Busy Days, phew

My week started off slowly but has gotten far busier as it went by! Yesterday it was non-stop! So I’ll talk about that J

I had four codes in the morning in the castle and an early lunch which was great. Then I had English where we brought in our laptops and worked on reflective statements under 400 words about the culture and context of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

At 2:15 I had bee-keeping. We were harvesting the honey! Though bringing the honey to the Coffee Lounge to extract we had some pretty angry (understandably) bees and I got my first bee sting. It got stuck in my hair and freaked out and it stung me on the back of my neck, one of the teachers who helps with the activity quickly got the sting so it could have been a lot worse. I then helped in cutting the layer of wax of the top of the honeycomb (not sure if that’s the right word) and then we put it into an extractor machine which you simply spin around and it hits the sides and drips to the bottom – I wasn’t so great at the spinning machine. After that we got to scrape out the crystallised honey from the honeycomb that wasn’t going to be able to be extracted –so sweet! We'll eventually put all of the honey into tins and sell it to the students, all the money will go back into bee-keeping.

At 4 I went back to the house and straight to our house parents. Helping with open house! I worked with Konan and Sam who had an ambitious idea of making six pies. Four of which were apple-raspberry and two were banana custard. For the first hour we made the pastry – first time I’d done that too, peeled and chopped apples and bananas and finally stirred the raspberries on the stove to make them thick and gooey (mmm). We then went around other houses to find extra pie tins. After dinner we had to create all of the pastry tops and crusts, made the custard and put them in the oven. It somehow took way longer than expected and in total we probably worked on the pies for four hours. Phew. Boy, they were good though.

So after Open House I studied for two hours creating cue cards and talking with other in my class for our first History test. It was on Europe, Austria-Hungary and France from 1870-1913. I just finished it, and though I think I messed up slightly on the last question (as you do), it went quite well! So I actually didn’t get to bed until 12:30 last night- which is early for some of the second years but super late for poor ole me!

Next week is a Diploma Week where we have no classes and are doing workshops instead, it's part of the AC diploma . When I get my schedule I’ll explain what I’m doing- not 100% sure myself yet!

*Now to lunch, every Friday lunch is Fish and Chips... I've noticed I've spoken a lot about food in this post XD