Sun, sea, sand and stuff

Hi,

So I've decided to have main posts generally on Mondays and some smaller posts on other weekdays.

I'm quite happy at the moment, the sun has been shining a lot recently which means I have been sunbathing. I'm not quite as tanned as some of my friends, but I'm getting there! I've also been down the beach more than last year. Last week I went jumping off tommy rock (a rock just outside bordeaux harbour) into the sea with Ellie, in hindsight we were pretty pathetic, we managed to swim out to the rock, although I was sure that my muscles would seize up due to the cold and I would drown. It probably took us about 5 or 6 minutes to swim out there and then about 25 minutes to actually jump off. We only jumped once because it was freezing but it was fun and we will be going again!

There is supposed to be a meteor shower tonight so I'm waiting for that and I will post pictures later.

Bye for now

G

xxx

Sennen and surfing

Hey guys,

I'm so sorry that I haven't posted anything in about 5 weeks but I've been really busy and I'm currently in Cornwall on holiday.

I've been surfing pretty much every day this week, and the temperature has been in excess of 30 degrees and in some places over 40, which is ridiculous because this is England for gods sake. There hasn't been any wind so there is no other way to escape the heat other than the sea, which has been between 16 and 20 degrees. It's nice but it makes me regret bringing my winter wetsuit which is 5:4:3 (that's the thickness in mm, so at the thickest parts it will be 5mm and at the thinnest 3mm). 

We're currently driving up to Newquay to go to a surfboard factory to get my new board and Ellie will be pleased to know that I've finally decided what I want to put on my board! I've been stuck on that since march/April. There's this artist who does these pictures of surf in Hawaii and they're really nice and pretty simple images.

Her website is

www.heatherbrownart.com

I've been surfing with Sennen Surfing Centre this week and I've got more sessions next week so I'm happy. The surf instructors there are fantastic, and if you are looking for somewhere to learn to surf I would highly recommend sennen! After going there for 3 years in a row I have a lot of banter with the surf instructors, the topic this year is mostly my purple (now lilac because of the sun) hair which has one of the surf instructors borrowing my hair dye. Last year it was one of the instructor's hair (it looks like Justin bieber's hair). Yesterday I had to take the warm up session with another girl to see if we had what it takes to be a surf instructor, apparently we do!

I'm getting a Penny Skateboard and I think I'm going to get a white deck, turquoise wheels and either black or white trucks? (I believe that's what they're called).

I'm really excited because my parents are looking at cottages over here as holiday homes, so I can come back every summer and go surfing which is sick! Next year I'll be able to drive so my mum is making me do an advanced driving test so that I'll be able to drive over here. 

Speak to you soon!

G

xxx