Thursday, October 23, 2008
Last Seminary DAY & Last Seminary DINNER [lots of romancin']
Friday 17th October 2008 was my last day of Seminary - ever!
No more getting up at 5:30am,
no more studying at 6:30 - 7:20 am,
no more sad attempts at singing,
no more grunts from tired students with their heads flopped on the desks,
no more of Josh's colourful stories about his mates 'Boofhead' and 'Snow',
no more regular visits to the Norwood Takeaway Shop at 7:30am to buy breakfast,
no more taxi-servicing to Scotch and Newstead,
no more d&m's with Jack as we walk to school in the morning,
no more Seminary :(
We walked into the Seminary room which was FILLED with all the games, lesson pictures, scripture mastery's, (and more) from this year. The walls were a massive collage of our Seminary journey this year.
Our last lesson was Malachi 3-4, which was thoroughly interesting and wonderfully taught, as per usual.
We helped pack up the room for one last time.
I kept trying to smuggle kids in and out of the room inconspiuously to sign Lisa's thank you card. I'm happy to report that my smuggling efforts are still A-grade!
Afterwards, we all went out to the car park to get some final snaps of the seminary crew of 2008:
There was Amy, Luke, Jack, Sam, Alyce, myself, Jess R, Hannah, Monique and Kieran. Absent were: Jess and Shannon Tripptree, Danyall Richard, Josh Polley.
This piccy is of special importance to me because these guys were my regular passengers each morning on the travel from Seminary to School. We had some great convo's and good times. We were all sad when my old car died (i totalled it), but were just as glad to see my new baby car - the bommy nissan pulsar!
Speaking of my bommy car. Its a 5 seater...
... And how many people do you see?
I would just like to note that although there was approximately 7 people in a 5-seater, EVERYONE was seatbelted, so it was legal.
We drove to Maccas and had a little breakfast before heading of to school:
[I took this piccy, that's why you can't see me in it!]
On Saturday 12th October, was the Devonport Stake Football Challenge [which launceston dominated!!] at the Deloraine Footy Oval. It was here that i picked my surrogate sister Sammy Prebble. We headed back towards launceston, making a detour to Andy's Gelato in Westbury - along with half the other mormons travelling from del to launny! It was a funny little reunion. We had almost arrived at the Prebbles home when we realised we hadn't bought Lisa her bunch of flowers for the dinner!! Failing to find a florist in Riverside, Sam and I went for a casual stroll down Grinter Street. We 'accidently' tripped over here and there 'accidently' taking some pretty flowers with us :P
I curled Sam's hair, rushed my own, got dressed (had trouble picking which dress to wear!) and got out into the loungeroom where all the action was after almost everyone had already arrived.
Then began my last Seminary Celebration Dinner, ever. We had some light refreshments/ entre served to us in the sunroom, overlooking a setting sun over riverside. It was quite lovely. What made it even more enjoyable was having Dale Prebble, Scott Prebble, Lizzie Prebble and Collette Gibson be our 'slaves' for the food-serving part of the night:
There was lots of yummy food...
...and argument over how to hold a wineglass properly. And LOTS and LOTS of conversation about dating, boy/girls qualities we're looking for, and a very embarrassing moment about Dale missing his first kiss (no mention as to who that first kiss was with!). Then came the presentation of awards. I got the "Big Sister" award, which nearly brought a tear to my eye. I love the launny youth with all my heart, i really do. A noteable mention was Hannah's award (looking so good at 6:30 am EVERYDAY!) where lisa commented, "...and Jack didn't tell me to write this..." which made everyone laugh and poor Han and Jack awkwardly chuckled along, haha!
When sam and I went to retrieve the flowers, they'd closed up! We thought they were dead! But we presented them, along with their story, and Lisa's suprise Thank You Card anyway. She loved it! Made us all happy :D
After Desert, we all headed out to the courtyard to boogie on out the rest of the night!
The Monique & Jess Dance:
The boys reinacting "Sons of Provo":
Lot's of Romancin':
The "Jack.and.Jess-Spin-High-Five-Three.or.more-times" thingy:
We spun around and slapped hands in the air, then kept spinning to see if we could slap hands again... and guess what!? We did it three or more times! Woot!! It takes skill, especially in the dark, late at night!
And there were LOTS and LOTS of photos taken:
There was Amy, Luke, Jack, Sam, Alyce, myself, Jess R, Hannah, Monique and Kieran. Absent were: Jess and Shannon Tripptree, Danyall Richard, Josh Polley.
This piccy is of special importance to me because these guys were my regular passengers each morning on the travel from Seminary to School. We had some great convo's and good times. We were all sad when my old car died (i totalled it), but were just as glad to see my new baby car - the bommy nissan pulsar!
Speaking of my bommy car. Its a 5 seater...
... And how many people do you see?
I would just like to note that although there was approximately 7 people in a 5-seater, EVERYONE was seatbelted, so it was legal.
We drove to Maccas and had a little breakfast before heading of to school:
[I took this piccy, that's why you can't see me in it!]
On Saturday 12th October, was the Devonport Stake Football Challenge [which launceston dominated!!] at the Deloraine Footy Oval. It was here that i picked my surrogate sister Sammy Prebble. We headed back towards launceston, making a detour to Andy's Gelato in Westbury - along with half the other mormons travelling from del to launny! It was a funny little reunion. We had almost arrived at the Prebbles home when we realised we hadn't bought Lisa her bunch of flowers for the dinner!! Failing to find a florist in Riverside, Sam and I went for a casual stroll down Grinter Street. We 'accidently' tripped over here and there 'accidently' taking some pretty flowers with us :P
I curled Sam's hair, rushed my own, got dressed (had trouble picking which dress to wear!) and got out into the loungeroom where all the action was after almost everyone had already arrived.
Then began my last Seminary Celebration Dinner, ever. We had some light refreshments/ entre served to us in the sunroom, overlooking a setting sun over riverside. It was quite lovely. What made it even more enjoyable was having Dale Prebble, Scott Prebble, Lizzie Prebble and Collette Gibson be our 'slaves' for the food-serving part of the night:
There was lots of yummy food...
...and argument over how to hold a wineglass properly. And LOTS and LOTS of conversation about dating, boy/girls qualities we're looking for, and a very embarrassing moment about Dale missing his first kiss (no mention as to who that first kiss was with!). Then came the presentation of awards. I got the "Big Sister" award, which nearly brought a tear to my eye. I love the launny youth with all my heart, i really do. A noteable mention was Hannah's award (looking so good at 6:30 am EVERYDAY!) where lisa commented, "...and Jack didn't tell me to write this..." which made everyone laugh and poor Han and Jack awkwardly chuckled along, haha!
When sam and I went to retrieve the flowers, they'd closed up! We thought they were dead! But we presented them, along with their story, and Lisa's suprise Thank You Card anyway. She loved it! Made us all happy :D
After Desert, we all headed out to the courtyard to boogie on out the rest of the night!
The Monique & Jess Dance:
The boys reinacting "Sons of Provo":
Lot's of Romancin':
The "Jack.and.Jess-Spin-High-Five-Three.or.more-times" thingy:
We spun around and slapped hands in the air, then kept spinning to see if we could slap hands again... and guess what!? We did it three or more times! Woot!! It takes skill, especially in the dark, late at night!
And there were LOTS and LOTS of photos taken:
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- Jess [Bradbury] Wheeler
- Gosford, New South Wales, Australia
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