November 14, 2005
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Swimming carnival
Somehow, swimming carnival wasn’t as fun as I expected it to be. May be it’s because the noise made me nervous, and the stands were so crowded that I didn’t get to sit down. Or may be it’s because I entered in all three 50 metre events and by the end of the third one I was sitting on the floor being dizzy with people asking me if I was OK. I came fourth in the freestyle race though. The synchronised swim didn’t go so well – the music didn’t come out right. I don’t really like the way I looked with makeup on either. Booralee came fourth, so I got another yellow ribbon. So yellow…
Well, if I was dizzy after the swimming, I certainly wasn’t in the evening. It’s Monday, so of course I go to my sculpture class. My two other sculptures have been fired. The tip of my mouse’s tail broke off before firing, so it’s been fired when the tip (which was found when I asked what happened) hasn’t, and look what it’s like now. I’m not going to stick the tip back on, I’ll just have to sand the tip of what’s left of the tail.
This session was a double model session. Having two models is surely challenging! The teacher recommended the class to sketch the models first, but I’m really slow with sketching, so I scribbled on my sketchbook a bit and gave up. It’s probably better that I start on the clay earlier, because I don’t know how I’m going to finish off this piece. The first one that I did this term actually looks quite promising, but the double model session surely proves to be a challenge. It’s starting to lean to one side by the end of the lesson. I just hope it survives to next week. Only last Thursday I felt sad for no reason, and now I actually have something to worry about just as I start to feel better.It was funny how just about every time the teacher says something that doesn’t come out right. Last week she said “wash your bottom [of the sculpture, and then realising what she said] eh… underneath, that’s a better word”, this week with the models she said it was a “one night stand”… xD
