&#i bought it in a can;;and stirred it with my finger;;singing boom da da da;;threw it out the window#&

time: 12;32am

listening: architecture in helsinki

eating: a bottle of water which is entirely too small

So we have camp coming up next week, and my friends and I were discussing various things, which I will get to in a second.

Firstly, though, for those who don’t know my group’s standing in our grade, I will give a brief overview. Known as “The Blondes” (2/8, but I guess blonde compared to our year) or “The Shires” (3/8… better?) or any combination of the two, my group seems to have gained the reputation of grade bitches, probably owing to a number of things.

1. We have (apparently) kicked a number of people out of our group

I would like to say here (and I wish more people in our grade would actually read this), we have only ever kicked one person out of our group. The “Semitrailer on a Sinking Ship” line which seems to have become quite infamous will never be fully understood by anyone outside our group. Everyone else who has left our group has left of their own accord.

2. The “No one in, no one out” Policy

I don’t even know why I’m dignifying this by bringing it up. It’s such a load of bullshit, made up by people who don’t have anything going on in their own sad lives, so gossip about ours. Give up.

3. We are racist

I’ve been told and insinuated to too many times to count that, if an Asian were to join our group, they wouldn’t last. I find this highly offensive, mainly because I am not racist in the slightest. I have many friends in our year who are Asian and other various cultures, if people would care to notice. My best friend is half-Malaysian, and a valued member of our group. The fact that we have no full-Asians in our group is not a product of racism, but rather just the way things worked out. The thing I love about this country is how we condemn white people if they are not best friends with other cultures, and yet other cultures could be bitches to us and we have to take it. I have never heard anyone diss any of the number of completely Asian groups in our grade. Just saying.

The fact that my group is confident and outgoing, and don’t really care what other people think of us, is mistaken for complete arrogance at darling St. George, where it is more respectable to keep your head down and get that UAI your parents have always dreamed you would.

I’m sorry if we choose to live our lives while we do it.

So yes, the inspiration for this ranting and overwhelmingly racist (it would seem to others, but that’s really not where I’m coming from with this) blog, was camp.

The point was that we were given our activity groups today. We were allowed to choose our cabin groups, but activity groups are assigned. They were made up of a bunch of people thrown together (ie. down the list, 1, 2, 3, 4…), and my friend asked our year advisor why. She replied with the generic “To help you meet new people and become friends with more people in your grade.” I fail to see how helpful this could be; we’re in Year 11. If we were going to make friends with them, you’d hope that we already had by now. Anyone I’m not friends with yet probably isn’t really worth the effort. So why can’t I just do the bloody activities with people I want to do them with? Gosh.

I have also been asked a number of times what our group will be dressing up as. I didn’t even realise we were supposed to be dressing up until asked this, and after minimal discussion we now have a theme. I think everyone was secretly hoping we’d do “The Plastics” again.

Finally, I can warn you of a few things.

It is likely that we will play loud music whilst crashing your rooms and dancing around like idiots before running out again.

It is even more probable that we will be up the back of the bus, blasting that same music (Heart It Races, anyone?) whether you want to hear it or not.

And you can definitely bet your life that we will not care what you think of us while we do it.