Ok, so it's a Filing Job...

What i'll remember about this summer:

Exams

End of School

Peter

Sunshine

Friends

Thai

Sea

Work

Work

Work

Work... man oh man.

Adolescence is hard to hold on to.

I miss the days when all I had to do was rely on my parents.

Nowadays one has to rely on themselves.

Got to get a job, got to make money, got to buy your own ticket.

In a lot of ways it's better; the independence, the feeling when you receive that first pay check.

In others ways it's just like...

'GOD DAMN,

WHY WON'T SOMEBODY ELSE JUST PAY FOR IT'

But right now, I'm feeling gooood!!!!!

I have just secured a job from September to December!

Ok, so it's a filing job..

Ok, so i'll be bored out of my mind for 4 months..

But fuck, I am going travelling for 6 months next year!!!!

Travel date: 26th of December.

aAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaH!

You need to meet the travelling ladies,

some of which you might recognise already..

Daisy

Katie

Tiffany

& Jess

India

Thailand

Vietnam

Laos

Cambodia

Malaysia

Indonesia

Australia

- some of the places we're throwing around right now.

December 2010 - July 2011

I think that'll be a summer I remember!

Party Dress And Heels

Hey gang

Before I begin, I must warn you, you are about to read the longest post on the planet!

(A lot can happen in a week)

I know I said in my last post that last weekend was my last weekend of fun... well... it didn't really turn out that way. This weekend was an absolute hoot!!! One of the best in fact. It's been half term this week, AKA just another week of hardcore revision for me and my fellow peers, although... any sort of revision was pretty much impossible due to the glorious weather, my sisters return from Uni and the simple fact that my house was covered in relatives aged from 4 to 43 = Hectic!

Friday

I couldn't bare being exiled to a room where I'd sit, staring hopelessly out of the window, watching my family play and laugh and swim and eat whilst I puzzled alone with epistemology

so

I gave up on the whole revising malarky and headed to St. Brelades beach where 4 friends and I ate lunch and played with a small, bouncy, green rubber ball that smelt like apples.

Can it get much better?

I travelled to my mother's house where my sister and her friends were stationed.

Mother took everybody on a tour around her 'farm'

which was where I snapped this snap

(of everybody looking rather inappropriately dressed

and out of place might I add)

hahaa I love it!

We ventured from the countryside, back to the seaside

where we all ate, conversed and drank

(no alcohol for me though - Sober Sally, remember)

That's my sister and I! She's the blonde and I'm the brunette,

incase you wondered.

A photo dedicated to some beautiful hair! (you've gotta love it)

Saturday

Sister's '21st family and friend's tea party'

Cupcakes were served

(can't stop the theme now)

and speeches were made

(I made everybody, including myself, cry)

It must have been the champagne?

Charlotte's 18th

Yes, another 18th and yes, another tea party and yes, more cupcakes.

It was lovely to see and catch up with all of the ladies again,

I feel as though this exam period has turned me into a social recluse.

Saturday Night

I went home, watched Britain's got Talent - THE FINAL (omgoodness so good)

had an Indian Takeaway with the family

And then when everybody had gone to bed,

I put back on my party dress and heels,

and drove into town

where I met my friends

and danced the night away.

hehehehe cliche but I don't care

Sunday

Great success! I snuck out and nobody had noticed!

Not even when I was woken at 9am with makeup smudged all over my face

and my party dress & heels thrown on the floor.

Good work.

My cousins were returning to London, so we went out to St. Ouens,

ate brunch and strolled along the beach to make ourselves feel better.

Below are some cute family snaps!

I shall miss my hectic household!

I have exactly one week before my exams commence.

I must must must revise HARD.

Wish me luck.

(and have a lovely week)

The vitals - if you want to know me a little better.

• My name used to be Cairen Beau (said like Keiron) until I changed it to India (because everybody calls me that, even my GCSE's and A LEVELS are under that name - dammit).
• My mum left my dad when I was 13.
• My dad committed suicide just after my 16th birthday.
• I have a sister, she's 21 and the greatest.
• I don't live with my mum, not because we don't get on, we really do, but because I don't like change. (I stay with her once a week)
• I live with my auntie and uncle. (They're in their 70's)
• My dad left behind my house, which is small and right by the sea. My sister and I live there together when she comes back from uni and I sometimes stay there on weekends with my friends. (it's a great escape)
• I tend to have long term relationships (I've had two) and I'm not very good at playing the field. (Although I think it's about time I did)
• I have a small obsession (okay, a LARGE obsession) with documenting things. Every event, since I can remember, I have snapped it up with a camera. (People refer to me as 'the girl with the camera' - maybe I should have called my blog that?)
• I am going to do English at Edinburgh University (but all I really want to do is photography)
• My favourite food in the entire world is cheese and I also adore ketchup (not together... though I bet that tastes good)
• I would call myself a perfectionist (note how I just lurrrve the bullet points)
• 3 of my best friends, i've had since I was 4.
• I plan to go travelling around the world next year (Thailand, China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, New Zealand... but that is a whole other post)

To be continued...