Censorship

I'm leaving for China today! Well, Hong Kong to be precise. Still not recovered from Americaland, still tired, still coughing, but I'm still really excited. My Dad has absolutely no faith in me. Meh.
I may be taking a break from blogging, basically depending on how much internet access I have. I'm pretty sure Facebook is completely blocked due to censorship. Never mind...

Newbie

My parents bought the Romford Recorder for possibly the first time ever, after six years of living in this area. Inside, there was an article about A level grades, and for some very strange reason, my name was even in the headline! It was pretty cool though, even though it was a somewhat dodgy article. - A little too many assumptions and inaccuracies in my opinion.
Today my parents gave me one of their old cameras - so for me, a new camera. I'm really quite excited about it - it's a Seagull DF-1. So non-digital, it doesn't even run on batteries. I can't wait to try it out! It's getting old now though - not sure how old, but older than me definitely, so needs a little t.l.c.

Cough.

My parents took me to the outlet mall today, where I felt very ill. Later in the evening, we had dinner at Pizza Express, where I didn't feel much better. Hopefully I'll feel better by Sunday...

Stars

A levels are finally over. I'm pretty happy with my results. I did worst on Maths, which I didn't really expect.
My cough really just needs to go away, really.
I bought a violin case in Americaland. I left it on the train home. We got a call today to say that it was found, so drove down to Westcliff. Westcliff is kind of by the sea, more by the Thames.

Snell

Starting to read Snell's Clinical Anatomy by Regions. I couldn't help but fall asleep during the day again. Not good for jetlag, nor for a really bad cough either. I'm just glad I'm ill now, and not in the US or hopefully in China. I went out for a walk with my sister and then it started to rain. Very much back to England, which to be honest, sucks. My sister suggested we have a barbeque tomorrow, and I couldn't help but laugh - it's ridiculously cold here! Also, tomorrow is judgment day, i.e. not appropriate for barbeque. It'll be a judgment of all my efforts these last two years. A level results, ahoy there! I haven't actually panicked yet this year. The 5-weeks in the States worked wonders in taking my mind off it. Plus, exhaustion means that I'll probably over-sleep tomorrow morning and so not think about it then either. These last few days, I've managed to sleep past 1.30pm every morning. A miracle will have to happen if I intend to take the 10.20 bus with Rebecca tomorrow morning. Anyway, a promise is a promise, so regardless how conscious I am, I guess I'll just have to drag myself out of bed (or the sofa, as it has been recently...)
Hannah's been growing sunflowers. I really do wonder what she actually feeds them...

Circus

After sleeping in lots and lots and lots, I went with my Mother to pick up Hannah from some circus course thing.

The Harrow

Today, I felt crap. Met up with Frankie, Katrina & Maria. Twas pretty interesting...