Top Five TIps For A New School.

Starting a new school can be challenging. (I should know)
Every school is different, but i believe i have enough experience in 'first days' in order to give you my top five tips for surviving you first day at school. (I promise i will try not to be that cliche!)

Here we go!!

1.)    If you have a locker, then take as much as possible on the first day to save time and effort over the next year. However, if you do not have a locker, then only take what you need for each day, in order to spare your back from the torture of carrying round a bag all day.

2.)    Each morning, arrive at school with plenty of time to spare, so you can get to know your way around and make use of any of the school's facilities if you need to. (Just don't get lost!)


3.)    Pay attention to the push/pull signs on the building's doors, this will limit the amount of embarrassing red bumps on your forehead.


4.)    If you do not have a 'buddy' or 'pal' to show you where to go on your first day, then i'm sorry, its up to you! Either find somebody with a timetable similar to yours and follow them around as much as you can, or spend the next two weeks asking for directions.


5.)    TEACHERS ARE FRIENDS! NOT FOOD! I know that teachers at a new school can be intimidating, but, no matter what you think, or how much homework they give you, they are honestly trying to help. I promise :) Don't argue with them (unless you know your right ;) ) and make sure that they remember you for the good things, not the bad.




So there you have it, my top 5 tips to your first day at a new school.

I told you i was strange,

Kind regards
Saona 

HEY EARTHLINGS!!!!!

So today someone (admittedly someone who knows me ) told me that they read my blog. HAHAHA I didn't think anyone ever did, so that's cool. :) Hello epic person if you read this!! 

I told you I was strange...

New School??? No worries!!!

HELLO EARTHLINGS!!!

So you know that feeling when something amazing happens but you don't really feel anything??? I don't know how really to describe it but its like it hasn't sunken in. You cant tell if its real or not so there's no need to get excited??

No?? Well maybe its just me.

Anyway, I had this feeling all through the Miley Cyrus 'Bangerz' Concert that I went to. I had this feeling all throughout my previous 'relationship' (if you could call it that anyway). But I also had this feeling today.

We left at half seven, to get there by eight. The car-park was massive, but somehow it still took us a while to find a space. The glass doors at the entrance, which I had originally thought of as a bit daunting, now seemed comforting and welcoming.

Today was my orientation day at my new school. WOW! I had a great time. Picked up my school laptop (which I am using now), and got to the know the school and meet some of the guys and girls in my grade. Can't wait till day one! (even if I have to start it with a 90 minute Physics lesson. HELP!!!)

Thanks to my dad for being the day's TAXI service, and thanks to John Paul College for giving me a wonderful tour.

Love to you all,

Cheers, Saona.

So its been ages since i posted a 'This is Me' and i think i have changed quite a bit so here goes: 

Hello Earthlings!! 

This funny little box at the corner of my computer screen is asking me to describe myself...i don't really get why but whatever. Hello! My name is Saona and I am very strange. I like music, and video games, but i have a passion for Science. Ernest Rutherford once said that: 'all science is either physics or stamp collecting'. Now, i am positive that he did not mean to deny the other sciences any value, but his opinion is handy for me as, although i am currently studying Chemistry as well as Physics, i am hoping to branch of this into my chosen pathway of High Energy Particle Physics at university. Yeah. I told you i was strange. I also like Astronomy, and I am a member of the 'Astrology is Rubbish' club. Or at least i would be if it existed. 

When people say that it is hard for a Catholic to become a scientist i would agree with them 100%. However, while i am a Catholic by birth, i am also comfortable with the unknown, and i like to have answers to find :) 

So thats me. What about you?

2015. A new start

It is almost 2015. The start of a new year. We did an alright job this year. But there were mistakes. The international news channels of 2014 were flooded with stories of war, death, bad times and just general upset abroad. This was brought to us in a huge way with the terrible news of the Sydney Siege on the 15th of December. We lost 2 Australian citizens in an act of violence that should never have taken place. #iwillridewithyou . 

However, there was an increase in charity donations in 2014. On top of this, efforts made by celebrities such as #bandaid30 helped raise funds for poverty in Africa and similar places. More and more people are donating, not only funds, but other necessities to those who have less. 

A few weeks ago I had the extraordinary pleasure of volunteering for Operation Christmas Child, the charity that ask for shoeboxes filled with small Christmas presents for children suffering abroad. I was overwhelmed by the generosity of the thousands of people that donated as we sifted through more boxes than we could count.

It is operations and charities like these, as well as individual acts made by people that help to balance out the evil acts that have been committed. 

Although we can never fully compensate for the destruction of wars, or upsets, we can sure damn well TRY. 

So it is coming up to 2015, and let's not only start a new year, but a new era, one that we can cherish. An era where poverty is severely lessened, where religious people can feel safe in public and visa versa. The era when we recognise that we are not several countries fighting their own battles. But one planet, with its communities fighting eachother's  as a whole.

So here here, to a new start. 

NOTHING TO DO WITH ME.

Nothing to with ME. 

There’s a war going on

And people are dying

Children are sick

And women are crying,

The innocent damned,

But I’m not one for prying-

It’s nothing to do with me.

I saw in the paper

A boy with a gun

His clothes were all torn,

And his laces undone,

His eyes seemed to me

Like they’d never known fun-

It’s nothing to do with me.

I heard on the telly

A car bomb exploded

The men were all dead...

But their guns were reloaded

By locals who jeered

And taunted and goaded.

It’s nothing to do with me.

So why are men fighting?

What’s it all for?

Can anyone tell me

Who’s winning this war?

And how are they able

To ever keep score?

It’s nothing to do with me.

And then in the playground

I heard someone say,

‘The fight against terror

Is coming our way.’

And so during R.E.

I join hands and pray,

‘Cause they’re doing it all for me.

                                       ~ Saona Bailey 

This is me.....

Hi.
So not many of you guys know me. in fact i'm not even sure if I know me. I have multiple personalities. to some people i am a crazy, outgoing spontaneous teenager, who will do anything for a laugh. On the other hand, i am looked at weirdly, as if i am some sort of disease that nobody wants to touch, or even go near. But this doesn't matter, because what ever people see me as, the only thing that i see myself as is myself. And so here is me:


Hi, my name is Saona and i am 15 years old. I like to think of myself as friendly, but that does not mean that I do not form my own opinions! I like animals (especially horses), and have been riding for almost 5 years. if there is anything that i love over riding, it would be acting. i love the theatre, and am never scared to express myself in the form of someone else. (LOL). My current dream is to get into NYFA. It would be an amazing start and i hope i will one day get that opportunity.

I like to think that this blog has an 'open door policy', so feel free to tell me how you are, and if you need any advice.

God Bless,

Spain Photography/ 2014/ copyright to Sienna & Saona/ to use email Saona

Cheers
 Saona