Crazy nights and not being a tourist

I now understand people when they say England's weather is horrible, because we had one nice day where it was warm and sunny, and then two days of awful weather. It's so annoying because you get your hopes up thinking the weather is staring to clear up and then its freezing the next day.. not fun at all..

A prime example of this not being fun was when we got caught in a hail storm while playing rounders on the astro. All the girls and staff had to huddle under the shelter until it passed, but then it came back a couple of minutes later so we called it a day and went in early..

Rainbows, blue skies and storm clouds makes for an interesting day weather wise

And then 3 minutes later.. This weather needs to make up it's blimmin mind!

On Wednesday the boarders had a disco, and as per usual the staff were having more fun than the kids.. it was hilarious how long all the girls took to get ready, but then I remembered when I went to the school dances my friends and I started getting ready at 4pm, and the dance didn't start till 7.30 or something...

after the disco I went down to the pub with a couple of people from work for a few drinks (I know, i'm as shocked as you are...) and to make it even crazier (for me) I didn't get back till like 11.30 on a school night.. I'm living the high life right!

Apparently the late night was too much for me because I had to have a nap on thursday morning because I was so tired... so it seems as wild as I try to be, I cant miss a couple of hours sleep without catching up on it in the form of a nana nap the following morning..

And here we have what has become your weekly forest school photo, but it's just so pretty you can't complain

I think I witnessed the cutest thing ever on friday afternoon. It was junior sports day so there was kids from like 4years old to 8years old doing different activities and all the proud parents with their phones recording their precious darlings failing at what we normal sized humans find to be easy tasks. But it was stupidly cute no matter how many times they failed...

Because friday was the last day of the half term all the kids were gone by 4pm, so the remaning staff went to one of the live-in house parents flat, and had tea and food and just chatted for a couple of hours which was really nice. Then after I left their flat I spent the evening watching netflix and enjoying the quiet of an empty boarding house (which is an amazing thing after 5 weeks of constant noise)

Because it's half term now (yay for a week off) I spent saturday making the ever exciting journey to London. It's always a fun trip when the train you wanted to get is cancelled so you have to wait an hour and a half for the next one.. I don' understand how trains always seem to be delayed or cancelled when I want to use them..

After the effort of getting to London, me and Adele decided to spend the afternoon/evening on the sofa watching Eurovision and eating junk food... it was possibly the best decision of the dayWeather

Sunday, after a morning walk to make ourselves feel better about the amount of junk food we ate the night before, we ventured into the city on the bus (annoyingly some other people took the front seats of the top level so we had to settle for the second row...).

We got off the bus at Tower bridge and spent the morning walking along the river, past St Paul’s and into the city. We stopped for lunch at Pizza Hutt (which is an eat-in resultant here) and we were sat next to a kiwi couple. I swear there are more kiwi's living in England than in New Zealand! They're everywhere!

After lunch we slowly made our way back because it started raining and neither of us wanted to deal with that, so we spent the evening (yet again) watching movies and eating food...

And here we have the tourist, being an obvious tourist, in front of a classic tourist attraction. But I'm not a real tourist tho..

Sneaky advertising there. Well played.

I now realise just how boring my week has been, so I do apologise for that, but it's holidays now and I cant be bothered to do anything interesting so you'll just have to deal with it hahah!

And on that selfless and caring note, that's it for this week!

So until next week then...