So i created this bog account once i had read one of my friends (Dan Cooper's) blogs. I read it and i guess it just kind of inspired me to write my own. (Even if mine are not very good). So earlier on this evening i was thinking about what i should blog about, and in the end i decided that i would do it on my friends. Now that may have seemed like the obvious choice and maybe it is, but that is what im going to write about, my friends.
I have a close group of friends that are well... how do i put this in the kindest way??? Urrm... whats the word ahh yes UNIQUE thats the best way to put it. I guess what i'm trying to say is that we are all so completely different, yet we couldn't be more the same.
In 2003 i moved to Bristol with my family, we opened up a resteraunt there. And so that meant the torture of moving away from what i called Home. But during my two and a half year stay there it wasn't the area that had become a problem, it was the school.
In my first year at East Harptree, everything seemed to go really well, you know i was the typical new kid, everyone was nice to me, wanted to be my friend. But if im honest, i can't remember too much from that period all i can remember was the second year there... i was in year 5.
This was when things started to change, i went away from school for two weeks as i went on holiday to disney land. And when i came back, my best friend hated me. And its all because of this one girl... lets call her laura (i won't use her real name). She had made up a load of crap about me basically an no one liked me, and it wasn't like typical bullying to me. She had made me loose all of my friends. I had no one! I was completely alone. Every lunchtime, i would have to sit on my own...and when your that young its horrible. Laura and her friends... which used to be mine too, would make fun of me, try to ruin my work, tell me i looked funny. It reallly hurt. I found myself hating school, i didn't want to go, i would come off the mini bus after, tears streaming down my face, not being able to bare it anymore.
Eventually, somehow i managed to start talking to some of the year 6's, they were nice to me, i thought i had finally found friends. Untill one day one of them said to me that i was annoying, and they hated me being around them, saying "just because you don't have any friends your own age, it doesn't mean you can hang around with us". So i was back to square one again. On my own, wishing the days away. Dreading school, dreading life.
In what was going to be my last few months there, i made a nice group of friends. I was so happy. I wasn't having to sit on my own anymore. All of those months of trying to fit in with the younger/older years, and being rejected was over.
It was the last day of school, and for a while now i knew the pub was on the market and that this could quite possibly be my last day there. When the bell rang, i went out to meet my mum, and she was talking to the head teacher. She said to me that we would be moving in three weeks back home. Immediatley i felt upset. Why did this have to happen to me? I had finally found happiness with these friends... and now i was quite possibly going to have to go through all of this again at a new school! The worst thing about leaving that school, is not being able to say goodbye properly to some of the people there. It was so devistating for me.
Back in Somerset, new house, new primary school. As far as i'm concerned, this primary school, was fine, i felt like i bonded with the people better.
A big change for me was going to secondary school, and thats where you guys come in...
Meeting you guys, being friends with you all, its just simply been the best thing to ever happen to me. Especially after everything that happend in Bristol, i didn't know if i could/would make friends again. And i really struck lucky when i met all of you. My life would not be the same if you weren't in it.
Throughout the five years i have known you, (some less) we have been through so much! More than what your average group of friends would i would say. Some situations would probably have been enough to break us, but it hasn't, nothing has, we get through it because we are a team. I know we always joke about being "nerds" or whatever, but whats making us different from other people in our year? We have parties, we drink, we have fun. The thing making us different, is because we aren't idiots about it. We are genuine people and thats what i love.
I could go on and on all night about you guys, but quite frankly i'm getting tired and i still need to do my maths paper! So i'm going to round it off now.
I want to say a huge thank you, thanks for being there, thanks for being you, you are all amazing people who i am so glad to have met. I don't know what i would do without you guys, and after college that really gonna be it for us, we won't see eachother as much. And that for me will be the hardest part. Thank you for being a part of my life, i will never ever forget you.
Rosemary, Sian, Paulian, Morag, Jack, Jacques, Frances, Henry, Thomas, Ross, Charles.
I love you all
Frankie...aka (Emily) xxx
