Friday, 27 April 2012

Acid accidents are really the best...

Hok, long time no talk huh? Well no not really but I have been meaning to write again for a while. Been a bit of a busy week, I'm afraid. Had my Leaving Cert French oral on Monday. Tout s'est bien passé, grâce à Dieu. But I don't really want to talk about that.

So school's starting to wind up. Forever, I suppose. Can't say I'm too sorry about that, but I will miss certain things. I like the atmosphere at school, being around people you've known forever. It's comforting, I guess. But then again, I really truly cannot wait for college. You know all those crazy stories about college and dorms and all that? I fully intend to do all of that. I think the idea of Uni is made even more appealing by what I'm currently comparing it to though. But I genuinely will miss my old school. In particular my friends. We're all heading separate ways next September, so these few weeks will have to count. Few obstacles though. Couple of practicals. Moving out. The Leaving Cert. Nothing too bad. Hmm yeah.

So anyway, want to hear my news? Bit of an accident. An acid accident to be precise. Aren't they the best kind? So yes. Bitta sulfuric acid. Melted jumper. Long story short it was definitely the most interesting Chemistry class since we made aluminium oxide explode. Great craic altogether. But really. Quite painful for a while there, but definitely educational. The amount of lotions and potions I got to put on. Was really very fun. 

I'd like to introduce any of ye interested to my favourite youtuber too actually. Literally cannot get enough of her humour. She's very cool. Here's one of her latest videos, and definitely one of my favourites. Extremely valid advice right here, trust me.


That made me laugh a lot, so I thought I'd share it. I'm also a big fan of charlieissocoollike so look him up if you ever have a spare moment. Not that I'd be at all surprised if you'd already watched both of their stuff, they're quite famous, but I'd definitely recommend them if you haven't. 

Well. I'm not too sure what else I can ramble about. I'm going to go nurse my acid burns now, I always have the best Friday nights, it's true. Stay safe folks, hope ye're having a more eventful evening than me. I'll be back ^^
Rosie

Thursday, 19 April 2012

Now you get to know who I am....

Hello again ^^,
So this is going to be more of a proper blog. I hope. Not that I've a clue what a proper blog should consist of but for me it means rambling on some more. 
I figured I should probably introduce myself officially so here goes. Brace yourselves. My name's Rosie. But ye knew that. I'm Irish and currently in my final year of school. Big whoop, yes? Well no not really. For those of ye not familiar with the Irish education system, 6th year means Leaving Cert. And Leaving Cert is just no fun. Basically it's our equivalent of the big end of school exams which decide which college we get into and which course and, ultimately, our entire future. No pressure though. It's cool.
But I'm not going to turn this into a rant on the education system. Might, well probably, will do that later but I don't want to be scaring ye off too early. Because, fair warning, when I rant, I rant hard. But anyway.
I actually had an exam for my Leaving Cert today, my oral exam in Irish. Now I know that any Irish people out there are thinking what in the world was I doing setting up a blog on a Wednesday night, the day before my Irish oral. Well. I could pretend it's because I'm that dedicated to writing and really needed my thoughts (and bothers) to be heard. But I think I can trust you guys, so I'll tell you the truth. Procrastinating. What else?

Moving along though, what to tell you...
My favourite movie at the moment is The Notebook. Not very original, I'm aware. My favourite series literally changes from day to day but I'm pretty taken with The Big Bang Theory right now, fancy myself a bit of a nerd so I really do love the science jokes. Also been watching Hart of Dixie and a few other comedies, I'll probably keep you updated. Not like I have any study to do or anything. Music wise, it also varies a lot too. Linkin Park, The Script, Muse, John Mayer, Kasey Chambers- I really could go on all day. My favourite colour is blue, generally, not that it's at all relevant, but there you go.

I guess probably the biggest thing happening in my life these days is the whole end-of-school-start-of-university thing. Applications all sent in, open days attended, just have to do the exams now. Ideally, I'll go to my local-ish Uni to study Biomedical Sciences but the points are very high (Irish education system rears it's ugly head again) so I devised a plan B. Plan B involves moving to Scotland to study Marine Biology actually, which is a pretty scary concept for me. Scotland that is, not Marine Biology, From what I've gathered from my friend the television, moving away to Uni is pretty standard for most countries, but not so much in Ireland I think. Most people I know, especially the guys weirdly enough, tend to go to a Uni near home and live at home for the first year at least. Irish sons and their mammys, you know. But it's starting to seem like I'm going to be a long way from home. Bit frightening. But also quite exciting. I went to Scotland last week for a few days to see the Uni and the residence halls etc and I really liked it, apart from the whole one toilet between 12 people thing. So we'll see. Inseoidh an aimsir, mar a dearfá. I need to get all this Irish out of my head. French on Monday. Sigh.
Until next time, 
Rosie

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Hi I'm Rosie and I'm an alcoholic....

I'm just kidding. I'm not an alcoholic. Really. I promise. I was just completely unable to think of a an even vaguely appropriate or witty title for my first blog post. Great start, huh? 
So yes this is my first blog ever, so be nice. I'm not even really sure what I'm going to write about. I'm absolutely sure that I have nothing to particularly interest anyone out there, but maybe I'll end up making someone laugh or smile. Even if it's at me. I'll take what I can get. So yes, I started this blog because of a suggestion from someone, you know who you are, and it'll be a sort of experiment I guess. This person will probably be my only reader for at least a while, so I guess I should say hi there.
 Sigh. This isn't going so well. Who knew you could babble in type? This is around the time in a conversation where one of my friends would stop me and seeing as I don't have that very helpful assistance online, I'm going to wind it up. Just one small thing. Is it ironic that the blogging site spellcheck doesn't believe me that blog is a word? Huh.
Until next time. There probably will be a next time. I haven't even really introduced myself yet.
Rosie