Cranedale and the cool hat…

September 14th, 2008 | by Saf |

Hi,

I feel like I shud’ve blogged ages ago but I’m just lazy…

So anyway, went to The Cranedale Centre (right spelling of centre/er?) for a 3 day residential trip. T’was wet, cold, muddy and generally miserable weather but still loads of fun.

Monday
Got there at some stupid time in the morning. I was sleepy and hungry as usual. Got shown to our rooms and went straight to doing some freshwater ecosystem work. Don’t ask. I refused to partake in the dirty insect-y stuff and just watched from afar as everyone else did the work. Basically did more work for the rest of the day. Went to the bar to get some Coke (took us about 30 minutes to pluck up the courage to do this…). Supposed to go to sleep at 11 (I know! Waaaaay too early!) but thankfully I had the EEE laptop with me and got a weak wifi internet signal in bed so streamed the Federer v Murray match (thanks to brother sending me the link!)

Tuesday
Went on a walk which seemed like forever! A million miles or something. Was wet and cold. But it was hilarious simply because everyone fell over at some point or got stuck in the mud. Great stuff. Managed to get pictures of too many people stuck. I’m not a nice person. A woman came in with an owl! T’was very cool! Again, we were supposed to go to sleep at 11. Instead I was creeping across the courtyard to Hannah’s room at 11:30. Talking to Hannah and Co and then Biology teacher/my form tutor came in! Hannah pushed me into the wardrobe and I hid there for like 10 minutes whilst she told the girls what the arrangements were for the Wednesday! Hilarious. Then we were creeping around the courtyards to go round up some more guys. Faheem was dressed up as a girl. The other Fahim and Zara were singing. Both are REALLY good. Went to sleep at about 3 in morning.

Wednesday
Woke up after hardly any sleep. Went to Bridlington beach thingy and sorta messed around learnt cool biology stuff… :)
Got into coach to come home ( we got double seats!) whilst Humaira spazzily waved and said ‘Hello’ to people on the motorway…

Got some clips of Rafa singing and falling over which I’ll upload tomorrow along with some pics.

T’is been a very abridged version of the Cranedale trip but I’m tired and sleepy so I don’t care. :P Lol.

Au Revoir :)

  1. One Response to “Cranedale and the cool hat…”

  2. By Frank on Sep 15, 2008 | Reply

    Abridged is right: apparently we recall all the wrong stuff :/ Dr Millar said today ‘Were you all on drugs whilst you were there? Does anybody remember the science part at all..?
    *Looks ashamed*. People falling and the cool hat are just so much more interesting!
    (Oh, and it took waaay longer to pluck up the courage for the bar. And for the record, we didn’t pluck up the courage…we just followed Nic, lol). :D

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