Greenbelt Preparations

Wow. It's been a while since I've blogged, ay? Well, if you read my last blog you'll know that there's a little thing called Greenbelt coming up soon, which is a Christian music festival. Because I'm officially too young to help out, I sit behind a counter in reception all day while my mum and the other workers... work. Now I know that sounds kinda boring, but it's actually really fun. I wake up at about 11, get to reception at 12 and then I set up my little area. I have my laptop out to chill on Facebook, my food and cranberry juice for snacking on during the day, my DS for some Pokemon, and... my calculator for maths homework. As fun as chillin in reception and listening to music is, I still have to do my maths homework online >:( But it's all good coz the rest is fun (:

So. Greenbelt. It's actually being set up on Cheltenham Racecourse. Yeah, like a horse racecourse. There is SO much space and big, white marquees are being set up everywhere. There's also a tent called 'Big Top' which looks like a giant, red circus tent, but I'm not actually sure what it's going to be used for. Today's also going to be a super busy day, because it's the first official day of work; so we're gonna have tonnes of people showing up for their first day at work, and tonnes of deliveries. I also got this super-stylish fluro orange high-vis vest (It's not actually stylish :P).

My mum and I are staying in cute little rooms called 'bunkabins', which I think is supposed to be 'bunk cabins', but whatever :P As for the weather, well, it's England. It's cold, rainy and overcast all the time. But I got a cool new jumper because of it. Oh, speaking of which, I got that jumper in Bristol.

My mum and I had a free weekend like everyone else, and we stayed in a place called Bristol, which I've been to once before, and is still my favourite place in England. We went to @Bristol, which is like Questacon in Australia, but heaps cooler. We spent a little time there doing various brain and body test type things, and we also went to a planetarium there which I really liked. We then spent the rest of the day shopping and going to the movies. While we were shopping, I got a shirt, a jumper, a DS case, and a DS game. We also went out and saw two movies. The first one was Toy Story 3, which I heard was good. And it was. We also saw Step Up 3D, which was AMAZING!!! I loved it so much; and if you haven't seen it, go see it. In 3D.

The next day we went to the ss Great Britain, which is an old ship that's on display and it's really cool. There were different levels to the ship, like you can go below deck, and there are so many rooms to explore and learn about. I can't really say much about the ship coz it's the kind of thing you have to see :P But I'll check if I can get some pictures up on my next blog.

Right, so this is a really long blog, and I have a tonne of maths homework to catch up on :P I'll post some more cool stuff on another day. So I'll catchas all later (:

Oh and I also got 4 pairs of socks (:

2nd Week in Spain

Heyy! Just quickly, I'm back in England, but I shall enlighten you on my last week in Spain. Ok, so you remember how last week I was pretty sick? Well I got better pretty quick. Lols, that rhymes :P Anywho, things got a lot better and I went back to classes and out to the activities and stuff. It was pretty ordinary, but the other day I went out to the city with my group and I had an awesome time; it was so much fun. We also went to the beach one day and one of the monitors (who are people who look after us) said something in Spanish and, using my Spanish skills, translated it as 'Let's go to the ugly strawberry!' Now, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that I was probably wrong... Lols. Also, I don't think I mentioned it, but I changed programs. That means that I spent daytime at the camp and nighttime with a Spanish family.

The bus picked me up at 8:30am every morning and took me to the school, where I did all my various school-related things, and then took me back to the family at 8pm. The place where I stayed didn't really have a 'family' as such. It was just a kinda elderly woman. She was really nice and she gave us some pretty good food, but she spoke in Spanish and I couldn't understand a lot of it :P I stayed there with two girls called Ana and Ellie who were insanely fun to hang out with; and about half the nights I was there, we went out near the beach to eat ice cream and just chill.

So, my last few days in Spain were pretty good, and really hot; England is definitely a lot colder :P I had a lot of fun, but it's nice to be back in a country where people speak my language (: I'll keep you guys updated on the upcoming music festival (: Catchas later!

Spain!

Hey everybody, sorry I haven´t blogged in a while; it´s been pretty hectic. Also, please excuse any spelling mistakes; Spanish keyboards are actually really hard to use :P Well, I landed in Spain on the 1st of August, and as soon as I got off the plane I knew it was going to be hot, because their airconditioned airport was hot. It was pretty cool though because the people who met me there were really nice. We then all went on a bus and I don´t know exactly how long the ride took, but it was pretty long :P When we got to the camp, there were hundreds of people there! I didn´t realise how big the camp actually was. Keep in mind, this is actually like a fun boarding school. There´s really good music playing over the P.A. all the time, and everyone gets so much free time it´s crazy.

There are random ping pong tables everywhere, volleyball courts, basketball courts, soccer pitches, a pool and so many other cool things. They have a set time table, but it´s pretty much:
Wake up, breakfast, class, break, class, meeting, free time, lunch, free time, activity 1, snack, activity 2, dinner, night activity and then everyone goes to bed at midnight. It´s pretty cool. And today in class we just watched Up in Spanish. Nearly everyone goes to the pool here or walks to the beach in free time, but if you don´t want to, you can just chill and play some ping pong :P

The food is actually pretty good here. I didn´t like it at first, but after today´s meal, I´m convinced that they have possibly the best food on the planet. That´s right. Better than your mother´s. Haha jk, no cooking can beat your mothers cooking :P The only bad thing about this camp so far is that I´ve actually been really unwell for 3 days, and yesterday I only got out of bed once; and that was to eat dinner. But you´ll hopefully be pleased to know that I´m feeling a little better, and learning quite a bit of Spanish.

The other day, we went out to the city and did a bit of walking (which btw sucks because there were lots of slopes, lol) and then got 2 free hours for shopping, but unfortunately, that was when I was at my worst so I just slept under a tree until we left :P I´m still pretty tired, so everyone else is at the beach, but if I come to Spain again, I will definitely bring a friend and enjoy it a lot more (: So yeah, that´s pretty much it for now; sorry there are no pictures coz it´s been really busy. So I´ll catchas all later!!

Brighton, London

Hey. So it's about 9pm here right now, and the day was pretty dull. It started when we got up at 8am and took about a million trains to Brighton. When we got here, I slept for a couple of hours coz I was just really tired, but when I woke up, we went for a walk down to some shops and I got a sandwich... And then I ate it. Anyway, for the rest of the day I pretty much just stayed on YouTube.

I know all this stuff isn't really blog-worthy, but I promised that I'd post a photo of my tattoo. Chillax though, I don't have any real tattoos... for now. Lol jks. Anyway, I hope everyone is having fun at school :P And I'll catchas later (:

England (:

Hey, so first thing's first. I found out Le Tour De France actually was on, and I just missed it. Lol. Soooo, our first full day in England... I totally forgot what we did, so I'm just gonna make up the order of things :P Well, we've gotten used to taking the Tube, which is like a better version of the subway. We walked around some streets for a while (I don't know where we were) and I got some new shoes, which are pretty damn awesome. We also wandered through a market in Covent Gardens and it had some pretty cool stuff. I got a shiny keychain with all this London stuff on it which I thought was cool :P I also got a tattoo on my left forearm, and you'll never guess what it says... 'Nick Jonas'! Woooooo! Haha I'll post a photo of it on my next blog when it looks nice (:

OMG! We also went out and saw Wicked! (Natalie will appreciate that) And it was amazing! (: It was the coolest thing coz we were buying the tickets at this discount ticket place, and my mum and I were deciding which show to see. And for those of you who don't know, Nick Jonas was actually here about 3 days ago performing in Les Miserables. And even though he wasn't in it anymore, I wanted to go see it so I could see what his character was like. So I said to the guy selling the tickets 'Can we get two tickets to Les Mis?' And he made a really short phone call and was like 'I'm sorry, we're not selling the discount tickets because one of the Jonas Brothers was just in it' And I go 'OMG! Look!' and I showed him my tattoo and he was like '...ok...'. Lol, it was cool as. Anyway, so we went and saw Wicked which was awesome. No pictures though, coz we weren't allowed (:

And I'm staying in the hotel for today because I have to do homework... yay. So I'll try and post some photos for my next blog, and I'll catchas all later (:

Iceland to England

YO! So after we finally got checked into our room in Iceland,we spent a couple of days doing various tours, one of which was called the Golden Circle Tour in which we sat on a bus for about 8 hours and got driven around to all the cool places in Iceland. The other tour was the Puffin Tour, where we went on a boat out to an island that had 10,000 puffins on it! It was pretty cool and we also learnt a little bit about puffins (: The funny thing is, that was about it for Ieland, and we were then on our way to the Keflavik Airport.

The flight to England was about 2 hours. They had some movies and tv shows on the little movie player thing, but none of the movies interested me, so I decided to watch the first episode of Glee, just to see what the fuss is all about. I still stand by my first statement, which is that Glee totally sucks monkey butt. It was awful; that was an hour of my life that I want back. Anyway, we landed in England soon after I'd recovered from the horror of watching Glee, and we got to the hotel at about 10:30 or 11:00pm. We pretty much went straight to sleep, and now I'm just chillin' and watching Le Tour De France, which I wasn't aware was on; maybe it's a replay :/

Anyway, I'll catchas all later with something that's hopefully more interesting :P

Iceland!

Hey! So on our last day in New York, we went to the Apple Store! Yay! I got a new set of earphones because mine literally had loose wires hanging out. It was pretty cool down there, and the top of the building is just a big, clear, glass box, and you have to take a set of stairs underground to get to the store. So after I got my earphones, we took a shuttle bus to the JFK Airport and had to wait there for over 3 hours! The flight was about 5 hours long, and there weren't that many annoying people :P We left JFK at 8pm and arrived in Iceland at about 6am, meaning that a lot of my sleeping time was taken away because the actual flight only went for 5 hours ): But I stayed up anyway and watched the movies 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel' and 'Stay', and both were pretty good (:

It only just occured to me that people in Canberra are back at school now, so I have to start working too. While I was sitting in a thermal spring this morning at 7am, my mother was teaching me about vitamin D deficiancy. So don't worry, I feel the pain of school work too :P After the spring, we walked down to an Iclandic version of 7/11 and got some stuff to eat. And we've pretty much been sitting in the waiting room for about 3 hours... just waiting. BECAUSE THEY WON'T LET US CHECK IN UNTIL THEY'RE READY! Haha, no, but seriously. It's all good and the weather's been really nice so far. So I'll catcha all later (: