2010 flashbacks part2

4.April

went to manchester for a biology DNA session where i learnt that i can't taste the chemical that makes brussel sprouts so horrible for some haha it's all about the genetics, was awesome. went to the iron bridge with the mom and claire on bank holiday. friends and i went to laserquest which has to be one of the funnest places ever :D

5.May

Mom's birthday x i started this BLOG!!! lindsay's 18th at the Nickelodeon (has THE biggest ice-crean sundae ever). hockey summer league starts fun :D WORLD CUP starts so a bbq at a friend's house :D

6. June
exams :O and a visit from a south african friend in birmingham :)

2010 flashbacks part1

i just read a blog post on rockstar diaries where she looked back on this year. i don't think i'll have as many photos but it'll be nice to reflect. i've done it in 4 parts so that it's easier to write. i think i'm just a bit of an idiot when it comes to internet stuff. WHY do pictures always appear at the top of your post when you're writing, it's difficult to get them where you want them.

1. January

Spent news years watching fireworks in a garden and drinking apple sours. i had a boyfriend of four months. said boyfriend and i broke up. i wrote exams. proceeded with a weekend of three 18th birthday events. had a blast. sent off my UCAS application for university.

2. febuary

back to normal school again. PANCAKE DAY at my house. went to leicester open day. had a pizza night at where i failed at mariokart :)

3. March

Won a hockey game 5-0. went to keele open day and thought it was beautiful with all the trees and the old buildings. learnt about synapses and the nervous system in biology. watched copocabana at the grande. went on a couple of bike rides with cherise where we carved our name on a tree.

winter in England

According to itv news, this is the coldest winter we've had in ten years or something. who knows, they say that every year. Anyway it is my last winter in england so here are few pictures, some taken by me others by my mother. ignore the dates, my camera isn't set properly

camouflage car

i hibernated for about a week

very christmas-sy

beautiful frost covered spiderweb

remembering

i was wasting time on facebook, as you do, and i got an invite to join HHPS class of 2005. i was so excited, this is my primary school that i went to, so i joined and almost immediately i was chatting to old school friends. it's amazing how much people can help you remember.
we shared stories about classroom days and it was wonderful to chat to everyone again.
this just confirmed that going home is the right choice... back to where i belong

Mumford And Sons - Awake My Soul

nando's

Nando's originated in south africa. it has portugeuse style chicken and one has opened at bentley bridge just down the road from us and my mom and i went to have memorable night there. it's amazing how many memories a few flavours and decorations can surface.
lovely evening.
didn't take pictures as i think the hosts would be a bit suspicious hehe

Bombay Bicycle Club - Always Like This

this makes me happy

passport

yay i got my passport!!!
i think england is giving me a farewell. snow is everywhere, it's beautiful.

B.o.B ft. Eminem ft.hayley - Airplanes (Full Version)

couldnt get the original video for some reason.

The German market

my mom and i went to birmingham on saturday to see the german market. it was beautiful and full of colour and lights. it was also freezing. we ate frankfurters and cheesesticks and roasted hazelnuts. a lovely part of england i'd say.


the human statue

cute keyrings i bought

happy christmas birmingham

lights

the carousel :)

savour

i've just read a post on rockstar diaries ( i would tag it but i don't know how). She was talking about how she's savouring every single moment of being pregnant, and before you freak out, no i'm not. i just starting thinking that that's what i'm doing too. although i'm looking forward to moving to South Africa in January, i'm going to miss England.
there's so much english people take for granted. public transport, being able to walk down the street and not worry too much, school is for everyone, central heating, plenty of shopping opportunities.
of course i'll miss all the lovely people i've met too. it'll be fun to go back and get used to that type of life again. SUN, beaches, unique SA accent (have you ever heard one? there's nothing like it), watermelon in summer, biltong.
i'll savour everything right here, in this moment.

flash mob, T-mobile adevert

i love this, because i want to be in one :D
PS harry potter was really good, but had to laugh at the woman behind us weeping haha

Jack Johnson - Times Like These

one of my favourite jack johnson songs

harry potter

:) i'm goingt to see the first part of the last one tonight. and i'm totally excited :D hehe
we've grown up with it you know. watched them grow up.
so i'll let you know what i think, but i'm almost certain i'll love it.

Jamie Cullum - I'm All Over it

over it

i'm over/tied of: waiting around, being treated like i'm stupid, being told i can't do something, my passport restrictions, the cold weather.
i'm just in a miserable mood. time to get on with it!

Cee Lo Green - Forget You

thought i'd go with the edited version.

had a night out with the boys last night and i swear i always have more fun with them. although they were shocked that i was 18. hmmmm do i have wrinkles??

boxes

this is the bullring, birmingham in 2008

while sitting on a bench on the high street of wolverhampton, i've realised that we all put people in boxes. as a group of girls walked past, all dressed in the latest fashion i immediately started imagining what they were like. probably listen to R&B. weird how we do this. i personally love people watching. there's somehting entertaining about seeing all the diversity and trying to guess what their lives are like. i wonder what people guess about me?

Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are [Official Video]

:)

skype

just had my first conversation on skype with michelle! it was awesome, it's lovely to speak to someone face to face when you havent seen them in 2 years. we've been keeping in touch by facebook etc.
i'll be seeing you soon mix :D

going home

it has been decided! can you feel the earth shift. i am moving back to South Africa
yes back home, where i feel i belong.
i love england with it's music, pubs and football obssession but i miss home.
i'll miss my not so new friends but i'm looking forward to seeing all my old friends and finding a uni place in cape town.
EXCITEMENT

update

just to let you guys know what i'm doing in case you thought i'd given up on life or something.

at the moment life is pretty monotonous. i'm studying for january resit exams : this i fear is not going well. i'm not motivated enough because ive done all the work before so it's lost all the excitement. but i'll try my best
i've still got my job at macdonalds, saving for a trip one day. maybe apple picking in new zealand with my friend sean or a summer camp counselor in america or maybe even the thailand trip or trip back home to SA.
and i'm still playing hockey, i'm much fitter than i was so thats good :D

the future is still wide open

MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON

i saw this on another blogger's blog and i thought it was gorgouos :)

inspirational

been a bit lapse in the blogging. ah well, there wasn't much to blog about.
i'm working 3 or 4 shifts a week, play hockey twice a week and try to fit in some study everynow and then.

i was just watching the Chile miners being lifted to safety and i saw their smiles and cheerfulness and suddenly felt so guilty. here i am moaning because i have to go to work at 8 and get this maths paper in but i have the sunshine, i have fresh air. they were stuck underground for months. i can't imagine what that was like. i was touched too when one miner came up and all he was holding was a little bible and he kissed his wife and you could see all that emotion just overflow. truly inspiring.

The Killers - Mr. Brightside

mature immaturity

cherise and i have only known each other for about two years but it feels like more sometimes. We only ever see each other every couple of weeks but when we do we have a huge catch up.
yesterday was one of those days. we drove to town in her little red car with some music i'd burned. singing as we talked.
i haven't had that much simple immature fun in a long time. we laughed. we shopped. we talked. we blasted our music to the streets, even got some old fogies waving at us.
she's doing what she wants to do. in uni and has a boyfriend she adores.
now to get my life together...

The Pretty Reckless - Miss Nothing

regrets that reveal things

so i made a mistake on thursday, quite a big one actually. went out with all the friendlings, it was the last time we'll all be together before everyone goes off to uni. we have a blast, dancing to 90's music in babylon and drinking appletinis and sex on the beach's. raving and moshing a bit in planet with shots :)

but i let my guard down, i let someone who hurt me charm their way through my carefully constructed defences. i let him dance with me and i let him kiss me. it felt nice to be wanted like that again but i soon came to my senses. and the next morning i realised that it didn't hurt so much when we agreed it wouldn't happen again which means that i'm not as affected as i thought i would be. i let go a long time ago, just hadn't realised how completely i had moved on.

i was even able to watch him pine over another girl the next night and hope it works our for him and then i laughed a little because i've been there.

i wish i could go off to uni. a new adventure to conquer. instead i'm replaying this level, trying to get a higher score. lady luck better stop hiding now.
Kez*

NEW LAPTOP

i bought a new laptop
its blue and packard bell and shiny and new :D
feels like a life decision ive made

romantisised or not i want it

you hear stories from older generations of antics of their youth and usually it's when they were 18-years or 21-years old. i wonder if we will look back and think those were the best days of our lives.
i think our generation live under so much pressure about future prospects that we don't have the same environments as those romantisising elders.
young love, intense love
we won't know what they mean until we compare it to... what? "normal" love. this isn't making sense. you're as young as you want to be and as intense as you dare to be.

says i who has a fraction of experience. what do i know i'm young.
To the Young and the Reckless!
Kez*

Emma's Imagination - This Day

her first single

she's in the final, i hope she wins :)

Must Be The Music: Emma's Imagination audition

i love this girl, she's on the reality show must be the music.

LAME

since almost everyone i know in England is going away to uni etc, i thought i'd expand my friendshipness and went out with some people from work. well that worked out well, naaaaat!

they picked me up after work and we drove around town looking for booze apparently. when invited i was under the impression that it was a quiet house party or get together with some friends. anyway we ended up at her house. it was basically a building site and by the time i got there a 40 year old guy was passed out on the couch, with bottles all around him. Glass on the floor where someone had smashed a picture frame and someone had managed to break the lock on the door. NOT where i wanted to be, i could have been in bed getting some much needed sleep.

yes needless to say i ate some cheesy pizza, helped her clean up the glass then left. oh and i did ride in a trolly down the street, that bit was fun.

what a lame night

daisies

today i sat in the park in the sunshine with the boys i have come to call my friends and bella. sitting there laughing with each other, i realised that life isn't about how much you do or see but whether or not you've had fun doing it and how you've affected others life. i mean i like to think that peoples lives would be different if they hadn't met me. i know i feel that way about the people in my life.
tomorrow i will walk to school and i will try and figure out a plan for the near future at least.
Kez*

let's

let's travel the world together
let's kiss in every city we explore
let's sit under the stars and wonder why we rush when we have all the time in the world
let's argue until the only way to reconcile is to caress
let's dance around to no music until we're dizzy
let's spend an entire day playing cards in a field
let's watch a film together on other ends of a phone
let's be
let's



ramblings, thoughts that cross my mind, wishes...
Kez*

Scott Pilgrim vs the World

Scott Pilgrim vs the World is one the most amazing films i've ever watched. i absolutely loved it. if you haven't seen it yet go NOW! :D
laughing the whole way through :)

Snow Patrol "You Could Be Happy" Animation

snow patrol = one of my favourite artists of all time

you could be happy

Kez*

London ACT TWO

so back to London i went. 3 hours and 55 minutes on the coach to get there with a layover at birmingham coach station, where we played cards. i have bad luck with cards, i don't think i'll ever step foot in a casino lol

Trafalga square. it took a lot of effort to get up there.

at the SA consulet we waited for an hour and a half just to be told that i forgot to sign one form. typical. but that's done and now i wait and prepare for my travel which WILL happen, i'll make sure of it.

some extra pictures

Results day :)

A picture taken by lianne which i think shows how much fun i had on my 18th lol

LONDON tomorrow

Kez*

P.S. I'm playing cricket today. i have no idea how but they needed numbers so i'll let you know whether or not i get hit or fall over. :)

results day

i have to post the good and the bad. thats what a blog is i suppose.
i got my results and although they would be considered great by most people, they are just not good enough especially when i was expecting better. i wanted ABB i got BBC. 3 marks off an A in maths.
when i read the paper i could feel everything build up and then it burst and i was in tears. it just seemed to me that nothing i ever planned or worked for went right. i know i was and probabley still am allowing myself to sink into self-pity.
to top it all off i realised that if i want to do resits i will have to postpone my South Africa trip. nothing is going the way it's supposed to.
and now we're all going out to celebrate. i'll celebrate everyone else's success. what else am i meant to do.

damn passport

i have to go to london... again
there's a signature missing on one of the forms for my passport renewal -_- was not impressed with this information, surely they should have checked the first time!!!
so i've rallied some friends to come with me so we'll make it a good day.

results day tomorrow. i can actually feel the wave of panic rise up in me when i think about it. i'm terrified i've messed them up. not that i'll need them soon as i'm still unwanted by the universities in England. ok thats a lie they want me just not as their own, they want to bankrupt me while educating me. go home or pay up basically. a bit cynical but yeah

lost prophets playing in the back round: It's not the end of the world now darling, but i can see it form here

how fitting
Kez*

House Of pain - Jump Around Music Video

90's music rocks! babylon plays this :)

18th Celebration

so i went 'uptown' as they call it and have mixed feelings about it. it's what you make of it i think.
personally i love to dance. didn't get much pictures as i thought it wise to not take my camera seeing as i lose umbrellas monthly

before :)

royal london

royal london, no dancing here

claire in royal london, love the hat :)

babylon, this is where the dancing and cocktails began :) and then off to planet, a place where you can be whoever you want to be. awesomes

so officially 18, JOKE!!!

NIGHT OUT TONIGHT

tonight the long awaited celebration occurs!!!! woooo
just got some wardrobe dilemmas to deal with. so this is the good side of being 18 :)
kez*

18th birthday

Happy Birthday to me! and do you know how i'm celebrating it by going to work... yay
but not to worry i have plans for the rest of the week TOWN. Everyone around me has been turning 18 and i've had to listen to the fun times they've all had uptown in the clubs and bars and pubs etc. now i'm not a big fan of alcohol but i love having a laugh with my friends. so i'll endure the day by reminding myself, we're entitled a birthday week really :D
just got my first birthday card :)
ok so off to work i go
Kez*
ps. i sent my first postcard ever, from london to michelle

London

Do you remember that post about taking finerprints i did at the police station; well they were invalid as i was told by the South African High Commision. So i had to go to London to get them done. That part went smoothly. We explored London afterward.



Green Park ouside Buckingham Palace. Optomistic sunchairs.



no explanation needed. but this, i regrettabley say, is the most interesting part of buckingham palace. seriously it's just a big building.

and the crest thingy on the gates

a beautiful modern building near the tower bridge.

underground paulo nutini. He was quite cool. the underground was quite exciting. except don't get on at 5, you might get squashed by home-goers.

mom in front of tower bridge

The House of parliment, Downing Street was close by.

hiding from the rain, under umbrellas and a tree.

it smelled in there but it had to be done :D

LONDON to be explored again
Kez*

1950's cocktail party

My friend alex threw a 1950's cocktail party, well it was a fun night among some friends where we dressed up and mixed drinks.

i thoight the sepia effect would suit so here are some pictures:

i am so lucky to have these friends

Kez*