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I have finnaly returned to the internet! The reason why I first left was because of preperations for the mock trials, which seemed to pay off because we are through to the next round in the competition!!! So, because I haven't posted in about five years, I will tell you all about it!! (lucky you!)
We met up at school, slightly exited and apprehensive about the day ahead. Right from the start we presumed that this would be the first and the last stage of the competition for us, so anyone showing even the slightest glimmer of hope of winning was quickly jumped on and discouraged not to do so. We arrived and immediatley I encountered a problem, a very serious, potentially endagering dilema. There was no bins!! So I walked down the road in hope of finding one, only to find seven bins, no further that ten feet away from each other! How can you even need a bin every ten feet?? Anyhow, there were speeches, coffees and other stuff and then finnally our first team was doing thier case. Our first team, which I was not part of, was the prosecution. They were prosecuting Jack Johnson (who Chris has told me is a Canadian singer?? xD) who was there for a charge of contradicting the public order act 1986. Unfortunatley for our prosecution, the case was impossible to get a guilty verdict, unless they defence lawyer and the legal adviser didn't mention the law clear enough (which of course the defence, wanting a not guilty verdict, would do). But the prosecution won, in terms of points for performance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then onto the defence case! I was the first defence lawyer. We went into the room, and the oposing team were in school uniform.. Not a fantastic start! And we also won that one. I think I managed to win the hearts of the magistrates by thinking quickly and not being phased by a strict judge. One of the most remembered things from the court was actually the following:
Gurney: 'So can I just clarify, your drive is five meters long, there were net curtains redusing visablity, it was dark at the time of the incident, the fact you cannot give accurate or precise figures of the numbers throwing eggs, or the numbers there at the incident, the fact you were upset at the time of the incident, the fact it took place quickly..'
lead magistrate: with all due respect Mr Gurney you are making all these statements and not asking any questions..'
Gurney: do you disagree with what I have just said? (laughter)
The whole thing was great fun, I will be begining preparation for that soon and I am now seriously considering a career in this. The amount of people who believe I could get there has made me consider it more seriously. So, in order to aid with my endless note taking, court transcripts, essays, laws, and court notes I will be taking for my preparation in the trial and perhaps new career training ( XD ) I am learning shorthand. I can't begin to describe how uncool that is to be learning it.. but when I have that skill under my belt.. well, perhaps firstly I should get some belts, but when I get one, I think that Shorthand would be something I'd like to put under it..
So, trying to switch off from the really formal writing style that you have to get used to when you do all this law stuff.. SAM- STOP TALKING ABOUT FRICKING LAW ALREADY!! (sorry)
Ok, because as I said, I didn't post in ages, I did a random post not too long ago actually, and scince then there are only two things I have to answer:
Emma: What do I think of that song? Well I think at times that guy has freaky eyebrows.. I'll try and not get started on analysing it, as I am a real music boffin. But in terms of personal taste, it would be put in my 'ok..ish', pile. In the fact, I prefer slightly heavier more upbeat songs. Oh and by the way 'la voix' is french for 'the voice'. Just some random knowledge I have floating around in my head.
Chris: I love this question; if you could be born and raised into another race/ culture what would it be? I'm not sure to be perfectly honest. I think it would have to be europe, and although I'd love to say egyptian, I'm not too into the whole thing were not believing in god is a tabboo, and I'd love to say Japanese, but I'm not skilled in any way with computers and robots. So europe definatley. I would like to say germany, because I love how organised and logical, I'm a logical person, I can appreciate rules for their merit, but some English rules are STUPID! Like in Germany, they have no school uniform and can go out at lunchtime.. I know this applies to most contries, but there are loads of cool german things. But I am not a very.. 'german' person, there are definatley german type people (I have just decided.) I might consider france for a second, but Im not THAT arogant or into eating slugs. I like italy, but I likeah to sometimes a rest and not witha alla zeeah arma waving and 'heyy MARIO!! LUIGI! BONJOURNO! CIAO!' I think after a while I;d be a bit worn out. I love the netherlands steretype, obviously not the drugs and prostitution, but the chilledness (is that a word? yeah, fat chance I have of being a lawye... SAM- NO! STOP THERE DON'T EVEN MENTION THAT WORD AGAIN, YOU'RE MAKING THIER EYES BLEED! ONE MORE WORD AND ITS A CONTRADICTION TO THE.. urm.. thing) So, it would probably be the netherlands, I know about ten people from there and they are all amazing really cool, chilled people. But, if I could choose anywhere, without excluding where we do come from, I would choose England. Everytime, no question. Yeah, sometimes it stinks like a cow's excretion, but ultimatley we are a giving, kind nation. And despite what people think, we don't all wear monicals, drink afternoon tea with scones whilst having conversations like 'how do you do? glorious weather, is it not?' although most people working in the arena of law seem to!! (apart from me)
My question was, how did we get into this internet community? Which I would also have to say, youtube! Yep.
My question is, as I can only think of sucky ones, will be 'what is the stupidest thing you've seen in the past week, in real life, the news, anywhere, just the stupidest thing. I'll tell you this weeks and then I'll tell you again next week. This week, was a lift which started on level 3 (it couldn't go down any further at all), then went to 4, 5 and then n entire level up from five called: 5a?? what the hell!! Would it reallt harm them to use the number 6 at least??
c'est tout! au revoir!!!!!!! BYEEE! CIAO!

Someday I'll actually go to all of my classes

I've become extremely bad at attending my classes, to the point where I don't think I've gone to my Electricity and Magnetism class for about a month. In my defense my professor really sucks and posts all of the lecture notes online anyway. This past week has been fairly tame, which I quite enjoyed. I actually had a few nights where I could relax and not worry about scrambling to finish something. I've also fallen into this bad habit of staying up late working on school stuff, and then going to school tired, coming home passing out for a couple hours and doing it all over again. But even when I try I end up having a horrible sleep schedule since I'm bound to have some assignment that I have to do at the last minute and therefore will stay up late just because of that. So as much as I would like a normal sleep schedule it's not really practical anyway.

I'm really not even sure what to write about at this point... I sold my old MacBook to a friend, in fact I was surprised I had three people want to buy it from me within hours of me mentioning that I got a new MBP. I'm still awaiting the InvisibleSHIELD that I ordered from for it. It has shipped so hopefully it will be here by the end of the week.

On to questions for lack of better things to write about.

My own: I think I would agree with Emma in that I would likely read a lot more. I also think I would end up having a hand written journal since and online one wouldn't be possible. I'm really not sure what kind of a person I would be without the internet. Heck I might still be in the closet, just because the internet was what inspired me to come out to people to begin with. So I think I would be the same person, however I would likely not nearly be as open and comfortable with myself.

Sam: I would have to agree that YouTube was probably the main thing that catapulted me into the numerous social networking sites that I'm involved with. I mean I was on Facebook since it's early days, but largely I find FB constricting, in that for the most part the people you interact with on FB you already know in some capacity. YT definitely open a whole different world and allowed me to explore many different people and cultures.

Emma: The chick really should not sing english lol, her accent ruins it, the french is better though. The other song is nice, but not really my preference for music.

My question: If you could be re-born and raised in another culture and/or ethnicity what would it be? Your not allowed to pick the one your already in.

I am the mess you chose!

The last week has mainly consisted of schoolwork and gym classes for me. This week however will be a little different. My whole family leaves town between Wednesday and Sunday so I’ll be here alone. During this time I’ll be moving to my sister’s apartment to take care of their cats. It’ll be interesting to see how I’ll manage on my own :)

So this past weekend Sweden choose the song we’re gonna send to Eurovision Song Contest, it’s a big contest with most of the countries in Europe participating. Apparently we’ll be sending a mix between pop and opera called “La Voix”.





Time to answer some questions.
When I feel ill I either stay in bed all day or at the most I’ll move in to the living room, spending all day in the sofa watching TV.

Chris wanted to know what we would do in our spare time if internet didn’t exist and also if we thought we’d be the same persons if it didn’t exist.
If internet didn’t exist I would probably read a lot more books, spend more time doing homework and get more sleep. And I would most likely be a totally different person if internet didn’t exist because I’ve gotten to know a lot of people that I never would have if internet didn’t exist and I think that and other things I’ve learnt has made me the person I am today.

Sam wanted to know how we entered this internet community and for me it all started with youtube. I watched different people and then I started to know them better through stickam, blogtv, twitter etc. So I have Youtube to thank for getting to know all the people I know now even if it wasn’t on youtube I meet them.

I don’t have a question for this week so instead I want you to watch/listen to this song and tell me what you think of it.