Little Update of what's been going on...

Well, it's the first of February, for those who didn't realise, and it's snowing! What a momentous occasion; snow, falling in Elgin, and actually lying too! Usually Elgin misses it, as though we're protected by some invisible force field that repels all snow, but today it must have broken down, because it's snowing now! Ok, no doubt it'll be gone by morning, but for the moment it looks pretty, falling in big flakes to the ground through the night sky...

Of course, the sudden mini blizzard that sweapt through Elgin this lunchtime didn't stop the drama prelim from happening, as me and a mate found out. Walking from the bus station to school almost became a small epic journey of sorts, as we fought against the bitter wind and driving snow. When we got inside, at last, we looked remotely like a pair of snowmen, well, snow-women, or a couple of eskimos; I'll leave that for the people who saw us to decide on.
But the drama exam went surprisingly well. It wasn't too stressful, and strangely enough I didn't feel too under pressure. There were moments, but on the whole, I think it was quite successful. Now I'll get crap results, just wait and see.

Along with the snow and drama exams today, I got a new pair of specs. Oh yes, they are pretty cool too. They have designer frames which change colour depending on the way the light hits them. *Oooooo!* I hear you say! Well, rightly so, they are fancy.
And whilst at the opticians I ended up having a rather interesting discussion with two of the staff about what a rewarding and worth-while job being a paramedic would be, which I totally agreed with.

Had Red Cross last tuesday too, as I do every tuesday. This week we were told about extreme changes in body temperature, you know, like hypothermia and hyperthermia. Add in the rather grueling pictures of frost bite victims and it becomes quite interesting. However we had to cut the night short, because the talk didn't take up the whole two hours, unsurpringly, and we had nothing else lined up to do, although we were threatened with extra CPR training for the last 45mins or so. Yes, its a valuable bit of training, but there's only so much you can do with CPR on mannequins before it becomes...less exciting...
No duties signed up for either, as of yet.
However, I have heard that I got a place at the Manchester National Assembly, where loads of Red Cross members from all over the nation - funnily enough - are meeting and doing...something, I'm not quite sure what. I think it's just a chance to meet new people and learn more about what the Red Cross does, nationally and internationally. So it should be a good experience, which I'm looking forward to.
(I did get this letter a while back, but I havent mentioned it yet so I thought I would do now, just while I was on the Red Cross topic.)

So all I have left to look forward to right now is a music exam on monday - which I know I'll do horribly in because my revision for it is verging on none - and then a week for alternating study periods of art and geography. Sounds like fun, doesn't it?
But the thing that keeps me going is knowing that soon it'll all be over, and then I'll have free time, to do whatever I want and not be bogged down by revision textbooks cluttering my desk and sleepless nights worrying about what I still need to look over before my next exam which happens to be the next day. No, I'll be able to attend more RC duties and events, have nights spent chilling and watching dvds or reading a good book, or surfing the web to my heart's content, or, more importantly, spend warm, cosy evenings with my boyfriend (next time he comes up from bonnie England).

Until May, when the exams start all over again.

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