Long Day

So not everything today went to plan…

First off, my friend couldn’t meet me for lunch because she had an appointment, which really sucks but what can you do… we’re trying to rearrange for tomorrow (fingers crossed!!)

Uhmmm, what else… went to English. Boring as batshit. More exam stuff. *Rolls eyes*

Oh! I bumped into my ever-lovely Chemistry teacher who, in the space of 2 sentences, intimated that I’d skipped class this morning… yeah… a self study class in which she can’t answer our questions… I’m **really** missing out there. Anyway, I put her in her place and told her I’d been sick and only come in at break. God I can’t STAND that woman -.-

What else… I had Classics rehearsals. I didn’t finish the speech in time but she liked what I presented so I have to hand over the polished version by Friday.

Uhmm… After that I had a Ladakh meeting! Once again, boring as shit. It was pretty pointless. We showed up with parents and watched the exact same hour long powerpoint that they’ve shown up EVERY SINGLE OTHER TIME they’ve presented to us. It was led up by Mr. Asshole, so naturally I was in a good mood -.-

So yeah, after that my dad took me to buy a Ladakh journal, which I have started writing in. (Only stuff relating to Ladakh, so I’ll only write on the days we have Ladakh meetings or whatnot.)

We have our first lecture with the Medical Team on Saturday afternoon. I’m excited for the trip… not so much Mr. Asshole and the Head Bitchy in my English class (they’re both on the trip with me… one of them isn’t coming home with me…).

OH! Good news! My awesome, awesome, AWESOME Philosophy teacher is coming with us on the trip! YAY! So I reckon I’ll stay glued to her side throughout and with any luck I’ll avoid double homicide! (Y)

We gave her a lift after the Ladakh meeting. Goodness, she is so lovely. :3

What else…

I have some work to do. Due today, naturally… There was something else though…

OH YEAH!

I’m taking my sister out drinking this weekend! WOO! Hahaha! Talk about being an irresponsible guardian! Haha!

It’s the norm here in Singapore for expat kids around the age of… 16? Sometimes earlier… to go clubbing. I don’t drink, personally. But, my freshly 16 year old sister DOES (not alcoholic-style, she just likes alcohol more than I do…).

I was allowed to go clubbing for the first time when I was 16, so it’s only fair that SHE be allowed to as well. I gave one condition: I must be the first to take her out.

So it is! She isn’t clubbing, she’s just coming to Chuppitos with a few of her friends and I’m going with a few of mine. It should be nice! I’m making her give me $15 as a provisor (I’m gonna buy her a Blow-Job-Shot!! 😀 hurhurhur, I’m such a good big sister XD).

So yeah.

It’s been a nice day, a bit lazy, a bit stressful. *Sigh*

My mum flew out to a sports competition this morning, so it’s just dad and my sister and I at home. We all watched “Up” with dinner. Such a lovely family evening. But I have to catch-up the work I’ve neglected all day now… oops haha!

Greece in Jeopardy…

Doing mock papers in my Biology class. It’s really fun and relaxing. (Past papers, fun? Who knew?)

It really says something about the society we live in (or at least it makes a statement about me) that I went to bed (just) BEFORE 11pm LAST NIGHT simply because I had let someone borrow my charger and my laptop was just about to die. So I went to bed. Because my laptop was going to die.

I could have done paper revision. I could have read a book. But no, I went to bed and slept early because I didn’t want to work without my laptop there for comfort. Eeeesh.

Anyway. Back to the papers. Today should be just as good as yesterday methinks 🙂

Minus the annoying assembly this morning for the Ladakh trip. Which I desperately want to go on now that they’ve reduced the price from ~$4,500 to ~$3,300 (which then the further reducible again if you apply for an Alumni Grant… which I was considering applying to for my Greece trip. If I got the Grant, I could potentially be going to Ladakh for ~$1,500-$2,000)

With all this “Golden Dawn” crap flying around the news is genuinely scaring me. This could ultimately destroy my chances of going. Riots and strikes can be avoided, I read somewhere that the locals generally know when and where the riots/strikes are going to be held so you can avoid it… But a political party? A xenophobic, neo-nazi, fascist political party that is going around killing foreigners and beating up other MPs…That changes the game a little.

I will keep working towards Greece. Who knows? With any luck Greece might be able to clean up the mess come July… But if they don’t?

Here’s the dilemma, now that Ladakh- a three week, hiking-the-Himalayas, working-in-orphanages, doing-homestays, working-with-trained-medical-professionals-to-change-someone’s-life-forever, school trip- is suddenly so affordable, and Greece is thrown into question… I have to choose.

Do I keep working towards Greece? Earning money and all that and therefore decline the India offer (I’ve never been to India…)? OR do I give up the Greece dream and apply for India, do the three weeks and have the “experience of a lifetime”… but the compromise would be spending those three weeks with Mr. Asshole.

I can’t do both. If I go to Ladakh I’d have to give up my three-week nannying job… therefore (potentially) nearly $3,000. If I go to Ladakh I pretty much seal my fate on not going to Greece.

BUT, if I say no to India and keep working towards Greece… what happens if Greece doesn’t happen? What happens if it gets worse and my trip to Greece becomes totally untenable?

That’s the scary thing. Missing out. Making the wrong choice.

Silver lining I suppose, if I decline India and can’t go to Greece would be that I’d have a ton of money to throw about. Free cash, one could say…