You know when you get a spare half hour or so and think ''oh, I'll go and sort that thing out''? I had that moment this morning.
Oh, I wasn't expecting that...
If you can't tell, that is my desk. My perfectly tidy, cute little desk. The cleaners clearly did a great job over the summer. There were things there that didn't even belong to us, so that was interesting. Even worse, the cleaners left the bin on my desk. Who does that?! Bins go on the floor for a reason, not on a surface used for working on. My OCD side had a field day with the mess in there. Eliza and I basically just threw everything in the corner and on the floor and then I made my desk look...normal...again and left.
Very odd/intriguing. The member of staff these random tubs belong to also happens to be my EP teacher. Fun times...
When I wasn't tidying throwing things on the floor, I was in lessons. I'm actually quite happy with my new timetable. I get Wednesday and Thursday afternoons off :) I had Spanish P2 today and our new class is already miles better than last year's - we all got along well today and it was just nice for once :) I also had English Language, and I don't really know anyone in there, so Chloe from Spanish came and sat with me. It's nice getting to know new people.
It's only the first week, but I can already see myself living in the language lab for the year, which is totally fine with me. I was in there alone with my teacher this afternoon working on some translations and it was good to be able to get help when necessary.
Oh, and my new tutor is actually a different teacher now, but it's all good because he's the one who sorted out all the rubbish before Christmas and, when I told him he was my tutor, he sort of went ''waaaaaaaaay'' and seemed rather...happy? He's a languages teacher though, so the personal statement writing may be a bit smoother than anticipated.
Positivity challenge: Going rather well thus far, managed to get through the office situation without any problems, there's only one thing bothering me and it's been ongoing for about a year really. Maybe it's one of those things I can't do anything about? Hmm...
Besos ♥
Rachel
Like the title? It's arguably the most appropriate right now. So, was back at college last Monday, had all of the Amnesty stuff to deal with and then it's been fairly quiet so far. Although, exciting news, the Amnesty group *were* at 27 on the Youth Raise Off table with the last piece of post we received, and that's before they received the rest of our donations for the year. I'm excited to see our final placing when it's all finalised at the end of June.
I go to Poland this Wednesday through until Sunday, so unless I can access the internet in a café or something, I won't be blogging then either. As with Croatia, I'll be keeping a diary then typing it all up and posting it afterwards though. We're visiting Auschwitz, Schindler's Factory and a few other places, plus going on a ''hilarious'' ghost tour, apparently. I met one of my room buddies today for the first time, so that was nice, plus she seems lovely. Luckily we both know our other room buddy, Sarah :)
Today was RIDICULOUSLY hot. College was literally like an oven all day. Except for the language lab which is always cool because it has air conditioning. I was in there twice, thank goodness! I spent the afternoon sitting on the floor in my dad's office reading puntoycoma and reading all about one random man's experience of visiting Iran. I probably added to the insanity of the Wakefield Decorator's office, to be honest. I've got a bunch of rock my uncle gave me earlier in my bag, actually, I dread to think how melted it is...
I may be back tomorrow, if not, have a good week and I'll see you when I'm back from Poland :)
Besos ♥
Rachel
Monday was 'back to college day'. Meh. I hate that place with a passion. Apparently, one of the SLT just left to open a B&B for gay people. The place is also literally just a building site at the moment, D block is having building work done, A block is having building work done and, better yet, C block is being...demolished. Wow. It really is an ancient building though, and everything is just yellow. Ew.
I don't really have anything interesting to write. I've just finished a class presentation on D'Nash that me and Amy have to present tomorrow period 1 :) James (@Juicioo on Twitter) listened to the songs we were considering for our ''lyric quiz'' and I think it's safe to say he likes them, haha :) I have, however, had 'A-Amanda' stuck in my head since Tuesday. I personally think instead of presenting the PowerPoint, we should just teach everybody the dance moves from the video, but whatever...
Oh, yeah, Amnesty office. Ha. What a joke. Basically, next year we have to share it with the Geography department. I wouldn't mind as much, but one of the staff in the department is none other than my tutor, Tim. Awkwaaaard. We've had to move loads of stuff down into an unused classroom while Geography moves in a bit and then we'll have to move it all back. What a farce. Especially since Jade and I go to Poland next Wednesday and then Tim goes to India with World Challenge on the 4th. None of us have planned this well...
Other than all of that, this week had been both rubbish and dull. I'm thinking of making another appointment with the counsellor because I need to vent and have nobody to vent to. Hmm.
Besos ♥
Rachel
