Finished Exam and Course!

Hey guys!

So I have been doing British Sign Language for three years: Levels 1, 2  and 3. 

From this day forward, I have now completed Level 3! YAY!!

It has been a long and stressful year, partly because of the BSL course, partly for other reasons. 

Level 3 is the hardest level, this is because it is equal to a high level college course, which when you are doing it for 3hrs a week, once a week, makes it very difficult to absorb the information.

Well... For me anyway...

So I am really glad to have gotten that behind me and tbh... 

I hated it.

After doing Level 2 last year, I was ready to move on and do what I really wanted to do.

Art.

I have always drawn and coloured ever since I was little and because of the creative industry getting bigger and there being more and more areas of creativity that people can do these days as a job or learning at college/uni, I finally feel like I might be able to pursue something in this area. 

However, my mum wanted me to continue with BSL and do Level 3 and she gave fantastic reasons why I should... So I listened to her reasoning of 'looking good on my CV', 'Continue whilst the knowledge is still fresh in your mind' and all of that shiz. 

And went along with it, thinking all the while 'NOOOOOO!!!!!!' 

But I have completed it and survived.

All there is for me to do now, is wait for the results of my last exam. 

The last  of 3.

Well. It's useful. And I have grown up with BSL all of my life, what with me being hard of hearing and using BSL during times when I couldn't hear properly, especially when I was younger and my hearing was a lot worse. 

But anyway, I still have all of my life ahead of me to pursue other things, I am 19 after all...

Oh, btw I have come up with the conclusion that the beginning of my first post the other day, 'Hello my delicious pop tarts' is extremely cringy, so I will stop that before it gets worse! Ha, ha, ha! ... *Ahem*
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Anyway, bye guys good luck with your results for school, college or uni exams (if you did anything that required exams) and for all you peeps who work, good luck with the rest of the week, it's only 2 more days! You can do it! Then it's the WEEKEND! WHOO! 

Tell me what you are up to this weekend if you want! 

Bye! xx

My First Ever Holiday!

Hello my delicious pop tarts,

As you can tell by the title, a few weeks ago, I went on my first ever holiday!! WHOO! The place I went to was Callow Top Park where people can camp in tents and caravans or stay in one of the three cottages provided. I stayed in one of the cottages with my two mums and two younger siblings. The cottage has two bedrooms: one has a double bed and a single bed and the other room has a bunk-bed. There is also a sofa-bed in the front room.

To get there, we got trains, buses and a minibus. Which, (in total) took around 6 hours there and back. 

Some greenery we went past on the train

We got to Callow Top Park at around 2pm in the afternoon. Initially I shared a room with my sister and the room looked like this:

  However, my mum found it uncomfortable sleeping on the sofa-bed in the front room, so me and both of my siblings switched rooms: my sister and I went to sleep in the bunk-bed and my little brother and mums slept in the room with the double and single beds.

  

The day we arrived, the weather was mostly lovely except some rain in the afternoon. On the Sunday or Monday after we had arrived, the weather was BOILING! Both my sister and I got sunburned, my sister got it worst as they wore a sleeveless top, whereas I was wearing a t-shirt. 

Unfortunately, the weather for the rest of the week was mostly not so great, with plenty of rain, and some not rainy but not particularly hot or sunny days. Therefore, we spent most of our week inside with the occasional swim in the outdoor pool. 

During this week we mostly saw this:

Whilst vegetating in front of the TV, I 'accidentally' got my brother and sister hooked on a TV Show called 'The Big Bang Theory'. It was an accident! Honest!

*Disclaimer* The people who saw the most of this room was me and my siblings, our mums spent of the days exploring outside despite the bad weather. Such brave humans!

 In between being couch potatoes we hung out with friends who were on a campsite nearby in the park and played games with them such as a card game named Uno. 

On one of the sunny days (there was about 2), I went for a walk into Ashbourne and did this by walking down a trail, which was beautiful to walk through as there was so much nature!

The local River that runs through Ashbourne.

As I was walking I saw a small bird which I tried to take a picture of.

Unfortunately, the picture is a little bit rubbish and I don't know what type of bird it is, so sorry about that.

I then came across a tunnel which had sound effects that mimicked the sound of a train, which was very cool!

However there were parts of the tunnel that were pitch black, which was creepier than the train noises and reeeaalllyyy didn't help my nerves at all... *ahem*.

Aside from the scary darkness that definitely does not have the girl from The Grudge lurking near the walls of the tunnel, I found something so cool I literally squealed from excitement and happiness...

 EEEEEEEKKKKKKK BADWOLF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For anyone who doesn't know, 'BADWOLF' is from Doctor Who -a British TV Show- from the reboot in 2005 which cropped up again in a later series with David Tennant (the 10th Doctor).

After a week of staying at the cottage, we left on the Friday morning and traveled for 6 hours on multiple different modes of transport to get back home. At around 5-5.30pm we arrived back home in our local area in Manchester.

My thoughts about the trip: 

I really enjoyed my first holiday and wished I could live there, shame about the weather though. I would really recommend going to Callow Top Park, however it was very expensive to stay there and was between £400-£650 for a week, not including travel money to get there. I'm not sure about how much it is if you are camping or staying in a caravan, it might be cheaper but you will have to research this information yourself if you are interested, it was definitely worth the debt (for us) though.

Thanks for reading my blog! xx