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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7th July 2013: BBQ, badminton, bare feet and a win for murray.

Pretty good week :)

Monday, I didn't really do much, I stayed up late to help promote some specific musicians with A LOT of music that day...
Tuesday was insane, spent the day asking ex-prisoners questions and hearing about their time in and out of prison... Some stories were sad, others were funny. Changed my mind about how prisons and the justice system works...
 Wednesday, normalish day at sixth form, fell asleep as soon as I got home and then ended up staying at my gran's for the night :)
Thursday, spent my evening doing work that made no sense and not having a clue what I was doing.
Friday, busy day, sixth form, youth club and then babysitting (whilst watching tennis!)
Yesterday, chilled and cooked cottage pie with dad, which turned out to taste pretty good!
Then today, day helping people, chiling in the sun, playing badminton with the sister, wearing flip flops (which like never happens) and a BBQ. Oh and watched the WImbledon Mens' Final, nice one Murray! Well deserved, surely he's gotta be Sir Andy Murray now?

Music of the Week... 

Sinners - Lauren Aquilina: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knzu1g-S0fI

The War - Josh Record: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPWUMiWQCAQ

Biblical - Biffy Clyro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrbMNBNMksk

1st July 2013: a good day for music.

2nd July 2013: spending the day with ex-prisoners...

3rd July 2013: change of plans.

4th July 2013: spending 3 hours on work that makes no flipping sense.

5th July 2013: another change of plan.

6th July 2013: summer (maybe one day my name will be on a coke bottle :P)

7th July 2013: BBQ, badminton, bare feet and a win for murray.

evan. :)

28th April 2013: cricket, aches and other stuff.

Monday 22nd April: songs and skinny jeans.

Tuesday 23rd April: happy st. georges day and happy birthday shakespeare!

Wednesday 24th April: i survived cricket training... just!

Thursday 25th April: rooftops, clouds and a sunset.

Friday 26th April: 'always do your best, what you plant now, you will harvest later'.

Saturday 27th April: doctor who, hail, cooking and coursework.

Sunday 28th April: cricket, aches and other stuff.

Well this week has been pretty full... It's seen a 3 month counter to my birthday, 6 months til Kenya, a return to cricket after avoiding it for a while, some of my most popular photos of the day being taken and lots of other random stuff :)

You know when you have one of those weeks that you do lots in and it feels good? I've had one of them, however, there's other things that I've let annoy me so much, a perfect example of this is an email I got today, normally it wouldn't have bothered me, but I think the fact that I've been trying pretty hard in the past few weeks made it that little bit more annoying. Still, this email was fine until the end when I got told 'a lot of work still to do but you maybe shouldn't have left it so long!!' ok, so the fact that I'd emailed said teacher nearly 3 weeks before today, with a draft, and it took until Friday, for her to give me any feedback, my coursework is due in next Friday? And I have two mocks this week, much appreciated, thanks!!

Still, onto the better things :) helped out with one of the boys cricket clubs this week at school, which was good. Returned to cricket, went to training on Wednesday, which wasn't too bad, although still not better from being ill in the past two weeks and that obviously showed... Today's match didn't go very well, we lost... I went in to bat 2nd, faced a few balls and then got out for 2... Safe to say my head still isn't quite back into it. My bowling was pretty good though, and I got a wicket, which is always a plus :)

Next week could be a challenge... But hey, how bad can coursework, two mocks, three cricket sessions, three sessions with 'challenging' young people and a few other things really be?

Quote of the Week: 'always do your best, what you plant now, you will harvest later'. This is what I'm trying to live by at the moment especially as I'm going into 'exams season'. It's an important thing to remember with everything you do really, just the fact that the more you try now, the more you'll gain when you get to the end. 
  
Music of the Week: 

Born To Die (cover) - Daisy Guttridge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiVMCnAN3Ms 

Panic Cord - Gabrielle Aplin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLdTcr98fSs
 This is definitely one to chill to in the sun :) 

Keep Your Head Up - Ben Howard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADP65wbBUpc
Just love this song, listen to pretty much every day, definitely a feel good song for the summer :)

Twitter of the week: Lots went on this week, Daisy Guttridge favourited, RT'd and tweeted me quite a bit and followed me back, Jenna Louise Coelman (Clara from Doctor Who) favourited one of my tweets, Colton and Zara, MLICOfficial (Brady Szuhaj from Late Nite Reading) and The Natterjacks followed me... and no, I didn't ask any of them :) 

I'm now off to have a hot chocolate, do some PE revision for my mock tomorrow, and then get some sleep :) 

evan. :) 

3rd February 2013: life is like a box of chocolates.

If life is like a box of chocolates. Coursework for me is the coconut one... I hate it!
However, I've got 1 full essay DONE! Now I've only got to finish a style model, finish the editorial and write commentary, which shouldn't take long... So should all be finished by deadline :) YAY!
Today was rather succesful because as well as the coursework I've got done, I also went out for dinner and had a roast and waffle with warm toffee sauce and ice cream, literally the caramel chocolate in the box. Then went round my friends house, we managed to record 3 audio tracks :D It took us about 2 hours however because we kept getting the giggles... Who knew you could find a Harry Potter poster so funny!! Ahah!
Also, managed to watch the England women team beat India, it was a pretty good match, with Edwards, Colvin and Brunt playing amazingly! A massive congratulations to Edwards, who has now become the leading run-scorer in ODI womens cricket.
That's about it for today, I'm off to do a bit more English, then go to bed ready for a psychology mock tomorrow... (it's another coconut chocolate) wish me luck!
evan. :) :S 

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. :)

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.:)

14th January 2013: Twelve Days Of Stressors...

Today we had snow!! It didn't last very long, but it was still around...
Also, I was happy to see this morning when I looked at the BBC Sport website in my free 2 unlikely news stories were there... The first being about England Women's Football team having their contracts increased... The second about Sarah Taylor, the current England Ladies wicket-keeper and vice captain of Sussex Women... Someone I looked up to whilst keeping for Surrey.. She has been backed by coach, Mark Lane to have opportunities to play for Sussex Men's second XI if required... This would be a groundbreaking move for not only Taylor, but for women's cricket and sport. Good Luck Sarah!
Finally for today... It's the 12 day countdown to the fundraising evening I'm holding, and I'm starting to panic... Trying to stay calm and do things bit by bit, as well as do homework and coursework is... challenging. Anyways, here's hoping I can get through it, and avoid as many stressors (learnt today in psychology) as possible...

evan. :)