Highlights of my year - 2004
K well since its nearing the end of the year, i thought i'd recap what some of the highlights of 2004 were for me:Dec 03 - Jan 04:
I'm starting from Dec 03 coz thats when i went to my first YBC which was down in Dunedin :) Was cool to finally meet all these people i'd heard about and also make some new friends. The speakers were also real good, Stuart Bonnington & Alf Bradfield, and yeah overall i had a good time. Apart from gettin campylobacter from the water down there!! ugggh thats an experience i don't want to repeat. Came back a bit of a mess - was sunburnt and feelin sick n stuff and that was only a few days b4 i was due to fly out to Aussie. Anyway, i finally got to go to Aussie - Melb. in particular - for the first time in ages (since we'd moved back here) on 8 Jan and spent an awesome couple weeks there with the Brightwells who took me round everywhere and met a lot of ppl and got to catch up with some Kiwi friends that were living up in Nth Vic. on this dairy farm. So yeah that was definitely a highlight of my year. Was kinda gutted coming back to NZ hehe, wished i coulda stayed there longer.
April:
On 7 April i went to my first Rebecca St James concert =) Was pretty cool. Detour 180 were supporting act too. Got a heap of pics.
Then over Easter i went down to Easter Camp in Waihola and had a great time there! The theme was the Olympics and i was in the USA team. We lost overall tho :/ lol we werent the best group of singers...i think thats wat stopped us from gettin some points. We had to sing our anthem one night and then 'I believe i can fly' on another night. Was still fun tho hehe. The Aussie group won overall. Canada's group did the best skit thingy for their song 'My Heart will Go on' lol.
June:
On 1st June i turned 18 =) a milestone haha. Also got heaps of teasing from family and co about whether i was gonna follow in my Mum's footsteps and get married at 18. somehow i dont think so.....
August:
Early August i went on Geo camp down to Rotorua. That went off pretty well. Went and did all the touristy things as ya do and i enjoyed being able to talk 2 some foreigners n stuff. Had to come back from camp early tho with my Dad - who drove all the way down to pick me up - to come back up to Akld to do a piano duet exam with my Mum. Was worth it tho coz Mum & I passed it =)
21 August was the night of my last highschool ball. Was pretty cool night. The decorations were great and as always was cool to see everyone all dressed up :)
September:
During the Sept holidays Karen (Irvine) came up from the South Island to stay with us for a few days so that was nice seein her again.
October:
This was the month of 21sts. Or so it seemed like it. Went to a couple - someone from church and my cousin's one. Both were good.
November:
While this month was pretty crazy with final exams and everything it also had one highlight with the Graduation Dinner being on 30 Nov =) finally graduating from highschool & gettin all our leavers things was a great feeling.
December:
The other week i passed my latest piano exam - was Performers Certificate one - and it went pretty well overall. Anyway my results came back in record time - i sat the exam on the Fri and got them a few days later on the Monday :) So that was cool especially since i passed it :) A years worth of hard practise towards it finally paid off.
And coming up.....
i'm heading off to YBC again over New Years so that should be another good time. Its in Auckland this year so not too far to go for it this time.
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