Christmas party time.

This year there was a change to the Christmas Party at Gamlingay; there was no buffet and no Santa! Instead we all watched a pantomime.

 I've never really like pantomimes and I still don't like them! It might not have been so bad if I'd had a chair to sit on but all of the "kids" had to sit on the floor which was OK at first. However, the pantomime seemed to go on forever and the floor was so uncomfortable, my legs were going into a cramp! I managed to join in with a couple of songs though.

There was no food, but lots of chocolate coins and mince pies. It wasn't the best party I've been to, but it was nice to see Tilly again.

In other news, we finally decorated our Ginger-Bread house!

Happy Birthday Me!

The joys of being a teenager have finally come! On the 18th, I became a teenager. It didn't feel much different from being twelve, but it was exciting nonetheless!
 





The day before my birthday, I went up to Newcastle with dad to see my brothers and the rest of my family. I saw my grandad first and dad had a chat with him about boring football for a couple of hours until it was time to meet up with my brothers.
Me, dad and my two brothers (Ian and Stephen) met up in a Thai restaurant in the gigantic Metro Centre for a late lunch. Me and dad weren't really looking forward to the meal as we aren't massive fans of Thai food. We were pleasantly surprised when we tried our food and realised how tasty it actually was! I had beautifully grilled pork with sticky rice. I wasn't a fan of the sticky rice, but the pork was fantastic!
After our meal, we had a walk around all of the shops. For a week and a day before Christmas, the shops were surprisingly empty. It seems most people do their shopping online now.

We spent the rest of the day at Eileen's AKA Stephen and Ian's mom's house. We all chatted for an hour or so before me and dad had to leave to go back home. After the 3 hour journey back home, I was absolutely shattered!




I didn't have any time to rest the day after my expedition to Newcastle, though, as it was my birthday! I had a veryyy busy day opening presents and lying around enjoying them all!

 I got some brilliant smelling bath bombs, a miniature stationary set, a beautiful bracelet, some band and YouTuber merchandise, lots of chocolates and Pokémon Sun! I've always loved Pokémon games and Pokémon Sun is probably the best Pokemon game I've ever played. It's brilliant!

Cadbury's Flake Cake!

I wonder what teenage dramas I'll have to endure in the future? I'll keep you updated on them!

Pony Club Games!

Despite the bleak weather, I still had a fantastic time at Pony Club yesterday! We played gymkhana games bareback. We had to do things like get a ring off a pole at one end of the school then ride down to the other end of the school and put the ring on the pole at that end then run back. It was a lot of fun! I really enjoy riding bareback since it's very comfortable and warm compared to sitting on a leather saddle.

At the end of the day, we lined up and posed for the camera!

Sitting sidesaddle!

Sitting backwards!

Christmas Catch-up!

Who would have thought separating beans and peas would be so exciting!

At Gamlingay, we travelled back in time to the Medieval times to learn all about how people in that era lived.

To get an idea of how difficult it was to earn money back then, our Medieval Instructor split all of the children into teams. In those teams, we harvested crops, sheared sheep and stacked hay. Of course, we didn't use actual crops, sheep or hay. Instead we used beans and peas for the crops, small printed pictures of sheep for our animals, and cut up pieces of  drinking straws for hay. It might sound like quite a silly game but it was very intense and serious.We had to earn as much money as possible and it wasn't easy! Occasionally, one of your teammates had to leave the game since the King had called them to work for him. My team only barely had enough money to survive!

After the incredibly tense game of Medevial life, we all got to do something a lot more calming; drawing with a quill. It might not sound much fun, but I actually really enjoyed it.


 Everyone had a sheet of thick paper to write on, a pot of black ink and a guide on how to draw every letter with a quill. When using the quill, you can't drag it up!

All of the pen strokes have to go either down, left or right. Because of this, a lot of letters have to be changed to be able to write them with a quill.

For my first time writing with a quill, I think I did pretty good!




When I heard that the next activity was going to be outside, I was not very impressed. It was absolutely freezing outside! Either way, I went out with Tilly to see what was going on. There was archery and jousting going on but I couldn't say it was very interesting. Tilly and I stood and stared at it for a while before deciding it wasn't worth freezing for!

It was freezing!

Just chilling out

In other news, it's almost Christmas! Mom, dad and I have been very busy putting up all of the Christmas decorations and getting the house as festive as possible. Everything was put up around a week early this year apart from the Gingerbread house. A gingerbread house is one of the most important parts of Christmas and we still haven't made it yet! Hopefully we'll have the gingerbread
ready in time for Christmas.

Getting ready for Christmas!

Update on my Wii!

In my last post, I mentioned that I was going to try to convert a Wii game so I could play it on my laptop. I spent my entire Thursday evening desperately trying to make it work but I just couldn't do it. I figured out that to do it, I needed to pay £6.00 for a SD card. I definitely don't think the SD card was worth £6.00, but I was determined to succeed so I bought it anyway!
I tried again with the SD card and it actually worked. I could hardly believe it! The instructions on how to actually convert the Wii game were very complicated so I don't think I'd be able to explain them. If you want to know how to do it, you can read the tutorial by clicking here!