Exams...

Oh what fun! Exam season is nearly here and it's around now that the panic begins to set in!

My first exam of this year will be a chemistry modular test this Friday :-( I'm panicking so much!!! I can't stand chemistry at the best of times, and it was only when I sat down to do some revision yesterday that I realised how bad I am at it! On the plus side, I've found some old notes and workbooks that will hopefully get me through the 40 mins :-) Sadly, the exam also means that my group also has to miss a physics lesson that we really can't afford to lose. We are about 3 modules behind where we are supposed to be and it's all because of the rubbish teacher that we had at the beginning of last year. He was a lovely bloke, just a hopeless teacher. Thankfully, we're now with Mr Carter, so there just might be some hope on the horizon.

A moan about a moan now; On Wednesday, our English class has to do individual presentations on something that we want to put in 'Room 101' (The idea comes from the brilliant show by Paul Merton). The thing that's annoyed me about this is that every other class gets to talk about something that they like, rather than something they don't. I have a feeling that we may all end up depressed by the end of the day *sigh*

Talking of depression, apparently today is this year's 'Blue Monday', which is said to be the most depressing day of the year. I'm actually feeling quite good today (for once!) so hopefully it won't get me too much!


On a happier note, the never-ending rain has finally ceased! yay!! We can all now go to Morrissons for lunch without the fear of rainwater washing out our cream eggs!! (long story... ;-) )

I'm sure that I've missed many things off of this post (I'm sitting in a noisy library, so you'll have to excuse me for not being fully 'with it'), but I can always add them in later and swear blind that they were part of the original post, and that the Blogger update time is lying and, in fact, conspiring against me...

Anyway, moving on swiftly...

Bye! x

Pantomime (and Torchwood)

For the past three Christmases, I have travelled to London, Cardiff and Birmingham to see John Barrowman in pantomime. This year, he was in Aladdin at the Birmingham Hippodrome, and I went with my friend Jasmine and my parents.

The overall show was absolutely brilliant! It seemed a lot more professional than other pantomimes that I've seen in the past few years and it seemed to appeal to everybody in the audience. The interaction with the audience added to the great atmosphere and enhanced the show spectacularly :-)

The cast was perfect, with the main characters having thrilling stage-presence, and the dancers were fun to watch and very talented. Personally, I found The Grumbleweeds hilarious, and thought that their comic timing and running jokes were some of the best things about the show.


After it had finished, Jasmine and I went to the stage door (like every year :-) ) to meet the actors. We managed to get the autograph of Graham Walker, who was really nice and very funny, as well as the main star; actor John Barrowman. He was lovely, as usual, and willing to post for countless photos with the eager fans (i include myself in that group!).

Sadly, I can't post any photos because I am writing this at school (in my free lesson), but I will try to get some up when I get home.

Oh, and the new series of Torchwood started on Wednesday (BBC2, 9pm). 'Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang', the first episode, was incredibly lively and absolutely amazing! My only moan is that I have to wait another 5 days to see the next episode!

I can't really think of anything else to say, so I might as well go! :-)

Bye x

UPDATE: --> photo of me and Jaz with JB

Oops! :-)

Well, there goes the hope of ever maintaining a regular blog!

So much has happened since I last posted, and I had given up on ever returning to this page, but a freak coincidence (I won't go into details here) made me think that I really ought to because i never know who may end up reading (if anyone at all...) :-)

Right then; here's a brief catch-up on my life over the past 7 months:

• Emily and I never ended up writing our song, although I will remind her about it so hopefully we can start one!
• My school was in the newspapers for a bad reason (giving out the most morning-after pills in the space of a few years) and a pro-life group even published the phone number and address of our head teacher! Most of the claims that were made in the newspapers were fake, but it still wasn't a very fun time.
• My birthday was quite good :-) The concerning thing is, as I am writing this, I actually cannot remember a thing about it! (Oh! I've remembered now! I was a really good day because It was the last day at school so we all had a party and watched films in Physics
• We went on holiday to Lanzarote (the same hotel that we went to in 2006) and It was amazing! Sadly. some friends that I met the first time weren't there again (pretty obvious) so I was a bit lonely :-( But all went well
• England was flooded - I was on holiday at the time, so only heard about it on the news. here was a scare, though, at one point, when the airport we were due to fly to became flooded and we wouldn't have been able to get home :-( Luckily, it was all sorted out by the time is came to getting on the plane.
• The 'Tiddlypeep' situation improved at school because they all learnt their way around and no long get lost (well, you would expect it after 5 months here!)
• Our school name changed to something that none of us really like :-( I was fine how it was but I suppose that might just be me.... I have never really liked 'change' that much...
• Christmas and New Year were fairly good! My family had lots of people wound on Christmas day, which is always fun because we get opportunities to laugh at the drunken antics! The Doctor Who episode was really good too! Although, I didn't get to see it until a few days later because we were too busy to watch it when it was first on

Right then! That's just about it!

I'm going to post something else now, but that's on a different topic so I thought that I might as well use a different post for it :-)

Bye! x