Give animals a voice...

Please sign this e-petition (Link below) to give animals a voice and to give your support and to play your part in stopping the horrendous crime of puppy mills.

 Please, Please sign! If the petition gains 100,000 signatures before the closing date of 17/8/2012 then it will be considered for debate within the House of Commons.
 If you care about animals in any shape or form then you need to show them your support by giving them 2 minutes of you time to click on the link and sign the petition. you and only you have the potential power to stop this horrible practise and release thousands of suffering dogs from their horrible lives. they never give up on the hope that one day their lives may get better, so we shouldn't give up on them.
Puppy mills are places in which the horrible practise of breeding dogs intensively takes place to supply the lucrative market of providing a family with their own puppy to love and look after. The dogs that are used are kept in cramp conditions, usually without much human interaction, care, clean food, water, bedding, sunlight or mental and physical stimulation. the puppies which are born into this hellish situation then usually have severe medical and physical conditions.
When a Bitch is no longer useful for breeding from then she is likely to either be killed, tortured or sold to other puppy farms, where she will continue her lonely existence, prices for these bitches can range from a huge £800 to £10!

Dogs and other animals that we say we care about cannot tell us about what is going on. Us, the people with the power to change things and a situation have to speak for them.

Sign and Give animals a voice!

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/5145

Thank you.

What if...

What if our lives were actually just like the movies. I was lying in bed last night contemplating the world (as you do when you can't sleep) when I had an interesting thought. What if our lives were actually like the movies?
What if there really someone out there for everyone of us? What if those people really are people we know? What if it is just that we are so wrapped up in the everyday running of our lives and wishes for a movie style life that we fail to see that that is exactly what we have got? Yes, it may be harder to see as we are not restricted to a pre-written script and plot and neither are we limited to 120 minutes running time but I think it really is out there. The romantic love scenes and the unexpected romances that we all secretly yearn for within our lives. Although I believe this to be true I also believe that another reason why we have been unable to realise this is because we are in denial about it - if life was like the movies then movies wouldn't be the escapism that we would like them to be. If there was no form in escapism in Rom-Coms and other romantic types of films then where would we turn to escape from the bad days, experiences and monotony of our lives that will inevitably occur at some point?

Maybe we as ourselves are not always as invisible as we believe we are and instead we need to stop making the possibilities that are always there so invisible to ourselves?

Someone jump the barrier for me...

So, after watching the most christmassy, feel good Rom-Com out there, Love actually, I feel very emotional. It is a brilliant, happy film that I don't think is meant to make the viewers cry but.... It just made me realise what I am missing. Don't get me wrong, I understand that life is (sadly) not like the films, I mean is anyone going to jump the airport barrier for me? But it would be nice to know that there was someone there, apart from my parents, friends and family, who would be pleased to see me, wait for me off of any mode of transport (I'm not fussy) and who would be there to listen to me.
Doesn't everyone want this? If everyone wants this, then why is there no-one who wants to be with me? Is love really all around?
Feeling very invisible...

Frozen planet and the size of the world...

So, Just a short post today. Is anyone else watching the David Attenborough program, Frozen Planet?
It really is amazing and the penguins are just so adorable lol. however, it really does make you realise the size and magnitude of the palnet (maybe that was the point?) and possibly just how insignificant as individuals we are. I am not attempting to turn this post into a depressing one it is simply an observation. For example the tribes who live on the most Northern point of the World have to work in groups of people to survive, whales work together to catch their prey and penguins huddle together to keep themselves and their unhatched children warm. Doesn't this just prove that alone we cannot physically and psychologically live any real life and to achieve all that we want and in sosme ways must we must trust in other people, talk and communicate with other people, listen to the opinions and ideas of other people from different countries, cultures and backgrounds so as to expand our own understanding, beliefs, consideration and thoughts on everyone else in this amazing palnet on which we live. Without this we couldn't possibly expect to be anything but invisible....

Choices, Changes and Considerations...

So, It has been a long time since my last post, sorry about that but no I think it is time for me to say what ons my mind. What's on my mind, then? well, university and what to do after 6th form, don't get me wrong I know that there is still a year and a lot of hard work to go but after listening to certain people it has begun to dawn on me just how big of a change it will be - I will have to get over the extraordinary home sickness feel whenever I am away from my mum, my intense fear of the dark and the fact that I am very scared of not being intelligent enough to be able to do it, not be able to fit in, cope, I am scared that I won't be able to make friends and be brave enough to go 'out on the town'. So many worries and in theory, if all goes well and I get the grades that I sincerely hope that I can achieve, in only a matter of a couple of years I will be off on my own in the big wide world, along with my friends coping and becoming grown up.

So that, along with all the other stress that seems to come hand-in-hand with the taking up of A level subject, is what has been worrying me.

The idea of  'flying the nest' and attending university (if it can be afforded) and growing up is making me feel very, very invisible

Long time no Blog....

As my lovely friend pointed out today at lunch, in tones that I am sure were meant to mock me (you know who you are...) I haven't blogged (is that the correct word, is there even a verb to describe the act of blogging..hmmm?) in quite a while. This is due to a number of reasons, including the fact that we went on holiday to the rather lovely, wet on occasions, picturesque Exmoor. It was lovely however it did have one major downfall - no WIFI or reliable phone signal, hence the lack of blog posts...sorry about that. The other reason is that well A level students don't really have much spare time, inbetween politics essays, history essays and psychology revision there is barely time for sleep let alone anything else. Also, to be perfectly honest nothing really worth blogging has happened.
We went on holiday during half term, that was really lovely, the lodge where we were staying was georgeous with the best collection of books I have ever seen in a holiday cottage/lodge/flat ect. there was even Pride and Prejudice which was really great as I had wanted to read it for ages. I now have my own copy and really like the story, romance and the drama. The nature was amazing we saw a wood pecker, many different types of tits (no sniggering) and the hunt, who actually came through the land we were staying on so that was really exciting. They were only trail hunting so that was OK, Exmoor is a major hunting ground and there were phesants EVERYWHERE!
Before we went away I had SO much homework (mentioned in a previous post) so spent the majority of the two days before we went away trying cram all the homework in, I almost managed it apart from 1 and 1/2 essays so it wasn't to bad although I had to cram loads in when we got back on the Sunday before we went back to school.
So, what else has been happening. Not much really, I have decided that I really don't like school and much prefer lunch, break, free's (studies if any education proffessionals are reading this) and home time to any other part of the day, this could be with the exception of Politics nearly all the time and sociology sometimes but.... I still haven't managed to get on the Pre-teaching course (thanks Miss) which is a bit annoying.
Anyway I think I have written enough for now so I will sign off.
The Invisible teenager out. lol

Do they really thing that we have nothing better to do.....

So, it was the last day of school today, before half term that is. I am going on holiday on sunday so I was really hoping that we wouldnt be given to much homework. The teachers obviously didn't here my silent plea and gave me so much homework that I am now completely snowed under with homework...the most annoying thing about this is that all the homework was set on thursday and friday which means that I didn't even have enough time to get some of it done in the evenings after school. Also I haven' t actually been feeling very good either so I suppose I wasn't really doing as much work as I could have done in the evenings anyway.
Do the teacher's really think that we have nothing other do apart from work? My psychology teacher was especially annoying as she said that she had specifically not set much work for her classes as she didn't want to have to do loads of work during the holiday as she thought it was important that she got a rest?!?!?!
Does anyone else have a mount everest worth of homework to complete this half term? - have fun everyone!