Diary of Girls' Lives

Australia

Sunday 25th January
Dear diary,
Hello, my name is Alex Gebbie. I live in Mornington Peninsula, Australia, and I am here to talk about my friends, family, well, basically my life.
In Mornington Peninsula, we live near the beach and we collect seashells and snorkel. Whenever there are waves crashing among the seashore, I grab out my surfboard and I surf away.
Today, I am transferring to a new school, Mount Eliza Secondary College. The last school I went to wasn't the perfect school for me so I decided to come visit their open day. I heard that they do a lot of tech and art which is really a lot of fun. When I grow up, I want to be a nurse or a technician. I love computer work and art. I've always wanted to go to the best school for me and my education.
Mum, dad, and I are driving along the bumpy roads to the school. I am so excited to meet new teachers and make new friends. Here we are, Mount Eliza Secondary College. One lovely year eleven student comes and approaches me. She has long brown hair and jade green eyes.
"Good morning, my name is Samantha Galvin and I'll be your tour guide for today."
I smile at her and she smiles back. We go upstairs to the classrooms where I see a few teachers inside. I wave at them and they wave back at me. It's already better than my last school. Then we go downstairs to the art and tech rooms. I saw a teacher there. She had long dirty blonde hair and periwinkle blue eyes.
"Hi, I'm Alex. I'm starting here at this school next week."
"Hi Alex, I'm Mrs Fitzgerald and I'll be teaching art and tech for year eight."
After open day, we go back home and have dinner. Then I go to sleep for another new day.

Monday 2nd February
Dear diary,
This is my first day of going to Mount Eliza Secondary College and I'm already out of bed at seven o'clock. I have breakfast, get changed, and I'm off to school. It takes us fifteen minutes to get there.
I get out of the car and go to the reception area of the school, a small separate building which says 'office'. I see the receptionist handing over a timetable to me. I look at the timetable and the first subject we have is art. Mrs Fitzgerald teaches art! I run out of the office building and straight to the classrooms downstairs. The bell rings and I'm just in time.
"Everyone. This is Alex. She's new to this school. Alex, I want you to sit next to Martha on table four," Mrs Fitzgerald says.
There are ten tables and I have to guess which is table four. So I look at the signs that read numbers and I spot table four. One girl looks at me on table four. She has long brunette hair and blue eyes.
"Hi, I'm Martha Meldrew. What's yours?"
"Alex Gebbie. I heard they do art and tech here so I came to this school which I think is way better than my last school."
Mrs Fitzgerald shows us the board and the learning intentions that are on the board. It says here we have to use different sorts of pastel colours and textures. I love using pastels.
At break time, Martha and I hang out together with a few of her friends.
"Alex, these are my friends. Gina Taylor, Hannah Olsen, and Alya Spears," Martha says.
I've already made four friends so far and I've just started at this school. A ball hit my face and I see who threw the ball at my face.
"Haha, loser. Your face now looks like it's a flat tyre on a car," he says.
"Back off! Can't you see I'm new here!" I say.
I started to talk to Martha about this bully.
"His name is Riley Gillman. He's also in year eight. He teases us every time," Martha says.
Riley Gillman! I giggle. Then he takes my bag off my shoulders and fills it with a can of coke. I wrestle him with all my wits until he can't be able to tease me again.
After school, I tell my parents about my first day at Mount Eliza Secondary College. I talk about how I made new friends. We bribe while we sit down eating cakes and drinking hot chocolate.
At nighttime, my mum kisses me goodnight as I go to bed. I can't wait for school to be here.

Tuesday 10th February
Dear diary,
I have just been invited to Martha's fourteenth birthday party and I can't wait to see her again. It says:
'Dear Alex,
You have been invited to Martha's 14th Birthday Party.
Where: 20 Seymour Avenue, Mount Eliza, VIC 3930.
When: Tuesday 10th February
Time: 4-8pm
If RSVP not approved call either
Rita: 0425307865 or
Brian: 0439246802
I just can't wait to see you again!'
What a lovely invitation. It's got a little pink bow on the upper left hand corner and has glitter inside. So I ask my mum and dad to drive me to Martha's house and they reply "yes." I'm so excited I even forgot to do my assignment for English about 'Harry Potter' which is due... TODAY! Oh no! I'm going to be in big trouble, or even worse, get suspended for a whole week! So I wrote one paragraph of the assignment.
At school, we have English. Mrs Vault tells us that if anyone doesn't finish their assignment, they have to stay in at recess or lunch so that she can help. I hand in my assignment. I'm worried that I won't be able to see my friends at recess or lunch.
"Alex, you've only written one paragraph. I told everyone that you have to write four paragraphs on Harry Potter. See me at recess," Mrs Vault says.
Busted!
When the bell goes and it's time for recess, Mrs Vault sits beside me and decides to read the book to me. I learnt that Harry Potter was an eleven year old boy who was treated poorly by his aunt and uncle because his parents died when he was a little kid. Then he started at Hogwarts; a school of magic and wizardry. I find some really interesting facts about him. He had such an eventful life.
After school, mum drives me to Martha's house. The only people I see there are Martha and her parents. I'm early. Before anyone else arrives, we talk about how I stayed in at recess and I couldn't talk to her because of the incident with me not finishing the assignment on 'Harry Potter' and I was jumping around maniacally when I was invited to her birthday party.
There's a knock on the door and Martha answers it. It was Gina. She enters the doorway and sees me admiring the birthday cake on a table of food.
Then Hannah and Alya enter the doorway. We play party games and watch a really good movie which eating popcorn. We eat pizza for dinner and ended the night with cake and a disco before we went home.

All I had to say is that my life is so eventful. With friends, family, transferring to a new school, and even getting invited to a birthday party. But I know that you'll be missing me heaps because it's time for me to say goodbye. Thanks for reading my life!