DofE Talk!

Hello! So today I thought I would show you my kit that I have for my bronze dofe walk and talk a little bit about the walk and preparations for the walk itself, sound cool? Let's go!

So the first thing is kind of a torch type thing, it's basically a glow stick that's powered by electric and it flashes, glows even has a whistle on the bottom so I will be fully prepared if we were to come across a rave!

These are my plastic knife, fork and spoons and obviously these are for eating because A metal tools are heavy and B these are handy and cool!

WHOOOO hot chocolate! This is just to drink as I desire across the trip!

My personal first aid kit, in my whole group I'm the only one with a first aid kit, I guess I'm going to have to be Dr. Jake on this walk!

A compass Incase we get terribly lost, then we head east and we'll eventually end up at the coast! Good plan Jake

This is a tin opener for anyone stupid enough to bring tins without a tin opener, and before you ask, no I have no idea how it works!

Incase a fire needs to be lit I have my trusty fire lighter to do the job!

A multi-tool, this has no effect on anything major and I don't even know if I'll use it, but it's useful just incase!

FOOD! Arguably the best piece of ki to bring on this expedition, I have a smoked sausage that doesn't need refrigerating so is perfect for walks, I have American style hotdogs which just need a little heating up or are fine to eat in their own, I have some rice which can also be eaten cold if something was to happen and finally chilli noodles to mix with the sausage for a big meal at the night time! I am getting more stuff before the walk so I'll update this food part to show you more food that I got!

Walking trousers! Enough said I think...

Mess tins! To eat out of and store things safely in my bag which may be fragile!

Walking socks, to help with feet and stuff, yeah!

Sunglasses, probably won't be used as we live in England but good to have just incase.

Lantern, this is my main torch as it pulls up to be a lantern but the bottom of it is a torch, clever right!

Spare walking trousers, Incase mine get wet somehow!

Sleeping bag, to sleep... I think?

Over trousers, Incase of bad rain and stuff!

Waterproof rain cover for my bag, this will keep in dry if it was to rain! I also keep this at the front of my bag so if it was to rain I get access it quickly!

Water hump/hydration pack, this goes in you bag filled with water so it is easy to drink, pretty useful while walking!

And the bag itself, I have a red Karrimor Orkney 65L Rucksack and it is amazing, there are lots of pockets to put things in and it's just a good bag! I recommend this as it is very cheap at only £35

So there you have it! That is all my supplies for my DofE walk, we do have our cooking stoves and tents to go in but we get those on the day of the walk that's why they're not on this blog post, if I get some more items to go in my bag I will update this blog post with some more goodies! That's all for now, thanks for reading! 

Smell you later, Jake!

Where have I been?

Hello everyone! Hairychimp here how are you all doing? As you could have noticed (if you paid attention) I haven't blogged in quite a while and I have no excuse for it, I've just not been in the blogging mood over the past few months, I've been more into school work along with a lot more skill-developing things in computers and graphic design which will help me a lot! So what's been new you may ask?...

Well for a start over the Easter holidays I took a trip to America and went on a cruise which was awesome, we went to Columbia, Panama, through the Panama Canal, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico twice, so it was quite the trip! The trip itself was pretty good, we had a few disappointments along the way for example the airline lost one of our bags and we didn't get it for 8 days which obviously isn't good also there wasn't a lot to do for kids on the boat, there was a kids club but it was generally abandoned so there was no point really going so we didn't have a whole lot to do throughout the trip but we gained some great memories all the same! Also I got to hold a sloth in Columbia :D

While I was away I had a lot of time to think about a lot of stuff, some pretty deep. I guess the sense of being in open water with no lands for miles and miles away kind of sets your brain racing but I'll never forget what I had thought about, I may aswell tell you guys!

So when we were on the boat we met this man who believed in equality and peace in the world and he told us tons of stories on how he overcome hate and generally turned his life around to be nice to everyone no matter what, which was pretty inspiring and helped me in my life today. My eyes have been opened to the fact that, yes people may be different and do things that I don't necessarily agree with or like but that's up to them, they do what they want to do. I learned that people may be mean in everyday life because that's just the easy you've been brought up do they don't know any different, but if they meet a nice person who can steer them in the right direction then that would help them greatly! The most important thing I learned when I was there was to not discriminate or judge or even think differently towards someone just because of their appearance or sexuality or whatever it may be. You should see them as a person just like me and you and that's that. People who go around shouting racist chants, especially during football matches are completely ignorant and should be punished greatly because it's just not fair, even if they wanted to they couldn't help what they look like so people should get off their backs and focus on the game of football or rugby or whatever the sport is. I learned that the only person you should live for, is yourself, who cares what other purple think about you? It's not like they are going to have a major affect on your life. If you get called ugly, so what? Ignore them and walk away, don't let anyone bring you down. If you think you're not good enough or don't look good enough or don't have the right necessities for something just look at yourself and think 'no this is who I am, I can't change that so I might aswell embrace it!'

So that turned into a very bad motivational speech I'm sorry, the moral of the story though is just to be nice to everyone, you'll feel a lot better inside, life is too short to be wasting on being, or standing for people being horrible to you.

Thanks for reading, also sorry for the slightly sad ending I felt like I had to express that you should be who you want to be and don't let anyone change you. Goodbye!

 

Leibster award

I'M SO EXCITED, AND I JUST CANT HIDE IT!!!! I have been nominated for a double (Ooohhhh) Leibster blog award (meaning I've been nominated twice) by Maya and Eve, thanks girls :)

These are the rules:

- Thank and link the person who nominated you.

- Answer the questions given by the nominator

- Nominate 11 other bloggers (Who have less then 200 followers) and link them.

- Create 11 new questions for the nominees to answer

- Notify all nominees via social media/blogs!

Maya's Questions:

1) What's your all time favourite piece of clothing?

The famous blue hoody of destiny!

2) Name your top 3 favourite people

Maya (also known as the bae, mutual partner or whatever seems cool at the time)

Jack, he's a good friend and we play pc together and he's just a really funny guy

Sarah Millican, she's the funniest standup comedian ever, I cry laughing at all of her shows :')

3) Name your top 3 favourite celebrities

David Beckham, he does charity work and goes against the average footballer 

Steven Mullhern, I've seen him live he's an awesome magician and comedian!

Jennifer Lawrence, she's Katniss Everdeen, enough said.

4) First memory?

My first memory was sitting in reception waiting to be picked up because we were awaiting moving to Dubai, that would have been in 2005!

5) When was the time you've laughed the hardest?

Wow, tough question. Probably whenever I go to the pantomime (15 and I still go, shush) I go to see Danny and Clive at Christmas and oh my god it is hilarious!

6) Favourite book?

My favourite book, honesty is the hunger games, I recently watched the film to this and it is utterly awful, I hated it.

7) Favourite movie?

I know it's stereotypical but Shawshank Redemption or The Usual Suspects, I love films with a massive build up then a really smart ending that makes you click onto.

8) Favourite band?

ARCTIC MONKEYS!!!!!!

9) left or right handed?

Right, I am a normal child

10) Favourite song?

Hmmmm, I hate 'favourite' questions, probably Lovers in Japan by Coldplay at the moment

11) Look behind you, which shoulder do you look over?

Right, banter.

Eve's Questions:

1) If you could learn any language what would it be?

Arabic, I have no idea why, I've just wanted to learn it forever but never had the time

2) If you were to go back to school (or repick your options) what would you study?

I would probably choose computer science over engineering as I am interested in program coding as well as inside of computers etc

3) If you had a one-way trip to anywhere, and a spare ticket for someone else, where would you go, and who would you take?

I would take Maya to Australia, she knows why

4) If you could rewrite the ending of any book, what's the book and what would you change?

I would rewrite the hunger games to include the reuniting of katniss and Peeta with their friends and families

5) If you were stuck on an island, what three things would you want with you?

A flare gun, steady supply of food and water and a speed boat

6) If you could share a house with any 5 people (dead or alive), who would you share a house with?

Maya, maya, maya, Maya and maya. She's the only person I want to live with ever

7) If you could take charge of your country for a day, what would you do/change?

I would make the NHS a paid serviceand see how many people truly need doctors.

8) If you could collect anything, what would you collect?

I would collect the stickers off bananas for my whole life and see how many bananas I have eaten

9) If you were to set yourself a reminder that popped up everyday for the rest of your life, what would it say?

Forget what everyone else thinks, just believe what you think

10) If you were to travel back to any historical period, which would you visit?

I would visit Dubai before it was built up and stay in the clouds in a time lapse to see how the city developed from a desert to a massive tourist attraction!

11) Fire or Ice?

Where there is ice, there's snow and I LOVE SNOW, so probably ice

Now, I don't have anyone to nominate so it seems pointless to make up some questions so that's it! Thanks for reading peoples of the interwebs, peace out!

Smell ya later,

Jake

2014 in review...

Well, that's all folks. Another year gone, on with 2015!

So to commemorate 2014 I decided to run down any major events that happened to me through out this year, I have an awful memory so there will not be many hehe.

EASTER

In the Easter summer holidays I went on holiday to Florida, USA. I go there quite often as my uncle owns a villa there so we stay there. When I was there my uncle and aunty came with us as we were staying in there villa.

The main attraction we went to was going on a cruise around the Caribbean. I was aboard the Allure of the Seas (biggest in the world atm) and we visited Mexico, Jamaica and Haiti. It was an amzing trip which consisted of a lot of beach roaming and zip-wiring through the Jamaican jungle, which was off the charts cool! I would 100% do it again!

While there I got to go to Universal Studios and remind myself of why rollercoasters are the best things EVER!!!! In Universal I went on pretty much every ride and got a massive doughnut from the Simpsons world!

SUMMER

Jumping quite far forward ----> to the summer holidays in which I went on holiday to Dubai.

We stayed on a beach front hotel and while being moved around rooms 3 times, we finally settled in a massive room with a balcony overlooking the pool and bar.

Dubai has always been a place I have loved, its such a weird yet unique place. There is towering skyscrapers as far as the eye can see yet you can never get the feeling out of your mind that 'im in the middle of the desert?'

 

Panorama from outside of our windows

 While we were there we visited many places including a fair few shopping malls, this included the Ibn Battuta mall, Mall of the emirates and of course the Dubai Mall. In the Dubai Mall I went ice skating (yes ice skating in the middle of the desert) and nearly knocked myself out when i fell and smashed my head off the floor, not a wise thing to do by the way.

Also just to make Maya jealous, we also went to a Chocoholic brunch... YES I KNOW!!!!

 After this holiday finished we were back to school for the start of Yr10.

 OCTOBER
October, for most people its the host of the spooky event of halloween but for me. The 3rd of October was the day I got together with my beautiful princess Maya. Ive never been happier :)

Also October was the month where I got accepted as a Moderator for FTC, that has now crashed and burned so I don't do that anymore, a shame but there was a serious lack of conversation of what was going on.

DECEMBER
December, for most people this is the month of opening up your advent calendars and getting all excited for Christmas, I am no exception, although my birthday is the 10th so I get excited about that first. I may do a separate blog post with everything that I got for Christmas so leave a comment if you would like to see that!

JANUARY
So, technically I am writing this on January 1st at 9am. I know I know I have no life and Maya is in the other room but I cant wake her up ;) its too early yet hehe. It was amazing to have a New Years kiss with the one girl I love, to be honest anytime I can have with her I take. I love spending time with her.

So that's all, I hope you all had a fabulous 2014 and I wish you all the best for 2015

Thank you all for reading and Happy New Year!

Smell ya later, Jake.

Whats been happening recently Jake?

Hello! I haven't blogged in a while, sorry I just don't have any inspiration or motivation to write this stuff until now. I thought I would tell you about whats been going on recently!

I have been off ill a few weeks ago I still have no idea whats wrong with me but oh well all good now!

Ive been spending a fair amount of time with the bae, Maya. She means the world to me and I love her. Sorry for getting soppy but yeah :p.

Here's some pictures from our night:

Yeah... sorry again you dont want to see all that... MOVING ON!

Its my birthday on Wednesday!!!!!! OMG

Happy Birthday to me,

Happy birthday to me,

Happy birthday dear JAKE,

Happy birthday to me!

... I need some friends...

So yeah ill be 15 which means I am 6 months older than Maya... COOL!

Well thats all I have for you this time, thanks for reading!

Smell ya later, Jake!

What Happened? Also christmas talk...

What are you doing?!?!

Hello! Yes I know i haven't blogged in a while but the old fountain of blog ideas is running dry, must be the winter. I have no idea what i'm writing in this blog, i'm running on fumes here. What am I even talking about? Good question! On with the blog!

So, December is a week today, you know what that means! CHRISTMAS! also my birthday with is the 10th, I'm going to be 15!! 6 months older than Maya, yet we are in the same year, strange.

I have literally no christmas gifts for anyone and have no ideas for any, totally organised!

Christmas is a good time of year with presents and family stuff even though this year, like many will be spent with close friends (we are not to fond of our family). Best part of Christmas is by far the food, its so nice and my mam has a little buffet thing where you can pick at food all day, its just really nice!

This year I have been appointed the entertainment chief ;) there is 2 younger girls coming so I have to entertain them some how... any ideas?

My birthday!! Its on the 10th and it is really cool. Its on a Wednesday I think? Calendar confirmed! I have no idea what i'm getting, same with christmas. My family keeps asking me what I want and the awkward potato I am i just stand with 0 ideas shrugging. Good going Jake! I usually just get money though, which is better because I can spend it on whatever I like... hehehe (evil laugh)

Thats all I have time for I think! Took me a few days to write this (again 0 ideas) If you have any ideas for blogs or vlogs for my youtube then comment them! Thanks for reading!

Smell ya later, Jake

p.s. FOR MAYAS EYES ONLY, I love you :p that is all. Goodbye!!

Halloween/Bonfire night

So this week has brought us Halloween and bonfire night. Pretty cool and spooky overall, I have been to a bonfire party on Saturday and that was pretty cool.

There was fireworks, a massive fire that's burned surprisingly quickly, there were tons of people a lot of them a year older than me but I never really talked to them much. I just did my own thing mostly (I'm sociable I promise)

For Halloween I didn't really do much, the 30 October was the day I got Moderator on the FTC servers so j was talking to the admins all night really, with a few interruptions from trick or treaters but where I live not many come round so I mainly just sit and eat all the sweets, kind of awkward when there's none left and more people show up, oops.

Youtube wise I did a 3 part playthrough of the game killing floor, a zombie survival game which was made for halloween so that was awesome. YouTube isn't going to well at the minute though, still hovering  on 73 subs (I've been there for about 2 weeks) and my vlogging channel hasn't been active for 3 weeks although I have a few ideas for vlogs so keep an eye out for videos shortly!

The 3rd of November was me and Maya's 1 month anniversary thing :/ I guess you call it that, so that was pretty awesome. Hopefully lots more months to come.