Valedictory Dinner & Last week of Year 12

I can't believe I'm graduating soon and taking all these exams soon which I have been preparing for since years! I don't know what to do, what I'm going to do and what I'm supposed to. I'm scared, excited, worried, stressed and a mixture of feelings about the future but I put my faith in God. I honestly put my faith in God about my future because I was just reading Joshua Harris' Boy Meets Girl and he tells us to let God take care of your future because his plans for your future are a million times better than the future we have planned for ourselves. I know I should plan it all our but for some reason, I have been contemplating picking Advertising, Marketing and Communication/Media Studies for my majors. Which I can't - because you can't do three majors and double degrees sounds way too much work. Though, hopefully I'll be able to get into the university (Curtin/UWA) I want so I will have the choice to choose.

The last week of year twelve went by so quickly; I still can't believe it's over. It hasn't properly settled in yet and there's so many things I want to say but I haven't or I still feel like we're still going back to school and spending our days in class learning but truth is - we're not and that still hasn't hit me yet. I don't think it will ever hit me until like next year. I predict I'll cry over how different everything is and wish that things were back to normal again. We cried when the last school bell rang and all of the year twelve girls cried and hugged each other all the while Birdy's Skinny Love was playing in the background which just made me cry even harder. :')

Here are lots of photos because they look preeeetttyy!

The Fault in Our Stars

I finished the Fault in Our Stars a few weeks back but I haven't had the time to really blog about it until this week due to the mass amount of assessments we have before we officially finish year twelve (eek!)

I cannot exactly explain how I felt about finishing the novel. I mean, I think Tumblr kind of spoiled it for me and I borrowed the book to my friend who assumed that I had already read it; so she sort of ruined it for me as well. So, the ending wasn't really much of a surprise. However - it was.



It's a book about cancer, love, family, friends, growing up in a non wish-granting world. I cried, I have to admit (I think it was the second novel I've cried whilst reading). It was horribly sad and I felt really sad. I think perhaps because Augustus Waters was just an overall well-liked person and  John Green made all the characters come true. Something which I still yet to achieve in my narrative writing.

The funny thing is, a few weeks before I had finished TFiOS, my step-grandmother passed away from cancer. I can't really say I was upset because I didn't know her that well to be honest and it's just so ironic how I can cry over this fictional character's fictional death and not even shed a single tear for a human being who I'm related to. I guess I can sort of relate to the whole cancer thing now, yes? It sort of helped me to understand because I guess I'm really afraid my immediate family will get cancer but I know God will protect us and even when the worst happens, we'll fight it through together as a family and support each other. Like Hazel and Augustus, I'll give them the best moments and memories in their life to remember.

“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”

—	John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

Dear Friend: Always

Dear Friend,