Zai jian (buh-bye in Mandarin)
Yes. I realise it’s a bit of a cheek saying good-bye when I haven’t been around much anyways. But that’s just me! Shall we get you up to speed on things?
Me and Ella didn’t win the costume competition. Our lovely friend Saoirse (Sersha) did instead. And if it had to be anyone, we’re glad it was her rather than a mere acquaintance. We were still very upset because we had put more effort into our costumes, especially me.
I have been working on World War One poetry (joy.) and have written my own little poem (actually it’s 8 verses) in honour of the topic. Plus, I had to for my homework. It’ll be on the main bit of the site because I feel people go there more often. The poem’s called ‘We will Return’ so look out for it.
I had my interhouse dance competition. Allow me to explain. In England we class each student (and teacher, but who cares) into a ‘House’. Yes, my Harry Potter fanatics, it’s just like that. In fact, my little sister’s school actually uses to Hogwarts names for them. My school’s a bit more original. So. Meridian is the Green house, the awesome house, the house that generally places 2nd or 3rd in competitions, the house I belong to. Vanbrugh is yellow and they are just like us in the scoring but obviously less cool. Paragon is blue and good at Drama and Dance but other than that, come last in everything. Sorry guys, but you know it’s true. Lastly, there’s Morden. They are red. They are amazing. They almost always win first place in absolutely everything.
Now back to the dance compo. Each class has a certain number of people belonging to each House in it. These people are forced to dance together. Last year, we had to choose a song from a musical. This year, we had to choose 2 styles of dance to do to a instrumental piece of music. It was harder this year. My group has 5 people in it including me and we decided to do Street and Ballet. Interesting combination, I know. Amy and I did ballet while Leah, Orla and Saoirse did street. Then halfway through we do a bit of both in unison. We danced to a slightly more street version of ‘Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies’. We named our dance ‘The Green Sugar Plums’. Original, no?
Ballet people wore black leotards and green tutus (I think it was the first time in 5 years that so many people said ‘Awwww!’ to me) and street people wore black trousers, green shirts and hoodies. We were first up to dance and before you get excited, we didn’t win. But we did get to perform twice. They cut us short ‘cos they thought we had finished so we went again at the end. The winners were Paragon, second place was one Morden, third place was another. See what I said about Morden finding ways to still kinda win? They won both interhouse hockey and netball but I don’t really care ‘cos I scored 5 of the 10 goals into the basket so HA!
My last thing to say to you, is that I’m off to China. Hence the title. It’s a school trip! I cannot believe my school is going to CHINA! This would never happen in America. Anyways, I’m gonna take pics and stuff but I wanted you people to know that that is the reason I’m not writing. Instead of my normal laziness, I actually can’t blog.
Now please enjoy some Chinese characters I drew on Paint two years ago! I know you can’t read it but I can’t be bothered to tell you what it means at the current moment in time. Remind me later. BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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General Ketchup
Ha ha! See what I did there? Isn’t it funny…
Oh come ON! I’m talking about the genius word play! Yeesh! You just can’t put up jokes that require thinking can you, these days?
I’m sure everyone has missed my witty sarcastic superiority and feel like they cannot stand another day without brain testing jokes like the one above. Well YOU are all in luck. I’m finally writing something! Please hold the applause if you can manage it. I know you all love me but clapping is a nuisance and whoever invented it hates human ears.
Nothing big has really been happening lately which is why I haven’t written. And big things that have happened I either:
a) Can’t be bothered to write about because my fingers would get bored
b) Feel they are MY business
c) Have somehow forgotten ever since the aliens visited
Take your pick. I personally like that last one but whatever you choose, you’ll still never know the BIG thing. That is IF it exists…
So you will all be curious and junk or not care in the slightest. How about I just discuss recent happenin’s?
Well for one thing, Friday was book character dress up day. Now, as I may have said before, England notoriously sucks at Halloween. Book Day is my own personal alternative because there are plenty of things to dress up as even if we are a bit more restricted. Anyway, I like it more because you wear the outfit all day in school, which is better than just in front of mates or not at all. Let me tell you ’bout my outfit then, shall I? Can I just say that ‘Thank jam, they made a Mighty Book of Boosh!’ I mean, some people dress up as TV characters instead of books but that’s not as fun. Since the book was made, I didn’t break any rules by going as OL’ GREGG. And one of my best mates, Ella, went as THE HITCHER. They are both played by the same actor in the show (The Mighty Boosh) but we decided they both had to be honoured.
My outfit of Ol’ Gregg:
> White boots (I compromised with black)
> Green tights/leggings
> Pink tutu (I wore shorts under this)
> Black button up shirt (thank you one pound charity shops!)
> White tie (made out of paper during Spanish, and before this is commented on: I got 97% on my last test so a little goofing is okay)
> Silver jacket (I would like to thank Maddie g, Ella’s sister for lending me this because I couldn’t find one ANYWHERE)
> Seaweed hair (I used green hair spray)
> Green face (mix of blue and yellow face-paint and then some hairspray liquefied in a cup and painted on)
> Black mustache (eyeliner=good to go)
> Pink eyeshadow under the eyes
> Yelling out ‘I’m Old Gregg!’ once in a while (only about 10 people in the school actually knew who this was but I felt like saying it)
Below are some pictures of that glorious day. You should be able to tell which person is me from my descripiton (said in French accent for some reason). The first is from the balloon debate (we are all stuck in a hot air balloon, give speeches, and the audience votes on who doesn’t get kicked out) and the second is lovely-ly random. If anyone wants to know: Ella (The Hitcher) is second from the left on the second piccy.
I did not go on public transport dressed like this. I went in my shorts and leggings with my jacket on top and put on the tutu, face stuff and make-up in school. I have a feeling I might’ve had the best costume in my year. You cannot believe how many people put on a tutu and wings and call themselves a fairy. Oh, and leg-warmers as all fairies seem to be from the 80s these days.
In other news, I went to a sleepover on Saturday night and watched Tropic Thunder, Jackass and SKINS with Amy, Ella and Saoirse (Sersha). I had broken my amazing watch’s wrist band thing so I don’t know what time I fell asleep as I was wearing my other one…which doesn’t light up…and is hard to read even when it’s not dark. I think snoozy time was about 5-6am. Yea, that’s about it. I took two buses home at around 10.30am and that was that.
I hope you feel that a ketchup, of what’s been going on, has occurred and I bid you FAIR ADIEU! (Please tell me you got the word play this time. I mean I gave you a second chance and if you missed it again, then, well, good luck in life my friend.)
I’M OL’ GREGGGGGGG!
