Well Summer has officially ended and we move into Autumn on our long journey to, well, Summer again. It’s also the first day of March (already!!), soon we will be preparing for Christmas again.

On less weather orientated news, the Year 12 Magazine was sent to the printers yesterday marking the beginning of the end of this project. I can’t wait until the day those magazines are sent out and I wont have to worry about any of it ever again.

Also to those people attempting to leave comments about my Kid Nation post earlier this week don’t even bother if they are derogatory toward the contestant Taylor DuPriest since I will simply delete them and if I’m in the mood ban your IP address.

Well my holiday down at Sorrento has finally ended and it marks pretty much the end of my ‘transitional’ break. I will over the next few weeks begin to get back into work mode and I will find myself down at Haileybury over the next couple of weeks finishing of the Year 12 magazine as well as some other little things. Well that’s all for now since my non air conditioned room will soon be approaching the 40 degree mark if my computer remains on, so I think I’ll go sit in front of the air conditioner for a while.

Well 2007 has finally ended and what a year it has been. It amazes me just how fast 2007 went, it seems like it was only yesterday that I was recapping 2006. So here’s what happened in my life in 2007.

• Turned 18 (probably the biggest thing to happen)
• Subsequently went to Crown and a great time was had by all (you all know the story)
• Got my license (again a very big thing)
• Began, and successfully completed Year 12
• Graduated from Haileybury.
• Went to the Year 12 Formal
• My Great Grandmother passed away
• Had a fantastic year as a School Prefect and Vice Captain of Editorial
• Bought an iPod (who’d of thought!)
• Also bought a GPS (yeah I know it was only a couple of days ago but it was a highlight of 2007)
• Went to the Boxing Day Test
• Drastically improved this blog by getting a domain name, a host and moving it to the Wordpress platform
• Went to Sydney to visit my brother and see the city (twice)
• Went down to Phillip Island for ’schoolies’
• Saw the school play ‘Inheritance’
• Saw the school musical ‘Fame’
• Saw the Castlefield musical “A High School Musical” (Luke also went to see it as he “received” tickets for his birthday)
• Applied for University, and received my VCE results.

So that’s 2007 in review, I wish everyone a happy new year and I look forward to recapping what I hope will be a wonderful 2008.

After the conclusion of Day 3 of the Boxing Day Test, Pat and myself decided that we would celebrate Pat’s recent 18th with a trip to Crown. We decided to kill some time after the cricket by seeing National Treasure - Book of Secrets which was pretty good (I also liked the first one). Then after our Disney movie adventure we hit the casino. It was a good night and both of us came out ahead with Roulette being the game of choice (and most profitable).

Then this morning we both decided that it was way to hot to be going to the Cricket so we stayed at Pat’s apartment and watched it in air conditioned comfort. So now I’m finally home and getting ready for another big night on New Years Eve.

Today I headed to the MCG to watch the Boxing Day test between Australia and India. It was an enjoyable day and in the end I watched very little cricket (who goes there for the cricket anyway?). Two members of the group ended up getting thrown out by the police  and most of the day was filled with singing, trying to start the mexican wave (was moderately successful one time) and drinking.

On a more festive note yesterday was Christmas Day, I headed down to the Portsea Hotel with my family and had lunch there, overall it was a great albeit tiring day. I hope everyone had an enjoyable Christmas Day and a relaxing Boxing Day, next stop; New Years Eve.

Well it has been an enjoyable couple of days and I’m now about halfway through my trip. An interesting development that I found out about yesterday was the appointment of the new Haileybury principal, Mr. Derek Scott. Derek (or Scotty as most people call him) has been the Head of Senior School for the last 3 years (well actually 4 ‘Haileybury’ years if you count this 4B thing). Derek began his Haileybury career at Newlands before making the transition to Senior School. I had the pleasure to ‘work’ with Derek for the last year and he has always been a great Head of Precinct. So I congratulate Scotty on his appointment and I look forward to seeing him in action.

Well I have arrived in Sydney (yesterday actually) after an extremely bumpy flight which resulted in us circling Canberra. The weather up here unfortunately isn’t great but it has improved this afternoon. I spent most of the day looking for a new wallet after my last one got a hole in the coin area which resulted in me spilling coins everytime I removed my wallet from my pocket. There’s not much more to report except I will be going to the Sydney Aquarium tomorrow (apparently it’s much better than Melbourne’s). Then I will be off to enjoy the sights and sounds of Darling Harbour.

Well it’s that time of year again and I must say I have always enjoyed Christmas (especially all the food). Today we put the Christmas tree up which was good, and amazingly all the Christmas lights worked straight out of the box for the first time every (usually your going along trying to find out which globe is blown). So that was basically my adventure filled day, and now its only two more days until I’m enjoying Sydney.

Well I’m back from ‘the island’ and I must say I had a really good time. My days were taken up with swimming, sitting in front of the fire and basically doing not much at all. I was suprised with the amount of people from school that were down there, with two houses of Haileybury people just down the road from us. Some of the highlights were Lynton finishing of half a slab of VB for $5, Jimmy falling asleep on the road and Pat and his general hate of people.

After leaving Phillip Island yesterday I headed back to Pat’s place where I crashed the night and awoke early to head to Leadership Camp. The camp was alright and it was a good opportunity to brief some of the upcoming prefects. It also gave me an opportunity to catch up with some teachers and students alike. Of course my Haileybury days aren’t quite over yet with two more speech nights to go to this week, and then there is finally some light at the end of the tunnel.

I’ve finally found the time to write a post. It’s now halfway through the holidays and I’ve used it as a time to have a break, as well as do some school work. I can’t be bothered going through my previous week in detail but I had a pretty good weekend. I obviously watched the AFL grand final on Saturday at the Stamford Plaza in Melbourne, and then headed to Liam’s place for a ‘couple’ of drinks. Overall it was an enjoyable night and gave me a good chance to catch up with people that I don’t often get to at school. Then Sunday was the long awaited NRL grand final in which Melbourne Storm overcame the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles. Then today was a quiet day, however I did wash my car and gave it a much needed vacuum. I also received another article for the Year 12 magazine bringing the total to three, so for those who still owe articles (I knows that two of you read my blog on occasion) please send/start them.