So, what's school been like?

Well, everything has been running reasonably smoothly these past three (school) days. For once I'm actually doing my homework, on the day. Mind you, typical sammi-nisms. Loses locker keys in one day (leaves them in form room, how stupid). Gets told off for naming her sports kit in pink pen because permenant pens apparently don't come in pink. Discovers she's lost her locker keys and leaves her stuff in the middle of the locker aisle all weekend. Gets taken away. Has to find it. Names it again in black, permenant pen. Sumdges. Takes it to sports teacher. Gets a bloody scary telling off. Forgets it at school so she can't name it.

And god to I hate my sports teacher, she's such a cow. I hate sports teachers in general. Having such small brains in a school where the 8 year olds are typically clever than them, and only being able to kick a ball up and down, just, they tend to be very petty. I mean, I come in, and she starts saying' oh I cant read this' and I'm all apologetic honestly saying 'I did name it all, I did exactly what you said, it just smudged.' It's almost asthough she was trying to embarass me. She was treating me like I couldn't write, made me come into the sports office, and first of all accused me of stealing because my tracksuit bottoms had somebody elses name on them (until the only nice sports teacher goes 'Kimberly Jacobs, she hasn't been in this school for years, must be second hand'), then she finds the label and goes 'I can't read that' (yeah that was the one that smudged, my luck, you couldn't read it) and starts passing it round the teachers going 'I can't read that, can you?' and then they'd reply 'Sammi, whats that?'. And then finally, the head of sports whatever comes in from her lunch break with my old lacrosse teacher and the evil cow immediately says 'Sammi didn't name ANY of her kit.' And I immediately react. 'Yes I did, I labelled all of it, but she didnt like the pen, so I labelled it again, and she still didn't like it.' And then the teacher that just came in goes 'what, with biro' and they all smirk whilst I leave. God I hate them

So, tomorrow I'll be having to go and show them completely named kit, again. And for everything she 'can't read' I have 5 minutes of detention. Not to mention humilliation by being shouted at whilst all my friends stand outside. I really swear she does that purposefully. I hate my teacher so much. She's my only nasty teacher this year, and this is my second year of suffering now.

I remember last year in rounders when we had our first lesson. We had the other class behind us. She was picking on me, completely. Everybody was saying. Every 5 second it was 'Sammi run here' and 'Sammi run there' and 'What was that??' and 'Why did you throw it over there? Do you not even know the rules to this game.' After the lesson she then demands I need to get a rules book (and just to let you know my rounders playing has always been perfectly fine). She gives me a piece of paper she'd written and kept by the dozen in her draw. God was it FULL of mistakes. You can tell she's a sports teacher. I had to go into her office, be told how bad I was, and it was once again hummiliating. It wasn't great to hear afterwards the other class saying 'Sammi, what did you do? All we could hear was your name, everybody was looking at you.' That teacher SO does it purposefully.
I don't think I want to join their lacrosse team this year. I hate sports teachers.

Physics today was.. boring. Some junk about longitudinal waves and other waves. Then we had biology. We were learning about kwashi something or rather. It was, a little sickening. I might have nice teachers for those, but god was it boring.
I set a good impression in english though, having read the arthurian legend books during the holidays. Grandma's are good for something! (She made me read it )
Oh, and if anybody is good at latin, any idea what 'Aristo amicos uxoris semper fugit' means? I'm so confused with the tenses in that phrase!

Art was good though. This year we are doing three projects, I think it's to introduce us to the GSCE projects. There are three rotating groups, and because you do one project every term, you were put into the group of your strength for this term. The options were graphics (not computer graphics.. mind you with a couple of my cute little anime drawings I'd rock). The people who did particularly good perspective and pen drawings were put into that group. It was the group of not very creative extremely neat half architect people. The there was sculpture, for the people with the best pottery pieces. Finally the top painters, which pretty much speaks for itself, were put into painting. I was in painting.

Today for art we had to draw ourselves in the style of some artists we were looking at. It was only a simple sketch though, for which the main thing we did took only 20 minutes. We were given a mirror, an easel etc., and we had to choose a section of our faces which we were going to draw. I drew the bottom of my nose, my lips, my chin and the top of my neck. It was all I could see in my mirror because to get it to stand up I had to slant it. I probably would have drawn my lips anyway, they're my best feature. I really liked my drawing, although as usual there were these two girls who everybody always favoured. I think my drawings are up to their level, but the only difference is that my drawings are a lot less neat. I'm easily the messiest person in my class.

Also, it looks like we're forming a new little social group too! Which is good Out of the four of us, there's only one person I really like (the other two are a nerd and a shy quiet girl who tag along), but whatever, I really do want this to become the final class group, it's really what we all need at the moment. The fourth person is my closest friend in the class, even though I'm not hers. We have really similar tastes and I think we get along really well, although she does often feel insecure about hanging around with me sometimes, as I think she may have previously been a little more ambitious with her friends choices than she is now, but she's been the first person I think I make a decent team with, be it school work or just as friends. I think it's that we're both quite clever and we both come up with really good ideas, but she's more organized, neat, mathematical etc. whilst I'm more creative, easy going etc. Filling in the gaps

So, looking good, looking bad...... Lets hope everything gets sorted. I think my low hopes before I started the year are now looking very promising. But, for the moment I'd better start my homework!

Sammi xx

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First day back at school

Ok, so we had our first day back at school. Well, despite the horrible feeling I had about this year, looks like it will be the best yet. We got a super nice form tutor, hooray. I was in bed thinking last night 'please don't be a german teacher, please!'. We got a guy teacher again this year for our form tutor, but unlike last year's one who I bitterly despised, and wish would leave this school and never return, this year's one is a complete sweetie! He was our history teacher in first year, and I think we get along pretty well.

Oh, and they had sympathy for me this year! After making me brave the awful teachers of last year, I've got such lovely teachers. I have all my top 3 teachers. My absolute favourite as my physics teacher, my second favourite as my biology, and my third as form tutor. Most of my teachers look pretty decent too. I have some ok ones, but none which will make me dread my lesson. Although, I do have a couple new arrivals, and I have no idea what they will be like yet.

My best friends talking to me again too, thank god! Although, I don't know whether to say if we're as close as we used to be. The issue here is that half the class treat me like a loser now and don't talk to me, so I think she feels a little insecure about being with me. I can kind of understand, although I'm really disappointed with her. Atleast she's talking to me now. I have no idea what happened at the end of last term. Honestly, no idea. She even brought me a present in lacrosse camp, which I so embarassingly left at school and have no idea where it is, oops!

Well, there is one other thing. I got given a designer bag by my old school best friend (who is super rich) as a birthday present. It is the nicest bag ever, omg, she really does know my taste. I'm addicted to this bag. I'm always pointlessly carrying it round, because I find it so special! There are the worries everybody else will see me as a wannabe wearing it, but, even if they do, they sure admitted they loved it. Everybody was telling me how much they liked my bag today. Ahh, the sweet welcoming of a new school year

They also built a new swimming pool at school, like you can't believe. They're knocking down the old one, and to replace it they built a brand new, modern, state of the art pool, which is truly incredible. Firstly, it is HUGE. It's got 6 really wide, extremely long lanes. You can't forget the diving boards and modern software too. I'm so lucky to have a grant to a school like this. I'm being given such incredible oppurtunities! This school really does have endless money supplies. They an also afford teachers like in no other school, as well as randomly carpeting all the steps uneseccarily, and not to mention replacing the fairly new screens on all the computers, with brand new, also huge, really stylish flat screen mat monitors. They're really not ordinary monitors though, they have this super stylish design that looks soo cool. I forgot to say, yay, I.T lessons (computers) is back!

So, I can look forward to an exciting new year. Hopefully I'll also be able to sort out this social mess I'm in at the moment....

Sammi
xox (signing like gossip girl now lol)

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Work

Well, I got my first job this week. I don't know whether to call it a proper job, it is a job I guess, I'm working and getting paid, but the fact that I'm in the office next door to my mum sort of draws me further from the word 'job'. I haven't really been seeing any of my friends this holiday, they're all away, so I've just been sitting up here by my computer making graphics. That was until my mum told me they wanted me to come into work to help out. I've been here since tuesday. I think they needed me more so this week just to do the little jobs (in my opinion they're the jobs nobody else wants to do ) because one of the merchandisers left last week, and a new one joins next week. I act like such a 2 year old around my mum its hillarious, but, the cuter I am to her, the nicer she is to me, so I guess it works out. The only thing is that everybody treats me like a 2 year old here. Mind you, they talk to me like a 2 year old, but set me work unlike a 2 year old. They're not hard tasks, but they set me the same work they set themselves (the stuff you can do without email). In charge of me is my mum's nutty colleague. She is reasonably funny, but... can sometimes be a bit strange in a way that I just find quite strange. I'm used to mad funny, my dad is like that 24-7 (not that I see him all that time), but I do still find this a little odd. I'm so boring In the beggining I was getting the horrible tasks, like packaging hundreds of 'royal princes' necklaces. Then my nutty (how to explain her) 'supervisor' asked me to scan her some things. I was a little bored, so I put them straight into photoshop and put some butterfly brushes over the page and some effects over the font and sent it to her. She went exstatic, and down to all the designers to show them 'how she scans things!' She then asked me to photograph some necklaces, will I will be putting in to a presentation tomorrow, and today I scanned some keyrings, touched them up, and then 'graphic'd' them a little and put them into a presentation which was sent to accessorize stores. By the end of the day, I'm really tired. It's odd, I think I do work harder at school, but I'm exhausted at the moment. I've been working pretty much non-stop, until 5 o'clock when I just cool down a bit and start going on facebook. I have no idea how much I'm getting for this, I hope it's enough for me to buy a wii though, or a tablet (prefferably both) but I doubt it. My dad thinks this whole thing is child exploitation. I agree with him, although I have to say this is my choice, and I'm going to work hard as possible to get that money. Oh, and I forgot to mention the most treacherous task of all, organising my 'supervisor's' (that is SERIOUSLY the wrong word to use, but I don't know what to call her, she is kind of supervising me, but thats not actually her job) necklaces. She is sooooo disorganised. She gave me boxes full of white, purple, silver and black necklaces. BOXES FULL. And then she told me to find matching styles, arrange them by colour, put the styles together, and put them into bags, then finally put the colours into bigger bags. Her boxes were such a mess, it took me hours. I did manage though. God these are tasks a nitwit could manage, but so, as I mentioned before, treacherous. Well, I think tomorrow may well be my last day. Next week they get the new merchandiser, and although I know I'll still be a help, I won't have my desk anymore, and I probably won't be bothered to come aswell. My graphics site is dying without me updating it, and I have a huge project I'm arranging for it aswell. I wrote the longest list ever of things I wanted to achieved over the next year, and then I thought, 'why wait, I'll start them all now.' So by the end of August I have huge things to achieve. Well, I doubt many people will read this, whether it's the fact my blog is extremely long, or because nobody actually visited, but I really do like blogging these things out.
Amalia xox

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First Post

Wow! So this is my first post, I wish I had something better to say. I'm currently in either the third or second week of my holiday, I lost track. And, I'm bored. Yes, I am enjoying this project of 'trulee' and making the site this week, but the fact is I enjoy writing, and it excites and lets me relive things that already happened, but I have nothing to write about, because virtually nothing has happened. After a kind of break up with my closest friend from my current school, I've been left with no one to meet up with this holiday, it's kind of heart breaking. My other friends are all on holiday, but after the huge party I threw last month, my parents can't really afford a holiday at the moment. Maybe they'll suprise me though, I hope.
Well, I went shopping yesterday, and I went a bit over the top, spending over 200 pounds. This is the problem that I have every time I dare to take my debit card shopping with me. I earned loads of money in there when I was 7 by acting for tv commericals, and now, after saving it up all these years I've suddenly started spending it. What did I buy? A brand new ipod nano (third generation) to replace the old nano generation 1 I bought when I was in primary school, A pair of brand new sugar boots (stupid thing to buy in summer) and the most stunning new vest top from river island's new collection with a huge butterfly over the chest. I just love this top completely. I was actually looking in the sales, but this top was just staring at me! If I'd had any money left over by this point I would have probably also bought this other top I liked, but I knew I'd already gone a bit far. I can't wait till they open abercrombie and hollister nearby, I just love their stuff (well some of it). Sometimes I just wear it because my friends do.
If you had 200 pounds (thats 100 dollars) to spend in your local shopping centre, what would you guys (people reading) buy?
God! This post makes me appear like such a rich snob. Ok, that party, I've never had a party like it in my life, my parents saved up for it for over a year. And I've never spent that much sopping money in my life in one go, and it wasn't my parents money, it was my money. The only reason I'm saying everything as it is is because it's so exciting. Every time I get these oppurtunities I can't stop thinking about them.
So, until another day,
Amalia xx

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