Poison Ivy Sketch - Complete

I've finally been able to finish my Ivy drawing. This is the result. I had to edit the photo because the colours didn't come out bright enough. Let me introduce, Pin-up Poison Ivy.

Tribal/Aztec Nails

Spiderman nails

Nautical Nails

Seeing as summer is just round the corner and I've taken up rowing this year, I decided to go for an ocean-y theme for my nails. Hence the nautical nails:

End of era

There comes a point in life where you've got to say goodbye and move onto the next step. Tonight was the first night that this happened for me. It was the upper sixth boarders leavers' dinner. We had a pre-drinks session, a lovely 3 course meal, gifts and of course speeches. It was the speeches that did it for me. When you start to reminisce about a place where you've spent the last four years of your life, it does take its toll on you. When the speech givers said 'I'm going to miss you all', I love you' and that I felt my eyes well up and my throat start to tighten; I was literally choking back tears. This is the first night of these times, the evening of our Prom will be one of the saddest yet happiest times I think.

Here is some photos from this evening:

Three Worlds: Sea, Earth and Space

The other week I got a taxi from Bishops Stortford train station back to school after spending the day in Cambridge at Anglia Ruskin's open day. I thought it'd just be another regular journey where I tell the cab driver where I'm from and all that, but it wasn't. Before I had gotten in the taxi the driver had been revising for his diving exam. I asked him how long he had been diving and where he'd been to.
Then the conversation got quite philosophical. He started telling me how he thinks that there are three worlds; at first I thought he was a little mad but I heard him out. He explained that there's the underwater world, there's our world and then there's space. He said that as much as he'd love to go to space that really isn't possible so he likes going diving. He said that when he goes diving, it's like sleeping for 45 minutes as its as if he was dreaming.
Underwater is a different world; he likes the idea of just being able to get a glimpse of the underwater world as you can only really dive for 45 minutes to an hour. The underwater world is huge, if you were to explore it, it would be difficult to choose where to start. The world we live in has too many problems; granted it does have its beauty but the idea of being able to just get away for a while, go underwater and explore something so incredible and peaceful, is incredible.
I would love to go on a diving trip for a week or so and do some underwater photography shoots, capture the weird and wonderful.

I GOT IT!

I am very pleased to say that I've got a conditional offer from Anglia Ruskin University to do Film and Television Production starting in September. I need to get a minimum of 200 UCAS points. I honestly did not think that I would get an offer because of how badly I thought the interview went. Oh well, I've now just got to work hard to get those grades! There's still hope!