December 21st 2012

Today was the last day of my exams, I had Maths and Spanish that day and the world was "supposed" to be ending at like 11.20am but I didn't believe that would happen, it was just a rumour. I walked to school at about 8.30am with Amanda and when we got to the traffic lights nearest my school, we met up with Rachel and then 3 of us walked the rest of the way. I gave and Amanda and Rachel their Christmas presents and they hugged me and said they wouldn't open them until we got into school. When we got in and were all sitting down, they opened them. I got Amanda a lovely diamond bead bracelet and a perfume with spray, she loved them and gave me another hug. I got Rachel a necklace with the letter "R" on it and a nice bottle of perfume, she loved it and she also gave me a hug. Rachel had given me mine and it was a nice bath set with loads of bubbles, lotion and bath beads. It was so nice that everyone was happy and giving each other presents.

When Alex and Katie came along, I gave then their presents too and they gave me mine. Katie got me a nice make-up set, a bottle of perfume and a giant candy-cane. It was really nice and I gave her a massive hug. I had got Katie a nice bottle of perfume and a pair of blue stud earrings. Alex gave me a lovely gift bag with a gorgeous purple/leopard-print scarf, a Christmas mug with sweets and a photo holder which had the letters "LOL" on it and on the 2 L's there was a metal circle thing where you can put a photo. I loved it and it was so me. All the presents were exactly what I wanted.

My maths exam was in room 32 and I was sitting at the front at the right hand side of the room, next to the window because despite the weather, it was really hot. Ms. Watson gave our exam papers out and then she went and another teacher took over. Midway through my exam, Ms. Watson returned and she spoke to the teacher who was there and then started walking over towards me. I was thinking to myself  "What have I done now?", she came over and bent over to talk to me, she apologized for interrupting yet another one of my exams and then she put an envelope on my table and said "Just a little something", I didn't really no what that meant, so when she left, I opened the envelope and it was a "Thank-you" card. 

I opened it and it read:

"Lauren,

Thank you so much for your very kind and generous present. It was really good of you and most unexpected! I hope you have a great Christmas and a good rest.

                                                                                                P. Watson."

I was touched and happy that she had liked it, she didn't need to get me anything but it was a nice thing for her to do. I carried on with my exam, which was really hard.

 

I then had my Spanish exam and me and Alex went to Room 20 where the rest of our classmates where and we all just got talking about the exam and the world ending. I decided to text my mam for a joke saying how much I loved her and I would see her on the other side. She sent me back a text saying "Fuck off Lauren, I'm here on my own because Bailey can't save me". Me and Alex were breaking our hearts laughing and then Bebhinn decided to call her mam and tell her that she would see her on the other side and that she loved her, it was so funny because of the way she was saying it.

When the exam started, we had Ms. Macken supervising us and when it was coming up to 11.20am, we were all looking at each other, preparing ourselves for the "end of the world". 11.21am and nothing happened, it was all a myth, the world didn't end, and everyone carried on with their exam. The exam was okay, not easy and not hard but okay. I was finished with about 20 minutes to spare at the end. Alex was laughing and she pointed over to Bebhinn and Robyn who were messing but putting things in their mouths like highlighters and pens which was really funny because of the faces they were pulling. I couldn't stop laughing because they were just mad.