After admitting to Adam that I write a blog, he seemed very keen to read it and that's when I realised I am too ashamed to let him. So I went through the laborious task of reading every single post. And then deleting it. It was liberating. I found myself reading things I couldn't relate to anymore.

Again, for my reference only.

On Thursday 8th July 2004, a group of us went to Paris with the school, it involved sitting on a god damn coach for 17 hours going and pretty much the same coming back. While we were there there was new friendships made and alot of stupid things said.. here i'm gonna bore you to death and tell you what happened over the weekend..

Thursday 8th July 2004
At 10.30pm,there was 46 of us all grouped together in Grange Hall at school. Along with suitcases, backpacks & food. Me and Laura (being me and Laura) went outside and left all of our stuff in full view of everyone, not that anyone would want to take any of our stuff in the first place.. Finally the bus came at 11 and we all got on, me and Laura got split up from the rest of the lads. With the parents stood outside in the pissing down rain we drove away. It was gonna be a loooong night. Everyone was hyper for a while but it soon died down and most people went to sleep. Apart from the few who were shouting stuff at each other (not me & Beth,honestly).... That was basically it for Thursday.

Friday 9th July 2004
We arrived at Dover at 6.00am to get the ferry across to Calais. By now we were all wide awake and shouting stuff to each other. Terry (the bus driver) parked the bus on the ferry and we all got off. Splitting up into our own groups we walked round the ship. Me, Laura, Adam & Tom decided to go onto the deck, so, we went out. Only on the way through the door Adam managed to fall over the piece sticking out of the floor (which normal people see and step over) so he fell flat on his face, making the rest of us piss ourselves laughing. He still hasn't lived it down. Just before we arrived in Calais, the ferry started making noises, we all asked what it was and Richie comes out with "Shallow Water" in the way that Richie says it, he also, hasn't lived it down.

Eventually we got off the ferry and back onto he bus. Itw as going to be another 5 hour driver to our 'hotel'.. so much fun! It was a long journey and loads of people went back to sleep, the rest of us just sat there being loud in the way that we are. At 3.30 we finally got to the 'hotel', but it wasn't actually a hotel, it was more like (as Adam says it) 'A BARN!'. The people at the barn wern't expecting us til 4.00 so we had to occupy ourselves for half an hour. Looking round the back of the centre the lads found a skate park so of course, they disappeared. Even though none of them actually took their boards! The little kids finally got ont heir coach and a little lad was licking the window... hmm nice dusty windows! how hygenic. One by one Mrs Zoryk let us off the bus to get our suitcases and go to the rooms. Our room was like a mini house! There were 4 beds downstairs and 7 beds upstairs! But the upstairs was seperated into 2 different rooms, me and Laura had a room pretty much to ourselves, shame it didn't have a door though. For tea, we all sat in the hall, there was already bread on the tables so we all decided to eat it. That was until we figured out it was like cardboard. Yummy! The cheese pasty things weren't much better. hmm.. after tea we all had a lovely game of bingo and our quiz! The bingo went as most bingo games that involve Year 9 kids go.. but the quiz. On our team there was : Me, Laura, Jordan, Adam, Mickey and James. For everything we got asked our team put the stupidest answer we could think of. For example : Question:Who was the first man on the moon? answer : Mr Armstrong.. After 2 quizes and about 3 games of bingo we got sent to our rooms.. to sleep! it was only 10 o clock.. obviously me and laura didn't sleep and sat and talked (and ate lettuce VERY noisily) till 12.30am..

Saturday 10th July 2004
Being down for breakfast at 8.00am is soo hard when certain people don't wake you up til 7.45! Well anyway, after breakfast we all got on the coach with Terry, half an hour to Disneyland..FUN! Eventually we get there, and have to walk for miles to even get into the damn park, we were only gonna be there for 12 hours! When we actually get into the thing, we head straight for Space Mountain but me and James chicken out when we get there so everyone leaves all their stuff with us and goes on the ride. After that we go to Thunder Mountain were we bump into Joe and Hegarty. Queueing up for the ride we went into 2 seperate lines and didn't see Laura, Jordan, Adam and Tom for the rest of the day. We then lost Mickey, Richie and Andy so there was Me, Joe and Hegarty walking round like complete prats for the full day until we bumped into Matty and Jonny but lost Hegarty so there's me and Joe then we run into Adam, Tom and James. After Mrs Zoryk gave us our €10 for our tea me and Joe went with Kevin and Donna straight for Space Mountain were they finally convinced me to go on. What was the first thing I said when I got off? "CAN WE GO ON AGAIN?!" somehow that was funny and they all laughed at me =S. We had to meet up to go back at 9.00pm so at 5 to, I decide I want a cowboy hat so I dragged Richie to the other side of the park so I could buy this damn hat. Which cost me €19 cause I couldn't find the €9 ones. When we got back, we got sent straight to bed, which is where most people went, apart from me and Sarah who sat talking until 1.00am but I won't go into detail...

Sunday 11th July 2004
Today was going to be the day of actually walking round the city itself. After yet another delightful breakfast, we filed onto the bus again. First stop - Eiffell Tower. We got the lift right to the top, some people actually started crying in the lift. I mean we were only going to be about 150ft in the air, not that far really. Right at the top, Chrissy thought it would be funny to through 1 cent off. Hopefully it didn't hit anyone, or Chrissy could be getting done for manslaughter (and we wouldn't want that to happen, would we?!) Anyway, after our great trip up there, it was time to go and see the Mona Lisa, only Mr Mullen managed to make us late so we didn't go in cause we lost our time slot in the day. More walking for us then. On the sheet it said: Lunch in a french restraunt,so where did they take us? MCDONALDS! How French can you get?!At the Arc de Triumph, we were actually told to look around, so going against everything we'd been told, we went and sat down and talked. Mickey started jumping up and down on a broken sheet of glass in the floor. Fun!! Next stop: the big churchy thing on the top of the hill. To get there we had to go through the red light district of Paris. How great - lads looking out hoping to see a prostitute of some form, i think they were disappointed. Just as we got to the top of the millions of steps leading to the big churchy thing, it started raining, not just light rain but it was torrential, there was about 15 of us all trying to stay dry under this one canopy thing but it didn't work and we all got drenched. I'm not even going to go into detail about the shopping. The last trip of the day was a boat ride. Imagine that, 46 of us, on a boat, hehe. All aboard, one by one we piled onto the boat and we were off. Me and Laura had gone halves on another camera especially for the boat ride. But I had control of it (is that a GOOD thing?!) so I was taking photos of anything & everything, then other people joined in. We were about half way through the ride when it started raining again, but us being us, decided to stay outside (Clever or what?) so we moved to the very front of the boat and found that there was a panel that when unbolted, opens. Obviously that's were i was stood, and people were trying to unbolt it. Great. The boat thing was over in an hour and 15 minutes.

Back at the barn, it was the night for the disco (god help us all), I thought i'd turn a few heads (and get a few insults) so I went down dressed in all black, with black eyeshadow and black eyeliner round my eyes. The reaction wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. A few people shouting 'Goth' at me, but i'm used to it. After tea the teachers decided it would be good if Matty was the DJ. (What were they thinking?!) so we decided to stay as far away from the hall as was humanly possible. In the end we all got dragged in so we took up alot of the dance floor and sat in a big circle with rave bouncing off our ear drums. Joe, being the clever sod he is, decided to put HIM on. Knowing what sort of people we had in tha hall with us. And when we didn't get up and 'dance', as they call it, abuse was getting hurled around all over the place, ending up in the music being switched off and the lights turned on. Then the 'popular' people starting moaning at the teachers about the 'skater people' who don't 'dance'. The disco was finally over by 11 o clock. As we were going home the next day, me and Laura thought we'd sit and talk, so we did. Til 1.30 in the morning.

Monday 12th July 2004
After our little chat, me and Laura were up and ready before most people in our room. And were the first into breakfast. Only cause we wanted to get a decent table. At 8.30 it was time to leave the barn and set off back for the lovely weather of England. Packing up the bus seemed to take forever, but Terry finally finished and we were driving away.

I'm not gonna bother writing about the rest of Monday cause nothing really interesting happened so.. hope I didn't bore you too much!

QUOTES:

Here we have some of the really stupid (but funny) things people came out with over the weekend... (some of them it's a 'have to be there' situation so i'm sorry if you don't understand, i've done my best..)

~x~ "Look! A shop already, let's go and get ripped off straight away!" - Adam (as soon as we got to Disneyland)

-x- "Shallow Water!" - Everyone (See Diary)

~x~ "Who would do something stupid like fall through a door on a boat?!" - Adam

-x- "I've already had 3 cameras, 2 were retarded. 1 couldn't count and the other wouldn't stop winding!" - Tom

~x~ "We've been travelling for 16 hours, and all we get to eat is Cardboard, and Cardboard with cheese!" - Jordan (on the food at the 'hotel')

-x- Laura -"It's a...It's a...
Adam - " Barn!!!" (the first time we saw the 'hotel')

~x~ "I paid £210 to come here and all we get is: Path, Shops...MORE path, ohmigod! MORE SHOPS!!" - Lizzie (walking into Disneyland)

-x- Jordan - "We've been on everything"
Adam - "No we haven't, there's loads of path we haven't walked down!"

~x~ "Oops!..erm, I didn't realise that light had changed to red!" - Terry the bus driver

-x- Laura - "Ohmigod we're getting the history of Paris!"
Adam - "Only on certain things. Look! That Spider Man poster was put up a week ago and it's red!"

~x~ "All you've done is buy useless crap! ooo there's a hat, i'll buy it. There's another one, it's slightly different so i'll have it. OH WOW! There's another one, it's pretty much the same as the first, but i'll have it anyway!" - Adam (about Tom)

-x- "Look! Mrs Zoryks only walking, we're on this escalator and shes's STILL beating us!" - Laura

~x~ "There's the Eiffell Tower. Oh no.. that's a pylon!" - Lizzie

-x- "TACK" - Everyone

~x~ " I want the one that's best to sit on" - Tom (trying to buy a miniature Eiffell Tower)

-x- "They've got guns.. I think we're in the wrong place!" - Adam