Echo Park http://echo-park.net ... Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:29:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 But I Would Walk 500 Miles And I Would Walk 500 More http://echo-park.net/http:/echo-park.net/but-i-would-walk-500-miles-and-i-would-walk-500-more http://echo-park.net/http:/echo-park.net/but-i-would-walk-500-miles-and-i-would-walk-500-more#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:29:13 +0000 Beth http://echo-park.net/?p=224 It is officially summer for me now! I have finished all my exams and all I have to do now is go into school for the induction days and to get my results! I’m so excited.

Hopefully I wont get too much transition work so I can relax and enjoy the summer. My friends and I are having a picnic on Friday to celebrate the end of exams and a big sleepover sometime as well. I just want to fit as much as I can in this summer and have fun!

Last weekend, I did a big walk with the Scouts to raise money for the district. It was 25 miles and we had to carry all our equipment too. Nearly everyone dropped out at 20 miles because of stuff like cramp, dehydration and blisters. One guy had over 20 blisters on his feet! There was only 3 left, including me, that carried on.
The last 5 miles was the best I think. I really annoyed my Scout leader anyway! He told me to skip and so I did! ;-) He looked exhausted and he said he would never be able to break me! He he!
When I got home and looked in the mirror my face was like a tomato and you could tell where my watch had been on my wrist, I was that sun burnt! My feet all swelled up when I took my boots off and I could bend them very well. =(
I would so do it again though!

What are you doing in the summer holidays/to celebrate the end of school?

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I think I’m going to have this as a personal website now. I’ll post what I want I want, like my stories and photos ect.
I can’t keep up updating the site like I used to. :(

It was my last day of school on Friday 14 May 2010. Last day of compulsary schooling. :) Now I get to do lots of exams!

On Friday we had the school prom. It was amazing. My friends and I were going to get a limo but they cost over £200 which meant we would all have to pay something like £35 each which was way too expensive. Plus some people couldn’t make up their minds if they were going or not too! We ended up going in a people carrier! We got more time to get ready though, if you had a limo you had to drive around for an hour before they dropped you off at school. Some people came in an open top bus and a group of girls came in a tractor! They must of been freezing because we were cold in the car!

We had a professional photographer, a banquet hall and human statues! We were dancing near this one statues and then it moved and tapped my friends shoulder! It scared the hell out of us, then we realised they were human. =S

Near the end we went to the banquet hall and the woman who was looking after the food said “Take a handful, they’re not going to get eaten now.” So we all grabbed as much as we could and stuffed our handbags full of sweets. Mine was hard to shut anyway with my camera and phone in it! =S

I’ll leave you with the photos! :)

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]]> http://echo-park.net/http:/echo-park.net/clean-slate/feed 2 Your Live In 3, 2, 1… http://echo-park.net/http:/echo-park.net/your-live-in-3-2-1 http://echo-park.net/http:/echo-park.net/your-live-in-3-2-1#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:13:37 +0000 Beth http://echo-park.net/?p=63 Today my schools Jazz Band, which I play my flute in, was live on the county radio. It was really nerve racking because we’ve never been on the radio before, but we only had to play 1 minute of one song.
We played the new song which we’ve been practising called Cantaloupe Island.

We were on the radio to try and promote some of our concerts which are to raise money for our tour to Beijing in August!

We all set up, and tuned our instruments and then the woman walked in with one microphone! It was quite funny, but it made us sound flat. =( My Dad recorded it for my Mum and my Grandparents. Apparently the whole school was listening to it so when we went back to lessons everyone was like, “was that live?” “Your really good!” And stuff like that! It made me feel proud and reminded me why I play my flute in groups and concerts and stuff! =D
I still can’t get over the fact that I’m going to China and playing flute and we were just live on the radio.

We were supposed to play 1 minute of the song like I said but the presenter didn’t want us to stop so we played the whole 5 minute song! The presenter then couldn’t stop talking about how good we were afterwards which was funny. Plus people were still phoning in about our performance 10 minutes afterwards!

It was an amazing opportunity and that’s one more thing I can cross off my list of things I want to achieve!

Have you ever been on the radio? And what do you want to achieve in your life?

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I sat down in the design computer room and pressed the power button. Nothing. I pressed it again. Still nothing. So I move to another computer. Press the power button and the computer starts to wirr. I sit back and wait for it to load.

5 minutes later and the computer screen is still blank. Silly me, I hadn’t turned the screen on. Nope it wasn’t even connected to the computer! The screen lights up with the log on screen and I type in my username and password. I sat there for 15 minutes wondering why it wasn’t letting me log on, thinking I hadn’t got my username or password right. It wasn’t even connected to the school network!

So I moved to another computer and spent what was rest of the lesson which was now 20 minutes waiting for the seriously slow computer to turn on, log me on and open photoshop. Wait no, it can’t do that. It doesn’t have any software on!

It’s not like there were any signs to say the computers weren’t working. They are slower than a snail and have the oldest software known to man on there!
I cannot see computers taking over the world in the future. As least not the ones at our school! Half the staff can’t even work them! Ok not half the staff, but still! I had to tell one of the IT technicians how to fix one of the computers the other day!

Phew! Rant over. I just basically sat in the computer room for the whole lesson doing nothing!
As you can see I have the new layout which I have been working on! I’m not sure how I feel about it. What do you think?

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