Hi everyone, going to be a bit of a different post today. To tell you the truth, I have about 6 review-type posts planned out and I do really want to do them, but I just haven't been feeling very motivated. Also, for those of you that aren't aware, I'm in year 11, hence I'm about to dive headfirst into a month of grueling exams, which, coincidentally, start tomorrow. This is part of the reason I've sat down to write this today: procrastination.
I've just finished writing a biiiig long post about a foundation I've been trying out recently, but, I wasn't really happy with it. It seemed a bit boring and I wasn't 100% proud of it. And I like to be proud of my posts, I like to share with you something I've worked hard on and that I want my readers to see. I will post it at some point, granted with a few tweaks, but for my first post that I've done in a really long time (my last one was on the 22nd of April - naughty Harriet!) I thought I owed it to you, and kind of myself, to do something that wasn't so... routine shall we say.
Sooo, I'm just going to chat to you, about my life, about big things and about small things. If these are the kind of posts that bore you, well, I urge you to exit this page now because this is a long-un, but if you're procrastinating from revision too, this might just be right up your street.
I'm on exam leave at the moment, yet I still woke myself up at half 7. Why? So that I could get some revision done. But no, instead I feel like absolute crap because I seem to have come down with some sort of flu/cold/cough/some awful disease that really couldn't have come at a worse time and I just want to crawl back into bed and snooze for the rest of the day. Obviously I can't. I really haven't done much in the way of revision at all, I have somewhat of a short attention span and if I'm honest, I just would rather do something more interesting with my time. Again, obviously I can't, seeing as everyone bangs on about how important GCSEs are, and "you won't get into university without good GCSE grades" blah blah bloody blah. I think this is a complete and total exaggeration. Yes they are important, I won't deny that, and I do want to do well on them, but really, they're not the most important thing in the world, I'm not going to become a homeless beggar on the streets if I get less than a B and there are always universities that take students who aren't perhaps Cambridge standard, obviously! Or about 90% of students wouldn't get into a university!
This brings me onto another topic: pressure. My school puts such a huge amount of pressure on us all. It's not that it's a particularly posh school, it's just well, to put it in simple terms, it's full of expats who's parents have good jobs therefore their kids want good jobs and basically, everyone in my school wants to do well, bar a small minority. It's been this way for a long time, so GCSE and AS/A2 results are high. To give you an idea of the standard of cleverness in my year in particular, the people in set 5 maths are still predicted A's. I think that's ridiculous, great for them of course, but still a bit mind-boggling. I don't think I'm going to reach my predicted grades to be fair. They're a bit too ambitious and I don't think the teachers should but setting these kinds of predicted grades that frankly, just seem unreachable.
Hmm, this appears to have turned into a bit of a rant. That's enough ranting for one day. I don't know whether to end this post now or carry on with something a bit more cheerful. I'm going to do the latter, it's better to focus on the positive things in life, isn't it.
Well, where do I start? It's hard to just sit down and try and put your current life into words. Well, I'll try. I'm about to leave Abu Dhabi to move back to sunny old England! Yes, a lot of you may think I'm mental but I've been in this superficial city for almost 8 years, and quite frankly, that's more than enough for my liking. I was actually just driving back from my boyfriends house yesterday, and looking at everything. That sounds weird, let me explain. 8 years ago, half this city wasn't built. 50 years ago or whatever, none of this city was built. Nada. It was a desert. I'm sorry, but that's entirely crazy. This country has managed to put into 50 years what other countries did in maybe 200 years. Therefore this country makes no sense, everything is still being figured out. This city feels, for want of a better word, disjointed. Nothing really fits. It's bizarre. Buildings are constantly being torn down and re-built, cats are seen as vermin and all the bad things that happen here are hidden from the outside world to give a kind of illusion and false idea of this country. You really don't know it until you've lived here. On the other hand I love it. I've met so many people from such a range of different countries and I am going to miss it here when I go, mainly because of my friends, and my family. Yeah, I'm going to be, er, leaving home? In about 5 weeks I'm going to have a family spread out over literally, the whole world.
Allow me to explain. All my family live in England, apart from one set of relatives that live in Australia. I live here, with my parents and brother. My sister lives in England. My Dad is about to move to America with his fiancé and my brother, my Mum is going to stay here and I am going to move back to England. So, my family is going to be spread out over 4 of the 6 continents. I think there's 6? I haven't done geography in a long time, please correct me if I'm wrong. Either way, that's a lot of distance and a lot of airmiles! Free flights anyone?
I am excited to move back though, to a country where there's actually method and a somewhat lack of madness compared to the UAE. I'm going to be starting at a new school, which is daunting. I'm going to be living in a garage with my boyfriend (a converted one, don't worry) and I'm finally going to have access to the huge amount of things that I haven't had access to in almost 8 years i.e a lot of makeup brands, food brands, nice bread, cheap coffee, good television and cheap clothes. Yay!
I've also just decided to go on a healthy eating kick, again. I've been on countless, and my diet does consist of majoritily healthy food (is that even a word?). I cut out fast food a long time ago, but during the past few weeks whilst I've been revising etc, I haven't been doing any exercise, aaaand I've put on a lot of weight because of it. I'm going to go to the gym soon I think.
Okay, I think that's enough. I'm sorry if half of that didn't make sense, or the flow of all that information didn't really fit together, but I'm just sitting on the sofa, in my pyjamas, writing my thoughts to the internet. What a weird life I lead. So basically, everything there is just my train of thought, and sometimes my thoughts get jumbled, in fact they often do. I'm going to go back and proof-read everything, but I won't change it too much, just general spelling and grammatical errors. It'll feel more personal if I leave the structure (or lack thereof) how it is.
Um, I'll go now. Hopefully to revise, but realistically, probably to watch youtube videos, as I've somewhat become accustomed to recently. Turrah!
P.S. Let me know if you liked this post. If no one's interested I won't do one again, because essentially, I want the people reading what I write to enjoy it.
P.P.S. What's a blog post without a picture? This is one of most of ma best buds ;) before my prom. Most dysfunctional group of friends ever. I'll do a full post on what I wore soon, and explain why it was so early. Although, I don't think it will be for a while, I'm sorry but exams and revision beckon!
