Everybody needs somebody...

I was gonna name this post after another great Blues Brothers song, Soul Man, before I realised that I'd named another one after it a few months ago... But I had a hunch that I'd done that, so well done Max.

So... stuff on my mind:

• the ludicrous amount of work for a pathetic time in one's academic life. The supposedly dossy time between AS and A2 where for some reason all my teachers have set me massive tasks of some kind. And cos of World Challenge and Berlin, I have less time than others to complete said tasks. Grrr...
• responsibility - having to organise MILLIONS of events for the summer term with which the prefects have to help. Half of them I'm not even here for, but I still have to make sure it gets done. I will delegate, but generally I don't like doing that, cos I'm a bit of a control freak and wanna make sure everything gets done... And it's not just Head Boy stuff, it's Drum Major stuff too, although not so much. Corps on Tuesday was good, I have to admit. The corps was incredible, I asked them to do some really good drill for a while and they did, so I'm confident that they can shine in shows to come. Then we mucked about, but I still had to make sure that it was all under control. I realised that I needed a break lol. I don't like all the responsibility. I mean, I do, but I'm getting a bit tired of it at this point in the year...
• World Challenge stuff - OK, so I'm lucky in the fact that I have both visas and some people don't, but I don't have all the kit yet (it is being sorted out), and my mum gets on to me about it.
• I miss Raz. Simple as that. I won't bore you with the details, cos, let's face it, no one really wants to hear about that, but she's gone to Glastonbury and I'll see her briefly between Glastonbury/Berlin and World Challenge, but after that it'll be a month without her. And I'm missing her already when I saw her a few days ago. I'm not sure why, but it's just the thought of her being at a music festival and I feel kinda protective I guess. But yeah, she'll come back soon, having really enjoyed it, which is good :-)

I think that's it from me... If I think of any more I'll let you know. Oh by the way, the concert's tomorrow night. Come to it. Blues Brothers is awesome.

Love you all. Sleep now (I'm so tired!)

I forgot to give this a name...

Look at this, S S-B. ANOTHER post. Ooh lucky you out there in intinet-land. And yes, I meant to spell it intinet.

We had a corps show today. The mahoosivest one ever. Braintree Carnival. Over a mile of marching, stoppy-starty style, much like Moulsham Street Lights, for those of you who know that event intimately. And it lasted two hours. We were playing for an hour/an hour and a half of that time. Most of you probably don't have much experience of participating in/spectating Corps shows, but that is mahoosively long. Generally half an hour is our time. But I think it went pretty well. Well, from my point of view it did. But I stand at the front and can't see anyone else, so for all I know it could've gone horribly. But I have information from reliable sources that it went very well.


In other news... I have two exams left. C4 next Thursday and FP1 on the Monday afterwards. I've learnt most of FP1 now, which is good. So a bit of revision for both and I'm sorted. This has worked out nicely.

We're going to northern Vietnam as well as China for World Challenge now, which should be cool. So it worked out well. I'd rather go to China than Vietnam, but both is a bonus!

Portugal are winning 2-0 against Turkey.

I'm kinda feeling lazy at the moment. And I've been waking up really late recently (OK, not really late, but generally I can get up really early if my alarm goes off, but the past few days I've been sleeping for hours afterwards. Bad Max). Dunno what relevance that had...

I need to learn more Chinese... And also I need to read loadsa books in French and German and about Linguistics before I apply to uni. So, not much time...

Right, I may do some maths now, but I'll probably stay online as well. There are people I'd like to speak to tonight. 再见 (zàijiàn - goodbye)!