My High School Prom

Yesterday was one of the best days of my life. I had my high school prom. It was an amazing evening where I got to spend time with friends, have a laugh and dance. It was great to see everyone dressed up for the event. It was strange at first being all dressed up for prom because usually I don’t wear makeup, heels or dresses but I loved it as I felt grown up and pretty. I don’t think we get enough opportunities to get all dressed up like we can for prom.

 

I had my hair and makeup done for prom. Because I don’t usually wear makeup and I wanted my hair curled especially for prom, I thought it would be best to have someone else do my hair and makeup rather than me stressing about doing it all myself. I went with some of my friends to get our hair and makeup done. Then I came home to get ready and had photographs with my Mum, Nanny and Grandad. I love the photographs with my family because the three of them are important to me as they are the people who have always been there for me and been a huge part of my life and I am glad I celebrated my prom with them.

I travelled to prom with a group of friends in a vintage car. All of my friends looked great in their dresses and without realising we had all somehow colour coordinated our outfits. It was fantastic seeing everyone when we arrived at the venue. I was able to spend the evening celebrating with all of my friends and my year group. We all had group photographs and we all danced. I am proud to say I danced in my heels all night. I have a lot of brilliant photographs and memories from last night.

One thing I do find sad is that my Dad forgot it was my prom. I still haven’t heard back from him which is a shame because prom was important to me and I would have liked him to have been part of the day. Even if he had only sent me a text wishing me good luck I would have been happy. But this didn’t stop me from having the best time at my prom.

Today I have been looking back at photographs and thinking, “wow, did that really happen? Is that me?” I feel very lucky to have had such a good day. One project for the summer is to make an album full of memories from my last year at high school. This will make sure I don’t forget all of the memories.


Me before prom

Free for the summer

Yesterday I finished all of my GCSE exams. I am relieved and happy that I can now have two months off from school. I hope I get good exam results, but I will worry about that in August. Also, I still have prom to look forward to which is just over a week away.

I am glad to be rid of the stress of exams. Of course the school had put a bit of pressure on us to do well. Especially when in our final assembly our Head Teacher said, "the last twelve years of your life have been focusing on preparing you for the next few weeks of your exams. Do not waste these twelve years". Then decided to follow that up with talking about how we should not feel too stressed about exams. How are we not meant to feel stressed when you just said we might have wasted twelve years of our life if we do not do well in the exams?

My Grandad made me smile yesterday. He likes to be realistic and keep everyone's feet firmly on the ground. My Nanny and Grandad picked me up after my exam. I told them about my last exam and how I thought it went. Then I said that I was happy my exams had finished. About five seconds later my Grandad said, "Well you still have your A-Level exams". Of course I know I still have A-Level exams to look forward to, which are going to be more difficult, and my Grandad was right but I just laughed. I was able to celebrate for about five seconds before my Grandad brought me back to reality. That's one of the reasons I love my Grandad.

I did not have plans to do anything special with my family and friends to celebrate the end of my exams, so I thought I would share my news with you.

Now that I have time off I have time for projects I have wanted to work on, but have not had time to do. This includes redecorating my bedroom and being more dedicated to this blog. I am not going on holiday anywhere abroad this summer, so I will talk to you about what I get up to during the summer in the U.K.

Page I made in my journal to remember the occasion

Happy Father's Day

I wish everyone a happy Father's Day today and wish you all a good day, especially to those who cannot celebrate Father's Day. Whatever the reason is for not celebrating I hope today is a good day.

I will not be celebrating Father's Day with my Dad. The one time I celebrated Father's Day with my Dad was when I was one years-old. Every year I always buy my Dad a Father's Day present but this year I painted him a picture to summarise our holiday to New York last year. It took me three days to paint and was definitely worth it. Pleased to say my Dad loved the painting. I gave my Dad his Father's Day present weeks ago when I last saw him. I wanted to give him the painting before he went abroad for a couple of months.

I always find shopping for my Dad a challenge and usually end up giving him a smart tie for his Father's Day present. Original I know. But around Father's Day there is normally the simple option of buying them ties, socks, chocolate or something sports related, like a book on golf or football. Every year I try to think of something different to buy my Dad, but almost every year I buy him a tie. That's why I made him a painting this year. I thought he's probably fed up of me giving him the same Father's Day present each year.

Happy Father's Day Dad xxx

Thoughts from 'One Day'

Sometimes I wonder what I did on the same day last year. Usually I can never remember. Did I have an interesting day? Productive day? Lazy day? I don’t know.

I first started thinking about this after I read the book ‘One Day’, my favourite book. What if we were able to remember what we did on the same day every year .How many changes would it show? Different locations? Different hairstyles? Different fashion trends? Different relationships?

Just something to think about.

Quiet morning in the sunshine

Yesterday I had had enough of being in my room revising as I felt I needed a break. So I decided to venture outside into the sunshine, as it is such a rare sight in England. I decided to sit outside in the garden and do some knitting while listening to my iPod. My Mum laughed at me the other day and said that me knitting is not the usual stereotype for a teenager.

It was nice to be able to sit outside. Seeing the sun makes me feel better as everything is bright outside. I enjoyed listening to my favourite music in the warmth of the sunlight while happily eating a plate full of biscuits.

Also I had time to do some painting. I like painting the flowers in the garden. But I didn’t spend a huge amount of time on them because the wind kept blowing the paper away.

Postcards

I love buying and receiving postcards. I like receiving postcards because I appreciate that someone has taken the time to write me a handwritten message. I have always loved receiving cards. As we are in a time where texting, emailing and social networking are our main forms of communication it is nice to read hand written messages. I still write my Grandparents hand written letters to stay in contact with them.

My Dad recently went on a five month long world holiday and he sent me postcards from some the different places he visited. Although some of the postcards arrived after he got back from his travels I still enjoyed reading them. I placed them in an album so that I can easily find them and maybe read them.

When I go to different places I buy postcards that I like and put them up on my bedroom wall. Some are photographs others are famous pieces of artwork. I have collected them from London, Paris, Brighton, New York etc. It has taken me three years to build my collection and I can see it getting bigger.

My collection of postcards on my wall is so big it can't fit into one photograph

However I recently took down all of the postcards. Over the summer holiday I am redecorating my bedroom. This meant I had to take down all of the postcards to paint the wall. My bedroom walls look empty at the moment. Some of the postcards may sneak back onto the bedroom walls though….

Hello

Hello and welcome to my blog

Today I thought I would do something I have always wanted to do….start a blog. I have wanted to create a blog for a long time now. The thing that held me back was what to name my blog. I thought of lots of different names but none of them sounded right. Then I asked myself what do I like. Something I spend a lot of time doing is paint and draw. I enjoyed taking art GCSE so some evening I will sit and draw or paint for hours. But the names I thought of linked to art didn't sound right. Next I thought about music. I listen to music everyday. Whether it be on the radio in the morning, playing CDs or listening to my iPod. I enjoy singing and listening to different musicians. This made me think about how much I daydream when I listen to music. Music sometimes makes me feel like I am in a music video. When I am listening to my iPod in the car I look outside and think about how the song may link to my life or could be used in the scene of a film. I hope I am not the only one who does this.

 

I think I spend too much time daydreaming. Whether it be in a boring lesson or when I have five minutes to myself. Often I daydream about my future and what I hope to do in the future. But I know that some of my dreams will never happen. I think it is good for people to have dreams and ambitions for the future. So this is where the name came from.

 

I plan on using this blog as a space to share things that I like and am interested in. Also some stories from my life.

 

To be honest I don't know how long this blog will last. I like to think that in a years time I will still be writing this blog.

Thanks for reading,

Robyn xx