Topic #5: Youtube - Georgia :?

Hey :)
So I think this week is a really good topic, because everyone uses youtube!
I usually use youtube for stuff like: vlogs, music videos, music covers, fails, viral stuff, pretty much everything video :) I use youtube a LOT.

Here are a few of my favorite youtubers:

ClaraCMusic

Orla Gartland









communitychannel

Supermac18










There are a bunch more, but the speed that my computer is doing this is preventing me from getting all of them down.


I love youtube! <3 I will write more and stuff in a bit, it's just that my life is so busy right now :/ :)

G.x

Topic #5: Youtube - Shannon ;)

youtube.. meh, i dont really use youtube that much because i dont like to sit watching videos of random people all day. 

buttt, i do sometimes.

my favourite youtuber is called supermac18

succcchhhh a funny guy!

he actually reminds me of some of my friends cause hes crazy :-D

here's some of my favourite of his videos:

yeah, full on love him ♥

another one i like is typical, who doesnt like them? 

the midnight beast.

and here's one of their videos:

i adore funny people :-)

so yeah, cant think of anything else to say because i dont really use youtube that much. so,

byebye!xx

Topic #5: Youtube - Lilly :D

My week to pick a topic, yaay. I have decided to pick youtube :) Everybody has used youtube at somepoint in their lives.... It's probably one of the best websites in history and whoever made it must be rolling in it by now ;)
I'm pretty sure that everybody in the blog will use youtube for different things, so you can use your post to talk about what you watch on youtube or like big up some of your favourite vids or whatever :) Seeing as last weeks topic wasn't the best (no offence shannon ;) for people to share their opinions and stuff :)
I personally use youtube to look for covers and stuff :) There are some seriously amazing people on youtube...
And youtube has become the place to start your career as pop sensations such as Justin Bieber and Jessie J were discovered on youtube and it seems as this is the place to be ;)

I will now take a minute or too to big up some of my favourite youtubers :)

Joseph Vincent <3

Harry and Alfie <3

Orla Gartland <3

These are just like the elite people ;) There are loads more if you wanna look but i seriously recommend looking at those 3 ^

• Randomgirl3000

• kinagrannis

• gootmusic

• astonmusic

Check this guy out as well :) Not music but some of the things he does are HIILARIOUS!! :'D

Lilly :Dx

Topic #4: Countries/ Culture - Lilly :D

I honestly have no idea what to put for this :/ Usually when I first see the topic for the week i kinda have a vague idea of what i'm going to put or just let my fingers type... For this one i have no idea :/
So i have googled weird cultures and i decided to do my post about the most interesting one i could find :)

I am going to do a blog about Camel Wrestling :D

LOL jk no i'm not ;)

But i'd just thought i'd share with you that camel wrestling does exist :) Tradition in parts of turkey :D


Our world is incredibly diverse right? I mean even countries that are next to each other are completely different and i think that's pretty incredible tbh... There must be over like a million different cultures that i know nothing about and that's quite sad really isn't it? How ignorant we all are to the amazing world that we live in. I learn spanish at school but thats probably as far as i go with learning about other cultures...
I myself am Irish English German and Austrian. Just incase you wanted to know ;) I used to be able to speak a bit of german but i can't anymore :( I was gunna take it as one of my options but we only have two choices :( I'm sorry my post is so bad but i have nothing to say at all...

I should probably have stuck with the camel wrestling ;D

Lilly :Dx

Topic #4: Countries/Culture - Jack :]

Not entirely sure what to put here but I'll give it a go,
Around the world there are different places... (No sugar Sherlock)
They all are different, and all have their own cultures and stuff,
When I think of culture, first thing that comes to my mind is food (Says a lot about me? )
For example, a typical/classic English meal,

Chips

Fish

Chinese...

The world has multiple countries and continents and stuff like that, and I, like Shannon, don't even know many of them...but they all have there own cultures and lifestyles, and they all interest me, and sometimes disgusts me, but that's not racist, that's an opinion :P

Because I used pictures, and a picture is worth a thousand words, enjoy my essay ;).

Until next time,

- Jack :] 

Topic #4: Countries/Culture - Georgia :?

Hey

This will be short tonight because I have 101 things to do, but I'll update it in a day or two.

Okay, so countries and culture, a very broad topic, so kinda hard to post about.
Anyway, I find culture fascinating, the way that when you go abroad, even just to somewhere like France or Holland, the way they live day to day is so much different, it seems even stranger in places like this because they aren't even that far away from us, so in the space of maybe and hour in a plane, you go into a totally changed lifestyle system. So going somewhere in another continent, would probably be even more of a contrast to our miserable, grey weathered days in Britain.

I like the way people all over the world speak different languages, and when I'm talking to someone who's first language is English, I always ask myself whether they're thinking in English or their language, and it puzzles me constantly. Even when I'm talking to someone who does speak English as their primary language, I wonder if the way they say words in their head is different to mine but I just hear them the way I imagine them. I know this is really random, but hey.

That is all I can do at the moment, I will update it though.

G.x

Topic #4: Countries/Culture - Shannon ;)

bit of a crap topic but my idea was stolen so i just chose this because its something im interested in.
so dont moan.
ive decided im not going to base my post on just one culture. im just going to talk about them in general.
so, culture and languages and shiz is what i want to revolve my career around when im older :)
i love learning about how different people in different countries live and i love learning new languages and being able to communicate with them.

oh hi, i love asian people,
expecially the two right here in the hiz-house! ;D
i find their culture really cool and creative.

anyway, when im older i want to travel the world so i can actually see (hey look its in italics!) other peoples' way of life in different countries.
is everyone else thinking that im talking a load of rubbish and that you dont agree at all?

our different cultures are one of the things that make us unique - and i dont mean that in a racist way, i mean it in a good way, because if everyone had the same culture then it would be kinda boring. :/
Africans live differently to Asians, who live differently to Europeans, who live differently to the people of the other continents that i cant remember the names of.
we're all humans, but i think the way we live life different just because we come from a particular country is so
cooooool :) but thats probably just me..

asif this is my own topic and ive run out of things to say.
oh well, heres to hoping everyone else will do what they can with this topic. i'll try to be more interesting next time :)
byebye!xxxxxx
p.s, sorry for the amount of times i said the word 'different' in this post - thesaurus.com was down for maintenance :'(

Topic #3: Fakeness - Shannon ;)

define fake:
georgia shanahanahanahanahanhanahanahan.


hehe, joke ;)


erm, i think people can be fake through the way the look but also in their personality. if someone has a fake personality its like when they try to be someone they're not or change around certain people. this really annoys me because i want to choose my friends for who they are and not who they want to be. and even sometimes it fails for them because they try too hard to be like the 'popular'(-i hate that term) people and it shooows.


when people are fake through the way they look it means they usually look something like this: 

lol^
isnt she just so beautiful..

ive got to go now because everyone's moaning at me. 
peeeeeeeace.xxx

Topic #3: Fakeness - Lilly :D

'Fakeness'. This a very broad topic and I'm quite suprised that everybody has done practically the same thing. And now i am going to do that as well :) Except I have a different view point of all this...

I'm pretty sure that everybody that has posted so far will say that they support anti-racism, equality, not judging people by their appearance and all that :) But that isn't what their posts have come across as :/ To me their posts are all basically slagging people off who look a certain way. I don't have a problem with the look that is classed as 'fake'. Why should they be thought less of just by their fashion sense? So what if they have platinum blonde hair? So what if they're 'orange'? You shouldn't judge them purely by the way they look... People say they look like barbie dolls, trying to be perfect but you can't blame them for that really can you? I mean when you were little a barbie doll was sold as the image of perfection really wasn't it?
They could be genuinely nice people but a lot of people will automatically say that they look fake and have fake personalities too. I really don't get how you can just categorize people and supposedly know exactly how they are going to be just by the way they look, i know that it is a common human behaviour but i was quite suprised at some of the people that have said similar stuff to this this week in their posts :/ And a lot of them have said stuff about plastic surgery and i do agree with Ciara's point that she made yesterday about how it should be used to help people with life endangering deformities etc. and i think that plastic surgery is abused in a way by people changing themselves when there is nothing wrong with them but stuff like that is going to happen in life, no brainer really....
And yeah i don't have much else to say on the topic of 'fake' appearances, but people have also said somethings about people acting 'fake'. And i think that is quite debatable really :/ Well, because in a way i could be classed as an extremely 'fake' person, because if I'm angry at someone or annoyed with them or upset (or any emotion that is classed as negative) i won't let on, and how I'll never tell anyone what i really think of them or just thinking because i don't want to offend anyone and i believe that that is really the right thing to do because 'if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything'. I've heard my mum say this many a time to my brothers and i think it's right. So am i being a two faced bitch or a polite person?? And that's all i have to say really...

Lilly :Dx

Topic #3: Fakeness - Georgia :?

Hey :)Oh my gosh, week 3 already?

So I was thinking pretty hard about what this weeks topic should be, and I realised that all the time these days, you see people that are just so blatantly fake. Fake hair, nails, bodies, skin, personality, the lot.

I guarantee you every day I see at least one girl who is meant to be white, but they're orange.

Why? 

Is it insecurity? Or trend following? I don't understand it, why would you want to look like a mango with fluorescent pink talons as nails, and white - I mean 'Platinum blonde' hair?

I think that cake on so much makeup are almost just hiding themselves away because they're insecure, but then I guess I really don't know, because I don't do it, I don't have a reason to.

But it isn't just people's appearances that come across as fake, you get the people that are 'best mates' with everyone, but then bitch about them to everyone else, who are also their 'best mates'

I think people should really just be happy with what they've got, because 9 out of 10 times the people who are fake are so much nicer to be around without all the makeup, fake tan, bleached hair and the rest of the fakeness, they just don't want to look different to anyone else. But that really defeats why we all look different, which we are meant to be. 

We're not supposed to be orange, and our hair shouldn't belong to some other person that is stuck in with glue. We're meant to look the way we look without all the trimmings, it makes us interesting, and not walking barbie dolls.

Anyway, enough of my rant about fakeness, it's your turns now :)

I know this probably isn't a very good subject but hey, It's my week to choose so that is what I have chosen.

G.x

Topic #2: Music - Georgia :?

Hey :)
This is just really short but I'm fixing it and making it longer tomorrow!

Music plays a big part in my life, and it sounds cheesy and typical but music always reminds me of stuff that has happened in the past etc.
I sometimes hear songs that bring back memories good and bad,  but even when they're bad, I still like the particular song or artist, just not the memory.

I generally don't listen to the music that's 'in' really, pretty much no one in this blog thing does ;)
I prefer stuff that is well, good, because it's actually real music that isn't from people that don't sing and have auto tune as their voice instead - which irritates me greatly. :)
Mostly I listen to stuff like this:

• Jamie T
• You Me At Six
• Lenka
• Amy Winehouse
• Colbie Caillat
• Emma's Imagination
• Never Shout Never
• Regina Spektor
• Plain White T's
• Mindy Gledhill
• Far East Movement
• Laura Marling
• Remi Nicole
• All Time Low
• Jack Johnson
• Kids In Glass Houses
• Lady Gaga
• Frankmusik
• Kate Nash
• Arctic Monkeys
• Paloma Faith
• Marina And The Diamonds
• Lily Allen
• Katy Perry
• The Fratellis
• Eliza Doolittle
• Friendly Fires
• Jason Mraz
• I Blame Coco
• The Maccabees
• The Wombats
• Biffy Clyro
• Noah And The Whale

 - And more but my mind is blank right now :)

I think that without music, I would struggle to relate how I felt to anything else, but when you hear a song and you can relate to how you feel, it makes you feel like the person singing the song is aiming it right at you.

I find it so annoying when you mention a band or artist and then someone acts like they're the biggest fans but when you start talking about a song of theirs that isn't in the UK top 40 or whatever, they know nothing about it. Maybe that's just me?

Anyway, I can't get much more down for now, but it might become longer in the future.

G.x

Topic #2: Music - Shannon ;)

ohmy, words cannot describe how much love i have for music.

sometimes, at school, i feel like crying because i am in desperate need of my ipod..

i just realised how weird that actually sounds. 

but yeah, trinity is such a stupid school. 

with its stupid rules. 

that dont allow fun :'(

anyway lets not be sad on the topic of such a wonderful thing :D

so, 

jls r so piff nd dey r da best singas eva. 

HA. im joking. im not a chav/the ronan.

i prefer music that doesnt make my ears bleed :)

LIIIIIIIKE..

• The Cribs
• Vagina Spektor (teeHee o_O)
• Mumford & Sons
• The Script
• Vampire Weekend
• The XX
• Darwin Deez
• The Macabees
• All Time Low
• You Me At Six
• Jamie T
• Florence + The Machine
• Neon Trees
• Jamiroquai ;D
• Noah And The Whale
• Plain White T's
• Jason Mraz 
• Owl City 
• Eliza Doolittle
• Jack Johnson
• The Wombats
• Marina And The Diamonds
• Kings Of Leon
• Adele
• Biffy Clyro

EEETTTTCCCCC. :D

pretty much everyone in this blog has cool music taste which is why they are accepted as my friend. 

(accept the chav and the sam uveges wannabe ;) )

also, because i am so talented, i play 3 instruments:

1. the flute - just done my grade 3 and currently working towards grade 4
2. the voice - it IS an instrument actually and i play mine very well. 
3. the triangle - grade 8, pshyea?

andandand, im in a marching band, one of the best in the country actually, with fellow blogger Ciara, and i play the piccolo. ;) 

this summer, we are doing a tour of Europe which should be fun :)

and this weekend we have a training weekend at beaumanor (aka, blowmanor-.-) which we have once every month. its like a concentration camp. cant wait. :/ 

"what? st patricks day parade?" 

oh yeah, there's also that on thursday so we get to miss lessons to go march around town and play music :)

yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy musiccccccc :D

well, im bored and have nothing else to say.

byebye!xxxx


p.s, here's a few decent songs:

Topic #2: Music - Lilly :D

Music. My life is basically music... and i know loads of people say stuff like that and it's really not true and it's just like -.- why lie? But i am being deadly serious :L If it wasn't for music i would be a completely different person. Is it just me, or when you think about one tiny decision you made in your life, and how much it has affected your life now, just completely blows your mind?! For me, i think back to that day in year 4 when we had an assembly where this band came in and showed us how cool music is and basically bigging up Yamaha Music School and they gave us a free taster lesson of guitar and a letter about when to go etc. If i hadn't gone to that free taster session... then who knows what I'd be like now :/ anyways... getting slightly off subject now ;)

To me there are 3 types of music;

Practical: This is basically playing music, you know with instruments, jamming, writing songs and just generally being a cool person ;D
I do this a lot :') I play keyboard, saxophone, ukulele, guitar and bass. I'm not gonna go on about this a lot because there is too much to say... But i have the inter house piano competition in like 2 weeks :| How the hell am i supposed to learn a decent piano piece in 2 weeks?!?! :'( Fellow blogger Hugh is also competing in this :/ damn. Not that he's ever had lessons or anything but knowing that he's in it doesn't make me feel any better :L

Theory: This is like composing and the boring side of music ;) I'm not gonna say much about this... not my favourite thing in the world :/

Listening: Everybody does this on a day to day basis... Well I know I do ;) Everybody has different tastes of music and i must admit that each of the seven bloggers have quite similar tastes in music but each is slightly swayed more to a certain genre which i think is pretty cool ;)

Music can be incredibly emotive and expressive if you think about it really :/ each and every song written in the history of the world will make you feel slightly differently. Isn't that just so amazing? I love how music is just so, different to everything else, and yet it is something that can unite millions of people all around the world for loads of different reasons. Music is just too cool <3

Lilly :Dx

Topic #2: Music - Jack :]

MUSIC :D
I consider myself fairly musical, I mean, I like music?
Today we got our music test results back, I said if I got over 100 I'd do it for GCSE, and I got 118*
Over the last three years I've had 2 Permanent music teachers and 2 temporary ones:
Mr Ben Miller :D
Miss Adcock (now known as Mrs Natalie Squires) < Legendary form tutor as well :D
Mrs Shooter (Formerly Miss Cray)
and Miss Buzcok, who is nice to me :P

I play 2 Instruments (badly)
Guitar and Piano
BUT I know I'm yours on Ukulele (forgot it now but I learnt it within 2 attempts ;) :D )
Not as long as Hugh's
That's what she said^
That's all for now :D
Jack :]

*should be 121 I think but they marked the last question incorrectly -.-

Topic #1: Exams - Georgia :?

Okay, so a reasonably depressing topic, however it is relevant, since we had exams this week.

I go on a school ski trip to Austria for a week - which was amazing - Only to come hurtling back to the harsh reality of school, worse still, school exams.

I enter the exam halls, fatigued and without a minute of revision - not that anyone needed to revise because the exams were ridiculously easy and pointless.

Anyway, I walk into the exam hall, and then BAM! a booming yell from the most irritating teacher (cheers Mr. Bennet) in our school which practically shatters my eardrum tells everyone to 'SHUT UP! THESE ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT EXAMS YOU'LL EVER TAKE!' - No sir, they're not.

So yeah, my exams went okay other than the bellowing voice of Mr. Bennet every morning.

But really, I don't think exams are worth it, because so many people feel overly-pressured about them, which can make them do badly, but then in class they're the smartest students. 

That's about all I can think to put right now,  I know it wasn't particularly good, but oh well ;)

G.x 

By the way, there is something very wrong with my font so if you want you can change it so it matches the rest, because my computer thinks it's fun to crash every time i click a font :/

Topic #1: Exams - Shannon ;)

'ELLO :)
Okay, so every post on this topic is going to be depressing (nice one jack), because lets face it, EVERYBODY hates exams. 
I am one of the people in that everybody because i seriously do not test well :( 
When we have exams, all i want is to be in class, but when we're in class, i wish we had exams. 
boohoo :'(


Anyway, like Ciara said (because Ciara's always right-.-) these exams aren't even that importanttttttt, i swear the results will get us nowhere in life. i'll worry when i get to my gcse's thanks.


So i think im succeeding in making this THE most depressing post ever to be written, and im going to try and make the topic of exams.. happy? :D


the coughing game
well, this one's always fun for exams ;D
yanoe, where everybody just starts coughing even though their throat is perfectly clear but its funny to piss the teachers off because they are totally oblivious to it and probably think there is a gas leak or something. 
well, thats how it used to be. 
but now they know :(


Also, me and the ronan did indeed have the best seats in the house for exams because everyone knows, back corners are always a win :)


So yeah, exams are over now so im happyyyy :D
just not looking forward to getting my results..


I don't want this to be any longer so i'm going to shutup. until next week :D


Shannon ;) xx

Topic #1: Exams - Lilly :D

Exams... pretty depressing tbh :/ i find it quite amusing how different people react to them.
Some people say how bad they are going to do, don't do anything about it, cram the night before if they're a bit worried and talk about how badly they are going to fail whilst sir is shouting at them to 'BE QUIET. YOU ARE IN EXAM CONDITIONS NOW' as you walk into the gym.
Some people actually revise, you know, the organised people who are going to get good GCSE's, by doing what the teachers recommends, revision timetable, timed revision slots, timed breaks etc. and everybody thinks 'who the hell would do that?!'
Some people revise also, but they won't admit it, because they wouldn't wanna look like 'nerds' which i find very stupid. because they do. no matter how much they try to play it cool :') not that i have anything against 'nerds' i just find nerds in denial quite funny :')
I personally believe i am inbetween these 3 categories... I make a revision timetable (usually against my will...) never stick to it, occassionally do like 10 mins of revision when i get pestered about it, cram a bit the night before if i know i'm definetly screwed ;D and talk about how badly i am going to do whilst sir is shouting 'BE QUIET. YOU ARE IN EXAM CONDITIONS NOW' as I walk into the gym.:'D good times...
Our exams are now over, had 9 exams crammed into the space of 3 days :/ we are also crammed into the gym which is a bit small :/ tables like 3/4 of a meter away from each other max. Lot's of cramming involved ;D
These exams were to help us be 'setted' for our GCSE classes next year. great. havn't even chosen our options yet... talking of options ;) There aren't that many options involved in our options.... like 4 max? out of the like 12 subjects :/ and they are limited choices as well :/ bad times...
And also don't you love how every exam you take always somehow seems to be 'the most important exams you take in your life so far? i'm still waiting for they day when i'm sat in the exam hall and the teacher says 'these exams aren't that important tbh, you should probably try to do your best because you know, thats what you should do but it's no biggie if you don't, it's cool don't worry about it, we all have our lazy days....'
That would be a pretty cool day ;D

Lilly :Dx

Topic #1: Exams - Ciara o_O

My first blog post. I thought we were starting this thingymabob next week but apparently not so apologies I'm not going to be able to do another spiritually cleansing essay like the post below because this is kinda last minute.

Firstly, I would like to point out that it was my amazing idea to do exams as the theme as we had exams this week.

We've had exams this week. Our school takes the piss about exams. Seriously. Whatever you say these exams are not important -.-

They base sets on classwork mainly anyhow and I don't even understand why everyone gets dead stressed about them because the tests themselves are SO easy! Some of them were mock GCSEs, papers from previous years. All I'm saying is if our GCSEs are that easy we'll be laughing.
The worst thing about exams is that Mr Bennett seems to take it upon himself to crawl out of his office and shout at everyone. He's the world's most annoying teacher. Unfortunately he teaches Resistant Materials which is the DT I want to take. Fingers crossed I don't get him.

On that note I'll tell you about my options because apparently these tests will have a massive impact on what we want to *insert doubting glance here*.
My way of picking options is to see how many teachers I can piss off by not taking their subject!

For example :
I am taking history and not geography because my geography teacher basically begged me in year 8 to take it
I am not taking music because when a the Dance teacher asked me what options I was going to take before I could speak Miss Bucket said Music. (p.s. also, I absolutely hate the music departments bias-nous)

Other than that I'm taking Spanish, German, Triple Science and Resistant Materials!

I know what you're thinking, I beasted this post. However, unlucky for you I'm not posting again until NEXT Thursday. Please don't cry, if you do, though, please do it in a reservoir or something because then we'll have more water for me to waste in my shower in the morning !!

Cheerio for now, Cizzle says Bizzle