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I'm not sure if I have paid it. I'm paying quarterly but it hasn't confirmed that they were taking the money, just that I'd receive a payment plan within ten days. It doesn't say that I can't watch tv though. So unless they confirm otherwise then I'm going to assume that I'm watching legally.
If your house already has a TV licence, you can watch it (you're still at home, right?)
I'm buying a tv license for uni so I have to have my own.
All packed and ready to go. I've had to leave a lot of stuff behind because it won't fit in the car. We're going to get there for 10am so I'll have the whole day to unpack, meet people and get ready for the party tomorrow night. I can't wait :D
Bad day again. I don't know what it is, but everythings bugged me today. I;m ok now though!
However, good night :) loads of my friends have gone to an 18th tonight of a boy in my year who happens to be my distant cousin but I didn't want to go, I have no money for drinks or a costume anyways so I didn't bother.
I just had a catch up with another friend online as he went to College this year instead of coming back to sixth form so we had a really nice chat :)
My sisters here too because my Mum and Dad are at a wedding, it's hard work looking after a baby! Jeeez lol
Another pointless Economics lesson, I wish that teacher would teach us something from a sheet rather than playing pointless games with M&Ms and pieces of paper until the text books arrive. We have the first unit exam in January. Pointless report was set on the game which I won't even bother to proof read before handing in as it has nothing to do with the course.
Done my Psychology homework so have just started on my English research. My friend got a new girl from her Art class to come and sit with us and yesterday she wasn't there so I thought I'd get my friends back.. today she turns up again :(
Dad picked me up from the bus stop so I could go and play debt collector on his friend. He's owed my Dad money for about 5 weeks so I went in there and said, "I can't go out tomorrow night if you don't pay up," and he paid haha! Got the reputation as debt collector when I was in the pub with Dad and I asked for a blackcurrant lemonade and Dad said I couldn't have one. When I asked why he said it was because this mate hadn't paid him so I went up to him and said, "My dad won't get me a drink because you haven't paid him," and he went home, got his cheque book, came back and paid haha!
So first week of a2 year is over and Im starting realise how hard its gonna be, mainly biology!!!
didnt really do much yesterday, had to go and meet my sis after she had finished helping at the playschool so we could walk down to my gran and grandads house and it started to pour down as soon as i left, not pleased lol! :angry:
awwww im sure if you get to know her she will be alright. and i doubt shes trying to steal your friends away from you, give her a chance, its not nice going to a new school where you dont know anyoneQuote:
Originally Posted by Kim
did they say they would be taking the first payment out of your account, did you give them your bank details etc and when you wanted to pay or did they say that would be all sorted out once they sent you the payment plan? if you gave them your bank details and eveything was sorted about how/when you were gonna pay and they are just sending you a copy of the plan (like detailing when payments were due and how much etc) then i would think it had been paid. however if you have to send something off about it when you get the plan then i would assume it hadnt, if that makes senseQuote:
Originally Posted by Abigail
they really need to make cars bigger, thats what ive found lol! :rolleyes: i got there the earliest i could too, only one other person in my house arrived early, the rest came a few hours later. good luck, i hope you enjoy it :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Abigail
I still cant believe you'll be in an area close to me! Its just werid :D hope you have a good timeQuote:
Originally Posted by Abigail
I've had a bit of a rubbish day.. well it wasn't that bad but it was stressful. Had work. Wasn't that busy, but there was only lik 4 of us in the restaurant so it seemed busy! There was 2 serving food, 1 clearing tables and washing plates and stuff.. and then I was there doing both drinks and till!! Omg not again. Kept getting loads of queues for both, was trying to do both. Didn't need 2 serving food so that peed me off! People kept getting really crappy with me cause we ran out of cutlery, I ran out of change and didn't have time to get more! So they were saying " we can't pay for our food, can't eat it, what can we do" I have to stay polite and I was like they'll both only be like 2 mins, i'm sorry, if you sit down i'll bring your change and the cutlery to you... then the fanta finished so i had to change that while doing all that! Getting majorly stressed out!!!! People yelling at me! I was serioulsly SO close to crying it was unbelievable. I actually did have a tear! Just cause people were yelling at me and being mean lmao! :p. It really upset me lol!!! Then our manager came to help us so it was okay! So they all went out in the back to wash plates cos it was piling up and i was stuck out the front again doing drinks, till, clearing tables, serving food. (Wasn't that busy at the time) bt thats not the point, my manager cleared tables with me though so that was okay. I seriously hated it!!! AH *breatheS*
had a boring day, not done much. my dad was sorting the roof out today though so he kept shouting to us to bring him stuff!
Good day :) Went for a walk with my friend to get food then walked over to town to buy Face wipes lol. Then our other friend picked us up and we just drove about and then went to Mc.Donalds for Mc.Flurrys and saw some other friends so stopped and spoke to them :) Was a good night!
Today it was my mate's 16th party and it was ace seriously. Bowling was jut soo funny but one of my mate's actually dressed like a ******* i'm not normally that mean but it just irritate's me and then my other friend thought this girl was going to steal her boyfriend from her and then she wasn't happy cause he didn't talk to her the entire night. But i must of came third out of 7 of us lol there was 3 lane's with us all but it was great fun.
Then we went on to pizza hut and me and jason just sat there texing another mate lol and winding him up full stop then i got Jason's phone and texted my boyfriend cause he don't have any credit and can only text 02 number's and jason is on 02 lol! so yeah altogether was an amazing night.
I had a horrible weekend - Friday lunchtime my powerpack on the laptop went and I was unable to get it fixed until today :crying: No emails and no Soapboards :( Busy at work today too, ready to go home now. The weather has turned realy cold, the heating in my office, which is temperature controlled has come on this morning and has stayed on all day, it was a bit sunny around lunchtime but mostly overcast.
There's a film crew a couple of doors down. I'm intrigued as to what they're filming. My sister reckons a DIY show because they were filming builders. It's a bit annoying though as they're taking up lots of car parking spaces! I had to park in the drive which is very hard to do!
I did all my work at school today. Nothing to do tonight :D
Got my provisional through the door this morning:Dx Also off to see a psychologist on thursday about my anger which is all good... thought the doctor hadn't made a referral but they had just not to see a councilor thats all lol. Today was fun actually, doing a discussive essay in English and I'm going to do it on the new school that the council is wanting to build on our playing fields (we'll be losing at least half of it) and we'll also won't have our bus park which will just leave to even more congestion of traffic on the Woodmill road but cause we're pretty sure the council will go ahead with it, one of the other reasons is cause they already own the land that our playing fields is on. But cause they're going ahead with that they're putting asto turf where our tennis court is so we will no longer have a tennis court. So yeah it's going to be interesting.
I have coursework, I only handed some in today! Applied courses are crazy amounts of work but my school don't do normal Business because they do Economics as well, which universities don't like. Also had to write a tragedy minisaga for English in exactly 50 words. I had 63 but I've cut it down now. Just got to print it off in the 6th form centre tomorrow as I have no ink. We have to pay £12 for ONE book for English! We have to have like four and we have to have that certain edition so we all know where we are with it. And that £12 is with the department subsidising part of it. Also got to finish my Economics work so pretty busy today, had loads of work over the weekend too.
i had to file forms that had all been thrown under the desk from Feb 07, only half way through, i wanted to cry! Its all good i got paid yesterday. should really start to pack. so much to so so little time.
didnt do much on sunday except pack some stuff to go back to uni. yesterday helped my mum with food shopping. today took most of my stuff down to my uni house and cleaned my room for when i go back
its so cold here too, its freezing in my bedroom! :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
:eek: thats expensive! dont your school provide you with your books?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim
i always leave my packing til the last min then its a mad rush and i panic that ive forgotten something lol! when are you going back?Quote:
Originally Posted by Katy
First post from my new flat :D
Great flatmates, Kelly, Sophie, Craig and Jamie. I'm next door to Jamie (he's 27) and even though I've only known him for 48hrs I have to admit I really fancy him. We've just been talking in my room.
Anyway... had a mad evening. Our loans don't come through until Thursday so we've got no money to go out. All my flatmates are going home this weekend so I think I'm going to as well.
glad youre having a good time! :) cant believe theyre all going home, do you not have a freshers ball?Quote:
Originally Posted by Abigail
They do for text books, but they're making us pay for our books for English because we have no choice but to annotate them so that we can do the coursework and be able to answer the questions in the exam. Personally I find it ridiculous that it's £12 for a copy of Hamlet! This copy they're insisting we have is £22 to the school but that still contradicts a 6th form agreement that we have to sign. "The school will provide all equipment required for examination courses." English department aren't in my good books this year - they've already decided to teach a different syllabus to the one in the prospectus and they're changing one of the texts they said we were doing.Quote:
Originally Posted by di marco:eek: thats expensive! dont your school provide you with your books?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim
Today, loads more work. I was trying to do my Business coursework in my free but they've replaced about three quarters of the computers in the 6th form study room. The ones I got either didn't have word installed or wouldn't detect my USB so I couldn't have saved anything I did do so I could carry on with it tonight. I must have looked like I had ants in my pants, trying about 6 different computers.
We were given our Psychology text books so I have catching up to do with notes I haven't finished for that.
Economics - Homework that we can't do a question on until after next lesson :rolleyes:
More trouble with the girl that bullied me non stop for a year and a half :angry: I wouldn't think people who have nothing better to do than that would bother to stay and do A Levels :rolleyes:
Got to registration this afternoon only for my tutor to announce. "There is a flasher. Girls, stay away from the alleyway." We also heard the flasher chased a Year 10 yesterday. Kind of scared, I wish my parents could drive me to school so I wouldn't have to go near the alley in question.
Nope, no freshers' ball. I spoke to mum on the phone earlier and she said she doesn't want me to waste my money coming home for the weekend. TBH, I think my mum would just drive me crazy as per usual so I might as well stay put.
cant you tell the school about how they said stuff would be provided? i dunno what my school did for alevel english as i didnt do it, but at gcse we got given a book which might already have been annotated, we were told we had to write in pencil so that the next person could rub it out if they wanted. £22 seems really expensive just for one book, surely there are cheaper copies they could have asked you to buy?!Quote:
Originally Posted by KimThey do for text books, but they're making us pay for our books for English because we have no choice but to annotate them so that we can do the coursework and be able to answer the questions in the exam. Personally I find it ridiculous that it's £12 for a copy of Hamlet! This copy they're insisting we have is £22 to the school but that still contradicts a 6th form agreement that we have to sign. "The school will provide all equipment required for examination courses." English department aren't in my good books this year - they've already decided to teach a different syllabus to the one in the prospectus and they're changing one of the texts they said we were doing.Quote:
Originally Posted by di marco:eek: thats expensive! dont your school provide you with your books?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim
i cant believe you dont have a freshers ball! although i didnt actually go to mine, we had our own party instead lol! its quite good being the only one in the house at times, although probably more so if you have work to do!Quote:
Originally Posted by Abigail
:eek: We weren't allowed to write in the books at GCSE even in pencil. I can't say I was very confident about the question about the novel. We got to write in the anthology and were then given a clean one in the exam thankfully.
This version has really good notes in it apparently. It's surprisingly thin for something the school paid £22 for. I heard we're not allowed the annotations in the exam at A Level either under syllabus changes this year and that the school would provide a clean copy for the exam, but I'll believe that when I see it.
The agreement did say that if we thought the agreement was in breach then we should see the 6th form director, so I may well do that.
i think my year was the last year we were allowed to take annotated books into the exam, which was good cos id have failed otherwise lol! the only book we werent allowed to write in was the pride and predujice book for cw as it was new and they wanted to use it in the other years which werent allowed notesQuote:
Originally Posted by Kim
For my Prose coursework I photocopied significant parts of the book so I could annotate it. Glad I did now, we needed loads more quotes than in the exam as obviously we had to spend longer than 45 minutes on the coursework.
we just wrote the notes on pieces of paper and labelled the bullet points with what page it referred to, not that my notes were that good anyway lol and i hardly used quotes! although the photocopying is a good ideaQuote:
Originally Posted by Kim
I don't think some of my class even went as far as to do what you did, probably explains why some of them got C's and D's for it and the head of English was coming in and having a go at them for not putting effort into it.Quote:
Originally Posted by di marcowe just wrote the notes on pieces of paper and labelled the bullet points with what page it referred to, not that my notes were that good anyway lol and i hardly used quotes! although the photocopying is a good ideaQuote:
Originally Posted by Kim
i got an A for all 3 pieces of literature cw, dunno how seeing as i didnt even finish reading any of them lol! got a B overall though. the notes i made myself werent that good but i just added to them when we were discussing it as a class!Quote:
Originally Posted by KimI don't think some of my class even went as far as to do what you did, probably explains why some of them got C's and D's for it and the head of English was coming in and having a go at them for not putting effort into it.Quote:
Originally Posted by di marcowe just wrote the notes on pieces of paper and labelled the bullet points with what page it referred to, not that my notes were that good anyway lol and i hardly used quotes! although the photocopying is a good ideaQuote:
Originally Posted by Kim
Just thought i'd say that i'm off on holiday tomorrow so won't be around. And after that i'm going to uni, so i might not be around much for a while :)
Have a nice time on your holiday, looking forward to you coming back on here :)
have a good hols :) im going on hols on friday for a few days as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by Abi
yesterday evening i got this text from some portugese person, they keep phoning me and i dont know anyone who lives in portugal! the text was all in portugese though so i couldnt even read it!