England School Trip 2015 - Sunday -

heyy every1,

so as you may know I was on a school trip in England and I had such a lovely time, I just had to blog about it! It would have been a very long post so I thought I'd do different parts!

Sunday 10th 

On Sunday morning we met up at the bus station in Eastbourne and went to a morning mass at a small, cosy church!
The mass was about love and how it's a choice, not a feeling. You can have feelings of love for somebody but when they fade that you might still choose to be there for one another. God knows all our faults but still he chooses to love us!
This really helped me and made me think about many things, especially about my parents, I wonder if they still have feelings of love for each other and if they don't will they choose to love each other when the time comes where they don't quite know for sure?
After this inspiring mass, we went to a chip shop and had some crispy fish and chips!!
After that we went to the pier. I collected many stones and seashells and of course the whole class were making selfies!

The weather in this picture doesn't look fantastic, but the weather was definitely the best weather I've ever experienced in England :) The sun shone the whole week except for the last one but that's only because England was going to miss us!



Later we all hopped back on the double decker bus and drove to a beautiful place   for a walkies called the seven sisters which are seven mountains. So we basically walked up and down the whole time! The view however was absolutely fantastic, there were small rivers that then led into small lakes. When you get to the top of the first sister you got to see the deep blue sea! :D It was stunning! A friend of mine and myself rolled down a hill :D many others did too and filmed it!

England School Trip 2015- The journey -

Heyy every1,

so from May 8th to 15th, I was on a fantastic school trip to a place in east Sussex called Eastbourne. On Friday the 8th at half past 1 a.m our long journey started!

Our trip was organized by a company called "Tommy Trips" and they did a wonderful job. We got to travel in a double decker bus and on the way there I got to sit at the top, right at the front, I couldn't believe that it was actually happening!!
We stopped every 2-3 hours for a short toilet break and because none of us could really sleep properly we all came out of the bus half dead and wandered around like zombies.  After a tiring total of about 15 hours including the ferry, we finally arrived in Eastbourne.

Two friends and I got picked up by a taxi and were brought to a family who we were going to be staying with for the week. We didn't know that the man picking us up was a taxi driver until someone paid him. He didn't say a word to us, so extremely relieved we stepped into an old fashioned but arty house and dragged our luggage to the room which claimed to be ours. The room was coloured orange and pink with: a flatscreen, Sky, 4 beds, huge mirror, PlayStation (that sadly didn't work) and tons of books!
On the first night we stayed up watching Britain's Got Talent which was great seeing as I hadn't seen it in years!
To be continued...

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck

Heyy every1,

Today I want to write about the Kurt Cobain film I saw last week. My father and older brother were kind enough to go with me.
The film was made out of interviews, sketches and small video clips.

It was not easy viewing, I must say however it does make you think about many things. His childhood affected me most. When his parents got divorced he slowly stopped being the happy boy he was and suffered dreadfully from depression.

The way I think of it is that as a child he probably was hyper and happy but this made him feel out of place and in those days no one got divorced so that made him feel much more out of place but also overwhelmingly rejected.
Experiencing a huge mix of negative feelings, lead him to four coping strategies: art, music, self medication (drugs) and withdrawal. He withdrew from school, family and friends, this made him feel alone.

There were small clips of him when he was under the influence of drugs. They were very disturbing and you really saw the trouble inside him.

One of the things you'll definitely wonder is, if he was so afraid and traumatized of rejection, why did he leave his own family by killing himself ?
This is something I discussed intensively with my father.
He thought he would ruin his daughters life by staying, that he was making his family's life hard with his mental state. He didn't want his daughter to grow up like him so he thought it would be best to leave.

Many people criticize him for his actions I completely do not! To me, it seems like I can place myself into his mind and see his pain but also all the things he has accomplished, all the songs he wrote and sung, all his inspirational quotes and many more things that none of us will ever know about.
I personally love listening to Nirvana, it's so unique and meaningful, but also original which I think has been lacking in many other bands.

Cake Baking - Coffee Cake

Heyy every1,

Yesterday I made a delicious Coffee Cake for my mother.
You see, I live in a small but homey village and a group of women meet up and take turns in making a cosy breakfast. So once every year my Mum gets to be the special host!
For the occasion that took place today, she asked me if I could bake something nice and not to sweet, many people around here don't like very sweet things, so I thought a coffee cake might tickle their taste buds!

And it was a success!!

As you can probably see, this creation was a traybake.
A traybake is always simple, all you need to do is pour the cake mixture into a prepared traybake tin which is just a tray really but one you can put in the oven of course ;)
This makes it easier because you don't need to take it out of a form, with the risk that the cake might somehow come out wrong, you just leave it in the tin to cool and when it's ready you can cut the cake into preferable sized squares and pop them onto a plate and your ready to go!

Information about the recipe:

 This lovely recipe is by Lucy Young in the book "Aga Cakes".
 Sadly, we haven't got an aga any more since our big move however
 all the info about the temperature and so on for the use of  a conventional oven
 are thankfully included!
 It was the first time I had made the "Espresso Coffee Traybake" and I must say it
 was delicious!! Even though I made my own white chocolate topping instead of  icing, it was definitely a success, as are many recipes from the recipe book!
 But next time I will follow the recipe just to compare :)

The breakfast was a huge success except for the fact that it had to be cut short, as I was ill and had to be picked up from school :D

Thank you for reading my very first blog post, hope you enjoyed it! See you next time!