Bloody Mr. Lawson, he yet again called me Andrew, and this time he called me Andrew in front of Ms. Gill, so now she’s calling me Andrew, however I don’t know whether he’s doing it deliberately, or he just mixes up my name. That said, it looks like I’ll be at all three speech nights taking photos. However I plan on not telling Edrington about me being there, and hence get out of it.

Also I have a Sociology SAC tomorrow, which I’m not prepared for, however I think it will be fairly easy and straight forward. Finally Pearce Blue wanted me to mention him on my blog, so hey Pearce.

Heres an update as to how my weekend has been:

On Saturday I headed down to school to take photos of Girls Touch and Softball, so after spending two hours at school I headed home, and then decided to walk up to Chadstone to pick up the bi-monthly Foreign Policy magazine. I of course forgot the fact that it is a little over a month before Christmas, so I was expecting to be in and out in 10 minutes, well of course I had the usual idiots in the queue whom were asking the advantages of a Gift Card over Cash (answer; none, give them cash). So after half an hour in line I finally got served and was bombarded with the usual questions, would you like to join our email membership full of exciting offers? (answer: already a member), could I please have your postcode (answer: foreign visitor don’t have one - I find this answer more amusing than the usual 3163) and the final question, would you like a bag? (answer: yes, but only if its a made of a class 4 recyclable material).

Also if you aren’t a Victorian resident (46.7% of my blog readers are interstate or overseas) Steve Bracks won the election, now hopefully he can do what he has promised to do, or will he conveniently forget what he promised like last time.

Well James Lescohier is now part of the blogging world, with his site Weiver (I have no idea either). You can visit him and listen to his crazy rants at http://www.digitalremotecontrol.blogspot.com/

Well today was Leadership Induction and I’m now officially a Prefect. The overall ceremony was pretty good, without too many mistakes, and the afternoon tea afterwards was really good. Apart from that nothing really exciting happened today.

This saga seems like its coming to an end. We (4 leaders and myself) spoke to Mr. Scott this afternoon, and unfortunately it doesn’t look like Haileybury will budge. Pretty much Haileybury are stuck with twelve or so Metlink funded bus routes that can’t be changed without losing the Metlink funding for that route. So in order to meet demand Haileybury have had to introduce ‘Haileybury’ funded buses, and of course these buses cost money, a lot of money.

Unfortunately Haileybury is pretty much being held over a barrel and theres not much they can do, except cover the cost of the new buses themselves, which they do, and of course to do this, ticket prices must rise. Mr. Scott is going to raise some of our concerns with Mr. Dwyer, mainly about the flexibility of the system and some issues such as late buses etc.

Also Luke Hawley got his Haileybury vest embroidered with ‘Tech Crew’ on the back, it looks very cool and I must say I’m very jealous.

Many people ask me how I know if they’ve been on my blog or not, the answer is simple, Google. They offer a tool called google analytics that allows me to see roughly what geographical area my visitors come from (this blog is truly global, I have visitors from Spain, France, UK, USA, Phillipines, South Africa, Brazil, Singapore, New Zealand, Japan, China, Thailand, Israel, Germany, Netherlands, Mexico, Poland & Russia). It can also tell me how the visitors got to my site ie. did they type the address in, or did they do a Google search (a surprising amount of people type in Matthew Kennedy + Haileybury in Google) and there are some other pretty cool tools as well such as visitor numbers, pageviews, searches.

Also my weekend has been very boring, just catching up on heaps of school work. But I did have a swim today as it was pretty hot, and I also played some Airline Tycoon (yes I know its like ten years old but its really addictive).

It looks like we will still have to pay the $600 for the buses next year. I met with Mr. Dwyer and he said that Haileybury were unable to be flexible due to the cost of the buses, anyway I will speak to Mr. Scott about it on Monday, however unfortunately it looks unlikely that things will change.

On a slightly more joyous note, I managed to get out of Saturday sport this week (Lawson wanted me to take photos of course) however I will have to do it next week.

Also the Dance gala night was pretty good, and I managed to get some good photos out of it, it was also very crowded so they wont be having it reverse stage next year.

My exams are finally finished, all I have to do now is wait until December to get my results. I got a letter in the mail today about Leadership Induction, it will be held at 12:20pm next Thursday (23rd November) in the Aikman Hall.

I also received an email from Mr. Dwyer after I complained to him about the bus arrangements for next year, he said that Haileybury will sell a annual pass separately from a Metcard, so for those of you that catch the bus irregularly it will now be slightly cheaper (you will buy a Haileybury annual pass, then Metcards when you need them). I’m still not happy with the result and I will bring it up with him again tomorrow or Friday, I’m fighting for you guys (& girls now)!!!.

Also happy birthday to James Panther, he’s now 12, I mean 22.

In case you didn’t know, Luke Hawley has been chosen as Drama captain. So a big congratulations for Luke is in order. I also finally found the Haileybury Girls logo, it turns out the registrars office has it, and on a slightly off topic note, I sent an email to Mr. Dwyer before about the bus arrangements for next year, I’m really pissed off about having to pay $600 when I usually only pay $380, anyway I hope he sorts it out (even if he doesn’t it was still good to vent).

Well today has been the most exciting day of my week so far, firstly I had my VET IT 3 & 4 exam, which I think I did pretty good in. Later on in the hall James dropped a light from the roof of the hall, luckily it landed on the chair so it only caused some damage to the casing, anyway James said he accidentally ‘kicked’ it while lowering two other lights. Also a quick note, Mr. Bell has no idea about this and we are planning to hide this from him so it would be nice if you didn’t mention this to him.