How Was Your Day? Numero Four-o

[di marco]

didnt do much today, went down my gran and grandads house. me and my sis bought a lottery ticket even though we wont win anything lol just in case we did cos its about £92m i think and my dad said it wont be rolled over, i got absolutely soaked walking to the shop though as it was pouring with rain all day!

[di marco]

Ahh and you might be wondering who this girl is.. I feel like such an evil child for saying this but she's new but she's got 4/5 lessons with me and she just kept following me around. And the first lesson (Business) I was really looking forward to sitting with my mate but then she came and sat next to me. I know she's only trying to make friends and I am trying too but she's just been like shadowing me and not giving me ANY space! There are PLENTY of other students but she keeps following me..
I know it sounds rude of me but it's just really annoying and it's been getting me down. I just don't want to keep it locked up and suddenly blurt it out or whatever you know I feel so bad for posting this but I am going to do it anyways because I have to tell someone!

maybe as shes new she doesnt know anyone else at your school, and she noticed you were in nearly all the same lessons as her and so thought she could make friends with you as she would have someone to sit with? i know it must seem quite annoying someone following you around, but try and be friendly and talk to her, maybe invite her to eat lunch with you and your friends if she doesnt have anyone to sit with, as im sure if it was you in her situation youd want someone to be nice to you. its scary going to a new school where everyone knows everyone and it must be even worse if you dont know anyone at all

[Kim]

Nope we don't have to wear uniform. Jeans are allowed, nail varnish, hoodies. The only things on the dress code are like no beachwear, conventional jewellery only and no revealing or scruffy clothes.

There were about 230-240 in my Year 11 and I live about 8 miles from my school. My school do a good one year course though so they're not all A Level people. Some are doing 3AS combined with a retake and some others do a Business Btec I think it is worth GCSE's with English and/or Maths retake. Some of the people in my classes are on holiday Great start they've made.

sounds like your school is quite relaxed about clothing then! is the reason your bus pass is so expensive cos you live so far away from the school? or is it a standard price which would have been the same even if you lived nearer? someone in my form was away on hols for the first 2weeks of yr7 lol!

No everyone for every school in Wiltshire gets charged £360. I could go to the Cachment area school 3 miles away with under average results for the county and still get charged that. They will give anyone a pass to anywhere providing the bus company don't charge them more for the subsidy than the bus company doing the cachment area school would charge the council to give a subsidy there, hence why they can't guarantee that I'll get a pass next year. The fares are very steep; the pass actually looks very good compared to them. If I paid fares every day it'd be £17 a week providing it doesn't go up but with the pass it works out as about £9.20 a week, plus all the fares I have to pay to pick up the passes as my current one runs out at Christmas but I am guaranteed a pass while I am in Year 12 as it's done on the academic year.

Someone in my GCSE Maths class missed the first week of Year 10. I thought that was ridiculous at the time but missing the start of A Level seems like not a very smart idea at all. We have one to one tutoring in a few weeks to check that we are happy with our subjects before it's too late to change so they will end up with limited lessons on the basis of which they have to make a decision.

[.:SpIcYsPy:.]

maybe as shes new she doesnt know anyone else at your school, and she noticed you were in nearly all the same lessons as her and so thought she could make friends with you as she would have someone to sit with? i know it must seem quite annoying someone following you around, but try and be friendly and talk to her, maybe invite her to eat lunch with you and your friends if she doesnt have anyone to sit with, as im sure if it was you in her situation youd want someone to be nice to you. its scary going to a new school where everyone knows everyone and it must be even worse if you dont know anyone at all

Yeah I talk to her and everything (would be rude not too lol) but just the basics. Like I don't want to go too deep into convo. as I don't know what she's like or anything but I haven't got much to say really so I get lost for words after that. I go home for lunch anyways and at break I think she hangs out with another group of girls but it's just lessons (inc. 'study lessons') really.
I am all cool with seeing her every now and then and exchanging a few words and all that but I just don't get why she dosen't move around with other people too.. Like I would like to talk to other people and I don't have much confidence either but because she's there I feel like I can't talk to other people because she is shadowing me

[Kim]

I know what you mean Spicy. If someone stays with the same person/people then the people being followed end up almost angry with the person doing the following because they hold them back from making new friends as you want to do. Being with the same people only works in close groups where none of them have any friends that are in the school outside that group, because then they don't want to spend time with others.

[Abbie]

OMG I should have been home at like half 9 cos the way work was tonight, but I ended up being at home at quarter past 11 cos of work

[di marco]

Nope we don't have to wear uniform. Jeans are allowed, nail varnish, hoodies. The only things on the dress code are like no beachwear, conventional jewellery only and no revealing or scruffy clothes.

There were about 230-240 in my Year 11 and I live about 8 miles from my school. My school do a good one year course though so they're not all A Level people. Some are doing 3AS combined with a retake and some others do a Business Btec I think it is worth GCSE's with English and/or Maths retake. Some of the people in my classes are on holiday Great start they've made.

sounds like your school is quite relaxed about clothing then! is the reason your bus pass is so expensive cos you live so far away from the school? or is it a standard price which would have been the same even if you lived nearer? someone in my form was away on hols for the first 2weeks of yr7 lol!

No everyone for every school in Wiltshire gets charged £360. I could go to the Cachment area school 3 miles away with under average results for the county and still get charged that. They will give anyone a pass to anywhere providing the bus company don't charge them more for the subsidy than the bus company doing the cachment area school would charge the council to give a subsidy there, hence why they can't guarantee that I'll get a pass next year. The fares are very steep; the pass actually looks very good compared to them. If I paid fares every day it'd be £17 a week providing it doesn't go up but with the pass it works out as about £9.20 a week, plus all the fares I have to pay to pick up the passes as my current one runs out at Christmas but I am guaranteed a pass while I am in Year 12 as it's done on the academic year.

oh right, i thought it might have been cos you lived further away it was more expensive cos obviously longer bus journeys are more expensive than shorter ones. that amount still seems really expensive though, especially as you have to get a certain bus. although saying that i dunno how much bus prices are to get to school where i live

Someone in my GCSE Maths class missed the first week of Year 10. I thought that was ridiculous at the time but missing the start of A Level seems like not a very smart idea at all. We have one to one tutoring in a few weeks to check that we are happy with our subjects before it's too late to change so they will end up with limited lessons on the basis of which they have to make a decision.

yeh it is stupid missing the beginning of gcse and alevel courses. i thought the girl in my class in yr7 was stupid missing the first 2 weeks of school cos although you dont learn much, by the time she joined our class everyone had already made friends!

[di marco]

was going to go to my uni house today to take my tv and stuff down there so my dad coud help lol! but my mum said its meant to rain so she didnt wanna do it in the rain. plus she heard on the news last night that the TA are doing some march down there and seeing as the headquarters (or whatever its called) for it is on the main road where my house is we thought it was best we went another day lol! so im probably going to sit around doing nothing all day again!

[Chris_2k11]

OMG I should have been home at like half 9 cos the way work was tonight, but I ended up being at home at quarter past 11 cos of work

where do you work Abbie?

[Abbie]

OMG I should have been home at like half 9 cos the way work was tonight, but I ended up being at home at quarter past 11 cos of work

where do you work Abbie?

I just work in small pub/inn that does really nice food and friday nights are quite quiet and the tabels that came in were find and everything was done by half 8,but then there was atable that was booked in for half eight that didnt show up till 8:45 and then they were the slowest eaters ever!!!! I mean seriously, it looked like they were finsihed loads of times....but they werent. Anyway it got to 10 and they wanted sweets so only one of us had to saty but I was getting a lift home by my friend, who works with me so we both had to stay and it jusy went on and on and on.
It would have been okay if that table didnt show up. Its not like we are a proper restaurant, we are only a little pub