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High School Muse
A blog by Hannah Stacey of Beaconsfield High School
Hannah is a final year A level student who is hoping to gain a place at Edinburgh College of Art to study costume design. She is 17 and lives in Beaconsfield. Starting today, Hannah will be writing a fortnightly blog for the Advertiser sharing her experiences as she prepares for her A levels, applies to universities, and waits for her results.
So. I have never written so much as a page of a diary before in my life and now I'm starting a blog on general teenager-isms as a sixth former in Beaconsfield. Wish me luck.
This is now my final year in school and I'm going to try to make it one to remember, but for the moment I am still in denial that the summer is over. I felt like the holidays had only just begun when my friends started to say things on Facebook like 'Ahhhh a week left - can anyone remember if I was set any coursework?'
My summer was amazing, mainly because I went to India for three weeks with the school (Many thanks to our teachers Mrs Wood and Mr Cole). We travelled around the cities of Rajasthan and hiked up the Himalayas and of course we found amazingly cheap shopping - I have come back with no fewer than seven pairs of Ali-baba (harem) trousers.
I found it brilliantly funny to read in Harper's Bazaar when I got home that Rajasthan is the most fashionable place to be at the moment. Harper's has idyllic pictures of boats floating past the lake palace in Udaipur, but in fact the lake had dried up. Harper's says India is "a place of great stillness and tranquillity' but in my experience this could not be further from the truth.
But now it's back to school and unfortunately I have to fit in some work around the new social life that opens up to everyone who is about to hit 18. Now that, I can look forward to! I shall be legally able to vote, watch 18 rated films, buy cigarettes and alcohol, adopt a child and take out a mortgage all in a week's time and still the only thing I am looking forward to is presents and a squeaky paper hooter!
This year will also entail university applications which you will no doubt be reading about as they gradually consumes my life and soul. So, with any luck in two years (leaving a year aside for an Art Foundation course) I shall hopefully be sitting in a bar/the student halls/the foetal position in Edinburgh wondering why on earth I have decided to leave my comfortable bed at home for a strange city with strange people and a very questionable kitchen.
And now, having sufficiently humiliated myself for today I think I should leave, so for anyone who is reading I hope you enjoyed this and I shall be writing again in a fortnight's time to update you on everything, bye!
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haha I think we're all annoyed that the summer's over so soon xx
Glad India was good - i'm thinking of going the year after next - after Borneo next year!! Having problems raising money etc.. etc....
such is life :(
Looking forward to reading more in a fortnight!! :)
Rosa, you didn't have to go to Borneo xP.
Oh hey now, a cheeky blog! how did we not know about this!!! / its georgie barwick and abbie crook if we didnt establish this. We're rather impressed with this. But we want to do this. its so fun!!