Spectacular

Without any tests to worry about, she had the best day that she had had all week. Her dad decided to have a day off work, so she was driven to school, instead of the normal bus ride she has to take.

Her first lesson was a Chemistry laboratory. For the first time all year, she worked with Diem instead of working with her normal partner, Lauren, which was a nice change. The experiment involved mixing different substances together and watching them turn amazing colours, from a colourless solution to one that was bright blue, yellow to deep red or heating some of them to see them turn a bright pastel green. She tried to put some iron (III) chloride solid into a test tube but it all felt on the gauze mat that they had set on the bench. She tried again and the same thing happened. In the end, they noticed the test tube had a big hole in the bottom of it and they had a large pile of iron chloride to clean up.

After Human Biology, her year group had to walk down to the chapel to go to a mass. The mass was celebrating Catholic Education in Western Australia. Today, the mass was started off differently to how it usual does. A bowl of water was blessed, a candle was lit and salt was added to the water. The priest then went around the congregation and using a piece of branch, put it into the water and flicked it on them. When the priest came around to her side, a large water droplet hit her right in the middle of the forehead. She didn't wipe it off, but as she concentrated on the water droplet, she felt like the skin underneath it began to pulsate. As it began to evaporate, the feeling disappeared until she thought nothing of it.

Her two free periods actually involved work today. She had left the essay she had to write for English until these periods because she really couldn't be bothered after she had gone out to hand in her phone yesterday to get it fixed. She spent an hour on it and at the same time she listened to her iPod which helped to block out the people who talking around her. Afterwards, she played a few games of Jim Rummy with Diem, Chantelle joining in a short time later. She was impressed at how well Diem was playing, seeing as she got a very high score of 175 points. In the last fifteen minutes, they played 13 just before going off to lunch.

The highlight of her day came from her English lesson. The class received their essays they had done on Ten Canoes back and Ms perks told her class that she and Mina had received the highest marks in the class. From this comment, she had though that she would have got a level 6, but when the teacher handed it back to her, she was in shock. She had received a level 7F, which equates to 83%, a very hard mark mark to get and very few people have received a mark like it. Mina had received a level 7M, which is around 86%. She hadn't cared that Mina had got a better mark than her, she cared more that she had beaten her personal best...