Friday's 'Bonding' Day

I actually lived through it and really enjoyed it! Yes I know and I'm not pulling your leg. The activites, all with our form class, included outdoor ones (I hate doing sport!) creative ones (I am not creative at all) along with many others. It's actually hard to explain because it was probably 'had to be there' kind of thing and we did loads. I was bloody knackered by the end of the day! I set my alarm for 6.40am, got the bus at 7.40am (it takes 50 mins to get to the sixth form) and then planned to get the bus back at 4.05pm but the bus was 20 minutes late and I didn't get back home until after five!!

This is the shape our bonding day took:

- Writing where we wanted to be in 10 years time

- Joining groups with people you didn't know to make balloon chairs (trust me it didn't go that well haha but was really funny)

- break

- outdoor activities consisting of standing in a circle and holding hands with everyone whilst trying to get a hoop to the next person, so you had to step in the hoop, shimmy it up your body, then get it over your head to the next person while still holding hands: we had to do it like 10 times but I was successful each time, thank god!

- dinner (well lunch but I call it dinner)

- quick little assembly

- getting photos took for our ID cards: mine looked terrible :(

- getting put into groups with people you didn't know and making two halloween outfits out of newspaper for a boy and a girl: our boy who was an Egyptian mummy won but our girl who was a really good witch totally should have won!

They were all stupid 'bonding' activities with the form class but they did make us bond. I talked to loads of new people and hopefully we'll actually be established friends in the near future :) It was really fun despite me not looking forward to it all. We start back on Tuesday and I don't know whether I'm nervous or excited - both I think! We've bonded with our form class and know people but on tuesday I probably won't know anyone in my classes as there are hundreds of new students this year :/

I'll let you know about it on the first day back if I'm not too tired to post when I come in! :)

Tan!

I've had a great holiday away. During the time I've been away, I've been staying at my mam's friends house in Devon and been camping in Cornwall. The weather down south was lush! It was sooo hot and I've got myself a nice little tan - especially on my lower arm = result :) Devon and Cornwall are beautiful places and here are some lovely photos to share with you all. We stayed in St. Ives in Cornwall while camping but also visited the surrounding areas - Hayle, Lands End and when in Devon we stayed in Sidmouth but went to Tipton and Perranporth along other little stops. We also walked along the Pebblebed Heaths in Devon - seriously such a lovely place!

St. Ives

My twin brothers with pirates at Lands End

Lands End

Lands End Sign

Lands End

Hayle Beach - this photo does not do it justice! It was a beautiful beach!

Pebblebed Heaths

Sunday

I was going to do this post earlier on in the week but I've been to lazy to put the pictures on my laptop. On sunday, the weather was really warm for once - actually quite hot mid afternoon so me, my mam, dad and twin brothers and Jess went strawberry picking and went on a lovely country walk. We've been to the Corbridge one before and it's really nice. We got loads of lovely strawberries - they are so much better hand picked! It's the perfect thing to do in the summer!

*All photos my own*

Strawberry fields right ahead

Yum Yumm

Thye also had raspberries, currants, blackcurrants, blueberries...

Raspberry plants

Ben and the build up of our strawberry punnet!

Daniel and my dad looking for juicy strawberries!

Me and Ben

Me and Daniel (my dad trying to be adventurous with the camera angle)

My mam and the twins :)

Starry Eyed

I wish this is how I could spend my summer this year...

Photos via 1 and 2

Au Revoir For Now!

As you may have guessed, I'm off to Paris tomorrow. My many posts telling you may just have gave that away :) Well technically because we're driving down south to get the eurostar across I won't be in France until Tuesday. I can't believe how fast it has came around.

I hope my camera will be good to me and let me take some decent photos so when I get back I can post them on here. I was really excited a few weeks ago then on Saturday it just didn't really feel like I was going and I wasn't that excited but I'm looking forward to it now! I'm getting all packed today and then I'm off early tomorrow. So, i'll be back soon...

Au Revoir x

P.S. I was really excited on Thursday when I found out that I had got tickets for the sunday of Radio 1's Big Weekend in Carlisle! I just couldn't believe it when I found out that out of about 800,000 people registering all together for either the Saturday or the Sunday that I was one of the lucky 10,000 who got a ticket for the Sunday. So as I got two tickets, I'm off there in May with my friend Sarah. Ahhhh, I can't wait!! :)

The Main Stage Line Up for Sunday is:

Lady Gaga

My Chemical Romance

Bruno Mars

The Script

Taio Cruz

Katy B

Professor Green

Olly Murs

The Wombats

Plus loads of others including Two Door Cinema Club and Noah and The Whale!! :)

Time to Smile - #111-115

Title: Time to Smile #111-115

Weekly Post Day: Wednesday

Details: This is my weekly wednesday post which will feature five things each week which I love, make me happy or make me smile. Mostly all three! Hope you enjoy :)

(You can find the others in the tab above)

111. Having laughs all day

112. Having no exams until a few months time

(can't wait 'till below!)

113. When the teacher totally gets off topic in a lesson

(My Science Teacher! - she actually knows that below is the truth)

114. Having no work to do on a night time so relaxing

(I wish I was relaxing here)

115. It being March!

Summing It Up:

For a weeks half term off, I've actually done something most days this week which I was really pleased about. It started with Thursday night going to see Never Let Me Go at the cinema which I mentioned in a previous post and then going for a meal with my family for my grandma's birthday on Sunday. On Tuesday I went bowling with my mam and my twin brothers Ben and Daniel who are six and a half. And guess what?! My six year old brother Daniel beat me and I came second, I couldn't believe it and he wasn't even using the ramp thing.

On Wednesday I went to the cinema again to see Paul with my friend. It was hilarious! I was really looking forward to seeing it because the trailer is so funny - and so was the film. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are great together and the alien Paul was equally hilarious. I was sitting next to a boy on the other side of my seat who was about the same age as me or maybe a year older or so at seventeen and in parts his laugh was funnier than the part he was actually laughing at. My and my friend were in hysterics half way through the film, partly because of the funny scene and the other part because of his laugh next to me. It didn't help that he wasn't even that fit hehe. If you haven't seen it you must!

Yesterday my mam's friend came up with her baby Harry again and he is just so cute! And, I got a hold except he would only sleep if you walked him about, not if you were sitting. You would stand for a while then sit down but as soon as you sat down he would know and begin to cry again :). He's gorgeous. Then I looked after my twin brothers for an hour or so while my mam went to the fortune teller with her friend and when she came back she said it was unreal. In the future when I've had more experiences in my life I want to go and see a fortune teller so I've added this to my bucket list. The fortune teller was apparently really accurate and mentioned me and all the family, including that my mams nana is looking after all of us and our old dog is with her. (I nearly cried!)

(I really like outfits similar to this at the minute)

Today I went shopping with my mam and we had a shop about and a browse and I got a new cardigan. I know it's nearly summer but you can't go wrong with a knitted cardigan. I've just got back from a lovely meal with my parents, so overall I've had a pretty good week. I've also got most of my work done for school except for my English Poetry exam question and revision for an exam I have on Tuesday. It's only a re-sit though so I'm not too bothered about it.

I love this colour at the minute, I really fancy buying nail polish in a similar shade:

Something I realised a few weeks ago:

Hope you have had a good week and have a great weekend. What have you been up to?

Time to Smile - #106-110

Title: Time to Smile #106-110

Weekly Post Day: Wednesday

Details: This is my weekly wednesday post which will feature five things each week which I love, make me happy or make me smile. Mostly all three! Hope you enjoy :)

(You can find the others in the tab above)

106. log flumes

107. that feeling in you stomach when you go down a hill fast in a car or on a rollercoaster (most people hate it but I love it!)

108. when my dog wags her tail and wiggles her bum everytime she sees someone

(This is Jess last year, a week after she had been groomers. At the minute she is all fluffy and needs to go to the groomers!)

109. candyfloss (but not the sticky fingers afterwards)

110. elephants

Friday Musings

My school broke up earlier for half term, hence the reason I'm off school today until the 28th of February. I've been waiting ages for a week off because I really needed a lie-in! Yesterday I went to the cinema with my friend and we seen 'Never Let Me Go' which I was really looking forward to watching. As I've read the book around a week ago, it was strange seeing the story on the big screen, which parts of the book they missed out and the way they interpreted others.

When I read the book, I thought it was good but that it wasn't brilliant. As I felt it didn't have that extra something which makes a book seem excellent and that you want to re-read it. Don't get my wrong, I enjoyed the book so therefore I recommend it for someone to read especially if you have the seen film because I think that some parts of the book should have been included in the film.

Today, I thought that I would catch up on programmes that I have missed during the week and now I'm off to take the dog out on a walk. So fun, fun, fun eh? I suppose it's been quite relaxing just sitting there watching tele, just doing nothing! Anyway it's been better than having a day at school especially because I have an extra week off. School is coming close evening quicker than I thought as by the time I go back it will be March and we leave in the last week of May but go back into school for the final exams in June. Scary stuff!

What have you been up to do?

Time to Smile - #101-105

It's back after reaching 100 in early January last month!

Title: Time to Smile #101-105

Weekly Post Day: Wednesday

Details: This is my weekly wednesday post which will feature five things each week which I love, make me happy or make me smile. Mostly all three!

Hope you enjoy :)

(You can find the others in the tab above)

101. breakfast in bed

102. award shows

103. 'had to be there' moments

104. dancing randomly when a good song comes on

105. finding new music artists to listen too