Ireland was okay. We stayed in a village called Quilty for the first week, which I thought was adorably cute. It rained a lot. Like, a lot a lot. So i spent a lot of time inside reading and watching series 2 of Father Ted. Which was pretty nice actually. I liked Catcher in the Rye (I want to meet Hayden Caulfield - we'd get on well) and spent a lot ( Read more... )

Today was very much a Good Day. Since I've only got three important exams left (plus fifty jillion unimportant internal exams) there are slowly more and more lessons where we just sit around doing absolutely nothing. Watched Gattaca in RE which was love because of Ethan Hawke and Jude Law. Plus the depressing ending.

Aaaaand I have no more Maths ( Read more... )

In RE today, Mr. Swinton told us to talk with our partner for two minutes on anything we wanted and then to tell each other what the other had said.It was supposed to improve your listening skills or something. Anyway, I was paired with Joanie and we sat there for four agonising minutes trying, and failing, to make small-talk. It was mostly things ( Read more... )

In RE Mr. Swinton wanted us to each write up what comes into our mind when we think of Christianity. Joanie came up to the board and wrote ‘homophobia’. I though Mr. S. was going to fry her! Luckily he saw it as an expression of opinion (which it was) rather than a random act of cheekiness ( Read more... )