It's been a while, and lots has happened. My birthday has happened; that was really fun. I've almost finished end of year exams and I am happy to say that my hard work all year in science has shown and I have done very well. If I may say so myself. I am still reading The Wise Man's Fear. Whoops. I haven't really had time, honestly. Summer is almost here though! I am sure that you are as equally excited as me about it. Unfortunately I still have 2 or 3 tests and a piano duet performance between me and what I've been waiting for all school year. But not too long: two weeks, one day and counting.
It's 1st July now. Yep. I write my posts over several days. I am very excited because I have dance tomorrow and I think it's become the highlight of my week. Then on Sunday I'm going out with 5 of my friends and then on Monday I'm going to my friends house after school and I have the scouts barbecue and then on Tuesday it's teacher strike day and all my friends are coming to my house for a movie! *breathe*. It will be great.
Currently it is almost midnight and my neighbours are playing what is, in my opinion, really bad music, really loudly.
Oh and also I want to talk about jokes. Racist jokes, sexist jokes, homophobic jokes. I was recently talking to someone about this and how some of these "jokes" are not actually funny but rude. The person making the "jokes" told me that the only people who have a problem with them are either, and I quote, "oversensitive" or "pretentious". Now pardon me, but just because you think what you're saying is funny doesn't take away from how offensive it is. There is a very fine line between funny and offensive, and some people cross it. Even prance around on the other side, grinning at their own supposedly humorous comments. It's like saying "no offence". Just because to you it's fine doesn't make it not offensive. There is no excuse for saying things like that, no matter wether they were meant to be funny or not. And just to make it clear, I'm not talking about harmless joshing among friends. I'm talking about people making extremely racist comments and then labelling them as "jokes". Please stop. You are not funny you are rude, and I can assure you that most people agree.
Now that I have laid that out I don't think there is much more to say. See you soon, and always have faith in yourself =) (because I have faith in you).
The End,
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