Physics

I think mny physics teacher kinda lost it yesterday... He stuck his whiteboard marker on the end of a stick with sticky tape and pretended it was a microphone.
But he did show us something quite funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muVfidujxRg
It's about this guy who actually bothered to scientifically prove why some scenes are physically impossible in My Little Pony, like how the butterflies would have had to undergo 1,000Gs to save a pony from falling, how the rainbow pony was accelerating at 1080 m/s/s... and so on. I really recommend watching it for a laugh. :)

A Few Funny Fings :)

I was at my cousins' house the other day for one reason or another, and had to do my maths c homework. At the moment we're studyng proofs, and 'summarising' each one involves writing two massively long and unneccesary (I think) sentences. I was explaining it to my cousin, and rattled it off for him:
'We have shown that if the statement is true for n=k, then it is also true for n=k+1. Thus, if it is true for n=k=1, then it must be true for n=1+1=2, then n=2+1=3, and so on for all integer values of n.' (for the record, I wrote that whole thing off by heart).
There was a pause after I said that, then my cousin said, 'obviously!'
It was so well timed and well said, I almost fell to pieces with laughter. It was hysterical.

We had youth group last night, and all during dinner, we were telling each other the most ridiculous jokes, like:
What do you get if you sit under a cow? A pat on the head.
How did the elephant get out of the tree? He sat on a leaf and waited 'till autumn.
And so on and so forth. What was really funny was that the leader was trying to get us off the topic of really lame jokes, so out she comes with, 'What's you favourite dessert?' We were all waiting for the punchline, until we realised...

Wednesday

What did I do today, you ask?
Well, we;'re studying Macbeth in English - why is it that every single book you study in this subject is horribly depressing? Anyway, I decided to skim through it, and so I did.
Let me tell you: the book is interesting in the first half, but after that, it just goes downhill until you hit rock-bottom. He dies, she kils herself, he kills his best friend and another guy, tries to kill his best friend's son, and so on and so forth.
What I consider to be a useless waste of my time. I don't advise reading it, or watching the movie for that matter.
I also brought Mum's recipe book from home :) and today I cooked chocolate slice. We worked out the only difference between my recipe and Nan's is that I have an egg and she doesn't.
But the slice tastes gr8. :) I had two.
Anyway, I should probably be doing my maths, english and chemistry homework. I was very proud of myself: I managed to do my german and Maths C homework at school. :) Skilled.

Being an ordinary school student. Fun.

Well, today was another day. School is aprticularly boring after having been on the road every second day! My grandparents are absolutely the BEST! I'm probably the most spoilt person in the suburb. :)
What's happened since I've been in Brisbane? Oh, just a few things, like writing my story, bringing home a packet of matches from the Physics lab by accident, visiting the people who are staying in our house (and who are really nice, by the way. :) ), taking home my ten or fifteen kilos of stuff that I brought home from Broome because Mum and Dad didn't want it any more, practising my violin (I've gotten really bad, but Nan seems to like it, so that's ok!), being driven to school every day (luxury), being rung up three times a day by random welcome-home-rs, and numerous other random things that happen to a typical teen.
It's kind of exciting - kind of - but considerably less exciting than travelling around Oz! Oh, and I had another idea for writing a story today. :) The first sentence is:
'It all started with a letter.'
haha. Now you all have to wait for me to publish it!! Mwahahaha!. :)

hehe. I'm spamming up mum's email - I've got it so she's notified whenever I get a comment on my blog, and yesterday I got 30-something. hehe. :)

EuroEnglish

(Courtesy of Plagio Clase, who got it off Facebook)

The New European Language! (Read Aloud For Best Effect.)
The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c." Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik emthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like fotograf" 20 persent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by " v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

Photos!

I've added photos (and a few more words) to one of my posts - 6th October. :)

 http://musings-of-a-mad-hatter.blogspot.com/2011/10/6th-october-to-derby-and-almost-to.html

Competition!

Mum and I are having an unofficial contest - who has the most pageviews/visits/etc?
I have 5 pageviews from Russia, 1 from Germany and one from Paraguay.  She's got some from Germany and other places too. I have over 650 total pageviews, but she has a lot more (won't say exactly how many... :)) So, Ithink she's kinda 'winning' at the moment.
BUT I WON'T LET HER GET AWAY WITH IT!!!! :)

7th October - to Broome

We left at about 7:00 this morning! A record! WA is 1 1/2 hours behind NT, so we've been getting up at 5:30 every morning!!! I guess it's kind of good I wake up so early, so when I fly home, I won't be waking up at 12:00pm. :)

We arrived in Broome around 9:00, and we had an exceptionally fast un-pack. :) There's a HUGE swimming pool here with a big waterfall with a little room behind to sit in.  :) And it's got shade!

Here's another funny story:

I cleaned out the car the other day, and when Dad came to inspect it, Cooper came too. I don't know where he picked up the words, but as Cooper, 'inspected' the car too, he said, 'wow, that's an incredible car, Katie!'

Just think of him, in his cute little voice, saying that! It came out more like, 'wow, that's an incwedible car!'

He also started singing the minecraft parody of the song 'Dynamite' yesterday. It was the funniest thing. :) He just loves to sing. We'll be singing to a tape in the car, or singing grace, and he'll just join in with his own version. :) It's so cute. I tried videoeing it, butof course the moment I asked him to sing it again, he shook his head determinedly. :(

I think almost every lunch on this trip we've had salad sandwiches. Since our fridge is completely hopeless (15 degrees on a good day...), Mum's taken it upon herself to buy us all tinned meat, which looks, smells and tastesmore like dogfood than anything half edible. I think she's bought tinned corned beef, tinned chicken, tinned every other kind of meat. Every lunch meal is a disaster - we spend half the time holding our noses and (almost) puking... Not a success...

Mum loves her iPad. She plays on it every chance she gets (which isn't often - I think us kids hog it a lot... usually when we're not allowed...). She's now got internet on there, because Dad fixed the charger for the internet box so she can have internet. :) So she writes her blog posts on there, and sticks them up on the blog. :)

Her only annoyance is that she can't get any photos on the blog with it - yet - so she has to use mine for that. :)

The caravan park here in Broome is really nice. There are quite a few permanent caravan-ers, the place is full of trees (there's a mango tree right next to our caravan!!! YAY!), the pool is beautiful (except it's chockers with chlorine or some other chemical that tastes downright foul in your mouth), and we're really liking it. :) Dad picked up a leaflet at reception for car hires (he wants to see if our investment in a 4WD was worth it), and do you know what the company name was??? 'Broome Broome Car Services' (or something close to). I pointed it out to dad, and he said he hadn't even noticed. :) I thought that was particularly ingenious on their part.

6th October - to Derby and almost to Broome

We left quite late today, half because it takes us ages to pack up (which is a surprise, because we can do it in less than 25 minutes some days…), and half because we also did a walk around Windjana Gorge.

The sand/blow flies there were terrible - they'd land on you the moment you stopped, and bite like crazy! It hurt like crazy too!

Dad's been telling the boys all the productive things he did in his childhood, like tying flies to a strand of hair and watching them fly around, so of course the boys decided that that would be a suitable punishment for these hideous flies! They used Dini's hair, and a fly I caught, and tied them together, and then videoed the fly!! It was hilarious. Mum didn't stop them, because she was so hopping mad at these irritating flies she figured that such CAPITAL punishment was most definitely called for. As Jo watched it fly around, he yelled, 'I'm taming it!'

At one stage, Jo thought the fly had died, because it stopped flying, but then up it went again, straining at the hair!

Dad decided to take it the next step up, and said at the next opportunity, he would tie a fly to a hair, and glue it to a little paper plane with a dot of super glue, and watch it fly around. Then they all considered the possibility of getting so many flies tied to hairs that they could lift up a person and fly them away… But considering flies only have a lifespan of 24 hours, I think they discarded the idea…

There was a warning sign about freshwater crocodiles there as well, and we saw one or two! Mum couldn't believe how 'out there' they were - just cruising along in the middle of the river!
 We also saw an ibis, which I reckon was taking a huge risk hanging arund water where there're crocs...
(If you blow up this photo bigger, you can see, to the right in the water, the shiny thing that looks like a log is acrually a croc).

We were watching the crocodile, when suddenly it disappeared! We stood riiiiiight back from the edge after that, but fortunately, it wasn't after us and reappeared a few metres away from where it had been. (phew!)
We also saw some fossils on the walk. There was supposed to be the fossil of some sea animal on one part, and Dad could see it, but I couldn't... But on the way back, I saw what looked like the fossil of a fin in the rock. I wasn't sure if it was a turtle fin...

Whether it was a turtle fin or not, I thought it was really cool! :) And I know for a fact that it's not millions of years old! (We've been taking photos of every sign that mentions millions of years for you, Plagio Clase. :) )

We drove into Derby in time for lunch - I volunteered to make the tomatoes and tuna on bread, and I think Mum enjoyed the break. :)
 Cooper was quite funny - I thought he was screaming something about wanting a 'piece'. I couldn't work out what he meant, so I didn't do anything about it, but it turns out he wanted a 'pizza' - a tuna tomato wrap instead of bread! :) He's hilarious.

After lunch, we walked around the jetty, which was a kind of horseshoe shape, instead of one long jetty jutting out into the sea. Unfortunately, we weren't able to see the tide come in, because it came in at 8:00pm, and we wanted to head off before then… Can you believe!?! Derby has 11m tides! Apparently it's the second biggest in the world (after Bristol, I think - Dad said the tides there are 17m!!!).

We went to see the Old Gaol, which, despite being only two cells, at one stage held 106 people! And it was only closed in 1974 or 75!!! We couldn't believe it.

We also saw the Prison Boab Tree on the way out of Derby, which is a 14m around boab tree that was, at one stage, used as a holding cell for prisoners on the way to Derby. We weren't able to go too close to it, though, because it has aboriginal religious significance, and also so you don't compress the roots of the tree too much - yes, it's still alive!!! Wow!

We arrived at our camping spot pretty late - it's just a roadside stop before we get to Broome.

The toilets here are similar to the ones at the place we stayed at before we went to the meteorite crater - pit toilets with a concrete ring for a toilet seat… It looks like a prison toilet!

I have to tell you the funniest story:

Dini was busting last night, and she wasn't game to brave the pit loo on her own, so of course I had to come with her.

Armed with torches and a lethal roll of loo paper, we headed off. Upon arriving, Dini glanced into the loo (as you do), and yelled, 'there's cockroaches in here!' You could hear them chittering really loud - it was disgusting!

After that, she wouldn't sit on the seat (thought I don't blame her). I told her to crouch, and she said, 'How?'

I said crouch, and pee, and she said, 'How?'

As she was sitting down, she said (with venom), 'I'm gonna outwit those cockroaches! I'm gonna pee on them!' I nearly fell over laughing.