Where's Wally

'Look in the mirror' is what my brother might say to me - thanks James! 

You may remember in my first blog I was talking about my Christmas stocking list and that I put a Where's Wally book on there, but I didn't get one! I wasn't too bothered as it was just my childish side coming out really but they are so awesome!

Well anyway, one of my friends, Moritz, was coming from Germany for a weekend away and after giving me the most amazing bag ever of assorted haribo (most that are not available in the UK) he said 'I saw you blog and I couldn't resist' and then he handed me a waterstones bag. I was very intrigued as to what it would be as I could not remember much that I have actually written on here so obviously I took the book out the bag. I was so happy!! Literally looked like this :O except not sideways of course!

We sat there for ages just looking through the book trying to find all the different things in all the scenes and my sister joined us in the search too! It was so good, some of them are so tiny that they are so difficult to see - but obviously that is the idea! We got to the last page and there were probably over 100 Wallies on there and the description says something about Wally losing his shoe. So basically you have to look for the Wally with a red and white stripy sock on! I just thought 'how the hell are we ever going to find that, there are too many Wallies'

We spent ages looking for this one Wally but then decided to go out instead! However, the next morning (I think) that Moritz and I were looking through the book I FOUND HIM!!! I was so pleased - I realise this may seem sad by to be honest, I don't care because Where's Wally is amazing! 

We then turned that page and then there is check lists for more and more things to find in each scene and in the corner is says that there is a Wally Watcher (a Wally kid basically) that has lost to bobble on it's hat, can you find the Wally Watcher with the missing bobble, and find the bobble? Moritz said something like 'Oh dear, why did you read that out' hahaha!! 

We couldn't find it while he was here but yesterday when I was looking though it after dinner I found it! I was sort of thinking 'no I can't have found it, I must be wrong' so I searched for the bobble on the same page and FOUND IT!! I was so happy as I honestly thought that it was impossible haha!!

Basically- Where's Wally is amazing, for ANY age! I love it so much and it will keep me amused for ages! Thank you so much Moritz!

Now blog off ;) (Okay I know that was a crap joke but still it made me smile and I hope it made you smile too)

STOP!

Well hello there :)

This is another one of my driving blogs as I just got back from my lesson and thought that I would share, just to be nice :) 

We had a quick drive on the dual carriage way on the way to where we would be doing the cross roads, one way road and angled turnings. This time I felt a bit more confident on the road as I it was nice and light (on the way) and also I was surprisingly not bothered about going 70mph, so I felt quite a lot more confident this time as I really did not like them the last time I drove on them! 

We did all the crossroads, one way roads and angled turnings and then we drove to a quiet road where my instructor told me about emergency stops and I admit, I was a bit scared. But anyway, he talked me through how to do and the signal that they give to tell you to stop. He told me that when he was learning to drive the instructor used to literally bang their clip boards on the dashboard! I think that would just make me jump, so I'm glad they have changed that now! They now look around, put there hand up and then when they want us to stop they put they hand forward quickly and say 'STOP!' - much better. 

We switched places in the car so he was driving so he could could give me an example of what to do. He got to 20mph on the road and then did the emergency stop. It was obviously quite abrupt but it just kind of made me giggle, which is obviously better than being scared. He then gave me a second example just to see if I noticed a difference from last time as he had deliberately done it so that the ABS would kick in too so it didn't feel so smooth. I was quite pleased because I realised, yay!

Then it was my turn... dun dun daaaa! First we just sat in the car with it in neutral and with the hand break on and then he did the hand thing and said 'STOP' and... I missed the brake pedal a bit hahaha! Glad it was the test run. The second time I got it though, yay! 

Then it was time for the real thing so I started the car and got it to 20mph, he did the hand thing etc and I stopped the car. It was ok but the stop was not quite quick enough so we did it again and it was much better but we sort of stopped and then I tool one hand of the wheel and said 'was that ok? oh crap I have to put the hand brake and that on' just as he was pointing at the handbrake! It was rather funny, I can be so blonde sometimes. It literally just slipped my mind! 

Then I drove back home on the dual carriage way, missing my turning on the round about without even realising, but we got there in the end. Well, I've got to make something funny out of driving, right? 

Hopefully we won't be doing the emergency stop in 2 weeks time on the Tuesday as I will have a cake for my friends Amy's birthday and I wouldn't be too happy if I were to mess up the cake and have to give it to her if it were spattered and smushed to the side of the tin it is in! Hopefully that won't happen but, Amy, I apologise in advance in case that does happen :)

Bye for now :)

SEAGULLS!

I am sitting in the IB centre - trying to do my work! And there are 2 seagulls outside the back window tapping their feet quickly on the ground so that the worms or bugs or whatever come up from the earth because they think it is raining!
I keep just stopping and staring at them but they have gone now :( I wish my camera had batteries in it that worked (yes, James, that was a little dig at you for giving me dead batteries you FOOL!)

Colin!!

This morning I thought my day would be very boring and drag on FOREVER but luckily I was wrong as it ended up being really funny! 

This morning I was sitting in the common room practically falling asleep and dreaming of being  at home back in my nice warm bed, not to be disturbed for at least 4 hours! I was wondering how the hell I would manage to survive French without falling asleep. Although the incentive was that if I did I would end up having my head chopped off by my teacher... she would have gone absolutely ballistic! I have no idea how, but I did end up feeling quite awake and not really feeling tired at all - this was quite surprising as I honestly felt like a zombie in the morning. 

Anyway, after French I had a free - yay! I was looking forward to my free as I would just be able to do what I wanted as I was planning on doing whatever French homework that I got given in the previous lesson - luckily we got nothing that I could do, as the person I needed was busy. Shame, that means I would have to sit in the common room, talk and play games! 

My friend, Dan, was also on a free too so he came and sat in the common room with me and after talking for a while, and letting Arthur borrow my red pen so he could draw a heart on his hand, we thought it would be fun to play squares - so we did. We had a 10 by 10 grid (I know that's not important, but still) and Dan decided after a while that it would be fun to do it in the shape of a staircase - his fun didn't do him much good... hehe! I was very tactical with my placing of my lines but Dan really didn't have much of a clue (sorry Dan, but you know it's true). Anyway, I managed to get 80 squares, whereas Dan managed to get 20 - woo! 

After that we were sitting around trying to thinking of games to play. Dan suggested hide and seek (obviously joking) but I didn't really fancy hiding in the one place there was to hide - the bin! Yuck! Then Dan suggested the game where we write a line of a story each but aren't allowed to see what the other person had written but then we realised that it really wouldn't work as it would make no sense whatsoever! So I suggested that one person writes a little bit and puts something like 'so, after or then' at the end of there section so the next person had to carry it on! 

We decided that this would be quite a fun game so we started off writing our story. It ended up being rather funny but I won't write it out on here as some parts aren't exactly suitable :)

A little summary of the amazing story:

To start of with Dan is skipping through a field with his lover when a giant spotted dinosaur eats his lover, Dan cries and gets mugged, he meets a big talking banana called Colin, who then runs off after I tell him that Dan has a girlfriend and then a giant monkey tried to eat his head. Dan throws the monkey and helps up Colin, they dance and sing to the YMCA while I play the bango in a tree and then later they have a bunch of baby bananas. A year later they return with their children but the children, and Colin, get eaten by the monkey! Dan goes back to Amy but then the monkey comes for them again and eats Amy! 

We left it with the line 'Could Dan's life get any better...?' this way we can write a sequel if we wish. Amy has demanded that she will become a ghost in the next one... pfft! We shall see... not making any promises :P 

Even my English lesson was funny! Surprise, I know! We are reading a VERY strange book called 'Perfume' and the teacher was asking us whether in certain areas it had sexual references and yes... it does! He talks about a 'volcanic eruption' and 'enjoying himself' so me and my partner Maddy were making lots of jokes out of the references, which was amusing to say the least. Something my English teacher said had some kind of sexual reference without her meaning to so I whispered to Maddy 'that's what Grenouille said' so we were having a good laugh over it all! I usually really hate English but today it was fun :)

So yes, my day consisted of squares, talking bananas, monkeys, dinosaurs and innuendos - good day I think :)

Driving Update

I have had about 5 lessons now so I thought I would share some of the interesting or funny things that might have happened along the way:

• Today, I was driving along and then a bus started coming towards me and I was thinking 'oh crap, I won't fit through that gap what the hell do I do!!' I was a little temped to just close my eyes and hope for the best but luckily I didn't! I pulled over a little bit to the left as my instructor told me and he helped me to stop it in time... phew. 

• Another one from today. I am learning to drive in a petrol car and we had pulled over to have a chat about something else and clean the back windscreen. Anyway, when I went to pull away I thought I had put it in 1st gear so I started to pull away, I was wondering why the car was shaking so much but I carried on very slowly anyway and once I had actually got on my way again I asked my instructor why the car was shaking so much and he said I had accidentally put the car in 3rd gear but he was amazed that I actually managed to get away with doing that in 3rd gear because usually the car would have stalled. 

•  I drove myself to school the other day which was quite good! My leg ached a teeny bit after as usual and as it was in the morning I was a little bit tired but the lesson went well, although I stalled quite a few times as we were doing LOTS of roundabouts for the first time, and they are a little bit scary!

•  I have to admit whenever I see a car stop at a junction to either side of me it does give me a bit of a shock and buses scare me too! They are too big and take up too much of the road!

• I have had a little habit of leaving my indicator on when it doesn't cancel it's self out. I quite like the noise actually and I just sort of block it out :) But I am glad the say that I am improving on this as I now remember to turn it off more often that not! 

• You might know that I am the official cake makes for my friends' birthdays. In a few weeks time it is my friend Amy's birthday and I have already promised her a cake! I have got a driving lesson in the morning before I actually need to be in school so I will be driving myself, and the cake, to school! I said to my friend that she can judge how good my driving is by the state of the cake... hopefully we won't start on emergency stops on that lesson!

Woodlice

I know it sounds like a bit of an odd topic for a blog but I just thought I would write one in memory of the woodlouse I accidentally killed in my biology experiment yesterday... I know - evil!

We were doing an experiment which involved putting some woodlice in a choice tube (a hollow T-shaped tube) and letting it crawl the section where it then decides whether to go into the dark section or the light section. We started off with 4 woodlice but one was too fat for the tube so we disregarded it and gave it to someone else.

I appologise to all the woodlice lovers but they arn't exactly the most intelligent of all insects. One of them decided it would be a smart idea to go into the light section (lit by a lamp). Now this section was not exactly the coolest of sections and it seemed that it was probably frying in there as it promptly decided to try and reverse... and failed.Don't worry, I did save it by tipping the tube - I'm nice really!

But in another incident I was tipping the 3 woodlice out of the tube but none of them seemed to be falling out so I decided to tap it against the table but unfortunately just as I was hitting the tube on the table, one feel out and I ended up stabbing it :S I'm sorry!!

R.I.P woodlouse!

Baby Styling!

The electronic baby is officially off... woo! I enjoyed being auntie, apart from rocking it for half an hour!!!

Anyway, I decided the baby need a bit of styling so I thought I would share some pictures :)

 Baby wanted to try and feed herself - suits us! Clever baby, takes after it's auntie ;)

 The baby styling some gold ear muffs, it's all the range at the moment!

And finally, the baby styling a woolly hat, big black glasses whilst having a nice relax with a bottle of milk!