Wow, hey. So, I guess you haven’t been expecting to hear from me again. I thought my blog had been cancelled. So, I’ve been good. Studying for November exams, ugh. So boring. I can’t wait for this stupid year to be over. I mean, next year will be great. I’ll be in Gr 7. Seriously, I’ll be the big fish in the small pond then, and there will be tons of parties! And, you know, responsibility and stuff. Whatever.

So, what’s happened to me in the last 3 months, you might ask. Well, I went to the Oprah Winfrey Learning Academy, and I met Meg Cabot. It was totally amazing. Seriously, she signed my copy of Airhead! She wrote, Ciara, you rock, Meg Cabot. Couldn’t you just die?! I was so stupid though, when I went up to get it signed. I was trembling from head to toe because I couldn’t believe that the same person who wrote all of those fabulous books was in touching distance of me. So, I shuffled up to the table, and she signed it, and all I said was, “Uh, er, thanks.” and rushed off. Seriously, I was dying to tell her how much I loved her books and that I aspired to be like her… I hate myself sometimes. Also, I was dying to get a picture taken with her. It took three attempts to get the perfect pic. The first time, this girl from my school shoved her head in the picture and completely stole the photo. The second time, Meg wasn’t looking, but the third time we were both looking, and smiling… Anyway, the school was AWESOME! So glam. Volleyball courts and fancy libraries and state-of-the-art computers and a pool and a gym and a super lounge and a plasma screen the size of the wall… Oprah doesn’t mess around, does she? Still, it was amazing meeting all of the students. They were so nice! Wish Oprah would’ve been there… Well, you can’t have everything!

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(I missed saying that!)

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School tomorrow! Oh God will it never end? That’s why they give us month-long holidays. So it will be even more excruciating when we go back. No more lie-ins. No more late nights. No more free afternoons. We’re looking at alarm clocks ringing at 6 o’clock in the morning, 7pm curfews, and homework, homework, homework. But I can’t say I haven’t had a good holiday. I turned twelve, got a Nintendo Wii, had my picture published in the Melville Times, and saw one of the natural wonders of the world.

That’s right! I went to the Victoria fallss! We went through the Zambian side though, obviously. We stayed at the Royal Livingstone, which was fabulous! It was ever so posh, but so beautiful. But the Falls. WOW!!! They were magnificent! So natural, unlike the Niagra Falls, which is very commercialised. I mean, there’s a highway next to it! Still, we crossed Knives End Bridge, and got soaked! We also went to THE BRIDGE. You know? The one between Zambia and Zimbabwe. So, I’ve been halfway between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Cool.

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Hey guys, long time no blog! So, guess who’s turning 12 on Friday! That’s right, yours truly! I can’t wait, as I’ll be getting an ton of pressies! Including a….. Nintendo Wii! Fantastic, hey? And it’s holidays too! For a whole month!!! So at least I won’t be going to school on my birthday, unlike my brother, who has his birthday during exams, ouch…

Anyway, how’s everyone enjoying the Olympics? My favourite is Gymnastics. I also like diving and weightlifting. And it might be horrid, but I just love it when all those weightlifters drop everything! It’s hilarious.

Has anyone bought the new You magazine? Well, not the Brangelina twins, but the one before that, with Jen Aniston on the front? Well, if you have it lying around, flip to the Readers’ Letters, and read the letter of the week. That’s right! It’s me and my bezzie Gen, talking about our new school campaign, SA+. Okay, it sounds a little cheesy, but it’s not really. SA+ is about getting people in this country to feel more positive about SA. Okay okay, it’s not easy to be all upbeat and optimistic in this hellhole. But think about it: when was the last time you appreciated the blue sky? You know, SA has one of the bluest skies in the world? Cool. I guess we think that as kids in this country, we can sort of make a difference. This is Ciara, saying: SA+® Our Country Our Home, Filling our lives… With positive vibes. (catchy huh?)

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Ok like seriously, you will never believe where I am! In London! At Heathrow airport, in a lounge, and I managed to get onto Blat! I just flew in from Barcelona this morning, and my cruise is over! Sob sob sob! Oh god, it was amazing! Every night we would dine in this ultra-classy dining room, which took up 3 decks! The food was incredible! The service was great! And our room… Jeez! It was sooo unbelievably awesome! Huge, spacey, glamourous… No getting cabin-fever in there! And the boat was 15 decks high! Every day we docked at a city, looked around, then came back and had lunch in a fantastic cafe, then we’d go to the pool for a bit, or the arcade, or the ice-rink, or the rockclimbing wall, or the roller rink… Anyway, then we’d go to dinner, all smartly dressed! My brother and I would sneak off once we’d finished our main courses to go and buy Ben and Jerry’s! I had sweet cream and cookies, and Sean would have cookie dough! Then we’d go back to our suite and watch a movie as we ate it! After that there were lots of night activities, like dancing, parades, theatre shows, ice shows, the list goes on! Anyway, the boat was all glass and gold and red plush carpets and cherry chandeliers, absolutely phenomenal! I enyoyed every second, and I hope to go on another cruise soon!

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Homework: refers to tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed mostly outside of class. As quoted by the Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia. My personal definition is, Homework: refers to chores forced upon student by their slave-masters to be completed mostly outside of class, OR ELSE!!! (because god forbid that you can have a homeweork free afternoon.)

I. HATE. HOMEWORK!!! And my parents always say,

“Oh, stop being such a drama-queen, Ciara, it’s only a little bit of work.”

Correction! It’s a LOT to do in just one afternoon!!! You know, today I had to write about the history of the Hippocratic Oath (at least 5 pages!), do 3 pages in Maths, and 4 excercises in English, and that’s the least amount that we’ve had all MONTH!!! I wonder if teachers have to take an oath? Probably the Hypocritic Oath.

“I swear to give my pupils at least 10 pages of homework a day, and give out demerits and detentions whenever I please…”

Teachers. Who can get them???!!! Anyway. Homework sucks. End of story. Don’t have much news today, except my RE teacher gave me 77% for a project, so I’m pretty bummed. Sigh.

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Only got writing this at about half-eightish, as I’ve been so busy! The only thing I’ve done today is pack, pack, and, oh yes-pack. We leave next week for the cruise, and I can’t believe it!!! Anyway, right now I’m am going to make a list of my likes and dislikes.

I LIKE/BELIEVE IN:

1.Vegetarianism (became one when I was nine)

2.Animals

3.My Friends

4.Ice-Cream!!! (double choc fudge!)

5.Mxit (who doesn’t???)

6.Mizz Magazine

7.Ugly Betty!

8.Maths and English (believe it or not!)

9.New York!

10.The Sims 2

11.Being Organised

12.Getting Good Marks!

13.Correct use of grammar, and punctuation! (can’t stand incorrect spelling!)

14.Horror movies (The Sixth Sense, The Amativille Horror, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Ring, etc!!!)

15.Writing!

I DISLIKE/DO NOT BELIEVE IN:

1.Wearing animal fur!

2.Poaching!

3.Brussel Sprouts!!!

4.Bad marks!

5.CSI (too gorey!)

6.Swearing

7.Chick-flicks that have no point!

8:Shopping with my mom! (always have to spend an hour looking at shoes!)

9:Discrimination

10.Fish as pets. (they aren’t cuddly, nor can they develop feelings for you, and they die soon, anyway.)

11.People who pretend to be something they’re not.

12.Broccoli

13.Broccoli

14.BROCCOLI!!!!!!!!!!!

15.When people treat me like a baby, whilst I am quite wise and full of insight.

I know I’ve said ‘broccoli’ three times, but i REALLY HATE IT!!!!!

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Do you ever get so excited about something, that whenever somebody brings it up, your hands start sweating, you form a lump in your throat, and you get that tingling feeling at the back of your neck? That’s how I feel about our midterm break! Our school is breaking up on the 27th of June, but I get to miss three days of school! Because I’m going…..

ON A MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE!!! If any of my friends are reading this blog right now, at this point they are probably exiting my page really quickly, on the account that I’ve been talking about the cruise since April. But I can’t help it, I’m terribly excited. And unless you are absolutely crazy, you would be too.

So first of all, we fly to Barcelona via London, and we stay in a hotel and go sightseeing for a day, then the next day at 5pm, we board the ship!!! To be absolutely 100% honest, I’d rather stay on the ship all day than go outside! But only because the ship has absolutely everything on it: 5 pools, a theatre, a cinema, fancy dining, a beach, tons of shops, a teen disco club, 8 dining choices, a game room, a chapel, a roller rink, an icerink, and even a rock climbing wall, for heaven’s sake! It it 15 storeys tall, and more like a hotel than a boat! But mom still wants to go out every day and sightsee. We stop at Italy, France, and Spain. All my friends are nagging me to get them masks when we go to Venice! Well, I can’t wait (the heading makes that abundantly clear), and I’m taking my camera, so when I’m back I can upload the pics. I just hope that my blog doesn’t deactivate while I’m gone! Anyway, jealous? Good!

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Happy Friday! And also, happy Friday the 13th! In celebration, here’s a scary story… The Legend of Bloody Mary!!!

She lived deep in the forest in a tiny cottage and sold herbal remedies for a living. Folks living in the town nearby called her Bloody Mary, and said she was a witch. None dared cross the old crone for fear that their cows would go dry, their food-stores rot away before winter, their children take sick of fever, or any number of terrible things that an angry witch could do to her neighbors.

Then the little girls in the village began to disappear, one by one. No one could find out where they had gone. Grief-stricken families searched the woods, the local buildings, and all the houses and barns, but there was no sign of the missing girls. A few brave souls even went to Bloody Mary’s home in the woods to see if the witch had taken the girls, but she denied any knowledge of the disappearances. Still, it was noted that her haggard appearance had changed. She looked younger, more attractive. The neighbors were suspicious, but they could find no proof that the witch had taken their young ones.

Then came the night when the daughter of the miller rose from her bed and walked outside, following an enchanted sound no one else could hear. The miller’s wife had a toothache and was sitting up in the kitchen treating the tooth with an herbal remedy when her daughter left the house. She screamed for her husband and followed the girl out of the door. The miller came running in his nightshirt. Together, they tried to restrain the girl, but she kept breaking away from them and heading out of town.

The desperate cries of the miller and his wife woke the neighbors. They came to assist the frantic couple. Suddenly, a sharp-eyed farmer gave a shout and pointed towards a strange light at the edge of the woods. A few townsmen followed him out into the field and saw Bloody Mary standing beside a large oak tree, holding a magic wand that was pointed towards the miller’s house. She was glowing with an unearthly light as she set her evil spell upon the miller’s daughter.

The townsmen grabbed their guns and their pitchforks and ran toward the witch. When she heard the commotion, Bloody Mary broke off her spell and fled back into the woods. The far-sighted farmer had loaded his gun with silver bullets in case the witch ever came after his daughter. Now he took aim and shot at her. The bullet hit Bloody Mary in the hip and she fell to the ground. The angry townsmen leapt upon her and carried her back into the field, where they built a huge bonfire and burned her at the stake.

As she burned, Bloody Mary screamed a curse at the villagers. If anyone mentioned her name aloud before a mirror, she would send her spirit to revenge herself upon them for her terrible death. When she was dead, the villagers went to the house in the wood and found the unmarked graves of the little girls the evil witch had murdered. She had used their blood to make her young again.

From that day to this, anyone foolish enough to chant Bloody Mary’s name three times before a darkened mirror will summon the vengeful spirit of the witch. It is said that she will tear their bodies to pieces and rip their souls from their mutilated bodies. The souls of these unfortunate ones will burn in torment as Bloody Mary once was burned, and they will be trapped forever in the mirror.

Scary, huh???!!!

So now you shall be graced with the blog of  Yours Truly! I got another mark back today, NS, and I got 97%! My best so far! My mom is seriously happy!

I’m a bit worried, because it’s nearly Sunday, and I really don’t know what to get my dad for Father’s Day! Please, please, please give me some ideas!!!

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Thank you to all the people who have read my blog! And I don’t think that my marks were that bad!!!

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Everything happens for a reason… That’s what I believe. I mean, say if you were in a terrible accident, but still managed to survive, that would be a sign, not just ‘nothing’. I am in a state of dismal right now, and I am thinking, would anyone really miss me if I weren’t here??? Know why I’m thinking that? Because no one is reading my blog! Ok, so I’m not the most intresting blogger around, but how would anyone know that, because no one READS MY BLOGS!!! Just because I don’t exactly have a point to make daily, doesn’t mean that I deserve to be neglected! Anyway, I shan’t bore you much more, I’ll talk about school now, as I’m pretty sure I’m the youngest person on this site, and no one else ever writes about school.

I have more exam results! I got a 72% for English (Ok, I’m pretty sure I was one of the highest in the grade, as it was a REALLY hard exam!), and a 93% for Health. I’m really good (I don’t have to worry about boasting, it won’t offend anyone, because no one READS MY BLOG!). So those are the results. At school, were you ever divided into cliques? We are. There are the lamo losers (how original), the wannabees, the pony fanatics, the fashionistas, and the popular girls. Lately one of my friends became a popular girl. Sigh. Don’t have much more to say, except PLEEEEEEEASE READ MY BLOG!!! Pretty pretty PRETTY please???!!!

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