A morning of reflection

Hello all.

For some reason I spent this morning feeling a little reminiscent. So much so that I wound up making some collages that I will now share with you. If, by any chance, you actually happen to follow my little blog (I thank you greatly), I thought you might like to get a little picture of my life from before I entered the world of blogging.
The pictures have a range of 1997 right up to 2013, although I am lacking quite a few years as both my PC and my external hard drive died a while back and I lost most of my pictures, I am slowly rebuilding the catalogue from Facebook though - thank god I have such a tendency to upload pictures from trips!
Anyway, here's the collage named "Then & Now"



























In the first picture I'm sitting with my cousin, I lived with my aunt for a while after my mothers death so my dad could work without having to fork out for child are, and to give him a chance to grieve without me being a pain, I kid, I was actually very good as a baby, Dad says I barely cried, just sat quietly and as a toddler I never threw tantrums, just looked at books or played on my own, maybe being an only child I just didn't develop that arguing streak haha!

The second picture is my nursery picture, taken when I was 3 (everyone in my psychology class estimated my age to be 9...either they were VERY baby faced at 9, or I was very mature at 3....) after a trip to Disneyland Florida - I'm wearing a mickey mouse top. :)

The 3rd picture was taken at the end of year 2, aged 7, before making our way to year 3, in the scariest part of the school - JUNIOR SCHOOL!! (at this point, my primary school was a JMI school, we later changed to a primary.)

And finally the 4th picture, taken in my friends garden just before going to our year 11 prom, it was an end of an era, and a very enjoyable evening.




I said my primary school used to be a JMI (Junior mixed Infants), well here are some pictures from the day we changed to primary. A few months earlier us pupils had taken a vote on whether we should be called community or primary, it was fairly unanimous that we should be primary.

On the day everyone had either a green or yellow balloon (school colours), the head teacher called stansted airport to tell them there'd be quite a few balloons in the flight path that day, and we let them go in the ceremony. Then the 2 oldest and youngest pupils (unfortunately i was in year 5 so a year too young for this honour) cut the ribbon to declare us officially open. Then we all received bookmarks and had cake.


This next picture is a combination from my years at secondary school:

In the first picture I have a pair of penguin feet sticking out of my blouse while in RM (resistant materials), my friend found it so amusing that a picture had to be taken - just look at my enthusiasm!
The second picture is a whole group photo from the last day of year 9, how we've shrunk since then!
Then we have my friend, surrounded by books, on a day of maths a geography revision.
And finally, all dressed up for the year 11 prom. :)


This collaboration is from a variety of school trips, the first is me with my best buddy on arrival at mount Vesuvius in Italy in year 9, next we have the rewards trip in year 10 - a trip to the Doctor Who experience in Olympia, London. The next two are from year 12, the first to New York in February and the following to Birmingham for Geography in Novemeber.

And now for the final collaboration, a selection of my favourite moments.

We have a trip to Center Parcs with my (ex) boyfriend in 2011, it was lovely to have a family holiday, without my own family haha! Don't get me wrong, I love my family, but our holidays have only once in 17 years been an actual holiday, rather than work.

Then we have the olympics, for which we scored tickets to (and the paralympics), followed by seeing Michael Mcintyre live, although I had a very painful neck at the time, so had to sit on the end of the row and lean out sideways to see him!

Then we have my 17th birthday at the Natural History museum with 2 of my friends and my new (ex) boyfriend, I do love dinosaurs y'see...
And finally, two of my buddies on the weekend camp nearly three weeks ago, it was a brilliant weekend. No doubt i'll have a lot more happy camping memories when I get back from the summer camp to Lochearnhead in Scotland. :)



I said I liked to read, well, here's the proof - I was an early reader, apparently!

Or maybe I just wondered what was on TV

Strangely enough, I still have this book lying around somewhere!

Well, that's all for now, I broke up from school for the summer today and I'm going to make the most of it by getting on with my holiday work outside before I go to Scotland, knowing my luck, it'll snow while I'm there haha!

Alons-y!

Time goes by, so...quickly?

Hello all, (If you've redirected here from my old blog - welcome!)

Today, I somehow managed to come across the blog I started to write in 2010 (it was quite short lived, hopefully this attempt will be a little better). Some of the posts were really cringey, but they also gave me a chance to reflect on everything that's happened since then, and it was strangely rewarding.
I like to think i've grown up a lot from that sometimes moody, often immature, utterly impossible to maintain a civil conversation with 15 year old I was back then (funny, I seem to remember saying a similar thing back then about my 13 year old self...).

Now that I have a clear path ahead of me (well, besides the obstacles such as exams, making the grade, decisions about universities..), i'm a lot more focussed, and, as such, much more aware of what I need to do to get where I want to go!

This is turning into a bit of a life coaching post.....

Anyway, just in case anyone is wondering how my day went:
I woke up, as usual, at 6:10am, had breakfast, got dressed, got ready for school etc.
Got to the bus stop at 7:20 and arrived at school around 8am.
Here, i spent 40 minutes researching universities and doing a bit of biology revision.
Form time was the usual - register, notices...
9am marked first lesson, geography for me, this consisted of planning an answer to an exam question.
10am - second lesson, free period, I spent this doing biology revision and teaching my friend standard deviation.
11am - Break time!
11:20am - biology - We're in the middle of an ISA and were drawing our graphs today.
12:20pm - history - filling in a table about various US presidents.
1:20pm - Lunch
2:00pm - Form time - notices, chilling
2:25pm - Free period - I spent this doing the geography homework i'd been set 1st lesson.

at 3:25 I took a slow walk to the bus stop, finally arriving home at 4:30, where I almost walked straight into the plumber (our boilers packed up and we've had no hot water since friday!)

This evening i've done some more biology revision (i'm pretty determined to do well in this ISA, in case you hadn't guessed).

Now i'm typing this post - obviously.

Well, that's my day, pretty boring when you look at it like that, but it was actually quite enjoyable.

Hopefully, it won't be long before I look less like this:

Revising, summer 2012

 Although, i'd much rather be revising outside in the sun, than inside listening to the rain as I am now!

And more like this:

Oh, just in case any of you want to see my original blog with all those cringey posts, here it is: http://jodzter-life.blogspot.co.uk/
And with that, I shall depart.

Alons-y! x