Day 39

We had the end of year awards ceremony in the morning, it was like any other award ceremony, pretty boring, although I was exceptionally proud of Ira when she went up to collect The visual Arts Award. I chose her because she was the best artist, which was an exceptionally hard decision to make, but if you consider, passion, hard work and actually what was the most compelling, powerful pieces of work, it would have to be hers. She was a very emotional student and a lot of her work was about eating disorders, she was at first a little shy of her work and was afraid to show it to anyone except to me, but I managed to persuade her that it was beautiful and she should be proud of the fact she had overcome her problems this year as well as all the stress of high school and the amount of pressure applied by Korean parents. In the end she showed all of her work at her final exhibition and, and not only was it emotionally powerful but it was also visually beautiful as well. I am sure she would never have thought that she was going to get the award as some of her classmates tended to score a lot higher owing to their  stringent application of the assessment criteria. The best artists generally never get the best results according to any educational assessment criteria from high school to Masters level. Its probably owing to the fact that they care more about the Art than the rules!! Anyways I was very happy to see that she was actually at the award ceremony in the first place and very proud when she went to collect it. The rest of the day was rather uneventful, was thinking of going out to meet Heeji but she was out with her friends, when she said she could meet me at 10:40pm I was already in my pants eating Pizza! So kind of settled in for the evening. I did find a well funny series me and my flat mate used to love called 'Gold Rush' about these well funny Alaskan hillbillies trying to run gold mines and failing miserably, turns out they have done another 2 series since we used to watch it so that made me laugh!!

It’s a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can’t predict and we can’t control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We’re part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.

— RUDY RUCKER