Stuck in the middle.

I am precisely half way between camping trips.

Yeah, its that time of year again. I'm off camping because its time for camp, well come saturday.

This time last week I was recovering from helping to put camp up, We  have somewhere to cook, eat, wash and Sleep, indeed week 1 are probably using these facilities as I type, what with it being Week 1 and everything. Incidently I now have a small idea how much effort goes into making camp happen.

The campers remain in blissful ignorance of the whacked thumbs, rope burn, and cuts and bruises I seem to gained. Hitting yourself with a mallet of any kind hurts. Spare a thought for Joe who hit himself with a lumphammer.

At the start the field looked like this:

i.e. empty, the blue tents are our accomodation.

By the end it looked like this:

And soon it'll have 50 odd 9-13 yr olds running around it.

I'll be the one  hiding under a GIANT hat.  Well, maybe just a hat.

As for year abroad news, not much has changed since the last post, except I have reverted to my usual "I DON'T WANNA GO!" state.

Its all fine and well everyone telling me its amazing, I'll love it, it'll be a great experience, (the next person to do so is likely to get punched btw), currently, its terrifying, I miss my friends from Uni, it'll be even worse when I have to leave my family and friends here. Admittedly I get to take Mark, but to make him the first port of call for my every emotional wobble would be extremely unfair, particularly as my emotional wobbles are more akin to earthquakes than wobbles.

Living totally on my tod in a language in which I can just about communicate, should scare the pants off most people.

So yeah, feeling rather apprehensive at the moment. Hopefully, it'll die down a bit when I have somewhere to live. No doubt I will get round to liking it, but currently terrified is where I'm at.

The next update will be after camp.

so until I am next awake enough to blog!
Bethxx

The YA begins to get thoroughly exciting!

Planet Beth is going to Germany or more specifically Karl von Frisch Gymnasium, Dußlingen, Baden Württemberg.

At last I have something to get properly excited about :) and have as such spent most of the day fighting the internet trying to get to Cologne for the Altenburg Konferenz.

90 odd quid later we've managed it and I'm rather looking forward to meandering around Cologne city centre for a bit in the morning, I've always been told its beautiful and I want to check it out for myself.  Getting flights to Cologne is a hassle though.
And finding hotels even more so!

And I haven't even started looking at trains to Dußlingen for the end of the Konferenz! But thankfully I have discovered that Deutsche Bahn also works in English, which is reassuring because I get twitchy when travelling and like to have everything nice and ordered and having to add extra energy into working out the German site would only make it worse.

Having now checked into various train times and prices, I now have to Google Earth Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof to work out how on earth one station can have 101 (at least) platforms! Also I feel fleeced by the Deutsche Bahn, when a country is as large as Germany, it is therefore a long way to anywhere and prices should be less! I suspect this particular rant may feature a few times!

The most worrying thing about all of this excitement is that come Monday morning I actually have to ring my school and talk to my Betreuungslehrer (What kind of a word has 2 u's in it consecutively!?)
Grammar is going to get mangled and great whopping misunderstandings will take place. I dislike telephones. They're not good with sarcasm or foreign languages. But then the German's aren't good with sarcasm...

I can see this going terribly wrong xD

Terribly, terribly, hysterically wrong.

For you see this person:

ubiquitous beanie and all will be in the next town!

This is very reassuring, well for me, that noise you can hear is Tosh wringing his hands and hoping Germany survives.

Right,

I've run out of words here.
Bis später!
Bethxx

What happens on holiday.

Not a lot happens on holiday thats what.
Darn I'm sooo bored. and this is only the end of week 2 and already I'm climbing the walls. Only 8 more to go. Admittedly one of those weeks is Camp which will take about a week to get over, its a wonderful if very exhausting week.

Last week was not boring.  I returned home on the Friday, from where followed an awful lot of cleaning, because Anne was coming :)

We went to York, and Betty's which you just have to do, I mean look!

Even if I'm not sophisticated enough to be in a tearoom (Lucy was tempted to facepalm many a time - yes the lovely Lucy-cakes was there!)

We spent the whole time getting intermittently rained on in monsoon like downpours and drying out in glorious sunshine enjoying Yorkshire's finest city, taking some rather touristy shots, (Despite some of us living there xD), and generally having a rather good time.

 The typical look we're on the walls and that's the Minster!

 One is in Betty's ones Pinky is nowhere near ones teacup

The Shambles, funny I thought that was me...

Obligatory shot of Clifford's Tower.

The next day we stayed at home went to the castle and went shopping oh and Anna became entirely addicted to The Hunger Games. She finished it by the time we got to the wedding on saturday. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

(at this point I went to bed)

Anyway where was I? I have important things to say but have rather got to finish this bit first. Bother.

So yeah. I turned 21.

I got 2 birthdays. One in Lancaster, with all the surprises:

Left: Surprise Party       Above: Surprise Ladies Lunch :)

And one here where I went out for a meal with the usual suspects and Anne and then came home to a birthday tea :) Where there was lots of Cake. I like Cake.

Then the next day it was up and at 'em to catch an 8.20 train (who knew that time existed on a Saturday), to get to Andrew and Laura's Wedding. Which was a beautiful day and wedding.

A gorgeous event followed mainly by moving out catching up with Mark, Amy and the legend that is Tosh before interminable boredom set in, in the space of 4 days. 

BAH!

Anyway This is only blog one of 3 for today and Shakespeare will require my full attention. 

So till the next Blog!

 Bethxx