Welcome to the newly-updated post. I’m home now, so I can actually blog instead of trying to type on the tiny screen of my Nokia! I just have to say how INCREDIBLE the week was. I mean, I was expecting grey skies and drizzly boring dull everything, but I was SO wrong!

The weather was absolutely stunning. All week we had clear blue skies and sunshine. Granted, it was a little windy at times, but we were on a headland in the Atlantic Ocean, what can you do?

We didn’t do loads on Monday. We got the classes sorted out and got used to the place. It was fish and chips for tea. The chips were amazing, the fish wasn’t! We went back upstairs afterwards and did a bit of note taking about Ecology, and then we went back to our room. I was sharing with Taz and Meg, which was cool.

On Tuesday we had such a good breakfast, as we did every day of the week. I had a couple of bowls of cereal (Rice Krispies or Coco Pops!), then toast and sausages! It was great. We went for a lecture about tides and what species you find in different sections of the Rocky Shore ecosystem (something I’m sure you’re all so interested in!). Meg felt really crap and this point, which was a shame, so she spoke to the teachers and sat out of the practical we did after lunch. We went over to one of the beaches and did some field work looking at the species variation up the shore. It was cool learning about them all, although I know now that I’m going to be annoying for everyone when I start telling them the names of all the different seaweeds and stuff!

We drew a massive graph then showing the locations of the species, on A1 paper! LOL. Dinner was Curry, which was better than the fish!

We went up to the room again to wait for Meg to get back with the teacher from A&E. She’d had really bad chest pain so they thought it would be best to get her checked. I managed to read my book in about half the week waiting around. I was reading ‘The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner’, from the Twilight saga. It’s like a little back-story about a character that we meet in Eclipse. It was a really good story.

On Wednesday, Meg called to be picked up cos she felt so rubbish. I felt bad that she wasn’t sticking with it but I understand that she felt really shit. And it was better that she was at home and not stressing out really. We went to a lecture in the morning about a few investigations we’d be doing, including rummaging around in the rocks on the beach for little creepy sand hoppers!

We did another experiment with measuring Periwinkles too. It was ok.

Since Meg had gone home, Taz and I didn’t feel bad going out with the other guys. We walked down to the little village and had a photo shoot session around there and up on the jetty next to the beach. It was really a lot of fun. The sunset was really gorgeous.

The next day we had a whole day trip to the Salt Marsh. We walked apparently 3 miles there, but it was a lot more than that really. We had lunch and then got on with a couple of practicals, and then the boys decided to have mud wrestles in the muddy trenches, which wasn’t too good. They looked like proper animals!

We headed back and got ready after dinner for crabbing! It was so fun. Emily and I shared a line since she had never crabbed before, and we caught loads! Everyone was having a good time, and when we released them it was so funny. They kept going away from the water and hiding under people’s feet as if they were rocks! I had to get down on my hands and knees and throw them into the water.

Friday was a good day also. We went for a drive down to the main headland and had a walk around a nature reserve. We saw loads of cool birds, like diving gannets! It was brilliant. We walked back to the coach and headed home in time to start the Investigative Skills Assessment work. Which was not fun. We had a to a counting Limpets practical and then analyse the data using statistical formulae that are different to the ones we use in Statistics at school which in confusing. But I think I did ok.

I packed all my stuff on Friday night before dinner so I was ready to get picked up on Saturday morning. Mum and Dad had driven up by lunch time and were staying the night to take me home earlier than everyone else on Saturday for the Green Day gig at Wembley! I was so excited!

We left after breakfast on Saturday for home and then we’d head off to Wembley. I will write a post about that because it was such an incredible night. The perfect end to such a great week. In the mean time, read this.