JAM's first ever Expo!

Souuu desu ka?!

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One treachourous bus journey later, after staying up till the early hours of the morning watching 'Brother's Grimm' and eating copious amounts of pizza, and getting up at 5am having slept about 3 hours or so, driving down to London, and queueing for about an hour, Tam, D-G and I, along with Tam's dad arrived at the Expo.

That's right folks! On 25th October 2009, I , JAM, went to my first ever Expo!! If I had to sum it up in one sentence it'd be this;

"Omigawd I have been missing out!!"

The whole experience is amazing!! I've always thought that when you're an manga/anime fan it's like you're in a whole other world that 'normies' just don't understand, and expo is something that just sums up everything about anime, manga, video games & sci fi; it's fun, colourful, friendly and there are lots of free hugs!!! At first it's pretty odd getting hugged by complete strangers, but after about an hour or so of running up and hugging people with free hugs signs, and asking complete strangers if you can take a photo of them, you really get used to it! 

Everyone at expo is amazingly friendly! It's like, you go there and everyone treats you as a friend! Instead of getting stared at by chavvy kids in a bus station for wearing a domo hoody, I get hugged and complimented!!  Even waiting in the queue is fun!! just watching everyone in the queue walk by in all their diff. cosplays is great!

This was only a small portion of the epicly long queue.

At one point we had Ronald MacDonald behind us, and Pacman walking  past us xD it was ace!

Not to mention all the people walking past with free hugs signs! If you think one guy in the street with a free hugs sign is odd, then wait til you get to expo! there's so many it's just normal! you don't even think about it as odd at all, you're just running at them with your arms open x'D. And this happens even if you don't have a sign! We were waiting in the queue and a guy cosplaying as Haruhi came up and said "omg! DOMO!!!!" and gave me a massive hug! 

A very friendly giant Kon who we glomped~! (btw that curly brown haired person in a humoungous brown hoody is me ;D)

Actually, at one point we were waiting in the queue and D-G said "I've only seen guys holding free hugs signs... I bet it's mostly guys that do it." and Tam & I were all "nawwwh! there're loads of female free hug sign carriers!" And so, a bet was proposed! D-G said that the first person to see a girl carrying a free hug sign would get £2. Moments later a girl walked by with a, believe it or not, free hugs sign! Tam and I started jumping up and down liek "THERE! RIGHT THERE!!!". In the end, both of us got £2 each. =w= There were also loads of people with signs saying something along the lines of;

"You just lost THE GAME"

You'd just be happily browsing and eating pocky, and they'd walk on by, and all of a sudden this huge mass of people would all say "auuurrgghh" in unision!

Another most wonderful thing about Expo is the cosplay. Cosplayers have got to be amoung the nicest people in the world!! They're all happy and friendly and will let everyone and anyone take their picture! All of us (that is, Tam D-G and I) agreed that it's better to come to an Expo in cosplay, and thus, I swore to myself that I will deffinately cosplay next time!!

The stores at expo are amazing too! There was a really vast range of stuff on sale, figurines, posters, self-published comics, big name manga, and loads of anime & manga merchandise!! From fans and cosplay accessories, to keychains, replica swords, and those ever-so-slightly-pervy mouse mats! 

And let's not forget, of course, the yaoi stall. With an American guy behind the stall shouting out;

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET YOUR HOT FLAMING YAOI OVER HEERE!!! YAAAAAAOI!!!!"

At the top of his lungs every now and then. It was rather deafening. But pretty awesome!!

I was very very tempred to buy some Hetalia yaoi... but unfortunately, no RussiaxChina! (;^;) I thought it would've been a pretty popular pairing, but ... maybe I was too late?! Yeahhh yaoi was a biiig topic of conversation on Saturday!! Infact, all 4 of us (T's dad included) had one big discussion about yaoi and yuri on the way home!! x'D Specifically, about what to say to people at school if they ask what yaoi is. We've decided that yaoi is a chocolate flavoured drink... xD and GrimmIchi (Tam's fave pairing) is a type of evil cheese. UFUFUFUFU. I'm extremely tempted to yell out in to lunch hall "YAAAAAAAAAAOIIII" xD haha. Maybe I will, maybe I won't?

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In the end, we all came home very hyper, bouncing off the walls clutching our 'tokyo toys' bags, amoung others, containing our day's finds!! In the end, I bought;

- around £17 worth of sweatdrop manga <3

- Twelth Night (as drawn by Nana Li)

- a Death Note

- Negima Figumate : Asakura

- Nendoroid Puchi : Churuya san (from Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu)

- apple yoghurt pocky

- strawberry pocky

- a haruhi headband

- a 'vote Petrelli' badge

- an L necklace

- a Mikuru keychain

- a totoro fan

- an art postcard & boomark from Soya Milku

I very almost bought a costume too, but due to unfortunate circumstances that included me loosing my wallet; that didn't happen... >.<

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The artists' alley at Expo was awesome too!! they had these big long tables with lots of paper and markers to draw with! <3>

My rush-job entry xD

And actually, as i was happily drawing away, some zombies chased after some kids!! O_O

I looked up to see this guy!! I was liek "HOLYF******WHATTHEHELL!?!?!?". Interestingly, we saw him walking home afterward xD haha I bet he got some odd looks in the street! 

Whihc swiftly leads me on to a small gallery of some of the best cosplays of the day, to give y'all a break from the mass of text! x'D

Halibel from Bleach

Grimmjow x2

Near from Death Note *squeee*

So I herd u liek mudkipz?!

Tam got attacked by an alien!!

Hetalia cosplayers!!! <3>

Blair from Soul Eater

Magical Trevor = WIN!

Agent Smith & Neo - The Matrix

These guys were actually amazing. They stayed in Character all day!! They had this awesome presence that made everyone stop and watch them when they walked by!!

EXCALIBUR!!! LEGEND!!

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All in all, I loved Expo so much <3>D

Well, this is all from me tonight, I'm signing off~! And remember folks...

Yaoi = a chocolate flavour drink.

6th Form Maturity [+munch]

"Does the honorable delegate not agree?."

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[M&S Toasting to Toasties.]

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From starting our own political party, to making people snort sherbert and creating a psychology mascot in the form of the Romanian Orphan Child; we'll always remeber our headmistress' wise words;

"You are responsible role models"

Only, we're not.

The amount of sugar rushes I've had since coming back to school are just un-countable. Suffice to say, although I expected 6th form to be a lot different, I didn't expect it to be this different. I actually really enjoy school these days. Not only is it a daily gathering place of 5 or so loons [ie, my friends and I], but I really love the lessons too. I mean, PHSE sucks as much as it always has, and Global Perspectives is just boredom served up on a plate, but other than that I really love my subjects.

Last post, I mentioned how my psychology teacher has realised how crazy I am! And our craziness is just escalating and escalting. We're currently learning about attachment, and C*zakstann et moi are "ATTACHMENT BUDDIES!" (with me being the attachment child, and she the attachment figure :P ).

And we also have created a psychology mascot! R.O.C. ; Romanian Orphan Child, is our new psychology mascot! <3>

I was incharge of the visuals, while C*z manned the research :B

As you can clearly see, our lil mascot Romanian Orphan Child is drawn at the bottom, holding a little Romanian flag~!!

And in our psychology room is a mobile whiteboard (as in, it's not fixed to the wall, but you can roll it around on wheels). One day I wrote "Psychology rocks!!!" (cause I'm just that cool) on it, and ever since then it's been added to on a daily basis. And, ofc, R.O.C. was added as well (just in SUPER chibi-ized form).

But today............. trauma has hit.

Mrs R came up to us in the lunch queue and the convo went something liek this;

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Mrs R: I have some really bad news....

me &C: !?!?!?

Mrs R: The year 13s.... they rubbed everything off the whiteboard...!!!

m&C: NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Mrs R: *nods* I almost went into panic when I saw it!!

m: Don't worry Mrs R!!! We'll just do it all again! And we'll make it even better!!

Mrs R: Will you draw the Romanian Orphan Child again?!

m: Of course!! and even better!!

Mrs R: good good...! I love the Romanian Orphan Child!!

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So, Monday's mission is to re-establish the epic-ness of the psych white-board!!

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As previously mentioned, my friends and I are crazy loons. 

In our first week in 6th form, we started our own political party; N.I.C.I! This came about when S & I were bored and decided to open the dictionary at random and point to the a word at random. The words came out in this order;

- Nosewheel

- Invasion

- Concubine

- Imperialism

And so, N.I.C.I! was born; wiht out mascot being the glorious Nosepass.

ahhh there's been so much randomness that I can't even begin to explain it all!! I think today's highlight though, was watching M being ever so cool, and ever so clever, snorting sherbert. She said;

"Everything smells like lemons!!! It's like being a walking airfreshener!!"

Please, kids, don't do this at home.

So, please sit back and enjoy a momentary lapse in text before I start talking about MUNCH.

[btw; these were all taken from my DSi, so, sorry if they're a bit bad quality at times]

mini shuriken~

The 'noisy' common rooms white board. I like to take over white boards :B Oh yah, plus a surprise appearance from Sammy's hand!! O:

chikin maaaaan

Tim

Our beloved toastie machinnne~!!

My history folder. We're learning about Russian history with Miss Mawds, and as any Hetalia fans will know, this is Ivan/Russia->  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_Powers_Hetalia 

in my homework diary.

It is clearly stated that there should be "No grafitti" in homework diaries. Oh well.

PHSE work.

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So last weekend was MUNCH. Model United Nations at Cheadle Hulme.

Friday night, I was so nervous I swear I wished so much I hadn't signed up. By half way through Saturday, I was loving it. I can't wait to do another conference!!

At first, it's completely nerve racking (<<-sp!?). You watch everyone and after you finally come up with the courage to make a point of inofrmation, you shyly raise your placard. And then, the chair scans to room, and looks at you with a friendly smile on his face and says;

"Belgium! You have been recognised"

And you think........."shit."

You stand up, a bag of jelly wrapped nerves, and, shaking, you stutter out a pretty lame question, whilst desperately trying get your flapping mouth to form fancy UN terminology as you say;

"w-would the honarable delegate n-not agree..."

But then, after you've taken that first step; after your first LAME personal policy that you completely made up on the spot, and ended with "we would like to be here" in stuttered broken english whilst trying to remain calm, and after you make your first point of info, everything is just so much easier. You get completely taken in by it all, and begin to really enjoy yourself. It's also an amazing way to meet like minded, enthusiastic, out going people.

One of the highlights of the weekend was when 'the honarable delegate from the Vatican City' got a 'bomb' found under her chair, which was so-called placed there my Croatia, who was voted our most annoying delegate xD.

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And now, in breaking news.....

THIS

IS

SWINE FLU

!!!

The swine flu epidemic has spread to our school, with about 15 cases of swine flu in the school; including our 3 head girls. Also, the other day, 55 girls were absent on the same day. To most people, this won't seem like much, but in a school with just over 600 students, were 55 is almost the size of an entire year, for 55 girls to be off on the same day, is a bit of a big deal.

Hand sanitisers have been placed all over school, making everything taste anti-bacterial.

More over, everyone is paranoid. =A=.

I hope all this will go away soon... and I hope everyone gets well soon! <3

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So long for now all~! 

U R PWND FOR GENEVA.

N.I.C.I!