A Painting in the Wild

This is a painting on a canvas I did earlier and I found my inspiration from the photo below.

This photo was taken a few days ago when it was snowing slightly, it is the view from my bedroom window and I hope you like my painting!

My Weekend

The Chinese New Year dragon!

Well...I couldn't call this weekend usual. It all started on a trip to Manchester to see the Chinese New Year Festival and what's to come isn't very normal at all.

I've been suffering from excruciating back pains for a few months, they start from the centre of my back and work out towards the bottom and sides. Yesterday (whilst in Manchester) my dad had work so we were seeing him off in his hotel room, it was when I tried to stand up the pain started again. But it wasn't the regular sort of pain I normally get in my back, this pain was unbearable and I couldn't move for one and a half hours! 

Eventually, my mum called the emergency services and next thing I knew a group of paramedics turned up and did a couple of tests (tested my blood pressure and temperature e.t.c) After, they gave me this gas and air, it was a mix of 50% oxygen and 50% nitrous oxide (also known as laughing gas) and was supposed to numb the pain in my back and make me feel slightly strange and sensational. The feeling was indescribable, it was if I was dreaming and the whole ambulance experience wasn't real. However, it didn't numb the pain completely and I can still feel it now as I am writing this.

When I got to the hospital the doctors carried out a couple of other tests, and weren't quite sure what had caused it. (I am also lack of vitamin d so it might have had something to do with that) But I am going to see a Paediatrician about it very shortly, and they will look further into it.

I have to say, this has been one of the best experiences of my life. And these things don't usually happen to me, so it was quite different. But the hospital and staff aren't at all what they seem like in Casualty or Doctors. What was your Sunday like?

Moving on

I am going to be starting year six very soon and I'm really excited!! So these are just some advantages and disadvantages in my school about being in year six.

ADVANTAGES

• THERE ARE FUN ACTIVITIES, SCHOOL TRIPS, EVENTS, E.T.C
  
• YOU HAVE A LOT MORE CHOICE THAN THE REST OF THE YEARS IN SCHOOL
• YOU ALSO GET TREATED MORE MATURELY
  

DISADVANTAGES

• TESTS AND SATs!!
• THERE IS A GREATER EXPECTATION OF YOU
  
• YOU ARE GIVEN HARDER WORK
  
• MOST OF THE PRESSURE IS ON YOU BECAUSE YOU ORGANISE A LOT OF THE THEME DAYS e.g ENTERPRISE DAY, YR 6 LEAVERS ASSEMBLY e.t.c
  

I hope to achieve good grades, an improved effort and standard, and just have fun!!

Philosophy

Philosophy is all about 'the truth'. This includes the faculty of wonder. For instance, it is like watching a magic trick. Because we cannot understand how it is done, we ask ourselves and try to think of a solution. This is when philosophy comes in through and arguing and thinking.

The Accused

This is a true event when I was wrongly accused, I have fictionalised it and changed the names of the ‘prosecution’.





I crept cautiously up to the head teacher’s office. My knuckles trembling as I knocked on the door.

“Come in!” boomed a vehement voice. I knew who it was, I couldn’t be mistaken; it was the head teacher.

“I have had a complaint about you being nasty to Jane, is this true?”
She always asks you this to make you feel guilty. At this point there were butterflies in my stomach. My palms grew sweaty and my heart beating rapidly.

“I haven’t done anything,” I managed to croak, chicken-heartedly.
Jane smirked at me and I tried not to react but really inside I was overwhelmed by anger and despair.

“You haven’t done anything?” cried the head teacher rhetorically. “If you do anything else I’ll have to speak to your parents.”

And with that she ordered us out of her office.