Post by Virginia Hughes on Apr 11, 2008 9:48:41 GMT 10
Virginia was always the loudest to cheer at the sorting. And it had been that way for the six years prior to this one. As it was this would be Virginia's last year attending Koalino Academy, and she could not have thought a better way for it to happen then for the first five first years to be sorted in the new year being put into her house; Saphricorn House. She sat at the very end of the table among the other seventh years, andwhile she couldnt exactly see the expressions on the faces of those newcomers to her house group, she knew what they could expect over the next seven years and knew that every moment of it would be worth the nervousness that came with the sorting.
She remembered her own sorting as if it had happened only a week ago. She'd come from Perth, and so she had to get up a lot earlier then most new students who attended Koalingo. She knew there were schools closer to home, but when she had received her acceptance letters, the best and finest invitation was that of Koalingo Academy. Her parents had known of Koalingo's reputation and had been surprised that their daughter was asked to join them. On the whole she thought they were more nervous then she was about sending her to the other side of the continent to attend a school they didnt think anyone in their family would ever be invited to attend.
The farewell's of her friends had been teary. They were all attending the magic school's of WA, there weren't very many of them, but they were a close knit group of friends and she missed them even to this day; even though in the summer holidays they didnt even bother trying to catch up with one another; at least no time in the last three years. They had made all sorts of wild promises about keeping in touch, though the owls had stopped being sent half way through the second year and they'd stopped hooking up on summer holidays after their fourth year. Virgina hadn't even spoken to anyone of them, despite their proclamations that they would break her out of Koalingo and bring her home to them.
She smiled as she thought of her wild childhood friends. They were a whole bunch of fun and banana's and she knew that had they attended the same school, they'd have continued to be the very best of friends until the end of days.
There was another roar of cheers from the Saphricorn table and Virginia shook herself out of her gloomy thoughts to join in, hooting and slamming the table with her clenched fists just as many others at the table had done. She came out of the slamming laughing in a rich high tone of glee. At her sorting the many others in Saphricorn had done the same for her. And despit the gloom she felt of leaving her friends, everything changed for her at that point, she knew she was joining a group of the coolest and most fun students at the school. And she knew she was going to have a lot of fun.
She remembered her own sorting as if it had happened only a week ago. She'd come from Perth, and so she had to get up a lot earlier then most new students who attended Koalingo. She knew there were schools closer to home, but when she had received her acceptance letters, the best and finest invitation was that of Koalingo Academy. Her parents had known of Koalingo's reputation and had been surprised that their daughter was asked to join them. On the whole she thought they were more nervous then she was about sending her to the other side of the continent to attend a school they didnt think anyone in their family would ever be invited to attend.
The farewell's of her friends had been teary. They were all attending the magic school's of WA, there weren't very many of them, but they were a close knit group of friends and she missed them even to this day; even though in the summer holidays they didnt even bother trying to catch up with one another; at least no time in the last three years. They had made all sorts of wild promises about keeping in touch, though the owls had stopped being sent half way through the second year and they'd stopped hooking up on summer holidays after their fourth year. Virgina hadn't even spoken to anyone of them, despite their proclamations that they would break her out of Koalingo and bring her home to them.
She smiled as she thought of her wild childhood friends. They were a whole bunch of fun and banana's and she knew that had they attended the same school, they'd have continued to be the very best of friends until the end of days.
There was another roar of cheers from the Saphricorn table and Virginia shook herself out of her gloomy thoughts to join in, hooting and slamming the table with her clenched fists just as many others at the table had done. She came out of the slamming laughing in a rich high tone of glee. At her sorting the many others in Saphricorn had done the same for her. And despit the gloom she felt of leaving her friends, everything changed for her at that point, she knew she was joining a group of the coolest and most fun students at the school. And she knew she was going to have a lot of fun.