31st, March, 2015: New Job and Two Weeks Off! 

So i started my new job on Friday, it was only two hours of training with this lovely women called Rosa; i've seen her a few times when i go in, but this was my first time actually speaking to her properly.
So the training went well and i was still quite nervous using the tanoy system; i mainly just use it for shouting the codes if someone tries to buy alcohol or gardening equipment... Because i'm 17, i'm not aloud to sell certain things or check peoples ID's. So it`s been a bit weird working there and being younger then everyone else.

On Saturday:
I began work at 8:30 and finished at 5:30. which means that i get one 15 minute break, an hour un-paid break and then another 15 minute break in the afternoon. I was by myself until 11, that`s when the other part time workers came on... So there was me, My friend Charlie from school, a girl named Chelsea and Brandon fro my Sixth Form. Thing is though we`re all 16-17 years old, so the amount of times we had to shout code blue down the Tanoy was ridiculous.
but i did enjoy my first day working there, i didn`t enjoy being by myself for that long though. Even though i`m only a cashier i do find it very confusing and having to deal with people that quickly as well is quite hard.
I didn`t think it would be hard, so i think that`s why i`m so surprised at the fact that it`s hard to get everything right.

Sunday:
So i was at work again from 9:30 till 4:30 with only one 15 minute break.
It went a bit better than Saturday but there weren`t many people on the tills and there where still a lot of code blues that stopped us from getting through with the customers. The day went pretty slowly actually, my feet started hurting a lot more too because i had blisters from Saturday.
i didn`t even finish the rest of my break, i just went back down to the tills to do some more work. I got bored of just sitting in the staff room; there where two other lads in there on their break Jack and some other guy... Forgot his name. But they laughed at me for going back down because i seemed so "So eager." They told me that i would get sick of working there soon, which is understandable since they`ve worked there for 7 months and are quite young.
But i also made an oopsie; somehow on Saturday i had lost about £20 from the till and then the same on the Sunday. I have absolutely no idea as to how i`ve lost that much money or as to how i managed to get rid of that much money accidentally, once Hannah (My Line Manager) had a word with me i checked the floor underneath the tills and checked the whole area around me and found no money that i may of dropped on the floor.
so i to be honest with you, i felt like crying when she got me in the office and told me. She did turn away and i just felt like breaking down. I know that seems pathetic to some people...
But you have to realize that THIS is my first job, if i mess up this job then when i try to apply for another it will affect my application. I just really want everything to go well for my first job, i don`t want to be fired because i keep on making the same stupid mistake time and time again.
So i got back on shift, and my mood was that damped that i kept on fu**ing up and making the same mistakes and i ended up annoying a lot of the customers.

Monday:
So Sixth form was open for Art students for the day and i was in by myself for two hours, then Laura came in and made me ridiculously happy and then Micheal showed up and ended up injuring himself with a small craft knife. Well he snapped it by accident, but because he was using it with that much pressure it ended up sliding across the top of his thumb and underneath his skin... Yeah, he`s snapped loadsss of Craft knives lately.
So they both left about 2-ish and i stayed until 4, so i was left alone with the cleaners and caretakers as the teachers had already left.
But it also meant that i had to walk home by myself with this giant A1 folder that was about half the weight of me. So it ended up taking me about an hour and a half to walk home with the folder, but i also had to walk home in the pouring rain and 60-70 mph winds. So i had to keep on stopping as my hands where blistering as i was carrying it and i was fed up as i was there all day and no one else had really put the effort in.

Even though Micheal came in, he got nothing done after is little accident; he couldn`t think of anything to do and was bored. The Laura did one thing then she couldn`t think of anything else to do.
Now these two clearly care, they both put the effort in to coming in for the day and trying to get some work done. Then Holly and Chloe came in, they`re both in A Level, so that shows some thought.
But the fact that only 5 of us showed up out of everyone in Art was absolutely ridiculous. If everyone else really cared about their grades then they would of turned up to do some work; it speaks volume really, if people seriously cared then they should of turned up... Even the head of Art, Sue Watton, said that she knows who will be getting the A grades again.
Now i was the only person in my class to get an A grade, and i`ve even gone back to my last project to try and get my points up out of 80. There`s 4 units that are marked and added up out of 80, so far i`ve managed to get 74 points that`s now being changed to 75 points because i went back and worked on my final piece. 

Tuesday:
So i`ve been in to work again for two more hours to do a little bit more training with Rosa. Rosa was actually really understanding of the mistakes i had made on Saturday and Sunday, she was also fine with me just standing and watching her for the day to make sure i knew what i was doing.
I`ll also be with her on Wednesday doing a little bit more training with her, but all the training really is is watching her and observing the proper way to work. It`s helpful but i feel bad for others who have to jump on the tills whenever there is a code red... especially because i feel useless to everyone else who works there.
Because i`m new i just feel like i can`t do anything, i`m trying to remember everyone's name and attempting to fit in with them but it`s all so hard to do. So i hope i do fit in soon, they`ve all worked there for so long and they all get along really well whilst i feel like an absolute outcast at the moment. 

I also went to the doctors to have a catch up with the nurse there. So she`s prescribed me more "Pills." Ladies you will know what i mean by that.
But the thing that pis**ed me off the most and that actually made me cry was the fact that the doctors had stopped one of my pills called Quiteapine. Now this is my anti-psychotic pill; basically the one that gets me through everything really...
For some reason i`ve been getting no letters from the service called CAHMS, but apparently i`ve missed two appointments which means that they`ve decided to stop prescribing the pills that i need. So i`ve been ridiculously annoyed with the Surgery and the Doctor that decided to stop the prescriptions, so i`ve been in the worst mood ever.

But then again this has happened before and i was alright-ish, but then again i wasn`t on the pills for that long for it to have a major effect.
but then again i`ll just have to wait and see what the doctors decision in about two weeks time. 

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26th, March, 2015: Exam Prep and I GOT THE JOB!

26th, March, 2015: Exam Prep and I GOT THE JOB!

So Monday:
Paige was actually in a good mood today; so everything went gooooood. She wasn`t as awkward as she was on Friday night, which was good because it made the classroom feel way more comfortable then on Friday.
So we also had the worst teacher ever called Ruth. Once again she was rude and told us to shut up so we had a very awkward 2 hours of her walking around and trying to joke around with us and talk to us when we where already annoyed with her. Even when she came over to me i said nothing but "Yeah" and that was it. 

Tuesday:

Had to free lessons, so i only had an hour lie in. Booked an appointment at the doctors and then went into sixth form. To be honest not much happened again, it was quite boring ad i just ate some biscuits in my likkle corner... :3
I also went around to David`s for a bit in the afternoon, and he just happens to have the newest Naruto game. He seriously annoyed me with this, he knew how to do everything but he let me figure it out for myself and it was horrible. He beat me abut 21 times and i won 3, but i also cheated on 1 so i guess it was 2 really... 

Wednesday: So i got a call from Hannah from B&M just to remind me of what i need to take and what they will expect from me whilst i work there. So that made me quite nervous as she was already expecting me to do all of these things; obviously i already knew what to take but it was a little bit weird how they wanted my bank details, ID and National insurance number already.
Again, nothing much happened. I got in trouble for walking out of our PD lesson because the teacher was 15 minutes late and i had stuff i wanted to do, but she walked in just after me and three others left so we got in a little bit of trouble at the end of the day when it came to signing out.
I don`t see why she got so annoyed when all i wanted to do was go and work on exam prep instead of wasting my time doing a PD lesson where all we do is action plan... How am i supposed to action plan outside of the art studio? I can`t recall everything i`ve done or what i haven`t done and then write it down. All i do is art so it`ll only be a few lines anyway, so i don`t see the point in sitting there for an hour and being bored out of my head the whole time; just like the intensive learning week really.
Then i stayed behind for a bit and got some 3d-ish pattern repeat work done for the background of my main exam piece. 

Interview Outfit!

Thursday: So today was the day of the interview.
I went into Sixth form for about an hour and then signed out, i left at 9:30 and get there for my interview at 9:43 when my interview was at 10am. so i had to wait a while because Hannah hadn`t actually started her shift yet, so whilst i was waiting i just stood and spoke to the woman who worked at the Kiosk called Amy... (There are too many Amy`s in Ilkeston).

So the Interview went really well; she was really nice and wasn`t as scary as i thought she would be, very welcoming and helpful too. I feel like it was very informal actually, she asked a few personal questions and then questions that the company sets for her. I had to fill out tons of forms all with personal and private information on, so that was boring as hell and tiring.
Then when the interview had ended she said to go and wait back down at the Kiosk whilst everyone else arrived for the Induction session that was going to last about 3-4 hours.
I asked the woman at the kiosk a little about the Induction; she said that if they`re doing that with me then i will defiantly have the job. Which made me seriously happy as this job is going to be my first ever official job! So i`m extremely excited to start, but i`m very tired after today. 

So the induction did take about 4 hours to complete, so i had only been in Sixth Form for the hour that was first thing in the morning. There was 7 other people there, two others where going to be working on tills like me, one was on the Kiosk, two where on face up and then the other two where in the warehouse dealing with stock. So we all sat around and did the induction and training, i have to admit that i got a lot of questions wrong so i was a little embarrassed by that... Oops!
Then we where taken on a tour of the building and shown where we can find everything, where we`ll be working and who we will be working with for the day. So if the Induction hadn`t taken so long then that would of been wayyy better, i was very tired afterwards and my energy had kind of drained from me completely. 

But i`m really happy because i have a part time job now and i`ll be starting my job tomorrow, but i`ll also be going in to do some more exam prep... i`m probably going to be the only one in since it`s everyone's day off, but we are aloud to go in if we want to which is good for me! 

I am sorry for the lack of updates this week, but not much has been happening until today when i had the interview. So I do hope i can keep on uploading stuff, i don`t want to have to stop uploading and updating stuff since i now have this job, it`s only part time anyways! 

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21st, March, 2015: Up Coming Job Interview, New Anime Blog and Art So Far!

Half straight, half messy
morning hair right there!

21st, March, 2015: Up Coming Job Interview, New Anime Blog and Art So Far! 

The only major thing that has really happened in the past four days is that my dads having his hand re-dressed and my mum had to go to the doctors and then stay over night at the hospital. 

So Tuesday:
We had two frees but me Micheal and Paige went in anyways. I did feel seriously bad though since my head was killing me because of my headcold... the year 13's all apparently have "Ebola" (joke) at the moment so it's best not to go into there room for the week.
I got quite a bit of work done, but then the teachers hated it because it was only experimentation work; but then when i talk about my final piece they tell me  experiment more with my work. 

Happy 7 Months Babe!

Wednesday:
Felt a little bit better but then it got worse throughout the day. When i went to go and sign out half way through the day the head of sixth from just told me that i would be fine and to keep on working.
In the afternoon we had a self defense class... So obviously i did the stupid thing and paired up with my boyfriend. Now David is 6.3ft tall and i'm only 5.1ft tall... He also used to go to the gym quite a lot and has weights at home, so he's incredibly strong against little me.
So we learnt how to defend yourself by pushing people back the right way, how to get them off of you and then how to punch them properly without hurting yourselves.
So David about broke my arm and then almost broke Paige's wrist, we both weren't expecting him to be that strong. Compared to the other guys in our friendship group that where there (So, Micheal, Tom, Danny, Paige and me), he was ridiculously strong and surprised us all really. 

To be honest with you guys, i was planning on just staying in Art for this self defense class; but i have to say that i did learn quite a bit from it and i did enjoy it. It was a good laugh and cheered me up quite a bit, the people running it where also very kind and gave everyone the option to sit out and join in when they wanted too.
It was very good/nice of them to give us the option to do that. Little things like that can make people like me feel a whole lot more comfortable when in a class of people who you aren`t comfortable with and doing an activity that they can easily make jokes about. 

PVA glue and ink samples

Thursday:
The teachers came around and marked our work so far.
According to Sarah and Carly (Two of my teachers), all of my work has been marked at a B grade. It hasn`t been marked all in one go, they marked everything individually on a few sheets; for starts they filled up four sheets with marking and for seconds everything is either a B, B- or a B+. So i`m pretty happy with myself right now! They said if i want to raise my grades to A`s then i just need to work on top and start layering up my multi media pieces; which means that i need to go back over them really and work some more on them.
I tried to explain that i would rather start from scratch though instead of working on top of these; because if i start from scratch then i have evidence of coming along and developing my ideas. But Sarah was almost going to kill me with her "serious" stare if i even tried to start from scratch in front of her.
So i stayed behind at school for a while and got some more backgrounds done for the next day; i also had an amazing conversation with the cleaner. Every time i stay behind we just have random conversations that come out of nowhere. But tonight`s conversation was quite deep and un-expected; turns out that her neighbours and are reporting her for drinking on the job or being on drugs, but everyone that knows her at school has been helping her out and have been on her side... Including me! I don`t see how adults can act so fu**ing immature and almost make a single parent lose her job over something she clearly hasn`t done. So ALL allegations against her have been dropped due to lack of evidence.
She actually has to be one of the nicest people that work there, well out of the cleaners/caretakers. Out of all of my time being at that school has one of them ever spoken to me, i`ve been there for six years including my time at Sixth Form. I see this cleaner (Leonie i think), nearly every day and she is the only one that has ever spoken to me and held a good and deep conversation with me.
It also turns out that she`s seeing the same physciatrist as me; her name is Lisa Kennedy and she has to be the most amazing person in the god damn fu**ing world. I won`t go any further as to why since it`s personal to her. But when i had problems and i saw Lisa, she got ot the root of the problem so fast and sorted it out in a matter of sessions with her... She just knows exactly what she`s doing and how to go about it; i saw a man named David Watkinson (no relation to me), and he blamed my problems on my Dad leaving my mum when i was four years old...
For starts, i see my dad every Friday and when i was younger i saw him every Monday night and then stayed over on Friday and went home on Saturday. So i have no idea as to why he came to such a conclusion, I was then discharged from CAHMS and had further problems. Then when we saw Lisa, she got straight to the problem and sorted it out as quick as possible; i was discharged but still on the medication she gave me. 

Also; half way through the day i got a call from a store called B&M, i handed out CV`s about a week ago and finally i got a call for an interview! It`ll be next Thursday at 10:30am with a women called Hannah.
I think Hannah, when she phoned, must of thought that i was slightly off my head or something. I was so, so excited over something so small. I`ve been trying to get a job since i was 13/14 years old, i`m now 17 and this could potentially be it! I know i get my hopes up to quickly but i always get way to excited when it comes to interviews. I`ve only had about 4-6 real interviews, so i`m already seriously nervous for this one. BUT I`M SO EXCITED FOR IT! 

Friday:
So it was the Solar Eclipse Friday morning; we didn`t actually get to see much though... We used Pinpoint cameras that you just make out of paper so we wouldn`t hurt ourselves by attempting to look up at the sun... Which is exactly what Paige did!
We where out there for about an hour or so; it did drop a little darker and the temperature dropped quite a bit whilst we where out there. The whole purpose of a pin point cameras is this: you make a circle in a sheet of paper and then hold it above your head and in front of the sun, you then get someone else to stand in front of you with another sheet of paper, they have to have the shadow casted by your paper on there's... By doing this you`ll have a hole casting through, with this you can see how far the moon has gone over the sun.
I`d say that the solar Eclipse had to be the most exciting thing of the day...
THEN DAVID GOT OFFERED A JOB! Since he`s not doing a level 3 course at the sixth form, he has to do work experience every Friday until ear 13; that`s if he passes his exams. So his work experience is at a Tattoo shop called Spellbound. Since he`s being doing such a good job there they`ve offered him a part time Saturday job; now i`m seriously proud of him for getting a job, but his mum... Not so much. But i didn`t want him to feel down because of it, so for the whole time that i saw him at lunch i was constantly hugging him and jumping on him and screaming "I`m proud of ya mom"... It`s kind of one of those weird things i do that only David understands. But i am seriously proud of him for getting a part time job, and i know he`ll be amazing at his job... Well i think he`s absolutely amazing at everything, but i know he`ll be fu**ing great at his job!!!!

There`s only one thing that put me down a bit today...
So I went to my old youth club for the first time since June and i was quite excited since i got to see all of the old leaders and it got me out of the house for the night since i couldn`t see my dad.
Now something was up with my Paige, i have no idea as to what it was or why she was being so funny but she wouldn`t tell me; So i tried to talk to her ad whenever i did she just ignored me and talked to other people. She just refused to talk to me until the very end when all she said was that "Everything is wrong"... However she was perfectly fine laughing and talking to other people, but when i tried i got absolutely nothing in response.
i was even talking to David about it on the way home because it got me down; just the idea of trying to make the effort with someone, but then when other people appear you`re thrown to the side. It`s one of those thing that pi**es you off right down to the other fu**ing core really.
So i stayed around at Davids to cheer myself up a bit since i was annoyed at the fact that i was thrown away just like that as soon as she arrived. I tried talking and joining in but every time everyone just went quite and funny. It`s at that point when i understand that i`m not wanted around some people, you try to make an effort but when it gets thrown in your face... it just kinda hits you out of nowhere and throws you back down to the bottom. 

So on Monday i have no idea as to what i should do, should i try to talk to her or just leave it? It`s one of those things where you know you`ve had enough but you don`t know what to do with the bottled up anger or annoyance that you feel.
I just don`t know anymore, if she wants to be funny with me, then i guess i`ll just have to be funny with her to see how she likes it. See how she likes it.... Yeah, i`m a class A Bi*ch when i want to be, i put up with the same crap for to long and then i switch completely. hopefully no one else has to bear witness to it really... i only act like a bi*ch when i`m seriously fed up. 

Saturday:But you know what makes me forget everything? Having such an amazing person like David in my life. I know it`s only been 7 months; but if anyone knew what kind of crap i had to go through to finally go out with him then you would really understand the class A thing.
But this morning i woke up to breakfast in bed and cuddles from him; even though i had seriously bad morning breath and i hadn`t taken off my make-up the night before (i`m lazy, ok?), and i looked a complete mess... David still laid beside me and gave me cuddles, he put on a film and we just chilled like normal. It`s the littlest things that i appreciate from him, even him just saying that i look fine in the morning, when i know i don`t, makes e feel so much better.

So, all i`ve really done today is start up a new blog on Anime reviews; if you follow me on Wattpad then you would know that the only reason i get reads this day has to be because of the Anime reviews i do. I currently hit 44K reads i total and i`m going to be uploading another Anime review everyday on to the blog until i catch up with my Wattpad account.
So i`f you`re interested in Anime and need some new ones then i`ll drop the link along with all of the others below so you can keep up with my anime travels too! 

So good night everyone, i stayed up just so i could catch up with the blogging as i haven`t really uploaded anything this week. So sorry for the lack of updates but hopefully i should be back on track this week!! 

(These updates are all made for my blog, honestly, so if you`re reading this on wattpad then no links will be available at the end of this update). 

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16th, March, 2015: God Damn Head cold.

16th, March, 2015: God Damn Head cold. 

So i feel like crappolio today... 

Got up, went to sixth form 45 minutes early.
Ended up by myself until 8:25 cause everyone else was late for no reason.
so then the bitchiness art teacher in the history of the school walks in and demands that we all keep our god damn mouths shut otherwise she`ll send us to the end rooms. I`M IN YEAR 12 NOT 3 WOMAN. We had this female for the first two hours of the day, all she did was sit at the computer and yell SHHHH every now and then we tried to talk.
All my mates did was ask me how my birthday went and all i got was her turning round and yelling at me to be quite because she wanted to do her work. Excuse me, everyone else wants to do their work on the computer and all you want to do is keep on refreshing your e-mails over and over again. Forcing other people to go and find the apple macs which are ridiculously stupid and you can`t do anything on them.
I`m sorry Miss. Jones, but we`re in year 12 now and i told the year 13`s and they think it`s absolute bullshit too. We`re aloud to talk, it`s what we do; you`re the only teacher who had a problem with us having normal discussions and catching up with each other over the weekend. You make Mondays a living hell, you don`t listen to anything we say and you don`t take our opinions into account.

Woman, you frustrate me so much...
Just ughhhh,
Why,
Stahpppp it ,
just Shhhh Yourself ,
Stahppp....
so i actually got a lot of work produced today. My screen was finally finished by the technician so now i can produce work off of that. I`ve done even more collage work to work on top off; i`ve done so many A1 sizes collage pieces to do work on top off... But i keep on messing them up so so many of them have had to go in bin today.
And somehow i also gained a head cold by being around a girl in year 13 for about 5-10 minutes, i have no idea as to how i got it that quickly. But i`ve been drinking Lemsip stuff all night to try and sooth my throat... God damn. 

So Yesterday was also my birthday!
I mainly got money, sweets and a little bit of Alcohol to numb my gums since my braces are causing me absolute agony. I had my dad, my grandparents and my uncle come round. I also spent the majority of the day with David playing video games on the Gamecube.
i`m not one of those girls who goes out for meals with Friends or goes out drinking with other friends on their birthdays. I prefer to spend the day at home chilling really; i`m ot the type of person to go out all of the time.
So instead i played some of my favourite games on the Gamecube with David and my little sister. thing is though David almost beat me, so i got mardy... Now nobody beats me on my own games.
I also played my old time favourite Sonic game, Sonic DX... i`ve never actually completed the game, since i can never beat Big The Cat`s levels; all you have to do is catch fish, but every time you fail, you die. I can finish every other characters story but Big The Cat`s is impossible to do and it bugs the hell out of me. I`ve had the game since it first came out and i still can`t finish it, not even once i have even completed the second level on Big The Cat`s story. 

So after school today, i was going to stay for a while but i really couldn`t be bothered since i started to come down with a headcold. So instead i went into town quickly and get some new jeans and little studs for my ears.
Last week i completely ruined one of my favourite pairs of jeans. There plain dark blue skinnies and i`ve ripped them twice, once on each leg around the inner thigh. They are the right size, i ripped them both times by putting things up on walls by standing on my chair. So by getting up and down the chair i`ve been ripping my jeans...
Cause i`m so smart >.< 

So i really can`t be bothered today, i just want to go to sleep right now... So good night from me and i`ll hopefully update the blog when i`m feeling a bit better then how i feel right now! 

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14th, March, 2015: Painful Braces and Dad`s accident.

14th March 2015: Painful braces.

This week has been extremely hectic for me...

First of all:
we spent the day in London on Monday and i didn`t enjoy it that much. That morning i was up at 6 and then i ended up going to bed about 12-ish as i couldn`t get any sleep at all.
Tuesday was the first actual day back of doing some sort of coursework. Even though i hardly did anything on Tuesday, i was still extremely tired as i had actually done something that was worth my time and counted for something when it comes to coursework and exams.


Wednesday, seemed a little bit more normal. I went to David`s after school and just chilled out for a while. Then i went back home, my mum and older sister where asleep. I walked in, saw a box on top of the dog cage and opened it in the front room whilst being attacked by the puppy.
since me and Emily haven`t been getting along very well (she`s pregnant), because of hormones and mood swings. She had ordered 5 Game Of Thrones, Pop, Vinyl models for me. She had previously given me a Dragon Ball Character, Walking Dead and two other random models with a Game Of Thrones Tyrian Model.
So i was really happy but at the same time i felt really bad, because that morning i slammed the door in her face because she was yelling at me for no apparent reason.
So, my little came downstairs and looked seriously surprised to see me, these are her exact words; "Oh, hey. You`re dad had an accident at work today." 
She walked straight past me and into the kitchen. When she came back in all she said was "It looks gross." 

So it took her a moment to realize that i had no clue as to what she was saying, so she eventually sat down and told me what had happened:

So my Dad (Sean) Works in a packaging factory; he works with almost all of the machines there and is very familiar with them all. But on this one day he was told to clean the machines and it was only him and his girlfriend (Mandy) in this part of the factory.
He had put his hand in the machine to clean a part of it, he didn`t realize that it was on at the time. This machine was also a sealing machine, meaning that it heated up to 200 degrees and used some form of lasers to help sealing.
When his hand was in there it had detected it, clamped his hand into place and the lasers came on. From where my dad was stood he couldn`t reach the emergency shut off switch. So he was stood for about 30-40 seconds screaming for help with his hand stuck in this ridiculous machine that could of potentially taken off his hand.
He was rushed to A&E with his newly injured hand. When he got there they weren`t quite sure as to what to do; so it took them a while to find someone to sort the problem out. It only needed cleaning and then dressing. A lot of bandages up his forearm where the machine had burnt him and then a weird blue mitten kind of thing on his hand where the laser injuries are.

At first they thought that he would either need plastic surgery or a skin graft; but when we went the next day they had a different idea. They said that because the lasers had sealed off the injury quite well, he might not need a skin graft or plastic surgery. They think that it`ll just need close attention and a lot of changing for it to heal. but whilst he was there they took off the dead skin on his wrist and parts of his hand.
On the Friday i popped round after school to go and see him. He said his hand wasn`t hurting as much now, just his wrist where the skin had gone.
i do feel terribly bad for my dad at this moment in time. he can`t bath, tie his shows, get changed or eat by himself. Also, he has an xbox one that he can`t play... So he`s sat watching documentaries and the discovery channel. H does want to go back to work, he said he would rather be there right now than sat at home watching TV with an annoying hand that has to be held up at all times.


On Thursday i had to have the whole morning off from school as i had the Orthodontist to have my braces tightened.
Whilst i was there they also attached more hooks and elastic bands to my braces. So now i have four sets of clear elastic bands that run behind the wire on my braces. Then i have to elastic bands that i have to change every day and i also have to attempt to eat with them in.
I cant eat properly, i can`t drink properly and i can`t sleep properly without them bleeding in the night. They`ve also cut very deeply into the right side of my top lip... As i`m writing this it`s actually swollen and has been since yesterday.
Out of all of the times i`ve gone and had my braces tightened; this has to be the worst. In the morning when i change the bands my eyes water up and i almost cry, I can`t open my mouth wide enough to eat anything and the whole bottom half of my mouth is to painful to even touch.

So Today (Saturday) All i`ve done is stay in my onezie all day and chill with David. i`ve been with him for almost 7 months now and he knows exactly how to cheer me up when i`m feeling down or a bit ill. He`s been making me laugh all day and has cheered me up soo soo much today!
I know he`s coming around tomorrow since it`s my birthday which means more time to spend laughing and being genuinely happy!! ^-^

So it has been a rather crappy week back doing coursework. I do think that next week is going to be way better and i might actually start getting some work done, now i`ve gotten back into the studio i think i`ll settle down much quicker and get back into the swing of things.


Sorry for not updating much this week; i`ve been busy catching up, being in pain ad constantly messaging my dad and his girlfriend to make sure that they are ok since the accident.

Saturday, 14th, March, 2015   11:01pm    ~Melonhead Amy, Blogger

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9th, March, 2015: First London Trip With Sixth Form!

9th, March, 2015: First London Trip With sixth Form!

So, this Monday it was our first London trip together as Art Students in Sixth Form! We had to visit The Tate Modern Gallery and then the National Portrait Gallery. 

So i had to get up at six so i could actually iron all of my clothes and find something to wear. I was lazy and got a lift to school and i had to be there for 7:30am.
Of course we had to take the puppy with us in the car, and i couldn`t even get out of the car since he was attacking my seat belt. Then when i got out he saw my friend Scarlett stood by the gate... Which meant he went a little crazy before going back to car. Luckily nobody saw me struggle with him, which would of been completely embarrassing if they did.

We actually set off at 7:55am, the oldest teacher, sue, was fucking around for to long at it began annoying the hell out of everyone... Like seriously, who the hell takes 25 minutes to get "us" ready; we where all ready to go and she was messing around and doing whatever for so long.
It took us 4 hours to get to London on the coach, if we had gone by train then it would of been 2 hours and 30 minutes. we only stopped once at a seriously small service station, i didn`t get anything or go pee pee, to be honest with you i just wanted to get there.

So we walked around the Tate Modern Art Gallery...
I hated it. I dn`t want to sound ungrateful when the art teachers had put the effort into organizing a very un-organized trip.
So there was a lot of work on exhibition there, and quite a few floors to walk around.However the majority of the work in there looked as if they had just given a blank canvas and some paints to a three year old. One room even had three huge, light brown canvas` that had spray painted lines and circles on them... That was it, seriously; if that`s art these day i think i need to throw up on a piece of paper, solidify it and then put it up for auction.
Another room was full of canvas` that had the basic outline of fat women with three boobs, but it looked like a blind man had done them. Next to one of them was a blob which must of been a man since it had a blue sausage attached to the bottom half of it and it was in front of a fat three boobed woman. Is there even a point in these pieces? I don`t even know.
So much of the work in there looked like it was un-finished. The only thing i enjoyed was two taxidermed birds with arrows through them that where pinned to a wall, the only thing that i didn`t like was the background behind it was plain white with the outline of a random building that looked like it had been drawn by someone who had extremely shaky hands. 

So i ended up leaving the gallery rather bored and un-satisfied. I found nothing that inspired me for my own work and overall i was disappointed at the fact that it lacked work that was worth looking at.
The work in there was so disappointed that i only spend a few seconds in each room before passing in to the next because nothing was even worth looking at really.
there was a lot of photography work, and even though i`m a big fan of photography, none of it interested me and everything was just in Black and white. For instance, one image had a man in Asian styled clothing, wearing either a space helmet or a motor bike helmet... I can`t even remember which one it was, that`s how bad the photography work was, i remember none of it.

we headed over the National Portrait Gallery afterwards, but we where late leaving again because of the Art Teachers where walking around in the gift shop for a ridiculously long amount of time.
The only reason we actually left, is because we began to walk off without them, and they eventually noticed and caught up with us. 

The National Portrait Gallery was pretty boring.
All of the work was huge but old, i didn`t know who was actually in the paintings and i had no idea as to who had painted them.
Maybe if i was actually interested in Royal events in history or any history actually; then i would of actually enjoyed my time in there. The only thing that actually interested me a little bit was a head entirely made of a mans blood.
every month he took a certain amount of blood out of his body and placed inside of a mold of his own head. He filled it up and placed it in preserving water or something like that and now it`s stored at -16 degrees. That had to be the only thing that inspired me out of the whole day; slowly giving yourself away so you can produce a copy of your head with you inside of it... If that makes any sense, but it`s cool! 

Then we where loud to walk around Covert Garden and do some shopping...
But i`m broke, and London is expensive so all i got was loads of cheap Jelly Belly sweets, a cute pendant for my boyfriend and then a fridge magnet for my mum.
She`s been collecting Fridge Magnets for ages now and she has to get one almost everywhere she goes; even when i went to Japan two years ago, i got her two fridge magnets as a little gift.
I also met an old London friend of mine who i haven`t spoken to properly in a while, he showed us around and told us the best places to eat around covert Garden.

Pokemon update:
David is beating me level wise, he`s about 75 on all f his Pokemon and i`m not even at level 50 with mine. I`m currently on Victory road though so i think i`ll be catching up very quickly indeed! 

Monday, 9th, March, 2015   8:52pm    ~Melonhead Amy, Blogger

(Sorry for the late upload, i`ve been busy this week and need to catch up with coursework that i missed out on last week). 

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7th, March, 2015: Definitely Derby University!

Friday Selfie!

7th, March, 2015: Definitely derby University!

So i`m doing another update where i`ve waited a few days until i actually updated on what`s going on right now; makes it easier than uploading daily on only small things.
The week hasn`t been that eventful so this is basically going to be me rambling on about the same things over and over again.
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I had to design the uniforms.

Out of everything we`ve had to do this week, this has been by far the most hands on thing we`ve done.
We had to do this task all day that was poorly named as "The Enterprise Project". We got put into teams with people that we don`t get along with as well as others.
My team got read out first; I was with Abbie, Rhiannon, Millie and Elliot who i never speak to and then i had James and Gerrard who i do talk to quite often.
so in these small groups we had to design numerous things for our Sixth form: Prospectus, Advertisement posters, uniforms, a promotional video and then a presentation so we could present it all at the end.
Out of every group, ours came first; we did put a lot of effort into it and worked through break and dinner to get everything done. I have to say though, if it wasn`t for Abbie taking lead and being such a great leader altogether then i think that i wouldn`t of spoken to anyone or done anything for the whole day. When we compared the way our team worked and to others when they where presenting, we could easily pick out who had done the work and who had, had a very boring day.
I have to say a HUGE thank you to Abbie for making the day less awkward and easier for us all, if it wasn`t for her then this week would of had to of been the worst week i`ve had in the Sixth Form; to have someone like that in your team for the whole day has to be the best feeling ever, because you know that you can actually talk because that one person has taken it upon themselves to ensure that everyone gets along and has something to do
(She doesn`t read the blog, but personally this is the only way i can say thank you to her since i can`t really walk up to her and say thank you when she`s in sixth form because she`ll have her friends there; and i know that as soon as i leave they would probably laugh and take the piss... But thank you Abbie)!

View from the 9th floor.
These are all of the University Houses.

Friday had to be the best day of all!
For the last day of the intensive learning week, everyone taking the Level 3 courses had to go on a trip to Derby University. At first i was seriously annoyed about going there and i wasn`t even going to turn up on Friday; but by a little persuasion by the deputy head of Sixth Form i ended up going.

It has to be the best University we`ve been to so far. Just the atmosphere when you walk into the main campus feels absolutely amazing. So let me attempt to describe this to you...

Current Playing Field

When you first walk in, the main thing that you notice is the ramps and high how the ceiling is. There are ramps everywhere that make up small junctions leading to new levels of the main hall, they are mainly for wheelchair access... but the University gets that busy in-between lectures that they are always packed of people trying to get something to eat or to get to a new lecture theatre.
There are shops all over the place; Subway, convenient stores, the sell clothes, there`s a banking section and they even have their own hairdressers somewhere... I didn`t see it in that particular day.
As soon as you walk in, the most obvious things has to be the giant open space with tables set up, above that are some ramps that lead to Subway and stuff.
On our Lunch break, when we where aloud to walk around for a while, i met the awesome-st people i met there. there are tons of clubs and societies there and one of the second biggest ones is the Gaming Society; at lunch they all sit on PC`s, Xboxs and Wii`s that are hooked up to some huge TV`s.
So i went and spoke to them, and since i was the only one "brave" enough to go up to them; i was followed by a group of people who knew nothing about gaming or what these guys where currently doing. The largest group at the University is the ANIME AND MANGE club... ANIME AND MANGA FOR GODS SAKE, THEY HAVE A DEDICATED CLUB FOR ANIME FANS.

Me and Dana On
The way home.

So the gaming guys where actually raising money by doing a 24 Hour gaming session on the University campus for charity, i can`t remember the charity though. 

So even though we where on the main campus for the tours and the whole visit; my group had a mentor who had taken the Expressive and Therapeutic Art course which is the exact on that i wanted to do.
So whilst Emma was showing us around the main Derby Campus she was filling us in on the Art campus and the kind of things that they do over there. what surprised me the most was the fact that they had a whole separate Campus dedicated to Art students.

The things that interested me the most about the University had to be the new building on the Main campus which was going to be dedicated for Sports and new sports facilities. The fact that they had a whole separate Art campus which is only 5-10 minutes away from the Main campus, and, there is a unibus that goes there for free every 10 minutes or so.
I`m also really into sports in my spare time; so it`s really cool to know that anyone can sign up for a subscription for the gym which is only £10 a month... When compared to the gym near me is amazing, the one that i signed up for is about £6 per session.
Also; the range of clubs and societies that you can sign up for is awesome. some of my favorites had to be; Anime and Manga club, Gaming society, Zombie Nation, Sports and there loads of other cool ones that i`m sure i`ll sign up for when it comes to it.

I think that this University is defiantly what i want; it has the right courses, the best atmosphere, some of the most friendliest students i`ve ever met, amazing lecture facilities and amazing pass time clubs.
The Maximum amount of time your expected to be at the University at a week is about 15 hours and at summer all Universities get about 4 months off... So i`m going to have plenty of time for the clubs and societies, a part time job, to do more coursework and i`ll actually have time to have a social life!

This Saturday i haven`t done much again...
I`ve seen David again and got my early birthday present off of him and then when i was walking through town i met my bestie Ishbie (Iseboa) and got my early birthday present off of her.
Ishbie (Iseboa), got me some nom nom sweets and some amazingly scented Yankie Candles.
Then David got me this amazingly fluffy bright pink onezie; he has a huge fluffy grey one that i usually wear whenever i stay around. He did ask me what i wanted for my birthday, i told him not to get me much and something quite small....
But i`m wearing this onezie right now, it`s amazing. seriously amazing.

Saturday, 7th, March, 2015.     10:42pm     ~Melonhead Amy, Blogger.

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4th, March, 2015: The boring half way point.

This week hasn`t been much fun at all, if anything everyone is seriously annoyed about whats going on.
So for the second time in year 12 we`ve had to do an Intensive learning week. For the first week (Last year), we had to do a week of work experience and for this week we`ve been taken off of timetable and out lessons have been replaced with some of the most ridiculous and time wasting activities. 

On Monday we had to do this action planning thing on what we want to do after sixth form and what else we intend to do whilst doing that. She gave us three lessons throughout the day but i finished mine in the first 20 minutes of the first lesson in the morning.
after the first lessons we had to go and walk around a careers fair which was actually just a bunch of people from colleges and universitys wanting us to go there after Sixth Form to do their courses instead. Then we had to go back and do action planning; we had no teacher so it was pretty fun and then we had to walk around the careers fair again... A waste of time. After dinner we had to go and finish our action plans again.
So i got home and did my course work... the course work that i`m missing out on for a whole week, the course work that i`m now behind on and the coursework that actually means something to me.

Tuesday we had to do presentations on what we did for work experience.
Yes, sixth form is that utterly pathetic that we had to practice our presentation skills by doing a presentation, that had to be 5 slides long, on what we fucking did for work experience.
so the first lesson was literally them just telling us what we had to do next lesson, they just repeated the same things over and over again. Then we actually made them which took about 10 minutes; then we all hopped on to youtube and watched youtubers play. I watched CinnamonToastKen whilst Paige watched Markiplier.
Then we had to present them in front of a little group of our friends who we had already been with all morning. So that day was also very boring and pointless really. I was expecting a bit more from them for this week and the organizational skills for Monday and Tuesday where ridiculously pathetic. 

But Today was actually much better!
This morning we all wrote professional CV`s; the last time we did those was in year 10 for our first two weeks of work experience. To be honest with you, mine was awesome.
The head of sixth form, Kai, performed this exercise where she would do the same as any other employer, or what she does when she employees people. Which is basically looking at the CV for about 5-10 seconds and then deciding if it should go in the bin, the maybe pile or the yes pile. At the end there where only 6 of us out of 25 that got a yes; me being one of them.
We got our 4th lesson free and had an early lunch. For our 5th lesson we had mock and practice interviews. We had former teachers, principals and deputy heads, then we had labour MPS, business owners, heads of colleges and universities come in too.
We only had two interviews each due to the lack of people that turned up; there was an accident nearby so at least 5 or 6 where held up in traffic and couldn`t make it in time. 

I feel like i did well, i got loads of good feedback from the people that interviewed me and a few corrections from one women who is actually a teacher at the School my sixth Form is based. That same teacher wrote all over some other people`s CV`s which is so rude and annoying. luckily she only circled one thing on mine but on others, there was writing all over them.
The worst thing about the day had to be the fact that we had to dress nicely; loads of the boys just came in their prom suits. I turned up in jeans, boots, a baggy pink top and a navy blue blazer; she did say the day before to not wear jeans... But i don`t even own a dress or a skirt, only jeans.

I`ve just been sat playing Pokemon tonight, i`m tired as fuckkk; just casual blogging and watching youtubers again. I haven`t got much of a life outside of sixth form really. 

Wednesday, 4th, March, 2015      8:19pm     ~Melonhead Amy, Blogger

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