Right then....

I know I've said it countless times before, but... 'Oops!!'

I really never have been one for keeping up to date with things so I suppose I secretly knew this blog was never going to be at all consistent!

So much has happened in the four months since i last wrote anything on this website! I apologise in advance is this ends up being another bullet-point posting, but there's a lot to say and i don't want it to all get muddled up, because it would probably result in my brain combusting with the confusion...

Right then, down to business... erm... My Life! Exams have suddenly arrived and squashed the desperate, longing hopes that they didn't exist, and were in fact a figment of our teacher's imaginations. After all, teachers are aliens (haven't you seen Doctor Who?!) and so the occasional confusion has to be expected.

Some of my subjects are already done and dusted, thankfully, and so I no longer need to worry about them! I will never have to study Chemistry again! YAY!!

My drama exam went amazingly! Alice and Beth have been so brilliant over the past 6 months and I'm eternally thankful for all of the support and praise that our group was given. With three of us in the group, our 18 minute interpretation of Claire Dowie's monologue 'Adult Child / Dead Child' was always going to be unique, but the response that we had from the people who watched it was, well, awesome! It was such an incredible experience!

Explorers is still as great as always :-) Had to miss canoeing this week because of a chemistry exam (*scowl*), but we've got some really cool things lined up that are going to be fun. Hopefully we'll have a few smaller camps to attend over summer (for those of us that can't attend the Essex Jamboree) because we really ought to make the most of the British sunshine when it decides (occasionally) to poke its head through the clouds...

Since finishing 'Adult Child / Dead Child', I've really been missing acting and performing! I've always loved it (obviously, otherwise I wouldn't want to be an actress...) but I've never really craved it before like I do now! A few weeks ago, I applied online for an acting agency called Scream Management and I received an email from them a couple of days ago saying that they accepted my application and want me to go to an audition workshop and interview! Well, I was over the moon before I realised I had 2 exams on the date they wanted me :-( I've emailed them back asking if i could attend on a different date, but so far there's no response :-S I really hope I haven't blown it!! Oh well.... that's life!

So then, who's going to admit to watching Eurovision tonight?! I watch it every year (sad, I know) and this year sounds like it's going to be good!! Although the UK is performing 2nd, and nobody's ever won from that position. Not that we'd win anyway, seeing as all the world hates us!

The only downside to Eurovision is that it means that we have to wait an extra week to see the next episode of Doctor Who :-( This two-parter coming up is written by Stephen Moffat, so we can expect it to have a brilliant script and a VERY scary plotline! There are supposedly the scariest episodes in New Who yet! Although I personally believe nothing can beat 'Are you my mummy'...

Anyway! Have fun doing whatever you're doing...

Abi xx

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

More Coursework...

This time, I'm writing this in an English lesson because I've finally finished my Frankenstein essay! yay! Tonight, I've got to go home and do my Drama work (although Rachel says I can give some of it in after the holidays) and finish my really awkward Chemistry work that I was doing on Tues, as well as going to the doctors and to the cinema to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with Jasmine and Eleanor. It is my favourite book of the series so I am really looking forward to seeing the film version.

Still, only one more day of school to go, which also means... It's my birthday tomorrow! It should be amazing because Friday 13ths are always lucky for me! And the holidays also mean that I will no longer be getting only 6-7 hours of sleep per night due to cast amounts of coursework.

Mum hasn't got any further into booking our holiday, which isn't too reassuring. Late deals and last-minute bookings have always been our thing bu this year we are cutting it a bit fine...

Yesterday, I finally found out where the prayer room is! Ages ago (literally before Christmas), Mrs Hillier told us (after-school RE geeks :-) ) about a Muslim prayer room in the school. We asked her where it is but it was then that she realised she had no idea. I've been asking her for months and yesterday she revealed that it's O13! Me, Alice, Hannah, Liz, Cat, Caroline and David went on a mission to find it and were rather disappointed - it's practically a cupboard with a few tables, a couple of chairs and a computer in. There was even a teacher on the computer! Prayer room indeed! well, even if it was, it certainly isn't now :-(

no other real news (if you can actually call anything above real news) so Bye! x

At the momet, I'm in D9 doing my fabuolous (not) chemistry coursework avec Emily (by the way, read her moans at www.myspace.com/emily6879760)

I was so proud of myself when I finally set up this blogger because i thought that I would keep it up to date but, alas, it went the same way as all the others and I've not updated it since about Charnwood :-( Anyway, I have now become determind (in a mad moment of insanity due to the said coursework) to update everyday (or near enough) and I even give Em permission to poke me (but no slaps, taps or whacks) if I don't :-)

I'm gutted that I'm not going to be able to go to Explorers for the next few weeks because i'm going to see HP this Thursday and then I'm on holiday (not that I'm moaning or anything!). It was a bit dodgey last Thurs because we did some really random stuff and it wasn't too fun :-) Judith has already cleared off on holiday and text me at 5:45 am this morning! I shall get my revenge when she returns...

Oh - Em had just reminded me (by moaning) to mention the tiddleypeeps. Theu have invaded our school, they get in the way, ask people the way to go to really obvious places and accumulate in corridors and so prevent people from walking anywhere. Fair enough, it was us last year, but I'm sure we weren't as bad as them. Plus there's so many of them!

I better go now finish of my work but Imwill try and post some decent material later ;-)

P.S Me and Emily are going to try and write a song in our amazing science lessons!

First post in a new blog...

Hello!


How are you all?

I've tried blogging before but it's never really worked out for me but I've decided to give it one last go!

Well, I've recently discovered the amazing talent that is Mika! I first heard of him just before his single ('Grace Kelly') became number one in the charts and I fell in love with him from the start! His album came out yesterday so I may have to treat myself to it very soon...

In Explorers news, I really cannot wait until this weekend when we go to frosty camp at JLW. From Blaby unit, it's me, Claire, Claire, Karl, Dave, Rosie and Skank (sorry if I've forgotten anyone!). I've got a really good feeling about this camp and I think that it's going to be absolutely amazing!

If I think of anything else to say, I'll update this later!

Abigail xxx