Long Time No See

My god I've had a busy week this week. Which is why I haven't been checking in recently. I've had a weeks work experience at the Welsh Assembly Government. Just the commuting wore me out. Not to mention the meetings. I don't know how they do it. I don't think I'm going to be working in the WAG anytime soon. They all seem to have five degrees and crap jobs. I mean it they get paid very little and there is little chance of promotion. I don't think the civil service is for me. Plus I'm not the type who should work for the government. I'm kind of anti-government. Not in general justthe government at the moment. I have heroes like Che Guevara and I think Mussolini wasn't that bad a guy. The nicest of the evil dictators anyway. I mean Hitler had the holocaust that was just dispicable, Franco got Hitler to bomb places (Guernica) and Mussolini well he wasn't that bad? Although Franco survived the longest (1975) But I suppose Spain weren't in World War Two. Hitler frankly just had too high ambitions he aimed too high and so had further to fall.
Not that his aims were good. Generally they were pretty bad,
Anyway thats not the point. For someone who sympathises with communists (but isn't actually a commie cos they're atheists) working for the government probably isn't the best. I would really love to work in the department for International Diplomacy though. That would be cool. Anyway I suppose I've just got to thin about these things. Anyway I'll have to research the offices they have abroad as that is my goal.
See ya later ya British suckers! I'm heading for a warmer climate (or canada)

Summertime

Is anybody else as excited about High School Musical 2 as me?
I doubt it. But seriously, it's Wednesday today and on Friday I break up for the summer. I have a feeling its going to be a boring summer. For the first week of the summer holidays I have work experience at the Welsh Assembly Government in Cardiff. This is vital for me if I hope to get in to Oxford. The rest? Well I'm going to Prague for a week with my mum and dad. Um... August the 16th I get my results! Oh god. Um another week in august I'm helping out at the Holiday Club in my local church.
Other than that there's work and total boredom. My lack of friends and total loserness means I will be spending the summer on my own either being pestered to tidy up or watching tv. How crap is that?
Despite how crap this summer is going to be, I don't want it to end, because once it ends I'm in some serious trouble.
In September I will be 18. An adult, my childhood will be over and I am not ready. I have spent years waiting for this time wanting to be older, wanting to be out there in the real world. Now it is here I want to stay a child forever. I can still clearly remember my first day at high school; even that began in the most loserish way possible. But it doesn't seem like five minutes has gone by and thats when I realise I'm not ready. I'm not ready to be an adult, I believe there are certain things you need to have done before you can become an adult;
1. Had a best friend you've told everything to
2. Lied to your parents so you can stay out all night
3. At least 2nd base
4. Had a part time job
5. Been in love and been broken hearted
I'm not going to reveal how many of these I can tick off my list but its not enough. I feel like a child even though I am old in my year. I can't handle responsibility and I'm am extremely lazy. To the point where its self-deprevating. Sometimes when I feel really depressed I think to myself it would all be okay if I was pretty, or if I was skinny, or if I was a really cool person, if I could handle copious amounts of alcohol or was extremely talented at music or art. But I'm not any of those things and I never will be. At other times I look at myself and I think what the hell is she complaining about?? There are people who are starving, people who are too afraid to be themselves because they may get killed. In real terms what the hell have I got to complain about. See I'm even self-pitying. What a crap person I am.

Lists

1. What is the first song on your ipod?
Masquerade from The Phantom of the Opera

2. What was the last thing that made you laugh?
Putting salt in a friends drink - they didn't even notice!

3. What was the last film you watched?
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

4. What was the last thing you ate?
A veggie supreme pizza from pizza hut

5. What was the last music you played?
Extracts from King Kong.

I only just got up this morning. I'm sooo tired. I got up at half past six yesterday to go to Birmingham to play in the National Festival of Music for Youth. We weren't even playing til ten past five. What is the point of turning up at half ten then?
We spent most of the day wandering around Birmingham in the pouring rain. Which wasn't exactly fun. But the best bit came later. We played Slumber My Darling and Extracts from King Kong. We sounded awesome. You could see that the invigilators were impressed. Our band is pretty big and the sound was really good. When they were announcing the results all the people from our band were sat in the Upper Tier of the Symphony Hall Birmingham. It was pretty cool, they gave the highly commended award to KMS Shelley Music Centre Senior Wind Band. Everyone thought North Monmouthshire Senior Wind Band were going to win. But they didn't!! We did. It was so cool everyone jumped out of their seats and we were cheering and hugging. And then someone started 'Oggy oggy oggy...' We had a great time and the welsh were definitely the loudest!. Here's a full list of the category;
5B Music Centre

City of Sheffield Youth Festival Band
Flintshire Senior County Wind Band
KMS Shelley Music Centre Senior Wind Band
Newport Music Centre Senior Wind Band
North Monmouthshire Senior Wind Band
Rochdale Youth Wind Band
Sutton Youth Wind Orchestra
Torfaen Music Centre Senior Wind Band
Wirral Schools' Concert Band
WM+AC Festival Band

Unfortunately the Greater Gwent Youth Symphonic Winds didn't get the outstanding award that we did. But they were in a harder category. This doesn't mean that we get to play in the School's Prom in the Royal Albert Hall. But we could do. And it doesn't matter anyway because it was amazing to play in the Birmingham Symphony Hall.

An introduction

This is Newport. Where I live. I guess you could say it's a nice place to live. I have a nice house in a nice area with a perfect nuclear (well almost) family. But there's something about Newport which makes me want to leave. That's why I'm going traveling before university. I started studying economics in school at AS level and I love it. I'm hoping to study Politics, Philosophy and Economics in University. Hopefully at Oxford, fingers crossed. But before I do, like I said I want to travel. I'm going to go to Ecuador to help street children. It should be awesome... I hope.

I guess you could call me a geek. I have always done well in school with minimal effort but whatever. I also like watching university challenge but that's just one of my eccentricities. I have a few. I guess you could say I've had a sheltered childhood and I suppose that's true. I don't drink, I don't smoke and I don't take drugs. Maybe that makes me sound boring. But I don't think I am. I just can't take my alcohol and I guess I don't like not being in control. It scares me. That's the real reason I don't drink. Plus funny incident, the fiirst time I got drunk was the summer after my GCSE's. At my friends house on a Friday afternoon and we decide to tequilla shots with lemon and salt but he didn't have any tequilla so we used vodka instead. And then absinthe, whisky, tia maria and after that I can't remember. We went for a walk and I fell over but I kept forgetting so I now have a small scar on my knee. I threw up loads and had to be driven home by his brother. That's another reason i don't drink.

I have quite a lot of opionions and I love debating. I don't preach though, I hate people who try and press their views on you. They think that debating means perssuading other people to believe what you believe. That's not true. I'm a vegetarian and have been for six years. Often people ask me if I miss meat, the truth is I can't remember what it tastes like so it doesn't bother me.

I support Manchester United and use the royal 'we' to refer to the team. It makes me feel included. I'm addicted to checking football websites. My favourite is www.football365.com it is pokes fun at all the clubs especially Manchester United and Chelsea but that's what I love about it. It doesn't take itself to seriously. Bill Shankley once said 'Football isn't a matter of life and death. It's more important than that' But at the end of the day no matter how much I love football my life doesn't revolve around it. If football ended tomorrow I'd survive.

I'm probably one of the few teenagers who reads The Times pretty much every day and has been known to read a copy of The Economist. Who knew such teenagers existed right? We're all drunken louts if you'd believe the news.

My music is really important to me. I play the flute. I'm working on my Grade 7 at the moment and I hope to finish my Grade 8 by the end of next year. I play in the Newport Music Centre Wind Symphonia and the Greater Gwent Flute Choir. Tomorrow I am going with the Newport Music Centre Wind Symphonia to Birmingham to play in the National Festival of Music for Youth. If we win our group in this round we could be selected to play in the Royal Albert Hall. I'm really excited. Also the music I listen to is really important to me. This is where many of my eccentricities lie. I love indie music like The Fratellis, The View, The Kooks, The Killers, The Dirty Pretty Things, The Artic Monkeys, The Fray etc. I also like some Hip Hop like Timbaland and Justin Timberlake. But my main favourite type music is Rock en Espanol. This is not the norm for British teenagers. My favourite band is Mano Negra. Others I like are Fobia, Juanes, Circo, Elefantes, Cafe Tacuba, and many more. I also like some French music in Louise Attaque, Les Wampas and Noir Desir.

These are just a few of the areas of my life that are essential to who I am. I promise all my posts won't be this long. They'll probably only be short musings. I don't have a head for long prose. Hopefully I haven't bored you. I wanted to introduce part of what makes me different, interesting even.

Thanks