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hope dangles on a string...
...like slow spinning redemption
14 July 2009 @ 10:34 pm
Elle n'est pas une chose, mais je crois que l'étudiante de l'échange que nous sommes à chez nous maintenant soit la personne plus belle dans le monde et elle me manquera quand elle retourne à France mardi prochain.
Sur le sujet des choses, cependant, à mon avis les croissants; les pains au chocolat et les pommes di frites sont délicieux. Ah, j'ai oublié, ils sont seulement les aliments...! Évidemment, la Tour de Eiffel est aussi très magnifique. Mais, je pense que si je doit faire un choix, toutefois, Eurodisney recevrait mon prix. ;)
Sur le sujet des choses, cependant, à mon avis les croissants; les pains au chocolat et les pommes di frites sont délicieux. Ah, j'ai oublié, ils sont seulement les aliments...! Évidemment, la Tour de Eiffel est aussi très magnifique. Mais, je pense que si je doit faire un choix, toutefois, Eurodisney recevrait mon prix. ;)
28 January 2009 @ 12:43 pm
unfortunately, i can't claim this as an original of mine, but where i'm from originally (stoke-on-trent, england), we use the word 'nesh' a lot, and no one ever knows what it means. a 'nesh' person is someone who feels the cold, or complains about feeling the cold.
why aren't you swimming?! you're nesh!
why aren't you swimming?! you're nesh!
Current Location: bedroom
02 June 2008 @ 06:35 pm
stolen the idea from
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kuokoa06
(thanks, babes!)
what're your favourite bands?
what're your favourite songs?
tell me and i'll love you forever or for a very long time, anywayi'm craving new music 'cause, afterall,
music makes the world go round
thanks.
merci. ta.
grazie.
Current Location: bedroom
Current Music: don't stop the music || rihanna
13 March 2008 @ 10:17 pm
i'm so sorry about the lack of lj - i know it's been a bit appalling of late, i've just been run off my feet!
01; recovery from my surgery last week is still going well, and the stitches are slowly but surely falling out, which is good.
02; school is going well at the moment. i've got the most insane amount of work to do, and missing time last week hasn't really helped matters, but i'm getting there and greatly encouraged by my january module exam results. but it's nearly easter, too (we finish tomorrow), so i can catch up on everything i have to do and then i only have eight weeks of school left in my entire life - what a scary thought! our headmaster is leaving tomorrow - well, he was asked to go - and it feels like the end of an era, albeit a very strange one. he had an affair with last year's head girl, and the rumours and the negative press just got too much for the board of governers, so he's been given the boot. our deputy head was appointed as the new headmistress, so i'm pretty confident that they school will be in safe hands come september.
03; driving is the most amazing thing ever - really enjoying my new found freedom!
04; there's a guy i like very much, and that's going well, too - no complaints there!
i'll try my best to do a proper update soon-ish (got a pretty hectic rest of march, what with easter holiday socialising, and the like) - until then, love,
xoxo.
01; recovery from my surgery last week is still going well, and the stitches are slowly but surely falling out, which is good.
02; school is going well at the moment. i've got the most insane amount of work to do, and missing time last week hasn't really helped matters, but i'm getting there and greatly encouraged by my january module exam results. but it's nearly easter, too (we finish tomorrow), so i can catch up on everything i have to do and then i only have eight weeks of school left in my entire life - what a scary thought! our headmaster is leaving tomorrow - well, he was asked to go - and it feels like the end of an era, albeit a very strange one. he had an affair with last year's head girl, and the rumours and the negative press just got too much for the board of governers, so he's been given the boot. our deputy head was appointed as the new headmistress, so i'm pretty confident that they school will be in safe hands come september.
03; driving is the most amazing thing ever - really enjoying my new found freedom!
04; there's a guy i like very much, and that's going well, too - no complaints there!
i'll try my best to do a proper update soon-ish (got a pretty hectic rest of march, what with easter holiday socialising, and the like) - until then, love,
xoxo.
23 February 2008 @ 05:03 pm
...a digital camera.
i wanna spend up to £150. so a little cute thing, please. :] i'd really like a big screen, high megapixels, and a good zoom and flash. i'd also like to find a fully waterproof case so that i can take pictures in the water...
i've been looking at the <b>sony cyber-shot dsc-w55</b>, but i don't know how good it is... advice?
i wanna spend up to £150. so a little cute thing, please. :] i'd really like a big screen, high megapixels, and a good zoom and flash. i'd also like to find a fully waterproof case so that i can take pictures in the water...
i've been looking at the <b>sony cyber-shot dsc-w55</b>, but i don't know how good it is... advice?
Current Location: bedroom
Current Music: grace kelly || MIKA
16 February 2008 @ 09:58 pm
i've just got back from a week in italy with my school - hence the lack of posts. i shall catch up on all my lovely f-list soon and update! but right now i'm shattered and can barely form a coherent sentence.
ciao!
ciao!
03 February 2008 @ 03:53 pm
gah, i've been such a bad lj friend recently, but i promise i've been reading everything... even though there's a woeful lack of commentage. sorrrrry!
it seems so long ago now, but i hope you all had wonderful new years. mine was really nice - spent time with my friends in wales. :]
had exams, too. they went okay, i guess. i just had two english modules, so it wasn't so bad. we've just got to wait for the results now... ;)
it's so ironic - i'm in the most important year of school (my university places depend on my summer grades) and yet i'm spending more time than ever over at mtv.com watcing 'laguna beach' and 'the hills'. yeah, not looking at anyone in particular, eli!
i'm so tired right now, though. i went to academy 2 in manchester last night with my best friend and another friend of hers to see the rocket summer gig, with between the trees and secret handshake. i was really looking forward to it, but bryce (the rocket summer) is ill, so he cancelled and we just saw the other two. well, actually we left after between the trees because they were the only other one we actually wanted to see. but 'tis all good, 'cause the gig was free and the ticket will be valid when he comes back in june. :] between the trees were actually a whole lot better than i thought they were gonna be. so i now have a new musical obsession!
while in manchester, we also got to ride on the magic bus! it's so cool - they're student buses (bright blue) and it's only like 80p. :]
got the train back this morning. but it was absolutely packed! it was the bournemouth train from macclesfield (i got off at stafford), and there were no free seats anywhere. it was ridiculous. i went to the guard and said i had a ticket and needed a seat because i can't really stand up for long periods of time on a moving train because i'd just fall over, and eventually i ended up sitting in first class with a standard class ticket. score! :]
now i'm just absolutely exhausted and my friends want me to go to church tonight and i'm just like... dead.
anyway, hope you're all good. :]
i'll try and post again before i leave for italy on thursday.
it seems so long ago now, but i hope you all had wonderful new years. mine was really nice - spent time with my friends in wales. :]
had exams, too. they went okay, i guess. i just had two english modules, so it wasn't so bad. we've just got to wait for the results now... ;)
it's so ironic - i'm in the most important year of school (my university places depend on my summer grades) and yet i'm spending more time than ever over at mtv.com watcing 'laguna beach' and 'the hills'. yeah, not looking at anyone in particular, eli!
i'm so tired right now, though. i went to academy 2 in manchester last night with my best friend and another friend of hers to see the rocket summer gig, with between the trees and secret handshake. i was really looking forward to it, but bryce (the rocket summer) is ill, so he cancelled and we just saw the other two. well, actually we left after between the trees because they were the only other one we actually wanted to see. but 'tis all good, 'cause the gig was free and the ticket will be valid when he comes back in june. :] between the trees were actually a whole lot better than i thought they were gonna be. so i now have a new musical obsession!
while in manchester, we also got to ride on the magic bus! it's so cool - they're student buses (bright blue) and it's only like 80p. :]
got the train back this morning. but it was absolutely packed! it was the bournemouth train from macclesfield (i got off at stafford), and there were no free seats anywhere. it was ridiculous. i went to the guard and said i had a ticket and needed a seat because i can't really stand up for long periods of time on a moving train because i'd just fall over, and eventually i ended up sitting in first class with a standard class ticket. score! :]
now i'm just absolutely exhausted and my friends want me to go to church tonight and i'm just like... dead.
anyway, hope you're all good. :]
i'll try and post again before i leave for italy on thursday.
Current Location: bedroom
Current Mood: 
tired
tired22 January 2008 @ 10:30 pm
that i've been such a bad lj friend recently.
real life has caught up with me in a pretty major way.
i'll try and update properly soon.
♥
real life has caught up with me in a pretty major way.
i'll try and update properly soon.
♥
Current Location: bedroom
06 January 2008 @ 08:22 pm
hmmm... voglio scrivere in italiano perché poi mi senterò più studiosa! anche, sente più "normale" come questo.
non voglio avere diec'otto anni. :[ non voglio diventare un adulto perché poi non sarò una giovane, e questa mi deve aver paura.
ma... il punto buono è che io e le mie amiche andremmo alla città per mangiare e anche andare al pub per festeggiare poter bevere l'alchol (? horrible string of verbs there! 'spiace!) legale a venerdì! ed anche è bello perché ci sono delle amiche che io non le visto per molti tempi. ci saranno due amiche di scuola (che vedo ogni giorno) e poi la mia cugina, le mie due amiche migliore (che non visto mai perché abitano lontano da qui), un'amica di chiesa (ma lei non ne va molto adesso, così non l'ho visto per tempi anche) e due altre ragazze che con frequentavo la scuola, ma una dopo l'altra, quando avevo 10 e 14 anni. così sono molto eccitata per quello.
ma prima di mio compleanno, ho un esame di inglese. :[
ed anche sento male. bleugh.
♥
p.s. c'è qualcuno che sa come si può fare i accenti (?) senza scriverli in word prima e poi cut+paste qui?
non voglio avere diec'otto anni. :[ non voglio diventare un adulto perché poi non sarò una giovane, e questa mi deve aver paura.
ma... il punto buono è che io e le mie amiche andremmo alla città per mangiare e anche andare al pub per festeggiare poter bevere l'alchol (? horrible string of verbs there! 'spiace!) legale a venerdì! ed anche è bello perché ci sono delle amiche che io non le visto per molti tempi. ci saranno due amiche di scuola (che vedo ogni giorno) e poi la mia cugina, le mie due amiche migliore (che non visto mai perché abitano lontano da qui), un'amica di chiesa (ma lei non ne va molto adesso, così non l'ho visto per tempi anche) e due altre ragazze che con frequentavo la scuola, ma una dopo l'altra, quando avevo 10 e 14 anni. così sono molto eccitata per quello.
ma prima di mio compleanno, ho un esame di inglese. :[
ed anche sento male. bleugh.
♥
p.s. c'è qualcuno che sa come si può fare i accenti (?) senza scriverli in word prima e poi cut+paste qui?
Current Location: bedroom
Current Music: say it's not true || queen + paul rodgers
04 January 2008 @ 07:10 pm
ho bisogno di amici italiani perché il mio italiano è cativissimo! voglio essere fantastica, ma questo non succederà se non parlo mai. è buono parlare con altri stranieri (perché parlano lentemente :p) ma anche ha bisogno di conversazioni con veri italiani perché parlano vero. la moda in cui dicono le cose è differente e si mostra quando un straniero parlare o scrivere qualcosa.
le mie sorelline parlano italiano, ma sono molte nuove alla lingua e così è sempre me chi le sta aiutando. (e questa frase non fa senso, lo so!) l’italiano della mia famiglia ferma ai pasta, pizza, gelato, Giorgio Armani ed altri frasi utile. voglio essere una studente di inglese come la lingua seconda perché ci sono sempre molte persone che farlo qui. legono i blog qui e sembra normale che sono stranieri che leggere e scrivere in inglese. DOVE SONO GLI ITALIANI?! voglio qualcuno con chi posso parlare e la mia grammatica terribile può cambiare. capisci?
i'm sorry for the rant! i'm just feeling a bit, frustrated! and if anyone can understand//help with my dilemma...
xoxo.
le mie sorelline parlano italiano, ma sono molte nuove alla lingua e così è sempre me chi le sta aiutando. (e questa frase non fa senso, lo so!) l’italiano della mia famiglia ferma ai pasta, pizza, gelato, Giorgio Armani ed altri frasi utile. voglio essere una studente di inglese come la lingua seconda perché ci sono sempre molte persone che farlo qui. legono i blog qui e sembra normale che sono stranieri che leggere e scrivere in inglese. DOVE SONO GLI ITALIANI?! voglio qualcuno con chi posso parlare e la mia grammatica terribile può cambiare. capisci?
i'm sorry for the rant! i'm just feeling a bit, frustrated! and if anyone can understand//help with my dilemma...
xoxo.
Current Location: bedroom
Current Music: humuhumunukunukupua'a || high school musical 2
29 December 2007 @ 12:55 pm
since i won't be 'journal'ing until next year, i just wanna wish you all a
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
see you in '08!
hopefully i'll be back in style with a big picture spamming new year's post!
♥
24 December 2007 @ 04:17 pm
merry christmas, god jul, feliz navidad, buon natale, happy holidays!
i can't believe it - in less than twelve hours, less than eight, actually, it'll be CHRISTMAS! i honestly can't believe how fast december's gone. you know when you're a child, and advent drags and drags and drags and seems to last a lifetime, it's flown by this year!
christmas eve, by contrast, is draaaaaagging! i just want to go to bed so that i can wake up and it's christmas! wow, i sound like such a little kid. i am seventeen, honestly! i haven't asked father christmas for anything, either, this year, so all my gifts will be surprises, which'll be nice. :) we're spending the day tomorrow at home with my paternal grandparents, and probably won't go to church. yep, i know, it's baaaad, huh, but christmas day is the day that we slob around in pyjamas, and i think we've put my little brother through enough carol concerts already, bless him. it doesn't mean that i've lost the sense of the real meaning of christmas, though, and i do wish that it wasn't so overcommercialised.
so, yes, have a fantastic time, whatever you're doing, and don't eat too much turkey. ;)
xoxo.
excited18 December 2007 @ 06:13 pm
i know, i know, i know - you all have permission to throw things at me! *ducks and hides* i'm so sorry for being such a bad lj friend recently. school's finished for christmas now, but i'm working from 8am-6pm all this week and i'm just too exhausted when i get home to comment. rest assured, though, i'm reading all your entries and thinking about each and every one of you. :o)
so i guess you could call this a half-hiatus until my life calms down.
i hope you guys understand,
much love!
XOXOXOXOX!
so i guess you could call this a half-hiatus until my life calms down.
i hope you guys understand,
much love!
XOXOXOXOX!
08 December 2007 @ 02:46 pm
i got another university offer yesteray - for reading! woop! and they only want BBC, so that's a lot better! it's just my luck, though, that the three i really want to hear from (manchester, birmingham and warwick) haven't got back to me yet. well, okay, so that's strictly not true. ucas (the people who process our requests) emailed me this morning to say that there has been "a status change" on my tracking account. this means they've either given me an offer, or rejected me. so, of course, it has to be from one of the three i want to hear from, because they're the only ones left. it's a no-brainer, really. however, ucas have got "scheduled maintenance" this weekend from today until tomorrow evening; ergo, i can't log into my tracking account. so i have to wait more than twenty-four hours to see if i've been accepted by any of the others. i fear the wait's going to kill me.
ugh. i don't think i've got any f-listers in the same year doing ucas, have i? if i have, show yourselves so that we can share in the ucas irritation! and please do tell me if there's any other way i can find out - i don't think there is, though.
♥
pissed off05 December 2007 @ 05:26 pm
i got my first university offer today! woop!
but, they've been a bit naughty. in the prospectus they wanted bbc, now they've upped that to bbb. i think i might dieeeeeeee.
but, they've been a bit naughty. in the prospectus they wanted bbc, now they've upped that to bbb. i think i might dieeeeeeee.
Current Location: bedroom
Current Music: fluorescent adolescent || arctic monkeys.
22 November 2007 @ 09:59 pm
i
miss
you
i miss her so much right now.
in case you didn't realise, i'm talking about my best friend. we hardly ever see each other because she lives an hour away. normally, it's okay 'cause we speak on msn messenger loads, but we've both been so busy these past few days, and it looks like it'll stay that way for some time yet. i'm going up to see her on 14th december (the day we finish for christmas - woop!) but, i dunno. it's not enough. i need her here with me. i know it sounds totally pathetic but it feels like there's a massive chicky-shaped hole in my life right now and i can't deal with it. i can't deal with the fact that i'm not a part of her day-to-day life and i never will be, no matter how hard i try. even when i see her for like two days it's still sad, because it's so infrequent. it really does break my heart, and i don't think that i can actually deal with it any more.
sad14 November 2007 @ 05:32 pm
yeaaah... so, i love delirious?! especially their eighth studio album - the mission bell. more specifically, there's five tracks that really do stand out to me on this disc. the first is (in no particular order) now is the time.
now is the time for us to shine,
shine with the face of christ divine
...a city shining on a hill,
tell this world you're shining still,
tell this world you always will
these lyrics really do stand out to me. now is definately the time for us to shine. in this broken world of wars, terrorism and ungodliness, the world needs His shining light. the principle way that this light will emit is through our shining. we need to be that city shining on a hill - for our family, our friends and our communities. they need to know that we have shined, we are shining and that we will continue to shine; to shine for Him. it's principally the young generation that will do this, and that brings me on to the next track:
breathe life into these lungs of mine,
so i can scream and shout of your love divine.
here i am, send me. here i am, send me.
there’s nothing in my hands,
but here i am, send me.
I’m frightened what you’ll find,
when you open up my heart, i’m walking in the light,
'cause it’s light that changes the atmosphere,
so touch these lips that criticise,
and put a song in my mouth that opens our eyes.
i think that this sums us up so well as christians. we're desperate for God to use us, and rightly so, but we also recognise that we're flawed human beings. all too often, people see christians as having perfect lives, with no problems of their own, and it needs to be recognised that this simply isn't the case. once people realise this, it will be so much easier for God to send us into the world. this doesn't mean that we have to sit around and wait, however - God has equipped us with His Holy Spirit to help us to do the things that we cannot do on our own (i can do all things through Christ who strengthens me - philippians 4:13).
hmmm, i shall update later with further thoughts - if anyone's interested.
♥
now is the time for us to shine,
shine with the face of christ divine
...a city shining on a hill,
tell this world you're shining still,
tell this world you always will
these lyrics really do stand out to me. now is definately the time for us to shine. in this broken world of wars, terrorism and ungodliness, the world needs His shining light. the principle way that this light will emit is through our shining. we need to be that city shining on a hill - for our family, our friends and our communities. they need to know that we have shined, we are shining and that we will continue to shine; to shine for Him. it's principally the young generation that will do this, and that brings me on to the next track:
breathe life into these lungs of mine,
so i can scream and shout of your love divine.
here i am, send me. here i am, send me.
there’s nothing in my hands,
but here i am, send me.
I’m frightened what you’ll find,
when you open up my heart, i’m walking in the light,
'cause it’s light that changes the atmosphere,
so touch these lips that criticise,
and put a song in my mouth that opens our eyes.
i think that this sums us up so well as christians. we're desperate for God to use us, and rightly so, but we also recognise that we're flawed human beings. all too often, people see christians as having perfect lives, with no problems of their own, and it needs to be recognised that this simply isn't the case. once people realise this, it will be so much easier for God to send us into the world. this doesn't mean that we have to sit around and wait, however - God has equipped us with His Holy Spirit to help us to do the things that we cannot do on our own (i can do all things through Christ who strengthens me - philippians 4:13).
hmmm, i shall update later with further thoughts - if anyone's interested.
♥
cheerful13 November 2007 @ 07:36 pm
...i was going to write a post loving delirious?, but i'm currently watching a programme on bbcthree about the most irritating pop songs. so, yeah, most of them are pure cheese - whitney's i will always love you and toploader's dancing in the moonlight - but then they rounded on poor daniel bedingfield. and they didn't even criticise his song, if you're not the one (ace song, by the way), but merely the fact that he's christian. apparently he's too strait-laced and conservative to be in the music business, and the fact that he's outspoken about his faith - he shouldn't even be allowed air time! it irritates me so much! yeah, i'm not saying that everyone has to agree with my beliefs, but i just don't like the press that christians get.
although, i must admit, we don't really help ourselves much - there are some nutty "believers" out there. in fact, there's two ends of the spectrum. there's the fundamentalist loopies, ("we hate all 'different' people") and then the middle-of-the-road people who've watered down the Bible so much that it's hardly surprising that people fail to take us seriously any more. - "hmm, did Jesus really die for us and then rise again?" - "i don't know - i think it's just a metaphor for something or other" i mean, seriously?!
urghhhh! rant over! perhaps later i'll share my love of delirious?' eighth studio album, the mission bell, and why i love the band so much!
Current Location: bedroom
Current Music: my heart will go on || celine dion.
13 November 2007 @ 05:35 pm
...failed my driving test - AGAIN! that's the third time now, and it's so irritating because i only failed 'cause i didn't get into the parking bay properly. ugh. i'll get there eventually, i guess.