June 5th, 10:04 am.
Last night I had nightmares, and this morning I woke up very tired, sad, and pensive.
Even though I have a month left in Auckland, yesterday signaled the end in many ways. It was my last day of classes at Auckland University: all that’s left now are exams. Did I learn everything I could? Did I take good enough notes to be able to study? And did I talk to enough people, the right people, the ones who wanted to be my friends, who would help me grow?
Yesterday was my last logic test. I will never do logic again, not even in the final. What’s weird is I started out hating that class, but now it’s one of my favorites, possibly my one favorite. I started with no friends in it but now I know Sam and Ben. I wish I’d known them longer! I tried to copy and paste some logic here, but it uses symbols that blogger can't handle. :(
Yesterday was also my final Kapa Haka performance. I put my poi away sadly this morning. I know I’ll use it again, to show people at home and to teach my mom, but then I’ll be the expert, which is just wrong in so many ways. We’re probably never again going to stand in our kitchen and practice together.
Going to the final performance was so cool. I didn’t think anyone I knew would be there (in the audience). But I looked out and saw Paurakh, Brent, even Brent’s best friend Gui, Kevin, Eric and Chris (think way back to the beginning of the year), Alyse’s boyfriend David, and, surprisingly enough, Liam, because he hates Maori “culture”. I didn’t see everyone because it was so packed, but afterwards, I saw Pree and Amanda (think way back again). Obviously some of these people were primarily there to see someone else, like David to see Alyse, but they didn’t ignore me at all! I was expecting afterwards to be like after the plays at Catholic high, where people were only interested in talking to the person they’d come to see, but it wasn’t like that at all. I talked to everyone I knew, even those people who had been in the performance as well, such as my flatmates, Britta, Meaghan, Scott, Alyssa from AustraLearn….
So today is sort of a let down. Well, it shouldn’t be, because I still have a test to do today, and Hollywood Bakery with the Timlins, and I get my Philosophy essay back today. But… not to be overdramatic, but it is the beginning of the end.
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