After breakfast there is usually a rush to the bathrooms, luckily there are three of them so there is never much of an argument. I spend quite a long time in the bathroom, as my hair is a constant burden either sticking out in the wrong direction or simply not behaving in the way I would like. Then there is cleaning my teeth, which is quite quick because my electric toothbrush whizzes around my mouth very quickly and the task is soon done. After I leave the house I get into my mum’s car a blue Polo, and then I am driven half way to school and dropped off at my friend’s house. Another couple of friends arrive at this house too and we all get together and walk to school. This walking to school together gives me a good opportunity to make after school arrangements. Once at school (the walk takes about 15 minutes) I go to my tutor base and catch up with my friends who don’t walk to school with me. After a short rest I make my way to my first lesson on a Monday usually English.
English requires a lot of work and its quite interesting. All year it’s work, work, work, which is hardly surprising seeing that it’s GCSE year. I’m going to need to work hard because qualifications are a necessary part of any career and I definitely want a career not just a job.
After the first two lessons I usually eat my lunch. It may seem strange that I eat my lunch at break but it takes so much time queuing at lunchtime just so I can sit down and eat some food that I would rather eat my packed lunch early freeing up time at lunch for other activities. The only downside to this is that you have lots of people surrounding you begging for food. Most people would probably just say “No”, but I have real problems with saying “No” and more often than not half my food is devoured by these hungry beasts.
Once break is finished I work until the real lunch time and then I hang around the common room or go to the library and do some homework. I always have an abundance of the stuff so lunchtimes provide a welcome time to get on with it.
On Mondays and Wednesdays chapel follows lunchtime. I find it one of the most boring times of my life, I mean I believe in God and everything but I just don’t see why I have to be crammed in between about 500 people and made to sit in the cold. In the summer it is too hot because the heaters are usually on and in the winter the heaters are off. You could say it was a lose, lose situation. I spend the time dreaming about what I’m going to do on the weekend; I often go sailing with my dad. This one time we were out in the sea on our boat off the Pembrokeshire coast. The
weather was beautiful and then all of a sudden, huge waves came up and battered the boat. The clouds went dark. It was such a big storm we had to take the sails down and wait it out. So now we mostly sail on lakes.
After chapel there is one more lesson before I can go home. I walk home with a friend who lives in the same direction. In the winter it is dark already even before I have left school. In the summer it is much better because it is bright and sunny and I am able to take a shortcut through some fields without getting my shoes covered in mud. This shortens the journey tremendously. There is no way you can go there in the winter because once it was so muddy by the time I got home my shoes and the bottom of my trousers were so caked in mud they were no longer visible.
Once I get home I usually get quite depressed as I look in my prep book and see how much prep I have. There’s usually always a piece of homework that slips through and has to be done for the next day. Once I finish my homework my parents come home and they are always tired so I have to get them a cup of tea and I unpack the dishwasher. This little piece of work is a good way of keeping more duties away.
In the evening I usually watch a bit of TV or play games on the computer or browse the Internet looking for interesting things to waste my money on. Quite often I go on MSN a program, which allows me to talk to my friends who are also on the Internet. It is very popular with people at school and there are always lots of people to talk to. At about nine o’clock lots of my friends come on so lots of conversations start to spring up and it often takes a long while to answer them all. It is often quite interesting to talk to these people because you get to learn about secrets and opinions from one person you are talking to about another person you are talking too.
At about ten o’clock I usually get prepared for bed pack my bag and get a cup of hot chocolate. I read for about an hour, I read fantasy books like The Lord Of the Rings by JR Tolkein or The Amber Spy Glass by Phillip Pullman. Reading books helps me relax and get away from the seriousness of life. Then its time to sleep before another day…..
