Either it’s Wednesday, or it’s not.

The long awaited, at least from my side, rain came today! Leaving me looking like a drowned rat after the twenty minutes walk home from school, but no matter, I’ll always dry up again sometime. Like in June or something. Seriously though, it could have been worse. It’s been raining the whole day, but when the end of school came around it really wasn’t more than a shimmer of rain. It got worse though, but now it looks like it’s stopped again. Just my luck, eh?
And now it’s raining again, what on earth?!

Okay, here are a couple of things I’m not going to talk about in this post:
My house
My room
My school
Disappointed? Now that I think about it, what will I talk about?
Never mind, here’s the reason:
Lena and I have decided to have a weekly segment, don’t know how long it will go on for before we run out of ideas, but if I get my way it’ll be around for the whole year. It’s called Challenge of the Week and we’re going to fix it so that there’s a poll under each post so that you all can vote. (This blog isn’t called Alloa vs. Blackpool for nothing!) We’ll come up with different challenges and you’ll vote for one of us! Easy as that. At first we’ll probably start up with some stuff like whose room do you like best, whose house is coolest, who’s got the nicest view from their window. Stuff like that, and then we’ll just make it up as we go along. Now, we’re not starting up before Lena has arrived in Blackpool obviously, and that is why I am holding back a bit on some of the information.

However, out of the goodness from the bottom of my heart, we will not have a challenge called coolest school attire. Therefore I will post a picture of my uniform here! When I figure out how to do it of course. Great! It’s all good fun.
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Okay, so the picture thing is going to be a bit delayed (I’m rubbish at taking pictures of myself and I haven’t found the magic button that will make the camera do it for me yet.) But I figured you’d be happy with an update instead of waiting for me to stop farting about with my camera. (I love that expression!)
But, I guess I can tell you a bit about my school now as well. Just because I’m feeling oh so nice right now.

I am enrolled at Lornshill Academy, United in Effort (!), and the school building is brand new! Of course that just means that no one really knows their way around yet.
I’m not sure if I’m in fifth or sixth year, according to my age I’m a sixth year, but it’s an ongoing debate.
Also, I’m in Devon house! How cool is that folks?
Now, to all of you who have been dying to know how we get sorted, here’s the truth:

Step one; wander out from the school theatre looking like you’ve just fallen down from the moon.

Step two; ask a random teacher about when you’re supposed to go see the study counselor.

Step three; random teacher will say this (at least if you’re me): Oh, right. I think you’re in Devon house, go stand over there.

And that’s about it. Later I realized that the fact that my host mother is head of Devon house probably had something to do with it as well, but as one of the students told me, the houses really don’t do anything at Lornshill. As I understand it, it’s just a way to keep better track of the students or something.

The subjects I’m taking this year are as follows: Psychology, philosophy, modern studies and drama! It all sounds pretty good right now, but drama is definitely the best! Also I’m trying to get something worked out so that I’ll get some sort of English lessons as well. The day at Lornshill is pretty different from a day at a Norwegian school. We start the day with tutorial, that’s a registration class where you go to get registered (oddly enough), and then we have two periods before break. Break is about fifteen minutes and the students hang around “the hub”, often grabbing a bite to eat. The cafeteria at Lornshill is open trice a day. Once in the morning, offering breakfast to those interested. Once during break, where they among other things sell something called ‘rolls’, which are pretty ghastly. It’s basically bacon or an odd sort of sausage in the whitest bread imaginable and nothing else. And of course once during lunch, where they have quite a lot on the menu, my favorite being the Panini’s at the moment. After break we have two more periods before lunch (which is fifty minutes long) and then yet another two periods before we go home. All of my classes at Lornshill consist of different people, because the students can chose whatever they like from the subjects and then they’ll put together the classes based on that.

In other news, I am happy to announce that I’ve been working on getting my whole phone dilemma sorted out and that I have now succeeded. Of course, as some of you already may know, it wasn’t all that easy. I somehow during the process managed to get my phone blocked and all of a sudden I needed a PUK code. After some advice from someone not as technically retarded as me I went online to my networks homepage, searching for an answer. Just as it happened; how do I get a PUK code, was a part of the most asked questions section. I was told that all I had to do was signing in to my account or register, and then I would receive the code. The only problem was that to sign in I needed to type in my phone number and then a code to verify that I was in fact who I claimed to be. That code happened to be sent to me as a text, to the phone that was blocked of course. So, to get my PUK code so that I could unblock my phone I needed to register using another code that was sent to my blocked phone. Who on earth could ever think that would be a practical system?

The solution: I bought a new sim-card.

It was actually the cheaper solution as well, and now my phone is working! (Mostly…)
And that’s about it for this time! Now go make Lena write something again and I’ll try think of something clever to tell you about for the next time as well.