Once I’ve got up I go and have a wash and I can always remember having to break the ice off the top of a bucket at cub camp just so I could go and get washed. I was only eight and the loos didn’t work and so we were going for a pee behind a tree and then getting up in the morning looking forward to a nice hot place where I can take off my three layers of clothes and put three new layers on and instead having to wash in ice and half drowning. Not nice I tell you.
Once I’ve washed I go through my daily routine of getting dressed and then gelling my hair which I’ve done since year seven. Before then it looked like I had a mop on the top of my head.
By now I’m normally late so I grab a piece of toast, my school bag and my chewing gum and clatter out of the door. Then I’ll go and meet with two of my friends: Cassey and Kathryn. They are my walk to school gym buddies as we jokingly say.
I can remember walking to school on my first day at Putteridge High School. I had Mr Scrivens as my form tutor and he was really nice. He sorted us out did all the administration stuff and then took us to our first lesson which I don’t remember at all but oh well who cares. I know I don’t.
When I get to school all I do is work hard. Occasionally I have this really good day dream about my future. I can see myself in the Metropolitan Police force and receiving a promotion to sergeant. Also I can remember when I used not to want to come to school in the Infants, I would have to be carried in, and I would sulk for half the morning.
Since year 8 I have always gone home for lunch. It’s kinda cool seeing as I can go home watch T.V. and eat proper food unlike the stuff they put in the schools canteens. After going home I can also go to the sweet shop with Callum and so I get a packet of sweets for on the way back from school.
After school me and a few mates meet up and walk to the gym. The walk to the gym can be dangerous. Firstly I meet up with Cassey and Kathryn. You never know what they will be like. They can be hugging you one minute and the next trying to get you run over. Joking aside we then have to walk over Lothair playing fields. There can be tramps or much, much worse things like perverts or nutters with dogs. Once we’ve made it to the Rec centre its in to the gym. After about two hours in the gym it’s about 5:45 in the evening so it’s off home for a shower change of clothes and if it’s a Friday me and another lot of mates go out.
When we go out anything can happen from getting a caution from over zealous C.S.U officers, to being chased half way around Luton by gypsies who want our money, phones, gloves or anything else that takes their fancy. Aside from all of that our Friday night follows a informal pattern as follows: play football for about half an hour, buy chip butties (heavenly on a cold Friday night), look inconspicuous while the PIGS drive past, try to arrange a sleep over with one of our mums, rush to put the tent up, get into the village for Smirnoff Vodka (bliss) and finally off to homerun for lemonade and sweeties. Then we will go to who evers house is holding the party and get into our sleeping bags and drink until the Vodka is gone play the Revels game which consist of eating Revels until someone gets the coffee one and they have to do a dare of our choosing(HA HA HA). Then we do some really stupid stuff and fall asleep.
By Sam Risbridger
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