Well, in a summary with some bullet points.

What I have been up to in school.

• Signed a form asking me about my future career aspiration with 'maybe something to do with science, or finance, or maybe language, and something creative, or something to do with maths'
• The next question was what skills you needed for your career aspiration. Oh dear.
• Had a special meeting with a medical 40 year-old consultant in which everyone was offered coffee.
• Attended a debate in which everyone was offered orange squash and stale biscuits.
• Tried to eat a chicken wing with fork and knife in a plastic salad box.
• Learnt about ionic bonding which will forever show my outstanding knowledge.
• Been a mentor to the new year 7's. Played hangman with them.
• Written an essay with complicated words such as - protagonists and ... more.
• Went to chemistry quiz practice in which some little kids thought 'cow' was the answer to 'What is a large compound.....'

Sometimes its best not to audition.

Well, its back to school now, and every year our school does a school production. Aaaand this year its The sound of music.
Now a lot of people want to audition for parts of the Von Trapp family, because those parts are open to the younger students.

My friend would like to audition, but, I'm a little worried for her. Just because of what happened last year.
She had auditioned for the part of Ariel, in the play Tempest. Unfortunately, she did not gain the part and received the part of a nymph/spirit. Our other friend had also auditioned and also got the part of a spirit alongside her.
In the play, she had one line and the other had no lines. And even worse, they were shadows, meaning no one could see their face.
They went to all the rehearsals, they even learnt other people's lines and they were very dedicated.

On the night, (they only had one performance), the performance was terrible - this is what they told me. And when it was their part...
They stood behind the screen, because they were shadows, she delivered her line - which no one could hear, and they danced.
The lights behind them was off. Meaning that when they dance, No one could see them . All their hard work led up to them dancing unknowingly behind the screen.

Encore.

ONE WAY TICKET

For the last half of the summer holiday, I have been singing 'One way ticket' as often as I remember. My parents are probably a bit tired of it, but its rubbed off on my brother and he likes it too.

Why do I like it?
Its unbelievably catchy, terrifyingly easy to sing and annoys a lot of people.
But only the chorus though, the rest of the song is rather mediocre.

Rules of Badminton. Hufflepuff. Ballet

So I met up with my mate Janet to go badminton - ing. She brought her mum and he older sister along and also contacted a 'friend' to come along.

I was wearing a pink puma t-shirt, and one commented on how it looked like I had a thumbprint on me. But the other two wrinkled their noses. It was too pink, but they assured me they thought it was nice on me.

The Janet's mum and sister got bored of waiting for James, our mate, so they went inside, looking at Janet meaningfully saying that they'll give her privacy if she needs to give him a welcome hug. Janet went red.
When he arrived, we both laughed, a lot. Its one of those things. Janet and James have a very complicated relationship.

So we went in to the dome, first we started off me playing against both of them. While smacking the shuttle cock, Janet would ask how his holiday went. James would reply that it was great, thanks for asking, how was yours. There was something off, which took me a while to realise.

And I discovered an amazing to insult Janet. Call her a Hufflepuff. She hates Robert Pattinson (because she hates twilight), he plays Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter movies, and he's in Hufflepuff.
See it makes sense to her, possibly because she's a dedicated hater.

Me and her had a few goes at each other, while we were playing on the same team. James was quiet, probably scared at us, and he occasionally piped out to say 'out'.

Then I noticed, his voice was breaking. It was way deeper than usual. We laughed a bit, again.
Don't know if he'll be a soprano in the choir anymore.

Oh, then I had a singles match against Janet. I won, mostly on serves.

But I had a secret tactic.

While serving, I would bust out some killer ballet moves.
She thought it was hilarious, the scary part is that its because she thought I looked like I was doing proper ballet.

So we carried on with the game, she would laugh at my 'genuine' ballet skills. I told her I used to do disco dancing and I attempted to teach her high kick. It looked like she had permanently crooked legs and lifting them was equivalent to lifting a ton of  stuff. Ah well.
We laughed.