In My Car (I’ll Be The Driver)

Yesterday was, not only the deadline for my chemistry Individual Investigation, but it was also the day of my practical driving test. I had to wake up at 6am in time for my test but this was probably that worst part of the day. After getting over my initial nerves (causing my feet to shake, which wasn’t [...]

The White Rider

I’ve never understood when people talk about horse riding as a sport before - until this week. It turns out you don’t just sit there while the horse does all the work! I’ve spent this last week on the Isle of Wight, learning about horses (husbandry as well as riding).
I got to meet a blacksmith and watch [...]

Milkcow Blues

I’ve spent the last week working on a dairy farm in Somerset. I’d never done any work with cows before (except briefly when I spent a week on a sheep farm) so it was a new experience for me. What I didn’t realise until arriving there the night before was that the farm was only a [...]

Do It Again

My last week of college as a 6.1 student was spent doing the practical part of my chemistry individual investigation. Mine is on urease and the hydrolysis of urea. All week I repeated the same experiment (which lasted about 15 minutes) – needless to say, by the end of the week I’d done it enough times to not [...]

Photograph

Here are some of the photos from my last few weeks:
Wildlife Aid

 
Wildlife Heritage Foundation

 
 London Zoo

 
End of Year Party

Long Time Gone (Part 3)

In the last few weeks, my dance teachers have started a beginner’s class in ballroom dancing before the lesson I go to, and my friends and I help out at. Because it’s at a lower level than what we dance at, it’s useful for bringing up the standard of my dancing when I am doing [...]

Long Time Gone (Part 2)

I am still going to Cobham Park Veterinary Clinic every week. A number of times animals have been brought in to have x-rays for various reasons and I helped the nurses to position them and develop the films. Also, a chocolate Labrador that was believed to be pregnant had an ultrasound scan. It turned out that she [...]

Seasons Change

Prom season has started and for me that mean one thing – more work! I do some part-time work for a photographer who goes to proms and other events. In the last week I have worked at Tormead School PTA Dinner Dance, Ascot Charitable Ball and Guildford County School Prom. My job is to show people their photos, [...]

April Showers (cont. at the farm)

During Easter I came back from a long week on the farm in Devon which I worked on in February. This time I was helping during their lambing season so it was much busier, and so much harder work, than my week in February. The farm has about 2000 lambing ewes, all of the ewes just having [...]

April Showers

At the beginning of April my Easter holidays started with me spending a week lambing at the farm in Devon which I had got work experience at in February. I was working very long hours; waking early and working without breaks until dinner and then going back again! I will write more about this week in [...]