Callum, Abi, Matt and I ran a marathon plus (an extra mile 'cause we got lost ) in 6 hours, and we won medals and a trophy for being the first mixed gender team back. I always forget how incredible it feels running, especially over the downs in the middle of the night, even if my camel back pissed all down my shorts. So far, nothing in my life beats it. Plus, lots of jumping around and watching a sword swallower Friday night, lots of showing off at circus skills (learning 'suicide' on diabolo), and generally an awesome weekend. I can even still walk.

Yesterday, with enrichment week starting, I was with year 8s, who weren't as irritating as I expected, though there are a few head cases. I manned a checkpoint, climbed a roof and a tree, both to a mixture of consternation and surprise, and got a free ice cream, and that was just the morning. In the afternoon I redeemed my year 9 rollercoaster failure, and working just on my own built an incredibly neat and elegant system and then donated the actually effective part of my design to another group. Finally, I got to choose which design actually won, based on the coolness of the design, and it was blatantly the loop the loop which won it. Then, I got abducted from walking in the rain to an A team meeting and ate lots of snacks in my new Aquila shirt-finally arrived.

The weekend before was a party in the park on the Saturday, which was good fun, with rounders, an incredibly weird martial art consisting of wrestling to clip a crab on your opponent while both of you are hanging off a tree, aerobie, and generally a very pleasant day in the park. That was followed on Sunday with the Wheeldon Avenue party, which was good fun, with far too much food, lots of adults getting tipsy and lots of children needing minding. Ha, I even got payed £5 for helping out and enjoying myself.

Water wars at explorers on the Friday was brilliant-exhilarating even if it wasn't really warm enough, and even if the time spent on water bomb bandoliers and a launcher wasn't redeemed. It included a crazy obstacle course, including half swimming through a flooded boat, and crawling over freshly cut grass when soaked-not the most pleasant obstacle. The week before we were showing off to the scouts, which went well, I think, and I even managed to remember how to play cricket quite well. Plus, a new bouncy castle!-it even has a slide...

Musical performer and dramatic monologue was also very good, though in my opinion the monologues need to be more subtle and understated-there're enough Thespians in the world as it is. You can see why two rounds of auditions were needed for the music-they were all incredibly good, though I think Daniela was far and above the winner. The proper folk singing at the start was also brilliant, and almost made up for death march I'm A Believer. O_o

Sonnenallee was also very good, albeit ridiculously difficult to understand, and that caused some very awkward silences in the workshop at the end. Still, it's all been good, and I even managed to write my two research essays passably well, I think. Unrelatedly, Cambridge was absolutely amazing-Emma is lovely (it has a swimming pool!) and Natural Sciences (Physical) is a great course, which, furthermore, I actually have a decent chance of getting into, I think.