02/08/2012: olympics

The reason why I’m so tired today...

I went to the Olympics! Yes, yesterday we went to the Olympics to see two games of hockey. I had to wake up at 5:30am and we all had to leave at around 6:30, and we got to the Olympic park at around 7:30.

The Olympic Park is so beautiful and big! The main stadium is massive up close, and there are so many others dotted all around the place. There were crowds and crowds of people, a massive queue to the biggest Macdonald’s in the world and shouting and screaming coming from some of the stadiums every now and then. The atmosphere was amazing. When we got there, the park had only just opened, and the only people going in were the ones that, like us, were going to see the Hockey as it was the first event of the day. The security is just like at the airport but a lot faster, and there were random people with foam hands pointing the way to go. Everyone was so excited, especially the Americans we spotted!

When we got there we were amazed at how big it was. It literally takes 20 minutes or more to walk from one end to the other. Hockey is at the Riverbank Arena so we followed the signs and once we got here we were again amazed at the size of it. The staff were really friendly and showed us to our seats. We got there when the stadium wasn’t even half full and the hockey teams were warming up. It was funny hearing the Spanish team speaking Spanish to each other.

Hockey is actually really entertaining and I definitely think it’s good as or better than football. We got to see two games over four hours. The first was Spain v Australia. I was obviously supposed to support Spain, but 90% of everybody in the stadium were supporting Australia and around about the 0-3 mark I may have sneakily changed sides. The end score was 0-5 (Australia winning). The second game was Belgium v Netherlands, with us supporting the Netherlands. Half of the people were supporting Belgium and half Netherlands really, and the end score was 1-3 (Netherlands winning). There were lots of Mexican waves around the stadium, and the best was five in a row! I had so much fun.

It’s funny because I hate Sport with a burning passion. I groan at the start of a day when I realise I have P.E. I can’t hit a ball to save my life and the only thing I really seem to be good at is long jump or maybe cross country. I couldn’t do well in anything else even if I was offered a lifetime supply of chocolate (which would be very tempting). The thing is with the Olympics is that you can enjoy Sport without any physical exertion and you can judge athletes however you like because you know you don’t have to go up and do it yourself. J

After the hockey we decided to have lunch in Macdonalds. Did I realise it’s the biggest one in the world? There was a queue all down the side of the building and a queue up to the door once inside at every till. The queue actually moved quite fast though and we only had to wait for 15 or 20 minutes. Once we had our food it was really hard to find a table, and after 10 minutes we finally spotted one and ran there as fast as we could.

We then decided to have a walk around. We spotted the BBC studio which is basically a glass box on top of a temporary building, but you can’t see in very well from the outside. HELEN SKELTON also walked past us! I was the only one who spotted her and was so surprised I forgot to take a photo or say “OMIGOD YOU’RE THAT PRESENTER!” as loud as I could. Oh well, maybe it’s just as well I didn’t. We walked right through the garden part of the park which is just beautiful. There’s wildflowers everywhere and hills and a massive screen that shows the main Olympic event going on live. When we went to see the screen, there were hundreds or maybe thousands of people watching it… those dots behind it are even more people, the side that we were on was quiet compared to the other.

We then did some wandering around and stood next to the Velodrome for a bit. It’s massive.

We got home at 5:30pm, and I was so tired. That was my day yesterday. I had such a great day and if you haven’t been to the Olympics yet, speak to your parents because there are still some tickets on sale that you can buy and pick up on the day.

So that’s about it for this post! The only thing I have to report today is Ruby posted a couple of tweets on my account so I did major paypack by hacking into her Twitter and changing her profile photo, background, name and bio to very attractive pictures and bits of writing. Um… hehe. Sorry my Ruby Dooby, I meant it as a joke, and went kind of far with it. J

Oh, and I’ve discovered the Youtuber Meekakitty. She’s so cool, check her out :D

~Sofia

One of Meekakitty's collab music videos, which helped me discover the band hellogoodbye today. This is my favourite song by them out of all the ones I've listened to so far.

It's so cute. :D I would also check out her video "How to get a boy to like you", it's so funny!

01/08/2012: august!

BUSY!

Gah, I knew I couldn’t keep up this posting everyday thing. Oh well, from now on, right?

The past few days have been so busy. No wonder I haven’t had time to post. I’ve set my Wreck this Journal on fire, gone to the Olympics and a lot more. I’m just so tired right now. This is going to be one big jumbled update, so sorry about that. I didn’t really do that much on Monday, so I’m skipping that.

Yesterday was so good. I had a lay in and went to Ruby’s at 10:30. Then, we just flopped down and went on her laptop, messed around with the webcam, and tried to figure out Tumblr. I’ve got to say, I never thought I’d say this, but I actually don’t mind her Blackberry. It’s one of the newer ones and it’s really easy to use, and really slim. I hate those big, bulky and really slow Blackberries, but Ruby’s one is one of the better ones and was quite cheap. I’m not going to get one though because my Dad’s due for a new phone next year, and I’ll be getting his for free, which is an HTC Desire S. I guess I’ll just have to wait a bit until then.

We then went out for Lunch with her mum, brothers and sisters, mum’s friend and her children. It was really good and the food was yummy, even though half the mayonnaise of my burger dripped out within five seconds of me picking it up. We then went over to Waterstone’s on our own and looked at books for a bit, recommending some to each other. I want After by Morris Gleitzman (blogged about in last post) insanely badly, but I’m trying to save up my money. I’m going to ask for practically a whole bookshelf at Christmas!

We then went back to my house, went on Tumblr, our blogs and the Sims. We then started printing out pictures to stick on Ruby’s Wreck this Journal and started doing some pages in each of ours.

Then… this happened.

Yes, that really happened. LOOK AT MY LOVELY JOURNAL. :0 excuse my awkwardness as well, and my strange voice that day. I wish we’d got my journal burning on camera, because that was honestly so amazing. It burnt through 5 pairs of pages.

Ruby went home at 6, and later I went to bed at 8:30pm ready to wake up at 5:30am to watch OLYMPIC HOCKEY! I couldn’t get to sleep though because I wasn’t tired, and so I actually got to sleep at around 11pm.

Then, today we woke up and went to THE OLYMPIC PARK!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I’m saving that for tomorrow!

Woop woop!

AND GUESS WHAT... IT'S AUGUST! HAPPY AUGUST EVERYBODY!

~Sofia

29/07/2012: shopping and a sunday full of awesomeness

Shopping with Meloner J

…or more like window shopping :]

I went up to town with Eleanor today, and had so much fun! I hadn’t seen her in ageeeesss, and I missed her so much. I waited for 10 minutes outside the ice cream shop in the pouring rain - it's the end of July and freezing. When she finally came over, after one minute of awkwardness ('Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii…') we got over it and started talking like mad about school, friends, etc. We went to Starbucks and shared a caramel Frappuccino and had lunch. It was just so lovely! We then looked around the shops and each bought sparkly nail varnish from Claire’s in green. It’s so gorgeous, but really hard to fill in and get neat and tidy!

We were going to go to the library but then realised it’s closed on Sundays, so we went to Waterstone’s instead. We recommended books to each other and spent 20 minutes cross-legged next to the teenage books section just reading. She bought a book but I didn’t have enough money, but I saw some really good books there and next time I go out I’m going to buy two or three.

The first book that I’m definitely going to buy is After buy Morris Gleitzman. I practically screamed when I saw this. I’ve read the Once/Then/Now books (that I always thought was a trilogy) and then found out that it’s actually a quadrilogy! I was so happy. After has only just come out and I was so upset I couldn’t buy it straight away.

After the Nazis took my parents I was scared
After they killed my best friend I was angry
After they ruined my thirteenth birthday I was determined
To get to the forest 
To join forces with Gabriek and Yuli 
To be a family
To defeat the Nazis after all

DOESN’T IT SOUND SO AMAZING. I honestly can’t wait to read it. It has the most gorgeous (but sad) red cover with two adults and a child holding hands. Oh, I want to read it so badly.

I saw a couple of other books as well. One was Uglies by Scott Westerfield. If you’ve been living under a rock, it’s about a future that revolves around plastic surgery and looking perfect. Everybody under 16 is natural and are called the ‘Uglies’. They live isolated by everybody 16 and over and feel like they’re not good enough. The main character can’t wait until she gets to 16 and becomes ‘Pretty’, but her friend isn’t so sure, and runs away. It sounds so good. I love dystopian books, as long as they’re not copied or based on the most popular ones, and this one sounds so original. I think I’ll love it.

After that we just looked around a bit more, then went home. I got back at around 4:15. Before I left I had been transforming the covers of my Wreck this Journal, and it looks like a beautiful mess right now. I’ll get photos to you soon! I’ve been watching Olympic synchronised diving, China are so good! It’s amazing looking at how in synch and together they are, and how they do complicated twists and somersaults without stepping out of line. Right now I think I might go on the Sims or just Twitter or Tumblr.

Bye! xox

~Sofia

28/07/2012: drooling over the olympic opening ceremony

So I stayed up last night to watch the Olympic Opening Ceremony.

I’m so tired.

But hey, the wait is finally over, the Olympics are here! *Cue cheering and clapping*. Yesterday marked the beginning of the London 2012 Olympics with an amazing opening ceremony (that went on for almost four hours…) that went out to the world. I stayed up, all on my own, until 1am watching it. Oh well.

I really, really loved it. I loved the creativity and originality of it and the fact that it represented what it means to be British so amazingly. I’ve been reading reviews from the USA, which are mostly negative. I guess I can kind of understand it, seeing as you really had to be British to understand the opening ceremony, but apparently there was a commentary on NBC that gave you more than enough information about it all.

Oh yes, NBC. That reminds me. During the opening ceremony they had an amazing tribute to the victims of the 7/7 bombings. It was just so beautiful. And do you know what the NBC, the national broadcaster for the USA, did apart from putting in endless advert breaks and making negative comments about other countries? THEY CUT OUT THE 7/7 BOMBINGS TRIBUTE.  

If the BBC cut a 9/11 tribute for an interview there would be complete outrage from the USA World War III.

Anyway, the opening ceremony really was beautiful. And the cauldron, OH THE CAULDRON, THE BEAUTIFUL CAULDRON THAT WAS FORMED FROM 204 LITTLE TUBE THINGS

THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL.

And Mr Bean was just so funny, like omg.

THE QUEEN AND JAMES BOND

“Good evening, Mr Bond.”

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Then… then…

PAUL MCCARTNEY SANG HEY JUDE!

IT WAS JUST SO PERFECT.

Excuse the hyperventilation. That was my evening. Today I’m so tired and I’m walking around like a zombie everywhere. I’m going to play The Sims soon and tomorrow I’m planning on doing as many pages of my Wreck this Journal that are humanly possible to complete in one day. Wish me luck. I’m also going to see if I can meet up with Eleanor (Melon Head) because Emma is too busy packing for her holiday.

Sorry for the rubbish, disjointed and hyper post. My posts will improve in time.

~Sofia

27/07/2012: music, art and shopping

Been listening to so much music lately

I just re-read yesterday’s post, and it’s so boring. Sorry for boring you all. I doubt you even read it at all :P

Anyway, I have been listening to so much music lately. Different music. This post is kind of inspired by Emma’s post about the Beatles (the fact that she didn’t know John Lennon was murdered in the 80s made me laugh so hard, and also that she wanted to see him in concert – no offence meant) but I really have been listening to different music lately.

When I was, I dunno, 9 or something, I used to watch the top 40 every week. Ew, is all I can say. Then there was a kind of stage when I didn’t listen to music at all, then I was into Adele a lot, and now I’ve really been branching out a bit. I’ve got to say, like Emma, I’ve been listening to a bit of the Beatles and I really wish they were all still around. I’ve also been listening to some more modern music that I’ve really fallen in love with, like Scouting for Girls, Maroon 5 and Coldplay. Okay, they’ve all been in the charts at some point, and Coldplay is almost definitely in the charts right now, but they’re different. I’m not exactly listening to Jay-Z or whoever people seem to be obsessed with now (Drake or something? Haha). I know Maroon 5 had Payphone in the charts, but I like some of their older songs, like She Will Be Loved. It’s the same with Coldplay with songs like Yellow, Shiver and Fix You.

I also just love Scouting for Girls so much. I really love the meaning in their songs and just their voices omg. :)

Lately I’ve also been painting and drawing a lot, and doing my Wreck this Journal. I love it because it’s a fun way to practice art. I also really want to write a story over the summer, but I have no idea what about. –sigh–

Today I went shopping with my nan. I bought three tops from Tammy at BHs, one for £14, one for £3.60 and one for £3. The £14 one is just so gorgeous I had to buy it. It’s bright blue with “L♥VE” on it with Aztec-pattern writing. I’ll post a photo of it tomorrow. The £3.60 one is white with red hearts, and the £3 one just grey and white stripes to wear at the beach.

Also, today the Olympics start! Yay! We’re going to watch the opening ceremony on the TV and on Wednesday we’re going to see men’s hockey, Australia v Spain. Obviously, my mum will be supporting Spain, but my Dad and I are probably going to support Australia just to annoy her. :)

I’ve also been reading lots of different blogs. I’m still in love with the Dainty Squid and One Sheepish Girl, and absolutely jealous of Savannah from Maiedae’s blog designing skills, but I’ve also been discovering new blogs like The Flowerchild Dwelling (I also love her blog design, like wow).

That’s about it for today. Sorry if it was a little jumbled up and boring again. I leave you with ‘Love How it Hurts’ by Scouting for Girls, which has the cutest but saddest music video of all time. Bye! x

~Sofia

26/07/2012: a strange day

I hate stereotypes K

Seeing as I honestly have nothing really at all to talk about, I thought I'd start the post on with a little rant here. I hate stereotypes. I hate when people look at one thing and think "That's so emo/hipster/scene/whatever." and then whenever they see or hear of someone who owns said thing, they instantly judge them. I also hate when people label themselves emo/hipster/scene/whatever when they honestly don't know the meaning of the word.

Hipster isn't about wearing fake glasses and the shortest shorts ever and wearing a top with "Nirvana" on when you've never even heard of them. The whole point of "hipster" is being different, taking interest in retro things and not following the crowd. By saying you're "hipster" you are following the crowd. It's just stupid. Real hipsters actually know what the meaning of the word is, and don't take interest in things just because they're meant to be "hipster" or whatever, and not because they actually like them.

Also, even though hipsters seem to like them, Wreck this Journal isn't "hipster". It's anything but. It's a really creative way to pass the time and it's really theraputic, or whatever you want to call it.

I'm just sick of people on the internet making assumptions and trying to be what they're not.

ANYWAY, today was actually pretty boring, apart from when some random 80-year-old or something woman stopped my nan and I, and started randomly talking to us and saying  that I was really lovely or something along those lines. We'd never seen her in our lives. It was pretty weird. She said she was going dancing in London, and something about her being on a BBC 2 documentary called "Grannies Moving In". My nan and I had a laugh about it later, but I've just been looking on the internet and she's in the early stages of Dementia. I feel so bad now. We were nice enough to her, but I still feel really sad. At least she's enjoying herself... stopping random strangers to talk to them. 

This is a kind of mixed and random post, sorry about that. :)

So yep... I don't really know what to talk about to be honest. I wanted to meet up with Emma on Sunday but she probably won't be able to, because she has to pack for Florida, etc. I don't really know what to do with myself at the moment. I'm thinking of doing some Wreck this Journal, maybe finishing decorating the cover, then playing The Sims.

Also, yesterday I changed the blog design to more warmer colours. Do you like it? Can more of you pleease post in the chat? I get pretty bored, and it's something to look at.

Bye! x x

~Sofia

25/07/2012: 'mr blue sky' by electric light orchestra

Sun is shining in the sky, there ain't a cloud in sight J

I told you I'd post every day! 

Today is so HOT. Gosh. It's even hotter than yesterday which was hot, I'm telling you. The title is a lie though, because for once there are actually clouds in the sky. All I want is to jump into a big pool of water, which Emma is apparently doing today with Mary. -cries-

I'm going on holiday next Friday though, for two weeks and a half, and hopefully the weather's going to be even hotter than it is now in Spain. I just want to dive into a massive pool of water and float for hours. :P Or run through a sprinkler.

Today hasn't been very interesting, I just went to the shops with my nan and iMessaging Jasmine, wondering whether to go on The Sims 3 or not. The Sims is so addictive, I'm telling you. I have no idea why Ruby owns it yet never plays it. You sit yourself down at 3pm and think, 'I will play The Sims for an hour.' and before you know it it's 10pm.

I'm also going to work on changing the colours of the title, background etc. on my blog, without changing the design at all. I'm going to try some yellows, oranges and reds, to match the sunny weather. I'm ashamed to say I stole Emma's layout and font, because Century Gothic is just too beautiful. Do you remember when I used to have the titles in a gradient (like my signature), and I always used to put an Instagram photo in every post? Or when I first got a blog, and my posts would literally be one sentence each ('I'm going to have hot chocolate.') - I mean, I might as well have got Twitter at that point. 

Anyway, so in this post I also thought I'd update you quickly on my life in the past few months. Nothing major has happened. I've been on my summer holidays since Monday. I've made better friends with lots of people at school I only 'knew', and I've been enjoying school a lot recently. It isn't full of chavs, I swear! We're getting a new head teacher from September which will hopefully be good for our school. Haha, I sound like a snob, don't I? :)

I didn't have any homework for the whole of last week, which was a relief. On Thursday, we had something called 'Form Activities Day'. Basically, we were in our forms for the whole day, and each period we had to do a different activity against other forms. Because we have vertical tutoring it was apparently good 'team building' (...) School on Friday ended at 12:45, and we had a nearly two hour end-of-year assembly. I swear I couldn't feel my bum after that. I don't have any homework for the whole of summer though, which I am insanely happy about. It's so POINTLESS.

I didn't do much at the weekend apart from going to Alice's party (not Alice from primary school, a different one) and frolicking in the sun. I got a Sims 3 expansion pack, too.

I've said this so many times already, but I'm so glad I'm blogging again! It's such a good feeling. I missed it so much. I guess it's just a way to keep in touch with all my primary school friends, especially Emma, because she keeps a blog herself. I wish I saw you all more often.

:[

Alrighty, I think that's about it. Keep an eye on the blog design for any colour changes. I'll be back tomorrow, and please please please post on the chat (click 'leave a message' below the title). Right now I'm going off to wreck my journal. Bye!

~Sofia

I almost forgot again!