Well its Friday, and not just that its the Friday of a half term. I am looking forward immensely to catching up on sleep, my first ever holiday with my girlfriend, and catching up on a lot of spending time doing useless things.
I just thought that im quite a simple creature; I dont need an awful lot of achievement to keep me happy. Obviously i enjoy my achievements when they do come, but i spend a lot of time doing fuck all, and i really enjoy doing it. Watching top gear, for example. I get nothing at the end of it, but its just mindless, relaxing, funny television. Minecraft. Pointless beyond belief for me as im not anywhere near talented enough to build anything worth mentioning. But, again, i enjoy the release from expectation. Its nice to just be able to experience pure, no strings attached emotion. Even the frustration that came from burning my own house down (which was heartbreaking by the way) on Minecraft came with a hint of sweetness - It didnt matter.
Anyway, thought ide start with a couple shout outs, a few friends also write blogs and these two are definately worth reading
http://benjaminjameswhite.blogspot.com - Ben White
http://interestedyeahiam.blogspot.com/ - Harry Davidson
Okay, ones worth reading, but Harry's band are worth a listen if you like that kind of music so i thought ide pop him here.
Anyway, my weeks been pretty good, if a bit tiring. Got my exam results all back bar a few and im pretty chuffed, A / A* in everything apart from class civ, which was a B (still got to get the rest of my marks back for German, so thatll probably end up being two B's, oh joy of joys). The grade boundaries are stupid anyway, i get 70%, which in most subjects is an A, and in class civ its scraping a B. The rest of the class civ taking population must be freaks getting 100%, dragging the grade boundaries up for us normal folk. Ah well, should probably just work harder.
I have to rant about the ridiculousness of the P.E. department at my school. In the past the sport offered to the better athletes who wish to play at a competitive level for the school (known as 'match div') has been extremely well run, coached and played. My year is pretty decent at the three major sports (cricket, rugby and football) and so we won a fair few games at a decent level. Recently however the quality of the coaching and the way the sports are run has declined significantly.
Rugby was quite frankly a joke. I dont need to name names, for those of you who attend my school you will know to whom i refer, but the level of coaching we received was at best questionable. A person who believes playing a forwards game against a team three times your size needs to think about if hes really in the right sport. Anyone with even a vague sense of what Rugby actually is will know thats a bad idea. The drills done during actual training sessions were either A; Shit. Or B; So complicated and baffling it was beyond comprehension. We literally took five huge steps backward as a team. In the end i decided refereeing youth football for a bit of money was a more productive use of my time (I referee youth football by the way, in case you didnt realise).
Now football, which is personally my favourite sport, seems to be veering dangerously in that direction. The beginning of the year seemed promising, the coaching was good and enthusiastic, and a promise to trim the numbers so as to receive more focused training, tailored to a higher quality player. What we have now is every session has degenerated to a friendly kick around, and our coach cant even be bothered to do after school sessions anymore. I might as well go do rolly-pollys in a field for an hour. Wait, the session wasnt even that long yesterday, we had a 40 minute presentation on a football tour no one wants to go on.
Normally if you offered me a chance to go on a football tour, i would say yes. Without hesitation. But when i explain you will see why this is a little bit different. There is nothing wrong with the tour itself. Five days in Frankfurt, Germany (not the most exotic place in the world, but better than Scotland or something) with three matches, and a range of sightseeing and team building activities, all for around 600 pounds. Sounds pretty good. Apart from the fact half the team cant go, because it has been sprung upon us a few months before the tour. Why was it sprung upon us. Because its not even our tour, it was meant for the year above, but they couldnt get even one person willing to go. Well, since half the team cant go, we decide it would be better not to go, since its supposed to be for the best team we can put together. But no, in their ultimate wisdom the P.E. dept have decided that its impossible to cancel a tour, which hasnt even been paid for, and simply rearrange it for us in a year, or even two. Its either this or nothing. Ive reached the point where i feel like our P.E. dept are either too lazy to do anything properly, or dont care enough. Whichever it is, i feel like punching someone in the face.
Anyway, rant over, i probably should end this soon as its getting a bit long.
A couple quick final things.
I wish i was in a band. I went to a very small local gig during the week, with maybe 10 people watching the bands, but i still wished i was up there, singing / screaming my heart out. It looks like it would be immensely fun, but i cant play an instrument, and ive always assumed that ruled you out of being in a band. Oh well, not all ambitions in life are realised.
And im so glad its half term. I need the rest.
Anyway, thank you for reading, follow me on twitter if you have it: http://twitter.com/ArronDempers. I try retweet interesting stuff, and ill tweet whenever i write a new blog, so yeah, an easy way to recommend my blog to your friends. If you think its worth that. Please do.
Cheers guys, Arron.
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