Rainy Days

The worst thing about this week is the weather. Rain forevermore. But besides the weather, my week was actually really good. On Monday I had quite a normal day at school; nothing really happened except that I had my French Horn lesson. On Tuesday though, I had a practice of my dance that I'm performing at my local upper school, and then in a festival. That meant that I got to miss two lessons. After school, I had my second-last ballet lesson before my exam.On Wednesday, I had another dance practice and 1 lesson out of my school day, and after that another two lessons out because I had to practice for my concert that night. I then went home, had my violin lesson, and quickly whizzed back to school for the concert. The concert went very well, and I performed a violin solo. Going on to Thursday, I performed in our school talent show, playing my piano, and I won!(YAY!!!)

Friday the 13th. Well, let's just say it's the best Friday the 13th I've ever had! Two of my friends that live in my local area thought that it would be fun to camp out, because it was the weekend, and it was an unlucky day, so it's always funny if you plan something just to see it go wrong. We tried to camp out in a tent, but the only friend that had a tent wasn't allowed. So we tried just sleeping in her house. That didn't work. We tried the other friend's house. No luck. Finally, I asked my mum and dad if my friends could sleep over. It worked! So me, my dad and my two friends went to the shop and bought loads of sweets so that we could have a midnight feast. We also watched a movie(Mean Girls 2). So now I'm very tired because we went to bed really late, but no luck for me! It was the festival today, which meant I had to get up early to go and dance.

As lots of fun things have been happening I'm going to put some pictures on of the stuff I did!

This is me in my ballet costume

This is me in my dance costume

Me wearing a ridiculous mask holding my French Horn

Be prepared for some more pictures soon! It's Rowing and my ballet exam tomorrow!

Over and done with!

You're probably wondering what the title means. Well, today I did my French Horn Grade 1 exam and I guess I could say I'm glad that it's over! My exam went really well and I think when I go to Senior School that I might just carry on playing (which was not the original plan). My examiner was very encouraging and seemed to be pleased that I was a French Horn player ('The French Horn is an endangered species', so he says). My teacher has also encouraged me to keep playing, which is all good.

Tomorrow's two sessions of Rowing, and I promise you that I'll try to get some pictures in soon, I must be boring you with all this talk!

Home again

I'm back, and all in one piece! As I said in my last post, I went on a residential trip on Monday. The place I went to was called Eaton Vale in (unsurprisingly) Eaton! I went with a lot of my friends from school and we had an amazing time. Eaton Vale is an adventure holiday, or in my case a school trip. When you get there you do lots of different exciting things, whatever the weather! Unfortunately, when I got there it started lashing with rain, but the instructors are really encouraging, so we had fun anyway.

On my trip (this is only what my school has chosen) I did Crate Stacking, which is where you are harnessed to a rope and are pulled up by it whenever you step on another milk crate. The aim is for the people who are not being pulled up to stack the crates as high as they can so the harnessed people could step on them and go up higher and higher. At the bottom of this post I will put a link to the Eaton Vale website so that you can see the activities for yourselves (they're kind of hard to describe). I also did Raft Building (to get to the point you build a raft), Indoor Climbing (which is exactly what you think it is), Riffle shooting and a lot of other fun things. 

As it was a residential trip I had to sleep there, and my dorm was very cosy. There was another room called the Boss' Room where you could relax and play a game and watch TV. I felt very comfy and settled in quickly to the routine, but I did miss my family.

Overall, I really enjoyed my trip and if you like the sound of it, then check out the website: eatonvale.co.uk