Hello!
Ok, so recently there has been a lot of stuff going on for me. In the past two months, we have finished Year 11, sat all of our GCSEs, gone through Induction week for Sixth Form, and had our Ball (or Prom, to most people), and its been so emotional! I've been a mess of stress, fear and tears. It's so difficult to sit exams knowing that in a few weeks, you will be seeing everybody that you have come to know and love over the past five years for the last time - at least for 10 weeks, if not forever. I realise that it is the last thing I should have been worrying about during that time, but I couldn't help myself. I am my happiest when I'm with friends and it'll honestly be so hard to not see everybody over the summer.
However, enough complaining. This week has been the loveliest week, and it has made me realise that it is the littlest things that mean the most to me.
One of the most relaxing things for me to do is walk the dog. It gives me a chance to think, and I know thats the most generic lost-in-the-woods thing to say, but it works, and it makes me happy. It makes her happy too, and thats all I need.
Thankfully, we have been able to spend a lot more time together as a group, and I've been able to get closer with people that I never thought I would be able to speak to. You could say that I have huge confidence issues - I find it so hard to speak to people that I don't know like the back of my hand, and my fab friends have helped me to build up the courage to talk to more people and become far more confident in myself.
Thank you guys so much.
On the day of our last exam, after we had spent an hour digging around in our brains for any little thing we knew about physics, we all met on the Common and had a picnic. One of the simplest ideas, but it has left me with one of the best memories. We did nothing all afternoon but catch up after months of revising, and it felt so good to have the tribe back together.
Our Year 11 Ball was a big day for me, because it was the last day that I'll be able to see many people for a long time. It was wonderful to see all of the girls looking stunning in their dresses, and gents looking dapper in their lovely suits. Although the most important thing is living in the moment, I'm so pleased that I managed to take photos to savour the moment. I know they'll cheer me up no end when I'm feeling a bit down.
Hattie, Charlie and myself have been best friends for years and so getting a picture of us at the end of five years of high school was one of my priorities. I reckon it's lived up to my expectations.
I also plucked up the courage (with the help of Hat) to get a picture with one of my favourite people, and best friends (which I won't upload because I love it too much to share, and he probably doesn't want it on the internet...) and that moment meant an awful lot to me.
There was a professional photographer at the venue, but they haven't released the photos yet... I might make a whole blog post including these when we get them???
I'm sure everybody also feels this way, but music is one of the little things that influences my mood immensely. One single song can take me higher than the stars in the sky or lower than the creepies on the ocean floor. IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS, YOU SEE!
This weekend, I was very generously allowed to stay over with friends, and had a truly amazing time with them. We went strawberry picking at one of the local PYO farms and came out with tonnes of juicy strawbs. You can tell which punnet was mine - I hadn't been picking in years and it turns out that I wasn't the quickest, or best at selecting the big ones...
One final thing that made me very happy recently was riding in their funky Land Rover (one of the ones with a canvas roof!) and having a mini picnic on a sunny day. (Theres a bit of a theme here, hmmm...)
See, it really is the little things...
Lets try a new thing!
Please leave a comment telling me about the little things that make you happy!
M
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