Israel Holidays

Hey everyone! It has been a long time. Sorry, I know. I am a bad person who makes false promises. Anyway, today I am going to tell you about my trip to Israel! Which was awesome by the way. We went to my cousins wedding.

Day 1 and 2-
We spent the first day travelling up country (because everywhere from where I live is up country. Hint for any stalkers out there as to where I live), and stayed with some old friends for the night. It was pretty uneventful except for seeing some old friends which was night. The next morning we go to the airport where we have to go through security which was a stranger than normal experience. The security women person asked as really random weird questions to prove that we were in fact a regular family and not a terrorist or something. (which I am not, by the way in case you hadn't figured that out from reading my blog). After all that we go on our flight where there is a huge thunderstorm so I was pretty convinced that the plane was going to be struck by lightning or something and crash into the med. We then arrive and I get too see my aunt and uncle for the first time in nearly ten years which was nice. The only issue was when I realised that there was going to be ten of us squished into a very small apartment. This means there was my aunt and uncle (from Colombia) in one room, my other aunt and uncle (from Israel. Parents of the cousin who is getting married) in a small spare room and my parents in my cousins room (my cousin Laura, who is the sister of the one getting married, Juan). This left me, my brother, Laura and Juan all in the living room for the next week. So yeah it was a bit cramped.

Day 3-
Nothing much happened on this day except my cousin Laura coming home from the army base. Everyone at a certain age in Israel have to join the army for two years if the are a citizen. I also went on a supermarket trip with my aunt which was quite challenging when the writing is not only in another language but the letters are different too. I mean I thought it was hard to distinguish between the different types of herbs but trying to find the sour cream was an impossible task. Not to mention everything is also kosher which made things complicated. That night I also realised how much similar the rest of my Colombian family is to my mother and me too. They are all crazy. No. We are all crazy. We all grabbed silly hats which were for the wedding and played music and started singing random songs till the late hours of the morning when the neighbours came over to complain. Whoops.

Day 4 and 5-
For those of you who don't know, from Friday to Saturday night, it is shabbat in Israel which means almost everything is closed and everyone tends to stay at home and follow some religious tradition which I think involves using no power. So we had all decided to leave my aunt and uncle at the apartment and drive down with the rest of my relatives to the Dead Sea. It only took two hours to cross the country and I even saw a camel on the way down. Soon we reached signs of the different depths, watching the number go lower and lower until we reached the negatives and beyond. By the time we got to the bottom of what looked like Mars, it was already getting dark but that didn't stop us from quickly changing and running to the salty ocean which stung like hell in particular areas if you know what I mean. It was one of the strangest experiences of my fairly short life so far as the water forces your body to float. Basically you would have to be pretty stupid to drown. After that and spending some time in the spa in the hotel, where we would be staying the night, and went to get ready for dinner. Dinner was a big buffet of interesting and mysterious food. I couldn't tell you what I ate because I don't have a clue but it was all very good. Not long after, my cousin Laura went to bed early in the room we were sharing because she was getting a cold. And of course, me being me, I ended up getting allergies and sneezing along with her all night. We stayed up all night watching weird and random shows where everyone ends up getting brutally murdered no matter what show we were watching. The next day we hung out, sunbathed, swam and then headed back to my uncles apartment after a stop in Jerusalem where we waited an hour for Shabbat to finish so that the restaurants open and we could get dinner.

Day 6-
The day of the wedding was a little crazy. We went to go and help set up and I had to climb nearly ten feet up a tree to put up balloons. Then we went back, got ready and before I knew it the wedding had started. I quickly discovered that the ceremony wouldn't start for another two hours so the only solution was to drink in the meantime. I met my cousins friends who were all a little bit older than me and from different countries so there was a bit of a language barrier problem. But that was quickly solved with more alcohol! The rest of the night we danced and drank and had an amazing time with my family. I was honestly sad to leave at 2am, still ready for the party to continue. Therefore, I suggested we go the beach near the apartment. So me, my cousin Laura and two other guys all go to the beach at nearly 3am where I attempt to sober up a bit. After we returned to the apartment the night was sadly over.

Day 7 and 8-
Unfortunately, the day after the wedding we had to go home. So whilst mum was nursing her hangover, we all quickly packed and said goodbye to out family. We flew back over to the UK and went back to the friend's house, where we stayed before. Then the next day was the long drive down to where I live.

So there is what happened on my short holiday to Israel. I should hopefully be posting about the other drama going on right now soon but not making promises this time!

-Random Girl xx

Adapting

So here is a little update on my life lately. So I went to my first university open day the other day which was great. I really liked it there. I mean it was a bit stressful to walk around and have your parents hounding you to ask questions and so on but it was still good. Other than that, not much has been going on except trying to adapt to being in the year below, all my friends and classmates gone to move on with their lives whilst I spend time with people I had never spoken to until a year ago. Also trying to adapt to the fact that I have gone to hanging out with mostly girls to mostly boys which is different. And surprisingly comes with more drama than I was expecting. 

For example, my friend and I are retaking last years economic exams and we are sitting in on a class in the year below to revise. So there is this girl called Sasha who is a year younger than my friend and two years younger than me. A new girl who is in our class and I thought she was nice but didn't really know her or anything. And then I end up leaving this class temporarily because they were studying a part that I found easy. But apparently in my absence this girl steals my seat next to my friend and basically becomes obsessed with him. Constantly talking about him with her friends and has now even moved to sit next to him when he goes to breakfast in the morning. 

But now she gives me evil glares all the time. What the heck did I do? Seriously, if anyone has any suggestions then that would be great because I am clueless. This girl hates me now and I have only ever spoken to her once. So what if I am friends with the boy she likes? I was friends with him longer than she has even been to the school and I am not going to stop hanging out with one of the few good friends I have at this school just to please a stalker. 

Then today, I have to go back to this class just for today to take a test. And I get there before her and take back my old seat  (where I sit for my A2 Economics and sometimes my business studies class too, by the way) and am already laughing and chatting with my friend when she walks in. She is halfway to my seat when she realises I am sat in my old spot and she goes from smiling to glaring at me pretty quickly. So she turns around and goes back to her old seat and sends me evil looks throughout the lesson as I ignore her and take my test. Then me and my friend both finish very early and have to sit around for half an hour and end up secretly talking and making words on the calculator, causing her to glare at me even more. So by the time we were allowed to leave I was kind of relieved. I have to go back to that class regularly soon which is going to suck.

Other than that not much is going on. I have been writing a bit lately so feel free to check out my other blog or my Wattpad books.

So anyone else ever have this problem? 

-Random Girl x

New Blog!

Hey guys! So big news! I have made another blog just for my fiction stories for those of you without Wattpad! Hopefully it will be updated more often than this one because instead of waiting around for interesting things to happen in my life to write about, I can make it up whenever I want. So please check it out by clicking on the link.

Love you all!

-Random Girl xx

Starting School with a Bang!

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in a little while but for once I have a pretty legit reason which is what the post is about.

So as most of you know, I just started my last ever year of school (for real this time) and going back was pretty much the same as every year except that I was hanging out with my friends in the year below me (now my year) and a lot of people that I went to school with in the past 5 years were no longer walking down the halls. It was fine though. Not as hard as I was expecting to go to school whilst a lot of my friends are off at uni. I mean, of course I am a little jealous that they get to go and start off their lives now but I know mine will start soon. Only a 8 months to go!

Anyway, as I was saying I have been hanging out with different people to usual but are fast becoming good friends of mine. Now don't be thinking that my excuse for not posting is cause I started school, cause it's not. That would be a pretty poor reason. No the reason I haven't posted is because I haven't really been able to write because I got injured in a car accident on Monday.

Now, before you freak out (if you care at all), no one was hurt. Well except for spraining my right wrist and possibly a broken finger or two. So what happened? It was a pretty usual day, and me and two of my newer guy friends were going out for lunch. Of course I would say yes because I didn't exactly have a huge supply of friends this year. So I get into my friend Ben's car and we are all leaving school. Now a thing you need to know about my school is that it is on top of a big hill, and the entrance is a very twisty road that otherwise resembles a snake. Which is also why we refer to it as "The Snake". So as usual in England, it had been raining all day and the roads were a little bit slippery. As we turn around the bend, the car skids and instead of going forward down the road after the turn, it slips sideways down a grassy hill. When I say hill, it is more like a 10ft vertical drop. Did I also mention that we flipped over and the car landed on it's side.

So yeah, not just a little bump against a wall. You probably thought we were screaming or thinking that we were going to die, but it wasn't anything like that for any of us. It was more like, oh god how much trouble are we in? Because the accident was still on school grounds so I was more worried about the aftermath than dying. Also, in case you were wondering, I didn't notice any pain in my hand at this point. Once it was established that the three of us were fine, we all burst out laughing, not really understanding how the hell the accident happened. And to make things worse, Ben was more worried about going through the process of when you normally turn off you car and putting on the hand break. Yeah Ben, it is a little late for that. Meanwhile, our other friend Richard who was sat on the front passenger seat, in front of me, was acting like this was completely normal and that we were meant to be randomly sitting in a car that was on it's side.

Apparently a teacher saw the whole thing and she went to get help, because our friend Tash who was driving behind us when it happened, didn't bother to get help for us and went straight home, only to text hours later asking if we were okay. We couldn't move for a while cause if we attempted to get out, the car would roll over again. So we waiting for the school maintenance guys to hold up the car as the boys climbed out of the driver's window whilst I waited for them to open the boot, so I could climb out of it from the back seat. Then some lady who none of us recognised who worked for the school made us go into her car and drive us up to the main office to wait. We didn't really understand why. As far as I knew we were all fine. I just figured that the maintenance guys could help flip the car back over and that Ben could drive home (as he had a free period that afternoon) as Richard and I go to our economics lesson. But instead we get told by some person that the police, the fire brigade and the ambulance were on its way. And then it kind of hit me again. Oh god what what have we done? I was now also worried because even though we were allowed to leave school for lunch. we have to get permission from parents to get in someones car and to sign out. And none of us had done any of those things. It kind of shows how stupid the school can be if I was more worried about me getting into trouble than I was about myself after being in a pretty serious accident.

The police and the fireman arrive to look at the car and talk to Ben (and breathalise him even though he had been at school all day.) and all that stuff, and an officer took me and Richard into a room to question us about what happened. It is really bad that I was more worried about trying not to laugh than anything he was saying? He asked us if we needed to get checkout out by the ambulance but we said we were all fine.

Not much happened after that. All our friends, and basically the whole school, found out about what had happened and Ben had become some sort of legend for falling off "The Snake". I called my mum before the school did so she wouldn't freak out and we basically spent the afternoon hungry for missing lunch and telling everyone what happened. It wasn't until class when my teacher made me write loads that I realised how much pain my hand was in. So I went to the school nurse who basically ordered me to go to the hospital after school. Mum took me and it was pretty uneventful. As I said earlier it was just a sprained wrist and a possibly broken finger which is taped up right now. So a broken pinky being the only injure between the three of us was pretty lucky. It could have been a whole lot worse.

But what really got to me was what has happened in the last three days. Two typed os emails were sent out. One to the parents of every student, explaining what had happened, and another to every staff member apparently saying the same thing except it had our names in it. And a lot of staff members were more concerned about telling us off for not signing out than for our wellbeing. Then yesterday I hear that the operations manager tells off Ben and saying that there is nothing dangerous about the road and it is just his inexperience as a driver. Can I please mention that the snake is almost only used by students making them all 'inexperienced' at driving? So if that was the reason of the accident then surely they need to improve the safety of the road to stop this from happening again. Yes Ben is a new driver but so is the other 40 or so who drive up and down it at least twice a day in all weather conditions.

So now I am pretty mad. I want to stop this from happening again, because yeah we are all fine but we could have been seriously injured or killed. And someone else could have too. The school managed to keep the whole thing from getting out to the public and basically pretend that nothing happened except for when they want to yell at us for breaking a stupid rule that wouldn't have prevented anything from happening. We would have just got permission and signed out and gone out anyway. And we still would have got in that car accident. I am not saying the school is entirely to blame. But neither is Ben. So they are putting all the blame on him and keeping their hands clean and not doing anything.

Is this just my school? Do all schools care only about their reputations and not care about things like this that could potentially be dangerous for someone else? Despite the fact that many people have said it almost happened to them a few times. they won't do anything. Or maybe they can't be bothered. And even if they don't change anything, that is okay. But stop blaming the students for everything when it isn't entirely their fault.

This post is kind of long but at least I am making it up to you for the lack of posts recently. Please let me know what you think.

-Random Girl xx

Back to School

Hey! Twice in one week, shocking I know. But I finally got my new laptop which makes it that more possible to post again. So as you can tell by the title the topic of today's post is the most popular of any teenager, school. Tomorrow school starts again. But this isn't any first day of school. No, it is my last ever first day of school! I hope. It was meant to be last year but I am determined to finish this year. Anyway, to mark the occasion I am making a list of my top five things I hate and love about school.

Things I love about school-

1) Everyone's favourite probably, is seeing your friends. Because when we are finished, when will we ever get the chance to see your friends five out of seven days a week ever again?

2) Getting out of the house. Because let's face it. If I didn't have school everyday I would probably spend my days glued to my laptop on my bed whilst watching TV. Oh wait I am doing that now! But not for long.

3) Learning. Sometimes learning can actually be fun and interesting. I mean sure there are things like maths which sucks (not that have maths lessons anymore) but there are interesting topics about history or geography. About things that are going on in the world. Or even finding out something basic that you never knew before.

4) The gym and pool. Our school has a new building which is actually pretty cool and the facilities are great. Plus you know, you get access for free!

5) Access to town. My school is like a three minute walk to the hughstreet which is highly convenient for well.. pretty much everything.


Things I hate about school-

1) Assembly and Chapel has to be the worst. Because why do I want to spend hours in my week sitting around listening (or pretending to) to teachers yapping on about a bunch of crap.

2) Homework. No need to explain that one.

3) Exams suck. I mean we spend about fourteen (well only eight for me) in school and it all comes down to a couple of exams which determines whether or not your life is going to rock or suck.

4) sitting in long classes when they are boring as hell.

5) One thing you can always count on is sucky food. I mean, really? Most the time I skip lunch anyway.


So there you have my lists of what we have to expect this school year. Good luck to all of you!

-Random Girl xx

I am still alive!

Hey there guys! I am really sorry for neglecting my blog. I have had a lot of family drama and I have been moving around a lot. Also my laptop died on me which made my life harder. Good news though is that I just ordered a new laptop to arrive on Wednesday! Yay! I am so excited because it has taken me months to convince my dad to pay for half of it. Yeah now I am broke which means I have to go back to work :( and I really don't want to because since my surgery loads if knew people started working there and a lot of my friends left so I will be the awkward new person who isn't actually knew. That is if they even let me go back seeing as I haven't worked in over a year. Stupid leg. So no interesting drama has happened since like April which I have promised to tell you about one day and I will get there. My only real drama is stuff with my family which is kind of boring and then school drama. 

Speaking of which that is my other news. For anyone reading this who also read my early posts, you would know that last year I failed my exams. Well this year I passed them all! Yay! I officially have an A level in Geography and all I need is to finish Business which will be easy and then Economics which may just take a miracle. So that means I have a very light load of work this year and lots of free periods where I will hopefully be able to do some writing and blogging with my new laptop :) 

For all you UK readers, I hope your results went well! If for some reason they sucked and you want someone who doesn't actually know you but has been through the experience then feel free to comment or email me. (I think my email is around here somewhere.) 

Now I am off to go and get drunk with my best friends because I have had stressful day and I need to relax.

- Random Girl xx

P.S here is my new profile pic thing :)

Six Month Blog Anniversary (Or Half Birthday?)

Hey Everyone! Today is the six month anniversary of my blog! Yes that's right. I have had a blog for half a freaking year! In the past six months a lot has happened. Here is a list recapping everything.

1. I got a blog

2. I went from crutches to walking

3. I went to Disneyland

4. Got involved in tons of untrue rumors

5. Legally became an adult

6. Passed my mock exams

7. Got a car

8, Learnt how to drive

9. Hooked up with a guy which came with some drama

10. Finished my exams

So there it is. My top ten moments over the last six months. Hope you have enjoyed it!

- Random Girl xx