Mercy Day 2007

The names of the people in the photos below have not been included to protect their privacy. Please don't ask who they are.

Today was Mercy Day at my school. It is a day to celebrate the Sisters of Mercy and their leader Catherine McAuley who founded our school 50 years ago.

The day started off with a traditional whole school mass.

Afterwards, we went back to our form rooms. I visited the Augustine form room to have a game of cards with my friends.

Then, we had our Mercy Day fair. Everybody runs stalls. This years stalls were quite disappointing as there wasn't much to do. We got our food and visited where they were playing Halo 3 because Jayden was hanging out there. My friends and I went into the Gymnasium to play cards to get rid of boredness we were feeling.

Playing, what Khue called Jimmy Mummy (actually called Jim Rummy)

The Tongue Phenomenon

I did face-painting at ten past twelve. So many people wanted their face painted that I'm sure we made a alot of money. The first thing I painted was a butterfly. It was so hard to try and paint something upright when I'm used to painting something flat and horizontal. I also painted hearts and did quite a few worded requests.

They were selling the large lollipops that they had last year for 50c but they sold out before I could get some. I started haggling with people so I could buy it off them. I offered Martin $2 but he said no. He wanted $4 for it. Janna, who I had asked previously, took my up on my $3 offer and Martin was disappointed that he didn't end up making a profit.

After the fair, we had Mercy Idol, which was nothing compared to last year. They had no real singing acts this year, just a lot of dancing, hip-hop and rap. I stood up on the sides of the Gym so I could see. I don't think it was really worth it. The acts were only good for two minutes, then they got so repetitive.

Overall, Mercy Day wasn't a good as it was last year. As seeing as it was my last one as a student of Mercy, that made the day disappointing. Nether the less, I will be back next year with a group of people to show up unexpectantly.

Signing off.