The Busiest of Bees

Hello everyone.

I know… I did a terrible thing and did not do last week’s post. I am very sorry. It’s been a little hectic though and I shall fill you in with everything from the past two weeks. 
But before I go on I would like to say that last week my blog's page views reached 1000! Thankyou to everyone who reads my posts and follows my blog, it means a lot.

Now, in my last post (if you can remember that far back…) I talked about lots of exciting things coming up including a sleepover with friends, party and of course the school show and my Highschool Leavers Do. These are all of course now over and done and were a lot of fun.

The three performances of the school show we did I am glad to say went off with only a few glitches here and there (as is accustomed) and everyone who came to see it were very impressed. It was amazing to be a part of- especially as it was the last ever school show that me and my friends will be in due to us now having left school. *sad face*

Though I had a smaller part as a maid to one of the protagonists it was so much fun. My role mainly involved fluttering on and off stage a lot with a few lines here and there and delivering tea. Basically, I was a waitress. I'm a waitress playing a waitress-trust me. I did however have one scene I very much enjoyed which included my character becoming very stressed by all that was going on in the story of the play and so she runs off-stage with her apron over her face. The audience always laughed which was an amazing feeling however I’m sure they would have laughed more if they’d seen the trouble I had coming to a stop once I ran off-stage with a not-so-see-through apron over my face.

Serving the tea and cakes.

The school shows have been a big part of my highschool time and are where I have met and bonded with my closest friends so when the curtains closed for the final time there was a little sadness in my smile.

This sadness I’m afraid to say did not only come from the end of the show. Last Monday one of our dogs, Bonnie, began to show signs of being ill and after taking her to the vet on Wednesday we found out that she had a womb infection.

 In my family, our dogs (which are huge leonbergers..google them!) have become as much a part of our family as me and my sisters so we were naturally all very emotional. This emotion was heightened following Bonnie’s operation to remove her womb when we were told she also had anemia and there was little hope for her recovering.

Last Sunday morning, the day after my Leavers Do, my mum called my friend’s house where I was staying that night and told me the heartbreaking news that Bonnie had died earlier that morning. I was speechless.

I’m sorry to include this sad event in my blog but it is of great importance to me and so I felt I should include it.

Bonnie was one of the puppies from our other two dogs’ litter. She was the last pup left to be sold but never was as she was just too precious so we kept her.

She was a beautiful dog with the kindest, gentlest nature and she will leave a big paw print on all of our hearts.

On a happier note, the other main event that took place last week was of course my year’s Highschool Leavers Do (not in anyway affiliated with Arran High School). This Leavers Do has given our year more trouble than you would believe. To begin with our Head Teacher was more than a little unsupportive of our plans. This is because every year he plans for the school to organise a 6^th year leavers do right before our exams when we haven’t even officially left school yet and are too busy studying to have a party and so every year he falls out with the present 6^th years when they politely refuse and organise one for themselves-hence my previous comment in the brackets. Our Head Teacher was so against us doing this-as he has been with every sixth year- that he told the school office to refuse any help to us with contacts etc. and tried to arrange another staff event on the day of the Leavers Do we organised so that they couldn’t attend. This plan luckily failed but goodness me it’s been some work. Are all Head Teachers that stubborn? Suffice to say he and the Deputy Head teachers did not attend our Do.

Anyway, this is why we have had to all organise it ourselves (and pretty successfully I might say). It took place at a hotel on the island owned by the parents of a girl in our year which was convenient. It included a meal and dance in a beautifully decorated room with everyone in our year plus all of our teachers. It was truly lovely as we were able to see teachers who had left the school/retired. There were also photographs taken for our island’s newspaper and some professional ones which we could buy. Me and my friends very nearly missed these photographs however.

As I have mentioned a few times I work with three of my bestfriends at a café/shop on the island in the main town and so this means we can’t all have the same days off. Therefore me and my friend Kirsty were working the day of the Leavers Do. Luckily our lovely manager told us we could leave early to drive all the way to the other side of the island to get ready and go to the Do so long as it wasn’t too busy and as typical luck would have it about ten minutes before we were supposed to leave the place was packed. I don’t think I’ve ever made coffees and taken orders as quickly as I did then. However many many customers and about half an hour later we were on our way. This left us with an hour and a half to get ready which if you know me then four hours is pushing it. We did get ready in time though and with the mandatory ‘photos for the parents’ taken we made it just in time for the professional photographs. Phew.

After the photographs we mingled with old teachers before sitting down at our tables for the meal and speeches. The food was lovely as was the company. After that the music came on and the dancing started. I say that but to begin with the only people on the dancefloor were me and my friends. That didn’t stop us from busting some moves though. No shame.

Our amazing now retired English teacher

 Our table. Number one..quite fitting wouldn't you say? :P

 The clan.

This week has been slightly less eventful as I have been working but I did have a much-needed sleepover with friends which was intended to be a Disney Film Night however after catching up and taking photos we ended up watching only one Disney film. Successful mission? ... hmm. We are rescheduling for another though because you are NEVER too old for Disney.

Just chilling.

Makeovers anyone? Typical girls.

I think that covers everything of interest that has occurred in the past two weeks. Some happy occasions, some not so happy but what all of these events have sparked are some beautiful memories in the school show, the Leavers Do and the life of our beautiful Bonnie.

I hope you’ve had a lovely few weeks and I will definitely see you next Thursday. Promise. With love,

Mollie

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