Great Weekend! Finally Finished School!

Well, it's been a great weekend as I went to a wedding and I left school on Friday, anyway here's what happened.


Friday

Friday was my final normal day of school. It didn't finish at the normal time of 3:20 PM, instead it finished just after 2:30 PM. There was a final assembly and it was all really fun. Also the school's current headmaster, Mr Dave Youldon is retiring, he has served the school since September 1989. The school is Northfield School & Sports College if anyone is wondering. Yes, it's in Billingham. I also shaved for the first time. My Mum told me to, didn't want me looking scruffy at the wedding on Saturday. Dave showed me how to shave, it was fun, I think.

Saturday

Saturday was the wedding between my Auntie, Debbie and Nigel who I guess is now my Uncle. I have also had a letter from the dentist saying I am able to get my braces fitted on the 12th July. I don't think it will hurt but it's a scary thought. I had my breakfast, waffles and bacon with bread. I also watched Judge Judy, had a shower all of that. My Mum went to the town centre and got me a new pair of shoes, they fitted perfectly. Around 1 PM we walked over to Debbie's house, about a 2 minute walk from my house. It was quite busy in the house. The limo arrived about 20 minutes after that, it was an American Ford with left hand drive! Most of us got in that and we headed off to St Cuthberts Church on Station Road in South Billingham. The service was suppose to start at 2 PM but people were late so it started at about 2:15 PM I think it was. The service was interesting and finished at about 2:45 PM. After that we went to the after party just round the corner from the church at the Billingham Social Club on Chapel Road. It was really good. I spent most time on the stage where the DJ was, I had a look through his songs and he did have alot. We left at about 10:30 PM and came home. Me and my mum watched the end of the Eurovision song contest on BBC 1. It was hosted in Oslo, Norway. Germany won this year's contest. United Kingdom were unfortuently at the bottom, overtaken by Belarus I think. I went to bed sometime between 11 PM and 12 AM.


Sunday

Okay Sunday (today) has been quite a boring day, as all Sundays are. My Dad was working. I have spent probably most of my day expanding my music list. Last year, Ceejay sent me a DVD with music from the 1940s to the 1980s. I copied most of those tracks to my main music folder. I now have 1582 music files. I also downloaded 'Working My Way Back To You' by 'The Detroit Spinners', that's a good song, I heard it yesterday at the party, but I've also heard it before on BBC Radio Newcastle 95.4 FM. Another song I downloaded was 'Moonlight Serenade' by 'The Glenn Miller Orchestra'. An interesting piece of classical music. That's about it really, not much else happened. I'd also like to thank Adam for posting a comment on the previous blog post about fancast.com. I will definetly check that out. Also, we do get all those shows you mentioned. Speaking of that, the final episode of Flashforward is on tomorrow night at 10 PM on FIVE, it's usually on at 9 PM, Monday nights, but it's on at 10 PM tomorrow. Does anyone know if there will be a second season? I hope there is, but I am not holding my breath. I am aware that viewers have been dropping on that show. One last thing, I have made an update to the website, well okay on the front page you know those pictures to the left? Well I removed some of the old ones and put some new ones at the top. They are pictures of me standing next to the limo I travelled to the church in yesterday.

Well, that's all for now, any comments regarding Flashforward would be awesome. Thanks.

Lost Finally Finished :(

I am writing this at 7:25 AM which is 10 minutes after the final episode of Lost has finished ending the program all together. It was simulcast with the U.S. so both UK and U.S. got the program at the exact same time. I woke up at 5 AM which is when Lost started. I tuned in and before the program even started it said "Technical Fault" (channel, not satellite). I thought "great" but it did come on 3 seconds later. I don't know how they manage to simulcast from a country thousands of miles away, they must use satellites in space or something. I must say the final episode was really interesting, when it started raining I thought the island was going to flood like Locke had said he was going to! The ending was really sad when Jack died. However I did hhave a theory that everyone was going to die and I was correct. There is going to be more screenings of the final 2 episodes on SKY 1, tonight, Tuesday night and Friday night. There could be more but those are the ones I know of. My Mum still needs to watch the final episodes, but tonight FlashForward is on so she is watching it tomorrow night. Well, it's been a great show and I really enjoyed it. It's very sad to see a TV show end when you've watched it for 6 years, but there you go. One streange phenomena has occured. The first time Lost started showing in the UK I was just a few weeks away from starting at the school I am at now. Now, Lost has ended and I am just 4 days away from finshing at that school! How weird is that?

Any comments regarding your thoughts of the final episodes and the show would be good. (It was also simulcast in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Israel, Turkey and Canada).

Weekend Update

Friday

I have been feeling quite ill with a bad cough and I still was feeling ill, so I stayed off on Friday for half day. The original plan was to stay off full day but I discovered I had an exam so had to go in at 12 PM! I also discovered that all channels on our Sky Digital was displaying "no satellite signal is being received" which sucks because Lost is on on Friday nights. I arrived at school at 12:20 PM, which was when lunch began. I was just wandering around for an hour, at 1:20 PM lunch finished and I went straight over to the sportsdrome for the exam. The exam was P.E. and I must say I think I did pretty well, considering P.E. is one of my weakest subjects. The heatwave is still continuing in the UK. I had to stay at Dave's overnight so I could watch Lost on Sky 1.

Saturday

I woke up and was feeling quite hot, I had slept on top of the bed the entire night as it was too warm, we also got our highest temperature this day of 30.6 Degrees Celcius. I ust spent the day watching YouTube videos. I watched some of The Simpsons and GTA San Andreas walkthrough videos on YouTube. Dave bought some Coke, and we went to McDonalds drive thru, when we got back he let me eat in my room, the heat must be making him crazy!

Anyway I am too lazy to update, sorry. On a better note, actually on a worse note, I am on my FINAL week of school. I can't believe how quick it's come. I used to think the day would never come!

Who said the weather isn't nice in England?

Saturday 15th May - Fire behind house!

There was a fire at the back of Dave's house today, I'll write about it in a minute. I woke up at around 7:30 AM but lazed around in bed until about 8 AM, got up and switched the TV on. I watched Supernanny U.S. until I think 9:40 AM. I ate breakfast at around 10:50 AM (bacon, waffles and bread). Then I watched television some more. I watched Everybody Loves Raymond on Comedy Central and then the channel had a problem when the commercial break came on (see picture below). My Mum has now booked tickets to Al Murray's gig in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on the 30th November. If you don't know who Al Murray is, he is a British comedian. After that I got my laptop out and went online until 3:02 PM when Dave rang and said he finished work. I logged off and got my clothes and things ready. In the car going to Dave's house I listened to Skyrock and heard "Sur La Tete De Ma Mere". When I got to Dave's house I installed The Sims 3 on my Windows 7 which I have been meaning to do for ages now. It works really well. I looked out my window at 7:35 PM and noticed there was some smoke coming from the ground near the farmer's field. I told Dave and he came and looked at it then we went outside and saw a fire, it was only a small one but spreading. We didn't know if it was the farmer just burning crap or kids starting fires but it was getting big so Dawn rang the police while I ran around the back of the street and closer to where the fire was. A Cleveland Police van was there by the time I got there. A few minutes later fire engine came and managed to put it out, as it was getting big and the fence had caught on fire. The fire engine left at 7:55 PM so it was all very interesting. I have no plans for tonight but I'm listening to 97.2 Stray FM from Harrogate, I can receive it easily with that circular antenna on the roof, since it beams to the south it nulls Metro out on 97.1 MHz.

Saturday

Saturday, I woke up around 10 AM and went into Dave and Dawn's bedroom and for an hour. I came back to my room around 11 AM, made myself breakfast (bread and butter with cream crackers) and watched three new episodes of The Simpsons not shown yet in the UK. I watched them on WTSO.net. During the second episode I ate some bacon with ketchup. After that I switched Skyrock on and went in the shower for about 10-20 minutes. I heard some good music, but I listened to Skyrock until about 5 PM and heard the exact same songs every hour or so, but they are good songs anyway. I've heard "Nothing on you" by "B.O.B" 7 times today, although I bet it's been played more than that. At about 5:30 PM, me, Dave and Dawn went out and drove to North Yorkshire and drove around the N. York moors, I really enjoyed it, I went to a nice, small bar in the middle of the moors at about 7:20 PM, can't remember what it was called, The New Inn or something like that. I had chips and 4 slices of bread. I didn't finish the bread, I left 2 slices but luckily Dawn finished them. We left there at about 7:50 PM and just drove around the rest of the North Yorkshire moors, and visited some caravan sites. We actually visited a caravan site because Dawn is staying in one over there a few weeks from now and she needed to know where it was. I got some nice pictures of the moor which were taken at about 9 PM. We also passed through the village of Goathland, which is where the nostalgic 60s police drama, Heartbeat is filmed. It was a great evening. We didn't get home until just after 10 PM, I think it was about 10:10 PM. It is now 11:40 PM and I am tired so going to bed after I write this. Since I got in I have just been hanging out online and listening to Skyrock, which I will continue to listen to through the night. In a few months I might be going to Paris for a weekend with my Dad, I am really looking forward to it. Will be fun, I can visit the Eiffel Tower and everything. I think it will be during the summer holidays, although I would have left school long before then anyway. Anyway that's all guys. Btw the first photo is of the Missile Early Warning Station on the Fylingdales Moor. Click here to see a close up in Google Street View.

Friday's Update

On Friday I woke up at about 6:30 AM and listened to the radio for a while. I got up at 7:30 AM and watched the results of election day on GMTV (ITV 1), the BBC was too political. The results were still coming in. (Just so yoou know, the results were a 'hung parliament', this is where no party got the majority of 326 seats). I had my breakfast (egg with bread and butter). After that I got dressed, and went to the shop next to my house and bought a bottle of Coke and bar of Aero chocolate (yummy!). I ate my chocolate and watched VH1 for 5 minutes (the "80s at 8" was on), then me and my Mum left the house. When we got to the town centre my Mum needed to go to the cash machine but the time was almost 8:20 AM so I went to the bus stop. Bus came at about 8:25 AM and I just spent the day at school (of course). Nothing interesting happened so lets just skip the day at school. 3:20 PM my final lesson of the week finished, the lesson was English. I walked home and got changed beecause I was going out with Lewis again that night. I watched TV, and a few mins later the phone rang, I answered it and it was Dave asking if I was ready, I said yes. I was staying overnight at Dave's that night because I was going out with Lewis. When I got to Dave's I went in the shower for a few minutes, came out, got dressed again and had tea. I think it was about 5 PM at this point. I listened to Skyrock both in the shower and in the kitchen while eating. I went back upstairs and just hung out online for a while. I set the VCR up to record my TV programmes while I was out. I recorded The Simpsons from 7 until 8 PM and again at 8:30 PM until 9 PM. Then I recorded a new episode of Lost from 9 PM until 10 PM. I went out with Lewis to the Wynyard Planetarium (I don't know why it's called the Wynyard Planetarium when it's actually miles out of Wynyard village. The show we watched was called "Wonders of the Universe". It shows us what was in our own galaxy (Milky Way) and the other galaxies. The show started at 7:30 PM and was on until 9PM. It actually finished at 9:15 PM. We left there and as we went home the taxi broke down in Billingham. Just outside Bonnington Crescent. The driver had to call for another tazi to come pick us up. So I got home at about 9:20 PM. I switched my laptop on when I got home and got a call from my Mum asking if I was watching Lost, I said I wasn't because I missed half of it but I was recording it anyway. I stopped recording at 10 PM, rewand the tape and watched it. The Simpsons and Lost at 11 PM. Fast forwarding through the commercials of course. After that I think I sent an email, switched Classic FM on and went to bed. So it was quite a good day I guess. Damn I can't believe I'm leaing school in a couple of weeks, I don't know whether to be happy or sad.

Thursday

I woke up at about 4:00 AM and went back to sleep. I then re-woke at 7 AM and went downstairs and switched on the TV. I watched GMTV on ITV 1 and ate breakfast, I had Coco Pops, that's cereal. I went back upstairs and got dressed at about 7:35 AM. I left the house just after 8:10 AM and walked over to the bus stop at Billingham town centre. When the bus came I realised I left my bus fare in the house so I had to walk to school but still managed to make it on time without being late. When I got to school I had a drink and then a few mins later went to tutor group. These were my lessons today:

#1 (9:20 am - 10:10 am) - Business Communications - We did an exam paper as practice for the real exam next week.
#2 (10:10 am - 11:05 am) - Geography - Managing resources, tourism in an LEDC, etc
#3 (11:25 am - 12:20 pm) - Geography - Same as above
#4 (1:20 pm - 2:20 pm) - P.E. Theory - Revision/Studying for the exam
#5 (2:20 pm - 3:20 pm) - Science - Space, the universe and telescopes

I walked home in the rain after school and got in at exactly 3:45 PM. I got changed to go to the Main Project, I had tea, chicken and yorkshire puddings, finished off my chocolates and then watched some T.V. Dave rang a few mins later and said he was coming to get me to take me to the MP. In the car going there I used my iPhone and mini FM transmitter to listen to Skyrock and heard my favourite French song, which is Sur La Tete De Ma Mere by L'Algerino (translation: on the head of my mother). I was at the MP until 5:50 PM and then got the mini bus home. I photographed 2 posters, one for the social group rules and one for managing anger, I thought it would be interesting so I just got my iPhone out and photographed them. I came home and watched The Simpsons at 7-8 PM and Futurama from 8-8:30 PM. I am now listening to Classic FM and about to go home. So here's the photos:

Tuesday - Severe Traffic on A19

Hi guys, this is Tuesday's update. I woke up at around 5 AM and listened to the radio for a bit before falling back asleep and my Mum woke me at 7 AM. I ate my breakfast (coco pops cereal), then went back to bed, just to rest as I was still tired. I got dressed at 7:45 AM and left the house at 8:10 AM. I went to the shop next door, bought my drink of Coke and headed off to the bus stops at the town centre. The bus came at about 8:25 AM so I got on that and went to school. Summer uniform has started so we can now wear school t-shirts with our black jumpers on but we can remove them if it is a hot day. I arrived at the school and just hung around until 8:50 AM when the bell went for everyone to go to their tutor groups. At 9:10 AM the bell went for first lessonn, which for me was P.E. theory. Probably one of the most boring lessons for me. I started to feel sick and had to put my head on the desk. I did survive until the end of the lesson at 10:10 AM, I think the room was too hot. I went outside and quickly drank some Coke and headed off to lesson #2 (Science). I began to feel sick in that too so had to put my head on the desk again but it soon passed. I sit next to my cousin in Science and P.E. theory anyway. I managed to get my work complete and break time came at 11:05 AM. I just ran around outside. Lesson 3 starts right after break at 11:25 AM. Uusally I would have guidance but instead we were in the hall and someone from the Cleveland Fire Brigade was there giving us a presentation about car crashes. He showed us alot of videos, I think they were like TV commercials. Some were quite upsetting as they showed idiot drivers crashing cars and people being killed. After that it was lunch (12:20 PM). Period 4 (1:20 PM) and 5 (2:20 PM) were not very interesting. It was History and French. School finished at 3:20 PM. Uusally I would have Geography revision class but that has finished now. So I walked home and got in at 3:55 PM. I got my chocolate cake out the fridge and switched the TV on, 2 minutes later the phone starts ringing and it's Dave saying I need to get changed for the Main Project in Ingleby Barwick. Btw that is a social group I go to every Tuesday and Thursday after school. Thursday is in Stockton, not Ingleby. I quickly got changed and ate my chocolate cake. Dave came and we left. We got onto Station Rd, Billingham but there was a train coming so the gates were shut, we went the other way and got onto the A19. However as soon as we got on there we noticed traffic was very heavy, of course it was too late to turn back then. This was good for me of course as I dislike the Main Project. I was loving it and kept saying "HAHA this is a miracle" and "this is just like the M1 or the M25!". We were sat in the car on the A19 for about 15-20 minutes, I tuned into my local radio station, 96.6TFM and heard the traffic report. Two vehicles had collided and the A19 had to be closed (noticed how I mentioned the presentation in lesson #3?). I got a video of all the traffic. The radio recommended people to divert through Stockton which is exactly what we did. Of course since many people were doing that we got into Stockton and yet more traffic. Dave got sick of it and said "right that's it!". Then he turned the car round and I said "what are you doing" and he said "going home". So we went home, but avoided the A19 for obvious reasons! Instead we went through Norton village and got back into Billingham. Then we arrived home and I just hung out online, had tea, watched The Simpsons at 6. Now I am listening to Thessaloniki's 93.1 Heart FM and talking to people on MSN. Anyway that's it for now, bye guys!

Weekend Update

Hey guys, sorry for not updating in a while, I know, I know I am lazy. Today I woke up at around 9:30 AM and went downstairs, checked email etc and watched TV. My Mum was already up and had the BBC breakfast show on, but when she left I turned on Sky and watched an 80s show on VH1 until about 11 AM, when I switched over to True Entertainment and watched the first episode of "Roots", about the African's who became slaves. I ate breakfast sometime between 11-12 and had waffles, bacon, bread and fried egg, which was awesome. I love Saturday morning breakfasts. I just went on the lappy for a good few hours after Roots finished (12). I went to Dave's at about 2 PM, but before that we went to the Billingham Recycle Centre and got rid of some crap. I hung out online for a bit. 9 year old Libby was round (Dawn's niece). A few minutes later me and Dawn went to pick up Dawn's Mum, Lisa (Part of Dawn's family) and Olivia (Lisa's daughter). Them three were all cramped in the back seat but didn't affect me in the front lol. We drove back home and Dawn's Mum and Dave did some gardening, putting new plants in at the back of the garden, while they did that I mowed the lawn. Got that done then watched Lost for a bit. It was season 1 on DVD. Half way through me and Dave went out and I got a McDonalds. I ate that and hang out online, at 8 PM me and Dave went out to the bar and I got a Coke. Dave went on the karaoke and sung "Drive" by "The Cars". I got it on video. I got kicked out of the pub at about 21:30 so we went home then and I have just been watching music channels and on the Internet since then. I have also been watching South Park on MTV Shows. That's all for now.