♩ Girls Just Wanna Have Fun – Miley Cyrus ♩

I’ve just written my first ever personal letter to someone! Isn’t that bad? It is to my ex as they got in touch with me the day before yesterday wanting to be “friends” and all that crap so I’ve had to write a letter to nip the whole thing in the bud cos I don’t want to be friends with someone I cannot trust and with someone who completely humiliated me. We had to unplug the phone as well… they just wouldn’t give up! But, I’m taking it as a first of many cos I like to receive hand-written letters and would like to start writing to my friends via hand-written letters with pretty lil drawings and everything. Woop!

Anyhow, a lil rant about sixth form. We leave sixth form for study leave for our A-level exams on May 22 (although I have 3 exams before that which I don’t understand). Therefore, we’re finishing our course content and we’re starting to revise. Unfortunately, my teachers seem to think that exam practice is the best way to revise. Okay, I admit that it is but it’s the kind of thing that I like to do near the time of the exams rather than now. To make things worse, they’re not setting us exact dates on when we’re having them so it is literally “Right, you have a MOCK in the next 2 weeks” which makes me go “Are you not going to tell us?” which is followed by an ironically evil “No”. They may as well cackle after that!!! So yeah, that is pretty annoying.

On to the news, which you have probably all guessed is an interest of mine! This whole swine-flu is kinda scary. At first I was just like… “HA! Swine-Flu! That has a funny name” but now it is starting to sound pretty darn serious with 176 people having died of it in Mexico and 5 people being confirmed with having it in England. *gulps* Apparently, by the end of this year 40% of the British population will have had it or will have it. Now, surely that isn’t good?! Anyhow, being a bit of a history geek, I decided to do some research on past flu pandemics. What I discovered made my jaw-drop. In 1918, there was the Spanish flu pandemic which was caused by a form of the H1N1 strain of flu which infected 40% of the world’s population and killed more than 50 million people mainly affecting young people. I never knew that which is odd seeing as I come from a family of medics. In 1957 there was the Asian flu which killed 2 million people and was caused by the human form of the virus. It mainly affected old people. And in 1968 there was an outbreak in Hong Kong which killed up to 1 million people which mainly affect old people. So, essentially, if you’re old, you’re screwed?! Is that a fair conclusion?

On a lighter note…

Questions:

1. Do you write letters by hand any more with technology like taking over everything?!

2. What’s the meanest thing you’re meanest teacher has ever done?

3. Is our reaction to swine-flu an over-reaction?

4. What did you think of the video? I love her!