Hello.

Wow. Hello blog. It's been a while, you alright? Of course you are. You don't have feelings. Well, I suppose, you can't even be alright in that case, can you? LOL, I haven't changed my blogging style. I thought I might have done since it's been a while. I have adapted LOL though. LOL needs to be explained. Lol is an abbreviation frequently linked to youths, yes? So, if I say LOL, I am doing it in an ironic sense. This is because I, myself, am a youth. However, I like to think I am not a stereotypical youth. So I am being a youth, saying a stereotypical youth saying (LOL), because it's ironic, because I'm not a stereotypical youth. How goddam pretentious is that? Very, I hear you cry. I know, I know.
Right well. Blogging! I've written about you, dear blog, in my personal statement so I thought I should probably revive you. Because otherwise, you know, I'd be lying. And LYING IS WRONG. Some things have changed and some things haven't. Here goes:
1. I am Year Thirteen now. Old. I have AS results. They are okay. AACC. Cs in English (OH MY GOD I NEARLY SHOT MYSELF AND I GOT IT REMARKED AND IT DIDN'T MOVE AND SCHOOL THINKS AQA IS CORRUPT BECAUSE IT HAPPENED TO LOOOADS OF US) and French (I did atrociously on my oral. I expected this. I just need to retake it.). As in Drama (well, you know) and in Philosophy (god knows how!!!). So that's that. OH, I'm head girl too. YEAAAH! It's fun. Hard, but fun. We do lots! I have sent seven thousand emails today and met with the prefect group. Who are babes. Yeaaah.
2. I went to Malia! All my previous blogs are about my holiday. IT WAS BANGING. Literally amazing. Just so, so good. I let myself go crazy and it was JUST GODDAM GREAT.
3. I have turned into Holden Cauldfield. Yes, this has happened. Phonies are everywhere and they always goddam kill me.
4. One of my best friends is now at uni. This is Rhiannon. She is philosophising at Cardiff. And by philosophising I mean having sex, missing lectures and being drunk. Good girl.
5. I don't have a boyfriend. Met a wonderful, wonderful man. It was great. Then he started ignoring me. End of. How cool is that shit?!?!?!
Blaaaaargh. So this is life! I should probably be doing something UCAS/French related at present but I'm not. God, French still takes over my life! Nothing has changed there then. But I thought blogging would be AMUSANT.
Have a good evening babes.
Sally x
PS, I met Danny from McFly at work. Hugged him and told him he was in my favourite band ever. It...was...THE BEST THING EVERRRRRRRRR!

My Philosophical view.

Okay, I came up with this the other day and I'm not really sure how to postulate it in the correct way. But I'll try. Becca got it. But then, we are sometimes on the same wavelength.

"As a teenager I feel I know myself and am aware of all things. However, I am also aware of the view that teenagers think they know everything when they don't. Therefore, I am able to tell myself not to be silly and to realise that I don't know everything. I believe that this is a clever thing to be able to understand. However, that in itself is a teenage thing to think. I think that I know that as a teenager I am silly and have not reached my true potential, but this is consequentially, me thinking I know everything so therefore is a total contradiction and begins a cycle. As a result of this, it is impossible to know, as a teenager, whether what we are thinking is correct or not. It is impossible to know anything in your teenage years!"

Ya get me? Probably not. That's not a very eloquent way of portraying it! But, on a slightly less intellectual note, Rhiannon and I booked our holiday to Crete today!!! I am so excited. A little worried of the notorious reputation but we're sensible and not yobs so we'll be okay...hahahaha! Yeah, it'll be good. I am excited!
Sally x

France Culture.

   This is the name of the French radio station I am currently listening to and trying to make influence me. It's so odd, I spend half my life doing French and speaking in French and thinking about French but I'm still not very good! It's weird; I wish I was a lot better. Anyway, Heathy baby, I hope you read this tonight! I am blogging because I haven't in a while and Heather needs something to send her off to sleep!
   My friends asked me to be in their Film Studies coursework, haha! I am so scared. It's all "the lads" and they want to do a film noir style so I'd be a femme fatal. How exciting! That sort of thing makes me feel so self conscious though; just me and a load of boys and no audience. All very intimate and therefore, intense! But, bless them, they'll have to act too so it'll be okay. J'espere!
    Rhiannon and I are STILL sorting out our holiday. It's taking bloody ages! Basically, we can't decide quite where to go. Rhiannon wants to party on down so we looked at places like Malia and Zante but they're unfortunately too expensive for our lowly part time job wages and also kind of scary; we've been reading reviews involving the words "fight" and "rape". However, Turkey has been getting gorgeous reviews from teenagers and we found this beeeeeautiful 4* hotel today on the coast where there are loads of bars and a good climate and the currency is Turkish lira (please excuse spelling if it's wrong!) so things shouldn't be too expensive! WOOOO. We shall book it tomorrow if we can get Rhiannon's mum to sign it in her name as neither of us are eighteen, bugger.
    I'm going to see the local panto on Thursday! I am soooo excited. I always get really excited when I see a play with my friends in it! I don't know why. I think it's because I feel special and somehow manage to kid myself that they're all trying to impress me and only me. How egotistical can you get?! I am ridiculous - that's weird, my friend just told me that she'd been talking about me on the phone, I am worried! - in that sense. I also started to eat healthily today; HAHAHAHA it failed. My relationship with food is getting insane, I just love it so much! I am such a weirdo. And a nerd, there are so many plays I must read and I'm so excited.
    This has been a bit of a shoved together blog and for that I am very sorry. I didn't really have a major issue to discuss! The only other things are that I haven't started Macbeth rehearsals yet and I haven't even got my script. It's awful! I also REALLY need to do more planning on Year Seven production but it's not fair, there are four of us and someone else can do something. Lastly, mocks are very soon. Very, very soon! I am terrified. My French oral will epitomise shit. Even more than a happy family with a dog. That's kind of an in joke but anyway who understands me should understand. Au revoir tout le monde!
Sally x
  

Decorating insanity.

   I really shouldn't be writing this. As in, I have a ton of French I need to do for tomorrow! I have instead been tidying and then redecorating and then throwing stuff out of my room. It's ridiculous! Can I not even focus on one task? I haven't even finished that before starting to write this! I had such a good idea for something to write on my blog today but I can't remember what. Firstly, I must apologise for not blogging since Monday. I have just either forgotten or not had time! I went back to dancing and aerobics on Tuesday; I still ache slightly now but we're doing the Charleston in jazz and this like, police style lyrical dance. I don't know how to explain; it's mysterious and sly but still graceful, it's brill! Rhiannon and I are ALMOST there planning and booking our holiday. After so much hassle it seems we may be there! Not that my flirtatious nature with the nice man in Thomas Cook managed to get us to this position, haha. He rang me today and left a message. His voice is gorgeous! I am honestly such a little girl at the moment. A hint of an attractive man of any sort just sends me giggling! It's silly. I really, really shouldn't be doing this! It keeps hitting me. It's ten o'clock and I should be doing Francais!
   Tomorrow, we're off to Tacos Locos (don't tell Zoe, it's a surprise for her birthday!!!) which will be looooovely. It's such a "random" (I detest that word, hence quotes) group of girls going but some have ID so we can drink until cocktails come out of our ears! We're going all out in nice dresses and heels. Well, I am anyway, haha! So looking forward to it. This is the reason I'm tidying my room actually, because Heather and Beth are coming to "ma crib" to get ready! I hope you're happy biatches. However, I do have work at eight in the morning the next day. Bum. This means I have to get up at around half six. That is earlier than a school day! No wonder I am always late for school. I feel awful! I really don't mean to; the bath just gets me and makes me fall asleep. Despite my attempts to stay awake! I always end up missing the three early buses and having to get the slightly later one which gets stuck in the horrendous traffic. Whoops! Anyway, yeah, so that's me for the day I think. I shall try to do lots of good blogs on Sunday when I can maybe relax a little! Have a lovely weekend.
Sally x

Brecht and being pessimistic about marriage in French.

   Today we went to see an hour long version of Mother Courage and Her Children by Brecht. Yeah, I liked it! It's kind of easy acting though because it's so musical styled and is just SOOOO obvious. Some of the boys' school were there too so it was nice to see some of the boys from the year above who I hadn't seen in a while. Not a huge Brechtian fan and I'm a bit shit at it and it reminds me of my youth so that's probably why. Oh god, I have really show my pessimism today! My poor unsuspecting French teacher decided to involve us all and make us debate in French our views on marriage thinking that we, as a class of girls, would love the thought of a traditional marriage. Oh god no! Emily and I spent the whole lesson rambling on, talking about how it was stupid and we'd get sick of other people and divorce isn't worth it and times change and everyone should just get over it. To be honest, I contradict myself all the time so my view will probably change tomorrow but you know, whatever. I'm teenage; we're allowed to not know ourselves yet! Another argument we had this morning, about when the correct age to marry is. It's sixteen with parental permission at the moment; YOU FUCKING WHAT?! As if.
   Anyway, I'm ridiculously tired and need to talk about Glee but can't really be bothered. Yeah, I liked that too. It was really good! God, I swear I'm bipolar. Yesterday I rambled on for aaaages using words like amazingly and love and stuff and today I'm so trivial. Oh well! Bonne nuit, I'm going to read David Tennant's biography in bed. I get a lie in on Tuesdays YESSS so that's nice when the rest of the fam are out HAHA! Then just a single of Philosophy followed by triple Drama. I have dancing after though; don't let me forget my ballet shoes. Night!
Sally x

The King's Speech.

   Yesterday was my first day back at work after five weeks! I only work on Saturdays because of school during the week and I'd had glandular fever for two weeks and then booked three Saturdays off for Christmas as holiday. So it's not all bad, I'm not a lazy shit! Anyway, work was actually really nice. I am a receptionist in a hotel and we usually get some grumpy people grumping at us unfairly because there's no one else to grump at! However, yesterday morning was so quiet with a bit of an increase in hype in the middle of the day and then quiet again but every single guest that checked in was lovely and it was just an enjoyable day! I then met my friends for dinner. We went to Ask which was nice, I haven't been there in about a thousand years! It's completely the opposite to Pizza Express in an Italian restaurant because it does quite a few veggie pasta options and only one veggie pizza where as Pizza Express does NO veggie pasta options and lots of veggie pizza options! I suppose the clue is in the name but I mean come on, no veggie pasta options? That's practically medieval. They're losing customers and it's silly and pointless! Oh yeah, I don't know if I've mentioned that I'm a vegetarian. Well, yes, I am and I always have been and I really like being one. It's a tad healthier, I don't feel guilty and I've never tasted meat so no I don't feel I'm missing anything. I get all my protein from meat substitutes, I am perfectly healthy in that aspect and the only thing perhaps bartering my health is my love for crap food like apple pies, cakes, chocolate and crisps which is nothing to do with vegetarianism haha. If a cow killed my family, no, I would not eat it. Yes, I have been asked this question before. Firstly, a cow would not kill my family, secondly, why would my first instinct be to eat it when I'd be grieving? and thirdly, if a murderer killed your family, would you eat them? So yes, I enjoyed Ask immensely. It is also ridiculously easy for seventeen year olds to order wine with their meals in restaurants if they act confident and smile. Just saying! Okay, here's the highlight of my blog:
   After eating, we went to see The King's Speech at the Odeon. It was beautiful! That sounds very exaggerated but my English teacher burst into our classroom on Wednesday morning - that was weird, I just got distracted and looked up where to get the best coffee in Canterbury and I can't remember why I was inclined to do so; the answer was either Cafe St Pierre or Cafe Cultura if you wanted to know - and gushed about what an amazingly moving film it was with incredible acting. She was absolutely right! It was fantastic.  I was incredibly, incredibly impressed by Colin Firth who was playing King George the Sixth or Bertie as he was also known. He must have done so much research and gained extortionate amounts of background knowledge about stammers before he could play that part. It must have been so hard to act as a man with a stammer and have to pretend you had to learn to speak properly when you already could and be able to show the progress. I was just so impressed! I can't imagine doing that as an actor, I'd love to be able to try. Helena Bonham-Carter as his wife was beautiful in her role as always with her exquisite posh voice. She looked stunning as well! It's been a long time since she's played a normal character without being evil and a bit mad looking. She just looked like a genuine Queen! Stunning. The man playing the speech therapist, Lionel, I hadn't actually ever seen before. I don't actually think it would've been a very hard role to play but he did it so well! It was such a poignant relationship between him and Bertie and I just loved it. The film itself is very quiet. There's no action; it's simply a man learning to overcome his speech impediment. It was slow in places and many, many people would get bored but I LOVE films like that. It's similar in style to The Girl With A Pearl Earring (coincedentally also featuring Colin Firth!) but with a lot more speech because obviously, that was one of the main features. There were also elements of humour, I adored the scene when Bertie learned he didn't stammer when he swore so he and the speech therapist were just shouting every single swear word under the sun, it was HILARIOUS. Rhiannon and I were practically weeing ourselves! A very sweet little thing about the film was the girl who plays Karen in Outnumbered as a young Princess Margaret, she was just so cute with her little posh voice. Anyway, there are many other things I could say but I need to get ready to go out! Have a lovely day.
Sally x

Grump.

Yes, I'm in a grump. I don't really know why! School is stressful and I will fail my exams. Especially French! I also have an eight and a half hour day at work tomorrow. Blurghhh! I just don't want to go haha. I love school despite its stress and hate work. That's the way it goes! This isn't going to be long because I'm just not in the mood unfortunately. However, during certificate afternoon, the head teacher said she liked my earrings and my English teacher liked my hair being dark brown. Although she's seen it many times bless her, oh well!
Sally x