Birthday Celebrations - DAY 7

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Thought I'd do a little bit about my birthday and the celebrations I've had:

Last Saturday I had a sleepover with a few of my friends where we watched a film called "the delivery man" and we had fish and chips for dinner.

The next morning everyone except from my friend Emma went home early because she was coming with me to get a hamster which was one of my presents. We got a male, satin, short-haired Syrian and named him Sirius after Sirius black (check out reasonswhyiamanerd.blogspot.co.uk for more information on him). My family then came round for a buffet meal and I had ice slice for my cake which is a welsh family recipe.

My actual birthday was on Wednesday. We went out for dinner in the evening and I got a lot of cool stuff from my school friends and family including a Kacey Musgraves CD, Abduction and a university of Mordor hoodie!

The final one was today when I went to the cinema to see Big hero 6 with my cousin because he couldn't make last Sunday. I cried so much but freaked out when Fall out Boy's "Immortals" played and also when I heard Danisnotonfire's and Amazingphil's roles. It was a great night and I recommend the film to any age group.

I rushed this post again... So no pictures, apologies, however tomorrow after my paintballing I vow to write a few up in advance so I'm not writing any more at 11:30 at night. See you tomorrow readers, ta ta x

Reasons behind... Turkey #8 - DAY 6

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Welcome to Day 6 and #8 of my reasons for countdown! Today I'll be talking to you about why I have an interest in Turkey. First of all it's the only country in the world which has a city in two continents. I've never been to Asia so I think going to Istanbul would be a good first experience of that continent.

Turkey is also home to 2 of the 7 wonders of the ancient world; the temple of Artemis at Ephesus and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. As a hopeful classics student, the ancient wonders fascinate me and I would love to visit a country that contains two of them. One of the sites is also a temple for the Greek maiden goddess of the hunt/moon Artemis, who is important to my culture through my religion beliefs of ancient Greco-Roman mythology.

Finally, my close friends have visited Turkey yearly for almost a decade now and they say it is one of their favourite countries to visit along with France and America. This makes me curious to experience the sites, tourism and culture of this country and was probably my earliest influence to wanting to visit it.


Thanks all for reading. Those who were disappointed with yesterday's tiny/terrible post I apologise and hope this made for better reading material. Next post tomorrow and will be about Birthday celebrations of my 15th Birthday, see you then x

Reasons behind... Thailand #9 - DAY 5

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When I first thought of the idea to explain my reasons behind my top 10 bucket list countries, Thailand was one of those I knew I would struggle with. It's not that I can't think of reasons more so that they're to vague for me to scribe.

One of my main influences is ThatcherJoe, a youtuber who travelled there a few years ago and was actually my inspiration to start this blog. He went on a toured trip that took him round all the major sites in Thailand and he also experienced the night culture. This is what I inspire to do when I go out there.


Sorry this one was short but had to write it really quickly this morning. See you tomorrow for another post!

Travelling through the years, part 1 - DAY 4 (My Birthday)

November 2005

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Without a doubt the most magical holiday of my childhood was going to search for Santa in Lapland, Finland. It was a fantastic opportunity and is one of my fondest memories!

We went for around 5 days where I made a friend called Charlie (sadly we lost contact), met all the elves (Tricky Dicky, Noisy Nod, Speedy Sam and my favourite Snowy Bowy) along with Mr and Mrs Claus and generally having the time of my life sledging, skiing, making an ice darlek, going on a skiido and having reindeer and husky sledge rides.

Snowy Bowy

Speedy Sam

My top memory of the trip (apart from meeting Santa obviously) was when Noisy Nod put a snowball down my mum's back. It was hilarious and we have it on video somewhere so the moment can last forever!

When we finally got to meet Santa he read my letter where I'd said I wanted a Cinderella dress and some rollerskates. He gave me my present and low and behold I was transformed into a miniature Disney princess pictures of which, if I say so myself, are adorable!!




IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!!! Anyway guys that is part 1 of my three part 'travelling through the years' series. I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you tomorrow for Day 5 of my February blogging challenge.

Charlie!

Reasons behind... Japan #10 - DAY 3

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The main reason Japan is on my list is that it is home to some of the most beautiful and unique architecture in the world. It is also famous for its supreme modernism and magical botanical gardens which are meant to be stunning.

I am not so interested in the history of the country as such as the events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki sadden me to the extent that I couldn't bring myself to visit the sights myself, yet I do see the appeal others might feel. I also have no wish to visit any fish markets as I hate sea food although I know that is what Tokyo is probably most famous for.

Another major reason is that it's the home of anime and manga which has become my life in the last month, ever since my friend got me addicted to SAO (check out the article on my nerd blog http://reasonswhyiamanerd.blogspot.co.uk/). The big towns are supposed to be full of billboards showing all kinds of anime related stuff and I just think visiting where the obsession originated from would be magical!

So that's a quick run down on the reasoning behind #10 of my country bucket list countdown and I'll see you guys tomorrow with another day of my blogging challenge xx

My 2014 Summer Holidays, part 1 - DAY 2

Date of event: 17- 31 July 2014

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People mentioned in this post:
Alex
Charley
Emily
Emily (tt)
Finley
Jamie

The first two weeks of my summer holidays were filled with my Italian friend, Emily. She came to stay for two weeks to improve her English and to hang out with me. We'd organised the trip a year previously and despite only have meeting a few times Emily and I got on really well and grew really close over the course of her visit. In fact I still miss her now and it's been half a year!

Emily came on a school day which is unfortunate for her as she had to tag along to my lessons. She didn't seem to mind however and enjoyed meeting my friends and practicing her English. The first weekend she stayed; she watched me perform the musical 13 with Theatretrain, joined me in celebrating my Auntie's 60th and most importantly was introduced to the infamous app 'Flappy Bird' which of course she ended up

hating with a passion.

The following Wednesday, the last day of term, we went into town with my friends Alex, Charley and Finley where we watched How to Train your Dragon 2 in the cinema. It was a great film and I have to admit I cried. After that we wondered around town where we bumped into Emily (tt) and Jamie from Theatretrain. Alex, Finley and Charley left so we hung round with them until finally we decided we should head home.

The next day was really warm for England so we decided we were going to go swimming in the river. It turns out most of my year had had the same idea so we hung out with them for the most part of the day; jumping off of the bank and swimming over to the island in the middle of the river. It was awesome although Emily admitted it was a bit different from the Mediterranean temperature wise!





The second and final weekend we went down to Exmouth to stay with my Auntie and Uncle in their new apartment and had a great time going out on my Uncle's boat, walking around Exmouth town and trying to push each other into the cold sea when walking down by the seafront. All in all it was a fantastic way to end Emily's visit but it didn't change the fact that we stayed up until the early hours of the morning the last few days before she went home to make the most of our time together.




Anyway, the time came when she had to leave and yes I did cry but I know I'll see her again this summer and we can make more amazing memories together!!!




This was part 1 of 3 of my 2014 Summer holidays blog series and day 2 of the daily blogging challenge. Stay tuned throughout February for the rest of this series plus much more.... See you tomorrow x

February blogging challenge - DAY 1

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NEXT BLOG: 2/2/15

Hey guys and welcome to the blogging challenge that will kill my social life. Now as you guys know, I started this blog way back in May 2014, wrote 8 posts then disappeared for half a year. Now I'm back for 2015 and I'm going to make it up to you by blogging daily throughout February (picked simply because it's the shortest month).

The issue with this challenge is that my Birthday happens to be in February, in 3 days in fact so that's going to make it quite difficult for me to write every day. So instead of limiting myself to February for writing I drafted some posts in January so I could keep up with my life, school work and this. That was also when I came up with the idea for this challenge.

Some of the posts you might expect are 8 days worth of German exchange, my day out in oxford, some more plans surrounding my bucket list, a brief recap of my summer holiday in Scotland and lots more!!!


I hope you'll enjoy my apology as it were for being a bad blogger. Please comment if you have a request for a blog. See you tomorrow for day 2 of the February blogging challenge. Ta Ta for now x