Rockley Watersports

This is the venue where we stayed and where we did our sailing lessons. The instructors were all really nice and everything was relatively close (10 minutes walk to the beach where we sailed). We had to get up at 7:00 for breakfast at 7:30. Breakfast was simple; toast, fruit, and cereal. After breakfast we had an hour before we had to meet up with the teachers at 9:05. We spent that time watching toddler shows on TV, shopping at the SPAR or writing postcards. 

The Breakfast venue

Our Caravan

My caravan buddies - From L-R: Lizzy, Amelia, Ellie, Emilie, and Fiona

Our group was very lucky. We were one out of two girl groups that got to stay in a caravan. All of the other girls had to stay in a not so nice hostel. Our caravan was AMAZING!

The outside of our caravan

The living room, where Emilie and I slept on the couches. 

The eating area (which we never used to eat on, more like dump stuff on). The corridor going to the back lead to the 2 bedrooms and bathroom.

Amelia and Ellie's room with 2 single beds. Lizzy and Fiona shared a double bed. In this photo Amelia is trying to stuff her suitcase underneath her bed. 

Poole, England

On the 3rd of July, the Sunday after The Bye Bye Blue, Year 9 set off at 8:45 in the morning, in 3 school busses to Poole. Poole is a costal city in England, famous for its sailing. And that's what we were going to do. Have a week of sailing. The photo below is a view from the inside of the bus as we went into the Euro Tunnel, which is a tunnel that goes under the English Channel, connecting England to France. 

p.s. Happy first day of High School to me and Happy first day of Middle School to Ashlynn

Goodbye Middle School, Hello High School!

There were many hugs and goodbyes at the end of the Bye Bye Blue. It had been an amazing night and I will remember it my whole life. Thanks so much to Madame Chantal who organised the whole thing and to all the volunteers who helped out. 

 Goodbye Middle School, Hello High School!  

Squish Pics

From L-R: Me, Ellie, Hannah, Lizzy, Adelina, Emilie, Ziyoda, Nora, Amelia

Daddy was amazing. He took beautiful photos and everyone thought that he should become a professional photographer. Throughout the next week people told me to thank him and tell him that he was brilliant. 

He put the best photos together onto a video which you can see if you click here, and I put them onto a blog so that people could print them off if they wanted - www.byebyebluepics2011.blogspot.com. 

Lucky me, I had a sleepover with a friend so I didn't have to help stay and clear up. Mommy, Daddy, Ashlynn and Buddy were at the school till midnight packing up the backdrop!

Ashlynn and me

Ellie and me

9JN class photo

Bye. Bye. Blue! *Release Balloons!*

Another tradition that is repeated at each Bye Bye Blue is the letting go of 120 blue helium balloons at the same time. Each balloon had a small letter attached that someone had written near the beginning of the evening. 

Bye Bye Blue.... 

Group Photo

After many squish pics and lots of dancing we had the annual photo where Madame Chantal gets up on a ladder and takes a group shot. We were very lucky that the weather was good, not sure what we would've done if it had been raining...