Du Hui Yen - A Prelude In C# Minor

THE WHARF JUMP WAS AWESOME BEYOND AWESOME AND MORE EPIC THAN WHAT WORDS CAN DESCRIBE <3333

Seriously, it was one of the best and most breathtaking and exhilarating experience of my school life. If I could do it again, I totally would!! :D

Phili, Abby, Hana and Kylie had come to watch, along with Matt and Luke (though I didn't see them until later) and that was fun :D
Thanks to Phili for doing my sunscreen and for that extra towel ^__^<33

Caddyl and Kelly and I were jumping (Marina wasn't because of "sea-monsters") and we decided to pick a spot that didn't have algae right underneath it. Also, Caddyl was dropping stones in the water to see how far we could see it go down before it disappeared from sight - the conclusion, the water in the Lagoon is actually not THAT dirty :D

I was panicking a bit closer to the jump, and everyone was supposed to shout "5 4 3 2 1, WGC!!" and then jump, but our half of the line was behind the other half by a second and I was spacing out because of apprehension (if that works :P), so I missed the counting, barely heard the yell of "WGC!!" and ended up being more pulled in by everyone else than actually jumping myself xD

Also a second moment of panic where I thought everyone else was gonna drag me under quite deep (because I'm tinier than everyone else, remember :B) but it was fine - I surfaced and my fringe was all in my face so that I couldn't see, so I bobbed for a bit and pulled it out of my eyes. What made it worse here was that I didn't have my glasses (I put them away before the jump) so I was blinded for a few moments. :XD:

Third moment of panic where I was going to swim to the edge of the Lagoon, and I had to tread water kinda hard since the uniform dress I was wearing wasn't mine, but Marina's second one (since my sister wears mine now) and it was a bit big for me so it did end up being quite heavy. Also, everyone else was screaming (I was more in 'silent panic' mode) and you know what they say about "Mob Psychology". LOL.

Fortunately, since Caddyl and Kelly and I had been holding hands so they landed quite close to me. I'd asked to be in the middle of Caddyl and Kelly - originally I was on the other side of Caddyl, but the girl on my left didn't want to hold hands. I felt 'safer' being in the middle of two people so we swapped. xD

Since the dress was weighing me down so much, I started swimming pretty much right away. I was failing at breaststroke (since I didn't feel like dunking my face underwater without goggles) so I ended up doing this weird backstroke-butterfly hybrid while turning over every so often to see how far I was from the ladder. Once I got to the ladder, I held onto it for ages trying to catch my breath. I also helped some of the other girls get to the ladder by holding out my hand and pulling them in :)

And then after we got out... Caddyl, Kelly and I jumped right back in again, with a yell of "For Amanda!!!" whom we dearly miss and were totally heartbroken that she couldn't be with us on this tradition D:
I took off the dress before the second jump though, it was so heavy I was sure it was going to sink me xD I was wearing togs and boardshorts underneath my dress - I know a lot of other girls were wearing bikinis and whatnot under their uniforms too.

The water in the Lagoon is really, really salty by the way. To the point of being foul. xD After the second jump, the three of us were all spluttering water out of our mouths and whatnot, but after a while it just turned into a spluttering contest. XD
It wasn't cold, but it was actually a really nice temp. because the weather warmed up HEAPS by the time we were out of last assembly and wandering down to the Lagoon.

There's a video posted of it here -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9oHk981Dk4
(I think at one point, you can see a blurry spot hanging onto the ladder than *may* be me xD)
It's not my video, but I'll get to that soon. :)

After that, we got changed, then me and Caddyl, Kelly, Marina, Phili, Luke and Matt sat down on a really nice place overlooking the harbour and we talked for ages. Mostly about gaming and cosplaying. HUR. xD
At one point, I looked at my knee where there'd been a pretty big rough patchy scar-ish thing where I totaled my knees about a month ago while rollerblading (Melly and Shane were witness to that :B) and... it was almost totally healed over! I swear I looked at it earlier and it wasn't like that! xD (Well, the water WAS really salty... ;))

Our conclusion from this - The Lagoon is actually the place where the City of the Ancients was or be. FFVII is set in the past/future on this earth... in NZ. The White Materia (Holy?) is somewhere at the bottom of the Lagoon, except no-one knows where because the Lagoon is kinda filthy. XD
Luke then pointed out into the harbour and said by that theory, Midgar should be out somewhere in the middle of the Pacific..... That or we'll have an FFX and SIN will pop out of the water. xD

Well, I really should be studying right now, so I guess I leave you at that! Future 6th Form WGCers, do the Wharf Jump!! It's just so much fun. Don't worry about the water being dirty, it's not like you're going to be in there for a super-long time anyway. I mean look at me - I have super-allergies, and I'm still alive. ;D

So then, I'll catch you on the rebound, mouth-breathers! ;DD
~One very excited and euphoric Madja

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