Choir

For one of our CAS components, we needed to be creative. And for this, Hazel our form tutor had the brilliant idea (much to our horror) of making us go to the college choir for 3 weeks. Yay. :/ The songs we had to sing were called 'Gaudete', 'The Holly and the Ivy' and 'Away in a Manger'.


Gaudete just means 'rejoice' in Latin and is a Christmas carol sung completely in Latin.

 The version of 'The Holly and the Ivy' that we sung was the American version so the whole tune was different to the more traditional British version.

The version of 'Away in a Manger' was the traditional one so we had no difficulty in learning the words.
After the three weeks of choir, there was going to be a concert at the St Mark's church in Marple somewhere. But unfortunately I was unable to attend due to other commitments :/


Oh wells at least I have done something creative :)


Til next time :)

London 20-10

Hello fellow readers, how is all?

I hope you all are well and alive :) (obviously... *shifty eyes*). Well, it's been a while since I last blogged and not much has really happened in that time EXCEPT... I WENT TO LONDON TO not buy a HEAT magazine O:) (in no means is this endorsing HEAT magazine)

Swiftly moving on...

We all had to meet at the station for 8.15 in.the.morning on the 23rd of November and it was well too early for my liking... And with the train being delayed we didn't reach Euston Station til about half 11. The journey there was pretty fun and lively :P  We went to the hotel to drop off our stuff get into groups and then get THE TUBE to Covent Gardens. In our groups we had to 'explore' Covent Gardens and make a group project about our visit there. In my group there was me, Erika, Catherine, Rick and Spanish Dave; we went first to the old veggie market to have a spot of lunch. Me and Erika decided to have a pie from an appropriately named shop called...

     Excellently named :D

Meanwhile Catherine, Rick and Spanish Dave decided to have a bit of paella from some HUGE paella pan!

It was literally huge.

After our 'lunch-on-the-go' we went to wander around the Jubilee Market Hall. Afterwards when we went outside there was a street performer and we stayed to watched for a while. In one part of his act he had Erika, Rick and Spanish Dave along with a few other people lie on a strip of carpet whilst he walked over them on his hands. It was rather impressive i have to admit.

After this display we went down near where to theatres were and we visited a sweet shop that I had previously been to.

And whilst we were there I decided that I would buy one HUGE gobstopper... I must admit it was on impulse and probably one of the most pointless purchases I have ever made. But all I am going to say is.. IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH IT! X'D

  

Later after meeting up with everybody else from college we walked over to Waterloo where the London Eye was located. When we got there, the area around the Eye was all Christmassy and full or festivities. There was a small Christmas market type thing and it was selling all sorts of stuff. So we had about an hour to wander around the stalls before we regrouped and were told that the teachers were paying for us to go on the merry-go-round. This news resulted in mixed reactions as many of us would rather not be seen on one :'). In the end everyone went on whilst the teachers were taking photos and I must say that I did enjoy the ride. :P After this unexpected and rather hilarious fairground ride we carried on to the London Eye where we queued to get into one of the pods that would take us round. The ride was highly enjoyable even though a few people were afraid of heights :/ I applaud you guys :)

But.. The highlight of the night had to be going to the IMAX to see... Drumroll... HARRY POTTER 7 pt1!! Haha the screen was aboslutely HUUUUGE and the sound was really loud o.O The film was OK in my opinion.. It wasn't really bad nor was it excellent.

After the film we walked to a restaurant called Giraffe where we had our evening meal. The restaurant was pretty cool and the stirring sticks they had were in the shape of a giraffe! Very unique :D

Day 2


The night before we were split into two groups: one group was going to a global warming conference and the other was going to the various musuems dotted around London. I was in the group that was going to the conference. When we arrived we were not expecting the conference to be held in a cinema theatre. It really caught me off guard. Once the conference had began, I and also the others and Dave our supervision realised that this was seriously not what we had expected at all. All that was happening was that people of different specialities in the field of environmental science were giving presentations on various problems with the envirinment. It was, in my opinion, rather boring so after the short break we were given, we did not return to the conference. Instead we wandered over to South Kensington where the Natural History Museum was located. 

We wandered for a while before ultimately going over to the rocks and minerals gallery in the earth section. (as you do :3 *rock nerd alert*) After we went back to hotel, grabbed our bags and left for Euston Station so we could migrate our way northwards again.


Overall I thought the trip was very enjoyable and a good weekend out :) (Y)

Til the next time :)

Initial Thoughts...

Well, we had our first ever CAS session since starting at CAMSFC and it was pretty alright... Sonya (our CAS coordinator) talked, we listened... And whilst we listened we found out that for our first project we will be buying buckets for the Oxfam Unwrapped Campaign. Yes, buckets. £8 for 3 buckets to send to a third world country. I really must admit I was feeling a little ambivalent to this news as it came as a suprise that it costed £8 to buy, send and donate the buckets. Oh wells... At least it gives you that warm fuzzy feeling that you get when you know you've helped someone without really doing anything. :) After the buckets, discussed how we could raise a single £8 and multiple £8s by the end of September with a rather cool idea of having a 'uniform' day where we come to college in uniform instead of the traditional 'non-uniform'. This I found rather interesting as it was a really unique twist to a day that we all longed for in our lower school years. Ahh well it would be quite amusing to see the whole college dressed in their old uniforms :) (if they still have it that is! and if they can still fit into it :P)

Anyways, I hope my first proper post has entertained you... Or maybe not...

Til the next time :)

Fail Post :')

First things first... I have never blogged before... Never in my life haha this is along with many thing in my life that I have never done before :)


Just a few bits and bobs about myself will suffice for a first post :P


Errrrrrrmmm...


- My name is Marjorie Tang
- I am female and I study the IB Diploma (International Baccalaureate) at Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College Marple campus. 
- I do english, maths, physics, ESS (environmental systems and societies), theatre, Spanish and TOK (theory of knowledge) for IB and also AS Geology
- I like ice skating, reading mangas and watching animes
- I am quite open minded and willing to learn


Anything else..?


Probably not.


I shall leave now, til the next time :)