Ranting Time & Uni Choices

Hey guys!
Sorry this post is a week late but I haven't been feeling that well last week and so wasn't feeling up for it so yet again it's late. I feel like I'm apologising constantly oops, sums me right up..

So basically as I've just finished my AS year of sixth form I've moved on to A2 work now and last week our school had a 'Next Steps Week' which is self explanatory really but where we visited Leeds Uni and Leeds Beckett for a UCAS convention with loads of other uni's and of course there were apprenticeships for people not interested in going to uni. However on Monday the army came in to school and so we did team building activities, army drills and so much more. It was such a good day and the funny thing is the scary stereotypical army guys were there shouting out orders to us but lets just say they knew how to have a laugh as well (by tormenting our year & getting us to ask the other scary army guys for something that doesn't even exist). As we live in England of course no one expected it to be warm out and wow it was boiling (22/23° is hot for us okay..) so nobody put on suncream. I didn't realise until I got home as I had army paint on and it was oil based so was impossible to get off, great right..but my whole forehead and nose was bright red and stung like a bitch! Ever since then I felt just awful and me and my friend came down with sunstroke it was horrible. I had to take Wednesday off school but luckily everyone I knew who went that day said it was shit so I didn't miss out.

Last Saturday me and my family drove to Bristol to pick up my brother from uni after finishing his first year, which I still cant get into my head how fast the time has gone. He stayed in the Holmes which I believe is part of Churchill throughout the first year which was such a lovely place as it was opposite the Botanical Gardens (don't know if he'd admit that but he loved the flowers really). So we went for a look around the gardens which contained greenhouses with 100s of cacti and other types of pretty flowers (my way of saying I don't know the names ha) Here are a few of my favourite flowers I thought you'd like to see:

 
I've been trying to think of what this flower reminds me of or who for ages so if any of you have any ideas, feel free to comment below as that flower just makes me laugh. Also below, in case any of you are interested in going to Bristol I took a few pictures of where my brother stayed. So if you're interested in what the accommodation looks like then take a look but I'd definitely recommend going to the open day!

Yesterday I visited York Uni Open day with my friends (school allowing us the day off made it even better) and I know I've said to you I was contemplating whether I wanted to go to uni but today really swayed me to going. The uni campus is such a beautiful place with a lake surrounding the buildings, in case any of you are interested or couldn't go but wanted to here's a few pictures I took below. Also I found the English Language & Linguistics course to be really interesting when I talked to people there about it and I also went to a lecture on it. The only thing is if I'll meet the entry requirements of ABB which scares me a bit but they said there is room to discuss if people don't meet the grades so I just have to hope for the best.

I would so recommend to any of you who are in the similar dilemma to me with making sure you pick the right uni, to go have a look at the open day. Obviously unless you went yesterday you will have missed that one but there is another open day today so if you're quick you will make it!

Before I go, I must tell you how I nearly lost my camera forever in school last Thursday. On Thursday's I only have 2 lessons, photography first (typical we didn't end up using our cameras) then a free, then after break my last lesson was psychology which meant I could go home straight after. Only when I was writing my photography homework down I realised I hadn't brought my camera home so I suddenly panicked as it is worth a lot of money. I rang up my teachers at school immediately, giving them multiple places where I could have left my camera. Eventually after a lot of running around from several of my teachers they found it after backtracking my day I remembered I must have left it in the corner of the private study room before me and my friends went to the shops haha. I was so relieved when I got reunited with my camera yesterday after my friend picked it up for me; like finding my lost love..maybe a bit too far but oh well.

Hope I haven't bored you with my long blog post, I just felt after not posting for a week there was a lot of catching up to do. Hope you've had a good week and I promise (not that it means anything to you with the way I am;) to post on time next saturday. Talk soon!
Sophie 
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Let Summer Begin

Hey everyone,
Did you see what I did there on the title, let summer begin instead of let the hunger games begin..yeah?! no oh well I thought it was funny never mind I'll shush..

Joke you aint never getting rid of me whether you like it or not mwuahhahahaa (an attempt of what my evil laugh would sound like, read it in a deep voice to get the full effect haha) Moving on from my weirdness, so sorry I didn't post on Tuesday I just forgot as I've started back at school now on my second year of sixth form and then I didn't wanna rush it and write a rushed crappy blog post last minute. Bet you were all wondering omg what happened to me, joke you probably didn't even care ha. So I decided it would be better posting every Saturday instead, I swear this will be the last time it changes..I hope anyway;)

So I decided to be super prepared for my next party in July and have been trying to find a playsuit I want to wear for a while now and have found nothing..also maybe because even though I hate to admit it I've got more into online clothes shopping especially for playsuits oops. I just think playsuits are the best alternatives to dresses as they can be worn really causally but then you can also dress them up for a meal out or party. So I came across missguided which I'd never looked at before (all eyes turn to me in a judgy way I can just feel it) ok I'm not a girly girl I don't know all the fashion shops but anyway I found this lace dress style playsuit in blue and I fell in love immediately! So I wanted to show you and I thought it would be weird if I posted it with the model wearing it so I took some pictures only for you haha, I mean this is the first time I've posted a picture here of myself as I am quite an insecure person but I'm getting better. So here's my signature pose in yeah I'm sorry a mirror selfie but how else could I do it on my own? Yeah maybe a selfie stick but 1. I don't have one 2. I wouldn't waste my money on one and 3. that would just be very embarrassing. The reason I said signature pose is because you know when somebody gets out their phone to take a picture and you automatically resort to whatever expression you're used too like normal people would just smile but noo for some reason I've got into the habit of smiling but with my tongue out at the same time (don't even ask me why because I honestly don't know...)

Thought I would throw in a silly posing one, so many people think I'm serious when I peace & pout but it's really me mocking other people & just doing it for a laugh; I would never do it seriously.
Although it's like when I mocked someone so much with the term 'bae' it ended up becoming part of my everyday speech so other people actually thought I was saying it seriously when I would never in a million years say it seriously (just to clear that up hahah..the struggles;)
Also if any of you are wondering my phone case says 'Remind yourself that you don't have to do what everyone else is doing' it's limited edition merch from Alfie Deyes (aka pointlessblog) so yeah sorry if you wanted one...

But he releases merch regularly so don't worry and you'll be able to find copies online if you were really desperate and just wanted it for the cool quote. You know when you take selfies or just pictures of yourself (I don't do it that much;) Joke I am honestly the least arrogant person out there, I despise cocky people with a passion I don't get how people can metaphorically lick their own arse all the time, that just isn't me. Moving on to my main point I was going to say was you know when you take a selfie and it's like the more you look at it the more you start to question every fiber of your body like omg why is my hand doing that..wait is that how other people smile like I swear you can make yourself insane doing that.

The only thing I'm proud of is how on point my eyebrows are and only because I get them threaded regularly and then I go over them with eyebrow pencil, so really I should thank 50% the people who do my eyebrows and the other 50% me...that's fair right haha?! I used to have my eyebrows waxed which gonna be honest was quite painful but it only lasted for a few minutes so it was alright really but then it got recommended to me that I should change to threading. I was nervous at first but now I do prefer it much better, if you don't know what it is then I will try my best to explain it to you..it's basically where they use this special thread and in a way cut of your eyebrow hairs that you don't want but the good thing about it is you can be way more specific with the shape/curve that you want.

So apparently yesterday was one of the hottest days of the year so far which in this case the weather forecast was actually right. The temperature got quite high up to about 22° which I know for people who live in places like America would be nothing to them but it's pretty impressive for the British haha. Although I highly doubt the warm summer like weather will last; maybe for about a week then back to good old cold rainy days (what a sad life we live;) 

Anyway, I will talk to you next saturday that's a promise, I would say have an awesome week but for most of you out there you have school like me so yeah just make the most of it because as much as you and including me will deny it, when we've left we will all miss school one day.
Talk soon!
Sophie 
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Life Update & Flower Photography

Hey everyone, I'm back like that pesky fly you just can't get rid of..well I hope not!
Had my last ever exam today which was English Language for 2 hours but I think it went quite well actually, I mean I wrote a lot so that's a good thing right?! Now I'm officially exam free I can breathe wow it feels pretty good I must say. Now for those of you still going through the exam struggle let me tell you revision is so worth it when it pays of so c'mon you can do it, sending so much motivation to all you poor suckers haha (I'm so nice;) Now it's just the dreaded wait until results day August 13th which is much earlier than gcse reuslts so I guess that's a good thing, just hope I get the results I want oh god pray for me..

Now I have no more revision it basically means stay in my pyjamas in my bed all day watching Netflix eating junk food, sounds good doesn't it! Like I mean life goals haha (yeah the term 'goals' for something is definitely overused; partly by me oops). I guess it'll feel weird having no work to do but I mean we all deserve it after the exams after exams after exams we have had recently.

Change of topic, as you all must know by now I've kinda got a thing for photography especially of nature rather than portrait photography as most of it is just artificially posed unless you're a good photographer. The only portrait photography I actually like is candid photography because it all just looks so natural and cool, like especially when you're laughing or something. Anyway so I took a few pictures (I really mean millions) of the flowers in my garden, thought you might wanna see. The first picture is of me focusing on the ladybird and the other one is where I focused on the flowers, I did this because I thought it was interesting to see the difference between them.

The next picture is one I took a while ago of some of the beautiful pink blossom trees but close up, as you can imagine I was just snapping away at them. I'm so obsessed with flowers they just have such a natural beauty to them.

Right until next time then! Getting better at this weekly blogging thing, alright so officially I'm gonna always write a blog every Tuesday if that's alright with you, it may change but for now Tuesday is the day! Talk to you guys later, byee!
Sophie
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