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Seventeen Things I have Learnt This Summer

1. I turned seventeen one week and one day ago...
2. But turning seventeen, erm, doesn't seem to have changed anything.
3. If you don't run for a bus, you won't catch it...
4. If you do run for a bus, the driver will be out for a fag break.
5. Calling someone older than you "kid" will not go down well, even if it is only because you are being influenced by 1960's classic The Sting.
6. Calling someone younger than you "kid" is also quite patronising. Just, avoid it :).
7. If it rains on Saint Swithland's day (which it did), legend has it it will rain for 40 days and 40 nights (which it feels like).
8. Dracula owns Twilight. Nuff said.
9. My friends pwn yours. Again, nuff said.
10. The small lines between squares of Dairy Milk chocolate are just recommended guidelines, and do not limit your consumption in any way whatsoever.
11. People can surprise you - well there's a generic comment if I ever saw one!
12. The Stig is much more friendly than anticipated...
13. However, drunken street fights are exactly as terrifying as imagined.
14. The living is not as easy in Summertime as the song would have you believe.
15. Prolonged contact with younger siblings in the holidays may have damaging effects on one's wellbeing.
16. "Being" defies the rule of "i before e, except after c..."

AND

     17. It's impossible to die from holding your breath.

That was interesting :).

This summer seems to be full of so much, but nothing whatsoever. I'm filming as much of what I do as possible, for a theatre project. I'm also reading as much as I can for my English class, devising as much as I can for my Extended Project, and writing in the first collab story I've taken up on here; I've never written anything quite like it!

Who knows, I might find some more time for Protag - when I have time for Internet!