04.25.07
Show and Tell – DEADLINE APPROACHING
Right, revision? Search for Billy Lair book? Write a blog? You can guess what one I picked cant you! And if you obstinate like many of my friends and would make a comment here i.e Jordan! I picked writing a blog!
So the school had a play written for them called “Show and Tell”. This play was to be preformed at school in front of some weird competition people…All I remember is on the day rehearsals I spent most part of the day helping build a door with Peter, Josh and Jordan…..Not fun! We did the show and after many injuries (fishing wire through my hand, Adam smacking himself with a hammer, Jordan grazing his knuckles and josh cutting his finger open) The show went………..Crap like normal, the lighting ques where missed a extra scene was added, the actors got the lines wrong and it just generally went to pots…..We still got through to the next stage were we got a do the same show again at the Arcola Theater in Shorditch, London! HOW?!?! I hear you ask?! I have no idea!!!
This Saturday is when the show is to be shown to people of the National Theater company! Isn’t it going to be sooo much fun! Not! We suffered an hour and a half run through of “show and tell” seeing as it had not been run since the show! And Oh My Word this show is never going to be ready and shiny like the director wants by Saturday!
We are screwed!!! completely and utterly!
Right now to find a Billy Lair book before tomorrow!
04.09.07
My X team!
Right I’m writing this to save me from my English homework….so Jordan no telling me i’m being emotional for no reason! 
I love these lot they are my best friends and I cant believe I’m leaving them next year! although I’ve been told I’m to be locked in the lighting cupboard… scary trust me! I’ve known them 3 years now; yet it seems like a life time. I can tell Adam and Jordan anything and I know they are looking out for me and I can talk to them anytime, day or night!!!Peter and Paul are really good for laughs! I’m always smiling with them around, and whenever I’m upset i can bet on one of these two to make me laugh at some joke about dales sexuality or something. Josh is always fun to laugh with or about in my case, hes great because he’ll laugh at anything even if its at his expense but hes great to work with on stage too and knows all about computers!
I gonna miss you lot so so much! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
04.05.07
Cadet Exams – The results!
Right so, Yes i signed myself up 3 years ago to Air cadets not knowing there were exams but meh! I get a BTEC in some weird subject called Aviation Studies! what its about I don’t know.
So I started the Exams, knowing full well I suck at taking exams (ain’t that good with 8 GSCE’s round the corner!) failed 1 passed the other 7 so over not bad! So about 2 weeks ago I took my two final exams…..I hadn’t revised and missed the practice exam so here you can see my determination to pass these things. Took the exams; walked out think Failed that one! hehehe Got the exam results tonight, they were read out on our final parade me standing thinking “failed just say it” so then they decide to read the other too class members names out but not mine, Then at the end going “oh and Crotty got a pass” the biggest smile rose upon my face I now have: 1 BTEC in Aviation Studies! just a shame I don’t get a badge!
04.04.07
I need a gun! (zip!) Look at this gun…
Okay so yes the title is a bit unorthodox and nothing to do with what I’m about to write but meh, Trudie is sitting right next to me and we are laughing our heads off!
“Oil, grass and blood stains *keh* ain’t she the slightest bit suspicious!” Lee Even, don’t ask!
yes so today the gay came round after work today and we wanted to walk to the skate park….still waiting to go there…..we stopped off and gate crashed our m8s “party” we say party it was more like a gays anonymous meeting!
PC taught Trudie more to glide on a skateboard then actually ride one. i just pushed Andy off it instead, while James just screamed like a girl. Adam and Greg well don’t ask!!! we sat on the roof! me i hate heights too! and me and Phil through hoops down at Andy, Greg and PC and with aim i knock Andy’s beer out of his hand!!! I rule….. and then walking home we got egged….well i say we but it was mostly Trudie!!!
and the Gun title is to do with a program we’re watching and taking the mick out of.
Trudie-poo comment’s:
I just sat there with a beer in one hand and a fag in thee other =]
04.03.07
My GCSE’s!!!
So….
I’m on my Easter holidays, knowing when I go back to school in 2 weeks, well not even that now. I have 4 weeks left then on the 11Th of May I leave compulsory education for life, knowing that my results of my GCSE’s determain weather or not I will be allowed to join certain college I have applied for. And today I recived a letter from a college saying my predicted grades would not be good enough to get in. Now why does this not motorvate me more?! I don’t maybe its my sheer will to fail or I just cant be arsed! Either way…I’m not revising as I am on here writing this at this prociese moment, on skpye to my too dear friends Peter and Adam and watching Dr. Who….now thats multi-tasking!
Easter concert
Well knowing that when I return to school I only have the so called 4 “precious” weeks left… So that means because I work on the X team at school this turned out to be my last Easter concert….boohoo….but yes make the most of it.
So last concert…what to do apart from having incriminating photos and videos of me and
Jordan being published on his blog and youtube, we listen to music and finished the set up Wednesday night. Thursday morning bright and early outside the school hall to get crushed by the out coming assembly and in to start the all day rehearsals. Soooo oh my word this was the longest day of rehearsals ever! They went so…o…o…o… slow, but we got through them, by fixing a new set of curtains to the racks, sweeping the stage, sitting on our arses doing nothing all day and Oh don’t forget taking the 6 music stands on and off stage millions of times. 3rd and 4th lesson left me, Jordan and Scott sitting on the stairs talking about who-knows-what between the acts.
Then the show….Tada! Was funny! Half the stage crew (Josh, Mark and me) walked to the other side to talk to Jordan and Scott. Scott was chatting up a musician. The 6th formers were hiding from their old friend and then I hurt my back on the radiator thinking a song had ended when it hadn’t lol fun. Jordan and I also tried to salsa dance which worked well till I burst into laughter. And then I cried as it hit me that I do not have another Easter concert at school with these guys! And then we finished the HarryBo’s and packed up and went home!!!! Now wasn’t that just sooooooo interesting! …
Somme Battlefield Trip
Friday 16th March 07 – Shenfield High School Attempts the impossible. Taking around 60+ year 11 and 12 students to France to visit the Somme Battle Fields
At 05:20 hours, every student attending the trip had to be in the 6th form car park, ready to leave at 05:30 Hours, you getting this cause I aint!!!
Right for those of you not taking GCSE History this is not relevant to you in the slightest but hey; read on if you wish. The Battle of the
Somme, what was it? Well IT was and is known as the most blood thirsty battles that Britain (yes that’s us) has taken part in and before you say Germans, It was our fault because of a young general (I say young he was like 50 something) Haig. Right WW1 France is Fighting German who are kicking our arse and
Russia sits there going, WHAT? So battle of Verdun starts…..ooooo very bad for us because we’re doing very badly well the French were, so
Britain appoints Haig! (Old dude, also known as the Butcher) to make a battle at the one and only place the Somme; to relive the pressure on the battle of Verdun, So at this point we have Big Kick arse battle we’re loosing (boohoo) so we decide: I know lets make another battle!!! How clever is that I remember history!!!! 
Right Back to the
Somme, it’s known as the Bloodiest because around 460,000 men died! That’s from England, Ireland, France, Canada, Germany,
Turkey, Italy ECT. Haig did all he could to pull the war out of a stale mate (nothing happening) and take German troops away from
Verdun. The Battle of the
Somme lasted 4 months in 1914 and started July 1st.
RIGHT HISTORY LESSON OVER!
Got up at early time of the morning to sit on Southend’s Football clubs couch with a driver called Richard. I was mean and txted my close friends at 5am! To say “MORNING!!!” hehehe sorry about that guys! Yes so we traveled many hours and finally got to Dover and took the Euro-shuttle/Star to Celia where we tada did more traveling till we got to the 1st site where we walked, had a talk picked up bits of shrapnel (bits of metal used in both trenches to kill others) talked more, I red a grave stone to my class and cried because I’m weak and found it sad we then drove down the road and had another talk about executions started driving again and that’s really how the rest of the day went on. The last place was The Thiepval Memorial were all the names of dead and missing are written in the wall. We unfortunately could not go there was it was being re-furbished. But we finished the day with laying a reef but a needle which was to memo rate Essex Regiment!
So back on the couch for more Traveling, TO THE FERRY! That was a laugh! Me and Emma waving at people and 6 of us sitting in the posh lounge. Then back on the couch for once again more traveling and reaching home at 22:25 hehehehe
Monster that ate 3B
Well what can I say!
The cast have had enough rehearsals; stage, lighting and sounds
were only given one script. Hmmmm what could go right from that?!
Oh and we were told to build the props in a week! Yet we did it!
the first performance was in the afternoon of the all day rehearsals.
And Saturday before we had another day rehearsals. So the crews
were sort of happy, till the afternoon show to the year 6 classes. The
director Miss Kitzo gave the cast morning rehearsals….slowest 3 and
half hours of my life! Now in my words the second one though went
okay, but no according to the Director (what does she know) nothing
went right so at lunch she sat all the crews down and pointed out all
mistakes and cues missed by stage lighting and sound. I didn’t care
to listen to much detail as I had to hang over the stairs 2 meters high
….I’m afraid of the most stupid heights. Pathetic really. So I started
to pay attention when she decides to cut the stage crew down to 3 people which is physically impossible! So 5 minutes before the show me, Peter and Josh start to beg the Drama assistant if we could have Jordan and Mark back on the crews. Outcome the show worked very well, because we had 5 stage members!!! Giving us 20minutes to do nothing to which lead to me and Jordan trying to find his black shirt as we all had to change into the new X team t-shirts saying on the back in bright yellow writing “X TEAM TECH CREW” now this would be okay if the shirts were black. But hey one way to miss lessons!
