Bringing up Baby

Thursday, October 18th 2007, Wake up time: 6:50am


I had history first, where we wrote some songs! It's weird I know, but it was just so we could learn about a piece of history in a more creative way. It was more fun than taking notes all day! I then had my new maths class, and I found out Alex Maurice was in it! It was good to see a familiar face. 


In American literature we had a small quiz on the book we were reading, I got a good score of 4 out of 5! We then cut the lesson short as we had to have our photos taken! I am horrendously un-photogenic. (Not sure that's a word). I had a lot of fun talking with people I knew while waiting to have my photo taken. We then returned to class, and Miss Kitsis (our literature teacher) put on the film 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' as there was no point trying to learn anything new with so many kids still having their photo taken, it was brilliant! 


In psychology we played an emotional game, we'd been doing a lot of work on human emotion...shame I can hardly remember most of it! I then went to lunch, and I got some free cookies from Amanda, as she'd baked them and had some spare! We hung out and had a good chat before I headed off to my fitness class. I didn't work out that much as I spent most of the lesson laughing my head off with Julian who quickly became my best friend within that class. I miss those times a lot....


In film we started watching Bringing up Baby, another screwball comedy, which I preferred to The Philadelphia Story. It's cleverly written, and once again stars Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. It also has a fantastic ad-lib in it, but I wouldn't want to ruin that for you ;) It was recently voted number 16 in the Guardian's The Greatest Comedies of All Time, I think it should have been higher, but hey...it's definitely brilliant. 


It was the end of school, but it was Thursday, so it meant another GSA meeting! It was a lot of fun. I walked with Tiago, but stopped off art Sweet Sue's. I sat with Cecille, Talia and Stephanie for a little while. We went outside to sit in the sun, but went back to Sweet Sue's when Rosalie got there. I got myself a muffin, and then we all headed to the library. There's a small park area adjacent to the library and as it was now Autumn (or Fall) there were hundreds of leaves scattered around...just waiting to be kicked. It's a small and simple pleasure to kick leaves everywhere...savour it each time you can. 


I finally got home, where I played yet more Oblivion! It was already Thursday, so most homework I had could be done at the weekend. Also, it was the fifth play off game this evening! We had dinner first, chicken nuggets with chicken pot pie. (Weird combination I know!) It was time for the game! Ralph was wearing his rugby shirt from England...he considered it lucky. It was a tense game, if the Sox lost again they wouldn't make it to the World Series.... 


I really should have written this so that I didn't tell you the fact they won the World Series! Yes, they managed to win the game 7-1, a fantastic performance. Ralph then decided to wear the shirt to watch all the games, he was convinced it must be the shirt, as he wore it when they won their first play off game! It was very late after the thrilling game, and the tension was still high...the Sox had to win their next two games, whereas the Cleveland Indians could just win one. I had school the next day, so I headed to bed the minute the game and the post-game celebrations were over.


Thanks for listening!