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Saturday, February 28, 2015

Random Stuff About Me

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As my first post I talked about myself but I'm bored so I decided to make a more about me post because I'm sure you all want to know. My full name is Anji Mei Cooper
pronounced On-ji May (I'm from China hence the weird name.)
I was adopted from China by my parents David and Sherri on March 17, 2002. The only reason I remember that date is because it is also St. Patricks day. You see, I'm good with dates like book and movie releases and my friends' birthdays but I can never remember my parents' birthdays or my house address. I have one sibling, Zia Mei Cooper, we share a middle name, how awkward. Zia is two and a half years older than me, she's currently in her sophomore year of high school and we're complete opposites. Where she likes sports I like reading and writing, where she prefers netflix I again, like reading more. She also has no idea what a blog is and I own like twenty three blogs so if I didn't know what one was there would be something supremely wrong with me. Where I'm more concentrated on my academics, she's more interested in sports, stuff like that. Zia and I also don't get along very well, we get into arguments a lot. I have two cats, Nix and Lily, they're siamese cats which is what my mom had when she was a kid. I don't have that big of a family compared to other people, where some people have hundreds of cousins I have seven, mom and dad's side. I have two cousin's on my mom's side, Austin and Andy, I don't really know them that well since there's a pretty big age gap. On my dad's side there's Anders and Ivan Croft, Meagan and Ryan Cooper and Ethan Cooper. Again, don't really know Ethan that well because of the age gap. Meg is a year younger than me ad Ryan is like two or three years younger then me, I can't remember.
Anders is Zia's age and Ivan's my age which is really convenient, we go camping with their family every year and spend Thanksgiving and Christmas together. There isn't really much contact out of that since Anders and Ivan never really seem to text back.
I went to preschool at Apple Cheeks and had three best friends there, Amelia, who was a year older than me, Colin Drennan who is my age and Timothy Moxey who is also my age. Colin and Timothy were actually my two best friends in preschool since they were the same age as me, but Amelia and I were good friends and I was really sad when she left preschool. I remember Colin always liked to brag about he was a whole quarter of a year older than Timothy and I. I'm not in contact with any of them anymore which is kind of sad but, well, can't really do anything about it. I remember having a crush on Colin when we were little. Yes, four-year-olds can have crushes. I was friends with this girl named Brooke, too, she was my shadow in preschool, I remember she liked to follow me around a lot and copy me, which annoyed my four-year-old self sometimes.
For my kindergarten year my mom had a sabbatical in Maine, so for my first year of school I went to it in Maine. My best friends there were Amanda, Laney, Sophie, Nyx, Lillie, Tristan, Isaac and Cooper. Cooper Hogan, it's funny because his name is a combination of Fiona and my last names. Please ignore the fact there was a Nyx and Lillie. Ah Maine was a fun year. I remember Zia and I went slug hunting, I took a ceramics class, a glass making class along with other things. We lived on Oars Island with a massive amount of property. The beaches around where we lived were rocky ones, but I didn't mind. There were some really bad snow storms in Maine, but they were used to it, so our school had a gigantic generator, we had hardly any snow days. Once a storm was so bad we had to leave our house in the jeep, drive out into the woods around the road and stay at a hotel. I remember it snowed near Easter time and I made a snow bunny. The snow wasn't really snow man (or bunny) material, it was an icy snow that was better for sledding. So whenever I stuck an ear on the bunny, an eye fell out and whenever I stuck the eye back in somehow the ear fell off.  In Maine I was on every sports team a kindergartener could be in, which was cross country and basketball. My favorite was definitely cross country, I loved it.
First Grade was kind of hard for me, it was in a different school, in a different state, with completely different people. The boys were insane, loud and rowdy and the girls were very... different from the ones in Maine. I was the 'new girl' in first grade even though I had lived in Bryn Athyn before Maine. I stuck by Ursula a lot of that year because I knew her. I also became friends with Camryn Buss, Emma Reuter, and Sophie Bostock that year. Camryn turns out was that person who lived down the street from us with the bikes always in the driveway. When our parents first tried to introduce us at the Bryn Athyn Pool we were both so shy we didn't want to talk to each other. But later, Camryn was staring down at the pool where her torpedo was and I ask her if she wanted me to get if for her and our friendship blossomed from there. I'm not exactly sure how I became friends with Sophie and Emma I just remember it happening.
Not exactly sure when I'll continue this very stimulating story of my life but stay tuned! ;) 

Fairies and Chocolate

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Remember back in my Friends: Emma post I said my most prominent memory from our childhood together was the fairy and the chocolate eggs, well, here's what happened. Back when we were in first grade, maybe second grade, so younger than we were in this picture, we stole chocolate eggs. It was around Easter time and her family had this gigantic box of chocolate eggs and as younglings we really liked candy. I mean, I still do like candy I just like ice cream more. Her mom said we could have two chocolate eggs, and then she went upstairs to take a nap. I guess since Emma was the oldest she was supposed to be responsible, but hey, we were like six or seven. So anyway, when we were little, Emma and I spent 90% of our time at her house down in her basement where all the toys and stuff were. Those two chocolate eggs were delicious, and since Emma's mom was upstairs taking a nap, we decided the only logical thing to do was to get more. So up the stairs we went and into the pantry. Taking handfuls and bundling a bunch of eggs into our shirts, we snuck back downstairs. I just sat by the trash can eating my share of the eggs and throwing out the wrappers, but Emma thought that her parents would see the wrappers in the trash, so she sat by the furniture and tucked the wrappers under there. I'm pretty sure several trips were made up the stairs and into the pantry to get more chocolate.
After maybe the second trip or possibly the third Emma started getting anxious about her mom coming downstairs and she was fiddling with this fairy toy that if you pull at the edges it will go higher. 
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And so our brilliant minds came up with this idea, completely forgetting the whole 'taking a nap' thing. The fairy staying up must have been what was keeping her mom upstairs instead of coming into the basement! SO Emma and I took turns keeping the fairy up, then, since we were on a roll with these bright ideas, we came up with another idea, if we put our hair into her parents' possessions we could track them. Yeah, don't even ask me what logic that was. After going into her small bathroom in the basement we used those child scissors and cut of pieces of our hair. We put my strand in her mom's shoe and when her dad came home Emma was super sneaky by slipping the hair in his pocket when she hugged him. Except she wasn't, so her dad pulled the hair out of his back pocket and I'm pretty sure Emma got in some trouble after I left. And then of course, the next day her family moved their furniture around in the basement and discovered all the candy wrappers under the furniture, they never even looked in the trash, but Emma got in more trouble after that. And that is my most memorable childhood memory with Emma. 

Friday, February 27, 2015

Ursula

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Ursula Hope Friesen 'Urs' 'Ursy' 'Ursyboo' 
Ursula is my older younger sister I never wanted. What do I mean by that? She's older than me but she acts younger so I think of her as my younger sister, sometimes I treat her like my younger sister, too. She plays field hockey, tennis, hockey and softball, her best sport is hockey, she's really good. Ursy likes reading, not as much as me, but she likes it. Her true passion is for YouTube she's practically obsessed with it, like we'll be in the middle of a conversation, headphones go in and she's on YouTube watching Dan and Phil. -_- Click here to see her YouTube account and click here to see mine. Urs and I have been literally friends forever, we've known each other since pre-schoolbut we became really really good friends in first grade, when I moved back to Pennsylvania. We were together a lot of the time. I remember playing numerous games in her basement, and trying to figure out how to lock her cats in a room with a hole in the wall with only pillows (Oh shush we were 6). We loved to go down and play in the creek by her house, we even made a museum there which was pretty cool, but it got ruined later. Oh, once we took her mom's perfume when we were in second grade and 'cleaned' Ursula's room by spraying everything. Her mom found out and I had to go home early.
In seventh grade, I remember meeting Ursula and Dara for dinner at bwell and then, after dropping Dara off, we went back to her house to hang out. We were there alone and if you didn't know, her house is 80% windows. So when these guys we didn't recognize came and knocked on the door, naturally we flipped out. Ursula bolted for her parents' room while I grabbed her laptop and my milkshake and then bolted to her parents' room after her (#priorities). Since we had to run back to the kitchen to get something like a knife for protection, and there were windows, Ursula handed me a screw driver and she grabbed a pair of scissors. Yeah, a screw driver. Anyway we had freaked out, thinking we would be murdered or kidnapped or something, so she called her dad a bunch of times until he picked up. Turns out those guys were there to work on her yard or something and they just happened to have a creepy white beat up truck that looked ultra suspicious. Guess I won't be using that screw driver any time soon. 

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Emma

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Emma Joy Reuter 'Em' 
Emma is like the shorter possibly louder version of Fiona. She loves taking pictures and videos of herself even more than Fiona does. *gasp* Emma and I have been friends since the first grade, I met her once before that but at the time I'd wanted to punch her in the face so.... First grade through third grade, Emma, Camryn, and I were best friends. In fourth grade that changed. We were still friends but I sort of separated from the group. I just recently found out that Emma was jealous of pretty much everything I did- my cooking and making, my drawing, my school projects, but that had nothing to do with it, I just find it funny. Fifth grade through most of sixth grade it seemed like Emma and Camryn were tied at the hip. Then in sixth grade Emma went from the crazy but quiet sweet girl to the loud and crazy one. I'm not sure which one is more loud, Fiona or Emma. I thought Emma hated me for most of sixth grade so we weren't very code that year, in seventh grade Emma and I hung out a little more. What sucks is that Emma and my schedules never seem to work out. Whenever I'm busy, Emma's free and whenever I'm free Emma's busy. Very convenient for if we want to hang out, don't you think?
Em plays field hockey, tennis and soft ball. She's really good at field hockey, though I'll admit I've never seen her play tennis or soft ball. When she and Fiona are together.... it's really loud, and there's a lot of energy, a lot of the time they tire me out. Emma is funny, short,nice (haha not), sarcastic, and fun to be with. Like I said before, she likes filming herself so I have this feeling that she'll be in a lot of my videos.
I have a lot of child hood memories with Emma, the most detailed one I remember was the magic fairy and the chocolate eggs, but I'll make another blog post on that one later. I don't know about you, but for me, first through third grade it was all about webkinz. Emma and I would set up playdates with our webkinz, Africa, my elephant, and Max, her chocolate lab, were married and had a bunch of kids (... how?...) Then Em and I would play school with them where we were the teachers and we taught the 'students' which were Africa and Max's children, plus others. I don't like monkeys, I don't think they're cute so she had a gorilla monkey and he was always the mean one, since I didn't like gorilla's. He was always being mean to the other webkinz, knocking them off seesaws, bullying them, and whatnot. Emma once told me she felt bad for him and wanted to change the mean one, I said no. For one of her birthdays, I gave Emma a toy microscope, so we would cut the 'fur'/fuzz off our webkinz and look at it under the microscope for disease and stuff. Would you believe me if I said we found a bunch of different diseases in them and treated them immediately? Em and I, best scientists around. Once Emma and I even tried to train her dog, Montie, with dog food. I remember for while Nintendogs was a thing. Emma and would get together on Fridays, hook up our Ds's and make playdates with our dogs. We did some pretty strange things as children I'll admit.  

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Caroline

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Caroline Rose O'Hagan 'Care'
Caroline is fairly new to our school, she arrived just last year. I remember when she visited BACS when we were in 6th Grade, my first impression of her was that she was really tall and didn't seem very interested in anyone but Dara. Which, I'll admit I was kind of offended by, especially since Dara and I weren't good friends back then. She seemed kind of awkward, but who wouldn't be when visiting a different school with a bunch of crazy kids? I swear when we graduate the teachers are going to say like "Thank God the class of 2015 is gone, they were the worst class to have ever come through the school" haha. I tried to be nice to her and all but I later found out she just thought I was weird. Ouch, Care. Whatever, I am weird. The way Caroline and I actually started talking was when she responded to one of Dara's mass text messages and I got it. I was actually with Fiona at the time and I got a text from a strange number saying something about it being cool or something. So if you didn't know, my old crappy phone didn't do group conversations so I would get every question separately. I remember once when my friend, Ursula, sent out a text message of a Flyers Game picture to like all her contacts I ended up texting her Aunt Emily for a while afterwards because I got the reply. Back to the point, so this weird number texted me and I said "Who is this?" then Caroline said something like "I don't know you let's stop texting" But in a politer manner but I insisted on knowing who it was so she finally said "Are you friends with Dara?"
Like I said before Dara and I weren't good friends at the time but we were still friends, so I said yes and we ended up texting from there. So over the summer I texted Caroline a lot an I thought we were becoming good friends, I did end up going to her house once that summer, too, which no one else had done (yay). Later I found out Caroline also thought I was weird for texting her.... Okay then.
In the beginning of our 7th Grade year, Care and I were practically best friends, but then someone unfortunately told me that Caroline had lice and everyone else that Caroline had lice so Caroline stayed away from me for a good part of the rest of the year. FYI there was no lice. But near the end of the year when we were both at Dara's house (we had already started re-bonding over both of us wanting to see the movie Endless Love staring Alex Pettyfer) when I told Care that someone had told me she had lice and then she told me that that same person had told her that I had lice. After that we started hanging out a lot more and now Caroline is one of my best friends. We talked a lot over the summer and hung out quite a few times. Care, if you're reading this, I'm still planning on stealing your pool. So Care and I are both in all the same classes this year which is great because we can sit next to each other in them. Having really good friends in your classes makes them a lot more durable. (If you hadn't already figured that out) Care is not yet in any of my videos, though I'm anticipating her being in one soon, hopefully. She's not as into that type of thing as Emma or Fiona, though. Caroline is funny, outgoing, witty (occasionally), she can be nice, understanding and she's very trustworthy. Plus, she likes my cooking. Plus she has a pool. She's really enjoyable to be with, though me next to her isn't too great since I look like a midget next to both her and Fiona who are both quite a bit taller than me.
When Care and I hang out a lot of the time we'll walk down to bwell bakery and fight over food, so if anyone from bwell is reading this, the tall pale girl and the short asian fighting over food and possibly slapping each other is most likely Caroline and I. I actually just got back from watching Caroline's sister, Sophia's tennis practice for Caroline. We went to bwell fought over food, then walked back to the tennis courts. I'm trying to teach he the books of the Word, I just spent the last hour and forty five minutes trying. She kept saying Jedidiah for everything along with Jeremiah and Joshua. Yeah.....We're still working on it.
Care plays soccer and she's really good at it. I can't play soccer for my life, it's my least favorite sport, lol. 

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Fiona

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Fiona Spring Hogan 'Fi'
She's crazy. Fiona's one of my best friends, we became friends in the fifth grade after she got her adenoids and tonsils out. I got mine out when I was four so I felt for her, and brought her ice cream, it was Ben and Jerry's so naturally our friendship bloomed from there. I remember sometime in the fall of that year when I was making lunch she came up behind me and said something like 'your hair looks really pretty down' and I was surprised that she talked to me, we weren't really in the same friends groups.. at all. (I didn't have really any close friends in my grade at the time tbh)  But it wasn't until like February/January that we became friends.
Fifth Grade was also the year both of us got our first phones. Luckily for our parents we both had unlimited texts messaging otherwise they'd be paying a lot of phone bills, since I remember one Tuesday night (yeah I remember the day lol) we texted over a thousand messages each while she was still at home from the surgery. I remember I was at the ice rink for some reason that night but that was a really unnecessary detail.
The third term of our fifth grade year Fiona and I got pretty close, but over the summer we got even closer, I think it was probably because we were both free a lot. But it wasn't until sixth grade that we really became best friends. That year was fun, sixth grade has to have been my favorite year so far but I'll make another blog post on that some other time.
Over the summer after leaving sixth grade but before going into seventh my mom, Fiona and I went on two vacations together. Fiona and I also were probably together for over half of the summer. The first place we went that summer was what I call 'The Cottage' which is a cottage near Orangeville that my family has. We had a lot of fun there, in fact both the pictures  were taken there. We went tubing and pretty much just hung out on tubes in the river/stream talked, and teased each other. I remember making up a song with different lyrics to the song 'You Belong With Me' to tease Fiona, it annoyed her to no end. And then she stole my IPod every five seconds to take selfies (as seen on the top picture, I was in the shower) Anyway it was a lot of fun. We went to the Orangeville Fair, and jeez that thing is tiny, seriously the ferris wheel ride was 15 minutes because of how few people were there, we have a video of it.
The second vacation we went on was closer to the end of the summer, we went down to Core Point, North Carolina with my mom, notice how my sister isn't in either of those? That's because I carefully planned these specially so she'd be at camp during these time periods. North Carolina was definitely my favorite of the two vacations. We went tubing, it was so much fun. Fi and I came up with these things for the different handholds depending on which way the jet ski was turning, GEAR! for my hand holds and NEUTRAL! for Fiona's side. I remember the night before we went Jet Skiing and Fiona tipped the Jet Ski by leaning the wrong way.
7th Grade year Fi and I didn't hang out much in the fall term, but after the new year we started hanging out a lot more. Fiona is crazy, like I said before. She's loud, fun, really lovable, outgoing, insane and very bold and straightforward. So pretty much the opposite of me haha. Well, I can be those just around my friends though.  You'll probably see her in a lot of blog posts, pictures, and videos. Fiona likes making videos and having pictures taken. I love Fiona, she's really trustworthy and she likes eating my food. Most of the time I'm bribing her with the food I cook and bake. It's nice having her around to taste test, haha. She likes my food, listens to me ramble about books, listens to me, and likes me, what's not to love?
Oh, and I forgot to add, Fiona's really good at sports, like field hockey and soft ball. 

Monday, February 23, 2015

Europe 2014 (Lake District and Scotland)

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The day after London we left the place in Oxford and drove, three to four to five to six hours up to The Lake District. The Lake District was definitely my favorite place to stay maybe it had to do with the fact we stayed there for six days or maybe because it was so pretty or maybe because the bed and breakfast we stayed at was very comfortable. Zia and I stayed in room three while our parents stayed in room six. I got the big bed in the bedroom since Zia made me sleep in a cot last time. We also got the good bathroom, but not a good view. Unfortunately no air conditioning so if we were in the room during the day it was boiling, especially the days without any breeze outside. Howard, Rosa, John, Sophia and Francesca were also staying there, except in a cottage instead of in the bed and breakfast. We had dinner with them the first night, it was a three course meal, the main course being roast beef and dessert was custard and a cookie. After that we went our separate ways. So the wi-fi in the place we were staying sucked unless you were in a certain place, the best wifi spot was on the stairs which was right outside Zia and my room. So we were sitting on the stairs a lot. I finished the Bloodlines books 1-4 there as well as the Shatter Me Series by Tahereh Mafi. Actually, I finished the Shatter Me series in one day. So the first official full day we were in the Lake District we took a boat across the Lake. Except, of course we had to walk to the boat landing. That was rather complicated since we had to walk through a bunch of sheep fields, climb a few fences and then walk all the way back because it was the wrong way to get there, we nearly missed the boat after running to get there. After going across the lake, we were at a small place where there were a bunch of ducks, and people. We ate at the cafe that was right next to the dock, I got a smoked salmon sandwich and a smoothie, sound familiar? I got A LOT of smoked salmon, from the airports, cafes, etc. After lunch, I went out and fed the ducks the crust from my sandwich and that's where my duck feeding obsession started. Our families separated, Francesca wanted to stay by that area and run in one of those blow up hamster ball type things that float in the water, so while their family stayed, my family walked about an hour through a bunch of sheep and cow fields to get to the fair that was on the other side.
Guess what? We would've had to pay like $12 US each to get into the fair and only have been there for like six minutes before having to walk back, so we just walked back. We walked all the way there for nothing. Joy.
On day two Zia, John, Francesca, Howard, and my dad went to a place called Go Ape. I decided not to go because 1. I'm slightly scared of heights 2. It didn't sound fun for me. So I saved some toast from breakfast and after having a lunch of half a scone and some tea with my mom, I went down to the lake to feed some ducks. Unfortunately on our side of the Lake there weren't as many ducks and the ducks were scared of me. I did feed them though, there was one duck which I affectionately named TMD, meaning The Mean Duck because it chased away and bit any other duck trying to get bread, though I was able to evade that duck throw bread one way, and while the duck was getting it, throw some to the other ducks. I read most of the day, but for some reason by the end of the day I was exhausted. I think it was the time zone difference. I have no idea what time tone my head was in, it wasn't England's or New York's lol.
I was really missing my friends by then, especially when Zia and I got into fights. Because of the time difference it was really hard to find a way to text Caroline on Viber, plus, Caroline if you're reading this, you're really bad at replying in the next five minutes. or replying. period.
On day three we took the bed and breakfast's row boats and went rowing across the lake for the whole day. It was really hot. We stopped at a hotel across the lake for lunch, I got, guess what, a smoked salmon sandwich and a glass of lemonade. The lemonade was amazing there, it was like French lemonade but a little lighter. I saved half of my sandwich to feed the ducks later (the bread not the salmon) and stuffed it in my dad's backpack. After about an hour of rowing after lunch, it got hot. I was wearing my bikini under my clothes so I just lay across the front of the row boat in the sun, that got pretty hot after a while too, though. We eventually stopped at a beach a long ways away from the bed and breakfast. It didn't look like anyone had ever been on that beach, how do I know that? There were a bunch of skipping stones on the beach. I went swimming for a bit but the water was freezing so I got out pretty quickly. And Ugh, guess what I found? A sheep carcass what in the world ate it I have no idea. It was a bunch of fur and bone. And ew I found it's foot. That was really gross.
So rowing back was hot and took a while, once we got back I showered, and then went outside for dinner, which was fish and chips. I finally got a coke, and Raziel it was refreshing, I'd been living off tea and water for the last few days. If you didn't know, I hate water it tastes horrible.
Day four we went pony trekking up the mountain. I was seriously scared my pony would run off or something, Kitty was not being a good pony. she kept stopping to eat and walking off the trail. I don't have a fractured skull right now, so I'm okay. It was REALLY hot out and wearing sneakers and long pants was not helping. It was a really fun pony ride if you put those two things aside, and my upper legs didn't hurt too much afterwards. After we got back to the Coniston (town closest to the bed and breakfast) we stopped at a place and got ice cream, I got honey comb, it was new and interesting. Oh, I forgot, while I was on Kitty, a fly bit my hand and it swelled and the bone in it hurt. For dinner we went to a pub like dinner place, getting dinner took forever so during the wait we talked about some pretty random things. I was able to convince Francesca that the Shatter Me book cover was a mountain. 
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I'm still not exactly sure how. I got scampi for dinner, it came with chips *cough fries and coleslaw. The fries were really good but I got full after the scampi and coleslaw so I let Zia, John and Francesca have the rest. Apparently I put too much salt on which is funny because I would've added more if I were to continue eating them.
Day five I really enjoyed, everyone else went out to climb the mountain but since I didn't bring my inhaler with me I didn't go so I had the whole day to myself. For the first part I was up in my room sprawled across my bed, reading, but after I went down and had lunch (crisps, smoked salmon sandwich, tea) I sat on this green leather couch in one of the extra rooms that I had recently (the day before) found comfortable for reading. I read the whole Shatter Me series that day.
Over dinner we were talking about british and american words. We got into an argument over cookies and biscuits. Apparently they think cookies like Oreos are called biscuits. Even though it clearly says 'Milks favorite cookie' on the box. It even has milk on the box. Ugh now I'm craving Oreos. Anyway biscuits are those delicious flakey layered bread rolls. 
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Day six we got breakfast,packed up, said goodbye to Howard's family and drove to Scotland. On our way there we stopped at Hadrian's wall, it was hot out so Zia and I were none to happy to be stopping. Also, the walk up to Hadrian's wall was like ten minutes and it was really hot, smelly, and stinky because it was a sheep field and the sheep crapped everywhere. I was pretty much done with sheep by the time we left England. Hadrian's wall in on the border of Scotland and England so on one side is Scotland and the other England. The England side of Hadrian's wall was a whole lot stinkier because of all the sheep crap, I did not enjoy walking on the pathway covered in it. Sorry, but I was in a bit of a bad mood then, but I calmed down before Zia did.
 
 
In Scotland we stayed with Helen and Neil Laidlaw. Helen is a really good cook. On day two of being in Scotland and our first full day there went to Edinburgh. By then I was just ready to go home, not because I was home sick but because I really missed my friends and honestly, I was getting kinda/really annoyed with my family, I don't usually spend that much time with them. Usually/never. Edinburgh was cool, we got to go to the Elephant House which was where JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter, the bathroom is covered in writing, people saying thank you to JK  Rowling and such. Edinburgh castle was kinda cool, I was kind of/pretty bored of sightseeing by then, though, plus Zia was making me really grumpy so I didn't take many pictures there.
Day three of being in Scotland we visited Tantallon Castle, I enjoyed looking around. For lunch we went to a place where I got a bunch of smoked fish samples to eat. We ate outside, so it was funny because there was a pool in the ocean and a bunch of people were swimming in it. Where it is too cold for us to go swimming, it was warm for the people in Scotland.  In Scotland and England the currency is pounds, which pretty much you double the amount of pounds and that's the amount of US dollars it is. Stuff in Europe was expensive
 
So from Scotland we flew three hours to Iceland then flew six hours back to New York. I was 92% done Lola and the Boy Next Door when my Kindle Fire shut down so I had to wait the last thirty minutes, plus going through customs, then renting a car, to get in the car, and charge my kindle so I could finish the book. That pissed me off. So we had the two hour drive home and when we got back, we were all really jet lagged, I stayed jet lagged for a couple days after. All in all the trip was pretty good. I read 23 books in two weeks, which I was pretty proud of.

Thanks for reading! :)
Anji