What am I going to do now?

After 14 years at a school where I have been bred for the IB that I did in the final 2 years I am finally finished. It's over. Done.
I can't even believe that the last 2 years of crazy horrible work finally came down to 3 weeks of exams and now that they are over I have no idea what I'm going to do. I have spent almost my entire life at school and now I'm free.
I don't know what to say...I'm speechless.

Pinocchio and the Spider

Now that I am on my way to the end of the dreaded IB as my last exam is on Tuesday morning, I have been thinking about things to do afterwards. On my list of a million things, my first and the one I'm most excited about is the play I am planning on starting called "Pinocchio and the Spider". I was walking through Vienna and I saw a really cute statue of a Pinocchio type boy sitting on a chair with a spider hanging from his nose. A friend of mine then turned to me and said "Hey, you know what would be a great name for a novel or a play or something? Pinocchio and the Spider". So I put it on my list to write a play called "Pinocchio and the Spider". Usually people start with a character or a story line or something similar but I like this title so much that I'm starting from it rather than from anything else. Whether I will actually carry out this goal or not is still questionable but I'm pretty sure I'll at least attempt it. As will be the case with all the other things on my list. Woot!

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Ellen Parr once said "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." which is exactly what led me, during one of my final Ecosystems classes ever, to build a statue made up of the entire contents of the pencil case belonging to the girl who sits next to me.

So I began with a foundation of pens of the same type lined up and equally spaced and then proceeded to systematically build up the statue in a sort of pyramid shape, using smaller and smaller pens as I reached the top. I then finished it off with a highlighter protruding from the top of the pyramid with a layer of small items (such as an eraser, a USB stick etc.) so that the highlighter would not fall over.
See what you can accomplish when you’re bored and curious.

What would you like? Studying with a side of "Chatch 22" please miss

When you've spent all day studying for a big whamo philosophy exam that is to take place in less than 24 hours, the perfect cure is a touch of Josef Heller. To go from pouring over Descartes' Meditations and delving into the infinite realms of meta-ethics the life and times of Yossarian and the boys seems a welcomed relief.

Now some would say that Catch 22 is not exactly a relaxing read what with all the names and descriptions of countless characters. However, I would say to these people that it has significant upsides to it when compared to the musings of Nietzsche.

I would also say that my head is about ready to explode or melt or something to that effect as there is no room left and I fear that the more I try to cram inside it, the more leaks out of my ears (a disgusting image I know but that is what it has come to).

I just know that my final goal is ROYAL HOLLOWAY!! and so I have decided that I can live with my brain ceasing to exist right in front of me as long as I can get there.

p.s. if you are one of the unfortunate people in the world who happen to be doing the IB. I feel your pain and I wish you the best of luck.

The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination.

Ward Elliot Hour once said "The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination." I love winter. It's the most beautiful season in my opinion. However, a few weeks ago, I took a walk with a good friend of mine as the snow first started to melt, marking the beginning of spring. I like the changing of the seasons. I even like the smell of spring. I suppose spring would be my second favorite season as it is still cool and of course you get the beautiful flowers starting to pop out of the ground and the trees start to get leaves and bloom again.

I love the calm that sets over and the silence you get during a mid morning stroll across the back fields of Austria. You can see various small field animals such as mice and hares running and jumping across the fields. You might even see some large pheasants wobbling around in the grass looking for bugs.

I also love the fact that there seem to benches spread across every walking path in Austria where people can sit and have a picnic or lie with their hair dangling off the side of the table. And of course one cannot forget the strange looking huts that are held up off the ground by large poles which seem to have no other use than to bear graffiti and the odd bird watcher.

Basically I just wanted to express the feeling of fresh winter-spring air and the smell of melting snow. The sun isn't too bad either. It's definitely a pretty picture.