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HP Source Yesterday, I went on an exciting trip to London with the school! It was fantastic as you will see. Part 1: Preparation Thu 15/11, 1600 Okay so this was two days ago, but some events happened that don't happen every day. I came back home from school and explained what was needed for tomorrow. In the process, I asked if we could have dinner early so that I'd be able to get up at the right time the following day, with aid from the alarm. Thu 15/11, 1730 Dinner was served. It was the usual food I'd eat so it's not that important. But after dinner, I packed everything in my bag that I needed, and discussed what I might or might not need. I then prepared for an early sleep. Thu 15/11, 1930 Found it hard to sleep because it was about two hours earlier than the normal time. I set my alarm back two hours aswell. But I did eventually get a good few hours of sleep. Deity Rating: 60% - Cold, but a new experience. Part 2: Getting There Fri 16/11, 0440 The alarm went off. I took a five-minute snooze then left my room for the bathroom. As soon as I left my bed, the pure of coldness got to me! I brushed my teeth in this coldness, and dressed in my school uniform. It was a bit warmer. Then I had a meat pasta for breakfast, warming me up. I had a few minutes left so I checked I had everything. The radiators turned on, so I sat there for a few minutes. We set off in my school uniform. Fri 16/11, 0545 Went to school in the car. The readout read 0°C when we went in. I was shivering all over, in my coat and scarf. When we pulled out of the drive and onto the main road, it then read -1°C. Driving towards the roundabout, it read -2°C, and exitting out of it, I felt the coldness get colder... And colder... And colder. You bet I was glad when I arrived at school, although usually I wouldn't be. Deity Rating: 30% - It was worth it... Part 3: The Journey To London Fri 16/11, 0600 We departed from the school and then travelled over roads and motorways (mainly the M40), and it took forever! When there were no roadsigns to look at, I sat and read my book for about 40 pages. I then looked at what my friends were doing: playing on their handheld consoles, playing word games, playing memory games, and just generally chatting. From where I was sat, I saw I was the only one reading a book. That probably wasn't the case, really, but even so, I was the only one from where I could see. Fri 16/11, 0745 To signify that we were half way there, we stopped at the Oxford service station for a toilet break and a small snack. It was cool, though it was cold, because we passed through an arch to get into the actual facilities.We passed through more arches, and we were inside the service station. There were no doors, and the borders of the shops in the services weren't obvious. We were there for a toilet break, and they were near state-of-the-art. Again, no doors, apart from cubicles. The toilets offered photosensitive hand driers, photosensitive taps, and the unbelievable photosensitive urinals and cisterns! No, not really, but they had photosensitive flushes. A photosensitive urinal would hack into your brain and you might miss if you're off guard... But they haven't been invented, yet. Fri 16/11, 0830 At this time, we were saying that people back at school would just be going in. As the time flew, we marked more important times, like when the register was handed in, when they'd go down to assembly, and when lessons began (and what lessons were attended). More frantic antics like moving seats and swapping games and consoles to play on... But I just read more of my book to pass the time, although I was usually interrupted by passing people wanting the seat next to me. After a good wait, we were in London. Fri 16/11, 0915 Arrival at... London. But this was just the suburban area, where there's less traffic.We were fast approaching the outer city, then we were slowed out bigtime by the traffic of the inner city, and it took us ages to get the centre of London. So, to keep dying by boredom at bay, I kept on reading my book. Fri 16/11, 0945 Nearing the centre of London. Good sights here, and they were mentioned when my headteacher pointed them out. I kept reading my book and listened to the story and the tour. When we passed super grand buildings like Westminster Abbey, the HP, Big Ben, and the London Eye, I put my book down and marvelled in marvellous joy as I've never actually seen such magnificent buildings up close and personal. It was so fabulous to be able to do that, I can't stress how good it was! And the real sightseeing hadn't yet started, I was told. Deity Rating: 100% - Super wicked! Part 4 will come after the break - the playlist has stopped, so that means I need to take a break from using the computer. I'm hungry anyway so I'm going to have breakfast now. Bye! ---------------- Winer Idimbite was listening to Korn - Untitled on the famous Windows Media Player during the creation of this blog! <-{-W-}-> via FoxyTunes Yeah! I'm back for more of the epic adventures of London! I hope you're all ears for Part 4. Part 4: London Town Fri 16/11, 1000 Here we saw the great Trafalgar Square. It was more than I'd have thought, but we ate our lunch here nonetheless. Did you know that there's a toilet in the Square? Well there is in there were photosensitive flushers, photosensitive taps, and photosensitive hand driers, again! It was a great experience to sit in Trafalgar Square and eat our lunch there. It was cold, but not freezing, and it wasn't very busy there since it was in the morning. There was a noticeable sign loitering in front of where we were sat, and it was written in five languages. I think they were English, French, German, Hebrew, and Arabic, but correct me if I'm wrong. Two people were on a mission and we helped them on it by having photographs taken with them. The task was to have a photo with school children, and they said they had to have one with a celebrity! I wonder how they did that... But then we had a photo on the steps at Trafalgar Square. I hope to be able to get that printed off and put on my display board. That'll be good. Fri 16/11, 1030 Cold as we were, walked down The Mall, a massive stretch of road, and did some extra sightseeing. We saw how busy London was at this time - even though it was still very early! - and spotted the London plane trees, a rare breed of tree abundant in London and looks like camouflage in the World Wars. I've seen them before in pictures, but never in real life as abundant as this! Walking down The Mall, I was eating the last element of lunch, my cereal bar, and disposed of the wrapper in St James' Park. It was really astounding as it astounded me when I saw the amount of rubbish on the floor. It was utterly unbelievalble - not one carton, smashed glass, wrapper, or even straw sleeve ended up on the floor. I'd have hated to be the first. But I don't litter anyway. Fri 16/11, 1045 After a stroll in the park, we headed to Portcullis House. It took a while to get out of the vast park as it was one of the biggest in all of London! That's what to expect in the centre of London. We crossed busy roads and streets, but the congestion wasn't really as bad as the traffic, for obvious reasons. We were told to keep our wits about us. Well, obviously, we don't want to get lost in London and regret being too inquisitive and/or curious about something in the background and spending too much time away from the group. That's super careless. We had a short visit at the gates of Buckingham Palace where the Queen resided, - and she was in - and we watched the sentry guards mirror each other all day. We had a photo in front of the Palace, then moved on. Deity Rating: 100% - Once in a lifetime experience! Part 5: Raise the Portcullis Fri 16/11, 1100 Security was tight on entry of Portcullis House. This was because the House was the gateway to the Houses of Parliament and they didn't want terrorists to get access to the Houses while the Commons or Lords are in session. That's suicide, but if it wasn't for them, the security wouldn't be so tight at Portcullis House. First of all, our Deputy Head went inside to say that we pre-paid our visit to Portcullis House and that we're due for a tour. So then we waited outside for about a minute until a security guard appeared and gave us a visitor sticker to equip at all times while in Portcullis House, so then the guards know that we've been invited and welcomed into the House. When we got our sticker, we entered through the turnstile where they'd only let one person through at a time. After that, we went through a series of serious checks. We had to unequip our bags and coats and they were scanned for potentially harmful items. Then we were scanned through this massive arch that bleeps when metal is detected. If it bleeped, a man or woman would come to frisk us and do a full body search for any potentially harmful weapons. But what if you were carrying a plastic knife? No, that's not harmful. It would snap before bloodshed. The detectors didn't find anything harmful on me and didn't detect any metal that could be of a weapon on entry. Now isn't that lucky? No, it was imperatively inevitable. Fri 16/11, 1110 Ten minutes after the check in, we took a look around the immense building. It looked infinite and super grand, but then I quickly realised that I'd seen nothing yet. Shortly after, we were introduced to our tour guides. They took us to the toilets, which offered photosensitive taps, photosensitive hand driers, and photosensitive flushers, and then had a presentation in the special room. We had a discussion and then made our own parties.We narrowly won the voteing and became mini Prime Ministers for a while. We were issued with cool little badges with an own on them. We were then asked why there's an owl on the badge. Apparently, as they said, the collective noun for owl is parliament! Wow, I didn't know that. We then went underground, making our way for the big tour - the Houses of Parliament. Deity Rating: 160% - We won! Part 6: HP Source Fri 16/11, 1200 We entered the ancient building of Westminster Hall where our big group of 25 divided into two almost equal groups. We had one tour guide each and walked up the super stairs of the echoey Hall, where we entered the Houses of Parliament. Past the shop we went, looking up and around, scrutinising everything and marvelling at the great heights of the ceiling.We stopped at the Central Lobby and continued on forwards into the Queen's Dressing Room. Everything in here was grand and we saw the secret hidden passage door, leading into the first flushing toilet. We then proceeded into the room with loads of books in, where it supposedly records all of the words ever said in session, both in the House of Lords and House of Commons. Then, we moved on into a neutral room, where both Lords and Commons could go into. We learnt the full history of both sides, and how they worked and how they work nowadays. Great paintings we saw all the way, and we saw great paintings by the great artist, and we even learnt about them and how we can't preserve them because we don't know what the artist used on his portrait. It's apparently supposed to fade away in time... Then we walked back into the Central Lobby, but this time took a turn into the House of Lords. We saw where the sessions took place, and the seats were so important we weren't allowed to sit in them! We talked about the history of the Lords in Medieval times. We went to the House of Commons then, also via the Central Lobby. The session room was noticeably smaller than that of the Lords, and then we learn about their history too. We made our way back to Westminster Hall, stopping for a shopping phase on the way. We then had a toilet break with - yes, you guessed it - photosensitive taps, photosensitive flushes, and photosensitive hand driers. We then said goodbye and thank you to our tour guide as he went back into Portcullis House, and we went through another big turnstile back outside. Deity Rating: 240% - Super grande! Part 7: Poke the Eye Fri 16/11, 1430 We went to claim our tickets and then went on a flight on the London Eye. It took about half an hour to get all the way around, but it was well worth it! We split into two groups again as there wasn't enough space in just one pod. We did major sightseeting from up there and we saw:
Deity Rating: 150% - Whoa! Part 8: Performing Arts Fri 16/11, 1500 There were statues of people down a busy footpath and they were standing in front of a pot of money. When you put money in the pot, they'd start moving as if they were animated. It was cool! They'd get you in positions perfect for picture taking. Then, they'd become a statue again. There was a magician with a glass ball. He could do cool tricks with his glass ball and this performing artist was different. He got his money after he performed. It was really cool and he was super skilled! If I could see it again, I would. Deity Rating: 90% - Clever people. The playlist stopped again! I'm going for some lunch now, so I'll be back in a bit. ---------------- Winer Idimbite was listening to Korn - Untitled on the famous Windows Media Player during the creation of this blog! <-{-W-}-> via FoxyTunes Back from my lunch and now for the third episode of the adventure! Part 9: Going back Fri 16/11, 1600 There wasn't really much to look forward to since we'd done everything, but it took us an hour just to get out of London, another hour and a half to get to services, and two more hours to get home. Exactly the same antics occurred in almost the same order and I was, bored as I was, playing with the cards I'd bought from the souvenir shop. They were expensive, but, ultimately, I took home part of the Parliament's gold. Not real gold, but super shiny gold paint. Now I can play double solitaire! It got dark mega fast-ly and it was pitch black when we arrived at Oxford services. We arrived back home forty minutes late. Deity Rating: 40% - Couldn't see anything. Part 10: Home, Sweet Home Fri 16/11, 2030 I told the tale over and over to all of my family members, and haven't finished yet. That's what this blog is for. I had a long, hot bath that drained all remaining energy that managed to stay in me. I had a late night and slept extremely easily. Deity Rating: 50% - I like storytelling. Whew! That was a breeze - not! I hope I've shared my experiences with you - they were ace! This is the biggest blog I have ever done! I just hope you've read it carefully. By the way, if you've seen the extremely rare poster-stroke-recount-stroke-article-stroke-story, then you're lucky! There's only one of these around in the world. Post a comment and sign my guestbook if you have seen it. Thanks! I began this blog entry at 09:26:26 and ended it at 13:04:54. It was edited on 17/11 at 13:04:01. It was edited again on 18/11 at 19:49:52. It was edited yet again on 28/11 at 20:06:58. Total points: 1020 Total events: 10 Average DyR: 102% (DyR is Deity Rating. Don't mistake it with DhR, Devilish Rating, meaning the total opposite.) See you later, civilians! ---------------- Winer Idimbite was listening to Korn - Evolution on the famous Windows Media Player during the creation of this blog! <-{-W-}-> via FoxyTunes Try This If It Doesn't Kill You One lazy after school evening, I had nothing to do. So, bored as I was, I randomly ripped a bit of white tack into mini pieces and stuck and shaped them into the shape of letters. It read 'IDIOT.' So, what did I do with the idiot tack? I stuck it on the radiator! Then, after about an hour later, I ripped it off and there was still some remains of white on the radiator. Then I got what I pulled off and dabbed over the debris. Yeah, that gave me a ball of white tack. Now you're asking, 'Yeah, so what?' If not, do so now. My point is that heated white tack is super stretchy! It radiates heat for a while, and it heats for longer if you stretch it continuously. It stays stretchy for an even longer while. You try it. It probably would work with Blu Tac, but I haven't tried. I blogged this just for fun. No particular reason. ---------------- Winer Idimbite was listening to Korn - Kiss on the famous Windows Media Player during the creation of this blog! <-{-W-}-> via FoxyTunes Death By Paperwork This week, if you're in my school you shall know that we all received a mountain of paperwork to do across all subjects. Target setting. What a horror! We all know our strengths and weaknesses so why we do this I have almost no idea... No I do really know - it's some kind of work aid, see what you need to improve on and resolve that a bit, and generally be good at what you do. You may have already seen the message on receiving a free section of the book from me. If not, you're not chosen, unfortunately. Sorry! On a few accounts, if you're not chosen you may be in the short future, providing I get your e-mail address and you satisfy the criteria:
Come on! The offer has been on for a few days now, and it's a great offer! You can't afford to turn it down. Thanks for reading, civilians. ---------------- Winer Idimbite was listening to Korn - Bitch We Got A Problem on the famous Windows Media Player during the creation of this blog! <-{-W-}-> via FoxyTunes |
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