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Vasjok's skiing and most of the snow has melted and been washed away by the rain. Oh well.

I started working on my Art exam. Well, kind of. Being the smart person I am, I didn't bring any art supplies with me to the mountains.
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Two more days!!!

So Vasjok is coming tomorrow! I just can't wait!

It finally snowed. Not that I like snow or anything. Bbbbbbaka.

I have so many presents for Vasjok! She's going to be so happy!

\o/

Winter Break yayyyy -_-

So half of my good friends left to these awesome places to celebrate the holidays and the other half doesn't really want to talk to me because they're probably tired of my company. Or the internet is just not working :/
Everyone here is Christmas Eve-ing today and since I don't celebrate religious holidays I'm *clears throat* on my own~
I got this weird eye infection the other day so on the last couple of days of school I walked around with a swollen eye. I had to go to the doctor's and it was quite an entertaining experience because I tried to tell him that I want an eye patch and he must've thought that I was totally weird. I mean, seriously though, it would've been so cool if I had an eye patch! So many fandom references could've been made. The Walking Dead, Tokyo Ghoul, Another....

I was trying to entertain myself by going to town, but it all ended up in disappointment. When are there going to be sales? I started to wonder whether I'm ever going to be able to afford all the things that I want. Will I ever be able to walk into an expensive clothes boutique and be like "give me that gold-laced-fancy-shmancy-diamond-expensive-dress-thing and an extra one just for good measure"?
[insert an anti-capitalist "sharing is caring" comment here]
Merry Christmas to all you Catholics out there! 

"Don't do Christmas kay...." - my maths teacher

February? Say what!

I've only posted two things in January! Ok, this time I PROMISE that I will post more stuff.
The weather is messed up this year. It only snowed once this winter and the snow melted right away. It feels like spring and it's not cold at all. I am not complaining though. I love the type of winter we're having this year. ^_^

AMSTERDAM!!! (continued)

The next day, we wake up when it's dark.
Breakfast is the best thing ever! There's no "recycled food" like in Village Camps. Everything is fresh and well cooked. I make myself a cheese sandwich and drink some juice. Since we were quite late, we finish quickly, take the things we need for the festival and hurry to the bus.
The school we were performing at is called ASH. I thought it was something like the "Amsterdam International school" or "Amsterdam School of whatever...", but I was wrong. The school ended up being "The American School of Haag". Yes, the AMERICAN school of haag.
As I enter the building, I realise that it's not that hard to tell that the school is American. My eyes hurt from all the colours around me. There are so many posters and drawing and flags and more posters.....
We find out when and where we're preforming and go to the "hang-out" place. It's a big room with many chairs and desks. We leave our stuff there and start to practise the songs.
Yasmin and I walk around, exploring the school. It's so colourful. The posters shout "Be yourself!" "Speak up!" "Show us your personality!". There is even a poster that said "I love both my dads! I have a perfect family!". It shows a picture of a little girl holding two man by the hands. The background is the rainbow flag...

There's nothing wrong with homosexuality, but it's just unacceptable to put posters like this in a school! Some people don't see anything wrong with it, but I do! I don't think you should be open about these things with people! Especially, in a school! There was also a poster that said "be who you want to be" with a picture of a men dressed in women's clothes.... You don't put things like that in a school!!!
A school is supposed to be a place for learning. It's supposed to make you more mature. You don't put toys in a classroom! Maybe, preschoolers... Ok... They're small and everything... But a 4th grade class with stuffed animals.... No!!!
They want to make their students responsible, but instead they do the opposite! They just tell them facts (eg: being racist is bad), but they don't explain it to them. They make the decision, instead of letting the children choose. So how does it make their students responsible?

My performance with the choir goes quite well. Unfortunately, we only have six people with us...
After the choir comes our duet with Yasmin. I'm nervous, but also excited. We sing nicely and the judge is happy with us. I'm very proud!

Yasmin and I go to the big cafeteria and buy a snack. There are large flags on the walls.
Next to us there are long tables. There's a chess competition. Suddenly, a wild idea appears.
Yaz and I come up to the players and say, "Do you know where chess was invented?" As the kids shake their heads we say, "Chess was invented in India in 600 A.D." and point at the Indian flag.
Zoum!!!

In our school agendas there's a fact for every week. That week the fact was "Chess was invented in India in 600 A.D.

We left the HORRIBLE school in the evening, when it was dark.
Dinner was amazing. We could take anything we wanted.
Since it was Gemma's birthday we also had a delicious cake! Omnomnom!

We also got ribbons for participating. I got a blue one and a red one! Red is for div.II and blue is for div.I

We left the next morning........ Sad face....... =(

IT WAS THE BESTESTEST TRIP EVERRRR!!!!!

Special thanks to:

Franny for the photos (youtube: StyleChicFrancesca)

Yasmin for being an awesome kazooa

Rachel, Gemma and Nina for being the cool people

AMSTERDAM!!! (day1)

Even though I only spent there three days, it was the best trip ever.

Friday morning. Sleepy me, driving to the airport. My brown and beige, giraffe suitcase is full with my clothes. I brought everything I needed; my Totoro onesie, a CDL concert T-shirt, my favourite shoes and... Kopatych (yes, I brought him too). School bag on my shoulders, suitcase in hand, I enter the building to find my friends. Yasmin, talking about the food she brought and Franny, thinking that her bag might be too heavy, are there with me. We compare our passports and laugh at the photos, excited.
Yasmin and I listen to nyan cat, while waiting for the plane.

As the plane lands, we try to hold back the scream of excitement. We can't believe we're in Amsterdam.
We get our suitcases and go outside. It's quite cold. The snow under our feet is frozen and icy.
The bus is waiting for us right next to the airport. Yasmin, me, Nina, Gemma and Rachel get the back seats. From now on, we're the cool people.

We stop in the city centre to get some lunch.

 

Our beautiful Hibiki!

 

And there's Ogtay....

 Walking around the streets, admiring the beautiful architecture of Amsterdam, we start to get hungry. We stop by the pancake bakery.
Yasmin and I get some coffee. It is delicious!
They bring us huge, yellow pancakes. Yasmin ordered one with bananas and rum. Later, she couldn't stop talking about how she had coffee and alcohol like an adult.... Oh, Yasmin....

Oh, Yasmin.......

After that, all of us go to Anne Frank's house. I have a feeling that I'm not really going to enjoy it as I hear one girl say, "OMG!  Can you believe that we're gona see that house? I mean, it's not just a house! It's Anne Frank's house! It's like royal!"

The museum made me realise quite a lot about myself and the world in general. Especially after I visited the souvenir shop. There was a movie about Anne Frank, copies of her diary and.... A cartoon-version-comic-book of it! I don't know about you, but I didn't want to stay in that house or study any of the objects in it. I just didn't like the whole.... I don't know how to explain my feelings! I don't have anything against Anne's story, but she wasn't the only girl who wrote a diary. There were many other girls like her whose life was worse than hers. I'm sure Anne's diary is a good book and everything, but a cartoon version of it is.... It's just OTT!



After visiting the museum and walking around the snowy streets of Amsterdam, we go on a boat ride. It's dark. The lights fall on to the shiny snow and the cold, still water. Slowly, our boat travels across the shiny, narrow canals of the city.

We stop at the Hard Rock cafe to have dinner. Yasmin and I annoy the people at out table by being super perverted. It's really fun.
We run to the bus. The cool people take their spot at the back.

At first, the hotel seems strange to us, but as we enter we realise that it's the best place ever. It reminds me of India and China at the same time. There are carpets, blue, red and purple sofas and golden framed mirrors. There's a swimming pool, a gym and a sauna. The restaurant is next to our rooms. It seems like we're outside since there are many plants and water fountains around us.
Yasmin and Rachel are in the same room as me. There are two big beds with soft, comfy pillows, a blue armchair, a red chair with wheels and a large cupboard. (Yaz and I even got inside the cupboard and pretended to be Indians.... Love our inside jokes!) But that's not all. The most exciting thing is the big TV.

Meh.....

School started sooner than I expected it to. It was the first time I didn't go to Moscow for New Year. New Year, itself, was probably the most boring one for me. None of my relatives were there and I was in my room, writing in my "diary" about how sad I am to be without them. The day after the catholic christmas I went to Yasmin's house. We stayed up for more than 24 hours and felt very bad afterwards.
That sums up my vacation.......

The first week of school was the best week of school I ever had. I didn't have any homework and Yaz and I had the best time ever.
Yesterday we went to the cinema and watched "Life of Pi", but that deserves a separate blog post.

More snow

The snow melted by the end of the day and the next morning was completely dry.
Friday. The long bus ride. Listening to music. There's no snow left. It seems like it's fall again.
It starts snowing by the time I get to school. The snow isn't wet. It doesn't melt by the time it gets to the ground. It just lies there. It doesn't stop snowing. Slowly, everything around us turns white. I get out of my art class. wishing it never snowed. Wishing for it to be summer again.
They call this "extreme weather". The after school buses are cancelled. So is Simply Theatre. I go to Yasmin's house. We watch Silent Hill till midnight and go to sleep late.
We have to go back to school at 10 to practise for Ammy. Tired, we get up. Our voices are tired too. We can't control them and sound horrible. Being good singers we're embarrassed and loose all our confidence.
I go home on Saturday at 4 o'clock and fall asleep immediately. Having 18 hours of sleep (like a cat! nyan! ^_^) I get up and do my homework...
PS We got our class photos.... Our class is full of ugly people... Zoum! XD Aaaand I'm on honours! When Mr Gilbert  gave the certificates out to us, he said "And the troublesome twins..." (meaning me and Yaz). And we said "We're not troublesome! We're evil!" ZOUM!

It snowed..... =(

The title of this post says it all. It snowed... Unfortunately... Now summer is even further away than it already was.
I wake up, excited to go to school. Yasmin, my dear Yasmin, is coming back today. The closer my bus gets to the school, the faster my heart is beating.
I look out of the window. Everything is gray. I think if I've gone colourblind, but no. It's all gray. The grass that used to be bright green is gray and even the sky that was bright blue before is also gray. I listen to Yiruma, but I no longer pay attention to the music. The only thing that I want to hear is the rushing wind. The grayness around me makes me think colourless thoughts. I no longer want to think about happiness, nor the beauty beyond this world. I feel like I'm in the parallel reality of Silent Hill since everything is covered is fog.
The door of the bus opens and as I come out I see Yasmin running towards me. How much have I missed her. We hug, not realising that we're finally together after such a long time. We scream. People look at us. We scream more.
Not remembering to put my jacket on I run outside. A few days ago it was still warm and during the whole day my jacket would hang on the hook and I would even forget to bring it home. Today everything has changed. We have gone from fall to winter. Real winter. There's snow. Wet snowy sleet. It's slippery and wet. It snows, turns everything white and rains after. The dry dirt turns into mud. The white snowflakes turn into wet pieces of mud. I get to my bus. Tired of it all. Wanting summer to always be with me.