12th, August; Japanese Lessons!

12th, August; Japanese Lessons!

So in the second week of the holidays i went for my very first Japanese lesson with Mia...
So this year it will be three years since i went to Japan, and Mia has gone about 4 or 5 times now, and she went the same year as me too.
When we where there I considered her as a best friend and mainly tagged along with her whilst we where there and she`s been learning Japanese for years now so she`s getting pretty fluent in the language.

So before she goes to University she`s teaching Japanese for £15 a lesson ,which when you think about it, is an amazing price for quick lessons.
She even stayed up till late at night to make me and my friend Lauren  lesson plans and small little flash cards for our Japanese lessons with her.
She really seems to know what she`s doing too and acts like a proper teacher when we had our first lesson and i seriously appreciated her then going out for dinner with me afterwards to a restaurant just around the corner.

So i filled in the work sheets she gave me in the lesson, which was an introduction to Hiragana, casual conversation and numbers. I feel like i`ve got the whole number thing down though, it`s just remembering how to write the symbols. she was really helpful and patient with me trying to guess the numbers when we did a little quiz.
I also bought a little book to do revision in so i can memorize what it is that i`ve just learnt since i`m quite forgetful.




So far, so good! My next Japanese lesson should hopefully be just after i get paid... So i think it might be next week or something, but hopefully i can keep on doing these lessons.
Mia has been a lovely teacher so far and i have a feeling that i`m really going to enjoy the lessons that i have with her!





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22nd, July; Almost The end!

22nd, July; Almost The end!

So i now have two days left at sixth form and i`m seriously ready for this break which is coming up... but the only thing is that there will be even less updates; I`ll have plenty of time to do the updates, but i`m rather boring and prefer to hibernate away in my room rather then be in the sun for the whole six week break that we have for summer.

so things are gonna be a bit slow, and i`ll probably only do three or four updates; i`m not quite sure to be honest... But it`ll be whenever i try and at least leave my room i guess...

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9th July: Taxidermy Work Opportunities!

9th July: Taxidermy Work Opportunities!

So i don`t quite like my previous job, i just feel like we`re all being taken for a joke and messed around quite a bit. So i`ve been looking for something part time that i could do instead of working at B&M.

I began looking at local taxidermists and designers that could possibly take on an assistant or a part time worker/apprentice.  There`s nothing definite out there, no where advertises jobs or apprenticeships in the taxidermy field, but i have e-mailed one person and have asked if he has any work available for me either during the summer or at the weekends.

His name is Russell Oxley, he owns the Taxidermy Emporium which is very close by to me; a lot of the work i`ve seen in person is actually in Wollaton Hall. Wollaton Hall is very old home and a very large one too, it towers over it`s own land, lake and deer.
check him out at: http://www.taxidermyemporium.co.uk/11.html

I love his work, but un-fortunately he doesn`t work at the weekends as he prefers to spend it with his family, so i`m going to have to arrange a time to go in during the summer break so i can get some experience in the Taxidermy field with him.
I`m looking forward to it, but it`s going to be very strange at first; especially because it`ll be something completely new and different to me. So i`m a little bit panicky about meeting him and talking about job opportunities, but at the same time i`m pretty excited because i get to meet a real artists who runs his own business.

Just thought i would drop a quick update for you guys since this is going to be a pretty big deal for me right now since i`m quite nervvous and shy around other people, especially since i`ll need to make a good impression on this guy... Oh god help me...



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1st, July: UK melt down, we`re like pedos in nurseries...

So the rest of the world thinks that us English are going slightly insane...

So to everyone else this is normal summery weather, it`s currently 30 degrees; so we`re used to about 20- 15 degrees. So apparently us English look slightly insane right now and other countries are finding it quite funny..
I don`t blame you all.

It`s plastered all over the Internet, on news papers and all over social media... Yes; we get that this is the hottest day in nine years and that none of us can keep cold right now, but it`s going a little bit too far. Luckily i haven`t burnt at all, i`m quite pale so you`ll be able to tell when i have burnt up; that`s even if it is just a tiny bit of sunburn i get.

I`ve done literally no work at all in the past two days, it`s too hot to do anything. Even whilst i was asleep last night it as 25 degrees... That`s wayyyy to hot for England during the summer, never mind in the middle of the night.
So nothing has actually happened, we`ve been stuck in a small, enclosed, sweaty art room for the past two days and we`ve all been very close to passing out. Even as i write this, i`m sat in front of a fan and i just cannot keep cool. Apparently there are going to be some storms in the next few days too, so there will be nothing uploaded on here for a few more days... Maybe Sunday? Or something? I dunno... Hopefully soon ish as i`m spending the weekend with my boyfriend again, so there should be at lest a few things to discuss with you guys, if not; then check back in a week and see if i`m still alive ^.^


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30th, June: Where to Draw The Line?

25th, June: Where to Draw The Line?

So lately quite a bit has been occurring in sixth for that, for starts, is pissing me off and it`s seriously bugging me to such an extent that i had to write a 3 paged letter to my head of sixth form.
I won`t mention the boys name at all because of his disorder but i`m still going to tell you guys about it so you can send me your opinions like you have done in the past.

so the boy in question suffers from Autism and is 19 in September this year whilst we are all still 17, (already wrong), he`s in the same class as 6 other girls and 1 other boy.
So at the beginning of the year we where all told to be nice to him and to treat him like everyone else, which we did and nobody had a problem with it. But even on the first day people where un-comfortable with him... especially me. On the very first day of sixth form this boy took a weird interest in me and stood in my personal space, right in front of me and had his head that close to my chest that he could of had butted my boobs.

Things started to happen, he`s touched me multiple times and i have said nothing about it; I never hit him because of it and i never yelled a him for it. He has also been out to touch my boobs on multiple occasions which is disgusting on every level.
He`s been to throw items at me and has even attempted to throw a pair of scissors across the room at me. He`s been to hit me in face, and even the first time he went to hit me he said "I wish i culd hit you, but your a girl".
Along with these he`s also got a stare which would put anyone back in their place and loves to llook down other girls tops whilst their sat doing their own work. He stares across the room and fixes his eyes on other girls chests. God knows why he does this...

I`m not using the fact that he has Autism as an excuse.
NO.
These happenings have been going on far to long now and other things have happened to other people... at his previous school he had a violent outburst and started attacking another student with a hardback folder around the head, then he pinned a girl down to a table and she didn`t come back into school for the next 3 weeks as she was to scared of the boy.

When i first went to my head of sixth form about him staring at me and other girls in my class, all she could say was that "He doesn`t know his boundaries." Then told us "leave and go back to your break as i`m busy and might be running late now."
So that clearly didn`t work, so since I got rejected by the head of sixth form multiple times i started to document everything he has either said, done or tried to touch/look at or hit. He hits things randomly if a teacher tells him that he needs to do something, so it`s un-comfortable and makes us all anxious to be around him.

So what does everyone else think?
I am in the right place to threaten the Sixth Form with getting the police involved for sexual harassment, but due to other things he says and does i was also going to get Psychological harassment involved. It`s got to the point where he always has to have a teacher with him and he shouldn`t be left in the same room as me since i`m the only person he does this too and apparently i`m being "Singled out" because of my hair. This boy doesn`t even remember my name, he just screams OI in my face when i try to ignore him.

So yeah, things haven`t been the best lately; but that`s mainly because of this.
I`ll update you all when it gets to us moving into the new art rooms in the new sixth form block at school. Should be awkward at first because we`ll have the A levels with us but we should hopefully get used to having them with us.

This Time last year would
of been our prom! Awesome!

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18th, June: Summer Begins, and catch-up time!

The Wysteria In The Garden looks lovely. 

18th, June: Summer Begins, and catch-up time!



So in the past week or so, i was supposed to try and update a little bit more and try to catch-up... But it kind of failed and back fired so instead i`ve been doing nothing but video games and staying behind at sixth form, along with trying to get into to work on time and see my boyfriend, along with trying to bond with my nephew and seeing my dad.
So the only relaxation time i`ve really had is when i`ve been playing video games and attempting to chill out, but it`s mainly interrupted by coursework attempts aswell...

Busy, busy, busy!...



So we`ve just finished off the last project in Art so i`ve been trying to gt everything ready for the art teachers to mark and evaluate themselves. Overall, they`ve given me just an A, like dot on A right now; so the moderators still have to come in to look over the work and make sure that everything has been marked correctly and that they can take or marks away to go on record. Kind of dreading that just in case my marks get lowered because then i`ll only have a very high B, and i seriously want that A grade right now!
So for the new nit we have to do this thing called Unit 10; we have to research university`s, colleges and look at what kind of careers we want when we leave Sixth Form or University. Along with that we have to have a CV and a personal statement written up, along with an electronic portfolio that apparently has to be done on Tumblr... Ummmm, no; just gonna use my Art blog for that thanks.

So i`ve been pretty tired lately, I`m just finding it harder to sleep more than ever and it`s bugging me a little now... I`m going to bed at 11pm and getting up about 4 or 5am and it`s killing me. So i`m struggling to get into sixth form and get work done, then go to work at the weekend , then spend time with people and attempt to have a social life. So right now i`m about dying...
I`m also having problems with a boy in our sixth form called Louis, he has Autism but he`s turning violent towards me and rather perverted. He`s touched me so many times, he`s been to hit me and throw things at me that many times that i do not want to be in the same room as him anymore. Even today he called me a "bitch" and then he went to hit me in the face but surprisingly stopped himself. Should he even be left alone in a class of girls? He`s attacked numerous people, touched and perved on girls and even pinned a girl down to a desk at his previous school.
So sixth form is miserable and terrible to even turn up to at the moment, because whenever i go i`m threatened and almost punched in the face constantly... And if i even touch him in self defense then i`ll be kicked out of the Sixth Form because he has Autism, definitely fair!

I`m also going through a bit of a hiccup with David; as you may know we`ve been together for almost 10 months now. Something just doesn`t seem right, i don`t know if it`s because i`m so tired and worn out now or if it`s just me being all funny; i know it`s definitely me that`s making things feel a bit odd.
It might just be because i`m stressed out right now, i haven`t been talking to him that much lately and i haven`t been to honest with what`s going on. If anything i`m worried about him, so i`m just going to help him get happier and help him out with his family problems before we focus on us. ^.^

Also we`ll be moving over into the new Art rooms over in S Block; it`s the block that was used for science before we had the new major building put in. So the whole of Sixth form is being moved over into there; Art students have been Guaranteed the two rooms upstairs and all of the storage space up there.
But a lot of the Staff at the Sixth form want us to be wearing Uniform now... Are they that smart? Nobody wants to go to a Sixth Form that forces students to wear a crappy looking black polo shirt (It`s what they want s to wear), they don`t look smart, if anything we`ll look worse. I have no idea as to what is going through their minds; especially trying to make Art Students wear Uniform, do they know how quickly they`ll get ruined.

Apart from all of that... Literally nothing else is going on right now. I`m just very bored and very tired right now; I got no days off anymore and i`m up at 5am every morning just so i can get to places on time without getting into trouble.
Quite stressful and quite busy, but i should be alright soon!

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10th, June; Alexander Mcqueen Fashion Show and The National History Museum.

10th, June; Alexander Mcqueen Fashion Show and The National History Museum.

So We actually went to London... Like a few weeks ago now, but i`ve been pretty busy just recently so i haven`t quite had time to upload anything on my three blogs. So in the next few days there might be a random surge in uploads all of a sudden... sorry!


I`m not actually that into fashion, but seeing as this is bloody Alexander Mcqueen; i felt almost honored to get into the Exhibition for £3 per person! The tickets are actually quite expensive, but we managed to get in for this much due to an Art teacher having connections with with people in London. So it was definitely worth going down there for the day.
So it took us almost five hours to get down there, again. Then it turned out was our Bus drivers first day on the Job, so when we got near the V&A (Victoria and Albert) we got kind of lost because most of the roads where closed on that day. We Where also a bit late, but we where aloud straight o through into the Exhibition which was awesome!

No pictures where aloud to be taken in the Exhibition and i even got shouted at for having my Backpack on my back... I thought it was called a Back pack for a reason, but yeah, strange. Also, there where security guards on every single door and every single corner watching your every single move as we walked around, so i couldn`t even take any sneaky pics whilst in there... damnnn.

So Some of the areas that you`ll see in the first video will be different to what i saw because it was in a different Museum/Gallery. But it was seriously amazing and i felt like crying in one of the rooms... It`s so sad to think that this amazing man committed suicide due to the depression he felt after his mum died, so much talent just gone due to such a thing; it`s such a terrible thing to even comprehend!
But it as amazing, but obviously i don`t have any pictures that i took myself, so hopefully these two videos that i came across on youtube can show you a bit more about the show. If you want to look it up yourself, then the full exhibition name is; Alexander Mcqueen, Savage beauty.

But the exhibition really was great and i would love to go to it again, or at least another exhibition like the Alexander Mcqueen one. It wasn`t all girly dresses and things that would normally see... It played creepy and disturbing music as you walked around it and the dresses where stunningly disgusting at some points.. One was made of pony skin, alligator heads, real feathers, real bird wings and dead stuff like that. then some where elegant with pearls, gold, diamonds and just looked plain awesome!




The National History Museum was just across Exhibition road aswell, so for me because i`m lazy... Nice and easy!
But i hardly got any pictures of the place because it was so busy, i mainly got blurs of people walking in front of dinosaurs or gems that where on display. so i grabbed some off of the internet to show you guys what it`s actually like in there when it`s just a littleeee bit calmer than when we went.
So we got to walk around the whole place which was better than just being cut off after an hour or so; the Earth`s natural treasures bit had to b the best... There where just gems and shiny things everywhere, so sparkley :3
I really wish it wasn`t as busy though so i could of at last attempted to take some really cool photos, but it was impossible for me to even pull out my phone because i`m small and i was being crushed by a lot of people. But yeah, the day was awesome; i wish i could tell you guys some more but it was just mainly walking around and looking at pretty, dead, huge and terrifying animals.

Hopefully we get to go down to London again soon, if we don`t then i think i`m gonna get a little bit bored down in Art doing the same old thing day in, day out again.
I`m sorry that this one was only a short update, i`m just very tired and worn out right now... ehhh.



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