Summer

At the start of the summer holidays the whole family headed off to Somerset. We have a converted windmill holiday home thing down there that we stay in. It was über boring as we go there five times a year and do mostly nothing. So I started a new FFIII game even though I haven't finished the first one. It was boring and we're going there again at the end of the holidays.

After that I had a free week when I did my homework. I was dreading the end of the week when I had to go to some Quaker Holiday Camp because it sounded a little boring and I hadn't gone to York by train on my own before.

A couple of days before I went to York we found someone who I could travel with from London to York. At 1:30 on Sunday I boarded the train with another girl called Holly. After a 2 hour train ride and a taxi drive I arrived at the holiday camp. People greeted me and took me to the main hall, where I met my two cousins. There were a lot of people there, all talking. It was quite intimidating as the only two people I knew were my cousins, but they made me feel more at home. I met the people who I was to share a room with and they seemed quite friendly. Actually, you're probably going to get quite bored of reading this, I could go into every minute detail about the camp. Basically, to sum it up, it was one of the most amazing and most fun weeks of my life. I was completely wrong about it being boring. The people there were so nice (scarily so) and the atmosphere is so happy. It has made me feel a lot more confident in life and has also made me hate school even more as most people there are just gah.

Anyway, today I am suffering from post holiday camp depression, life just feels so lonely and bare now. I went out to HMV today and bought three new albums, Led Zeppelin II & III and Sonic Temple by the Cult. I am also learning Edie on the guitar and can sort of play the intro bit.

Yesterday it was my birthday party. We headed out of the house at around 3:15 and got to our destination a little later. We went to the cinema, but there wasn't much I waned to see, so we went and saw Three And Out, which was alright. Afterwards we headed to Nando's, only to discover it was packed. Instead we went to Miso Noodle Bar which is really quite cool. I had rice with beef, chicken, prawns, veg and a sauce. It was really nice. That night we stayed up watching Naruto, The X-Files (which scared Zoe :P), Doctor Who and Meet The Fockers. The next day we had breakfast and played a few games, one of which was called Clay To Win, which is where there are two teams and a sculptor in each team, and the sculptor has to sculpt something out of play-dough and the other person has to guess. It was a really fun party ^^ I got a Cult album and a HMV giftcard, which I will probably spend on Soundgarden.

Happy Birthday to me!

Today I listened to AC/DC's Back In Black, which I had already heard in full before, thanks to Planet Rock. I also listened to half of The Cult's Love (I only listened to half since by the time I had listened to that it was 10 and I needed to come on here, post my blog & go to bed) but it's a good album so far, great vocals, great guitar.

It's my birthday today too but I only got presents from my sister which were a white owl statuette and a money box, so now I have three money boxes :P. I'm getting a new watch since my current one I've had since year 2 :P. I love doing the :P face today for some reason :P.

California!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to California tomorrow - yay!

It snowed this morning and I was just like OMGWTFBBQ because it is April and it was warm last week and yeah... So I ate my breakfast quickly and was out at like 8 making snowmen with my sister, which my brother eventually kicked over. The snow then melted, but I still think there is a little snowman mound of snow still out in the garden.

The last song I heard on the radio was the Cult's 'Edie', and now I really really want the 'Love' album (yes I know Edie isn't on Love, it's on Sonic Temple') and have been doing so for a year now. I hope I can get it cheap in California...

Nothing much else eventful happened today apart from packing for California. I've never been to America before (I've been to Canada twice though) so I'm really excited. And theres going to be loads of snow in Lake Tahoe (well not in the lake, but around it) so I guess England snowed today because it wanted to get me ready... Well I have my book to read on the flight, and yes it is IT (as mentioned in a previous post). I have also packed most of my clothes in my hand luggage as I am not trusting BA with their creepy Terminal 5. But wish me luck for tomorrow, :P.