Evening Activities

Each night we had an activity to do after sailing. 

Night 1: Water slide park & Buger King. The water slide park was really fun, but the food wasn't so great. (****)

Night 2: Fishing & Fish and Chips. HATED the fishing. And after killing a bunch of fish, eating fish and chips didn't sound totally appetizing.  (*)

Night 3: Cinema & Pizza Hut. Didn't really like the film - Transformers 3 - but the pizza wasn't bad and I loved the all you can eat Ice Cream machine! (***)

Night 4: Bowling & All you Can Eat Buffet. Bowling was fun and the food that night was AMAZING. Buffet with foods from all around the world. Yum Yum Yum!(*****)

Night 5: Disco & Buffet! The food was pretty good, and who can not have fun at a disco? I did a karaoke with Kelly. We sang I Will Survive. Really fun!(*****)

At the bowling center

Bowling: From L-R: Fiona, Lizzy, Hannah, Stephen

Sailing the Picos

On Monday, we managed to get out of bed straight after the alarm went off, and by 9 o'clock we had met up with the rest of the group and walked down to the beach where we were put into groups, given life vests and assigned a type of boat. I went with Emilie. There were two different types of sail boats for the beginners: the Picos (small 2 people boats) and the wayfarers (4 people boats + an instructor) and on the first day we were on the Picos. 

The Pikos

Me at the tiller, Emilie manning the sails

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