20 songs

Today I thought I'd show you what music I like to listen to, I have a very wide variety but its mostly country. I think music can say a lot about people and its a big part of who we are. On Spotify, I have made a playlist of 107 songs, don't worry I wont tell you them all but I am going to shuffle them and tell you 20 of the songs. My main rule - NO SKIPPING. Since I cant skip, some of these songs could be quite embarrassing but I'm going to take the chance anyway, if any of you want to do this then feel free to write your own post doing the same thing and leave a link to it in the comments.

1. People Like us - Kelly Clarkson

2. Come as You Are - Nirvana

3. What I Like about You - 5 Seconds of Summer

4. That Makes Me - Chris Young

5. I Miss You - blink-182

6. American Idiot - Green Day

7. End Up Here - 5 Seconds of Summer (my favourite right now)

8. You - Chris Young

9. Point at You - Justin Moore

10. The Fault in Our Stars - Troye Sivan

11. Beside You - 5 Seconds of Summer

12. Metalingus - Alter Bridge

13. Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds

14. We're Gonna Find it Tonight - Chris Young

15. Rejects - 5 Seconds of Summer

16. Flashlight - Chris Young

17. A Beautiful Day - India.Arie (a great positive one for mornings!)

18. I Was Made for Lovin' You - Kiss

19. A Teenager in Love - Red Hot Chili Peppers

20. English Love Affair - 5 Seconds of Summer

 

 

Quote of the Day-

 

'Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.'

- Les Brown

 

Hannah. x

Summer

 

hello people!

 

today as I am sitting here watching the sun come out from the English morning gloom, I decided to write a post about summer. So it's now July, where in the world has the year gone?! Seriously, we're half way done. But anyway I thought I would do a bit of summer bucket listing and write about my plans for the summer and ideas I have.

 

In about a week I'm going to my friends birthday party, trust me it will be a lot more fun than it sounds and then I'm sleeping round with most of my friends we're planning to sleep on her trampoline under the stars - perfect right? I have my schools sports day in which I will lose every race, yet again. Sports day can either be the most horrible event for anyone and they just want to leave, or the most fun day where you can sit in the sun with your form. For me, its fun. My form is quite close-knit and more like a gigantic friendship group so spending the whole day wearing matching tie dye shirts with purple ribbons in our hair, cheering each other on is ideal.

 

We also have fundraising day coming up, each form will set up a stall and try and sell things which always go horribly wrong because we are so unorganised. But we have a band playing and all the odd teachers are there, and normally its sunny *fingers crossed*. We have a fashion show as well where we have to find our own model, this year its our English teacher, and we have a theme. Our theme is 'fairy-tale' which I am particularly excited about because it means we can make our teacher look like an idiot.

 

This summer I want to take a lot of pictures. But not just selfies on my phone, I want to take proper photos that other people take for you on a disposable camera. I'm planning on getting two throw away cameras for the entire summer, because I'll have no idea how they'll turn out. At the end of the summer I'll remember things again when I look back on them and maybe make a photo album or put them on my bedroom wall.

 

that is literally all I have to say and my plans SO FAR for summer.

So here is the quote of the day:

 

'Do what you can, with what you have, where you are' - Theodore Roosevelt



Hannah. x

OOTD

hello people.
I thought I'd do a bit of a fashion blog post today since my bogs been very lifey recently. And also I'm very nosey and like to see what people are wearing so I'm hoping you will too!

 

here is quite a girly look, in my opinion with lots of pink and purple.

 

my top is a tie halter top with a pink floral pattern from Forever 21

(around £7)

 

My skirt is a lilac skater skirt from Asos

(around £14)

 

My cardigan is a cream knitted one with fringing on the bottom and on the sleeves from H&M

(around £20)

 

And I'm wearing a plain black bandeau underneath it all from New Look

(around £3)

 

I added a key necklace that has the time on it (woo) from Claire's and I have my house key hanging on there too!

(around £7)

 

I wore my white high top converse just so its not all girly and I really liked the way this looked for when I'm feeling very daffodil-like haha.

Thank you for reading and if you like this sort of blog post then let me know by leaving I comment!

 

inspirational quote of the day:

 

'Before you start pointing fingers, make sure you hands are clean' - Bob Marley.

 

Hannah. x

School: Target Grades

hello people,
as you can tell I still haven't decided how to start my blog posts yet haha.

Anyway I decided to start a series of posts about school and what confuses me about school, last December. And yes, I am extremely lucky to be getting an education and a lot of people would love to be in my position. What im saying is, I like the idea of school just some rules about my particular school  are unneeded and can really effect how the students feel. These blog posts will essentially be to rant about school and get it out my system but hopefully you'll enjoy it too.

Well now that extremely long winded intro is done, on we go!
The other week at my school we were given yellow cards that listed what we have to aim for, for our GCSEs. I promise I'm not boasting when I say my friend and I both got As and A*s to aim for. You could be thinking that's great, because we can push ourselves and we must be smart. No.

Getting high target grades can make us feel like poop. Because we know we cant reach them and we can't imagine getting anywhere near them, I'll be honest, I am average academically. I'm not particularly smart or any more smart than the girl I sit next to in drama or the boy I see when I walk home. I can do and achieve as much as the next person. So every time I get a B in a test, I'll feel horrible, even when that's something I should be proud of. On the board, there is still a red colour next to my name because I haven't met my target grades, making me feel stupid.

And I'm not trying to get you to read this and thing 'aw'. There is the same thing going on in the opposite way. My friend got Cs and Ds as her targets, which made her feel equally as stupid. It makes her feel as if she cant achieve it and as if the school doesn't think she can reach it. And while she'll have a green colour next to her name when she gets a B on a test, she'll still have a sheet that lists what they think she's capable of.

Overall, I will not want to try because I don't think I can reach my targets, and she will not want to try either because she doesn't think the school thinks enough of her. I honestly don't think target grades should be given out, they make us feel like crap either way. I know, it gives us something to aim for and makes us happy if we exceed them. However, in my case, I cant exceed them because some of them are A*1.

We will try as hard as we can and work as hard as we can and achieve what we can, okay?

'everybody has talent. But if a fish is judged on how well it can climb a tree it will spend it's whole life thinking it's stupid' - anonymous

Hannah. x

New Beginnings: an update

Hello,

Merry Christmas, happy new year, Happy Valentines Day, Happy Easter!
There you go, did that make up for all the occasions I've missed on this blog?

First of all, sorry for just leaving and not writing for 4 months. I'm not entirely sure why I've waited until now, the night before I go back to school after the Easter holidays when I should be doing physics revision, to write a blog post. I just kind of sat down and thought 'I'm going to write a blog post'.

Anyway I've decided to update you on my year so far. At the beginning of the year I wrote a post about how I want to take more chances and say yes to more things. I'm very proud to say so far so good! My friend and I have decided to try something new and go to a new place every month.

So far, I've been to a big shopping centre that was so far away I would never normally want to go to, but I loved it. I went down to Brighton on the beach and got a lovely henna tattoo, had one of my favourite days. And I went to Creams, which is a dessert place with ice cream, waffles, pancakes and milkshakes.

Those may be everyday things for you but they were very new for me and I really enjoyed it. I also went to Thorpe Park recently which was also a reasonably long journey, I always thought I absolutely hated roller coasters but after going on rush, nemesis and colossus I realised that I loved them. Of course I didn't have the guts to go on saw or stealth but I came a long way considering the last time I went on one was at 7 years old and I cried.

I've also learned how to skateboard, and it was a lot harder than it looked! I simply picked up a £10 skateboard from my local sports store one day and began to teach my self. Yes I've fallen over quite a few times but I'm almost there.

All these things I've managed to do were things I never thought I would be able to achieve and I'm so happy I've managed to do it. I encourage everybody to say 'yes' to a new thing every month, even if it's just going to a new ice cream shop like me. If you do decide to try something new, I would love to know what it was and what it was like so please let me know in the comments. Or if you write a blog post on it, comment the link and I'll go read it.

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it.
Have a lovely week and I'll try to write soon.

Hannah x

New Beginnings

So it's officially 2014. Am I the only one that finds that absolutely terrifying? This year is meant to be quite important, and I have to make a very big decision of choosing my GCSE options and I am honestly considering playing MASH with the list.

In the past years, I never really thought much of a new year and thought it wasn't any big deal but this year I have found myself at a completely different view of it. Im very excited for a fresh start and a brand new three hundred and sixty five paged book to write in. My New Years resolution isn't the typical 'exercise more' or 'do more this and that' it's simply to have a good year.

I found 2013 a decent year, It wasn't the greatest but I did have some really good experiences. I would really like to say 'yes' to a lot more things and do more than just sleep, shop and eat. I got a bracelet for Christmas that says 'yes' on it (you can buy it here) which so far has been lovely and I've worn it every single day.

In the last year, I found my self saying no to a lot of things and not taking chances because I was too scared and didn't want to fail or be embarrassed. I found myself becoming anxious over things that weren't harmful and it was horrible. I hated it. But this year I really just want to have a brand new start and enjoy every emotion I have, because it could be the last one I feel.

Enjoy being embarrassed, it's one of the greatest emotions that can be felt.