User:SmudgyHollz/My Online Diary:January 2011

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5th January
Wednesday

First day back to school after the Christmas Holidays. Great. Why do you have to come next week snow? You should come now - and I have a good feeling that you will too, as its bloody freezing at the moment.

Period 1: After dodging elbows, school bags, other body parts and following this older guy that I knew for a while, I made it to my first class. Music. First of all, Miss Moore said that she was going to do the Registration. But then went on rambling about Robert Burn's Night and fiddles, accordions and bagpipes. After about ten, twenty minutes, she remembered about the Registration and registered us. She then showed us a video of this man and woman playing a... what-do-you call it. Strathspey and Reel or something along those lines. My favourite of those dances is the Military Tutu! Its actually called the Military Two-Step but there was a long story behind it and now I can only remember it as the Military Tutu.

Anyway, we watched that and then she told us that after this project we would be doing some work on the Harry Potter music and that we'd even learn how to play some of them! I can't wait! And then she went on about fiddles, accordions and bagpipes. After a while she gave us some sheets and we all attempted to play the Strathspey and Reel on our keyboards. I could not seem to do it! It just confuses me as the tune is long-short short-long - there is a name for it but I can't remember it - and you had to move your hands up and down the keyboards at a hundred miles an hour!

Period 2: Instead of doing PE in the Games Hall, we had to do it in the Dining Hall. And it was some stupid hip-hop dance thing that we were supposed to be doing. We had to watch this video of some cockney dudes and follow them, listening to what they were saying while doing this - though it was impossible to make out what they were saying! Anyway, we all did the moves rubbishly as the men on the screen did them professionally at a stupidly fast speed. It was not very fun.

Break: I sat around in the Dining Hall with some people I didn't really like, munching on a yoghurt bar while listening absent-mindedly to their conversation and not making any attempt to join in. That bad-mouth tall girl with a crush on a sixth-year boy really gets on my nerves and she was doing most of the speaking.

Period 3 + 4: It was Geography next. Since I was a loner at the front of the classroom, the teacher got me to sit beside this boy called Scott at the very back. Because he was funny - and a while back he had pushed past me and I had turned around to snap at him but saw that he was crying, and properly crying too - I didn't mind at all and sat gladly down beside him. But then he started messing around and I got a bit annoyed so I just answered the questions that we had been asked to answer by myself. They were easy because they were on land-use at the Cairngorms National Park. In the previous lesson we had gotten into a huge class discussion on whether or not they should have put a train-track up the mountain.

Sometime through the lesson the boys in front of us - James and Cameron - turned around. James made jokes about us being a "couple" while I rolled my eyes and Scott protested loudly. Then Cameron looked at me seriously and said, "Is he helping you at all, because you know, I could swap seats with him if you want." Well, that's certainly a first for him. But I said no anyway.

Lunch: I met my best friend in the Dining Room and we cued for lunch. I bought something that was supposed to be chicken pasta bake, but it looked more like curry. And then she came to join us. You know who I'm talking about; Idelle. Goodness she winds me up! But I managed to put up with her following us around for a whole hour! And that is probably my record!

Period 5 + 6: It was PSE next. And we watched a Living and Growing video. We're doing Sex Education. Again. Fun. It was not a good lesson. The whole way through the part when they were talking about girls, I was fidgeting uncomfortably. Then there was the adverts and the first one that came up was an advert for tampons. How appropriate. Of course, we thought it was just to do with the movie but then it came up with Cillit Bang with Barry Scot - Bang and the Dirt is Gone!. That confused us. Anyway, it was horrible; and that was only half of it, we stil have more to cover. The only thing I learnt during that hour and twenty minutes was that you can rap Romeo and Juliet.

Period 6 + 7: The next class was English. I actually had a good lesson. All I did was read with the class - Blitz by Robert Swindell (or something like that) - and then SkyClan's Destiny. Cool, huh?

A/N: You know Adele, the Scottish singer who wrote Diamond Ring? I know her Dad!