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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!