21st Celebration

Hello everyone,

I apologise for not posting in ages but I have been busy studying my new university course and have recently just finished my summer placement which was for all of June and my first proper placement in a school. This placement was a great experience that I thoroughly enjoyed and helped my growth in teaching. However, this post isn’t about that but about my 21^st birthday celebration.

Due to my summer placement I ended up celebrating my birthday at the very end of June/ beginning of July. I opened most of my presents late in the evening of my final day of placement which were mainly Harry Potter themed since I have recently got back into it and may have a slight obsession. This was shown by my cake decorations as well as my decorations for the Tipi my friends and I were staying in for three nights.

My birthday celebration started at the beginning of July when we all met at the campsite although some were arriving later than others. The first night mainly consisted of opening presents; eating my mum’s sausage casserole once we heated it which proved difficult due to the wind – it seemed to like blowing out our lit matches; chatting and catching up as I hadn’t seen some of them since Christmas break, and of course a campfire to keep us warm and obviously for toasting marshmallows to make smores later in the evening before retiring to the tipi for night.

The next day was an adventure! Although the morning was uneventful consisting of reading and playing card games which included learning a new game Emi brought back from her time in France. Once we had lunch at the Touchdown café. The adventure began in the form of a nice little walk although now I have done the walk that’s not how I would describe it. This walk started off as a great, lovely, enjoyable walk in the sun but ended up with us travelling through stinging nettles, fields of corn and not having a footpath to follow plus some horses that came to say ‘hello’ as we were trying to cross through their field. We ended the day nicely with a BBQ followed by my birthday cake and ending with toasting marshmallows.

On Wednesday, everyone was feeling a bit lazy after the tiring events from the day before so we started the day later. Once we had breakfast, we travelled to Stratford on Avon and went on a boat trip to see the beautiful sights of Stratford and have a relaxing journey in the hot weather which was lovely. After this we found somewhere to eat, which for me was a chicken & leak pie. We then brought what we needed for dinner before travelling back to the campsite. Tonight, Emi and Sophia made a vegetarian dinner which was different and the veggie sausages were lovely. We then finished with birthday cake and toasting marshmallows.

The final morning was spent packing up all our stuff and singing ‘happy birthday’ to Trevyn as it was her birthday. We also stuck a sparkler candle in a muffin at breakfast for her. Once breakfast was over we made sure we had all our stuff and got into the two cars for traveling back to mine to unload my stuff before my friends travelled home.

This concludes my birthday celebration which was great and I had a wonderful time.

Thanks for reading,

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Amy x

The Maze Runner: Death Cure

Hey everyone,

On the Wednesday the 7th of February I went Plymouth Vue cinema with my housemate, Roxy to see the last film in The Maze Runner saga which is Death Cure.

Warning! Spoilers included so DON’T read if planning to watch the film or even reading the books!

This film was greatly filmed, which I feel was done to make you, the audience feel as if you are part of the film and what was happening in it. The opening of this film starts by a chase and fight to save the children and friends which connotes the previous films. The begin half of this film was mainly about Thomas and Newt with the group retrieving Minho from the organisation, Wicked. I feel that this was a great way to continue from the second film, Scorch Trials where they ended with wicked taking most of the children that were previously saved.

I found that the music was placed well to keep the audience in suspense and wanting to know what would happen. There are many shocks in this film to make the audience jump out of their seats and therefore always keeps you interested.

There are many relationships in this final film, of the saga, that has twists and make the audience surprised,

This film is all about Thomas and Newt along with their allies trying to free Minho so you get to see his mental struggle and his strength when experiencing the pain Wicked put him through which I felt was like torcher. There is also a demonstration of loyalty within this film shown through the relationship between Thomas and Brenda.

A character from the original Maze Runner returns and shocks the audience, his name is Gally and in the first film he is portrayed in a way that makes the audience hate him, but in this recent film it is a totally different story. He is good and Thomas has to learn to trust him after all the damage he has done, such as killing Thomas’s friend, Chuck in order to save Minho. This brings humour to the story which contains so much death and disappear.

Thomas and Teresa relationship told through this film is a story of tragic love. At the beginning of the film Thomas and Teresa are on opposite sides where Teresa is trying to find a cure of a disease that has plagued the world leaving only one city remaining, but in doing this she is part of the team that tortures Minho, who Thomas and Newt are trying to save. After all the ups and downs in this relationship, Teresa ends it by sacrificing herself in order to save Thomas.

Finally, the relationship between Thomas and Newt which I feel is the most heart-breaking ending. In this final film of the saga, Newt unfortunately dies from the virus that has been infecting the world and although this is tragic, I feel that it is portrayed perfectly in a way that makes the audience experience Thomas’s emotions. I feel that this is a perfect ending for these two friends as during this saga of films we, the audience, have taken a journey with these characters as their relationship grew. Newt’s letter to Thomas at the end of the film was a great way to not only end their relationship but also bring the film saga to a close and was perfectly portrayed with the right amount of emotion to both do this pair justice and effect the audience.

It is beautiful how once Thomas has read Newt’s letter he then moves on to engrave ‘Newt’ into the stone for those who were lost in this fight for survival and freedom. I feel that by filming Thomas waking up in a new, strange and different place it links back to the original opening from the first film which creates the feeling of traveling in a circle only this time they are free and their new life begins.

In the ending, Wicked’s city, the final city, is destroyed which I feel connotes new beginnings which is proved when Thomas wakes up. He wakes up to a new community that was created from the pain and sacrifice of the war where everyone is happy. I feel this suggests that when you think life is bad, there is always a way to overcome the pain and find peace with a new view of life.

Hope you enjoyed

Thanks for reading

Amy x

Religious Songs

Hey,


This Sunday I helped out at Kidzone in my church, so I am writing this post just to share the songs that were sang during the service.

Songs:

Today is the day 

Nothing holding me back

Build my life

Hope you enjoy these songs

Please comment below





Amy x