Well well well...

Back into a routine now :( a horrible horrible boring routine! :p Homework is piling and the workload is increasing... and to top it all off I'm ill.

So today I decided was going to be yet another..... lazy day! I've done literally nothing for so long now it's untrue... I did however manage to fill out some forms for some coaching courses in Derby and am currently attempting a grant application... *sigh* why is nothing that's worth it ever easy?

College has been..... shall we call it interesting? One of my teachers has taken on a 'self-learning' approach, which, in the right environment I would have no problem with at all, i.e. at home... However, in a noisy classroom, whereby everbody is chatting about mostly irrelevant things I find it extremely hard to concentrate enough to teach myself an entire chapter of a textbook! Although it appears he has no plans to rethink his approach after I spoke to him about it.  Thus I am losing motivation to go to his classes as it feels like a waste of an hour and half... which I have to make up for once I get home and I have the homework to do on top of it!

Luckily, one thing in my life is going well! Gymnastics... *I love you* it is the biggest thing in my life right now... completely and utterly holding me together! Especially when I realise I can do more than I think! My back tuck is improving all the time and my front sommie appears just to be fine! So life is good! :D Hopefully all this form filling will be worth it and one day in the not so far future I'll be a qualified level one coach!

Lots has happened!

So, as I said I spent the weekend over at my dads new house, helping to wash blinds, walls, doors, kitchens, and anything else that looked remotely grubby, I also did a little bit of painting and had an amazing nights sleep on a mattress on the floor! Sometimes I am amazed by how I can sleep absolutely anywhere if I am tired enough, yet if I am even remotely awake I can be in THE most comfortable bed in the world.... yet still won't get the slightest bit of shut eye.... *sigh*.

Friday 13th, another lesson learned, it is much the same as any other Friday as far as I'm concerned, I was still tired and grumbly, the children I was coaching were still as uncooperative as usual, (most of them are great, I really shouldn't complain, I do love coahing them really! :P) and life just carried on as usual, although I didn't get out of bed for much of the day which probably explained why it was so uneventful.

And today! well, I have had a revelation! :D I thought that after I dropped biology the prospects of me becoming a midwife had not just depleated, but completely vanished.......  However, turns out that related subjects also include psychology and sociology too, both of which I am studying, so I am officially back on the hunt for work experience and help from anyone and everyone who knows anything about everything! Another lesson learnt... don't give up, even when you think all is lost!

Freedom!

Today was very eventful! First of all I had my sociology exam, which was harder than I was expecting! Darn those first two exams that made me feel as though I could relax! Lesson learnt... don't relax before an exam just because the last two didn't stress you out!

However, after that I went to 'work' oh how odd that sounds :p and earnt myself some money :) ahh, 'mazin'! I do love being able to look at things and know that I will actually be able to save up for them! :D

I want one of these! :D

After I had been to 'work' I caught the bus at an extortionate £2.30! (and they wonder why people don't use public transport eh? It was only a 10 minute journey!) to see my Dad, he moved into his new house yesterday, so I thought I'd go over and see what the place is like and possibly lend a hand, although I was too exhausted if I'm honest, so I'm going to pop over on the weekend to help out :)

Then this evening I worked on my arts award... you might like to take a look now over here :), it is begining to take shape... :) I feel very uplifted and as though I have completed a lot today!

ARGHHHH! :D

The most exciting evening ever! I did a back tuck on my own! :D (it's just a gymnasticy term for backflip for those of you that weren't sure) but it's the first time I've done it alone, unsupported.... without even being shadowed :) Oh my... I really am struggling to write this through my excitement! I forgot to take my video camera along to film it though :( maybe next week eh? :D

On a more boring note... I have my last exam tomorrow.. Yaya! I am sort of excited, as I'd like to get it over with, but at the same time nervous, as some silly bean chose to go to gymnastics tonight instead of revising! (but for the life of me - I can't think who that might be! :P) My business studies exam today went quite well... it feels like forever ago now! I just ran out of time a little bit on the last question and so didn't answer it as well as I'd liked to have done, but oh well, not much I can do now :)

I am really enjoying this stressless exam period, I've never had it before but I'm certain that I like it! College seems to have a much more positive outlook on exams, all of my tutors persistently tell us how confident they are and how we are all very clever... whereas at my last school I had a much more negative experience with the E word being THE most important things we will EVER do! and we MUST pass, as re - takes are AWFUL... yada yada yada, the list goes on! I love the colleges can-do attitude and how they tell us all those little tips and tricks to pass... rather than just teach us a whole other chapter we don't need in the hope that the examiner will think we know what we are talking about.... -.-

Anyway... I don't want to end on exams because....... I CAN DO A BACK TUCK!!!! :D

Today I feel invincible! :)

I got to college in a surprisingly good mood... absolutely ready and raring for that psychology exam! :) I went in and sat it with only one question I didn't understand... and it was only worth one mark! Yay! I did give it a bash though.. maybe I'll get a mark for persistance ;) I have a business studies one tomorrow that I am going to spend the rest of today and tomorrow morning revising for... I am very pleased though as I can already remember all of the formulas which was the part that was really worrying me... maths just isn't my strongest subject..... what can I say?

Evidence that I do actually revise!

All be it with messy hair! :p

 

 

 I also started another blog, for my arts award, it will be my portfolio that I will hand in, so it probably won't make for very good reading but there could possibly be some interesting photo's at a later date so I will link you to it anyway :) silver arts award blog .

I hope that tomorrows exam goes as well as today's did, it feels really good to feel competent.... something I never once felt at my previous school. I just hope that all this poitive thinking doesn't lead me to having too many great expectations... just in case ;p

Productivity! (for once!)

Today has been extremely productive! Far more so than I'd expected to be honest :) I went to college at 10.30, expecting not really to do much and just end up chatting... but I didn't! we went through an exam paper and I learnt quite a lot - thanks to an amazing tutor ( yes I'm sad and like to be a bit of a teachers pet occasionally :P ) I feel sort of - not wanting to tempt fate or anything - confident! I feel ready to take on this exam! I also spent my evening revising with my old best friend from de lisle which was lovely :) I wish every day I attempted to revise was as good as today, I mean, of course I don't know everything..... but how can I expect to? So I think I'm as prepared as can be... I'll let you know tomorrow how the exam went! (just realised I didn't tell you that the subject this is all for is psychology! oops!)

Face painting fun!

Today, as I mentioned last night I was face painting at a little boys adoption party, it was a lovely do, despite me having not met him or his mother before. It was very emotive and the speeches brought a little tear to my eye! I was really worried that the face paints wouldn't go on very well as they were really sticky, and although I wasn't hugely pleased with the results everybody else seemed to be.. which is of course all that matters. I wish I could share some photo's with you, but I didn't take any as the two girls I did know and who's parents were happy for me to share the photo's on here ran away when i got the camera out! :P I should probably get back to revision now.... but we all know that isn't going to happen, so I'll be honest - I'm going on facebook now, so I'm sorry this post is short, but other things are calling!