Weekend 20-21 November

Saturday was a nice day. I was planning to take the train to Guildford from Woking station. I would meet Jelmer there. I only arrived a bit late because for some reason the trains weren't going to Guildford (they were to all other stations), so I had to take a bus, which took 15 minutes longer. Finally arrived in Guildford I had some lunch with Jelmer and we walked around a bit. It was a shame that Jelmer had to be back before dark (this was before 17:00), so we headed back quite soon. I took the train to Woking and Jelmer the train to Oxshott. Sunday was supposed to be a fun day, but it turned out to be a bit boring. Jelmer and I were planning to tag along with the rest of the sixth form boarders to a Harry Potter movie. The problem was that Jelmer wasn't able to find mr. Michaels (the person in charge of the trip), so he wasn't able to tell me where we were seeing the movie until it 12:30, which was only 25 minutes before the start of the movie. Sadly the cinema was 45 minutes away from Woking by car, so I wasn't able to go to the movies.

Thursday 18th November, A new skiing trip

The start of the day was just like any other, I had, as usually, issues with getting up. School was fun, but so are all the schooldays at Reeds, we made some more progress with our DT project; it actually starts to look like a pool table. After school I quickly went to the parking lot to get on the bus, which would take me and the rest of the Reeds skiing team to the slope. I was surprised that we didn't go to the same place as last week. Apparently it was some-ones birthday last week and we went to a slope with real snow for this reason. This week was a normal week, so we headed to a slope which was covered with soft fibre mats. It was quite hard to ski on this, because you have far less control. Gradually I started to learn how to ski on these fibres and at the end of the day it wasn't as bad as I thought in the beginning.  Luckily it rained before we arrived; this improved the skiing conditions a bit.

Wednesday 17th November, Hockey match

I was quite excited when I woke up, this was because we had an important hockey match and I was thrilled to play. School seemed to last an eternity, but at 12:40 the bell finally went. I had a quick lunch and at 1:15 I was ready, just like the rest of the team, to be picked up by the coach with the Reeds bus. Hockey is a great way to socialise with the other Reeds students, I have met many different people this way. We played very well and we won the match with 2-0. After the match I had to hurry up because Steve was waiting for me at the parking lot.

Monday 15th November, Extra hockey practice

I started today just like every day. At school we made a lot of progress with our DT project. After school I headed towards the practice field for some extra hockey practice. We had this because we were having an important hockey match that wednesday. After my after-school activities I headed back to Family Roy's house with Daniel and Steve. After dinner I went along with the whole family to watch Andrew's swimming competition.

Saturday 13th November, Football match

I woke up quite early, even though it was my weekend. I went along with Daniel and Steve to school around 9:00, this was because Daniel had to be at Reeds for a tour for parents. Jelmer and I played some pool until we were fed up with it. We than decided to go to Guildford, on our way there I received a text from Steve. He received 3 free tickets for a football match. He asked us if we wanted to join him. We were very eager to do so, so after we had some lunch in Guildford we headed back. We met with Steve at Woking train station. We bought day tickets for our way to London. Our destination was the Westham United stadium. We watched the match, which unfortunately ended in a 0-0, and headed back to Woking. When we arrived at the station we decided to get some dinner at the KFC. After dinner Jelmer took the train back to the station near Reeds, called Oxshott, and Steve and I took the car to family Roy's house. Afterwards I could definately call this day a success.