8.00am - Woke up
As usual, my brothers, my sister and I dive into my parents room to wake them up and make them let us go downstairs so we can see if Father Christmas (lol) has brought us anything... And obviously he always has because we are such good little children, and here I am not speaking for my annoying brothers, just for me and my wonderful big sister whom I love because she is fabulous and lets me borrow her make-up, hair products and clothes. My mum and dad make us croissants with butter and jam and hot chocolate, and then we rush upstairs to change into our Christmas morning outfits.
9.00am - Presents time ... yeyyy!!!
Our parents always open their presents first, because we open them in order of age, so I always open mine second to last! This year, I got my mum a beautiful pair of Christian Louboutin shoes and a black sequined bag from Accessorize, and my dad a Top Gear Challenges DVD and a cool Homer Simpson cookie jar (because he broke the one I got him last year - it was a Cyberman one) filled with luxury truffles and chocolates from Thorntons. I got my older brother a Richard Hammond autobiography and a Manchester United calender. For my younger brother, I bought a Led Zeppelin tee-shirt (he is getting into the rock/metal phase like me and my older siblings...stealing all our CDs much to the annoyance of my brother, who went beserk when he found out that Johnny had taken his favourite Led Zeppelin CD to school with him for after the October break - he had to bring it back on the exeat though as Harry threatened to murder him if he didn't!) and the Led Zeppelin CD he stole from Harry. And finally, for Grace I bought a Fall Out Boy poster (she is madly in love with Pete Wentz - can't say I see the attraction meself) and a fab set of strawberry-scented products from The Body Shop. All-in-all, I was proud of the things I bought, as once again I managed to get things which, with the exception of the Led Zeppelin tee-shirt and the Fall Out Boy poster and the Manchester United calender, I can also use!!
11.00am - Staring lovingly at the face of Ian Watkins
I am completely in love with the poster my wonderful, adorable, fantasic, brilliant, lovely, kind, amazing sister has bought me! A Lostprophets poster, which means Ian Watkins is on it, and I love Ian Watkins. Not as much as my future husband Nicholas Hoult, may I add, but a lot at any rate. Speaking of Nicholas Hoult, I got the Skins box set from my parents too. Plus loaaaads of other amazing presents! I am currently listening to the Led Zeppelin CD, which my brother worships me for buying, Harry I mean, not Johnny...who loves it even so. Harry worships me because now Johnny won't steal his CD!
3.00pm - In the car
I am on the way to my Auntie Rose's house. She lives just outside Oxford, and my family are spending Christmas there this year. We alternate each year. I love going to Auntie Rose's house, which is a huge old farmhouse surrounded by land and she has a huge stables with loads of horses. I am wearing a white knee-length vintage dress with black tights and black ballet pumps. I love the dress and I've had it for over a year now, I got it from a fab little shop in London, and it's beautiful! We are all singing along to madly cheesy Christmas songs, which we always play in the car ride to whoever's house we are going to for Christmas. It's cheesy, but looooaaaaadddddsssssss of fun!!
7.15pm - Foooooddddd....
Turkey has to be one of the best meals ever! I'm stuffed now! Me and my underage siblings and cousins have polished off four large chocolate gateaux between us (well, there are 16 of us, so we've had a quarter of a gateau each), and the of age siblings, cousins and other adults have polished of numerous amounts of sherry trifle. We have all had a glass of champagne, as is tradition, but for us underage lot, that is the limit to our alcohol consumption today :( lol. We move to the lounge for a selection of cheesy games that one can get away with playing on family get-togethers!
12.00am - Tucked up
We got back about 15mins ago, and I collapsed in bed as soon as I'd finished taking off my make-up, clothes, washing my face and brushing my teeth. I'm about a whisker from sleep, but Christmas day is over now... boo hoo :(
Saturday, 19 January 2008
Saturday 24th November
8.00am - Snuggled up in bed with Bob the Bear
I'm all nice and comfy cosy now, wrapped up in my pale blue quilt with white flowers. Bob the Bear, my snuggly teddy bear is in my hand. Amelie is cuddling Fred the Ted, her bear, and Georgie will need to have her hand amputated if she is to be parted with Henry Horse! Housie comes knocking on our door, making sure we are awake as the bell has just gone. We all get up, wash ourselves and dress in our school clothes. We have prep to do all Saturday morning, and then the rest of the weekend is ours to do as we please. Except for one hour on Sundays when we have to go to the church and pray.
12.34pm - Sat on the lawns eating a cheese and ham toastie
It's absolutely freeezing cold and Jaz and co. have decided they'll drag me outside on the lawns at the front of our school to eat the lunch we got from the dining hall three minutes ago. Prep starts at 9.00am sharp and finishes at 12.00pm sharp. If we're not there on time, as soon as the final bell goes (we get a warning bell five minutes before 9.00 and then a final bell at 9.00), we get a Prep Detention, which means we have to stay in all Saturday, so no going out at night! Now we're in Year Eleven, we get to stay out until 10.00pm on Fridays and Saturdays, and 9.00 on Sundays. We're not really allowed out any other days because we have to do 2 hours of Prep, and we have to report to our 'Prep room', so if we have any extra-curricular activities after school, we'll do prep after dinner.
But anyway, back to now. I'm bundled up in my fingerless gloves (so I can eat my cheese and ham toastie without getting grease on my gloves or fluff on my toastie), a warm woolly scarf, a bobble hat which comes over my ears and my thick furry-hooded black coat. My friends are similarly wrapped up, and eating everything from soup and a roll (Georgie) to hot dogs smothered in tomato ketchup (Luce). And we're all discussing what we're going to do after lunch.
1.57pm - Riding
Jess and I have decided to do some schooling (I mean the horse-riding version!!). Jess gets her favourite horse, Cookie - a big brown mare with a white stripe, and I saddle Red and we go into the arena. I've ridden Red every Saturday afternoon since I've been here, either in the school or out hacking or doing some show-jumping. During the week, Jess and I and some of our other pony-mad friends, have had lessons from one of H's fabulous instructors. I know I'll definitely make the Senior team this year again!!!
7.00pm - Out on the town - figuratively!
Me and the girls have spent the last 20mins glamming ourselves up ready to hit the town. Holly and some of our other day girl mates have arranged to meet us by the cinema too, and so we're all looking our best as we head into town. I love my outfit: black jeans, black Converse hi-tops, white smock-top thingy cinched with a wide black belt and black bangles. And my hair is wavy and in a messy ponytail. We meet everyone and decide which film we are watching, grab loaaaads of food and drink and pile into the screen in a mad bundle of long-haired, long-limbed, shrieking girls... Fun times =p
10.00pm - Back, just
We dash inside the school gates just as the bells from the town church sing for 10pm. It's been a good night and we're all hyper from laughing so much! We're all full too, we had huge bags of sweets and popcorn which we were constantly sharing out, as well as giant drinks of Coke and slushes. We always eat waay too much at the cinema lol. We all collect in Jaz's room for the hour-and-a-half we have left until Lights Out, talking about our night and playing music on Jaz's laptop.
11.30pm - Snoozing peacefully
Me, Amelie and Georgie are talking quietly, waiting for Housie to turn out the lights. When Housie does come in, she gets us to say our prayers (the Lord's Prayer) and then turns out the lights, and shuts the door on the bright corridor.
I'm all nice and comfy cosy now, wrapped up in my pale blue quilt with white flowers. Bob the Bear, my snuggly teddy bear is in my hand. Amelie is cuddling Fred the Ted, her bear, and Georgie will need to have her hand amputated if she is to be parted with Henry Horse! Housie comes knocking on our door, making sure we are awake as the bell has just gone. We all get up, wash ourselves and dress in our school clothes. We have prep to do all Saturday morning, and then the rest of the weekend is ours to do as we please. Except for one hour on Sundays when we have to go to the church and pray.
12.34pm - Sat on the lawns eating a cheese and ham toastie
It's absolutely freeezing cold and Jaz and co. have decided they'll drag me outside on the lawns at the front of our school to eat the lunch we got from the dining hall three minutes ago. Prep starts at 9.00am sharp and finishes at 12.00pm sharp. If we're not there on time, as soon as the final bell goes (we get a warning bell five minutes before 9.00 and then a final bell at 9.00), we get a Prep Detention, which means we have to stay in all Saturday, so no going out at night! Now we're in Year Eleven, we get to stay out until 10.00pm on Fridays and Saturdays, and 9.00 on Sundays. We're not really allowed out any other days because we have to do 2 hours of Prep, and we have to report to our 'Prep room', so if we have any extra-curricular activities after school, we'll do prep after dinner.
But anyway, back to now. I'm bundled up in my fingerless gloves (so I can eat my cheese and ham toastie without getting grease on my gloves or fluff on my toastie), a warm woolly scarf, a bobble hat which comes over my ears and my thick furry-hooded black coat. My friends are similarly wrapped up, and eating everything from soup and a roll (Georgie) to hot dogs smothered in tomato ketchup (Luce). And we're all discussing what we're going to do after lunch.
1.57pm - Riding
Jess and I have decided to do some schooling (I mean the horse-riding version!!). Jess gets her favourite horse, Cookie - a big brown mare with a white stripe, and I saddle Red and we go into the arena. I've ridden Red every Saturday afternoon since I've been here, either in the school or out hacking or doing some show-jumping. During the week, Jess and I and some of our other pony-mad friends, have had lessons from one of H's fabulous instructors. I know I'll definitely make the Senior team this year again!!!
7.00pm - Out on the town - figuratively!
Me and the girls have spent the last 20mins glamming ourselves up ready to hit the town. Holly and some of our other day girl mates have arranged to meet us by the cinema too, and so we're all looking our best as we head into town. I love my outfit: black jeans, black Converse hi-tops, white smock-top thingy cinched with a wide black belt and black bangles. And my hair is wavy and in a messy ponytail. We meet everyone and decide which film we are watching, grab loaaaads of food and drink and pile into the screen in a mad bundle of long-haired, long-limbed, shrieking girls... Fun times =p
10.00pm - Back, just
We dash inside the school gates just as the bells from the town church sing for 10pm. It's been a good night and we're all hyper from laughing so much! We're all full too, we had huge bags of sweets and popcorn which we were constantly sharing out, as well as giant drinks of Coke and slushes. We always eat waay too much at the cinema lol. We all collect in Jaz's room for the hour-and-a-half we have left until Lights Out, talking about our night and playing music on Jaz's laptop.
11.30pm - Snoozing peacefully
Me, Amelie and Georgie are talking quietly, waiting for Housie to turn out the lights. When Housie does come in, she gets us to say our prayers (the Lord's Prayer) and then turns out the lights, and shuts the door on the bright corridor.
Saturday, 29 September 2007
Introduction to moi, and my school day
Hello, and welcome to my blog. My name is Anabelle de Vere, but everyone calls me Belle. I am a boarding pupil at one of the top public schools in Britain, which I will just call H or School. My best friend is called Jazmine, and we have been friends since Year Seven. So, I will begin (lol)...
7am - woke up
School bell woke me up as usual! We get two bells, one to wake us up, and another to tell us to get the hell out of our rooms because breakfast's ready! Got dressed into my uniform, which is blue: blue skirt, blue checked blouse, blue jumper. Brushed my hair and put it up. Ran downstairs as the second bell was ringing, Georgiana behind me, shoving me dangerously, and Amelie in front, nearly tripping up in her haste to get downstairs. In the dining hall, we joined the queue to get food. I had Weetabix and a cup of milk - yum. Sat with Jaz, Georgie, Amelie, Jess and Lucy.
8.00am - tidying room
We always have to tidy our rooms ready for inspection at 8.30am. Our housemistress comes round to check the dorms are tidy, and if they're not, she makes us tidy them at night instead of watching EastEnders or Corrie or some other soap. The housemistresses are nice really, unless you cross them, and then they switch to 'Psycho' mode and have a big spaz attacks lol. Georgie had a huge panic because she thought she'd lost Henry Horse, her special teddy bear, but he was under the quilt she'd hurriedly piled on her bed. We all have special teddies, mine is Bob!
9.00am - form class
They always register us, mainly to check us boarders haven't escaped in the night lol. Also, we have lots of day girls too (half the girls here are day girls). My form tutor is Miss Haydock and she registers us in Room 57. I sit with Jaz next to the window, so I can look out at the grounds. Miss H gives us some important details (hockey club starts tonight) and then lets us talk.
9.30am - English class
We have a surprisingly good English lesson, to say that we are studying Romeo and Juliet. We had to act it out, which was funny because Bethany had to be Romeo and Harriett was Juliet. Beth kicked up a huge stink, so Mrs Baker zapped her with one of her notorious 'I will kill you if you talk again' looks. That shut her up! Haha!
10.15am - Maths class
Boooorrrriiiinnnngggg - nuff said! My teacher tries and fails to get us all excited about Maths, but no-one ever falls for it! Its terrible, and atm we're learning Quadratic Equations which, to use one of Kerri's over-used phrases, takes the biscuit! They have got to be one of the hardest things ever invented by mathmeticians who thought it'd be funny to invent things that would give teachers an excuse to torture innocent young children with 3million years later!
11.00am - Break
Its kind of a tradition at H that we have toast and jam every breaktime. We all pile into the dining hall and the dinner ladies hand out slices of hot white toast, nicely golden brown and soft, dripping with butter, and slathered (if that's the right word there) in bright red strawberry jam, or dark purple blackcurrant jam, or rich pink raspberry jam. Once a week, as a treat, we get honey on our toast too. It's got to be the best tradition at H. Jaz and I took our strawberry jammed toast out onto the lawn in front of the school and sat down cross-legged to eat it. Yummmm!
1.00pm - Lunch
We have two lessons before lunch. Each of our lessons lasts for forty-five mins, and our breaks (we have two) last for a half-hour. Our lunch is an hour, and then we have another lesson, then a break, and then another lesson. The day girls can either bring their own lunch or eat with us boarders, and most of them choose the gorgeous school meals. Seriously, they are gorgeous!! You've never tasted better school food. I had beanie pizza, which sounds disgusting but is sooooo lovely, and chips with water and a banana.
4.00pm - End of the day!
The day girls go home now, unless they're using the huuuuggggeeee library or doing after school activities. Today, I dump my bag in my room, and go to the sports block to change into my PE kit: blue shorts and tee-shirt, and white trainers. I'm joining the hockey club. I know I'll make the team because for the past four years of being at H, I have done. I'm ace at hockey, I love it! I also play tennis, and I'm on the schools swimming and equestrian teams. My gorgeous chestnut horse is a show-jumper, and its my first year with a horse at H, so I'm dead pleased. Usually I borrow one of the schools horses. Luckily, Red, short for Red Sky At Night, is on full livery, so I don't have to do much, because the school provides care for him (ie: the grooms feed, muck out and exercise him unless I can do it). I meet up with Holly in the changing rooms, she's my hockey buddy. Holly's a day girl, as are many of my friends, so whenever I'm allowed out for the night from school or at weekends, I meet up with them. Boarding girls are not allowed to stay over at a day girl's house, so day girls sometimes stay the night here and we have leepovers then! Kind of...! Miss Young and Mrs Gatehead are the leaders of the hockey club, and straightaway make me and Holls help the younger students with the basic rules and ideas of the game.
5.23pm - In my dorm room
After hockey club, Holls went home, and I dashed to the stable yard, which is on the school premises, to see Red. Sarah, one of the grooms, was brushing him down. I said "hi" to her and hugged Red. She explained to me that he'd just been on the horse walker. When I got back, Georgie and Amelie were waiting for Neighbours to come on, so I went and had a shower and changed into my normal clothes. When I came out, they were lying on Georgie's bed, cooing over Boyd on Neighbours! I decided to join them.
6.00pm - Dining hall
The bell for dinner goes at 5.55pm, which is the signal that the fight for food begins. Me, Georgie and Amelie joined the queue behind some Year Sevens, who looked up at us in awe. Y7s are soo sweet, they think Y11s are majorly scary, and look up to us, and are very quick to move out of our way if they see us coming down the corridors! I sat with my usual gang for dinner. It was Funday Friday meals today, so I had baked beans on toast with lots of melted cheese. Funday Friday basically means they give us lovely unhealthy food as a treat, rather than meat and veg. I love beans, so I nearly always choose to eat those, or sometimes sausage and chips, or spaghetti bolagnaise or spaghetti carbonara!
7.00pm - Outside on the lawn
We all traipsed outside after our meal, and lay down on our coats on the front lawns, in a circle, talking about random stuff. I love it here at H, because its just like a long sleepover, unless you fight with one of your friends, and then its not nice because you don't have your mum to cry to. Jess talked about her little sister, who is in the Preparatory, or prep, school in Year Three. She has a brother who stays at home, and he's in Year Six. Prep schoolers still board here, they can board from the age of four, although that is flexi-boarding, meaning it can only be for two nights a week. When they're in Year Three, at the age of seven, they can board weekly or termly, like us Seniors. It seems quite harsh to send your kid away for a whole term at 7, but lots of Prep schoolers do board. Melissa, Jess's sister, does, since Jess lives in Cornwall. But at least she has Jess here. Jess didn't come until Year Seven, because there would be no-one there she knew and it might have uspet her when she was little. It would have upset me!
7.30pm - Jess's room
We all squished into Jess's room to watch My Family, EastEnders, After You've Gone and Not Going Out. We a break between After You've Gone and Not Going Out, so we ate some crisps and things, and danced madly to Jess's laptop (well, her iTunes library music at least hehe)!
11.01pm - Asleep (almost)
The bell went to signal we have to get into bed 1min ago. Housie (our affectionate name for the Housemistresses) will be round soon to tell us to shut up and go to sleep now, or else. And the 'Or Else' is that we'll be in bed half an hour earlier than the enforced Lights Out time for a week. Georgie's curled up with Henry Horse, and Amelie's brushing her hair. I lie down and wait for Housie to turn on the lights, check we're in bed, and walk off to the next room. Tomorrow's Saturday, and that means even more fun!
7am - woke up
School bell woke me up as usual! We get two bells, one to wake us up, and another to tell us to get the hell out of our rooms because breakfast's ready! Got dressed into my uniform, which is blue: blue skirt, blue checked blouse, blue jumper. Brushed my hair and put it up. Ran downstairs as the second bell was ringing, Georgiana behind me, shoving me dangerously, and Amelie in front, nearly tripping up in her haste to get downstairs. In the dining hall, we joined the queue to get food. I had Weetabix and a cup of milk - yum. Sat with Jaz, Georgie, Amelie, Jess and Lucy.
8.00am - tidying room
We always have to tidy our rooms ready for inspection at 8.30am. Our housemistress comes round to check the dorms are tidy, and if they're not, she makes us tidy them at night instead of watching EastEnders or Corrie or some other soap. The housemistresses are nice really, unless you cross them, and then they switch to 'Psycho' mode and have a big spaz attacks lol. Georgie had a huge panic because she thought she'd lost Henry Horse, her special teddy bear, but he was under the quilt she'd hurriedly piled on her bed. We all have special teddies, mine is Bob!
9.00am - form class
They always register us, mainly to check us boarders haven't escaped in the night lol. Also, we have lots of day girls too (half the girls here are day girls). My form tutor is Miss Haydock and she registers us in Room 57. I sit with Jaz next to the window, so I can look out at the grounds. Miss H gives us some important details (hockey club starts tonight) and then lets us talk.
9.30am - English class
We have a surprisingly good English lesson, to say that we are studying Romeo and Juliet. We had to act it out, which was funny because Bethany had to be Romeo and Harriett was Juliet. Beth kicked up a huge stink, so Mrs Baker zapped her with one of her notorious 'I will kill you if you talk again' looks. That shut her up! Haha!
10.15am - Maths class
Boooorrrriiiinnnngggg - nuff said! My teacher tries and fails to get us all excited about Maths, but no-one ever falls for it! Its terrible, and atm we're learning Quadratic Equations which, to use one of Kerri's over-used phrases, takes the biscuit! They have got to be one of the hardest things ever invented by mathmeticians who thought it'd be funny to invent things that would give teachers an excuse to torture innocent young children with 3million years later!
11.00am - Break
Its kind of a tradition at H that we have toast and jam every breaktime. We all pile into the dining hall and the dinner ladies hand out slices of hot white toast, nicely golden brown and soft, dripping with butter, and slathered (if that's the right word there) in bright red strawberry jam, or dark purple blackcurrant jam, or rich pink raspberry jam. Once a week, as a treat, we get honey on our toast too. It's got to be the best tradition at H. Jaz and I took our strawberry jammed toast out onto the lawn in front of the school and sat down cross-legged to eat it. Yummmm!
1.00pm - Lunch
We have two lessons before lunch. Each of our lessons lasts for forty-five mins, and our breaks (we have two) last for a half-hour. Our lunch is an hour, and then we have another lesson, then a break, and then another lesson. The day girls can either bring their own lunch or eat with us boarders, and most of them choose the gorgeous school meals. Seriously, they are gorgeous!! You've never tasted better school food. I had beanie pizza, which sounds disgusting but is sooooo lovely, and chips with water and a banana.
4.00pm - End of the day!
The day girls go home now, unless they're using the huuuuggggeeee library or doing after school activities. Today, I dump my bag in my room, and go to the sports block to change into my PE kit: blue shorts and tee-shirt, and white trainers. I'm joining the hockey club. I know I'll make the team because for the past four years of being at H, I have done. I'm ace at hockey, I love it! I also play tennis, and I'm on the schools swimming and equestrian teams. My gorgeous chestnut horse is a show-jumper, and its my first year with a horse at H, so I'm dead pleased. Usually I borrow one of the schools horses. Luckily, Red, short for Red Sky At Night, is on full livery, so I don't have to do much, because the school provides care for him (ie: the grooms feed, muck out and exercise him unless I can do it). I meet up with Holly in the changing rooms, she's my hockey buddy. Holly's a day girl, as are many of my friends, so whenever I'm allowed out for the night from school or at weekends, I meet up with them. Boarding girls are not allowed to stay over at a day girl's house, so day girls sometimes stay the night here and we have leepovers then! Kind of...! Miss Young and Mrs Gatehead are the leaders of the hockey club, and straightaway make me and Holls help the younger students with the basic rules and ideas of the game.
5.23pm - In my dorm room
After hockey club, Holls went home, and I dashed to the stable yard, which is on the school premises, to see Red. Sarah, one of the grooms, was brushing him down. I said "hi" to her and hugged Red. She explained to me that he'd just been on the horse walker. When I got back, Georgie and Amelie were waiting for Neighbours to come on, so I went and had a shower and changed into my normal clothes. When I came out, they were lying on Georgie's bed, cooing over Boyd on Neighbours! I decided to join them.
6.00pm - Dining hall
The bell for dinner goes at 5.55pm, which is the signal that the fight for food begins. Me, Georgie and Amelie joined the queue behind some Year Sevens, who looked up at us in awe. Y7s are soo sweet, they think Y11s are majorly scary, and look up to us, and are very quick to move out of our way if they see us coming down the corridors! I sat with my usual gang for dinner. It was Funday Friday meals today, so I had baked beans on toast with lots of melted cheese. Funday Friday basically means they give us lovely unhealthy food as a treat, rather than meat and veg. I love beans, so I nearly always choose to eat those, or sometimes sausage and chips, or spaghetti bolagnaise or spaghetti carbonara!
7.00pm - Outside on the lawn
We all traipsed outside after our meal, and lay down on our coats on the front lawns, in a circle, talking about random stuff. I love it here at H, because its just like a long sleepover, unless you fight with one of your friends, and then its not nice because you don't have your mum to cry to. Jess talked about her little sister, who is in the Preparatory, or prep, school in Year Three. She has a brother who stays at home, and he's in Year Six. Prep schoolers still board here, they can board from the age of four, although that is flexi-boarding, meaning it can only be for two nights a week. When they're in Year Three, at the age of seven, they can board weekly or termly, like us Seniors. It seems quite harsh to send your kid away for a whole term at 7, but lots of Prep schoolers do board. Melissa, Jess's sister, does, since Jess lives in Cornwall. But at least she has Jess here. Jess didn't come until Year Seven, because there would be no-one there she knew and it might have uspet her when she was little. It would have upset me!
7.30pm - Jess's room
We all squished into Jess's room to watch My Family, EastEnders, After You've Gone and Not Going Out. We a break between After You've Gone and Not Going Out, so we ate some crisps and things, and danced madly to Jess's laptop (well, her iTunes library music at least hehe)!
11.01pm - Asleep (almost)
The bell went to signal we have to get into bed 1min ago. Housie (our affectionate name for the Housemistresses) will be round soon to tell us to shut up and go to sleep now, or else. And the 'Or Else' is that we'll be in bed half an hour earlier than the enforced Lights Out time for a week. Georgie's curled up with Henry Horse, and Amelie's brushing her hair. I lie down and wait for Housie to turn on the lights, check we're in bed, and walk off to the next room. Tomorrow's Saturday, and that means even more fun!
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