Back from holiday!

Yes, my blog has returned after an extended holiday. Looking back at previous blogs I realised I left anyone who happened to be reading on a cliffhanger... I apologise. However, ray has now kindly filled you all in on what happened in his comment on the post below so thank you ray...

Anyway, on to the new school year. If I said in my last post that that was one of the most stressful weeks I'd had then last week comes a very close second. I wont say too much about it but, take heed of my words children, procrastinating is baaaad. Put simply, I had a piece of English and Music homework that I left right to the last minute and that had a 'domino effect' on all other homeworks that came my way that week. I don't work quickly as it is, so these piles of work led to many a late night and skipped lunch- frightening stuff...

Otherwise, school has gone ok so far in this first term... Once again, we have a very interesting batch of teachers (including some of last year's favourites) and I hope they will provide us with as much entertainment as last year's lot. While we have lost Burchy, Gibby Bear and miss 'uh-huh' lowe (recently revealed as Michal :-o), they have been replaced by 'the great dr warnes', the 'main man' (who moves ever so gracefully through the corridors...) and, our beloved new form teacher, mr 'history' who seems to enjoy calling me "SOMERS!" whilst fixing his eeeeevil eye upon me. I daresay I will have more to report on teachers in future posts as they do get more and more interesting and entertaining every year!

I have no lunch to report on today, as I spent the day fasting with raiyan and daniel at raiyan's house (HAHA raiyan, we made it!!!). However, for tea I had an authentic bengali meal (and apple pie...) to break the fast with. It was very delicious and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you!

Can't think of anything else to say for now... Happy October everyone! :-D

edit: some names have been changed to protect identities

Ma semaine

It's finally the weekend! I've just had a long and tiring week of school, going through some of the most stressful days of my life so far (mind you, there's still next week to reckon with, and the many years of exams coming up...)

On Monday I had my Grade 5 clarinet exam, which I turned up for 20 minutes early and came out 20 minutes late... Apparently, the examiner had been caught in traffic leaving me sitting alone in the waiting room for a good half-hour getting more and more nervous and tense every minute. When the time finally came, I was given barely a minute in the warm-up room before I was whisked off into the exam room to perform. It didn't go too badly but still, I could've done without the apprehension beforehand.

Of course, me being the lucky person I am, I arrived back at school 20 minutes into the French Listening exam I was supposed to be doing. It's pretty awkward trying to slip in to a silent French exam without causing distraction, particularly if the whole class is facing the door...
"You can do it tomorrow lunchtime" my French teacher mouths silently. At least, that's what I thought she said...
As it turned out, when I went looking for her the following lunchtime, she wasn't actually there... After standing around for half an hour or so, wasting valuable lunch-break time, she finally appeared looking at me at first with confusion, and then sudden realisation. Apparently I was going to have to do the listening exam the next day instead. Hmmm...

There are days in your school life that will make you stand out in your class for a few days, almost like you're famous. It might be because you've smashed another person's beloved magnets (this actually happened) or you've finally returned to school exhausted after a prolonged disappearance which nobody knew anything about (this also happened...) It's usually the bad things that cause you to stand out like this and I'd say that Wednesday was probably my 'standing-out' day (though it thankfully didn't last long).

Wednesday was the day when I was due to have my listening exam at lunch. However, it was also the day we had a chemistry test, a russian listening exam and the dreaded french orals. These were the French orals that we'd only had a few weeks to prepare for and I wasn't feeling as confident as I usually feel about these exams. I'd managed to come up with a bunch of complicated answers to the incredibly annoying questions (tu aimes faire les courses? non.) in my head but was having trouble formulating them in my mouth (and in my memory). However, come period three, I'd forgotten all about the oral and was concentrating on my Russian listening exam. Lunchtime came, but I had to spend the whole time doing the fudging French listening which left me feeling hungry but with no time to have lunch. So, I skipped lunch that day.

This is getting way too long and I have to go for dinner. I'll finish this some other time. It's nothing the majority of you haven't heard anyway. Congrats if you actually read it. Looking at it now, I realise it's something most people will never read. Ah well...to be continued...

...

A few things have happened over the last few days...
Yesterday we went on a geography trip which was OK, although it was mainly made up of 'coach trip'. I didn't learn that much about geography but I did find out what happens when the whole contents of a bottle of ice tea leak out into your bag (result: several saturated geography books)
I also managed to find out how embarrassing your friends can be if they get bored enough.

As for today, usual stuff... nothing happened. My Russian teacher has given me the responsibility of making a poster advertising 'Rooski cloob' i.e. Russian Club. The problem is, there isn't much to advertise about it except 'Play Monopoly in Russian!!!!'
The only reason I'm going is because I need to get more clubs on my report what with ARCO finished (hooray!) I'm starting to regret my volunteering. The way the teacher's face lit up at the prospect of restarting Russian club means she's probably going to burst into tears if I back out now... you know what I mean...

At least db has said he'll try it out. Thankyou!! I'm very grateful, especially seeing as he doesn't even do Russian! Now it won't just be me, Kit and Keir (not that there's anything wrong with them, of course.......) Just shows what good, true friends will do for each other. Does that need repeating, ray? (You don't have to come if you don't want to dan...)

Speaking of ray, he was seen fraternising with 'that crew' this lunchtime! Playing football! In his jersey (new word from gibbon)! Before we know it, he'll be using keelerisms and throwing cutlery at the ceiling!!!

Back to school

We went back to school today! Woo! What fun...
For lunch, I ASKED for chilli but they gave me chicken instead. Graah! When will those silly people learn? I didn't eat most of it.
By the way, if anyone's wondering, I'm not actually a fat pie really. The lunch-thing is just a theme that I'm continuing in this blog because that's all I really have to write about.
Early lunch finish now so I've got to go... rushed blog...

Hmm

Went to db's yesterday which was good fun, thanks db!
I haven't had lunch yet so I'll talk about yesterday's lunch...
Yesterday we had burgers. They were very good although I wasn't feeling very hungry at the time because I'd already stuffed myself with (too many) chocolate raisins. The lunch was accompanied by a variety of noises as db and ray decided it would be a good idea to have a competition to see who could drink their fizzy coke the fastest in one gulp. Needless to say, the results were very loud and I felt like I was surrounded by Kits (apologies to Kit if he ever reads this though he should really take it as a compliment...)
What else is there to say? Not much...

A long week ahead...

Tomorrow begins my long week (and a half) of revision. Some will hate me for doing this but I think the end of year exams are still important. It might not affect our entire future but it serves as good practice for when the time comes so yeah, I'm going to try and work hard this year (wow, I sound like I'm writing a speech, i'll be expecting applause at the end of this :-))

I watched the Eurovision Song Contest yesterday. As always, some of the songs were pretty rubbishy and the voting was even rubbishy-er. I don't know how many of my friends watch Eurovision but for the record my favourites last night were Croatia and Ukraine. They weren't great but they were a lot of fun and I guess I like Eastern music... The winners, Finland, were an amazing (word of the evening according to Terry Wogan) visual spectacle but the song wasn't really my type, and the voice was annoying. The UK's entry was a bit dodgy. The song started nicely but the bland rapping brought it down. Overall, the contest was OK...

Hmmm lunch... noodles... not much else to say really...
Looking forward to going to db's on Wednesday!

Mudge

Sooooo I was about to blog at lunch when that I.T. guy (whatshisnameagain?) comes in and busts his chunky moves! Basically, he said I was doing nothing and logged me off and told me to get out! Of course, he didn't notice Mr. 'always-innocent' db who was doing exactly the same thing (though a bit more discreetly, that probably made all the difference...)

Anyway, we got back results from various pieces of work today, and I was fairly pleased with most of them. 25/30 for a history presentation and an A for that geography exam. :-) We also had a 1500m run (argh!) for which I came 18th (out of 30 or so) with a time of 7:20, I think...
Also, when I got home I discovered I'd got one of those 'congratulations on your report' thingies from the high master. Of course, this was for the lent report which we received several months ago, so he was kinda late with the congratulations... Hmmm...

Lunch was a bit of a surprise. I forgot to mention in my last blog that during the interval of the concert, we could go to the dining hall for 'seasonal refreshments' (peanuts and crisps...). But the highlight of this was (drumroll) a table laid with glasses of the most delicious fruit punch!! It was strangely addictive (not alcoholic apparently) and a fellow classmate and I managed to get through about half the glasses there...
Anyway, imagine my delight when, for lunch today, instead of the usual boring blackcurrant stuff, the drink dispenser things were filled with punch!! I pretty much managed to drench my food (chinese chicken) but it was worth it because the result was two brimming cups of punch! It was also good for giving me 'hyper-energy' for the 1500m run! :-D

By the way ray and db, I was talking to you before about perhaps meeting up over the holiday to do something (though I wasn't convinced you were all listening...)
Any thoughts on this?