Flip flops, sunglasses, phone, nail varnish. Perfect summer day. Even though it's not even spring yet.

& this is the second ever 365 that I have not included myself in. It was getting too irritating. The first 365 photo that I didn't put my self in was day 2/365, so that seems quite a while back.

Thursday:

No school today! It's field trip day today, and Upper Sixth don't have to do anything except stay at home & study.

My Dad brought my breakfast in bed (a piece of toast & a cup of tea) and told me to get up & start studying. Instead I read Empire (brilliant magazine; check it out sometime) & then fell asleep again.

I finally got up at 11am, at which point I spent ages putting off work. When I finally started my theatre essay I got stuck. It's practically finished - I just need to refine it a little, but I wasn't sure which bits to take out. I went upstairs & found my mom had left me a big box of her makeup that she no longer wanted. Most of it had hardly been used. I felt kinda sad having to through out products by Dior of YSL, but they had been used & were kinda gross so they had to go. Anyway, I spent so long distracted by this that when my Dad came home & announced it was time to go to my Spanish tutoring I had to get dressed in only 10 minutes.

Spanish was successful (but hard). I now know the imperfect & preterite tenses, & the imperfect irregular verb endings. Yay! &

In the evening there was a drinks party at our house for some international educational agents. They tour around schools & then recommend the best schools to international students. We're always the best out of the schools in the wider area. One group for Ukraine sends 10 students a year, & before we entered the market they'd been sent to different schools. Now they're all sent to us. A couple of schools got a little angry about that. I chatted to a few, & then I had to head over to the Arts Centre for the final night of Hamlet. Alice & Loran were there too, & it was the night I actually got to sit in the audience & watch it.

They've had 6 and a half months to rehearse (usually school productions only get 2 and a half) so I didn't expect them to be bad, but it wasn't brilliant. The main actor, Josh, is outstanding, & really will do well in the theatre world, but the others . . . were okay. People who don't really study theatre would think it was good, but when I was talking to Konstantin (who is also very interested in theatre) he said a lot of stuff unprompted that I'd said the night before.

One fun bit from last night caused us to get told off by my English teacher. I was sitting with my English teacher on one side of me, & on the other was Alice. I didn't want to lean into my teacher, so I put my arm over Alice's shoulder, and then started squidging Loran's shoulder on the other side of Alice, just for the hell of it. Then Loran put her arm over Alice so it was lying across my shoulder. Then she started stroking her hand across my chest, getting closer & closer to my cleavage. We were just doing this as a joke, you know, messing around, so I batted her hand away. She then started patting her hand across my neck and all over my face, because she couldn't actually see me, & it was so funny I couldn't stop laughing. Because I wasn't supposed to laugh this made it all the more funny, I tried to disguise the laugh as a cough, but this made Alice & Loran laugh, & we were soon giggling really loudly. It doesn't sound funny, & is more one of those "you had to be there" kinda moments, but I wanted to remember it.

& then I came home & slept. No homework done. Just can't face it. Far too tired.


67/365

After years of testing dozens of different products, this is what currently works for me.

1. Aveda Botanical Kinetics Exfoliant

2. Dermalogica Special Cleansing Gel

3. Lush Enzymion (facial moisturizer)

4. The Body Shop Pink Grapefruit Shower Gel

5. Bed Head Self Absorbed Shampoo

6. It's A 10 Miracle Hair Mask

7. Lush R&B (hair softener)

8. Refresh Liquigel (not for hair and skin, but so recommended for eyes)

9. Bare Minerals foundation

10. Mac Eye Powder

11. Lancome mascara