Yes, I was being sarcastic. It has most definitely snowed and college is closed. I woke up at 6 this morning and looked outside just to check, and the first thing that crossed my mind is "We are so not going to college today."
It's because Henley's students come from pretty much everywhere, with journeys ranging from five minutes to two hours to get to college. (I only live half an hour away by car, but it's a very hilly area and it's dangerous in the snow, which is why Henley closes immediately in extreme weather conditions like these. It's also because the college is on two sites, so the more creative subjects like media and art and also the boring ones like maths and computing are up the massive hill, whereas the others, like English, history, IT, French, psychology, drama, music, and everything else really are all at the bottom. I'm not joking, this hill is HUGE. It takes ten minutes to walk up in good weather, so if it's raining/slippery we have to be really careful. I swear, since I started college, I've fallen over at least five times in the space of two months (funnily enough, I stopped wearing those boots after that). But yeah. So when I turned on the radio this morning to see about school closures (very quietly, because my family were all asleep, the lazy bums), I smiled to myself when I heard the presenter say "We've only had one school closure so far; Henley College."
Then again, it was quarter past six in the morning. We all leave by half seven at the latest though (quarter past in my case) so we have to be notified quite early incase of closures.
My brother's school was closed as well in the end, so it was all good. But then I don't know if there's a school in the whole of the UK open today.
Obviously there is some truth to this global warming lark; this is the third heavy snowfall we've had this year, if we count the fact that there were two in February in the same week. That's quite a dramatic change, considering we've gone for years with no snow in the past. It's supposed to snow again on Tuesday as well - a white Christmas?
I remember when it snowed back in February and people I know in Norway thought it was incredibly unfair that our schools were closed at -2C and theirs were still open at -15, but it's because the UK is so unprepared for snow that when it comes, everything pretty much shuts down. It's crazy.
There's this girl I know who really pisses me off. She's so depressed all the time, and always complaining, and obviously that's fair enough sometimes because everybody does it, especially me, (and Becky) but all the time! It makes me feel like saying to her "Get a grip, we all have problems, not just you!" Ugh! I know I sound like a total hypocrite because I complain a lot as well but I don't think even I'm quite that bad.
I'm looking through all 332 pictures of me on Facebook and laughing at myself. God some of them are incredibly embarrassing. Especially the ones from when I was with Cora in summer and we were at Legoland with Heidi... the face I make when I'm laughing my head off isn't very attractive and Cora put them on Facebook anyway, the boring poo. Aww, but looking at the pics of that week just make me miss her and all the amazingness of staying with her and I can see in my eyes how happy I was then. I can't wait until March/July when I can finally see her again... you try having your closest friend living a thousand miles away. It's not easy, I can tell you, and I don't mean to sound like a stamp collector but Cora and I are pretty much the personification of cheese within our friendship. Seriously. Metaphorical cheese, that is; real cheese is disgusting.
Ra ra, ah ah ah, roma, ro ma ma, GaGa ooh la la, want your bad romance... Lady GaGa used to annoy me but she has seriously grown on me. Her songs are too catchy to hate, I've discovered, so it's easier to just give in.
Now I'm off to the cinema, so I will see you guys later. Have fun!
Molly x
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Back, I am! To quote Yoda.
Nativity is such a great film! I know it sounds pretty childish in its description but it's awesome. It's such a good feel good film and so Christmassy. I really recommend it!
Well, it was a fairly eventful day. With tiny little events that really mean nothing to you, but who cares? I'm going to tell you anyway. That's is what this blog is for, is it not?
I met up with Becky and Charlotte to watch the movie, but yesterday my mum and Freddie decided that they wanted to come too (yeah I know; super cool, going to the cinema with your mum, your brother, and your friends) so the plan was that my mum would drive into Reading earlier and I'd get the bus with Freddie later. However, because of the snow, and because I live so far in the middle of nowhere, nobody bothered to grit the roads up here so I thought the bus wasn't running because I sat at the window for twenty five minutes waiting to see the one before go past so I'd know it was working. It was, according to the website, but it was really late, so I thought it wasn't as I didn't see it. So I persuaded my dad to take Freddie and I to the station instead, and my mum got really angry with me because I 'cocked it up again' and didn't get the bus (even though I was positive they weren't working and to be honest, I could see why. It's so slippery on the roads here at the moment... thank God I'm not having driving lessons right now or I just might chicken out).
So then I met up with Becky and Charlotte and they gave me my Christmas presents (a Hello Kitty photo frame and shiz from Charlotte, very cute; and a little Accessorize Russian doll necklace, which I'm wearing now, and a small packet of Lindors from Becky. Yummmm.) and then we found my mum and Freds, coincidentally, in McDonalds, which was great because I got them to buy me food. Though I had just bought their tickets for the movie, although the money with which I bought them was technically my dad's... but shattap. You know what I mean.
As we were going into the cinema, Charlotte spotted a poster for St Trinian's 2 and shouted "Look! David Tennant!"
Becky and I immediately looked up and yelled "Where?!" whilst turning round in circles. Oh, we got some funny looks, but it's David Tennant, for God's sake! If there's even the slightest hint that he's around somewhere, one must take extra care to spot him. Innit.
We bumped into Alicia and her friends Ruby, Lora and Catherine on the way out of the cinema. They were going to see St Trinian's 2, so naturally a discussion about the hotness of David Tennant ensued... I mean - yum. Seriously. Who cares if he's thirty seven/eight?
I banged my leg against something sharp on the way to the carpark and now I've got a massive bruise there. Ouch. Although it's not as bad as my mum, who somehow managed to fall up an escalator and really hurt her knee, and had to drive all the way home from Reading impossibly slowly because not only could she not move her leg, but it was also incredibly icy and very dark, especially on the roads near our house. Not good. She was literally driving at a snail's pace, and we still skidded... it was really quite scary actually. Still, we appear to have survived, so it's all good.
One week until Christmas! We're getting our Christmas tree this weekend apparently (although this is the third week in a row my parents have said that so I'm not getting my hopes up too high. We have been known to put our tree up on Christmas eve before - though that was my mum, not me. I'd have it up much earlier, but not as early as Zoe - first of December every year is a little crazy, methinks.
Ugh I got home and found my computer locked; it needed a password to get into it and my dad was like "I think you'll be locked out of that for life now" and I was like NOOOOOOOOO! I can't be! That would mean losing everything, and that would be so undescribably horrible. Imagine having your entire life on your laptop and suddenly being locked out and losing everything, and that means college work as well as personal things - it's totally destroying for the soul! Luckily, when my dad came to look at it, he found a way of unlocking it and I'm now safely installed back in front of my darling laptop, tapping away as usual.
(Random bugbear: Don'ttt yooouu hatee peopleee whoo writee likee thisss?
It's SO annoying. Seriously, people, if you're going to bother writing the whole word and not using contractions, why add god knows how many extra letters to the end of the word? It's not time saving and it doesn't add anything; it just makes you look stupid. Obviously it's acceptable once in a while to emphasize a word, or as an accent stylisation, for example "Hiiiiii!", but otherwise it's unnecessary. Ugh!
Sorry about that. It just gets on my nerves - funny how the annoying people at college are the ones who write like that in their Facebook posts.)
It seems I've finally come down off my high from the concert and I feel quite normal again, so not particularly hyper anymore. I'm not sure when that happened - possibly our scary drive home earlier? I'm cold now though... maybe I'll go fill up the hot water bottle Hollie gave me.
Love you, bye!
Molly x
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