Back To Basics.

So, I start college on Wednesday 5th September. Marginally daunting but at the same time ultra exciting. New people, new subjects, new scenery to observe while not listening in class. What could be better about starting again? Apart from not really knowing anyone and even that can be turned into a positive. There's so many people I'm bound to find someone about 10 gazillion times cooler than some of the deadbeats I left behind. (No offence to some, but lots to others.)

The more I think about it, the more excited I get and less anxious. I suppose that's quite a good thing.

On the downside I've really damaged my thumb. Okay, the phrase 'really damaged' is maybe a bit of an over exaggeration BUT I have damaged it in a very painful way. And I'm sure you want to know all about it, so I'll tell.
It was a bleak Saturday and I was out shopping with a very good friend. When alas! My nail broke. Well, not broke but ripped a little bit. I absent-mindedly just ripped it off, not really being one to scream about such petty things. Except when I ripped it off I was too late in realising that it was broken quite low. Agony then ripped through my thumb as I tore the skin on the top of it. It was painful. To be honest, it didn't bleed very much but you could see the raw skin under the nail and it was just horrible. Needless to say now it hurts very much to press my Shift key but I am a soldier and I will soldier on. I now just have a bloody stump. Joy.

On the plus side...Yes! Good news! It's my 17th birthday on the 9th September. I will be entering the age of not being able to do anything remotely new, except learning how to drive, and I expect I won't be very good at that either. Which reminds me, I have to send off for my provisional! Oh, how organised I am.

I'll also spread the joy at my trip to America. It was an experience at the least. I went with just my parents and oh how they grated on my already frayed nerves. It was a close call with my Father when he made the mistake of annoying me while I was very lethally armed with chopsticks. He survived the event, somewhat traumatised, but he managed it. He's a trooper, like me. We do have photographic evidence of the event but I'm sure you don't want my double chin inflicted on your innocent eyes so I'll leave that.

We saw a lot of good sites in America. A man in San Francisco wearing a skirt and listening to a tape on cassette. (The skirt was very flattering though.) I also saw the Bay Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz. All from afar apart from the Bay Bridge, which we drove over. We also went to the lovely village of Hemet in where my great aunt lives. It was there I discovered my love of Crystal Light and also Hot Topic. Good times, good times. We visited Las Vegas for four very long days. The highlight was winning a lot of cuddly toys and going to the Grand Canyon. It is really a very grand place. We got there by bus, small plane and helicopter. It was truly amazing, the whole day was. Apart from the guy behind me on the small plane back to the bus place who chucked up his guts. It wasn't pretty. We also briefly stayed in Santa Monica, it was all very good. I was very glad to return to my creature comforts and jet lag, of course.

And that brings me to the end of this update. No doubt I will provide you with a lengthy one about my first day of college and how fantastic it is.

Take care my friends,
Au revior!