18th August 2013: music, waitrose and yawning.

This week hasn't been the best, I'm not gonna lie, it's been pretty bad, it started off alright, and finished all right but the bit in between wasn't a high in my year so far.

Monday didn't start off too well... As you may have guessed with last week's blog/if you keep up-to-date with my Facebook page. I think a bit of heat got to me... BUT I had a great day, even if it was only on about 4 hours sleep... Still, I got to watch the Womens Ashes at Wormsley Cricket Club, which I'm led to believe is where some of Vicar of Dibley was filmed... The estate it was on was very 'Hazll's Wood' from Danny the Champion of the World, including pheasants and a very stern looking farmer/owner... Still it was a lovely ground and a lovely day... Got to speak to family of the Aussie team, and saw all the players pretty close up... I must say, it was a dream to see Elysse Perry and Holly Ferling (two Aussies that I look up to) in the flesh and see them get wickets too. It was also pretty insane watching Heather Knight get her 50 and nearly her 100, that wwent towards her 150 odd... Then watching Brunt bowl... It was great to see people I look up to in my sport live and not behind a screen on the other side of the world!

Tuesday, I had a bit of a lazy morning - recovering. I woke up earlyish (8.30?), then promptly fell asleep again... I then woke up later that morning to a pneumatic drill, coming from the wall next to my bed... So I then got up at about 12.15... I had a driving lesson at 12.30... Which went well, however, I saw pretty much everyone I knew (slight exaggeration). But I had kids from the club I help out at cheering as I went round one corner, which was great fun! I did some emergency stops, and I can actually turn in and out of junctions now! So yeah, my lesson's are going well! :)

Wednesday, I was in a bit of a state... I had to keep myself busy, which I think I managed pretty well! Went to see my Grandma, then went to see Nan and Granddad, then wwent to see my best friend and had a catch up with her and her Mum, which was lovely! Maria, Mum and I (writing properly :P), went into town and did a quick bit of shopping because the pneumatic was winding my sister up too much! So we sorted out her game, then got a Mumford CD from the old days, and went and got some clothes, I was in need of some t-shirts and jumpers, so I got some of those and some socks! Then we came home, I wasn't hungry and I wasn't tired. I got about an hour and a half's sleep...

So at half four on Thursday morning, I got out of bed, fought the dark and made it downstairs to Mum making a hot chocolate... After watching multiple episoes of Big Brother through the night, I thought I should watch something that was a little better for my brain and watched an episode of Who Do You Think You Are, which was very interesting, it was the Lesley Sharpe episode, so if you want something interesting to watch, that's good and so was the Minnie Driver episode! I went back to sleep for a total of half an hour... Then it was off to pick up my friend so we could pick up our A Level results... Philippa was picking up her A2 results and I was picking up my AS results... With Philippa recieving an email to say she was into the uni she wanted to go to, I was already happy for her!! So, I know I've already said it, but I'm extremely proud!! And obviousy I'm happy and proud of everyone else who got into their chosen uni's :) To say I was nervous was an understatement, I couldn't stop shaking and I thought I was going to give my headteacher (who was handing us our results) a present that he didn't deserve/want on his shirt... But luckily that didn't happen... I stupidly opened my results envelope in the crush hall, saw them and bolted out the door and up the stairs, crying. With one of my English teachers shouting behind me, 'How did you do Evan?' Hah, surprisingly I did great in your subject Miss! A few swear words came out my mouth and all I could say was I can't go through another year. Saying that, I calmed down and sorted a meeting out for the next day... and couldn't stop looking over the grades, I was estatic about two of them and so annoyed at the other two!! English Literature - C, English Language - C, Physical Education - E, and Psychology - U.. Some would be happy with those, but I literally felt like I'd been let down in a subject I loved, and it had made my hate a sport I loved. I went home, cried a bit more, laid in bed, wondering what on earth was going to happen.

Again, not much appetite, and not much sleep! Still, I went into sixth form, had a meeting and pretty much got told I could carry on English Lit, Lang and PE for A2 and that was that (because it was the quickest way into uni...) I wasn't too happy, or comfortable come to that... My anxiousness was hitting a high, and I wasn't feeling too great... So, I went home a bit disheartened. However, my Mum rang my deputy head of sixth form up to sort out UCAS points, and asked about an option, so now I'm doing A2 English Lit, A2 English Lang and starting AS MEdia Studies, and staying on an extra year to finish that! It will give me more UCAS points and more time to think about Uni, because at the moment I don't think I can stand it! But we'll see...

Yesterday, I was at my Dad's and we went to go see a my great aunty, that I don't ever remember meeting, it was rather nice catching up and stuff, was quite sad at times, but there were a lot of laughs :) Then met another person I'd never met, which was nice, and then stayed in and watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, I ended up going to bed early and falling asleep before the end though :(

Today was also a chilled day, saw one of my dad's friends, went for a waitrose lunch then looked around at some carpets and sofas, came home, played a bit of cricket with mum and maria, and then started writing this... 2 hours later, I've nearly finished... Things have been taking a while to do this week, and I've been trying my hardest to sleep at normal times... bleurgh!! Still tomorrow is a new week, and a new page, literally.

Music of the Week!

Following, the announcement of her new album release date, I fely it only right to put one of her new songs in... I must admit this is my favourite out of all her new ones she's released, and it's the soundtrtack to Kick Ass 2...
Hero - Jessie J: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25a0dBMwYq0

The next song is Katy Perry, and I can't stop singing along...
Roar - Katy Perry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9SeJIgWRPk

The last song is from a singer/songwriter that is gettting more and more recognition, Natalie Holmes.
Child - Natalie Holmes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFsWsvPFc9Q

Photos...

12th August 20133: Howzat?! - England vs Australia... #WomensAshes

13th August 2013: stripy socks and emergency stops.

14th August 2013: keeping busy.

15th August 2013: tired, proud, sad, annoyed and many more things...

16th August 2013: meetings, options and decisions...

17th August 2013: a good nights sleep and a pretty good day!

18th August 2013: music, waitrose and yawning.

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23rd June 2013: mission caterpillar.

An interesting week. Tiring but pretty insane! Pretty much did something every day (which makes a change!)

Monday 17th June: falling asleep in the common room. 

I went to see my sister and her school in a music festival/concert thing, and of course I enjoyed every second of it, I even sang along to a few of the songs... However, it annoys me that there were kids under the age of 10 craving attention, moving to the middle of the stage, at the back (to make sure they stuck out like a Harry Potter fanatic at a Star Trek convention) continuing to move 3 schools away from their own and then start messing around. They could have at least had the decency to learn the words...

Tuesday 18th June: 'sit out for a second and rethink the situation'.

After being at sixth form for the day and getting quite worked up about having to look at uni's and courses and other rubbish (my current opinion of it all) I went home and ended up going for a cycle to watch the sun set, ended up seeing 2 deer, lots of bats flying around and listening to the birds, it was really refreshing and nice to just chill and being in the middle of nowhere. 

Wednesday 19th June: applied for my provisional license & off to a gig.

 

Time at sixth form, had 3 hours at home in between, applied for my provisional (keep off the roads :P) then fell asleep and may have been a bit late back into school... Then in the evening I took my Mum to a gig... It was Lewis Watson's tour, with Frank Hamilton and Shannon Saunders supporting. It was one of the most surreal nights ever, I helped Frank and Andy (his manager) quite a bit, did some flyering and the mailing list, got some merch and hugs and photos... Lewis was insane, I haven't seen him live before so it was great to see him and meet him and hear him somewhere other than my headphones! 

Frank was insane as always, nuff said. 

Shannon was amazing! I loved her song 'Heart of Blue' before I went but then when she performed it live I loved it even more, and the covers she did... Awesome! Just gutted I didn't get to meet her before she went! 

#TeamFrank

 

  Thursday 20th June: long words, long day and a cricket match.

Another day at sixth form and a cricket match for the boys that I'm helping to coach, they lost (badly) but considering the school they played puts a lot more money and time into their sports, it wasn't THAT bad a defeat...

Friday 21st June: socialising for once. 

Friday, was a longg day, sixth form, then the youth club I help out at (which was low on leaders), then after changing my mind multiple times, I decided to go to my friends party, there were funny parts of the night, like being offered multiple bread rolls by a certain person... and another persons 'Guide to Dancing'... Still, I came home, had a hot chocolate and then went to bed. 

Saturday 22nd June: stormy sky and rough seas.

 

I woke up, eyes streaming and a million sneezes later, I make it to the kitchen to sort out my hay-fever (which has been an absolute nightmare this week!) My sister comes back from horse-riding (which apparently she's a natural at!) Then I sorted my iPod out, and we were off for 2 days and a night to the coast. The weather wasn't great, bit too windy, meaning it was freezing (but I don't think it helped I'm still ill) Still, I survived and watched a programme about cats and then watched The Voice... wanted Leah to win, and let's be fair she should have won, Angela was great and stuff but even her parents looked shocked...

Sunday 23rd June: mission caterpillar.

Less windy today, did some gardening (funny enough, in the garden!) Had an eventful trip to the dump... The bags of cut down 'plants' seemed to be the home of a bunch full of caterpillars... Anyone that knows me will know that I have an almighty (see what I did there?! ;)) phobia of caterpillars... So my sister breaking down in tears and me being the brave person that I am ended up sitting in the back, sweating and hyperventilating over these flipping things... Anyway, on the way home we saw this and I thought it was insane, I'm a major fan of graffitti/street art style stuff and it was by a burned down and derelict garage which had unfortunately turned into a dump... But I thought it was pretty awesome, so major credit to whoever did it! It sort of sparked a question, should it be a crime to share your art like this? Personally, I think so long as it's appropriate for the place it's in (and it's good), it deserves to be shown... 

Music of the Week!

The first one because of the gig on Wednesday... Loved this song anyway, but then her cover just completes it...
All I Want (cover) - Shannon Saunders: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dOCT7LjZAg

Another one, because of the gig this week (but it would have made it on here sometime anyways!) (oh and he swears, but it's an insane cover, xylophone and everything!)

Teenage Dirtbag (cover) - Frank Hamilton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i_CvthsoTE

The next is from The Voice Final... Fell in love when it was performed, will's normal version isn't as good as with Leah, so here it is live! 

Bang Bang - Leah McFall & will.i.am: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy9iiaFuxj0

The last one is a sneak preview of the first feature for the blog 'Music In Time' (cheeky plug for another blog, but hey!) 

Monsters - Angus Powell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy9iiaFuxj0

Other Links!

Lauren Aquilina is announcing info on her 2nd EP tonight (Sunday 23rd) at 8pm... It's also her 18th birthday! So go give her a like/follow, say happy birthday and stay tuned for her announcement!! 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laurenaquilinamusic

Twitter: www.twitter.com/laurenaquilina

Lastly, 'Music In Time' was launched last week... 'a blog that brings talented musicians to your eyes and ears...' The first feature is on Tuesday 25th June... There are already opportunities for you to ask artists questions and competitions will be coming soon... So go like the page/follow on twitter/go read the blog!! 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MusicInTimeBlog

Twitter: https://twitter.com/musicintimeblog

Blog: www.musicintimeblog.blogspot.com

Thank You!

evan. :)

19th February 2013: an intro and article.

Today, I'm off to London with my friend Philippa, we're going to be spending a day up there taking photos, filming and eating. Then, we're seeing Lauren Aquilina!! Oh and I think we're planning on going to Platform 9 and 3/4 :) So you'll get all the info, photos and stuff about that tomorrow :)
Today's blog is actual an article I wrote as a draft for my English, dunno whether I'm actually allowed to do this, but it makes it seem that little bit more worthwhile... So here it is:

It’s worrying that, seven out of 10 adults in the UK are leading ‘sedentary lifestyles’. Meaning that they are moderately active for less than one 30 minute period a week. It’s dangerous to their health. It’s dangerous to their lives. Are you one of these people?

During the Olympics, I saw and heard never-ending comments about how the Olympians and Paralympians were an inspiration to a lot of people. For example, David Weir, Paralympic wheelchair athlete, was born with a spinal cord transection, leaving him unable to use his legs. Another Paralympian, Jonnie Peacock, a sprint runner, who aged five had contracted meningitis resulting in his right leg having to be amputated. Still, at the age of 19 he has run for his country in the Paralympics and won gold. Yet the number of physically inactive people keeps rising. Exercise for many people is a daunting prospect. It’s believed by too many people that so long as we have a balanced diet, then that’s fine, we’re living healthy. Wrong, without exercise we are at risk of cancers, heart diseases and bone disorders, yes, even if you eat healthily. People who say they don’t do exercise because they can’t afford it, whether that’s because they can’t afford to join a gym or get the kit or equipment needed for a specific sport. However, a walk is free, a jog is free, and a workout at home can be free.

It’s encouraging to see in sports like football and cricket, there is a lot of work being done to increase participation in the disability competitions and tournaments. There’s an increase in organisations funding these tournaments and activities. In recent months, lots of funding has been pumped into elite levels, but the grass roots have been left. So unless you play for your county or country, your team and your personal sport have been left to suffer. It seems harder

to find clubs and organisations to play fun sports, rather than just jogging, which I admit can be boring (but it’s still better than nothing). Should we blame it on organisations like Sport England, or do we blame it on local clubs not advertising for new members/players. Surely, we should be encouraging children to take part in physical activity rather than sit inside and play on computer games or watching the latest episode of TOWIE. If they did take part in exercise whether a kick about with friends after school in the park or a kick about in the garden, there should be more of it. Even if it is easy to sit down on a Saturday afternoon to watch sport on TV, with a pizza and a bottle of your favourite drink, but more people need to get up and join in.  Taking part in physical activity has many positives and lacks in negatives. A positive being that it is one of the most effective ways to relieve stress, it’s also a good way to make new friends. Should we be doing more exercise? 

Also, I filmed a video yesterday... which is the first of a series I'm calling evan:24seven not because it's me 24/7 or anything like that, just because it sounded good when a friend suggested it, and it linked nicely to onedayatatimeevan... So shoutout to Lailana for that.. THANK YOUU!! I'm planning on filming one today too, so keep your eyes peeled :)
It's only short, as it's only an intro... but here you go :)

thank you!
evan. :)

6th February 2013: cold pizza, football and pyjamas.

Today's photo is the sunset through some bare trees. I had cold pizza for breakfast and lunch cos I went in late today, seeing as I had two frees to start the day. Then I had psychology, which was fun, although the person sitting next to me decided to start peeling an orange... orange juice, peel and the smell, everywhere :S Cheers Charly!! :P 
Then I had EPQ which was a great 20 minutes of my life, enthralling in fact, the teacher had no idea what my name was, and the only thing she could remember about me was that 'we didn't see eye to eye in Year 10', yeah you're still not helping yourself... 
Anyways lunch I spent sat in the common room, dipping in and out of conversations, and watching Thru My Eyes videos, which are insane, they're slow-mo videos and HD quality photography videos and stuff by Sawyer Hartman, and they're basically what inspired me to try and start making my own videos, unfortunately they probably won't be half as good, but I can try :P 
 Then, my last lesson was PE, an asthmatic person running round in the cold, one girl against like 7 guys at one point, I was not amused, all for a PE assesment, that I don't wanna be completely assessed in?!  ANYWAYS! Yeah it was great fun :/ 
Then home, had a bath cos my legs were aching :( then I fell asleep for an hour, did some coursework and started writing this, and it's taken me awhile, seeing as computer froze and decided to hide most of the stuff I'd written out, hence the change in font today... Listening to my 'onedayatatime' playlist tonight, so a mixture of Josh Record, Ben Howard, Bastille, Kodaline and plenty more... The football's not going badly for England tonight... 
I'm off to do some PE questions, then I'll be off to bed. 

Thanks 
evan. :)

1st February 2013: smile it's friday.

So it's Friday! I'm incredibly tired and currently sistersitting... Pretty chill day, only having 1 and a half lessons, so managed to watch the Womens World Cup (cricket) and unfortunately, Sri Lanka hit big on the last few overs, and it cost England a game, but Sunday, I reckon we'll be able to give India a run for their money and push them and therefore we could gain a win to then progress to the finals.
Had to say goodbye to two people today, which was a bit sad, especially seeing as one of them, I'd become pretty good friends with, as we were the only girls in our PE class, so now I'm on my own, with 5 guys...But I wish them both all the best, whatever they end up doing, I'm hoping they enjoyed the experience of English life and don't miss us and the weather too much!! :P Lebewohl Alisa and Addio Frederica! 
Club was pretty empty tonight so only had 7 kids in the first one and 18 in the second because of a Stargazing event close by, so we decorated biscuits, which made my photo of the day. 

One quick shoutout to Soph (made sure I got that right!) she's started an art obsessed blog, and it's pretty impressive so far... So definitely check it out... She's got a page to like on facebook which is: https://www.facebook.com/thegirlwhosartobsessed and her actual blog site is: http://thegirlwhosartobsessed.blogspot.co.uk/ go check it out!! 

Also whilst I'm at it, my facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/onedayatatimeevan please share this blog if you are enjoying it, late next week I'll have got most of my English coursework out the way, so will have more time to actually go into topics more and take photos on a camera, rather than my phone :) 

Video is on its way, me and my friend are just trying to sort out audio for it... :) 

Anyways, I'm afraid I'm falling asleep writing this, should probably start writing them sooner in the evenings :/

Goodnight!

evan. :)

24th January 2013: jam sandwiches.

I had jam sandwiches today. Today's photo has a mug in it, representing the hot chocolate I am about to drink. The paper with text on is the programme for Saturday, I've had to print out 48 of them, and now I'm about to fold them all D: Interesting story, I went to a certain supermarket beginning with T, whom I'd had a letter from saying I could pick up a donation for the raffle... They denied sending out an email or ever receiving an email X_X so now we have to go back tomorrow and they'll sort it out :) It's not like I'd printed all those programmes with a thanks to this supermarket for their donation or anything :P
Hoping to have my camera back in full flow very soon, at the moment I'm borrowing one, so just need to sort out batteries then will have my camera taking photos and managing to connect up to the computer and everything :D
What about  this ball boy last night then? He should have respected that he was doing a job and shouldn't have acted in the way that he did (time-wasting), however I still don't agree with Hazard's reaction, yeah sure he wanted the ball quickly as any footballer would with a limited amount of time on the clock, however, is there really any need to kick him and obviously hurt him? Sport recently hasn't been getting a very positive view through media, whether news (TV/papers) or by matches/competitions being shown on TV. There's all these people saying there should be positive role-models in sport and yet the media manage to push all negatives to the front, so positives get forgotten. Most recently, events with Lance Armstrong in cycling, Shane Warne in the Big Bash, and now Hazard in football, all of these, I feel have been blown out of proportion through many ways, but they're obviously good at what they do, does it go to their head? Or does it just  give them a bit of publicity? Who knows.

evan. :)

22nd January 2013: it's been a long day...

Say hi to 'Jolly Santa' his leg tasted very nice and I got a retweet from the singer I posted about the other day, Josh Record, I officially think he's amazinggg :)
It's been a long day... I've had 4 lessons of English, a subject that I'm loving right now! NOT! Oh and psychology... So I had a full day at school, I've got to finish 3 areas of my English Language coursework by the latest, next Tuesday, but I need two of these areas finished by Friday... Whilst I need to be doing this, I am trying to finish organising last minute things for Saturday, which is fast approaching...
Anyway back to this English coursework... It's fine, except I find it pointless, when I find something pointless I'll take my time to do it, and stupidly sometimes won't do it at all... Obviously this isn't my plan for this coursework, HOWEVER I do find it a bit stupid, BUT I am getting my head round it, and I will be doing it for when my deadline is... although, I do struggle to understand why we need to do TWO style models for an article, because all I will end up doing is finding the same things in both articles and repeating myself, which is surely pointless? I'm really regretting taking English Language, as you might be able to tell from my recent blogs, but most of the work I either find pointless or just a bit boring I guess... :S I don't want to offend my teachers cos they don't set the coursework, so it's not their fault... The only positive about this work is that I can do an editorial article about sexism in sport... You are all probably thinking 'here we go, evan's going to go on about how men think it's wrong for women to play cricket' but no, I'm going to put a spin on it (see what I did there?) I'm also going to show sexism towards men in sport... Have you ever seen men play netball or rounders? This is what I want to do my article about and if you have a view on it please comment, because you're likely to be part of my coursework... (if that's ok?) I'd like to know if you find sexism in sport towards women more prominent or men, what sports are included in this, and if you think this will change...

Thank Youu!!

evan.:)

21st January 2013: Tower of Mash.

The past few weeks, have been full of towers of mash. The past few days, have been full of snow. Both very similar, they're both white, fluffy? and inconvenient!
Moving on... Doing well on finalising things for this Saturday... 5 sleeps to go... Not doing so well on the English Language coursework... thinking of changing career option slightly... heading towards PE a bit more now... I don't care if certain people think it's not a proper option for GCSE/A Level, it's something I've always enjoyed and at the moment I wish I could get out of one of the English's... Also, my Mum told me about an article she read in the paper the other day about children under 11 not having set PE teachers, consequently meaning they have less hand-eye co-ordination, bat and ball motor programmes and so on. This motivates me to change that, and knowing secondary schools seem to have plenty, and I've enjoyed both work experience weeks I've done both in primary schools, and the youth club I help out at on Fridays , so surely it's right?!
Anyways,today's photo is of a massive oak tree with the sun behind it, I thought it looked pretty picturesque. I'm sorry entries recently have been slightly shorter, and less interesting, but I've been really busy and need to catch up and keep up on coursework and finalising the fundraiser, so there won't be in depth opinion blogs until sunday I guess...
Also I've set up another blog for reviews, there will be a '5 of the week' every weekend, so check that out :) http://thumbsupitsevan.blogspot.com

Thank youu :)

evan. :S