Trainers or Heels

At my youth club we have an event once a year in the evening on a Sunday. This year we put on a mini talent show where a few people showcased their talents. Because we had to prepare for this I had to get there for 2:30 even though it started at 5 and the other people on my team neglected to inform me that I was going to do the presenting until about an hour and a half before I was meant to present. I tried to get out of it but "Harriet" the main leader of my youth said that she picked me specifically and that there was no way I was going to get out of it. Being me I was kind of okay with it but I was just a bit stunned as to why they wanted me to do it when I don't normally do the presenting. The night was hilarious and most of my friends came which was good, after the event ended we started doing the shmoney dance outside in the park which definitely got us some weird looks from people passing by . Also my friend from my Tantrums and Talent shows post  (the one t...

Yesterday I went to my youth club and like normal it was really good, I had a lot of fun and things happened as usual that I'm going to tell you about. As you know I'm a leader so this means that I have my own small group. A small group is basically what it says on the tin it is a small group of girls in my case that I talk to as part of the program. Basically after the talk questions are put up on the screen which I have to ask my girls. I have the year 8 girls but some of my year 9 friends have wormed their way into my group because and I quote their "group is dead" , I didn't really have a problem with this but sometimes these girls can be a bit hard to manage. They are all super loud and love to get off topic so most of the time we don't end up answering the questions but at least we have good banter. Anyway in my small group my friend (let's call her candy) was really tired that night and she had already fallen asleep once during the program. What...

My school has some sick tradition of making us do a cross country run every year. This wouldn't be so bad and I can't really complain as some of my friends have to do that every week at their school. But at my school they make us run through farmers fields. Fields, where their are crops growing and horses right next to us. I don't know who's stupid idea this was because the mud is so thick and slippery that it's hard to walk let alone run in the fields. It's particularly disgusting as you get mud all over your legs and clothes and let me tell you dried mud is not a good look. Today I did the last run that I will ever have to do at my school and I hated every second of it but I'm glad that I did it. The thing was I didn't even know for sure if I had to do it today but nevertheless I was totally bricking it in French this morning before the race. Me and almost everyone else there except the cross country runners were dreading it almost as much as I was...

I hate science. I hate it. Now I'm not the type of person to throw hates around everywhere but science really gets on my nerves. I just don't like it but because I'm in top set all my teachers are pressuring me into getting A* in the exam. Don't be fooled by the fact I'm in top set as I'm clearly the dumbest one in the class. At the moment most people are working at an A grade in my class while I'm working on a C. This just does wonders for my confidence you know. I don't know what it is about science that I just don't get considering I'm doing well in every other subject but in science I'm passing at least. You're probably wondering how I ended up in top set if I'm that bad but that is the question I've been asking myself since I first found out. The truth is that while I'm bad at science a lot of people are much much worse which is kinda bad considering I go to a really good school. I'm really trying hard to rev...

Revision why does it exist? why do we have to do it? why? These are the questions I ask myself whenever I go to start revising but quickly I convince myself that the need to revise is not urgent even though my mocks are in December . I really want to know who's stupid idea it was to move the mocks so early when normally they are in April, April not December, not just before Christmas, but April. To be honest whenever I try to trick myself into thinking that in a year I won't have to revise, it just makes me sad, because really I know that I have to revise for at least 6 to 7 more years of my life. Also to make it worse I have to revise more as I go along and I won't be able to get away with 5 minutes revision before a test. I have not been revising and I probably should have been but the lure of YouTube and my laptop make it so hard to actually sit down and do it. Soon I'm going to have to get out of this phase and do some real work but I don't want to. It...

My school along with many other schools in the country have started a new initiative called Drop Everything And Read which is basically where they force us to read a book on a Monday against our will. Now I'm not against reading as I do it quite a lot on my phone but I don't really like the idea of being told when I have to read, it's almost as bad as the library lessons we used to have in KS3. Anyway today in our Drop Everything And Read time in my form we were supposed to be reading a Christmas carol but it was super boring with lots of long irrelevant words so me and my friend started talking about other stuff. My form tutor who is normally quite laid back was barking down everyone's throats to read aloud, while making sure to do the voices of each character (yes, she's a drama teacher). She kept pacing around the room checking to make sure that we were reading aloud to our partner so me and my friend's conversation was kind of cut short at times. I'm...

For those of you who don't know I go to a youth group every week and I am a leader there (not officially yet though as I'm still completing the training course) anyway it's really fun and new things happen every week so I'll always have a fun story to tell you about it on a Saturday. So at the moment we are holding a talent show called The Voice which is just so, so original and my friend Hannah had to re audition for the semi finals in order to get through to the final. Basically long story short during the games the finalists were announced and she found out that she didn't get through. She was not exactly upset about it but she certainly wasn't happy either. It was only about halfway through the night and after finding out the news she started saying that she was going to go home because the talent show was the only reason that she came. I somehow managed to get her to stay but soon after the games had finished I turned around to see her striding towards t...

Recently all the sixth forms in my borough had an event where they all showcased their school. They all basically had a stall where they had all of their prospectuses and leaflets about their school. I went there with my Dad and we looked around and picked up all of the prospectuses available (I wanted to keep my options open). Since I went during the school day, I was the only one from my school there but there was another school who had brought all of their year 11s to this event. In the upcoming weeks I will be attending some individual school open evenings so then I'll be able to give you a more in depth look at how these open evenings work and what to expect. The people presenting their schools were really nice and friendly, so they are definitely willing to answer any questions you may have in regards to your sixth form choice. When you go to option evenings remember to keep an open mind because your opinion of a school can change once you see the facilities. But also rem...

Hey guys. I'm back today with a little story of what happened to me in maths class today. Now I am not the most popular person in my school, which is kinda an understatement, but this means that while everyone knows who I am they don't know much about me. Or they have these wrong ideas about me that simply aren't true. One of these things is that I'm quiet which is true in a very limited number of situations but most of the time I am either normal or loud. However most people who think I'm quiet only see me when I'm in class where I don't have most of my friends and frankly I'm just trying to stay awake, so talking would just be too much effort. In maths class where this story is set I just get on with my work or doodle as only one of my friends is in my class and she's on the other side of the room. When I'm in maths I happen to sit alone, because the person who used to sit next to me moved to set 1 (I'm in set 2 ) the thing is I actua...

Hey guys this is my first post on this blog so I thought I'd let you know a little about me and what's to come. First of all I just like to say that this isn't my first blog; I've had plenty, too many in fact, all about different topics with different themes but in the end I just ran out of things to say. But I wanted this blog to be different so I spent awhile brainstorming ideas of what to write about. Then it hit me! why not write about your life, (not that anything particularly interesting happens) that's something that will never run out of topics, and there's always something new to share so basically that's how we got here. With me writing a blog called Trainers or Heels about my life, as a navigate my final year of the murky sea that is high (or secondary) school. I invite you guys to come on a journey with me as I grow up and get closer and closer to being an adult and being out in the real world. Hopefully this blog will bring you tears and laug...