First Day of School.....Results!

Hey guys! If you read my last post that means that you know I started school today!
I'll walk you through my day step by step.

7:am I get up for school. My shrill alarm clock wakes me up and I stumble out of bed, half asleep.

7:55: My brother and I leave for school. I am tired.

8:20: We get to school. I feel I am going to vomit the invisible contents of my stomach.

8:30 Taken my Ms K, get fingerprints taken, gets introduced, dumped into science class.

9:55: Having made a couple friends, go to art and design.
Now let me tell you, I was a bit disappointed by art. I expected to draw people or wildlife or something. The most similar thing I did was draw onigiri in birds eye view. The lesson was on packed lunches. It would've been fun but it had to be healthy, and something that everyone's heard of. Only one person knew what onigiri was, but it doesn't matter. I found that one of my friends likes sushi and comics.

11:15: Break. I go and sit with my friends, and make a couple new ones.

11:35: Tutor time. It's not like you'd think. Basically you're given a House* and a number(of class you go to). Our group did risky behavior. Apparently it's a risk for me to talk because people might make fun of my accent. :/ Luckily it didn't happen though! :)

12:05: Inquiring minds, whatever that is.  We learned about the natives in Australia and what sly tricks the Europeans did to try and kill off the tribes. I have homework for it too. I choose a topic on Australia (I'm doing food, obviously. Maybe I should to coffee ;) ) and I plan out what I do for it.

1:25: It is FINALLY over and I get to go get munch! Too bad I couldn't really eat that either. To say it lightly it wasn't my favorite. Hung out with friends.

2:pm: Munch is finished and we go to P.E.We had a true P.E. experience. It was dumping rain, and I haven't done running since October (At my fittest I couldn't run a kilometer). My body is way not used to it, and I had to run 1500 meters. That's a kilometer and a half. I can't say I was fast, my time was 14 minutes and 49 seconds. It is almost 4 hours after and my body is killing me.

3:20pm: Home time! My new friends were really nice and they walked me home! :)

Here's a note to my old friends in Scotland: I miss you all so much! Even though I have new friends I will never, ever forget you. Cross my heart. I hope the play went well (you preformed it TODAY!?) and  have an amazing time in Queen Anne. They're so lucky to have you. Will they be able to deal with all your awesomeness? I don't think so.

*Okay, so when you join school you are put into one of say, 4 Houses. Every while the Houses meet. There are often competitions against each other. In my school you get a different tie for it.

Thanks for reading! :D

School Preperation

I think some of you guys may know this but I'm starting school again tomorrow. I have missed 8 weeks of school and the last time I was in school properly was in March. That doesn't really help how nervous I am.
Luckily for me I am not the only one joining my class. Another kid's joining on the same day as me called Harry (URK). I'll probably have to sit next to him because the staff'll be like: hey look, two new little lonely weenies. Maybe if we have them sit together they'll be less of the little lonely weenies that  they are. No offense....uh....Harry. It's just weird 'cuz when I joined my last school I was seated next to a Harry.
The name reminds me of pirates.

My brother is totally chillaxed about it. Nothing in the worlds will worry him. It's 'cuz his time in secondary school was amazing. He made friends with pretty much everyone he came across. See, I'm not only changing schools, but I'm going into a different grade and my first time in high school.

Here's the confusing (and very exaggerated) story of my grade position.

2010.
My mom: We're thinking of putting you into high school.
My brother: I DON'T WANNA!!
My mom: Why?
My brother: SCARY!
My mom: What if I put you in primary school. Just remember that you'll be a grade behind (kinda).
My brother: LESS SCARED!
My mom turns to me. Asks my opinion.
Me: I'd rather start in my own grade.
My mom: You don't really have a choice. You aren't allowed to be put in the same grades 'cuz you'd fight.
Me: -sighs loudly- And since I'm the youngest, I'm being knocked back. Great.
My mom: ....

Later that year I begin primary school. A year behind. I'm still a little annoyed, but if I wasn't knocked back I wouldn't have met my totally awesome friends!
2012
Ham ham: We're moving.
My and my brother: WHAT!?!
I say I'm okay and yet I'm crying at the same time. Fail acting.
So we applied for 3 schools in march. We move in April.
And in May we wait. And wait. Then suddenly a school FINALLY says : Uh, sure bring them in for more slaves-er uh...students. So after a long time letter writing to and fro from us to the school (haven't they heard of something called a telephone? :P ) we have a meeting with the school. The next day I go in for tests. The day after that my brother goes in for the same tests. The next week is midterms. On Sunday I prepared my stuff. Did I mention that that Sunday is actually today? Wee anyway, I am being put up a grade, into year 7. Guess it balances it all out then. :)

I'm going to show you a map of the places I've lived. This is since I was four. Before that I was living in the 'States. So really this map should span all over the world ;).

The purple dot was our first house. We lived there for about a year. We visited a couple years later to find that all the windows had been boarded up.
The red dot was in a seaside town. I lived there for 3 years, my longest time living somewhere. A year after we got there due to bullying and me stinking at math we became home schooled for 4 years.
The blue dot was a random village in the middle of nowhere. The people there weren't very nice to us. The house was rat infested for a while and the landlord tried to unfairly take our money. But it was a good sized and pretty house. We thought we wouldn't get any better. Until......
We moved to the blue dot. It was an extension of a large mansion that was built in the 1600s. Our bit was made in the 1800s. There was a MASSIVE garden (well, two actually) lots of places to ride bikes, go ladybug hunting and pick raspberries. I joined school again, made lots of friends and had the best time ever. Waaaaay better than any other place I've lived.
Then on something like the 23rd of April 2012 we moved to.....
The green dot (well, duh, Nyssa.)!  Pretty good house, close to everything, lots of stuff to do, a comic book store, and I have a bedroom that's smaller than the master bedroom bathroom.

Hey, wait! What happened to my ACTUAL post topic? XD
I'll keep writing on that, then. Well this school is a lot stricter than the school I went to AND the school my brother went to.  The uniform's changing after the summer holidays, but for now you MUST wear a blazer you MUST wear the school P.E. kid (including socks!). You MUST wear black or white socks. You MUST wear you tie, lace your shoes, wear no nail polish, no jewellery, no pin badges(GRR!), blah, blah, blah.

I went in a couple weeks ago to take some tests on my English.  Luckily I didn't have to take any on my math. So I'm being put in the middle group, just like I was before. Phew.

Well, I'm off to do the best part of school prep: packing my pencil case! :D

Summer Projects

Hey People! Welcome back!

A few days ago someone suggested to me that I start pulling together some ideas for what to do this summer. And today while researching Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock I came across a world record holder who invented a new rock paper scissors. A rock paper scissors that will create a revolution for those who are tired of a tie. Even in Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock everyone always does Spock. But in this game there is only a 0.99% chance of a tie. This game has 5,050 combinations and 101 hand gestures. Bring it on - the 101RPS!
So what does this have to do with my summer vacation? Well I am going to learn it.  And for those who want a challenge, but don't want to fry their brain, there is also a RPS25. I'm not saying that one is easy, no, it would still be super hard. But note quite as super hard as RPS101.

I am also planning to decorate my new IKEA bookcase







                                                                                                                                                      
I take a lot of pride in the fact that I have a very IKEA-esque bedroom. My bed, white IKEA bunk bed with only the top part. My desk, underneath the bed is also white and looks a lot like my bed. And so does my bookcase. And so does my wardrobe. The only piece of furniture in my room that isn't white is my pink chair, but you can't see it properly anyway because I have a cool pillowcase covering it. I'll probably decorate the front with some awesome Paperchase  tapes. I might also wallpaper the back with block colors.


Another thing I'm wanting to do is make a marshmallow shooter. It's pretty much a gun made from pipes (I'm making mine from sturdy cardboard tubes. :) ) and you shoot by blowing sharply on the mouthpiece. Apparently they can go 40 feet into the air!

If you are looking for some summer projects to do, these are some good sites to check out:
Makezine
Craftzine
Paper craft stuff
Or you can learn some music, try to find the best ever cookie recipe to use for Christmas, grow some strawberries. The world's your oyster, so have fun! :D

Bye bye, Scotland

Well, this is it. A week from now I will be moving away down to England. Sudden? Yes it is, even to me.
I had just spent about two weeks in  Edinburgh, the capital and my favorite city, which I've been to a lot over the last 8 years. I took a crud load of pictures and here are some of them.

That's me! :)

 Yes - a Nyssa tree! Named after moi, of course. But it was a wimpy little plant...

That is just a few, but I'll post more at some point. 

I love Scotland. It is a great place, to live and to explore. People who aren't willing to go down all the random twisty little roads to castles can stay in Edinburgh. Even the people who are! There is a huge amount to see there, and off the beaten track.  And the people are really nice! No matter where you go, there is always someone who just wants you to have a good time. And it is beautiful. A paradise land for photographers and artists.

In August there is the worlds largest arts festival in Edinburgh. In 2011 there were over 2,500 shows from 60 countries. That alone makes it worth going! 

I'm glad I came here.

Picture editing tutorial

Hello! I've came back for now to bring you a photo editing post. To start off, you need to download Gimp (don't worry, it's free!)

Here are some images I found on a website that I edited.
This is the image I saved:

These are some after I played around with it.

Now I can teach you to easily do lots of fun stuff with gimp.
1. Download an image. For this I've used this image (don't worry, it's public domain):

To change the colour of the whole thing like in my second picture, you click on the colour bar,  and select the 'Colourise' option. Then you mess around with the bars and that changes the colour!The first changes the colour, the second the strength of the colour and the third its lightness.....you'll understand better when you try it. :3

Make it look old and worn:  First select the filter bar and go down to decor.  This is the one you will be choosing from every time for this one. To start select 'old photo' and carry it out on default. Then you go on fuzzy border. After that you pick the coffee stain one and reduce the stains to 1. Click OK, and see the result of your masterpiece!

This one is really fun: all you do is select 'Filter' and go on Edge-Detect and select Neon. Then you can mess around with the settings and select OK! :)

That's all for now but don't be afraid to upload your creations in the comments or email me! :) You can also do a lot with the filter section, s mess around with it! See what you can do and show me. :3