The perks of having Study leave

   

I've mentioned it enough that I'm currently doing exams but along with that comes study leave! Four glorious weeks of not having to attend lessons at school. So yes the majority of it does/ should be spent revising but I can afford to have some time with my head outside a text book! This afternoon has been one of the relaxing occurrences.

Especially as we are experiencing a typical English summer - rain - I chose to spend this groggy afternoon watching a film with my mum. How cute! Don't laugh, we watch The Lizzie McGuire Movie, one of my childhood favourites. When I was younger Hilary Duff was without a doubt my idol! I wished (and secretly still do) to be as cool as her. Especially in this film as Lizzie. Most people know the words to the legendary 'Hey Now' song featured in this film. Well I know the dance moves and can pretty much quote the film the entire way through. Many hours of my childhood, and embarrassingly my teens years too, have been spent watching this movie. It'll be much easier to get away with if you have a younger sister, show her this movie and you'll probably love it more than her!

I also took some time today with my mum to organise my upcoming birthday. Despite turning 17 I'm being very uncool - like always - and taking my friends to Go Ape! I've done it once before and if you love heights then it is fabulous! High ropes, zip wires and Tarzan swings, relying on rope, a harness and a few carabina clips to dangle yourself many metres above ground. Not every-ones cup of tea but it is certainly mine! I'm so excited! Just praying that the weather is not like today so we don't get drenched whilst suspended in mid air.

One good thing that the English rain has brought is the brilliantly titled debut Album from Gabrielle Aplin which was released yesterday. I love Gabrielle and have loved each single she has released so far. I'm yet to listen to her album but is exactly what I plan to do right now! Check it out now!

xx Natalie

It's such a good feeling!

                            

Such a good Feeling! 1 down and 7 to go... oh sweet A levels, I hate you!

It's weird that I have just got home from completing my First As level exam. In some ways I feel so much older than 16 but in other ways I almost don't feel old enough to already be sitting my AS examinations.

I remember this time last year when I was doing my GCSE's and looking up at the current year 12's and thinking how much older they seemed, bizarre that that's now me!

There's quite a lot of pressure riding on these exams. I sat two modules in January and they didn't exactly go to plan. I'm re-sitting both of them and really hope to do well in all my exams. I'd love to go to University but of course which one I go to is dependant on my grades - plenty of revision and keeping my fingers crossed!

So today was History 1 and was the exam I was dreading most out of my lovely list of 8! The feeling of relief when an exam goes to plan and you can cross it off your list. Such a sweet feeling - one step closer to summer! Not that I'm counting down or anything...

I sacrificed watching last nights episode of MIC (Made in Chelsea) for some extra revision so that is what I'm going to do now. Cannot wait to see how Lucy and Spencer's date to Paris goes ahhh!

Good Luck to everyone else doing exams atm! 

xx Natalie - also just realised my full name is on my exam sheet in the photo above! haha uh oh

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Evening pals, hope you're all well!

I really shouldn't have set up a blog this close to my As exams because I have pretty much spent my whole evening on here so far trying to make my blog slightly prettier and easier to use! (Hoping that a few more of you may follow me - please!) I'm also going back to school at 7pm for a parents presentation all about university and UCAS; so doesn't look like I'm going to be getting any revision done tonight, oops!

Anyway I just wanted to share my success! (Remember I'm new to blogging) I finally worked out how to edit my blog, I've changed the colours so I'm more colourful now yay! My biggest achievement though was adding pages to my blog. Feel like such an idiot as so many blogs I've visited recently all have links at the top of the blog under the header but I couldn't for the life of me work out how to set this up! I almost posted a blog asking for help! I had a play around though and finally found it! So please make the most of my four beautiful new pages. Check out my Instagram and Twitter profiles and if you've got any questions or comments for me head over to that page as well!

Ran out of time to finish this post before heading back to school so the times above don't make too much sense! I've been and come back from the presentation and feel like I've been bombarded with information. One degree, in particular that they mentioned, was journalism! (so  I did bother to listen to this part) and they strongly encouraged me to start writing more. Not just for a personal blog but also for public communications; local charities, local newspapers, local magazine, anything really for a bit of work experience. So this is my next task - apply and keep my fingers crossed that at least someone will take me on, wish me luck!

xx Natalie