Part 1 Week, 6-8 December, still very cold

The start of the week went quite slowly. Nothing special happened on Monday. On Tuesday we had, like I said before, our Saint Nickolas party. Charlotte Buijs, who was also at the party, insisted that we were to sing a Saint Nickolas song. So, like all men, we listened to the woman and sang a song. After the party we headed to business studies. Our teacher for this subject is mr. Petell. Apparently he is also a fan of Saint Nickolas and he was even able to sing a few Dutch Saint Nickolas songs. The lesson was loads of fun and it seemed to end quite quickly (like almost all fun things). On Wednesday we had another quiet day. During our chemistry class we had to do a mock exam, but because the Reed's chemistry (unlike the Reed's economics or business studies, which are really easy for us) is quite hard we asked our teacher if it was alright if we made an open-book exam in the library. Although all the other students disagreed the teacher told us it was fine. After lesson we handed our exam back to the teacher and headed to the sixth-form house to enjoy our afternoon. We didn't have any lessons during the afternoon because 'games' were off. The pitches were still frozen, so only the indoor sports were on (swimming, squash, etc.).

Weekend, 4-5 December, parents in Great-Britain

This was a great weekend. My parents picked us up from Reed's and we headed to the same hotel as we stayed before. On Saturday morning we had a big English breakfast, which was very tasty, and we drove to Oxshott station. Here we took the train to London Waterloo. When we arrived in London we walked around a bit. Our first stop was the London Eye. My dad wanted to go on the ferris wheel, but there was a large crowd waiting to get tickets and one as well to get into the attraction. So on a democratic basis we outvoted him and decided to move on. On recommendation of Steve and Jelmer we went to 'Ripley's believe it or not'. This is a museum where they show all kinds of fascinating and strange items and customs. After the museum we walked around a bit and had some late lunch. After lunch (it was getting quite dark already) Jelmer and I wanted to go ice-skating at the Tower. When we arrived (we took the Underground) we found out that it was very busy and that we were only able to go onto the ice from 8:30 onwards. We were quite sad and stayed for about 10 minutes looking at other people ice-skating. Than we decided it was time to go back to the hotel. We took the journey, which was quite long, back and finally arrived at the hotel. We had some dinner and went to our rooms. On Sunday we went to Sainsbury's again for some shopping. My parents and brother bought some food and other things (including Christmas crackers) and I bought Jelmer's Saint Nickolas (Sinterklaas) present. We were to celebrate Saint Nickolas on Tuesday. When I was dropped off at family Roy's house and when my parents left I felt very satisfied of the weekend.

Part 2 Week, 2-3 December, SNOW DAYS

On Thursday I woke up around 6:45, but it was terribly quiet in the house, so I walked around a bit. Steve heard me from his bedroom and told me that we were having a snow day (no school!) because the school busses couldn't get through Sandylane (the street on which Reed's school is located). They weren't able to do so because of all the snow and ice here. I was very happy about this and slept for quite a while. When I finaly woke up again it was actually almost time for lunch. On Thursday I enjoyed the snow a bit, but I mostly spend the day indoors relaxing. On Friday, although we were having another snow day, I went to Reed's. This was quite a long journey. Steve wasn't able to drive me to Woking station because of the weather, so I had to take the bus. After taking the bus to Woking station I took a train to Guilford and than one to Oxshott (there are no train lines from Woking to Oxshott). Finally arriving at Oxshott I had to take a 15 minutes walk through the woods to Reed's, this wasn't too bad because everything was covered in snow and it was a lovely sight. Finally arrived Jelmer and I decided, after a while, to go to Cobham. Here we had some hot chocolade at the Starbucks. After which we headed back to Reed's again. After having some dinner at Reed's my parents picked us up. This was around 9:30. This was also the start of an other great weekend, this time with my own parents.

Part 1 Week, 29-30 November and 1st December, the start of a cold week

On monday it was very cold when I got in the car. I already heard about the forecasts that there would be heavy snow during the day. I believe it was around -6 when I got into the car at 7:15. It was a regurlar day at school, ony every time we had to go outside to go fromone class to an other it seemed like everyone was running to get out of the cold as quickely as possble. The suits aren't very warm. During the afternoon it did indeed snow, but on tuesday the eall snow came. We were in the sixth-form house when we saw a massive amount of snow falling from te sky. It was a very impressive sight. We had of course huge snowball fights during tuesday and wednesday, these were loads of fun. We were also quite lucky with something else; the school thought it was becoming too cold for the suits, so they permitted us to wear our own clothing on tuesday and wednesday, this was very nice because these are much warmer than our suits.

Weekend, 27-28 November, weekend with family Quist

This was the reall start of the weekend with family Quist. Jelmer's parents and his brother, Martijn, came to visit us, his sister couldn't come. On saturday we went to Mercedes World. This was an absolute blast! We did a driving lesson, lasting 30 minutes. After which we got into a car, driven by a Mercedes driver, and went around a circuit. We also experienced some drifting and some other advanced driving skills. We were, of course, not allowed to do these things ourselves. After doing both these exciting things we walked around through the building, looking at some cars and even a movie. This was all great fun, but of course nothing compared to what we did on forehand. I believe this was a very succesful day! On sunday we headed to the house of friends, family Quist knows them from their time in Ireland. We had a great time, the people were very nice and we had a wonderful lunch. After our visit we did some shopping at Sainbury's, this is a huge shop that sells all kinds of things, food, electronics, name it. After doing some shopping the parents of Jelmer droppedme off at the house of family Roy, indicating the end of a great weekend!

Friday, 26th November, the start of a great weekend!

School seemed to go very slowly today. This was of course because I wanted it to be weekend very badly. When I finally heard the school bell I was overjoyed, although this might be a bit exaggerated, I was still very happy. Jelmer and I stayed in the sixth-form house for a while, playing some pool and talking to (by now) familiar faces. When Jelmer got a text from his mum saying that they arrived we headed to the parking lot. Strangely though we couldn't find them there. We were only able to do so after receiving another text explaining where they were. We headed to the Close and we were soon on our way to the premier inn (the hotel we were going to stay). We stayed up until quite late that day, probably because we were both very excited about the upcoming weekend. We were going to Mercedes World!

Thursday, 25th November, NO skiing trip...

Today was a normal thursday, we didn't have any D&T today (just like any other thursday), so we weren't able to make any progress on our pooltable. After school I usually have my afterschool activity, which is my skiing trip. It was quite a shame that I wasn't able to join today. I wasn't able to do so because I had an important Latin test the same day. We weren't able to fit it into our day programme, so we were forced to make it after school. I think I made my test rather well, which I am very glad about.