Maegan Elle's Blog

What it's like going to high school in Australia As you all may know I am from Australia and am currently in my last year of high school, studying Visual arts - Design, Photography, English and Business and Enterprise. I have noticed over the months that my views have been coming from a variety of countries, from America to Peru, I thought this was really cool. this gave me the idea of creating a post giving an insight as to what a high school is like in Australia and to share my experience with a variety of people from a variety of different countries. The School Year - In Australia, the school year starts at the end of January and goes through till halfway through December. a school year consists of 3 holiday periods and 4 terms which generally contain 10 weeks of school. the year will start at the end of January and go through until the middle of April (first term), we then get a two week holiday from school. The next term (term 2) starts at the end of April/start of May

If I tell you by Alicia Tuckerman If I tell you is a book set in Australia, about a girl named Alex Summers who is dealing with being gay. The story follows Alex in her perspective discovering her sexuality in a town that is filled woith homophobic people. As the story progresses Alex meets a girl named Phoenix Stone and her life is changed forever. I really liked this book! The characters were well developed, the imagery used was good and the book flowed all throughout. In some parts of the book, I felt it went a bit quicker or it was easy to tell what was going to happen next, but overall it was really good. this book was very emotional, not only did Alex have to deal with ridicule from the town she also at times got it from her family. it saddened me to discover what it can be like for some people that are having trouble coming out. this is one of the first books I have ever cried while reading, it definitely brought out a lot of emotions which i loved The ending was the sadde

Hi everyone, I'm posting this to update you on why I have been away and what will be coming in the future. As to why I have been away that is just because I have been super busy with school and creating new blog posts for the future. some of the new posts that will be coming in the future will be a "if i tell" book review and some watercolour tutorials. if you guys want any posts on lifestyle kind of stuff let me know in the comments as I've been thinking of it for a while but haven't been sure if you guys want it. That is all for now, sorry for being away for a long time and I hope you stay for future posts :)