Jealousy

the green monster. We've all experienced it. Those who say they haven't? well they're lying. don't listen to them? you hear me? Anyway, Jealousy. Everyone feels jealous. That pang of ache when someone else has something you don't, is something you don't or got tweeted by Gary Carr (yeahboi) You see it mostly with girls. especially teenage girls. Its the age when popularity means EVERYTHING and to be popular you need certain things. You need charisma and style and overall kindness, but you also need STUFF. Wanna know why it's those Jack Wills wielding tossers who are popular? because they can buy stuff? and what can we buy? well stuff, but not as much as to make us popular. They get the best guys, the best grades, and it's down to a hierachy. A feudal system of high schools in which challenging involves social execution. You might as well not bother.

Babysitting

I love kids, don't get me wrong, and looking after them for a couple of hours is fine, especially when you're payed a lot, but sometimes it's a bit awkward, you don't know what to expect or how to act especially around the parents, which I always find really hard, because I feel judged. I feel like if I say anything stupid they won't ask me back. Like today the dad said welcome when he answered the door, and klutz like I am, I said welcome back?!? What's wrong with me? It's so stupid! 

Lunchtime Battle :)

Lunchtime at school is a battle. No one knows where to go or what to see, and everyone is just too engrossed in their own thing to help others out. Lunchtime in a British school is segregation at its most obvious. There are the popular kids, te jocks and middle populars, the canteen geeks, the Chavs, the emos, the goths,the library nerds and the computer roomers. For me as a nomad, with no particular group, it is hilarious to watch. The interactions between groups are so forced that you just wonder if it is like this everywhere. For example, if a popular person walked into the canteen they would get looks from all round, as would a geek into the populars, although they'd also get stuff thrown at them.

Lunchtime at British high schools.

Just typical.

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Review

I loved this book. That's it. This book was written in such a way that you didn't feel it was a story, you really felt you were living it. Code Name Verity tells the story of a young woman, who was captured as a spy in France in the war years, and given two weeks to write a confession about all she know of the British war effort. Through this confession she tells us the story of The pilot who brought her to France, and all she knows about aircraft. One amazing writing technique the writer has used is that in this confession, the narrator doesn't refer to herself directly, and we only half way through do we realise who she is in the fable. It is a simply fantastic book, that appealed to me particularly as a person who loves historic books, and one about spy work is so different. It's plot line sweeps and turns like I've never seen before, so you have to pay attention as to what is going on. I personally enjoy the character relationships, with tales of love and intrigue somehow being interwoven into this as well. Another avoided cliche is that it ( spoiler alert ) doesn't have a happy ending, which is the obvious thing to go for in this kind of book, when so much of it is about sadness. This book tells of an unseen side of world war 2. When young English roses brought giant hauptfurhers to their knees.

It is simply exquisite, a masterpiece.

Book Review - Wonder by R.J Palacio

This book tells the story if August Pullman, a boy born with a terrible facial disfigurement that leaves him open to all kinds of bullying and abuse. We learn of his first year at school, in 5th grade, after being home schooled. The story explains how he deals with people's reaction to his face, and how it affects others around him. I think it is a wonderful book, because it opened my eyes to a kind of prejudice that I wasn't even aware I was showing. I had never thought from point of view of someone who had this disfigurement, and I was really ashamed of the way I sometimes behave in front of people who are different. The book is written through many different people's eyes, and we can see that August's face doesn't just affect him. A lovely metaphor in the book describes how August is the sun, and all his family and few friends merely planets orbiting him. It is interesting to see his sisters view. She loves him, but envies his parental attention as well. I feel I can relate to this.

I would recommend this book as a truly humbling read. It made me think of what I perceive as being unkind, and what other people do.

Shadowing Carnegie :)

I don't know if any of you have heard of the shadowing Carnegie scheme, where students can read the shortlist of the CILIP Carnegie books, write reviews and then have a discussion day in their local area. If you're interested in reading its a really good thing to do, though it does take a while to read all 8 books. I'll be posting my reviews on here as well, so you can all see what the books are like. So teenagers, if you like reading..... Shadow Carnegie!!!

Ich spreche deutsch auch

Ich mochte mein blog zu internationale sein also werde ich auch im deutsch schreiben. Ich bin nicht sehr gut am deutsch, und wenn du mochtest mir zu korrigieren, bitte mache! Ich lerne deutsch im der schule, und ich habe austauch zum Munchen gemacht um meinem deutsch zu verbessern.

sprechen zu mir im deutsch wenn du mochtest :D