So here I am again on a Sunday afternoon, updating my blog. Its 4PM and I woke up 3 hours ago. Disgraceful, you say! Well yes, it really is. I attended my school ball last night and wore a really great dress. You'd love it, really. I'll attempt to procure some photos somehow to put up here at some point. And that finished at midnight. And of course, Mahurangi College, as any other school, has an afterball and this year it was at the Kaipara Flats Airfield and it ran from 1AM until 6AM. Me being me, I was one of the very last to leave. The music was fantastic, the disco lighting was buzzing out and the venue was super secure - 11 security guards, 10 cops and the Rodney Rams all came to make sure none of us got drunk enough to do anything overly stupid.
So I got to bed at about 6.15 which, ironically, is exactly the time I normally get up.
The upshot of this was, of course, that I slept extra long, and I only woke at 1.
It was all worth it, though! The afterball was super fun, though I wasn't drinking, and the ball itself was absolutely beautiful.

This brings me to wonder, will my host school have a ball? Surely they do ... though Silja tells me they don't have them this big and flash in Iceland. I hope they have a school ball ... I also wonder whether, if they DO have a school ball, do they have a massive afterparty like we do? There were 400 people at the afterball this year, the biggest they'd ever had. It was huge.

I read a book about the Faroes that said people in the Faroes either drink a lot, or like to talk about those who drink a lot. I wonder what this will turn out like ... could be interesting!

Guess I'll find out in 11 days!