Monday, 2 February 2009

'Everybody was snow-ball fighting...'

du-du du-du du du du du duu that slush was fast as lightening.... By the way, I don't own the original song. (Everybody was Kung fu fighting the song- Youtube it) Boarding can suck sometimes. Majorly. Sometimes you're so depressed and so sick of school you just want to pack a bag and run off down the road. Or maybe just punch the wall and scream you're head off. But sometimes, like today, it is totally AWESOME. So, it was snowing today- surprising really since we're in the middle of an English winter. Sadly, school was on. I know that sounds a bit childish, but to be honest I couldn't care less. To quote Garfield, 'I hate Mondays.' I also hate Maths, which I had a double period of.Anyway back to the story. It was snowing. Which was really cool. Our school is quite old, so it looked like a castle- you know the kind of thing, Harry Potter/Hogwarts sorta feel. Everyone (that's the boarders) was hoping the day pupils wouldn't make it in. But they did...sadly. Not all of them however, and not all the teachers either. The day was a collaboration of half full classes, clueless cover teachers and cancelled PE classes. I'm not really sure why they bothered. Of course- being the hormone charged teenagers that we are, with nothing much better to do, we had a huge snowball fight at break time. After break, there was a notice sent out by a member of staff affectionately (or not) known as General Franco. (Yes we know the historical background, we're not that original, we listen occasionally in class.) Apparently, no one was allowed outside. This made GF, already disliked, pretty much hated by every kid from 11 to 18. I mean, we had to watch the primary school kids up the road playing outside when we knew we couldn't. I know the health and safety blah, but seriously, the risque jollity of snowball fighting is hardly going to cause serious harm. As it turned out however it was all alright in the end. Because at the early end of school. (I think they all gave up), the boarding masters let us have free reign of the snow covered grounds. It was great. As I said, Awesome. Fantastic. Fabulous. So incredibly fun. We all went mental, and occasionally mobbed the teachers who were 'supervising'. We sledged on bin bags, made snow men, got ice down our bums, in our mouths,on our backs. We were out there for two hours. I wore my Mum's coat, because I wanted to remember her, and also because it's alot warmer than any of mine. Now I sit in studies, literally dripping, and feeling like laughing all the time. I know my face is bright red. I don't care. It's still snowing. I've got Cambridge this Friday and as travel arrangements are made I feel equally nervous and excited. If anyone linked with that is reading this, I have no credit and cannot answer, but I have received all messages. Fingers crossed school is canceled tomorrow, I'm going to have to love and leave you, tata!!!

2 comments:

  1. LMAO, not allowed outside... what's the bloody use of snow if you can't go and play in it!! Sounds like GF seriously needs a personality transplant. If safety is the problem, how come she lets the day pupils travel in on those nasty dangerous roads? Or allow cutlery in the dining room... you can do a lot of damage with a knife and fork. And as for geometry instruments... don't even go there! For a really good laugh listen to Stephen Fry's brilliant Compliance Defiance podcast where he rails against the OH&S regs in a hysterically abusive way - http://www.stephenfry.com/media/audio/5/episode-5--compliance-defiance/

    Have fun in Cambridge.

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  2. Made me laugh, have to let a few more people know about this Blog. Although I'm not sure that teenagers should be railing against Health and Safety, after all its for YOUR protection!! OK if the teenagers can see the idiocy there really is no hope for the H&S brigade.
    Go and have fun in the snow and throw as many snowballs as possible.
    By the way listen to Kermode and Mayo on films to get a great laugh http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/kermode/ I especially enjoyed them talking about 'Twiglet' as 'Twilight' became known and 'Inkspell', both of which got great reviews by the way.
    Have a great time in Cambridge.

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