I check myself in the hall mirror before the angry call of dad to get my bag on the car. I say good-bye to mum and get in the car. My dad as an old mondeo and always talks about getting the new model. Personally I say he should just go and get one and stop with all this talk.
My brother, James, has just started St. Georges in year 7, So my dad drops my brother and me off at the bus stop to catch the ‘45’ to St. Georges School, instead of us walking down from our house which is about a mile away. At the bus stop I meet up with ‘Ben’ a friend I have known since the day I was born! His mum and my mum used to go to baby classes together. We usually talk about last night’s television shows or funny stories involving friends before getting on the bus. Once on the bus I try and grab a seat before the twenty-minute journey to the school along the lower Luton road, through Batford and through Harpenden high street.
The school I go to is over 100 years old and is a Christian foundation school so three times every term we have to attend chapel along with two times every week. I do find this annoying even though I am serious Christian, because when hardly anybody does turn up, there is no punishment for him or her. Recently at school we had a new ‘state of the art’ technology block built to help to give us ‘technology college’ status, which also goes for maths, science and technology. Also in the Physical Education department (P.E.) they have received an award for their improvements at Physical Education. For drama, which I gave up because of options in year 10, they have just had a new drama block built over the old squash courts. I am not a big drama fan and I do think that it was waste to build it; because there are more important things needed around school than I a ‘new drama studio’ like re-doing the English block for example. This does mean that we did not need one but I think there are other things higher up on the agenda that need doing, other things that everybody can benefit from.
Once at school my first stop is to Goddard block to tutor base, were my tutor register us before we can go to first period. This is also the first chance I get to chat to my friends about the weekend. Once out of tutor base I make my way to my first period. English. In this lesson I comment to friends Rowan and Jacques about my weekend before being told to turn around by the teacher, Mrs Ballantyne. These next two years are probably my most important ever as I have just started the GCSE module so I do try to put maximum effort into every piece of work I do and hand in.
Next follows my favourite subject. Art. In this particular subject I hope to achieve an A to an A* at GCSE level. I do express a certain talent and enjoyment to this subject and hope to go into some form of job involving architecture or some form of technical drawing which ties in with my next subject after break, Graphics.
For me break is where I talk and chat to friends about life and troubles, were as for some of my friends it is the perfect opportunity to eat lunch. I do not see the point of having lunch at 11:00am in the morning it makes no sense as lunch is at 1:20pm were most normal people choose to eat there lunch. By the end of break I cannot wait to lunch. I still have graphics, maths and physics to get through.
Graphics is my most enjoyable subject! It is a chance to show my real talent lies! As I have said above I hope to get a job in this type of profession as I find it rewarding and enjoyable. After this I have maths followed by lunch. I think that school lunches are the most varied in Harpenden compared to other schools like Sir John Laws. I have friends there who say all they get there have chips, chips and more chips. Chips are okay if you have them say once a week, but at St. Georges we have a variety of foods from a mixture of different cultural backgrounds for example Indians and Chinese’s etc. after lunch I usually go to the art rooms with some friends to experiment with different materials to get varied results, which can go towards my final coursework mark at the end of the GCSE exam.
Since it is a Monday I have house assembly, which consists of the head of house talking to us like the ‘Hitler youth movement’ and saying you will ‘be the best’. Rowan and I just sit there and nod. I am unhappy with the way Goddard house is run compared to the rest of the system (the other houses).
On the way home from school I usually stop of at the ‘Post office’ with Ben and Andy to see what we can buy with thirty pence, before I get a lift home with my mum and brother. Once in the car I can feel some warmth regaining to my hands and feet as the car radiator blasts on. That ’s the thing I like about mums car compared to my dads car. My mum’s car may be old and about to fall apart but the radiator actual starts to work before we get home! Unlike my dad’s car were you could drive all the way around the world ten times before the cars radiator start to work! As we pull up on the drive our home, I feel glad to be home. The home itself has recently been extended so giving us more living space, but every night I always get the same questions from my mum ‘which tiles to choose?’ and ‘does the paint colour look good?’
Once in from the dark late afternoon I sit down to with a hot drink to watch the film taped from the night before. Today it is ‘lock stock and two smoking barrels’.
Thomas Large
Mental note – remember to add what sort of life style and hopes for the future.