CAPTAIN'S LOG (edited version):-

CAPTIAN'S LOG - 2002 (my summer - the way i want to remember it) 6:56 20/07/02 today was boring, it's saturday and i'm starting a summer diary (yay!) that's an indication as to just how bored i am. We broke up for summer on thursday, me and emma went back to her house and got changed to walk down into chesham but then her dad came running up saying something about emma having a god-bothering (christian club [light house type thing]) meeting with some people so i went to chesham on my own. Which was nice. It turned out okay though 'cause i bumped into people from my year at school so i just satyed with them, and just sat there for a bit. Then i helped people put posters for the "ultimate solution" gigs (please note, that is ultimate, not final. I was not advertising genicide) which was also... nice. on friday (yesterday) i had planned to walk to chesham wih jocelyn to meet emma and beth but instaed we decided to go to alesbury on the train with sophie (who was going to meet her friend clare windsor at the station) we shopped until we dropped. not. we actually shopped until we got bored of shopping (which did'nt take long) we went home by train, clare was picked up and we went to the bury field to play on the swings. we talked to some people outside the lighthouse tents (me and sophie are helping at light house next week) then walked up the hill and got a lift from my mum. we got home and i ate dinner (cous - cous) then i went over to sophie and jocelyn's, watched rat race, came home to put my rabbit away and went back to their house 'til 11.10 when i came home to watch a double bill of south parc (it was hilarious) followed by big brother live. Tim was evicted from the big brother house last night (hooray!) i hate him. today i woke up, got changed, went to amersham with my dad (we went shopping in tesco's) then i came home and sorted out my cupboard (which books to burn, keep, throw away etc) and listened to music in my room. then dave sibley came to the door asking if i could babysit. i said yes even though i'm supposed to be going to a gig tonight. i'm just not going to go because i cant afford to spend �20 in opportunity and �5 on the door. that's about it really, i'm waiting for dave sibley to call me to come over. right now i'm going to eat dinner (falafels) and watch charmed. maia. 11:38 21/07/02 dave sibley called quite soon afterwards, i ate up and went over. the kids were still awake so i read them stories 'til they fell asleep, then jack played on his playstation until he was too tired to stay up so he went to bed (10:15pm) dave came back at about 11:45 and payed me �20 which i'm planning on buying a banana bar for my belly - button (i got it pierced) with. well now it's sunday and i'm writnig to waste some time 'cause i can't have a bath 'til my parents have gone out (they keep needing the bathroom) later i'm going to two light house meetings. a training session at 3:00, and a commision at 6:00 (a commision, i found out, is a sort of get together where everyone makes sure they're happy with everything - not communion which i thought it was.) so i'm going to walk down to the bury field later (i'll set off at about twenty to three) where it's being held. my parents are going to london so i'll have to walk up the hill from the first meeting and probably from the second as well, which might take a while because road works mean that i can't go the usual way (perhaps i'll set off at half past...) but instead i have to go by the church. (do you live by the church? - twelfth night) well i dont really have anything else to say, i'll write again later about how the light house meetings and whether or not they make me take communion. maia. 8:22 21/07/02 so i went to the training session at 3:00 which was nice, i walked there and got blisters on my heels from not wearing socks. sophie was there and we sat and listened to what the man had to say, then joined in with such songs as "i am a light house" and "our god is a great big god" which was... nice. then i walked home at 5:00, grabbed something to eat and walked back down for the commision. i was the only one not praising. evreyone was singing, dancing, clapping and having fun. i on the other hand was not. i stood for a while, then sat, then (on command) stood back up again. then i went to another tent to talk to my age group leader. i am in the 8's group wiyh the barracudas. after much hassle i found out that a barracuda is a type of fish. i don't know what's happening about the groups though because there appears to be one light house keeper and three lamp lighters (myself included) and i kind of think that's quite alot of people to look after sixteen children. perhaps not, but i seem to remember there only being one lamp lighter and one light house keeper when i used to go. i've been watching a programme called "big stuff" which is (as the title suggests) about big stuff. no, it really is, the narrator is saying things like "it's so big that it would be as hard to climb as mounting a dinosaur." and before the water - shed, honestly! i'm going to have some strawberries and condensed milk now. maia. 4:40 22/07/02 the strawberries were nice. i called emma to invite her to a lights out thing but she was asleep. i must stress that i called at 9:06. 9:06! who's asleep at 9:06 in the summer holidays?! i watched tv after that and slept some more. in the morning i was woken up by the loud (annoyingly loud) voice of my dad saying "no, i haven't woken maia up yet," i sat in bed thinking "oh haven't you..." then i got dressed and walked down the hill to go to light house. when i got there i stood around looking like a loner for a while until i found kate davies and we met up with our light house keeper corrina. we somehow aquired sixteen or so children, (ergh... eight year olds) who were a little annoying. we started theday with singing and dancing (mmm... more please!) then we had teaching, games (during which i met up with sophie who was doing crafts and we got orange juice) light house (followed by lunch), drama, and finally craft (i met up with mellissa and we went to get tea.) the kids didn't talk to me that much, one girl spent most of the day telling me about her wobbly tooth while another boy (ginger andrew - my new arch enemy) refered to me as "ugly woman" and a boy (who i can't remember the name of) informed me that "you look like a clown with the trousers," my immediate responce of course was to turn around and say "you look like a clown with that face but who's complaining?" at the end of the day i made a hasty escape (so i could get away from the praising session) and a lady approached me: "excuse me, can i have a look at what's around your neck?" (i turned to face her) "did you make that necklace today?" "no," i replied, "a kid i babysit for made it for me when i came over a while ago." (she looked puzzled) "its mine" i added. she smiled (like a retard) and walked off. i then walked home and my mum drove me to the post office where she bought me a lemo - pop, (a lemo - pop is a type of ice lolly thing) which was nice. i'm going to see a band called b@sic tonight (it's a lights out thing - light house) i'll probably walk down and get picked up by my mum at 10:00. well that's about it, i'll write more when i've been to this lights out thing. should be interesting. not. maia. 5:40 23/07/02 the lights out thing was quite boring, i just sat there while sophie talked to her old school friends reminissing and talking about "what ever happened to..." which was nice and excluding of them. then she got offended when i said that listening to her going on about shitty mcshitterson and his friends was getting boring. i handed out afropac website flyers, everyone read the backs and laughed. one person came up to me looking furious announcing "i did not have an operation to enlarge my butt!" then my dad picked me up (at 10:00) and i went home, ate nachos, watched tv and helped my brother with his website 'til i went to bed. i woke up this morning and prepared myself for another fun - filled day in the tents of our lord. i made friends with some of the eight year olds today. hannah (who enjoys nothing better than to sit on me) and jack (who "comes from spain y'know") so that was good. sophiewas being distant (she had more important friends to talk to) so i spent most of today with mellissa which was hilarious because we went to the beads tent being "beadophiles" and talked to mr munday who told her to "say hello to your mother for me." then we got tea and watched people playing games, i tried to convince my children to make beads for me but it didn't work, they're all too smart (although they all seem very young for eight - year olds.) well, that's about it, i got a call from sarah, wanting (as usual) to know where rhys was (i think sarah really just wants to talk to me and uses that as an excuse but whatever.) i said i din't know and she hung up. that's about it really, today i'm going to hunt a grockle (for the simple reason that i want to find out what a grockle is) at another of these lights out things. sounds interesting don't you think? no? ah well. maia 4:41 24/07/02 so a grockle turned out to be a person in fancy dress (not a little green thing then.) and i didn't win one (darn) mr munday was a grockle and me and jocelyn had a great time sitting down in different places in missenden with hannah lambert, we talked to some of sophie's friends and they were like "maybe... no..." so we left them alone. we went home and i talked to melissa and joe on the swings for a bit then went to see sophie at dave and jo sibley's house, i came back and went to sleep (i was so tired!) and woke up bright and early to walk into missenden again (oh joy of all joys!) to go to lighthouse once more. i took the time to learn some of the kids' names today there's ginger andrew, my buddy jack, wobbly tooth hannah, brown haired katie, brown haired sophie, christopher "i-wont-hold-hands-with-hannah-because-she's-a-girl", sebastian (whose favourite song is follow the leader), ewan (who got hit in the face by sebastian), sam (who wanted to do pressed flowers), joshua (who i used to live next door to), and at least three others that i've forgotten about because they have no defining qualities whatsoever. my light house keeper (siting down carina) and adult lamp lighter (ross) aren't going to be there tomorow so me and kate davies (in the year above me at school) have to look after fourteen or so children all day. tonight there is a sort of water fight type thing but you don't have to get wet, i want to go but i cant get anyone to go with me (i even tried emma and her mum replied [she must have been asleep again...] to say that she couldn't go) well i'll write back when i know if i'm going or not. maia 5:40 24/07/02 i found someone to go with me - georgia. we're going to set off at like 6:40 and walk down the hill (the total number of times that i've walked to or from missenden in the last 5 days - 13 [14 after me and georgia go down tonight]) will inform you about how wet we get. maia 4:13 25/07/02 so me and georgia went to the lights out thing and didn't get very wet (dispite jamie's efforts) but did get damp when hannah lambert hugged us. her mum picked us up early (at 10:15) and i went home and watched tv with my family (which was nice). next i went to bed and woke up to walk to lighthouse. (again.) the kids at light house were sort of well - behaved today (i let andrew stand in for ross because he wasn't there - which kept him quiet) but the girls weren't climbering on me and annoying me constantly, me and mellissa went to see jack in the crafts tent which was funny because he was standing there (after having done sweets) licking his hands clean of chocolate. well, i'm going to take a bath now (does that make sense? can you take a bath?) oh, and also the total count of the walks to or from missenden is now 16. maia 6:08 25/07/02 it's only been two hours since i last wrote but i might not be able to go tonight (which would be piss annoying [heh heh]) because noone will go with me and i don't want to be there like a loner (alone) i tried sophie but she's at kirsty's house and kirsty doesn't want to go because there's someone there that she doesn't want to see or something, (my mum just said that she's going to pick me up at 10:00 if i do go, not 10:30 so that's nice. not) then i tried georgia but she can't get a lift there so she's not going. and i couldn't get hold of emma so i don't think she's going. i hate the way everyone's just like "maybe... no" because that's what it's like. maia 7:35 25/07/02 i'm not going now. are you happy? i'll just sit here at home because there'll be nothing to do and noone to talk to. thanks alot! maia 5:58 27/07/02 so i didn't go to that one, instead i stayed at home (which was increasingly boring as the night went on). the next day was so tiring. (being, as it was, the last day of light house) everyone was excited (and ridiculously sweaty!) i was so pleased that ginger andrew made me a necklace in crafts, he can't be all evil then. the label read: "goodbye, see you next year. from andy (maybe)" so i thought that was quite sweet. seeing as it was the last day i was finally allowed to make bracelets in craft ("woohoo!") so i made lots of beads for myself and am now adorned in various beautiful items of jewellry (how poeticly put). that night i went to the lights out thing which was fun, i walked down with sophie and spent the evening laughing because she managed to bump into someone whilst singing (quite loud) "lets go to the toilet... lets go to the toilet..." and laughing more when someone asked me: "are you going to the barndance tomorow?" it wasn't supposed to be a joke but that made it more funny. i said a final goodbye to everyone (who i'll probably never see again in my life) and got a lift home with sophie. i stayed the night at sophie's house with hannah chainberlain, kirsty, and natalie which was good because they're funny. in the morning we all walked down to missenden, hannah caught a train home while me and the others went to alesbury, kirsty got a train home and me, sophie, and natalie went back to missenden to hang around in the bury field until natalie's mum dropped me and sophie off. i'm quite bored now, the total count of missenden walks is now 22. maia 11:18 28/07/02 last night jake came home after having bought a bass guitar and a joypad thing (which turned out to be a console as well) we played on the bass and joypad/console for most of the night then i went to my room and watched angel and sent text messages to emma and beth (who are away on holiday). i don't have anything to do today so i'm going to my granny's house with my mum (to water her plants i think) because i have nothing better to do. i found out that the tribe is on everyday at 9:00am so i'll be watching that as well as heart break high which is on around 11:25am, so that's good. i want to go somewhere today (i don't know where) because i'm bored. i might catch a train to amersham or something. maia 10:44 29/07/02 i didn't go to my granny's house in the end. instead i walked down to missenden, bought coke and chewing gum, then walked back up again. which was boring. i sat at home for a while then went outside to play on the swings with tammy and joe, this morning i was woken up by my alarm clock at 9:00 to watch the tribe, which was... shite basically because the technos are in this series and everything is weird again. tomorow i'm going to see austin powers with georgia, we're going to catch the train to alesbury and watch it there. but today i'm doing nothing. at all. my mum has so kindly offered to take me to granny's house again, but i really don't want to go. why is this summer so boring?! i'm going to watch heart break high in half an hour. maia 8:08 29/07/02 heart break high was quite boring really because it was a really old one and all of the characters were unfamiliar. after that, my mum went to have a hair cut next door while i had a bath. then we went to granny's house and to rent a video (being john malkovich) and picked jake up from chesham. granny gave us some fudge which she had bought on holiday. i watched the video (which i thought was hilarious) and now am typing to you, i might go outside soon (if more interesting people come out to play). oh, and the total count of missenden walks is now 24. maia 7:16 30/07/02 so i went outside yesterday (which was fun) and talked with the people on the swings, then i burnt all of my un-needed school books and went to bed. i woke up at 9:00 to watch the tribe and georgia arrived at about 10:30, we walked down to missenden (making the total 25) and caught a train to alesbury. we saw sophie when we were there (she was there with natasha, katie and keary) who was also going to see austin powers three. our screening was earlier than theirs so we saw it at different times. it really was hilarious! we saw some people that i remembered from lighthouse and said hi to them, then we got the train back home and got a lift back up the hill from my mum (who took us to prestwood first to return a video). we also rented two films: star trek and event horizon (which is supposed to be scary). tomorow i have nothing planned, i might sun - bathe or go dog - walking with sophie, i'm not sure. tash gets back on saturday and jocelyn gets back on wednesday so i should find more things to do by then. maia 4:52 31/07/02 last night i went to sophie's house and we "hung out" for a couple of hours, then i came home and watched the first half of event horizon (which was more gorey than scary really, but still...) then watched Oz in bed and the begining of a film about a hairdresser who can read minds. why does Oz have to be so violent? it would be quite good if the prisoners didn't have a brothel or riot of some kind in every episode. i went to sleep and woke up in the morning at around 11:30. i lay in bed for a while listening to my mum and brother talking for a while. mum: "have you got any plans for today?" jake: "no, not really," mum: "Ah well..." jake: " i plan to wake maia up." mum: "she's already awake." me: "heh heh, what an evil little plan!". i got dressed and got out of bed to watch the second half of event horizon (which explained where the ship had been). then i had to take a letter to our neighbour (IT'S ALWAYS ME WHO HAS TO DO THESE THINGS!) please ignore the fact that that is in capitals, i can't be bothered to change it. after this i went to amersham (tescos) with my mum and brother to buy rabbit food etc, and got home just in time for some tidying (mmm... my favourite!) i might go to the cinema tomorow to see men in black II with hannah versey, sophie, rhys, hannah chaimberlain and kirsty (i'm not sure about kirsty though.) we're going to get fish 'n' chips but without the fish. and with spring rolls (roll, jake isn't having one.) i will write again when i know if anything interesting is happening tomorow. maia 10:24 01/08/02 my mum and dad's band came round for a practise and they brought curry. the curry was very nice. i went to sleep after watching ally mc beal and some show about lesbians in australia. i slept well. today i am going to alesbury on the train (georgia is coming to my house first) to watch men in black II with a different set of people than i thought: hannah chaimberlain, rhys, georgia, and (if they can make it) sophie and hannah versey. so that should be good, georgia is arriving at around 11:00 and we'll walk down to missenden when she gets here (which will make the total missenden count 26). i will write more when i've seen the film. maia 10:36 03/08/02 so georgia arrived and we walked into missenden and caught a train to alesbury, we shopped for a while and i got some pulse point gel from boots with my advantage card, then we had to collect rhys from the train station (because he couldn't find the cinema by himself). when we got to the cinema we were a bit early, so we waited and then hannah chaimberlain arrived, followed shortly by sophie and hannah versey. we watched the film (which was quite boring actually, and the sound dissaperaed in the adverts) and left the cinema. we went to mcdonalds (i was hungry) and walked to the train station to get a train home. i said goodbye to everyone and me and georgia got off at missenden train staion. i walked up the hill while she got a lift from her mum (making the total missenden walks 27), when i got home i played outside on the swings with everyone until it was just me and joe, and my mum called me in. the next day i was looking forward (not) to another day of complete boredom until the phone rang and my grandma asked me if i wanted to come to staines with her and karys, they had to pick chester up from christian camp. first we went to cafe fresco and i had the most enormous pizza! then we went to marks and spencer (and bought a picnic dinner) and went back to grandma's house, where i had a shower. Hazel arrived to take us to staines and off we went. the journey was long (lengthened by karys' insesent moaning and whining) and when we arrived we watched a performance (which included such musical hits as... oh yes! Our God Is A Great Big God - which reminded me of the good old days of light house) the show lasted about an hour, after which we went back to grandma's. she took me home at about 9:30, i played on the swings (like yesterday) with everyone, then i came in and went to sleep. today i might go to see austin powers three again, or i might go shopping in wycombe, i haven't decided yet. maia 12:53 03/08/02 we are going to see austin powers 3 - gold member, we will set off at around three, and (if the mood takes my fancy) i might walk down to missenden where there is something called "strawberry jam" happening, but i probably won't go to that. maia 10:17 04/08/02 after i went to see austin powers again i went outside to play on the swings again. we all went to sue and mark's barbeque and ate veggi - burgers, we watched pretty woman at mellissa's house and came back to mark and sue's for more food. i stayed there until 11:30 when my dad called to tell me to come home. i stayed awake until 0:45 texting jocelyn, then i went to sleep. i didn't go to strawberry jam in the end, but little sam did and he said it was boring. maia 6:06 04/08/02 i've done very little today. i went with my mum to tesco, then i came home. i've spent most of the day playing on the computer and texting tash. i'm hopefully going to go to alesbury tommorow, i need to buy a swimming costume of some kind. maia 9:02 04/08/02 ooh crap! i just thought: if i go on holiday, how am i going to enter entries into my captain's log?! (i'm hopefully going to go to bournmouth with jocelyn to stay at her grandma's house) i suppose i'll just take a notepad and make notes on what happens. then i'll copy it up onto the computer. that should work. i just spoke to georgia on msn, and i'm going to talk to her more at 9:30 because i need to keep the phoneline free for my mum (incase she calls). nothing much else to say, twenty four is on tonight, i'll probably watch that, then maybe have a bath, or i could have one in the morning but realistically i'll just end up not doing it so i'll have one tonight, that way i'll be nice and clean for alesbury. maia 5:07 05/08/02 i spoke to georgia on msn, which was nice... then i watched tv and went to sleep. i woke up at around 8:10, then went back to sleep until 11:00. jocelyn called from liverpool. i'm definately going to go to bournmouth with her now. i walked down to missenden, (total count = 28) and caught a train to alesbury where i was going to meet tash. upon arriving at alesbury i realised that i'd been on the same train as tash, in the same carriage. we shopped ("til we dropped") and i bought a navel thing (which i'm supposed to snap - ?) and we went home. i walked back home (total count = 29) and had a nice "cuppa-T".maia 5:23 06/08/02 i watched tv and went to sleep. today i woke up early (thinking that i was going to st albans) and went on the internet for a while. i didnt go to st albans in the end, instead i walked down to missenden (total count = 30) and caught the train to alesbury, i bought sun - tan lotion and shampoo and conditioner, i got some flowers to give to jocelyn, then i went home, i walked up the hill (total count = 31) and went on the internet some more. maia 10:26 07/08/02 apres ca... after that i went on the swings and played (to my heart's content) and came home and went to sleep after watching oz. i woke up very early in the morning and had an "all you can wash buffet" - a bath. today i am going to go to watford with my mum and sophie because i need to buy things for my holiday. maia 8:24 07/08/02 so we went to watford and we shopped, before shopping we parked, before parking we crashed. my mum kind of collided with this lady in her big car which i thought was quite funny, everyone was fine, the other lady had a dent in her car but that was about it. we left our vehicles and went to the shops. first we ate, at burger king where we got men in black toys (which was nice), then we split up. me and sophie walked round for about an hour and a half trying to find some clothes that i'd actually like, afterwards we went round with my mum (who very kindly bought me lots of clothes) i got some new trousers from jane norman (they're light denim flares) a top from H&M (it's sort of got dark and light green stripes) and two tops from jeffry rogers (one strappy top and one that's kind of stretchy and too big) we got home and i got really hungry. i still am, i'm hungry. jocelyn is home, which has lighted up my life. maia 11:18 08/08/02 so i ate dinner (eventually) and went to sophie and jocelyn's house to play with jocelyn. then i came home at 11:00, watched ally mc beal and some programme about lesbian love stories and went to sleep. i woke up after dreaming about light house and came downstairs, i've made myself some noodles now (and i'm eating them). maia 7:40 09/08/02 yesterday i had nothing much to do so me and jocelyn walked down to missenden (we had to buy things for our mums) and walked back up (but we sat on a bench in the church for quite some time) making the total missenden walks count 33. i went to jocelyn's house later and we decided to have a "bring 'n' buy sale" because we need some money. today i am going to work with my mum because i need money. maia 9:08 10/08/02 i went to work with my mum (which was considerably more boring than i had prepared myself for) then we went to the galleria in hatfield (which is so cool because it has loads of bargain shops, a crazy golf course, remote controlled cars and these huge "momma" trampolines with these harnesses attatched so you go really high, it also has a cinema and lots of resteraunts, fast food places and a casino type place as well as pubs, discount factory stores and in burger king when you get a kids meal you get a men in black toy!) and shopped for my brother's birthday and for a bikini (but we didnt find a bikini). it's my brother's 18th birthday today, he's 18. maia 4:14 12/08/02 i got back and went to a gig. it was fun, i saw lots of ppl i knew. the next day i didn't do much, i just stayed at home, then went o wycombe with my mum where i (finally) bought a bikini from new look (its just a plain black one that was in the sale for �6 in total) i came home, tidied a bit, started to pack my bag and went to sleep. today i haven't done much, i thought we were leaving for bournmouth today but apparently we're going tommorow.never mind. my parents went on holiday today, at like 4:00 in the morning. maia 8:38 14/08/02 it turns out we're leaving for bournmouth today at either 11:00 or 1:30, but i feel really sick from some food i ate and i think i might be sick, i'm not sure. maia 5:51 14/08/02 i didn't go to bournmouth in the end, i'd been sick (i think i ate something that didn't agree eith me) and didn't know whether i'd be alright on such a long car journey. so instead i'm staying at home with my brother and cousin. i'm going swimming tomorow with georgia, so that should be fun. maia 6:29 15/08/02 yesterday when i was feeling better i walked down to missenden to get some lemonade and coke, then i walked back (and was nearly sick in the grave yard) making the total missenden walks=35, today i walked down to missenden (36) and caught a train to amersham. we went swimming and sat around in the park for a while, then we caught a train back to missenden and walked up the hill (37). georgia has jut left, i'm about to make pizza and bubble and squeak for dinner. maia 11:29 17/08/02 after georgia left i went outside on the swings to play with everyone, then i came back inside at around 11:30 and watched zoo lander with my brother. yesterday i went to winsor with my granma, chester, and karys. we went on a boat (which was nice). when i came home i went over to ibber's while melissa was babysitting. i satyed there 'till around 1:00, then i came home and watched harry potter and lord of the rings with my brother. i went to my room and watched what i can only presume was the candyman (i've seen it before). then i wrote a letter to emma and went to sleep. today i am being picked up by georgia at 12:30, we are going to her house and then later going to a gig in amersham. i'm going back to her's to stay the night afterwards. maia 12:03 18/08/02 so i got picked up by georgia (who came really early so i couldn't get ready in time) and i went to her house. we spent most of the day at her house, then we went to chalfont (which was... erm... nice) and came back to watch friends. at 7:30 we arrived in amersham for the gig. it was fun, we saw many people we knew. we came back from the gig and watched cruel intentions, then we fll asleep. in the morning (today) i was dropped off by georgia's dad. i might go to chesham today at around 3:00, but i'm not sure. maia 6:23 19/08/02 i didn't go to chesham in the end, instead i walked down to missenden (38) and bought: coke, bread, tinned tomatoes and noodles. then i walsked back up (39) and played outside on the swings all night. today i went to alesbury cinema with sam bowden and joe, we walked down to missenden (40) and caught a train to alesbury. we watched scooby doo, i bought a new belli-ring, then we walked home (41). maia 7:12 20/08/02 today i walked to chesham, there i met emma, conor, rhys, naomi and beth. we "hung - out" for a while, which was nice. then my brother came to the skate parc and we left. we got trains home (i don't really understand trains) and i saw hannah chaimberlain at chalfont and latimer. (when i saw her i had forgotten that i had afropac written on my forehead.) then me and my brother walked up the hill from the train station (42). maia 12:05 22/08/02yesterday my brother left for reading festival so i stayed the night at my granny's house and she took me home in the morning. i walked to chesham again today and saw rhys. emma, beth and naomi were on a boat in london. i came home (rhys's mum dropped me off) and dave sibley asked me if i could babysit, i said yes ('couse i could) and went over from 8:00 to 12:00. they had an album (which i presume is from amersham and wycombe college) with dave sibley on the inlay and bill on the front cover, it's quite cool. granny is about to pick me up (its 12:05 at night) because i'm staying at her house tonight. maia 3:57 23/08/02 i went to alesbury today with mellissa, tammy and chloe. it was fun. i walked down the hill (43) and met them there. i bought some elastic bands from WHsmith's to plait rhys's hair with, a note book (which i really need for my GCSE's) a "fantastical" pencil to write in it with, and a 'toy' rat which i named dave. on the train home dave sibley called to ask if i could babysit tonight, i asked grandma then said i could. when we got off the train we decided to club together and buy a taxi. we had to wait for 15 minutes because one of the taxis was down. we sat down by the train station and waited. an old lady came along (also wanting a taxi) so i gave her my seat (i'm kind like that), then when the taxi arrived, not only did we let her have the first one even though we'd been waiting for longer, but i even carried her bags to the car - how kind am i? what's that you say? not very? how rude! maia 11:02 25/08/02 after babysitting i went to stay the night at grandma's house, in the morning i came back, walked into missenden (44) cought a train to amersham and met tash. we spent the day in amersham which was fun. we bumped into nick swallow and alex (i can't remember his surname) outside wimpy. me and tash went o the skate parc and to 'the climb' so she could show me where she goes climbing. we got an ice-cream and then tash had to go home. i caught a train to missenden and walked back up the hill (45). i was picked up by my grandma at 5:30 and taken out to eat with her, my grandad, val, alan, realton, sarah, hayden and jo. we went to nando's (hehehe). i satyed the night at her house again and in the morning (today) she took me home so i could tidy the house which wasn't actually all that messy because i tydied it a little while ago. grandma is picking me up at 11:45 (in half an hour) for sunday lunch. maia 12:35 26/08/02 i had luch, and then we went out for tapas in windsor, which was nice. today i'm tidying again. my mum and dad shopuld be back some time today. and my brother too, so i can sleep in my own bed for a change. maia 9:33 29/08/02 my mum and dad came back, i told them about dave (who was actually a real rat - hehe) and we went to sleep. the ext day i walked down to missenden (46), caught a train to alesbury with dave, bought some rat food and stationary, caught the train back and walked back up the hill (47). yesterday i went to the cinema with jo, jason and sam. we walked down to missenden, (48) caught a train to alesbury and watched "the sum of all fears". we got a lift back with joe's dad. maia 4:41 30/08/02 yesterday i had planned to go to chesham to see emma, but she had a head ache so i stayed at home with dave and 'played' outside with my friends on the swings. i went to sleep and woke up at 12:00 today. my dad had just come back from getting an ultra-sound... on his testicals. he (being as he is a funny guy) had asked for a photo of the syst (or whatever it is) and they had given him one. i was very bored and so decided to walk to missenden. which i did. i walked down the hill (48), bought some cola, lemonade and tinned tomates, and walked back up. (49). tommorow i'm plannning to go to the barbe-que on the green (its another excuse for our road to have a party - to use up all the leftovers from the last one - and so everyone can get drunk. again.) i might invite emma, i'll see how it goes. maia 9:25 03/09/02 on saturday i walked down to missenden (50) to get a train to amersham (where i met tash), i walked back up the hill as well (51) just in time for a barbeque. it was fun. everyone was eating (and drinking) and "a good time was had by all" (hehe) on sunday emma had arranged to 'surprise me' (as she'd been "bailing" on me all week, but her surprise turned out to be absolutely nothing. i satyed at home that day and went outside on the swings. on monday (yesterday) despite my efforts i did nothing once again because emma had said we would do something but managed as usual to cancel just at the right point so that it's too short notice for me to do anything else. today i have given up hope on emma (she can go f**k herself). it's the last day of the holidays and i'm going to alesbury with my brother to buy stationary. i will write one more final entry after this, then it's going to be GCSE time for me. maia 11:33 03/09/02 ah, the end is near (or nigh if you will). today me and jake went to alesbury (i bought stationary) which involved me walking down (52) and up (53) the hill. tommorow is chool and there will be no more entries, you may cry now... but it will get better. i'm going to watch fraiser (oh joy!) and oz now. i am now going to flush my captain's log. i bid thee fare-well. maia

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