand offer.
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135?? Your school's larger than mine then. We've barely got 100 per year group.
Anyway. Usually school end of year exams are easier than the actual important qualification externals. Seeing as it's only for class streaming for the following year, it's not really as important in a way. I haven't seen anyone who's crammed for the real thing and achieved with high grades yet though... ^_^;
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Yeah, our school's relatively big; we have about 400 per year level. Long-term study seems to just not work for me at all. I couldn't imagine studying the recommended three weeks out - I tried it, a couple of times but, I guess the lack of pressure makes the information easy to forget. But yeah, cramming has been the method of the majority of the top class for our first two years. :P
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I actually loved the semesters where we did QCS, which would be the equivalent to NCEA/SATS, all of our other subjects' got halved and our exams were as hard as grade 8 material. ^^

It was probably the best semester in terms of assessment, no study required, just a whole heap of general knowledge and time management. I winged it~ Cx
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I should be so lucky. :P I doubt I'll be fortunate enough to receive material of that level. (I think Australian Grade 8 = NZ Year 9, but I'm not sure).
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I've got no clue about the descripencies between AUS and NZ grades, but they're probably within a year of each other. I do know that NSW has an extra year over Queensland though, dunno if that's even relevant though. ;;

Oh, and they'll make a big deal about it and everything but it's nothing serious, really. The material covers core skills so mostly everyone'll do well. C:

On a more stressing note, I gotta find some good snow gear. How cold does the start of the snow season get? ><
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For most of Australia, like NSW, the classification is one year behind NZ. I only know this due to the ICAS tests that we get given...
But as far as I'm aware, the level of education is actually higher and you get taught more in Australia than over here at the equivalent year group.

^ The start isn't usually too cold, but apparently the weather's going to be crazy this year. =\ So it'll vary depending on whereabouts you're going.
EDIT: assuming this is still NZ you're referring to.
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