Germans
Two weeks ago I went on a German exchange trip. It was the third time I’d been on this trip because it’s really fun. This was the first half of the trip, so the Germans came over here for a week, staying at my house on the last night. In October (I think) We go to Frankfurt am Main. There are multiple Frankfurts, with different rivers going through them (the river Main being one of them).
The three Germans assigned to be my partners were Martin, Micah and Samantha. Martin was 18, Micah and Sam were 17 and they were really cool. Normally I got assigned 12 year-olds, but I was the oldest ‘English’ person on the trip apart from the teachers, so I became a helper. I just had to do head counts and make sure people didn’t mess around. That’s what my partners were doing on the trip, so I was assigned them.
Throughout the week we went to the National Sealife Center, my school (we did karate workshops and a tour of the school), Black Country Living Museum and we went to the town hall and met the Lord Mayor. The current one is the third Pakistani Lord Mayor, so that was cool. We were given soda water, orange juice, tea and sandwiches. How very English of us.
At my place we had Indian takeaway for dinner and played cards until the early hours. It was a game my parents and I had never heard of, Micah had brought it along with her. It’s called Phase 10 and we liked it so much, we ordered it from Amazon immediately. Eventually we all got too tired to play properly so my parents, Juliet who was playing with us, and the girls went to bed. Martin and I went on the computer and watched Batman Begins. We fell asleep about half an hour from the end. Our plan was to watch that, then Donnie Darko, then Transformers and Forrest Gump. Wake everyone up at about 8, have breakfast and go to the airport. Oh well…
Under Construction
I have quite recently upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress. As you can see, there are a few bugs to do with the sidebar. I have been informed that this is only to do with the theme I am using now - K2 - and so my blog is going to change it’s look for a while.
I have to find a similar theme that works and make everything in my old sidebar work in the new sidebar. I doubt it’ll take too long, but don’t be surprised if it does.
I will blog about my German exchange trip (the German kids came here, we haven’t gone to Germany yet) once my blog is fixed.
Seventy Squids and a Beer
Yesterday I had a haircut. I was expecting to have a trim, keeping the spherical ‘helmet-hair’ look though (It suits me, even though it makes me look like Sid from ‘Skins’ apparently). Then my mum offered me £50 to cut my hair short. As I am in a state of constant money lackage, this was a serious offer. I wasn’t sure though, short hair usually looks really, REALLY strange on me. My mum then got a text from her friend from work, saying if I cut my hair short she would give me £20 and a beer. Seventy squids and a beer? SOLD.
Yay
I finally got to see War with Jet Li and Jason Statham. An awesome film, but not very sense-making. I doubt it’s like Donnie Darko, where it actually IS sense-making, but you just haven’t figured that out yet.
A Brief History Of Time
Last Thursday I was home sick. I did go to school, but I only lasted half of lesson one, then vomited. I did make it to a toilet, but that didn’t really make it any more pleasant. I’m guessing it was just a stomach bug, because I was fine the next day.
While I was in bed (all day) I called my dad and asked him to bring me home a Clive Barker book. He bought me ‘The Damnation Game’ and ‘A Brief History Of Time’ which I had been talking about earlier that week, mostly referring to a show by Ross Noble. I was wondering if it was really as hard to read as he made it sound. It isn’t.
What I’ve Been Doing Part 3 - Grieving
Yesterday I lost something very important to me - my hat. I was busing to Ethan’s house with Hannah from across the road, and the buses were hot. Naturally I took off my hat and put it next to me. At our stop we stood up and got off. It took me a while to realise, so the bus was long gone by then. I don’t even know which bus it was, the 11 or the 58. If anyone manages somehow to recover it, please let me know. My ears are cold.
What I’ve Been Doing Part 2 - Making Friends
Normally when Ethan and I hang out, it’s Ethan and me. Just us, no other friends to speak of really. We eat biscuits, watch movies, play games (normally computer-based but ‘Catch’ happens every now and then) and generally have a lot of lazy fun. But a couple of weeks ago, Ethan and I discovered that there are cool people in Hall Green. On my road. Insanity!
Ethan and I met 4 awesome people that live in Hall Green (Hannah, Rosien, Leah and Kieran)! We thought Hall Green was for uber-posh suburban white parents with two kids, a dog and a well tended back garden. We’d just never met the kids in this image.
They’re all in year 11 (or were, today’s their last day) except Kieran who’s in year 9.
They go to a youth club held in a church - of which Ethan and I were skeptical - but apparently you don’t have to believe to get in. It does however have a 75p entry fee (so God can get himself an ice-cream). There are more cool people there, and most live close to, or on my road. Awesomeness.
Hoorah for friendliness!
What I’ve Been Doing Part 1 - Playing Games
A while ago dad brought home a new computer from his work. It is one of the new sexy iMacs. It’s really sexy.
I was allowed to dual boot it on the condition that it was just for games. I had no problem with it, so now I have clunky Windows (XP thank God!) on a beautiful 24-inch mac screen. I can finally appreciate Oblivion for what it is meant to be, rather than wait for the laptop I used to have to attempt to render some grassy foliage and decide that just crashing is a better idea.
I have roughly 60 mods installed and still it runs like the nose of a 5-year old. I got most of them from here.
I’m considering buying the Unreal Deal Pack simply because it’s 20 squids for 5 of the best FPS games ever made (in my opinion anyway). It’s a stupidly awesome pack of games and I really need to play UT3.
Peanut - Nut!
Earlier this week I was refused service at my local Chinese/Cantonese takeaway store - The Ruby. I asked for a ginger beer, which I could see clearly in the drinks fridge. The old Chinese man at the counter said “Nooo” very Chinesely. I asked him why and he told me I was too young for beer. I laughed and told him that ginger beer is not actually beer and promptly asked him again for the ginger beer. By then the ginger beer had taken to staring at me thirst-quenchingly. Once again told i could not have the obviously non-alchoholic ginger drink, I got a little peeved.
Lovely Indie Games
I’ve just got back back into all the indie games I used to play when I was younger and we lived in the old apartment. Games like N and Toribash. They are - and always will be - awesome. For this reason I have placed a web browser version of N on the Games page.
There are however some new games I’ve discovered.
Tojam Thing is a game where you have to inflate and pop bubbles, collect collectables, make chains of pops and enjoy the music.
Off-Road Velociraptor Safari is just the awesomest idea for a game ever. Check it out.
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Me
I'm a 15 year old male New Zealander with a long lost Hat of Awesomeness +5. I am an unstrict vegetarian, as are my parents. Mmm... bacon.
I like any kind of music, but prefer heavy metal and rock. I play the drums and guitar, but I'm better on drums by far.
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