Shoe Shopping

I always thought shopping for going out shoes was meant to be fun. Turns out, it is almost impossible when you are our age. Nearly all the shoes in the shops are completely flat, have very high heels/wedges that I can't walk in or have very pointy fronts that make the shoes hurt like crazy. After you have eliminated all of those ones, you don't have much left. Also, the sizes in some of the cheaper shops like New Look are very inconsistent. In some of their shoes, a six was tight on me but in others I was a five. In BHS, there was a pair of fives that fitted but in another style, a four was too big. I have never had this trouble before, but then I was always buying flat, casual pumps. In the end, I ended up with a nice (but very overpriced) pair of low wedge sandals from Clarks:

Someone needs to create a range of affordable, modern shoes designed for teens that are comfortable to wear, have low to medium heals and look good. If someone brought out a range like that it would make shopping trips like the one I had last weekend much easier. At the moment, though, shoes like that are very hard to find.

You Tube and You Tubers!

I love You Tube. It is entertaining and useful. I use it for two things: lyric videos and watching Dan Howell (On danisnotonfire). Dan and Phil are my favourite You Tubers. I love their videos, especially Dan's. Yes, ok, they are a little bit mad and awkward but that is what makes them funny. This is the link to his channel. Before you click on this link TURN THE VOLUME DOWN if there are parents in the near vicinity. On some devices, their channel trailer starts playing immediately and Phil says some interesting things to "get your attention"!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGjylN-4QCpn8XJ1uY-UOgA

My favourite of their most recent videos is probably the one where they do the blindfolded make up. I think I might try this on my next sleepover (although possibly minus the mascara and eyeliner!). Watch this next clip to see why boys don't do make up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0S_2C0llk0

Also, Dan and Phil are bringing out a book. I am going to buy one but it does not come out until October. Do you like Dan and Phil? Or do you watch different You Tubers? Tell me in the comments.

1000 page views.

Hello all. Last night, I reached 1000 page views! I am really excited as when I first started doing this I never thought I would have so many readers. Also, I never realised I would get people from so many different countries viewing my blog. I have now had people from the US, Ireland, Germany, France, Brazil, Canada, Spain, Finland and Indonesia as well as lots from the UK. Thank you to all of you for reading my posts and supporting me with this. Although I have plenty of views, I am still quite short on comments. I would like all of you who read this to write either what you think of the blog or what you would like to see posts about in the future.

1D Disaster

Everyone is making such a big deal out of Zane leaving. So 1D have become a group of 4, it's hardly important news. At least they are still around. I hate to think what would happen if they broke up. There would be girls crying for weeks all over the country. The ironic thing is that he left for a normal life and has got the most publicity he has ever had. It's hard to be a normal 22 year old when everyone is begging you to come back.

 
I'm not convinced that is the real reason for him leaving actually. Apparently, he has already started working on solo material, which is not what you do if you left because you needed a rest. Meanwhile, others are using it as a excuse for staying off work. Employers are annoyed because people are phoning in to say they are so upset they need time off work. They're adults! People need to grow up about this. What do you think of the latest 1D drama? Are you sad to see him go or are you glad there is one less of them!

Up For Uni

Up For Uni is Portsmouth University's way of getting young people interested in Uni. They have a website, a magazine and experience days. They also come to schools, particularly in year 6. I get their magazine and have recently been looking at their website. There are some really good articles on there, some directly Uni-related, some that are about a more general topic. Most of them are in the magazine though, but there are a few new ones. Here is the link:

http://upforuni.org.uk/

I'm not sure if I want to go to university or not. It sound like a lot of fun and if I want to be a designer I will need to go. However, there are other things I want to do where a degree is not compulsory and I am not sure if I like it enough to go if I don't have to. It delays your life for 3 years and I think I might want to start working sooner. However, if I do go, I quite like the idea of taking a gap year and maybe go travelling. What do you think of Uni? Do you want to go or are you more reluctant?

Georgia Is Amazing!

I love the Georgia Nicolson Books! They are a series by Louise Rennison about a teenage girl called Georgia. She is about 14 at the beginning of the series but there are 10 books in the series so she is a few years older by the end. They are soooo funny! Georgia has a little sister called Libby and a wild cat called Angus which are so hilarious they make me laugh out loud. Also, her and her ace gang are very badly behaved at school, usually using German lessons as make-up sessions. Outside of school  you find out about all her boy troubles. I still don't know whether she ends up with Robbie, Dave the Laugh or Masimo as I have not read the whole series yet. I would definitely recommend these books to any teenage girl. The film is good too, although it is not as funny.

In the book, she invents lots of her own words which her and her gang use throughout the series. Some of them are so good I use them myself. Here are some of my favourites:

Boy Entrancers - False Eyelashes
Blodge - Biology
Froggie - French
Geoggers - Geography
Nippy Noodles - It's cold!
Nuddy-pants - Naked
Nunga-nungas - Girl's Breasty business
Frogs'-legs-a-gogo land - France
Pizza-a-gogo land - Italy
Kiwi-a-gogo land - Newzealand
Hamburger-a-gogo land - America

And these need no explaination:-
creativitosity, casualosity,comfortnosity, maturosity, tragicosity,sadnosity and ballisticisimus          

What Is It With Boys?

They act like idiots, they talk another language and they are just generally pains in the backside. And yet we girls spend quite a bit of time trying to impress them. I think part of the problem is that boys develop slower, so they are 2 years less mature than us. They also have a different (often childish) sense of humour to us, particularly with each other. Their own language can be quite different to ours and they can't take our hints. I have made a boy to English dictionary in the hope it will clear these things up.

Boy Says: I'll see you around
Boy means: I want to see you, but don't want to tell you that yet so I am acting cool.

Boy Says: Your hair looks nice.
Boy means: Your hair looks amazing because I would have never noticed otherwise.

Boy Says: Yours is rubbish. I can paint way better than that.
Boy means: Yours is amazing but I don't want to say because my friends might realise that I like you.

My All Time Top Twenty

I have created a list of my favourite songs of all time. I am very interested in your opinion of this list so please comment!

1. A Team                                    Ed Sheeran
2. Lego House                             Ed Sheeran
3. Riptide                                     Vance Joy 
4. Tell The World                        Olly Murs
5. Wild Heart                               The Vamps
6. Teenage Dream                        Katy Perry
7. Last Night                                The Vamps
8. Sing                                          Ed Sheeran
9. Love Drunk                              Little Mix
10. Rather Be                               Clean Bandit
11. Counting Stars                       One Republic
12. Up Town Funk                       Mark Ronsen
13. Happy                                     Pharrell Williams
14.  Move                                     Little Mix
15. Classic                                    MKTO
16. We Are Who We Are             Little Mix
17. Who'd Have Known               Lilly Allen
18. Anywhere Else                       Olly Murs
19. Somewhere Only We Know   Lilly Allen
20. Burn                                        Ellie Goulding

Eclipse

We were supposed to see the eclipse at school today. We were all handed out glasses and lined up on the field. Every centimetre of sky was covered by thick, grey cloud. It did get a bit dark and cold, but apart from that, nothing. Very disappointing. The annoying thing was, 3 hours later there were no clouds and all you could see was a blue sky and bright sunshine. Apparently, some people went up in a plane so they could go above the clouds and see it properly. Until I am old enough to do that instead of going to school, I will have to satisfy myself with this type of eclipse:















Did you see the eclipse, or was it too cloudy for you too?

Big Bang!

Sorry if I don't write much tonight but there is a brilliant TV line up. At the moment, I am watching brand new 2 Broke Girls. However, what I am really excited about is the fact BIG BANG THEORY IS BACK ON! I love that programme, it is sooo funny. It hasn't been on for ages and I really miss it. After that, there is brand new Brooklyn 99, a slightly chaos show about police officers in America. All this is on E4 at the moment and plus 1 later.