asianasen i'm in schs 🙂 we started on yesterday (thurs 30/1) and yesterday we basically just had an assembly in the morning to tell us about what's going on etc, then we got settled into homegroups. homegroups is like smaller groups in your house, with a few year 9s,10s,11s and 12s in each homegroup. we got shown our lockers anyways after that we had recess. then we did a small activity - building a bridge that can support the most weight with only plastic straws. my team came like 2nd in our house lol (btw the school is very house-oriented; you don't really socialise much with the other houses unless its part of a house competition lol) after that was lunch, where we just roamed around. the school is BIG. i mean big. i literally thought we were in like a park when i went outside. thats how big it is. lol. then after we did a scavenger hunt where we had to complete like tasks. eg. take a selfie with the prof who the school was named after - you had to find a portrait of suzanne cory which was near the front office and take a selfie. then upload to a doc with a creative caption. after that, we had an ANOTHER assembly, where they just talked about a project called PRIMUS that we're gonna do next week (help its being assessed 😭)

anyhow, TODAY, we had sports day, so we went to the westgate sports centre where we were split into 4 teams within our house (mainly based on homegroup lol). we had 6 rotations of 8 possible activities - incl. basketball netball dodgeball futsal handball inflatables trampolines cricket. i got to do everything except dodgeball and basketball. it was mostly fun but the guys dominated the whole game lol so that was a bit sad. my favourite was the inflatables and trampolines lol anyways yeah. we had lunch breaks in between every 2 rotations and yeah. then we came back to school at like 3 and we had a short assembly just explaining the next few days.

so yeah. that's basically an overview of our first two days lol. 🙂
(sorry for the long essay haha)

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        asianasen oh. That's kinda sad. But I'm in the same boat because I left my entire friend group to go to SCHS so I feel u, you'll find good people trust.

            .. thats honestly so relatable 😞 no one from my school came to schs, only like two went to macrob.

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                clover year 9 is chill. You can literally fail like 4 subjects and still go to year 10. It's like a crashout year before locking into VCE.

                    clover that sounds really fun tbh, js wish our school had more similar events 😭

                      .. what i personally recommend is if you are not doing any exams for year 9, quickly finish the year 9 curriculum as soon as possible to save more time for year 10/vce subjects

                      i would recommend getting started on english, general math (you can do the exam in year 10 I'm sure), methods and maybe touch on spesh.
                      chemistry and physics are both optional, I'm js revising my jmss and nossal notes and doing more questions and going thru a general math textbook i found online
                      year 9 is dry, you learn like basically nothing tbh

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                          clover i love being a year 9, getting top or middle locker, more privileges, surrounded by chill people, it feels like the year 4 of high school tbh

                              If i get into an SEHS school, I'll be lonely because I would leave all my friends😭

                                Dosanjh (NHS/SCHS) finding new friends and bonding w/ others isnt hard tbh, because people in sehs schools all have one similar goal - to strive to a better life condition/ success, so you can find a lot of like minded ppl

                                (dont be like me where i told my friend that he will never find any new mates at nossal)

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                                    asianasen uhh.. good advice but I already did year 9. I don't my school allows u to do general 3/4 exam in year 10. But I'm already going to mathods and spesh 3/4 tutoring, its pretty hard but interesting cl.

                                        .. i would NOT like to have my hands to come in contact with the dusty floor, nor do i want to smell the feets of the higher grade students, bottom lockers absolutely SUCKS (i had bottom for a year in yr 7)

                                            .. that's great to hear tbh (my advice is kinda strange and it only applies to yr 9s), wish u the best in vce btw (50 bucks if you get a 99 atar)

                                              Dosanjh (NHS/SCHS) so did i in my old school lol. we never used bottom lockers they were just locked off.

                                              asianasen also the floor isn't that bad lol its pretty clean cause mine is in a place where they dont walk much and its on the carpet soo but idk about when the higher grades start 😭 (im honestly a bit scared)

                                                    clover the carpets better be cleaned at least weekly 😭 I've seen plenty dirty carpets in my life and i js avoid carpets as much as possible

                                                        Dosanjh (NHS/SCHS) whenever i come in contact (skin) with a carpet, it feels like the pandoras mystery box has been opened, like what germs or diseases will it transmit to me, I'm js hella sensitive towards carpets 😔

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