So it has been quite a long time since I last posted anything on here, sorry about that. I promise I will try and update more but I feel that I have quite a few good reasons for this lack of posts.
- I had my exams since my last post and that took up a lot of my time
- We started talking about our extended essays and so I have had to do some work on that
- We have been given three pieces of coursework to do: Maths, Philosophy and English and so that is also taking up a lot of my time
- My computer broke and is not working at all
- My final reason, the best reason as well, is the fact that five weeks ago I broke my ankle
I’m sure you are all dying to know how I managed to do that and it is quite a story so I will tell you. As previously mentioned I have to do a piece of maths coursework, since I am a Maths Studies student the coursework is very flexible in its topic choices, I chose quite an odd topic I have to admit. My topic is to do with the colour distribution of Wine Gums and Fruit Pastilles and which is fairer in the distribution. I know, it sounds crazy and stupid and I have to agree with you on that.
So anyway, I was doing my maths coursework and I was counting up the numbers of different colours of Wine Gums and Fruit Pastilles with my friend Joe because we had been let out of the lesson by our teacher. I realised that I would probably have to eventually create a bar chart or some such on the computer to display my data so instead I decided to make a bar chart out of the sweets themselves.
However to get these shots I had to stand on a chair because they were on a table and the angle was all wrong if I tried to get one from where I was. So I stood on a chair and took the photos, however somewhere between getting off the chair and being on the floor I managed to lose my balance and fall onto the floor and break my ankle. As you can imagine Joe was quite worried and so ran to get a teacher, who then said that she didn’t think it was broken because I didn’t look like I was in enough pain.
My mum then came to pick me up from school and take me to the hospital where they decided that it was broken and I needed to be referred to an Orthopedic person. There was a tense few days when we had to wait and see if I needed surgery (luckily I didn’t) and I went to go get my cast put on. My mum took this opportunity to take a picture of my lovely bruising on my leg.
Obviously I chose purple for the colour of my cast and so now I am in a wheelchair and using crutches occasionally for small distances. I can’t even sleep in my own room as it is up on the top floor and so I now sleep in the spare room which is on the middle floor and so is slightly more accessible for me.
I’ll admit that I am quite fed up with it all at the moment, my computer broke, I can’t move around and I just want to be able to get up and walk. But these things happen and hopefully it will only be a week until my cast is off and I can start physiotherapy and be able to walk again. There is a chance that in a week when they take the cast off it will not have healed enough, or not healed at all, and they will have to put another cast on and I will be in cast for a few more weeks. I am hoping that my bone will have healed properly and I will be able to get on and walk again.
But that is enough about my ankle as I am sure that you are all bored reading about that and so I will change and talk about some fun things that have happened since my last post, namely going to see Spamalot and Phantom Of The Opera. Those of you who know me well, or have read my previous posts, will know that I love musical theatre and for christmas last year my parents gave me tickets to see Spamalot with them and Phantom Of The Opera with a person of my choice.
Spamalot was the first of the two shows that I went to go see and it was great. I had not seen it before or heard the music from it so I wasn’t sure what to expect but it truly was a great show. The music was really catchy and was stuck in my head for days, the set looked brilliant and the cast were fantastic. I knew from what my parents had told me that it was a comedy so I was expecting some comedy but I was surprised at how often I laughed. This song was the song that had my mum and dad in tears of laughter, especially my dad:
Spamalot was great and I am really glad that I got to go to it and that my parents thought to buy the tickets as I would probably not have asked for them. It was fun to go see it with my parents as well as they do not often come to watch musicals with me as they do not particularly like musicals, especially my dad (my mum likes Cats but that is pretty much it). One thing that really stuck in my head however is a remark that my dad made after the play, he said “I knew it was a musical but I wasn’t expecting that much singing.” That had me and my mum laughing for ages.
However as wonderful as Spamalot was the main event for me was obviously going to see Phantom as it is my all-time favourite musical despite the fact that up until that point I had never actually seen a stage production of it. As I said I had to take someone with me and so I decided to take my friend Harry as she is going to University next year and so I will not have the chance to take her a different time, I did promise Joe that I will take him next time as he wanted to go with me.
There was a bit of an issue with us going to see Phantom as I broke my ankle the week before I was meant to go and see it, my seats were in the ‘gods’ and so I could not get up there to go and watch it. However my genius mum rang up the hippodrome and organised us getting a seat with a wheelchair spot next to it a few weeks later so that I could still go see it. Luckily for us the seats were £10 cheaper each and the seats were much better than the ones I originally had, as my mum said “Almost worth breaking your ankle for.”
The show itself was fantastic, the set was completely epic as there was this one part of the set that was semi-circular and filled up the back of the stage, there was an open walkway at the top. There was one scene where Christine and The Phantom were walking along it and I was wondering where they were going to go as it was a sheer drop down, however when the Phantom opened a door that opened to the outside of the set some steps started to come out from the side of it and created a staircase going right the way to the bottom of the stage and back onto the floor, it was amazing.
The actors were great however me, Harry and Joe (who also managed to get tickets) agreed that the person who played Raoul was not as strong as the other singers and so his voice was often lost when there were ensemble numbers and a few people were singing at once. However despite this and the fact that the masquerade scene was not as epically awesome as we expected the show was still probably the best musical I have been to and remains my favourite show.
All in all despite the breaking ankle and loads of work that we have to do at the moment, the past month or two have gone quite well. I hope that you have all had a great time since I last posted and I hope that you are all well.
Until next time
Martha