Haven’t blogged in ages

I haven’t done a blog in ages because of stuff with the school newspaper and exams and lots of other things. I did another one the Playground to Podium events which this time I was helping with. I got my exam results as well but I’d rather not put them on here for everyone to see. On Friday I did a charity cake stall with my class on Friday. We raised around £40. The events in this post are in muddled up order but it doesn’t matter. I’m in a sort of band with my friend from The Buzz now. Unfortunately the events leading up to that made me lose a friend the night before my exam results. We sorted most of that out mostly but I still haven’t forgiven him completely.

My schools “Cashless Catering” system goes live tomorrow. I tried to put some money on  my account the other day but it took me 4 attempts for it to recognise who I was. It’s fingerprint recognition so I have a feeling that unless they have fixed it things could be chaotic tomorrow. It’s supposed to speed up the system but i think if it does what it did when I tried it on Friday with the top up machine it could slow it down.

One of my friends from The Buzz is leaving in April so I have hopefully if the message got through reserved tickets for us all to see a gig at the youth club in February. I might blog later in the week but at the moment it’s quite busy for me so I will do it when I can. bye for now.

A lot has happened while I have been away so far

Yesterday I got even more pictures which are on my Picasa web albums and also had a meal on the top of a mountain which was a bit cold but a good meal. Dennis has his day off tomorrow so that should be good. We are going Snow shoeing this afternoon. I have also been continuing with writing my article for YJI. In other words I’ve been doing almost the same things every day.

I would put my pictures on but they will be in the YJI article if it gets published. If not I will do them when I get home. It’s weird because since i came to the alps I have missed an earthquake, a solar eclipse and shooting stars. What else could I miss? Oh well. I suppose it’s lucky I missed the earthquake. I know it wasn’t a bad one but it’s kind of lucky.

I’m supposed to go back to school today but I sent a holiday form in and they got it but we didn’t get anything back to say it was confirmed. I’m only off for a few days. Then three days after I go back I get my results from my mock exams. I hope I do ok. It’s wierd but every now and then the fire alarm in the hotel we’re in goes off but it’s been false alarms both times. oh well. For now au revoir

It’s my Birthday!

Last night I arrived in the Alps and got to see Dennis for the first time in a while. I managed to get a good picture but it’s on my Picasa web albums and it will hopefully be in my YJI article if it gets published. If not I can give you the link when I get back. The internet is a bit wierd here so doesn’t work all the time. I might not be able to do a blog every day. Anyway it’s my birthday today and I’m going to wait for Dennis to open my presents.

There’s not really much to put in this post but i was just doing an update while I still have the internet. I will probably have more to say in future posts. I’m not stuck for things to do as there’s a cinema and bowling alley so I can do that. compared to my normal posts this is quite short but I will have more stuff next time. I will do another post when possible. Bye for now

What a year!

I haven’t done a bog post in ages but finally I got round to it. Unfortunately I can’t cover everything I’ve done since my last post but i can give you a rough update. I managed to get the first issue of The Buzz out. I might have mentioned that already. we had an amazing Christmas lunch. In the last couple of days I’ve been up to my Uncle and Auntie’s and and in the next few days I’m going to the French Alps to see my brother and also for my birthday. It does mean that I miss a bit of school.


I’ve been asked to take some photos and do an article on it for YJI which should be interesting but as I’m not out there till the 2nd January I can only write the introduction at the moment so I have to wait two more days to do it. I’m looking forward to 2011 because I’ve been given the opportunity to help with Playground to Podium that I did last year. That should be good. I have set this to publish at midnight tonight so that it will be on the new year.

Apparently there’s not a very good Wi-Fi at the place I’m going to so I will try to blog but I’m not promising anything. Happy New Year!

Busy, Busy, Busy! That’s quite busy

Over the last week I’ve been to a Dr Feelgood gig in Newcastle and joined Youth Journalism International (there’s lots of the other little things but I can’t remember them all individually). Revision for my exams starts now and I’ve handed over the school newspaper to be published. I’ve also had an invite to write for BBC Tyne News. The first article I did for YJI is on my news blog and I will put the link to the text so you can go straight to it.

Today I’ve been to youth club and I’m thinking of applying to be in the Richmondshire Youth District Council. I need a couple of people to second me though. I will find someone. The new issue of The Tattoo which is the news for YJI is out but I don’t think I’m in it. If you want you can have a look at it anyway at www.readthetattoo.com . A bit of a short blog tonight but I didn’t have much to tell you. Most of it’s about exams (boring). Oh well. Can’t think of  a way to end this post so just Bye for now.

Part of last nights blog tonight (the iPod doesn’t let me publish it)

This Thursday I raised £210 for charity with the help of some friends at charities evening. The group were mostly from the Poole family so I came up with the name for our team of Poole and the gang. It’s a play on words of Kool and the gang. I finally got an interview with Lewis Stabler in my year for the school newspaper. Me, Becky and Jordan were writing the it up the other day. The Buzz is nearly ready for us to edit but I’m waiting for a couple of cartoons and articles to come in. I’ve started to learn how to draw manga which is one of the types of drawings that Sophie, Anna and Rachel are doing. I just thought that i would have a go at the stuff they are working on and it’s good.

Haven't really got much to put in tonight but tomorrow there’s a talk about Darlington College that I'm going to. On Wednesday is the Sixth form open evening as well. In ten days Dennis is off to France to work there for about 4 months. He’s away for Christmas and my birthday but we have him on Skype so I can still talk to him. I’m off now. Bye!

Happy Halloween!

It’s Halloween and no I’m not going trick or treating. This week I’ve been busy. I had various people coming to mine on different days. Becky who helps with the school newspaper came on Thursday and Vicky Lee and Jack on Friday. We have now got the wristbands for the school newspaper as you can probably see from the picture I put in. It’s also been Gran’s Birthday this week so happy birthday Gran (again). We went to a party for her last night and didn’t get back and asleep until about one in the morning. It was Dennis’s driving experience today and he got to drive a Ferrari as well as other cars. On Thursday Becky gave me a fake lizard which is currently lying on the top of my computer monitor and I've got a picture as well. I will put all the pictures at the bottom.

I’m also writing a bit for itsnotwhoiam.com which is a website about Sara Elizabeth Clark. She is a young person about my age who also has epilepsy and she does this website to raise awareness. I’m writing a bit for the “This is who I am” section of the site. I will keep you updated on that but tomorrow it’s back to school, and we move into the new building completely. I’ll have to get used to a new time table. Only new rooms though. I was talking to my friend called Kirsty the other day and she is doing a number of bike rides in a couple of months to get up to 1000 miles and it’s for charity. She is raising money for neurofibromatosis which she has. As soon as I can access the link for her sponsor page I will put it up if anyone wants to sponsor her.

Here are the couple of pictures of the things I said about. By the way we named the toy lizard Lenny so he’s Lenny the lizard.