Another week gone. I
actually cant believe how fast January went! This week marked two
milestones for my gap year – one month in England, and two months
out of New Zealand.. Its weird, it feels like I've been here forever,
but at the same time it feels like I've only been here a week.. But
even though Ive been here a month, I cant help but smiling like an
idiot every time I stop and look around. Im living in England,
working a job I love, I can go to London for a weekend and it only
takes me 3 hours to get there (instead of it taking a weekend to get
there..)
So this week started
out like all the others, the normal routine of netball, registers -with the exception of making bubble mixture with the year one forrest school class, and spending an hour blowing bubbles and drinking hot chocolates by the fire pit. All pretty normal.. Then the music happened...
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| Do you know how hard it is to blow bubbles and then take a photo of said bubbles before they pop? The answer is very hard, so this was the best I got... Soz |
By this I mean that
on Wednesday nights the boarders have a house night, so they all do
an activity together, and this weeks one was an open mike night
(basically a microphone, flashing lights and songs played on youtube
with the lyrics on a projector). Now I was hoping I could just hide
at the back of the room for the entirety of the night and go
unnoticed, but the staff had another idea..
It was about 5
minutes before the night started that I was informed that there was a
tradition, that the new Gap did the first number.. This was not
something I was pleased to hear, but luckily they also had another
tradition – one of the post-grad gappies opened the night with
'What makes you beautiful' (I think he actually wanted to sing 'Why
does love do this to me?', but he was convinced otherwise when no one
else – expect me- had heard the song, which I found crazy because I
thought EVERYONE knew that song, but apparently its a New Zealand
thing.. Who knew?).
So the night was
opened by yours truly singing a duet to One Direction with a 25yearold lad.. Lets just
say the kids found it hilarious, and the next act had tough boots to
fill (I didn't even need to look at the lyrics, what a pro!) The
night was fantastic, and I know that because I only had to perform
once, and by the end of the night my voice had gone from singing
along with all the songs (I wasn't the only one, all the kids were
singing so you couldn't actually hear the music, but thats only for
the armatures)
On thursday I
was treated to two musical performances. One was in the dining hall,
and basically consisted of 10 year 7/8 boys singing and dancing to
'Uptown Funk' and 'Shake it off' while clearing the tables. It was
one of the funniest things I have ever seen, because they were all
doing the same dance moves (used in the previous nights performance)
and it surprisingly didn't look half bad. However within an hour
their impromptu performance was somewhat put to shame by the Year 6
production. Now when you hear those words you usually imagine some
bad acting, off key singing and a dull show. That was not the case
here. The acting was amazing considering it was 10 and 11 year olds,
the singing was amazing, and its impossible to be bored when the show
is of 'We will rock you'! I couldn't quite believe how good the show
was, and how funny it was! The show was two hours and I wasn't bored
for a second!
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| Just down the road from school I found this. What are the odds eh? |
Other then that, the week was pretty normal! The
weather here is starting to clear up, I mean its not a lot warmer but
the last three days have been lovely and sunny and I have made the
most of it.
I know you're not going to believe me on this one but
I swear I'm not lying! I have gone for THREE runs this week! I know,
I know its not that impressive but for me this is massive! I even
have the muddy trainers and sore legs to prove it! I finally decided
that eating three cooked meals a day was going to make me fat, and on
the money that I make here, I cant afford to buy a whole new wardrobe
of new clothes (even though I wish I could) so the only option, other
then eating less (which isn't really an option) was to do some
exercise. So I downloaded an app that tracks how far I run and the
speed and all that kind of stuff, and off I went! So three 5km runs
in a week has made me feel all motivated and stuff, although I don't
know how long it'll last, so lets not get our hopes up...
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| Running down country roads with this on either side of you makes it a little easier. Only a little bit though... |
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| This little fella followed me for a mile while on my run. However I drew the line when he tried to come into the reception area of the school.. |
And
on that note, I think that's all for this week! Now just a heads up,
next week the post will either be on Sunday (a day earlier) or there
wont be a post until the following week, but hopefully it'll be a
good one so don't get worried!
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