Hi!
Health and safety is very big here in Guernsey.
At school we were not allowed to cross the road for drama classes in the community centre without a teacher during school hours for health and safety reasons. Although some of my friends and I came to the conclusion that it was more because they don't want to be blamed for anything.
I find it fascinating that a group of fifteen year olds were not permitted to cross a road by themselves when the school has nothing against the majority crossing that same road before and after school at times when it is exceedingly more busy.
When I did the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award last year my friend was not allowed to use her petrol stove for health and safety reasons, basically she didn't have a certificate saying that she knew how to use it from the DofE organisation.
I can't remember the point of this post anymore.....
Oh yes, inconsistencies.
I already mentioned my (soon former) school not letting us cross the road. This same school has mould in the classrooms. A set of outside steps have been fenced off for most of the year because they were unsafe. Last year my year had a locker hut. This hut had a very strange floor which made it very easy to trip..... Where was health and safety? We were not allowed to sit on the equipment in the gym before a teacher came. At the same time the school is so badly built that a small part of the roof fell in when there was (guernsey amounts of) snow.
In order to stop my mum from complaining about me being too negative about my school I will wrote this next bit.
Despite all the problems with the building the school is still ranked outstanding and manages to churn out great results in exams. Also they are improving the school. Last summer the new art and drama block was finished and some time before that the new sixth form centre was built. They're also revamping the outside of the building to make it look fresher etc. (happy mum?)
Oh yes, main point of post......
I was at work today and was very surprised that a place with so much health and safety allowed the activity that was taking place.
(I work for a catering company.)
The activity was cage fighting.....
A place where fifteen year olds may not cross the road by themselves allows cage fighting
Hmmmmm
Did I get my point across?
Bye banan!
Sunday, 30 June 2013
Thursday, 27 June 2013
Puncture
Hi!
Today was a good day. I did virtually nothing. I went for a long bike ride yesterday. My route was cut short by the abundance of road closures. Seriously it's like they like digging up roads for a couple of weeks and then filling the hole back in. Sometimes they close the roads just for the fun of it, it seems. Perelle Coast Road actually has a reason for being closed because they're repairing the sea wall. It was badly damaged in a storm last autumn.
Anyway back to what I was saying. The bike ride was lovely and long. I didn't need to use google maps at all because I didn't get lost. Google maps is brilliant. I don't know what I would do without it. But all in all I haven't been doing much.
Back to the topic of this post (I ramble when I'm tired), I went to scouts today at Fort Grey for beach competitions. Fort Grey is a decent distance from my house. I cycled there with my dad. I then had a great time as usual. We did a race with an inflatable object. My group had a dinghy and the other group had my shark. Every member of the group had to hold on to the dinghy/shark for the duration of the race which was to a boat and back. We then did 'synchronised' swimming. The other team made up their routine on the spot. Very entertaining. Ours was too short, according to them. We them jumped in the sea. It was a long jump competition and the water was
very mucky.
We then got dried changed and I started my bike ride home. I didn't know that it would take two hours. I noticed something was wrong as soon as I started cycling. It was like my back wheel was jumping. It's difficult to describe. There was a weird noise as well. Anyway, I thought it would go away of I carried on cycling. It didn't. I turned off the coast road as soon as I saw a sign saying airport in the hope that I would be able to find a route home that doesn't include the Rohais. Although in hindsight I must say that this hill was worse than the Rohais (which autocorrect wants to correct to rehabs), maybe that was because I walked. When I tried to cycle the back tyre was basically whining. That's what it sounded like. Anyway I walked home. I think I took the longest route possible. I would have called my dad to come pick me up but I didn't know where I was most of the time and I didn't think it would take that long.
I'm glad that out garage is full of bikes because I need my bike, especially now that I'm not in school. Add that to the fact that my mum is away and dad works all day, I need my bike. I'll be using my other bike until we can fix my normal one. That reminds me, I need to take it to a bike store to get the gears fixed pretty soon because I leave in just over two weeks and then my bike will never return here. Mwahaahhahaha.
I'm completely mental.
Thanks for reading.
Bye Banan!
Today was a good day. I did virtually nothing. I went for a long bike ride yesterday. My route was cut short by the abundance of road closures. Seriously it's like they like digging up roads for a couple of weeks and then filling the hole back in. Sometimes they close the roads just for the fun of it, it seems. Perelle Coast Road actually has a reason for being closed because they're repairing the sea wall. It was badly damaged in a storm last autumn.
Anyway back to what I was saying. The bike ride was lovely and long. I didn't need to use google maps at all because I didn't get lost. Google maps is brilliant. I don't know what I would do without it. But all in all I haven't been doing much.
Back to the topic of this post (I ramble when I'm tired), I went to scouts today at Fort Grey for beach competitions. Fort Grey is a decent distance from my house. I cycled there with my dad. I then had a great time as usual. We did a race with an inflatable object. My group had a dinghy and the other group had my shark. Every member of the group had to hold on to the dinghy/shark for the duration of the race which was to a boat and back. We then did 'synchronised' swimming. The other team made up their routine on the spot. Very entertaining. Ours was too short, according to them. We them jumped in the sea. It was a long jump competition and the water was
very mucky.
We then got dried changed and I started my bike ride home. I didn't know that it would take two hours. I noticed something was wrong as soon as I started cycling. It was like my back wheel was jumping. It's difficult to describe. There was a weird noise as well. Anyway, I thought it would go away of I carried on cycling. It didn't. I turned off the coast road as soon as I saw a sign saying airport in the hope that I would be able to find a route home that doesn't include the Rohais. Although in hindsight I must say that this hill was worse than the Rohais (which autocorrect wants to correct to rehabs), maybe that was because I walked. When I tried to cycle the back tyre was basically whining. That's what it sounded like. Anyway I walked home. I think I took the longest route possible. I would have called my dad to come pick me up but I didn't know where I was most of the time and I didn't think it would take that long.
I'm glad that out garage is full of bikes because I need my bike, especially now that I'm not in school. Add that to the fact that my mum is away and dad works all day, I need my bike. I'll be using my other bike until we can fix my normal one. That reminds me, I need to take it to a bike store to get the gears fixed pretty soon because I leave in just over two weeks and then my bike will never return here. Mwahaahhahaha.
I'm completely mental.
Thanks for reading.
Bye Banan!
Saturday, 22 June 2013
Midsummer
As you may know Midsummer's Eve is a big deal in Sweden. We celebrate with maypoles, lots of yummy food, (alcohol) and dancing.
I celebrated by working. I was waitressing at the Midsummer Ball at Government House. I haven't
celebrated Midsummer properly since I lived in Sweden, it feels like. That's probably because I've been in school at the time.
I also made a chocolate cake (kladdkaka) today. I don't know how it tastes but I hope it's good. The photo should be above if my blog is kind.
I'm also going to add a photo of a maypole (midsommarstång?) to my blog at some point
Oh yeh, I officially finish school in a couple of weeks time but I haven't had lessons since early may and my last exam was almost two weeks ago. Yippee!
Bye banan!
Thursday, 20 June 2013
The day has arrived
Hi!
It's my prom today. Well it's a joint prom with the boys college. Yes I go to a private girls school (don't judge me).
I think it's going to be pretty cool because we're having it at a castle.
Some of my friends are coming over beforehand and my older sister has put herself in charge of cocktails etc.
Should be fun.
I'm going to be really tired this weekend because of prom and the fact that I'm working tomorrow. It's a good thing I don't have anything to do.
Bye banan!
It's my prom today. Well it's a joint prom with the boys college. Yes I go to a private girls school (don't judge me).
I think it's going to be pretty cool because we're having it at a castle.
Some of my friends are coming over beforehand and my older sister has put herself in charge of cocktails etc.
Should be fun.
I'm going to be really tired this weekend because of prom and the fact that I'm working tomorrow. It's a good thing I don't have anything to do.
Bye banan!
Saturday, 15 June 2013
My professional photography of Guernsey
Hi!
So a couple of days ago I went cycling with one of my friends from school, Etta. We were out for about two and a half hours. Apparently I was too fast because I had to keep stopping pretty much every minute. Oh and Etta if you're reading this please leave a comment to tell me if you've recovered yet. Lol. Anyway I had time to take some photos and probably broke the law by taking photos while cycling. Oh well!
Here are some of the photos I took
In other news I only have to wear my school uniform of ugliness three more times. Hooray!
Bye banan!
So a couple of days ago I went cycling with one of my friends from school, Etta. We were out for about two and a half hours. Apparently I was too fast because I had to keep stopping pretty much every minute. Oh and Etta if you're reading this please leave a comment to tell me if you've recovered yet. Lol. Anyway I had time to take some photos and probably broke the law by taking photos while cycling. Oh well!
Here are some of the photos I took
In other news I only have to wear my school uniform of ugliness three more times. Hooray!
Bye banan!
Some thoughts
Yesterday I watched Les Miserables (2012) for the second time. If you haven't seen it do watch it if you get the chance.
I'm not a massive fan of music but Les Mis is my all time favourite musical. I was only ten when we went to see it but I still remember it as being amazing.
I will now post some photos of the south coast of Guernsey which I took when I was there for Scouts a while back;
My professional photography from Herm
As I wrote yesterday, I went to Herm yesterday with a friend.
She and another friend have great blogs. Go check them out:
georgiabrouard.blogspot.com
eleanorshaw.blogspot.com
Here are some examples of my professional photography. It's such a shame that IB at my next school doesn't offer photography......
Lol
Friday, 14 June 2013
Herm
Hi!
My friend Gdog and I went to a tiny island called Herm today, to celebrate the end of exams and beginning of summer. Herm is tiny! It's got about fifty residents. I'll upload some photos if it will work.
What I really wanted to say is that you should check out these two new blogs;
georgiabrouard.blogspot.com
eleanorshaw.blogspot.com
They are both really funny and would appreciate more people checking out their blogs. Georgia also has a YouTube channel which she's posting vlogs on. They should be funny. We filmed some stuff today and she's gonna edit it and upload it. I think her YouTube channel is called Georgia Brouard but you should check out her blog to be sure.
Bye Banan!
My friend Gdog and I went to a tiny island called Herm today, to celebrate the end of exams and beginning of summer. Herm is tiny! It's got about fifty residents. I'll upload some photos if it will work.
What I really wanted to say is that you should check out these two new blogs;
georgiabrouard.blogspot.com
eleanorshaw.blogspot.com
They are both really funny and would appreciate more people checking out their blogs. Georgia also has a YouTube channel which she's posting vlogs on. They should be funny. We filmed some stuff today and she's gonna edit it and upload it. I think her YouTube channel is called Georgia Brouard but you should check out her blog to be sure.
Bye Banan!
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Time off
Hi!
So I don't have any more school in this country apart from a few things like prize giving. I'm waiting for my friend to finish her last exam and then a group of us are going into town to celebrate. I told my grandma on the phone yesterday that I have study leave and she thought it was a very strange thing that when you've finished your exams you don't have to go into school anymore. Sweden in a month. Awesome!
Bye banan!
So I don't have any more school in this country apart from a few things like prize giving. I'm waiting for my friend to finish her last exam and then a group of us are going into town to celebrate. I told my grandma on the phone yesterday that I have study leave and she thought it was a very strange thing that when you've finished your exams you don't have to go into school anymore. Sweden in a month. Awesome!
Bye banan!
Monday, 10 June 2013
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
Two to go
Hi!
So I've got two exams left. I don't know how they're going to go but I'm happy that they're almost done. In just six days my exams will be finished and I'll be celebrating by doing nothing and not feeling guilty about not revising, for the first time since year six it feels like.
I've been thinking. I know, massive shock.
My school is very exam orientated. To the extent that it drives me up the wall. In years seven, eight, nine and ten we have two sets of internal exams. One exam week in January and one around May time. We have exams in all our subjects (with the exception of drama, music and art) in the space of three days. In year nine we did a massive amount of subjects which meant that we had five exams in one day, methinks. This is all to prepare us for GCSEs. What are GCSEs useful for? They don't prepare you for real life because in real life you are not spoon fed information and then told to regurgitate(sp) it in an exam. Because we have internet. Oh well, rant over.
Anyway, the internal exams are that good as preparation for GCSEs because;
- GCSEs our spread out over a period of several weeks
- It is unusual to have more than two exams per day
- With GCSEs you don't finish learning the material a matter of days before the exam.
I'm making a list of stuff to do after exams. It goes along the lines of: sleep, eat, sleep, relax, have fun, sleep, sleep. You get the idea.
I should probably revise physics for tomorrow's exam, oh well I've got tomorrow morning to panic. I'll revise history instead, after all I only have until next monday to revise it. This is the wonderful logic of my exam riddled brain.
Bye Banan!
So I've got two exams left. I don't know how they're going to go but I'm happy that they're almost done. In just six days my exams will be finished and I'll be celebrating by doing nothing and not feeling guilty about not revising, for the first time since year six it feels like.
I've been thinking. I know, massive shock.
My school is very exam orientated. To the extent that it drives me up the wall. In years seven, eight, nine and ten we have two sets of internal exams. One exam week in January and one around May time. We have exams in all our subjects (with the exception of drama, music and art) in the space of three days. In year nine we did a massive amount of subjects which meant that we had five exams in one day, methinks. This is all to prepare us for GCSEs. What are GCSEs useful for? They don't prepare you for real life because in real life you are not spoon fed information and then told to regurgitate(sp) it in an exam. Because we have internet. Oh well, rant over.
Anyway, the internal exams are that good as preparation for GCSEs because;
- GCSEs our spread out over a period of several weeks
- It is unusual to have more than two exams per day
- With GCSEs you don't finish learning the material a matter of days before the exam.
I'm making a list of stuff to do after exams. It goes along the lines of: sleep, eat, sleep, relax, have fun, sleep, sleep. You get the idea.
I should probably revise physics for tomorrow's exam, oh well I've got tomorrow morning to panic. I'll revise history instead, after all I only have until next monday to revise it. This is the wonderful logic of my exam riddled brain.
Bye Banan!
Sunday, 2 June 2013
Almost over
Hi!
So my exams are done in 8 days time. Yay!
We've had lovely weather this week when I was meant to be revising. I'm trying to remember as much as possible for history tomorrow and hoping that I make it through geography alive on Tuesday.
Yesterday I was painting some boats with scouts. My hands got covered in blue paint and I was called a smurf. I still have some blue on my hands but most of it's gone. Next Monday, I'm starting my countdown to when I start at my new school. I'm really excited!
Bye banan!
So my exams are done in 8 days time. Yay!
We've had lovely weather this week when I was meant to be revising. I'm trying to remember as much as possible for history tomorrow and hoping that I make it through geography alive on Tuesday.
Yesterday I was painting some boats with scouts. My hands got covered in blue paint and I was called a smurf. I still have some blue on my hands but most of it's gone. Next Monday, I'm starting my countdown to when I start at my new school. I'm really excited!
Bye banan!
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
And it's had enough
Hi,
I am now staring at the black screen of my laptop. 20 minutes. That's how long it lasted. This is why I dislike PCs.
Bye banan!
I am now staring at the black screen of my laptop. 20 minutes. That's how long it lasted. This is why I dislike PCs.
Bye banan!
Don't you just love technology?
Hi,
I am writing this on my laptop which I have only just gotten to work for the first time since march. It's a good thing I haven't needed it a lot for school lately. I've tried a bunch of times to turn it on but it just goes black. Sometimes it makes it to the windows logo or the logo of the make and then goes black. It took me three tries to get it to turn on today. So I should probably salvage my stuff whilst I have a chance but no I'm writing a blog post, because I'm mental. I have strange priorities.
Well I should probably get some sleep now.........
Bye banan!
I am writing this on my laptop which I have only just gotten to work for the first time since march. It's a good thing I haven't needed it a lot for school lately. I've tried a bunch of times to turn it on but it just goes black. Sometimes it makes it to the windows logo or the logo of the make and then goes black. It took me three tries to get it to turn on today. So I should probably salvage my stuff whilst I have a chance but no I'm writing a blog post, because I'm mental. I have strange priorities.
Well I should probably get some sleep now.........
Bye banan!
When will summer come?
*making sure keyboard is in correct language*
Hi,
I don't know about you but I am ready for summer. Seriously it's May, I shouldn't be cold when I'm inside. I should be outside having fun (ignoring the fact that I have exams when I say that) instead of being sat inside miserably trying to memorise case studies when the only thing I want is sleep. I don't think that sentence makes any grammatical sense which just proves that I need more sleep.
*looks at title*
Summer will have to last until around January next year to make up for its failure so far this year. Oh well, I'm sure the weather will get even worse when my exams finish (conveniently). I told my mum that my exams are done in less than two weeks. In her typical encouraging mum way she said that it's IB next which is even harder. I think that IB will be better though because you're not learning for exams. I'm probably going to get back to revision now.
Bye Banan!
(English autocorrect changed banan to Banan)
Hi,
I don't know about you but I am ready for summer. Seriously it's May, I shouldn't be cold when I'm inside. I should be outside having fun (ignoring the fact that I have exams when I say that) instead of being sat inside miserably trying to memorise case studies when the only thing I want is sleep. I don't think that sentence makes any grammatical sense which just proves that I need more sleep.
*looks at title*
Summer will have to last until around January next year to make up for its failure so far this year. Oh well, I'm sure the weather will get even worse when my exams finish (conveniently). I told my mum that my exams are done in less than two weeks. In her typical encouraging mum way she said that it's IB next which is even harder. I think that IB will be better though because you're not learning for exams. I'm probably going to get back to revision now.
Bye Banan!
(English autocorrect changed banan to Banan)
Saturday, 25 May 2013
The curse of the keyboard
Hi!
So courtesy of living half of my life in a foreign country I am obviously bilingual. I'm fluent in Swedish and English. Of course I could call myself trilingual by saying that I am also fluent in Swenglish but that hasn't been recognised as a language....... yet. I'm working on it.
You know when you're typing on an iPad or similar you have the keyboard set to a specific language and that you can easily switch language. I've got Swedish, English and French (although I don't use that one now because I don't have French until August) on mine. I've always got it on the wrong language, so autocorrect keeps 'correcting' my text messages and I get really annoyed until I realise for the millionth time that I've got it on the wrong language. When I talked about this with my mum she just commented that it was a real first world issue.
My geography teacher would have my head if she knew that I used that term. It's not correct according to what we learnt last year and I guess I agree....... I don't know
Being bilingual can be pretty funny at times. When I first came here I didn't speak any English. My sister had done a year of English in Sweden so she knew a bit. The first thing she taught her friends here
was how to swear in Swedish.
I mentioned Swenglish before. If I'm speaking Swedish and I don't know a word in Swedish I just say it in English instead. I also use English verb endings on Swedish verbs. When I say stuff wrong my parents are always asking me what language I'm speaking. It's pretty funny. I do correct my mum's English so I guess that they can correct my Swedish.
I like being able to speak Swedish here because I'm the only Swedish person at my school. There are very few Swedes on the island in total. I think there's one other family, there used to be more but they all left..... Anyway if I get annoyed at someone I can tell them in Swedish. I also randomly speak Swedish sometimes becuase it's funny.
I don't think most of that made any sense but I blame the fact that I'm really tired.
Bye banan!
So courtesy of living half of my life in a foreign country I am obviously bilingual. I'm fluent in Swedish and English. Of course I could call myself trilingual by saying that I am also fluent in Swenglish but that hasn't been recognised as a language....... yet. I'm working on it.
You know when you're typing on an iPad or similar you have the keyboard set to a specific language and that you can easily switch language. I've got Swedish, English and French (although I don't use that one now because I don't have French until August) on mine. I've always got it on the wrong language, so autocorrect keeps 'correcting' my text messages and I get really annoyed until I realise for the millionth time that I've got it on the wrong language. When I talked about this with my mum she just commented that it was a real first world issue.
My geography teacher would have my head if she knew that I used that term. It's not correct according to what we learnt last year and I guess I agree....... I don't know
Being bilingual can be pretty funny at times. When I first came here I didn't speak any English. My sister had done a year of English in Sweden so she knew a bit. The first thing she taught her friends here
was how to swear in Swedish.
I mentioned Swenglish before. If I'm speaking Swedish and I don't know a word in Swedish I just say it in English instead. I also use English verb endings on Swedish verbs. When I say stuff wrong my parents are always asking me what language I'm speaking. It's pretty funny. I do correct my mum's English so I guess that they can correct my Swedish.
I like being able to speak Swedish here because I'm the only Swedish person at my school. There are very few Swedes on the island in total. I think there's one other family, there used to be more but they all left..... Anyway if I get annoyed at someone I can tell them in Swedish. I also randomly speak Swedish sometimes becuase it's funny.
I don't think most of that made any sense but I blame the fact that I'm really tired.
Bye banan!
Thursday, 23 May 2013
A week off!
Hi!
The week of hell is over!
I only have four exams left and two of them are in my favourite subject, history. I also have a geography paper and a physics multiple choice paper. But before that is half term. I haven't had this half term since year six because my school is weird like that but this year I have no exams that week. I'm only in school for a bunch of revision sessions for history next week. I don't mind that because as I said it is my favourite subject.
Multiple choice papers are interesting in my opinion. Ours have forty questions and we have forty five minutes. Most of my friends are done in about fifteen minutes. We have an answer sheet on which we fill in our amswers with a pencil in the right boxes. My strategy for multiple choice exams is this;
The week of hell is over!
I only have four exams left and two of them are in my favourite subject, history. I also have a geography paper and a physics multiple choice paper. But before that is half term. I haven't had this half term since year six because my school is weird like that but this year I have no exams that week. I'm only in school for a bunch of revision sessions for history next week. I don't mind that because as I said it is my favourite subject.
Multiple choice papers are interesting in my opinion. Ours have forty questions and we have forty five minutes. Most of my friends are done in about fifteen minutes. We have an answer sheet on which we fill in our amswers with a pencil in the right boxes. My strategy for multiple choice exams is this;
- Be first to walk into exam hall. Don't bring phone in (cough)
- Sit down at desk which is too low etc.
- Start exam
- Put answer sheet to one side
- Go through question paper, circling 'correct' answers
- Go through question paper, checking answers and crossing out 'wrong' answers
- Check time. If only little time left, fill in answer sheet as fast as possible
- If plenty of time is left, go through question paper and 'perfect' the circles around the answers
- Go through question paper, make sure crossing out lines are completely straight and look neat
- Go through question paper, checking answers
- Check answers
- Check answers
- Fill in answer sheet as slowly as possible
- Make sure lines on answer sheet are inside boxes
- If time is left, check answers
- Check answers
- Shade in periodic table if there is one or any other pictures in question paper
This is pretty much what I did in biology. I had way too much time!
Today, I did not have a lot of time left. There were some very tricky questions. And some which weren't difficult necessarily but it took me a while to understand the question because it was badly worded.
Bye banan!
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Just a few left
I only have five exams left now. I'm saying that without any sarcasm whatsoever.
Let us see if this photo that I took yesterday will agree to be posted on my blog. I'm going to post some photos on Facebook now as promised. Go like my page!
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Photos
Hi!
Just a quick post.
My older sister and my mum went out driving today so I went with them to take some photos.
The photos are going to be uploaded on Facebook by moi. Please go and like my page which is called thoughtsofaswedemovinghome!
Bye banan!
Just a quick post.
My older sister and my mum went out driving today so I went with them to take some photos.
The photos are going to be uploaded on Facebook by moi. Please go and like my page which is called thoughtsofaswedemovinghome!
Bye banan!
Testing testing
Hi!
I'm just checking to see if this works. Apparently I can send my posts as emails straight to my blog and they'll be published.
Ok so if you're reading this, it has worked!
Yay!
Also, some people told me that they couldn't post comments. I think I fixed the problem so please help me by leaving a comment so that I can see if it works.
Bye banan!
I'm just checking to see if this works. Apparently I can send my posts as emails straight to my blog and they'll be published.
Ok so if you're reading this, it has worked!
Yay!
Also, some people told me that they couldn't post comments. I think I fixed the problem so please help me by leaving a comment so that I can see if it works.
Bye banan!
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