Summer!

Hey again,

well, admittedly, this post may seem a little late since we are already about a week and a half in, but the great thing about the summer hols is that a week and a half isn't all that much. 6 weeks! might be 7 actually. But eitherway, the last one we had was quite a while ago and i am very glad it's here now. It was getting to the point at the end of the year where I just didn't care, I wanted to go home and stay there cos it had been a long, but excellent, year.

Anyway, holiday finally upon us, so all is well. For the first little bit I just didn't nothing; it was brilliant. I didn't really feel like doing anything; all good :)

And in the summer you get to see more of friends (out of school) so going down to the river and swimming, chatting and laughing etc was all good fun. I'm enjoying the summer so far :D and of course we've got nicola's party tonight (happy birthday for yesterday + see you tonight, if you read this) which'll mean more having fun and being with people.

The other thing about the summer is we FINALLY get to go on holiday! It's been about a year since we've been on a holiday to anywhere, but now we're going to spain for two weeks and it will be brilliant. We're staying in like a villa thing with a few others next to it, but like portugal (aaages ago) it should be fairly empty, meaning the pool should be fairly empty too :D

All round, summer is good. The summer should be more often.

Josh xx

An excellent, but still rather odd, day

Hello again,

As said before, I have started to get back into writing these things. Today was a very strange day which thankfully due to a few good friends turned out much better than I originally anticipated. The theme for the day (for those not there or not in year 9) was exploring the guided bus through the medium of drama and music. At first, admittedly, I didn't think much of this theme and imagined it would be a tad on the dreary side.

We started off pretty badly actually, the classic 'sugar paper take down notes and plan' situation was the first thing, whilst we also watched a short film on the new guided bus. This turned out to be our theme, making a promotional advert campaign for the new Guided Bus.

My group, consisting of Helen, Katie, Jamie B, Ali B and Jamie (the owly one) started off by making a deliberately very cheesy advert, which was actually not so great and didn't get across the point. So then we joined up with the other people and made a very odd and abstract ad campaign, involving dialog, odd singing, and abstract floaty dancing. It begun with Lucy complaining of congestion, and then Jack jumped out at her and said 'Why not try the Guided Busway!'. Next thing Jamie had burst into song about the Guided Bus, which for us behind the curtains and those watching from the audience was quite amusing, but then once he had finished Emma the curtain opening extraordinaire opened the curtains and we all begun dancing in a very graceful way, whilst Jamie came up to us and said things like 'It's fast' and 'It has free Wi-Fi' and 'It's such a smooth ride' and 'Save the Owls!' and all manner of things, which then lead to us all lying on the floor as the curtain closed. We then got the chance to perform our wonderful jingle, 'Want no fuss? Get the Guided Bus!' and the guy from Cambridge County Council said he liked it the best so, ya never know, we might be millionaires next week :D

Anyway, point being, what might have not been so good was in fact rather a good day, which was as always entirely due to my wonderful friends, who I couldn't live without :)

Josh xx

Summer Concert + people

Hello all,

goodness me hasn't it been a long time since my last blog about ABBA? I suppose I just wasn't in the writing mood, which is silly really, because before in my previous blogs (when I had the writing mood) I enjoyed writing very much.

Anyhow, my last blog was about a musical event and I'm following a similar thing now, with the summer concert.

The summe concert was fabulous; our various repetoire of music sounded great and I think everyone, performers and audience alike, had fun with it all. It was also good to just actually perform some stuff we've all been working on for months or just haven't performed in a while, like I Can't Give You Anything But Love and Tequila Samba and the like. It was fantastic to be performing with everyone once again, especially with those particular songs.

And, you may have seen from the title of this post, there is another part to this blog:

People can change, and even if you thought they were horrible beforehand, they can become decent people. I mean, it gets you thinking whether or not you were truly in the wrong? but then when all's fine and the person is being decent again, that it doesn't matter who was wrong. It's kind of good to have that; going through a patch where you didn't like someone and then them starting to change and apologise is good. And actually, it happens more often that it can seem.

And, in contrast, there are some people who just can be fantastic, and make me laugh, smile and generally be happy. Thanks very much :D

This blog was a bit lamely written; I need to get back to writing more often. I'm losing the ability :)

Josh xx