NEW YEARS BEACH DAY

New Years day we headed down to the beach. I think I rather the beach in the winter time because there are hardly any tourists, the beaches are mostly empty and the sound of the waves hitting the sand is awesome. We always go to the same two beaches, so on Tuesday I decided to drive to another one that I haven't been to since I was in primary school. We arrived in Cwmtydu at around midday with my mum and I also picked Carwen up on the way.

The wind was incredible! I was standing on top of the beach wall trying to take a picture with my penny board and the wind was so strong that the board would just fly off! Myself and Carwen walked up the cliff that sheltered the beach. When we got close to the top we could see miles and miles of sea. It was beautiful. I also brought my penny with me so we did some skating on the little road that leads to the beach. Another reason why I love winter time by the sea is because there are hardly any people, there is hardly any traffic which means that you can safely skate on the roads.

Once we'd been there for an hour or so, we headed down the single track road to another, more popular beach in Llangrannog. The place was absolutely packed. There was no room to park, there were loads of people on the beach and the pubs were even fuller. I managed to find a place to park tucked away by some boats. Carwen, Hendrix and I ran out to take some pictures and then jumped back in the car to come home. It was freezing there!

I love the beach and I love that I live so close to the coast :)

Happy New Year :)

IT'S (ALMOST) CHRISTMAAAAAAS!

Well, tomorrow is Christmas day! This year has gone by so fast it is unbelievable.
This week has been fairly busy but mostly it's been lying on the sofa watching films! That's how Christmas should be, no?

Last week I went over to see Alaw as I hadn't seen her for ageeeees. One thing led to another and before you know it we were driving around the village dropping Christmas cards off & listening to Christmas songs at volume 80! It was actually hilarious! We ended up just driving to random places for no specific reason. These are the best sort of days - random and fun ones!

(I think this picture of Alaw is one of my favourite pictures ever!)

Friday I woke up to a text from Carwen asking if I wanted to go down to Cardiff to watch the rugby. Scarlets were travelling down to face the Blues in the Christmas derby. Of course I said yes, so at around 3 o'clock we were off down the M4! She had won the tickets through the local radio station. The match wasn't overly exciting itself but we managed to make it fun! The Scarlets won so there was a positive from the game (they haven't won for a looooong time!) It was an extremely fun day and it was nice to actually see Carwen in the flesh after three months of occasional Skype sessions!

Saturday we went to visit the grandparents and almost as soon as we were home we had people over for supper. It was an hilarious night which saw a lot of laughs and empty bottles of wine! Most of us were wearing Christmas hats and we had the Christmas table set out. It got me in that Christmasy mood of having fun and enjoying yourself.

Last night we went to a candle light christmas chapel service that our family friend does every year. My brother and I both had to do readings - him a poem & me a hymn. This also gets everyone in a christmas mood as we sing hymns under candle light and then have mince pies and mulled wines (wwwww... and also get chocolate and tangerines from santa!).

Merry Christmas :)
Nadolig Llawen :)

BURN BABY BURN

On Monday my alarm went off at 4:45am!!! I had catch a bus from school at 6am so we could be up in Aberystwyth pretty darn early. The reason for this redoncolous wake up time was that I was going to watch Carwen carry the Olympic Flame through a section of town! It was another beautiful day and it was scorching by 7:30am or even earlier. Whilst waiting for Carwen to start her torch run, coca-cola were giving out free stuff from their little red London-style double decker bus! We received limited edition Olympic flame coke bottles and like a drum-cum-tambourine thing that's supposedly called a 'Beat Pad'. Carwen took the tourch up Constitution Hill on the train, walked back down and ran across a section of the prom. Hundreds of people were there to cheer her as well as the other torch bearers. Whilst queueing for my 'beat pad' thingimajig BB Aled walked past me. As in Aled Jones from the Chris Moyles Radio 1 breakfast show! Chris Moyles and co. were presenting the show from Aberystwyth that day in celebration of the torch passing through Aled's hometown! Mr. Moyles was even a torch barer. I couldn't find them though as they were all the way up in Aber's arts centre.

After watching Carwen walk with the torch and passing it on to a Sun journalist (which led to her picture being in The Sun newspaper!) we walked back to the bus (after walking around Aber looking for a lost school child! We found him in the end so all is cool!). As the bus was filled with mostly young school children, 8-14ish, we ended up in McDonald's after their begging! I grabbed myself a toasted jam bagel. At just after 10am I arrived home. That is one very busy morning in my book! After a quick lie down I continued with my (endless) revision!

The first 6 pictures are from Gwyneth Richards. The rest are mine.

THOSE 7 YEARS FLEW BY

Wow. 7 years of school came to an end last Friday. I still have my exams in June but I have no timetabled lessons anymore. I wont have to stand in the back of the hall for Assembly anymore and neither will I sit in the common room during my free lessons chatting and laughing with my friends waiting for the bell to go. Wow. That's all I can say. Even though school to people seems to be the worst place on earth, for me it is actually an enjoyable place. The lessons are OK, especially in sixth form as I'm taking the subjects that I actually want to do - English literature, Geography and History, but the real thing I enjoy about school is the socialising.

My close friends have changed numerous times since year 7 but I've always had the same friends surrounding me. With these friends I started my first day of secondary school back in September 2005! 2005 -wow! (I think wow is the word of this post!) It is with these friends that I've been on school trips with from Denmark in year 8, History trip to France and Belgium in year 9, Skiing in Austria in year 10, Sweden in year 12 and Ireland in year 13. These friends were with me whilst I walked down the catwalk to raise money for charity, and these friends were also there to congratulate me for my rugby, exams and general success.

The teachers have also been incredibly helpful. Not everyone. Not all the time. The majority however have been great and even though it might sound weird but you do create a close relationship with these people you see everyday for 7 years! They know you extremely well and understand you as a person, your likes and dislikes, your strengths and weaknesses. I have been extremely lucky that I've had teachers that I get on with and who are also very good at what they do! Thank you!

On Friday (our last official school day) I arrived in school at around 11:30am in order to give my teachers 'thank you' gifts. It was quite a stressful couple of days organising all the presents but in the end we pulled it off! To most of the teachers we gave them pictures, flowers, cake and even an autograph of Stephen Jones (Welsh rugby player). Before the present giving however we headed to the canteen and had our last all-together-year13-school-lunch. We then changed into our shorts and t-shirt (it's been boiling here for the last week or so! Like really hot!) and headed down to the field to play some rounders! Classic game. Carwen and I  then headed to Conti's to grab some homemade ice cream and then we headed back to her house to get ready for her 18th birthday party that was later that night. What a wonderful day!

With out a doubt I'll miss school and its friendliness and its familiarity but I'm also very excited to move on to the next stage and to university. Wow, (there's that word again!) university!

Just have to successfully get these exams done first!

Here are some of the photos I gave to my teachers. (+ few extra)

PARTEEEEY.

Yesterday I had no lessons so i didn't have to go in to school. Buzzinga. So I just did some homework read some books and took Hendrix for a walk. Then at half 3 I went up to Lampeter to pick Carwen up from school as she was coming back to my house to get ready for Ruth's 18th birthday party. At around half 7 we were ready and so we left for the parteeeey. Although it was quiet at the beginning it soon picked up and everyone was having a good time dancing to clean off classics such as Steps - 5,6,7,8 (tuneee!) and Stacey's Mom. After dancing for most of the 5 hours we were there, at half 12 the DJ finished and it was time to go home. I had a lift home with Jodie and was cwtched up in my bed by half 1am. So all in all it was a good party, it had some drama and there was also some awkwardness (yes nicola fi'n siarad i ti "but she's not here!") but I had a really fun time.



Whats up dawgs.

The weekend was quite busy! 

On Saturday I attempted to complete as much homework as possible as I'm going on holidays Monday afternoon (today). I've finished most of my history coursework and did my geography and history homework. Whilst on holidays I plan on doing as much english coursework as possible as I'm missing almost a week of school. Thankfully however I'm not missing that many lessons as I usually only have a maximum of 4 lessons a day but this week we have the school Eisteddfod so there won't be any lessons on Tuesday afternoon or all day Wednesday. 

Whilst doing my homework on Saturday I had the BBC Sport website open as I was listening/watching the start of the Rugby Six Nations. First up was France V Italy and then latter on in the day Scotland faced England at Murrayfield. What a boooooring match the latter was. Neither team was able to impress, knocking on the ball when ever they had a chance at scoring. 

Sunday however was a different game. In the morning Carwen and I drove down to Llanelli to Parc Y Scarlets the home of Scarlets rugby for our weekly Llanelli rugby training (there are pictures to come but I'm not home at the moment so am unable to upload them). We raced home (within the speed limits of course) and arrived in the door just before the national anthems of both Wales and Ireland blasted out Lands down road (now Aviva Stadium) in Dublin.  The game was incredible with the score seesawing every minute and it came down to a penalty kick from Halfpenny. I was shaking. Shaking I tells ya'! The adrenaline was coursing through my body like electric. With 79 minutes on the clock Halfpenny (now an official Welsh hero!) booted the ball through the centre of the posts awarding Wales with a perfect start to the 2012 six nations! 

(Sorry if I've gone on a bit about the rugby, but if you were Welsh you'd understand!) 

 Picture of a scrum (I'm in the front on the left in the red jersey) from a cup match with Scarlets in Litchfield

 Source - Daily Mail

 Above pictures from Wales Online 

Lights, Camera, action . . .

Yoooooo (:

So I'm back in school and my exams begin on thursday! Arghhhh! It's an English literature poetry and drama exam - 2 and a half hours of it! I'm actually looking forward to it in a way because as soon as I'm finished with my exams I can relax and I'm going on holiday!

Last week on friday morning I went up to town in order to do some filming for a welsh childrens news programme called Ffeil. I also did some filming with them at the beginning of the year because my friend - Carwen- is a platinum ambassador for sport in Ceredigion and they were interviewing her about the 2012 olympics.

Here are some pics {which i took off of of my TV} of the last time I was filmed for Ffeil with Carwen.