Blimey! It seems like ages since I last wrote in this thing!
I've spent a week doing school placement for my course at uni. I won't mention the school in question, but what I can tell you is that the kids (well, most of them :P) are fantastic, and so are the teachers! I've been with the year 5/6 children, so some of them will be heading off to secondary school next September! Scary stuff - I remember when I started secondary school for the first time. It seems like yesterday, but I have to keep reminding myself that it was actually 8 years ago!!
Sorry that the book review hasn't been finished yet - as I've just pointed out, I have been VERY very busy and I'm absolutely exhausted. All you teachers out there, how do you do it??!!?? You are officially amazing! :D I've still got to write up some more of my notes and file them for easy access, but that can wait for a bit while I write this :P
By the way, the page for the blog was created today! Just look up Pink, Purple and Dinky - The Official Group in the facebook search bar, and you should see a little mug icon with a small heart next to it - it's an open group so you can join it and keep up-to-date with what's happening :) But I've said it before and I'll say it again...
NO FLAMES PLEASE!!!
Or, in the brilliant words of someone on YouTube, I'll use the flames to bake cookies - and you won't get any. :3
I'm really missing everyone back in Nottingham. On the plus side, my parents are coming up next Saturday (YEEEESSSS!!!!! :D), but it doesn't stop me from assessing how much money I have to see if I can haul everyone I know up to York on a coach or two. And everyone from the music group at St. Mark's - get those guitars, pianos and drums up here!! Let's go busking! :D
My notes-to-self this week....
- Always look both ways before crossing the road to prevent sudden sprinting
- Year 3/4 tend to work faster than Year 5/6
- "Dancing in the Moonlight" is a brilliant track for little spontaneous dances
- Jesus Culture, Jeremy Liddle and Bethel Church are brilliant musicians
- St. Mark's Church's band should make a CD
- And so should St. Mike's
- Brushing up on maths won't hurt me in the slightest, but door frames might...(ouch...)
Now for chocolate and sleep. Hey, I earned it! :3
I'll post again soon! :)
So here's another post where I write about stuff that randomly floats into my head whilst I type. You lucky people! :)
So to start with, in case you were wondering, I think I set the pageviews target a little high! There was no way I would've been able to get 500 pageviews in a week - I could probably get 700 in a month though, that's a much more realistic target :) So far this month I have a whopping (for me anyway) 634 pageviews, which increases while you're reading this! :D
I've decided I'll set up the Facebook group once I hit 2000 pageviews, which is in 50(ish) views' time! Although it will probably be up and running more around the time of 2050 pageviews as I am very busy with Uni work! The group will be a place where you can discuss the posts and suggest any reviews you might want me to do (sensible please!) - although again, please remember that I am a very busy student so I may not be able to do everyone's requests!
Speaking of Facebook, I've noticed I've been getting some friend requests from people I don't know who I can only assume have found me thanks to my blog - I'm one of the picky people who only really 'friend's people I know in real life, so if you want to get in touch about my blog then the Facebook group is what you'll be wanting to join. I'll put more info about the group on my next blog post :3
Feel free to follow my twitter though - my twitter name is @Katylizzie1804 - but again, unless I suddenly get a surge of pageviews and become an Internet hit, I don't update it every hour, let's just put it that way :P
Wow. Looks like I've had that floating around for a while, I've written tons!
Oh! I nearly forgot to mention - the book review is unfortunately delayed AGAIN, but rest assured I am ensuring I've got all the right words for the post so that I can recommend it properly to people :3
Erm.... Oh yeah! My throat and general well-being is a lot better than when I last wrote. I still have one of the most annoying coughs in the world, but I have effective medicine, which means it should be gone within the next few days - much to the inevitable relief of my flatmates and coursemates whom I must have driven crazy with me being ill and all!
Notes-to-self and other exploits this week include...
- I went to a bonfire party on Saturday with people from York Vineyard - some of the best fireworks I've seen in a while!
- St. Michael-Le-Belfry is still awesome
- Cars can drive quite fast through York's narrow streets at night
- Staying up until 3am writing the final part of an essay is not a good idea
- Skyfall is quite possibly one of the best Bond films EVER
Hmm. I like these "notes-to-self", I think I might just keep them in my blogs! Whenever I think of one, I'll note it down and let you all know, because some of them tend to make people laugh - you might enjoy them, I don't know :P
Anyways, gotta go now. Hopefully I'll get enough views to make a little group.... :3
As I put a couple of posts ago, I haven't been too well recently. There's a rather nasty bug going around, and not just in York - I heard from my parents it's affecting Nottingham too, so I can only assume that other areas of the UK are coughing and spluttering as well. If you're reading this and you have this, a similar illness or any ailment at all, then all the best for a speedy recovery :)
As for me, I couldn't get to sleep until 2am this morning because I kept coughing - eventually my eyes just dropped and my body went into re-charge (it does this after I've chundered too - again, sorry if you've just eaten). If it hadn't been for my 8 alarms this morning, I don't think I would've been able to get up in time for the one and only seminar I had today!!
Mind you, all this is nothing compared to what America's going through at the moment. As most of you will know, Hurricane(/Storm) Sandy hit the east coast of America on Monday after smashing its way through the Caribbean. The worst part of this is that at the time of me writing this, more than 80 people have died in total. I won't go into too much detail about the event itself, as again, most of you will have heard about this.
I send all my prayers and hugs over to those in America affected by the Hurricane, and of course, the victims' families and friends. I also hope that the Caribbean, the east coast and all its inhabitants experience a quick recovery from this horrible event. I wouldn't know how tough it is being there right now, but keep praying - you can get through this!
*more hugs*
