Sunday: On Sunday, I got up early to have a shower and finish packing. We had to check out by ten but our flight wasn't until after six so we went to a shopping centre for about four hours (11:30AM - 3:50PM). It was so fun...
At the airport, we got checked in and stuff. A few of the teachers from the schools we visited came along and I talked to a teacher whose Zulu class I sat in. She complimented me on my singing and dancing (apparently, she saw me on Friday... Slightly embarrassing but she was very sweet). Then it was time to move on again so I had to say goodbye. Still on the plane while writing this so I can't say how it went. So far, I've fallen asleep watching 'Rebel Without A Cause' and now I'm watching 'Jailhouse Rock'. Guess I'm in a 'classic' mood. I liked the first one (at least until I fell asleep anyway) and I've got about an hour left of the second film but it's been really good so far.
Monday: 'Jailhouse Rock' was really good. I loved it!
After trying to get through all of 'Rebel Without A Cause' for a second time and failing (due to exhaustion taking over), I gave up and just slept on and off for a few hours. Tried watching 'Citizen Kane' but I couldn't make it through that either without falling asleep. When I woke up, I watched 'Pitch Perfect' and a bit of 'A Bug's Life'.
Soon though, it was time to get off the plane, find my suitcase and get on the coach to make the short journey back to Edinburgh from Glasgow airport. I began to feel worse and worse as the drive went on. It wasn't great. My sister phoned me and I could barely talk. When I got home, I went straight to bed. I can't remember much else.
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Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
2 Days To Go...
Only two days until I leave for South Africa!
It's just after 10PM here in the United Kingdom and I just found out (a couple of hours ago but that's still pretty recent) that same-sex marriage was legalized in England today! On Darren Criss' Birthday no less! This makes me very happy for obvious (probably not-so-obvious actually) reasons. I am a big lover of marriage. Always have been. I really believe in it and I think that it is something that everyone should have the right to. I just think there's something wonderful about loving someone enough that you want to commit to them for the rest of your life and show the world (or closest friends and family) that you are with this other person forever. To be honest, I've never really understood why anyone would be against two people in love wanting to commit to each other in holy matrimony (not even entirely sure if that's the right term but it sounds right so I'll stick to it for now). I mean, love is love, right?
So, that's where I lie on the whole thing. Me, being a hopeless romantic and all. I really could go on about this topic forever and how much I support it and how happy it makes me but I won't. Because I don't have hours to kill unfortunately.
Today was my Philosophy prelim which sucked as I kinda wanted to spend Darren Criss' birthday celebrating with all the other 'nice people' (Darren Criss joke. He once referred to his fans as 'really nice people'. I think it was during an interview for The Trevor Project in 2012 actually. Once again, if I've gotten this particular quote wrong, I apologize. Even though I'm pretty sure I'm the only person who will ever read this blog) on Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook. But, alas, I could not do that.
Darren Criss is just one of my many celebrities I'm in love with (Others include Chris Colfer, Lea Michele, Taylor Swift, Tyler Oakley, John Green and Zach Braff. Also, Zac Efron and Ellen Degeneres...). I hate the fact that the only time I will ever be lucky enough to talk to him/hear him sing a song to me/hear him sing a song about me, is in my dreams. But, there's not much I can do about that so I may as well accept it. Darren Criss is just one of those flawless human being that can, literally, do anything. He can sing, dance, play any instrument ever created and is also extremely clever and funny and adorable. Not to mention all his humanitarian work and his song-writing skills. He also happens to be gorgeous beyond compare. It's unfair really. I'm not entirely sure he's human. Still speculating that he's a God of sorts...
Anyway, yeah, he turns 26 today! Happy Birthday to him!
And I'm done with my Darren bit...
I just finished (again, more like half an hour ago now but whatever) typing up biographies for my school yearbook (only 5, mine and four others). Two of them were mostly about football. Or, rather, the football teams the person liked and how the friend who had written it did not support the same team. Mine was quite sweet actually. I managed to sneak in a Taylor Swift reference at the end (Yes, I'm that type of person) so I'll always have that private joke with myself which is nice. Yeah, it's nice that I can have my own private jokes with myself. Just shows how ridiculous I am. I put Taylor Swift's song title 'Change' into the last sentence. It isn't a very big or noticeable thing which is what I wanted. For the next 20, 30, or even 50 years, I will be able to look back on my High School yearbook and remember how silly/sentimental I was back in 2013 (Or, now).
I'm going for coffee with my best friend Jane tomorrow which should be good. Going to mix it up a little and order a fat-free vanilla cappuccino. When I say 'little', I really do mean it. My normal order is a fat-free vanilla latte. Can you tell how rebellious I am?
Jessica
xoxo
It's just after 10PM here in the United Kingdom and I just found out (a couple of hours ago but that's still pretty recent) that same-sex marriage was legalized in England today! On Darren Criss' Birthday no less! This makes me very happy for obvious (probably not-so-obvious actually) reasons. I am a big lover of marriage. Always have been. I really believe in it and I think that it is something that everyone should have the right to. I just think there's something wonderful about loving someone enough that you want to commit to them for the rest of your life and show the world (or closest friends and family) that you are with this other person forever. To be honest, I've never really understood why anyone would be against two people in love wanting to commit to each other in holy matrimony (not even entirely sure if that's the right term but it sounds right so I'll stick to it for now). I mean, love is love, right?
So, that's where I lie on the whole thing. Me, being a hopeless romantic and all. I really could go on about this topic forever and how much I support it and how happy it makes me but I won't. Because I don't have hours to kill unfortunately.
Today was my Philosophy prelim which sucked as I kinda wanted to spend Darren Criss' birthday celebrating with all the other 'nice people' (Darren Criss joke. He once referred to his fans as 'really nice people'. I think it was during an interview for The Trevor Project in 2012 actually. Once again, if I've gotten this particular quote wrong, I apologize. Even though I'm pretty sure I'm the only person who will ever read this blog) on Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook. But, alas, I could not do that.
Darren Criss is just one of my many celebrities I'm in love with (Others include Chris Colfer, Lea Michele, Taylor Swift, Tyler Oakley, John Green and Zach Braff. Also, Zac Efron and Ellen Degeneres...). I hate the fact that the only time I will ever be lucky enough to talk to him/hear him sing a song to me/hear him sing a song about me, is in my dreams. But, there's not much I can do about that so I may as well accept it. Darren Criss is just one of those flawless human being that can, literally, do anything. He can sing, dance, play any instrument ever created and is also extremely clever and funny and adorable. Not to mention all his humanitarian work and his song-writing skills. He also happens to be gorgeous beyond compare. It's unfair really. I'm not entirely sure he's human. Still speculating that he's a God of sorts...
Anyway, yeah, he turns 26 today! Happy Birthday to him!
And I'm done with my Darren bit...
I just finished (again, more like half an hour ago now but whatever) typing up biographies for my school yearbook (only 5, mine and four others). Two of them were mostly about football. Or, rather, the football teams the person liked and how the friend who had written it did not support the same team. Mine was quite sweet actually. I managed to sneak in a Taylor Swift reference at the end (Yes, I'm that type of person) so I'll always have that private joke with myself which is nice. Yeah, it's nice that I can have my own private jokes with myself. Just shows how ridiculous I am. I put Taylor Swift's song title 'Change' into the last sentence. It isn't a very big or noticeable thing which is what I wanted. For the next 20, 30, or even 50 years, I will be able to look back on my High School yearbook and remember how silly/sentimental I was back in 2013 (Or, now).
I'm going for coffee with my best friend Jane tomorrow which should be good. Going to mix it up a little and order a fat-free vanilla cappuccino. When I say 'little', I really do mean it. My normal order is a fat-free vanilla latte. Can you tell how rebellious I am?
Jessica
xoxo
Monday, 4 February 2013
3 Days To Go...
This is my first blog post, ever so bear with me... I've always wanted to blog and Ugly Betty seemed to enjoy it so I'm finally giving it a go. Although I highly doubt anyone will ever read it, I have to admit, it's kinda therapeutic.
So, for me, 2013 has gone by pretty fast. I turned 17 on 3rd January and I leave for Durban, South Africa in two days. I'm not entirely sure what to make of it yet. Part of me is excited, another part of me can't wait to wander around in the new clothes I bought but the final part of me is a little nervous. I've never done anything like this before, gone so far out of my comfort zone. I'm the type of person who finds change scary so this is a big deal for me. The only time I haven't felt nervous about going to another country was when I went to America in June 2011. I loved the whole experience. I know this sounds melodramatic and cheesy but I truly felt like I was home for some reason. I felt as comfortable there as I do right now living in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. I stayed in New York for half of my trip and Washington DC for the other half and I can honestly say that it was one of the best week of my life. I felt like I belonged there (I know, yet more cheese. I'm sorry). I'm a pretty optimistic person but, while there, I felt ten times the amount of hope I normally do. It was almost as if being there, where all my favourite celebrities and movies live and happen (Except J. K. Rowling, she lives in Edinburgh and the Harry Potter films, pretty sure they were made in the UK) helped me to be able to imagine all of my own dreams and aspirations coming true. I really hope I get to go back there someday. Also, Dollars seem to be the only currency beside the Great British Pound that I can actually understand. Euros confused me and I don't know what I'm going to do about Rand. This is going to be interesting... And by 'interesting', I mean embarrassing. I'm going to humiliate myself. Especially when I have to ask my friend Megan what a certain coin or note means in English. And I will definitely say 'English' even though that's probably not the right thing to say. I'll say it because that's the only way it will make sense to me. Because I'm a nitwit. On the upside though, I'm positive that this trip will be unforgettable. I'll see things I've never seen before and will never see again, I'll meet people who will teach me things I could never imagine knowing, I'll have once in a lifetime experiences... I know that some of it is going to be really upsetting and that it won't all be fun and happy, I'm not that naive. The thing I'm going to focus on though is all of the good that I'll get to see. I can't wait for the experiences I'll get to have and everything I'll get to do. I feel so incredibly lucky to be going there. I realise that I may be putting too much pressure on this trip to be everything I expect it to be but that's just because I'm hopeful that it will be. And I've heard good things about this trip... Going to sleep now and then I'm going to cram for my Philosophy prelim tomorrow... And by 'cram', I mean do the first lot of studying for this thing that I've done at all... Oh well, maybe I'll do well and only fail one of the four topics... One can only hope.
Jessica
xoxo
So, for me, 2013 has gone by pretty fast. I turned 17 on 3rd January and I leave for Durban, South Africa in two days. I'm not entirely sure what to make of it yet. Part of me is excited, another part of me can't wait to wander around in the new clothes I bought but the final part of me is a little nervous. I've never done anything like this before, gone so far out of my comfort zone. I'm the type of person who finds change scary so this is a big deal for me. The only time I haven't felt nervous about going to another country was when I went to America in June 2011. I loved the whole experience. I know this sounds melodramatic and cheesy but I truly felt like I was home for some reason. I felt as comfortable there as I do right now living in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. I stayed in New York for half of my trip and Washington DC for the other half and I can honestly say that it was one of the best week of my life. I felt like I belonged there (I know, yet more cheese. I'm sorry). I'm a pretty optimistic person but, while there, I felt ten times the amount of hope I normally do. It was almost as if being there, where all my favourite celebrities and movies live and happen (Except J. K. Rowling, she lives in Edinburgh and the Harry Potter films, pretty sure they were made in the UK) helped me to be able to imagine all of my own dreams and aspirations coming true. I really hope I get to go back there someday. Also, Dollars seem to be the only currency beside the Great British Pound that I can actually understand. Euros confused me and I don't know what I'm going to do about Rand. This is going to be interesting... And by 'interesting', I mean embarrassing. I'm going to humiliate myself. Especially when I have to ask my friend Megan what a certain coin or note means in English. And I will definitely say 'English' even though that's probably not the right thing to say. I'll say it because that's the only way it will make sense to me. Because I'm a nitwit. On the upside though, I'm positive that this trip will be unforgettable. I'll see things I've never seen before and will never see again, I'll meet people who will teach me things I could never imagine knowing, I'll have once in a lifetime experiences... I know that some of it is going to be really upsetting and that it won't all be fun and happy, I'm not that naive. The thing I'm going to focus on though is all of the good that I'll get to see. I can't wait for the experiences I'll get to have and everything I'll get to do. I feel so incredibly lucky to be going there. I realise that I may be putting too much pressure on this trip to be everything I expect it to be but that's just because I'm hopeful that it will be. And I've heard good things about this trip... Going to sleep now and then I'm going to cram for my Philosophy prelim tomorrow... And by 'cram', I mean do the first lot of studying for this thing that I've done at all... Oh well, maybe I'll do well and only fail one of the four topics... One can only hope.
Jessica
xoxo
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