The sun's come out. A scrapbook of photos.

As part of the Duke of Edinburgh program, we had to walk around 16km over two days and camp over one night, carrying heavy bags.

And I've said all this just so I can say that I wore a red bandana.

Corinne the tortoise ^

I was a bit red from the sun when I got back.

I watched the Voice with my brother and my mum when I got back that Sunday, I couldn't even finish watching that and went to sleep at 8.  Because that ^.... is the face of tiredness.

I have fallen in love with the camera.

This is what happens when your ipod decides to be naughty, and there's a camera next to you, and a box of matches is singing seductively at you.

Oh and the view at night last night was beautiful. No clouds, just a beautiful shade of black and navy and blue.

On the left is my little lucky cat, which was a present from my grandparents, I think its adorable. In the middle, is a Russian (?) doll, that was given to me by my grandpa as well. And on the left, is a 'gargoyle' I made out of clay in year 9.

I went to my friend's to revise, and while we were having dinner outside, I made a flip-flop tree.

Ok.... so I hung some flip flops on a tree... and this was taken with my phone. So, I promise if it was taken with that awesome camera of mine (my parents') it would look really magical.

Pah!

Oh... and my friends sitting under the magical flip-flop tree....

......Light seeping through the leaves during our morning walk....

They look like they could be grapes in the smaller photo.

I have decided mess can be beautiful. When the colours are bright and clashful, and so aesthetically pleasing.

And the book is good too.

Byee

Light heartedly.

I'm currently writing about euthanasia (working progress), so I though I would write something quick and light-hearted first.

I was trying to do a magic trick in front of my friends at school with a 5p coin.
Boy: You're crap at this. I'm actually really good, I can impress my four-year old cousin so easily.
Me: Pah! Your four-year old cousin. How old is he?

In the middle of an English Controlled Assessment, where I was writing about the significance of Romeo's using metaphor for light....
Me: Did they have electricity in Romeo and Juliet?

So Emilia and I had a free lesson (PSE, where we could watch a movie), and we decided to go to one of the computer rooms. We played tanks, and ended up biting each other because we took each others turn and tried to commit suicide for each other. We're 15.
We decided to go back to our classroom, and we started talking about our chemistry teacher. We were imitating his continuous and frequent talk about the pay of chemical engineering.
Me: So if you want a guaranteed job with lots of money... you should do... (Both of us chanting sarcastically) CHEMICAL ENGINEERING!
*Turns around to see our chemistry teacher.
ARGH.

Zeno's paradox. And the idea of infinity.

I have just finished the book 'The Fault in Our Stars', by John Green. It was a birthday present from E, and it was genuinely the most beautiful and sad story I have ever read. I'd highly recommend it.
It is a magically written love story between two teenagers with cancer. I finished it in the exam room, and so very nearly cried.
There are elements of the novel that have caused me to think deeply (=brain-hurtingly deep). While the protagonists' aim is to live and to love, there are questions they try to find answers for, questions I have asked before.

The very idea of infinity has always baffled me, and I was lucky enough that it was touched on so though-provocatively in the novel.
When Hazel is asking her favourite author for answers and what happens after the novel ends so suddenly. He tells her about Zeno/Xeno 's paradox.
Imagine you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise had a ten-yard head start. In the time it takes to run the ten-yard, the tortoise moves a further one yard. And in the time it takes you to cover that distance, the tortoise will have moved a little farther, and so on forever.
This theorem shows that it is impossible to over take the tortoise, bot only decrease its lead.
We all know it would be easy to overtake the tortoise, however the paradox shows you clearly could not.
As I understand it, the lead the tortoise had will infinitely decrease, but never disappear, because not only are there an infinite amount of numbers, there are infinite amount of numbers between any two numbers.
The explanation to solve this paradox was by Cantor, and on the surface it looks quite simple; some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
There may be an infinite amount of numbers between 0 and 1, but even more between 0 and 2.
So.... I assume you can overtake the tortoise because although the tortoise moves infinitely, you are still faster than the tortoise, therefore your 'infinite moving' (for want of a better term) is bigger/faster in this context.

....
Okay... so that was what I wrote in my revision while everyone was doing their exam :s.... my French paper was only 35 minutes while everyone else's was an hour and a half.
A little on infinity.

In the story Hazel wants to find out what happens after the story. And the impression I get it is that the author is saying that within his story there are infinite amount of moments, even if the story does not go on infinitely...
... and it may seem weird for a love story to talk about infinity. 'Some infinities are longer than other infinities', for me, was the main message in the book.

I'm sorry I sound so vague, I do not want to ruin the story in case someone wants to read it, but haven't.

Byebye for now... sorry for delayed post.