School prizegiving

Classes have now finished for Mulan at school.  She's on study break, with NCEA exams happening over the next few weeks.

But first it's been prizegiving season.

Last week the music department had a semi-formal prizegiving dinner at McHugh's.  It was an enjoyable night out for the combined boys and girls schools, and Mulan got a new dress for the occasion.

Along with a yummy dinner, Mulan received a certificate and badge recognising her involvement in the school orchestra.

And then on Wednesday night we attended the senior academic prizegiving.

Mulan was there for two reasons.  First, she was again playing in the school orchestra (she's front right).

And then she was called up onstage for Distinction in Accounting.

We're still not quite sure what "Distinction" means in the language of Westlake Girls' awards.  But at least in this case there seemed to be three girls out of five-ish classes recognised for their accounting skills.

The funny thing is that Mulan had earlier been planning to drop Accounting for next year.  Back in August she'd even booked it in as just her backup subject.  But a few weeks ago, after talking about it some more, she'd decided to change her 2023 choices, continuing Accounting and dropping Biology instead.

We're now (semi-)joking that Mulan should be an accountant when she grows up, sitting in an office all day.