So after much badgering (we saw one in Wales actually) from Alex, I've written another blog article.
Oh. Yay. I hear you cry enthusiastically.
So lets see, the last thing I blogged about was the French exchange where I went to France. Christ, that was ages ago. And a hell of a lot has happened since then. Well, perhaps 5 events of major significance that I'm prepared to release to the wider internet. Hold on while I fetch my calendar to ensure chronomagical order.
There we go. So the first is the aforementioned Cambridge > France part of the French exchange. Which was alright I suppose, cold and very tiring though. My French is appalling, and after about 2 days the struggle to make myself understood and understand what was going on was getting a tad too much. Still, it was an interesting experience.
A week of school, and then half term. During which not alot happened. Went back to school. And then comes the highlight of the events which I blog to you today.
Chloe and I started going out on Tuesday 24th February! Which means that tomorrow we'll have been together two months now, and it has flown by. Except for the last week and a bit where she's been in France (now Spain) and I've been in Wales. Which have gone really slowly. But in those rocket-paced two months we've been through alot, and come out of it much stronger. She means absolutely everything to me, and she is an incredible person in every way and I love her to bits. Below are a couple of pictures of us, for those of you who don't know her. Or for those of you who don't know me, but I doubt that there's very many of you on this blog.
There you go. So here's to many many more months! Chloe, if you're reading this, I love you more than you will ever know, and miss you incredibly. x
So, onto the next event which was...French Exchange 2: The Return of the French. This time they came here, so we had another week of awkward silence, but this time in English. But it could have gone worse than it did I suppose.
Which brings us to number 4/5: Practice DofE Gold in Wales. Which was last week actually, Friday to Thursday. Highlights of the week: planted the Union Flag on the top of Snowdon (will post pictures once they're on Facebook, it wasn't my camera), a lot of walking, reasonable weather apart from the night we spent out on a wild camp, and leaving my phone on the top of a peak 942 metres above sea level. The wild camp was an...experience, to say the least. We were in this old quarry, and the wind was appalling. Bloody strong, and you couldn't seek shelter from it because it changed direction every few seconds. We managed to cook (just about) in some of the abandoned buildings higher up, but ended up having to come back down again to try and stop the tents destroying themselves. In the end we had to take down at least 2 tents, it might have been 3, because they were either damaged by the wind or going to be if they were left up much longer. Combined people into the remaining tents, making a...cosy, shall we say, night for myself, Guy and McD in the 2 man tent me and McD were using... We spent about an hour or so holding the tent up with our feet when the wind threatened to collapse it, but we passed out (or I certainly did) around 11, and woke up around 9 (again, me, the others woke up a bit later) and the tent survived, so we actually got a decent nights sleep out of it. Better than the teachers and most other people who got about 1 or 2 hours! Group decision to say bollocks to the allotted routes in the morning given the appalling wind (it hadn't got better overnight), so we just planned and did the most direct route back we could. Which didn't go too badly. Got back on Thursday night.
And the last thing: Happy Easter! This is a particularly good Easter for me because it brings with it the promise of an EeePC 901 for me sometime this week! Grandma's house sold last week while I was away, and we decided that a netbook would be good for me for school to save me lugging around half a dozen folders, which wasn't doing my back much good. So I'll be using it for work, but I'll still write some subjects, namely Maths, French and Further Maths, simply because it's easier.
So that's about it really. This week I'm working at least one day, hosting a LAN party on Wednesday night/Thursday which should be good fun, doing school work and I'd like to try and spend a day at MASF. All depending on the school work obviously. I don't even want to look at how much I need to do. But I should really try and get some done today. I'll try and keep the blog updated a bit more frequently now, I kept meaning to update it but I just never got round to it. But I'll try.
And that concludes this essay of a blog post. Gekko out.
