LAST SPORTS DAY 2014: A HAPPY ENDING!

Heya peepsicles! We had sports day today! And it was my last one, probably last one EVER. But it was great because I came first in my event! And broke the school record! Yeah, go me! I do broad jump, which is basically long jump but without the run-up. You start standing, and then just jump as far as you can. And I came first, and broke my own record, and broke the school record too with 2m 17cm! Woohee! I love my friends who were cheering me on so so so much. Virtual kisses to all of you *sent*. And thank you, my friend, for killing my hand with a high five, virtual painful high five back at ya *sent*.

I'm so happy and pleased with myself, I spent the whole afternoon just chilling and binging on chocolate, and now it's bedtime and I haven't done anything, so...

Byesies! Love y'all xxx

JUNE FAVOURITES

Hiya my gorgeous peepsicles! As I mentioned a month ago, I'm thinking of doing monthly favourites, just as something different to my normal blogging. So without further ado, here you go, my favourite things of June...

Food: Waitrose 'Rich & nutty Belgian chocolate chunk & hazelnut all butter cookies'. Woah that's a mouthful. But it is literally what the packaging says, it's got the most delicious chocolate chip chunks, and it's so buttery and rich. However, I kinda hate it right now as well, because I can't help eating it, even though I told myself I need to stop eating sugary sweet foods. Though that didn't stop me from eating a whole packet of Starbursts today so...oops?

Film: There are two films I've really enjoyed this month, and they are How to Train Your Dragon and The Fault in our Stars, unsurprisingly judging by the number of times I've mentioned them. TFIOS is really popular right now (and rightly so), I don't want to give away too much, but it's got cancer, happy moments, cute moments, and seriously sad moments, AKA half the film. The storyline is amazing (and just like the book, for those of you who've read it) and it really showed me how my problems, such as not having any more chocolate or being annoyed that the wifi is turned off, are really really really insignificant and unimportant. I mean, even though it's a fiction, it's still got loads of truth in it.

And HTTYD is just plain adorable, there are no other words for it. I want my own Night Fury now :(

Makeup: Bourjois Color Boost in the shade Peach on the Beach. I've had it for a while now, but seeing that I don't really wear makeup, I haven't worn it in a while. But last week I was going through all my lip things, and I put a bit on, and omg I'm in love with it again. It's pink, but its a really subtle colour, sometimes almost the same shade as my natural lip colour. But that's what I love about it, it stands out, but doesn't look like I'm overdoing it. Also, apparently it's waterproof, lasts 10 hours, and has SPF15. Which is great.

Clothing: I've got a clear favourite in terms of clothing for June. For about half the month, whenever there wasn't school, I literally wore the same outfit, as long as no one saw me in it twice. And not only going out quite a lot in June, I also met loads of people...so I had plenty of excuses to wear it again and again... Basically, it's skinny jeans, light grey camisole, and a candy pink winged jumper (I think that's what it's called...) Don't judge, but I wore it for about 4 days in a row once...I'm disgusting...

Anyways, that's all for today. I went to one of our family friends' house today for a BBQ (I seem to be having a lot of those recently), but we had to drive for ages to get there and then get back, so I'm so sleepy. And I was wearing wedges, and trust me, even though they're not as bad as heels, it's still hard to run after a 6-year-old kid in them.

So toodles, love y'all, bye! xxx

TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES DAY!

Hey, peepsicles! Sorry about not posting anything these last two days, on Tuesday (two days ago) I had a really fun day at school but was sadly too tired to write anything. As the title says, I had a whole day at school where we were in groups of around 15, and basically played a variety of games on the school field, which was supposed to help us work better as a team.

The first activity I did was the one which we ended up getting the most wet in, which wasn't fun at 9 o'clock is in the morning. But at least it was better than my friends who had it last, they had to get wet in the dirty water which had accumulated over the whole day...poor guys. It was fun, it was basically just an assault course with mini hurdles, agility pole things, a huge wet slippery slide, then finally an army net thingy which soldiers are supposed to craw under...I'm no good at explaining... Anyways, we not only had to do that, but we had to do it a few times whilst carrying a cup of water... Needless to say, we all got wet, cold and muddy. It was fun though anyways.

We next did a zorb racing activity (it was the small type though). That was really fun, my friend and I were an awesome team! She's quite small and skinny, so she literally completely curled up inside the ball, whereas everyone else had knees and feet sticking everywhere. Then I was the one pushing her around, and our job was to stop the other team from getting around the track. We were awesome, we did an amazing job, YOU SHALL NOT PASS! That was so fun! I'd never even been near zorb balls before, so that was exciting and new.

The next activity was a bit more boring...it was called the calculator game, where there were basically just cones with numbers on them, 1 to 15, and we had to go up in turn and tap the cone in order from 1 to 15... It was timed though and ended up getting really intense, so I guess that just shows that even the most boring-sounding games can be fun...ish...

Now the next two, I don't remember which one came first, but there was another assault course, and also a catapult-building game. This assault course was different though, this one was mainly focused on a jungle gym sort of inflatable. It was so fun, there's a little hole you go into, then there are these huge pillars you have to go around, a tall wall you have to climb, then jump or slide off the other side (which was really steep), horizontal rolling-car-cleaner-machine looking things, which you literally have to dive into, and finally to get out there's a thin gap you dive through too...all one after the other, smushed into a space the size of a bouncy castle... That one was my favourite I think, mainly because I've always loved those sort of things, and also because I actually felt like I was doing some exercise, which I really need to do...I'm getting way too lazy :/

The catapult building activity, well that one went horrifically. Using only a few items, we were supposed to make a catapult. We made it in the end (by copying the other team!) and then we had to use it to catapult eggs, whilst someone else has to catch the egg without it breaking! The other team went first, they went all out and got their catchers to go really far away, and they frickin caught their eggs! All three of them, caught by different catchers, were all caught! Then guess what happened when we tried it...yeah, none of them were caught, and the one that nearly was, it broke in the catcher's hand so it went all over her...oops. That was not a fun activity.

Wel anyways, moving on...the last activity was to use drain pipe sections, one each, to create a line for a ping pong ball to get to a flower pot on the ground on the other side of the area. There obviously wasn't enough of us to make a full line all the way there, so there was tons of running and screaming, it was crazy. That one was the one that required the most teamwork, not only because we were all shouting over each other, but also because whenever we lost control of the ball it would always roll off someone's drainpipe because no one was on the other side of that person, to carry on the line of drainpipes. Anyways, after the drainpipes, there was a hula hoop activity, then those dreaded skis which we always failed at in the practise runs. They're the ones which five people go on, and if only one person doesn't lift their foot up at the right time, the ski can't be lifted up at all. So yeah, teamwork was essential...something our team weren't that good at... Whilst doing that, the rocket builders had to start building the rocket. After everyone had finished, we pumped it up and the rocket went off! It was amazing, it went really high up, and the water that was inside the bottle of the rocket all came out over us. It was fun I guess, but mainly satisfying, seeing our rocket take off like that! Wacco! Bomb! Wizard! (In true Lord of the Flies spirit!)

So yeah, that was a really fun day. Sadly though it's only organised once, so there's no more team building activity days anymore for me, sad face. Oh well, at least I got to experience it, I guess.

Well, I've written tons, so I'm just going to go now before I start writing an essay, which by the way I had to do today for homework...800-1000 words on how Simon is presented in The Lord of the Flies...

Anyways, before I actually do write another essay for you guys (I wonder how many words this post has...) I'm just going to go...

Love y'all, bye! Xxx

MY SUMMER 2014 HOLIDAY!

Yay, I'll be going on holiday in the summer! So usually, my parents book our holidays really early in advance, sometimes even one year earlier, but this year we didn't have a holiday for the summer, which was sad. But...OMG I'm so excited...today, we booked a cruise ship holiday!

It's going to leave England and go to Norway and around the fjords there, I've never been before, so that makes it even better! But the most exciting thing is that it's a massive ship with basically everything you could ever wish for on it! There's a library, theatre, casino, spa, sports areas (for example golf course and basketball court), multiple swimming pools, bars, lounges and tons of other cool things. There's even an outdoor swimming pool WITH large screen, so it's like a swimming pool cinema thing! I'm so so so so so excited! And I'm going with my friend, so that's even better! It's going to be a whole week of pure bliss... It's even better than Venice, where I've always wanted to go and used to be my perfect holiday destination. 

Anyways, I'll just stop talking about it before I just can't even... I'm going to go start hyperventilating now...

Love y'all, bye! Xxx

COMIC CON MAY 2014!

Comic Con was so fricking amazing! It was so fun, so much to see, to buy, to do, and everything else comic/anime/manga/tv/film/gaming related!

I had to wake up at 6:15 am so that there would be time to get ready and dye my hair blue before leaving to meet my friends at 7:30 am. Although I kinda snoozed for about 15 minutes...so I ended up with a sort of streaked dip-dyed hair effect, only the ends of my ponytail were spray-dyed, and not done very well either. Anyways, at least I had a bit of blue in my hair! We arrived at the centre, ExCel centre in London, and after getting kinda lost we then had to wait in the queue for nearly an hour, in the rain.

Anyways enough about the boring stuff, let's move on. We got inside and I was so excited, there was so much to look at. There were so many people in cosplay too, including two of my friends, one as Castiel (Supernatural) and the other as Holly Short (Artemis Fowl). Whilst there, I freaked out, and decided to get photos with loads of cool cosplayers!

At Comic Con, I bought a few badges and an adorable Totoro hat! We wandered around, my friends and I, for about 6 hours! By the end, we were shattered and our feet and legs were aching so much, and we kept on having to stop and sit down. So at around 4pm, we decided to leave the amazingness of Comic Con and begin our journey home.

We took the underground and, as you know, I was really tired, so I was half falling asleep. This is embarrassing, but I was sitting next to a random woman, and I almost fell asleep on her shoulder! I literally leaned against her but luckily I think the carriage jolted, so I woke up suddenly and that was when I realised I was against someone's shoulder... Thank god it was only for a split second, and that woman got off at the next stop. She probably got off because she wanted to get away from me to be honest...oops lol.

Anyways, I'm really really really tired, so bye!! Xxx

ADVENTURE TO KINGS LYNN!

Hello, all you lovely people!!! So as its a lovely three-day weekend, my parents and I decided to go take the train somewhere. And where better to go than the furthest place the ticket can get you! It's for the same price, so why not? Anyways, today we went to Kings Lynn, which is really up north compared to where I live. The journey was so long, we started it at 10am ish and got to our destination at 1pm. There was a period of time where for a solid 1 hour I was standing at the entrance of a completely crowded train, only holding onto my sweaty dad for support. Although to be honest, if I lost my balance, I probably wouldn't have even fallen down too much considering the number of people that were all squished together. Or I could have set off a domino effect, and everyone in the carriage would fall down like a Mexican wave...

On the trains, I read some more of the Iliad and it brought back so many memories! It reminded me of when I was in Turkey with friends and we acted out a few sections of it...it was so fun...whilst reading it today I imagined acting it out with my friends on a coach, using a sunhat as a dead body... Those good old times.

When we were actually exploring the town, we found that there wasn't much to see and do, so we bickered about pointless things, such as Chinese restaurants vs. McDonald's. In the end, we opted for both, so it was cool. And seeing as there was nothing to do, we decided to shop. We went to the most exotic shops, like T.K.Maxx and Poundland, where we bought the most exotic things like a shirt and chocolate. Yeah, totally trying new things here! 

We had lunch/dinner (linner?) at Chopstix and McDonald's, had a little walk in the park and played on the swings, then went back to the train station to catch our train back home. Except it wasn't actually one train: it was a train, then the underground, then a little walk, then a train again. So it was a tube-and-feet sandwich with train bread. That sounds absolutely delicious! Not. It wasn't fun, I'm so tired now from running from one station to the next.

We got back home at around 8:30pm, and I'm super duper tired so I'm gonna leave it here for today, goodbye!!!