My recording-ness!
Sorry for not writing ’bout this earlier. I’m just too lazy, really. Being brutally honestly here: my laziness is shocking.
On Wednesday morning, I went through about 5 outfit changes before going off to pick my mates up. This is after considering that I’d already picked out an outfit the night before after trying on a numerous number of choices. Well, I picked up Ella then Eliza and off we went. The car ride went by rather quickly, possibly because we spent all of it listening to my new ipod and engaging in lots of girly chitchat-ness. We circled our destination for another 20 minutes because we couldn’t find the entrance. When we found it, we discovered that the recording studio was on a farm.
So this is basically what happened.
I started off with the song ‘Viva la Vida’ by ‘Coldplay’ which I sang through 3 times in a row. Then the guy who was doing the recording cut the nice parts from each version and stuck them together. He looked 23 tops. And had a cool shirt. ANYWAY! Then I tried out ‘Zombie’ by ‘The Cranberries’ but the playback sounded bad so we scratched that song. I did ‘Sweet About Me’ by ‘Gabriella Cilmi’ 3 times instead and it sounded awesome! It sounds the best out of all the songs in my opinion.
I then tried to sing ‘Love Song’ by ‘Sara Bareilles’ and that sounded really weak so we decided to switch to ‘Everything’ by ‘Michael Buble’. (The last ‘e’ in his surname has an accent but I can’t be bothered to find it. Remember: I’m lazy!) This sounded quite good but we had some problems with it. The first bit is too low so I sang it an octave higher which was fine. But the second bit I had too sing in the normal key mixed with the high key. The chorus caused the most problems. After trying to sing it in the low key, and finding it impossible, I sang the second two times with the high key. I managed to do it and apparently, I can hit really high notes. You may have to cover your ears when my dad puts the vid up. You may also hear some random laughs because Eliza and Ella were dancing very *cough* stupidly in an attempt to loosen me up.
After the recording, my mother took all of us to Blackheath village where we ate at a Mexican place and took some funny videos with Eliza’s wicked camera. By the way, if you search ‘Becky Burlak’ on google, you’ll get a link to the giftdaze website that does the recordings. My picture will be in the corner with a comment by moi! Thanks so much Grandma and Grandpa for giving me this gift! Mwahh!
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Birthday celebrations so far
I am now 14 and have been a teenager for a whole year! Here’s how it’s been so far:
On Friday I came in to school dressed in jean shorts, blue and black striped thigh-high socks and my top that shows Sienna. I also wore fingerless gloves with spiderwebs on them. Very Halloween! Obviously I wore a coat and jumper as well. It looked cool beans, trust me! (Cool beans means ‘cool’ as does cool waffles.) Oh, and I’d dyed my hair a darker shade of brown (with a touch of purpley/red) the night before. Half of what I was wearing was to be part of my Halloween outfit, the gloves and the socks. It was a fun day at school, the last two lessons being canceled due to the Gadesdon performance. It’s a Drama competition at my school in honour of the second ever headmistress at my school. Everyone performs in monologues or groups for the class and the drama teacher pics the finalists. My partner and I didn’t get picked but the drama teacher really liked our piece called Skungpoomery. The finalists are one group from each house in each year (grade). My best mates Emily and Eliza won, they did a really funny extract from Blood Brothers. They were quite shocked with winning as they missed out about half of their piece when showing it. After winning the contest, they performed it again with the all of it.
After school, I boarded 8 girls onto the London bus I take home. This was, of course, after one bus didn’t even stop for us and we had waited for around 40 minutes. Not counting the fact that everyone was holding both their sleepover stuff and their costumes for my party. When we got home at almost 5 everyone changed into their outfits. The rest is a big blur. Half (pft, I mean all except 2) of us had costumes with an emo theme. Connie came a bit later dressed as a ladybird (ladybug, or as I like to call it: God’s Cow) and Eliza was Cheshire Cat. I was a ‘goth retro fairy’. We watched Hocus Pocus, played games, did dares (like freezing Orla’s bra), told truths: we did all the sleepover works. We all went to bed around 4am. It was a great party and I got good presents. Kimmy gave me a hedgehog mug, awww!
The next day, all with soda hangovers, my mates left one by one. The latest departure was around 1pm. Then parents gave me their presents to me! I got an ipod from both my parents and the Kravchenko’s. I don’t mean 2 ipods, I mean they combined their budgets. The ipod is the new chrome nano and it’s indigo and says Bex T-Rex on the back. I’ve already downloaded around 110 songs onto it! My next gift was from my grandparents and it’s soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool! I get to record 3 songs in a studio on Tuesday, eeeek! And I’m allowed to bring some friends along! I’ve picked: Zombie by The Cranberries and Everything by Michael Bublé. But I’m stuck for a 3rd song between 4 different ones! The booklet with song choices didn’t have most of my favourite artists but guys sing those songs so it’s okay.
Today we went to Rochester which I won’t go into. That’s what my dad’s blog is for, not mine. What was good there was a few shops. In one, I bought a hedgehogs for 2.95 pounds. Quite cheap really considering it was made of twigs and pine cone. He couldn’t be called Rocky because that would be like Roxy from Roqubrune. My dad suggested Chessie and showed me that he has good ideas sometimes. The hedgehog became a girl called Chessie. The second shop I found was just, ah, no words to describe it! I felt home. It was all punk, retro and goth type things. If you scroll up and see my Halloween outfit, you’ll see that this is so me! I bought the coolest skirt ever there, also some socks and cool waffles earrings. I’ll post a pic of me wearing all of those things here. It’s not too good and you can’t see the earrings so I’ll make a different one later. ANYWAY! I was 2 pence short when ringing the stuff up so my mum helped me out. If I had more money on me, I would have bought the whole shop. It’s not too far away, only 30 minutes, and I’m definitely coming back. With a lot of friends in tow as well! We’ll will just spend the day there!
Tomorrow, I’m going to get my hair cut (back to my bob) and then go to different doctors for check-ups and stuff. I haven’t done those things in a while so might as well tomorrow. I’ll post again after the recording!
My Funkytown Skirt
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Facebook mates (and other miscellany)
I really could not think of a title for this one so I just picked one of the topics to be the title. This post is not all about my facebook mates.
Let’s begin with the Blackheath High school open day, shall we? My school thought up this brilliant idea, you see. They want the school to be seen by possible applicants for next year. But this apparently can’t be done during school hours. It has to be done on a SATURDAY when we could all be sleeping. And of course, out of the kindness of their hearts, the school let us out at 1.30 on Friday. I will admit that I definitely had fun on Friday afternoon and did manage to get invited to an impromptu sleepover. But I worked something out about this ‘Open Day’ scheme. Oh, they’ll let us out of school 2 hours early. But we come in for 4! It’s injustice and most people don’t even realise!
Now that I’ve got mad ranting out of my system I can say that as open days go, my class’s wasn’t too bad. We were given 2 lessons to do on Saturday. First was Drama which we all love. YAY! We did a bit of physical theather using books to a song called Adiemus. The song is very cool sounding and I have now downloaded it onto my phone. Afterwards we had geography in which we were meant to be making paper volcanoes, looking at maps, and doing a geography puzzle. Well, that just wasn’t acceptable so instead we drew pictures and did geography quiz things online. This was a very good outcome of lessons because last year we had Science and R.E. I actually never stayed in any lesson for too long as I had 3 chamber choir performances. Those were okay as we sang a really pretty Latin song. Also a weird German one but it was a good laugh so I didn’t mind. I was mentioned at each performance because we’re doing a Russian song soon!
Next topic: I keep discovering new bands that I adore. Discovered band of the week:All Time Low.
Next Topic: facebook mates! I was bored one day and started seeing if there were any people I knew from Old Bridge that were on facebook. I found about 7 and after being quite ecstatic at this prospect, and idea came to mind. So I got out my Schirra School Graduating Year of 2006 T-shirt. On the back, it has all the names of people who were in my grade in America. I found about 10 more people and they were all very happy to hear from me. I’m so loved! Thank you facebook!
Next topic: We have been making our own versions of Alice in Wonderland for English class. We were meant to write a chapter of our own story. She didn’t specify which chapter so I randomly picked 5. My story is called ‘Rebecca in Wonderland’. This may shock you because I let almost no one call me ‘that name’ anymore. I believe I’m not mature enough for such a formal name. ANYWAY! I wasn’t actually called Becky until 4th grade when I was 9. Alice is meant to be around 5 or 6 and I was still called Rebecca back then. So, in my story, I must be called ‘that name’ instead of my beloved ‘Bex’. The trick to making this chapter was adding puns and a shape poem. I managed both and I even ended up with 3 puns instead of just one. The first one took me ages to think up. The other two: I didn’t even notice I had extra puns until I read my chapter through again. I’m gonna put the chapter on this blog, read it if you can… or have the time to!
Next topic: My b-day is soon! I am turning 14 on Saturday and am holding a Halloween costume sleepover thing on Friday, the last day before half-term. I am very excited because I am getting an ipod an other good present things! What? As a birthday present to me, you’ll tell your friends to read my blog? And leave more comments? Oh, you guys are too kind!
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My dad: the Hitch-hiker (plus other stuff)
On the way home from trampolining at my school we had to stop at the annoying intersection next to my road. And who do we see waiting for the green light at the pedestrian crossing? My father dearest! So I rolled down my windows and started madly waving to him and my mother and sister quickly followed suit. That man must be blind and deaf ‘cuz he didn’t respond for a good 10 seconds. Then he noticed us. He looked overjoyed to see us. Sadly, this was probably not from the fact that he had missed us dearly all day. Oh, no. He was happy to be able to run across the road to get into the car instead of having to walk. So you see, my dad’s a hitch-hiker. I think that moment when he sat down into the car was the first time I’ve ever seen my mum behind the wheel when my dad is also in the car. Fun experience except I couldn’t see anything over his head which annoyed me slightly. He is too tall to sit in front of me.
On Thursday we had Jeans for Genes day. We had to come into school wearing a pink top and jeans. The whole charity thing is for breast cancer. The fee was 1 pound which would go to the charity. And if you didn’t wear pink or denim, the fee was 2 pounds. Many people had asked me for pink tops because not many people own them. I brought in 5 and then everyone decided they’d just pay 2 pounds instead. Thanks for making me carry all that stuff, guys! On the plus side, I got to make changes throughout the day which was fun. Also necessary. The first top, the one I came in wearing, was being worn with a belt. The belt was suffocating me. And falling down a lot. My stomach still hurt even after I’d taken the thing off. Be careful with belts!
Today I went to Rye for a school trip. This means wearing my own clothes for two days in a row. I was well chuffed (slang for happy that my mate Emily uses which has rubbed off on me). I wore my fluffy boots and ice-lantics jacket. And other things obviously but not worth mentioning. Rye is cold and small. But it has a good High Street. It’s a good place to spend an hour or two on if your driving through England by car. It has really good gift shops, a Boots (english pharmacy), a Woolworths, fish and chip shops, cafes, and very cheap sweet shops. I bought (well Emily bought it for me since I forgot money) a 3 foot long strawberry cord for 40p. I’m not exaggerating. It’s really that long. YUM! The fun part of the trip was really the bus ride. Everyone listened to music and sang out loud and made many videos on my phone. Plus made up very odd stories.
Okay then, bye!
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