Our last ever Easter holidays of secondary school (assuming no repeaters but I guess no-one plans to repeat, right?). It feels a little funny. Like I should be freaking out or studying hermit style, whatever. I am far too complacent at the moment. Seemed to have adopted this odd “it’ll be grand” attitude. I know …
Since September I’ve been breaking all that study rules which, if adhered to, would have gotten me A1s throughout the year. Things like a school tour to Rome in November, unheard of until our class fought for it, imperative for our understanding of Latin grammer was seeing those monuments, oh yes. And then the week …
Few things in this planet are as tedious as washing contact lenses after coming home from school. Having to learn 5 Bildergeschichten is one. Following a particularly slow learner driver when you’re already a week late for school, is another. And so, in order to distract myself from all that German, and also to adhere …
Last night, it actually snowed. Not the seldom pathetic little snow flake that melts even before it reaches the ground, but the other, seldom-er kind. So that five minutes of heaven’s dandruff, incalculable sighs of delight and wonder, and a serious case of verbal diarrhea later, the cars, the houses – even the cats outside, …
Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful… Read More »
I hate to sound so Chandleresque but could it BE any colder? My friends and I have taken to wearing layers upon layers of clothes under our school uniforms (including double layers of socks under tights) and still spend the day with shoulders hunched, clutching our jackets. It was minus five degrees at one point, …